A Quotes
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“And he knew that this beautiful world had a forked tongue. And he knew that everything he thought and felt and feared was real.”
Source: Chorus
“And he laughs. Not the heavy laughter from before. It’s a great laugh. A deep laugh. One that makes my lips lift. Isaiah, the guy who an hour ago carried himself like a jungle predator, now has the content aura of a lazy cat bathing in the sun.”
Source: Crash into You
“And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing
and not breathing and hearts beating
between us and he’s so close, he’s so close and I can’t feel my legs anymore. I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers
“Please.”
He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.”
And he kisses me.
His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. It’s sweet, it’s
so effortlessly sweet.
And then it changes.
“Oh God—”
He kisses me again, this time stronger,
desperate, like he has to have me, like he’s dying to memorize the feel of my lips against his own. The taste of him is making me crazy; he’s all heat and desire and peppermint and I want more. I've just begun reeling him in, pulling him into me when he breaks away.
He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind andhe’s looking at me like something has brokeninside of him, like he’s woken up to find that
his nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now he’s awake and he’s safe and everything is going to be okay and
I’m falling.
I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster.”
Source: Unravel Me
“And he learned that the worries you think are confined to the space in your head can just as well show up outside it, written in bright letters for all to see.”
Source: The Kids Are Gonna Ask
“And he led me up the stairs to the attic, where his homemade observatory let us mere mortals glimpse at the heavens.”
Source: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.”
Source: Sweethearts
“And he likes to torment me, and laughs when I get upset when he does. No, of course not. I do not love Jack Elliot. He is low and coarse and a soldier, and not the kind of man I want to spend my life with.”
Source: These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
“And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear.”
Source: The Illustrated Man
“And he'll supplant a man, supplant him - take his place as if he was nothing but an old rag, and never stop to think that a man's not an old rag. Oh lord, oh dear! What a misfortune...!”
Source: The Double
“And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'.”
Source: Heir of Fire
“and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.”
Source: The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“And he loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.”
“And he loves to read. He loves the whisper of the pages and the way his fingertips catch on rough paper, the pour of the words up from the leaves, through soft light, into his eyes, the mute voice in his ears.”
Source: The Book of Flying
“And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it”
“And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.”
“And he must do it in fear and terror like a real Hero should, because a lot of the monsters he must overcome are the ones in his head, the ones he brings in with him.”
Source: Wintersmith
“And he never asked you about it?”
“No, he never asked. If he had, I’m still not sure I would have told him.”
“Told him what?”
“That is was his baby.”
Source: Body In The Woods
“And he never judges someone else's suffering.”
“And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end”
“And he paddled away in his douche canoe.”
“And he realized with an abrupt sense shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.”
Source: DUNE
“And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.”
Source: Angels' Blood
“And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.”
Source: Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man
“And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.
He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ("Jane Brown's Body")”
Source: The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
“And he’s also shirtless.
His body is… ripped.
Jack’s got a six-pack that disappears under his low-hanging shorts and every muscle looks like it was sculpted out of earthenware clay and baked to perfection. I thought it was fun to draw his hands, but why draw just his hands when his whole body should be cast into a bronze sculpture?
I don’t blame him for playing tennis all these years.
In fact, I thank tennis—”
Source: The Charmed List
“And he said...
...a bad mouth indicates a craziness of thoughts.”
“And he said...
...a foreigner will always be left at the front door of your home.”
“And he said...
...a hole will always be whole, no matter what the size.”
“And he said...
...A home is built from love. A house is built from rubble.”
“And he said...
...a home will become just a house on the darkest of days.”
“And he said...
...a lie stretched will always end up breaking before the truth.”
“And he said...
...a man of conscience will never feast on a coalbed of famine.”
“And he said...
...a man of letters will always know his alphabets.”
“And he said...
...a master wordsmith has no need of a sword for his words will suffice.”
“And he said...
...a salted fish will always invite maggots to the party.”
“And he said...
...a smile will form a foundation of understanding.”
“And he said...
...a smile will never drown in a sea of faces.”
“And he said...
...a society filled with greed will bank on the corruption of the people.”
“And he said...
...always try and leave your loneliness alone.”
“And he said...
...an ego is made for one person only.”
“And he said...
...anger will always cover the sun in darkness.”
“And he said...
...apathy will leave man sitting alone on his front porch.”
“And he said...
...application will give you the stamina to succeed.”
“And he said...
...as the lights go out, the moths return home.”
“And he said...
...as war drags its feet, peace shall lay hide in a hollow in the ground.”
“And he said...
...banks will always have poor excuses, but they will always have deep pockets with rich profits.”
“And he said...
...be not forgiven when you cannot forgive others.”
“And he said...
...be wary of naked thoughts lest they clothe you in emotions that will lay your soul bare.”
“And he said...
...broken hearts will always be full on incomplete stiches.”
“And he said...
...bruises are just leftover nightmares.”