A Quotes
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“After our kiss, I am such a fool over you that I can hardly contain myself,' I tell him with as much sarcasm as I can muster. 'All I want to do is nice things that make you happy. Sure, I'll make whatever bargain you want, so long as you kiss me again. Go ahead and run. I definitely won't shoot you in the back.'
He blinks a few times. 'Hearing you lie outright is a bit disconcerting.'
'Then let me tell you the truth. You're not going to run because you've got nowhere to go.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill.”
Source: Old Man's War
“After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.”
“After overcoming the conflict of interest, one can realize and understand the public interest; it builds and reaches the plan of welfare action.”
“After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.”
“After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.”
“After pain comes glory, but memories linger.”
Source: Je pars… mais je reviendrai
“After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.”
“After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.”
“After paying the price
There is no love you can't experience.”
Source: BİTLİ PİLEYBOY
“After paying the toll for life’s demanding price,
will the dead descend or will warriors rise?
#AWarrior's Journey”
Source: Capsized: The Pandemic Lockdown
“After paying the toll for life’s demanding price, will the dead descend or will warriors rise? - #AWarrior’sJourney”
Source: Capsized: The Pandemic Lockdown
“After Peace Corps, I kept at it. I was back in Houston, I had a lot of spare time, and I spent it at midday yoga classes at expensive studios to which I would buy discounted first-time packages and never return. This period, around 2011, reintroduced me to the world of American abundance. The first time I went into a grocery store and saw how many different fruits there were, I cried. At these yoga classes, I marveled at the fanatic high functionality of the women around me...I was not, at the time, on their level: I had been taking giardia shits in a backyard outhouse for a year straight, and I was flooded with dread and spiritual uselessness, the sense that I had failed myself and others, the fear that I would never again be use to another human being.”
Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“After Peepshow, I really dont know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.”
“After people are clothed and fed, then they think about sex”
“After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By sticking it out through tough times, they emerge stronger from adversity.”
“After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.”
Source: Killbox
“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”
Source: The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether
“After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!”
“After Per died, I couldn't stand to be in Oslo any more. All those people that weren't him, you know? There was this coffee shop we used to go to, at the university. We'd just sit together, together but silent. Happy silent. Reading newspapers, drinking coffee. It was hard to avoid places like that. We used to walk around everywhere. His troublesome soul lingered on every street...I kept telling his memory to piss the fuck off but it wouldn't. Grief is a bastard. If I'd have stayed any longer, I'd have hated humanity. So, when a research position came up in Svalbard I was like, yes, this has come to save me...I wanted to be somewhere he had never been. I wanted somewhere where I didn't have to feel his ghost. But the truth is, it only half-works, you know? Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.
Nora took all this in. Ingrid was clearly telling this to someone she thought she knew reasonably well, and yet Nora was a stranger. It felt odd. Wrong. This must be the hardest bit about being a spy, she thought. The emotion people store in you, like a bad investment. You feel like you are robbing people of something.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“After perfuming my neck with lychee and fig oil, I touch up my barrel curls and apply a fresh coat of lip gloss. As I stare at my reflection, I almost believe I'm the angel I masquerade as.
My skin shines like opals, the iridescence catching the fullness of my lips and the high points of my cheeks. Coalescing down to my waist are ribbons of black hair, perhaps my favorite feature about myself. Though my mother has always loved my eyes the most--- upturned and narrow, blooming with feathered lashes. I, for one, have always been frightened by them. Some would mistake their red-honey color for brown. But in the light, they glint with a tint of ruby. Like devil eyes. I shut them.
No more ocean of a girl.
At least not tonight.”
Source: Dance of the Starlit Sea
“After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.”
“After photographing the new 5G cell phone transmitters during the morning, by midnight I was vomiting. Vomiting is the one of the first signs of low level radiation sickness (LLRS).”
“After picking up the lamp, she went to Joyce, who was clutching her injured shoulder. I should leave you here, she thought. She was unaware she had said the words aloud until Joyce replied.
"You can't let me die!"
"You're not going to die." Disgusted, terrified, Sara removed her own petticoat, wadded it up, and pressed it firmly against the wound to staunch the blood. Joyce screamed like an enraged cat, her eyes slitted and demonic. Sara's ears rang from the piercing cry.
"Be quiet, you bitch!" Sara snapped. "Not another sound!" Suddenly her entire body was filled with furious energy. She felt strong enough to push down a stone wall with her bare hands. She went to the crumbling entrance of the castle and saw that the hack driver was still waiting, craning his neck curiously. "You!" she shouted. "Come here right away, or you won't get a bloody shilling of what she promised!" She turned back to Joyce, her blue eyes blazing. "And you... give me back my necklace.”
Source: Dreaming of You
“After placing everything in the backseat, Nadia buckled her seat belt and turned to him. “Corvon,” she addressed him by his in-game persona. “If I were to tell you that you get a prize for besting me, what would you want?”
He slid closer, dragging his gaze over her without hiding it. Caleb could see her nipples peaking under her bra. She was as turned on as he was. “Anything I want?”
“Perhaps. What would it be?”
She wouldn’t commit, which meant she didn’t trust him. It was time to drop the asshole persona. He couldn’t help but let her in. She was his One.
“I would want …” He reached for her chin. “...a kiss.” Caleb leaned in so far he could feel her breath on his face. Her pupils were dilated wide, and he ran his thumb over her plush bottom lip. “Would you award me such a prize, Asteria?”
She nodded. Closing the distance between them, he claimed her lips.
This kiss was even hotter than the one at laser tag, slow and languid, like they had all the time in the world. He wrapped his hand around the base of her head and leaned her body back as her arms wrapped around his waist. Her tongue slid along his in a tantalizing dance that stoked the fire within. She sighed softly into his mouth as he felt the walls between them melt away from the heat.
One kiss, that’s all he’d asked for. But he never wanted it to end.
This felt dangerous. But so right.
Finally, he forced himself to break the kiss, moaning Nadia’s name. She looked dazed, like she was just waking up — or just had the most incredible orgasm.
What he wouldn’t give to see Nadia’s afterglow.
“Can you drive?” His mouth was bone dry but he managed to get the words out eventually. She nodded and started the motor. He buckled himself in but didn’t stop looking at her. That had been no ordinary kiss. He needed another.
As she backed out to turn the truck around, Nadia looked over at him shyly. “I wanna do that again.”
“Me, too.” Licking his lips at the idea of tasting her again, he broke the first of his rules. “Come upstairs when we get to my place and we can.”
Source: The Geek Girl Squad: Nadia
“After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.”
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.”
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.”
“After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.”
“After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.”
“After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.”
“After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.”
“After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. Therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.”
“After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.”
“After praying, put in the work then wait and watch God turn your prayer into possibilities. On your journey to success, never lose sight of the vision and pray without ceasing.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.”
“After pregnancy, the important thing is rebuilding your back muscles.”
“After President Obama announced his support for net neutrality yesterday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz tweeted that 'Net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet.' While Ted Cruz continues to be the Taylor Swift of not getting over Obamacare.”
“After President Obama opened the Desoto Solar Farm, I told OSHA to shut it down the until the dangerous problems it contained were fully understood. I regarded it as a risk to the many workers there.”
“After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.”
“After President Obama, President Rodriguez... What's the worse that can happen? The border problem gets solved and the White House lawn looks better?”
“After Princess Diaries, I was labeled a good girl, and for the first eight years of my career I had to fight to get any other kind of role. But I like fighting for a job, actually. Once you get it, you feel like you've emerged victorious from the scrap and you're like, "OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done."”
“After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.”
“After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed.”
“After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.”
“After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it”
Source: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
“After purifying himself he walked through a small red gate to the shrine, dropped a goen, or five yen coin, the Japanese word for which also means good luck, into the wooden collection box in front of the shrine.”
Source: Bottled Lightning
“After Putin's war crimes in Ukraine, I feel about Putin about the same as I feel about Nazis.
The only good Putin is a dead Putin!”