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“There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?”

Book:Crossing the Mangrove

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Crossing the Mangrove

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“Men don’t grow up. The amount of compromise and emotional labor required to deal with them becomes increasingly difficult with age. So most of your friends who are getting married now will be getting divorced by the time you’re my age because they settled before they knew enough to want more for themselves. Fuckboys are terrible. But....Good guys will be worse. They will expect extra credit for being minimally decent. Asserting standards of reciprocity is the perpetual struggle. Be prepared to compromise A LOT...often with no reward. OR be prepared to learn to be content by yourself A LOT. There is no in between. any woman who tells you different is lying to herself and you.”

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Book:Tall Dark and Bad : Extended Edition

Source: Tall Dark and Bad : Extended Edition

“She drew in a breath. “So I have this thing I do before sex. A test. An ‘Is He Inhaler Worthy?’ test.” He just stared at her. “There’s a test. Before sex.” “Yes. And I should tell you, not many pass.” “Chloe?” “Yeah?” “I’d be worth the inhaler,” he said, then forced himself to walk away into the night.”

Romance Comedy

Book:Head Over Heels

Source: Head Over Heels

“, then why do you always forget that I love you very much? I love you very much, so even though it’s indeed true that there are girls who are taller than you, slimmer than you, prettier than you, more clever, gentle and sensible than you in this world, but they are all none of my business.”

Romance Comedy

Book:To Our Pure Little Beauty

Source: To Our Pure Little Beauty

“Nothing ends a first date faster than finding a dead body.”

Romance Mystery Contemporary Romance Cozy Mystery Romance Humor Mystery Romance Romance Comedy Humorous Mysteries Humorous Mystery

Book:Capture Me

Source: Capture Me

“Abbey was born to sophistication, whereas I was more Barbara than Buckingham Palace Windsor.”

Romance Comedy

Book:Doubting Abbey

Source: Doubting Abbey

“I am a down-to-earth gentleman who will never, under any circumstances, resemble some sort of romantic hero like Mr Darcy.”

Romance Comedy

Book:Doubting Abbey

Source: Doubting Abbey

“Someone's stirring up trouble in Roxy's world.”

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Book:Crush On You

Source: Crush On You

“Only thing worse than a tapper is a jiggler or a hummer. You find a man that does any of those things and you run don't walk away, because if you get locked in a room with him, eventually you're gonna have to kill him.”

Humor Comedy Romance Comedy

Author:Janet Evanovich

“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.”

Life Nature Existence Seeing Mathematics Sensibility Being Paganism Human Being Pantheism Ricardo Reis Thermometer

Author:Álvaro de Campos

“The world has not yet such a thermometer or measure that can check one's idiocy.”

Thermometer

Author:Ehsan Sehgal

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