A Quotes
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“As if on cue, Fiona appeared in another of the ballroom's multiple doorways. 'Beatrice! Oliver! How many times have I told you no skating in the house? I just had these floors refinished.'
'So that's why it's extra slippery today,' mused Oliver. 'Cool.”
Source: And Then Everything Unraveled
“As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!”
“As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.”
“As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively.”
“As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.”
Source: Red Hook Road
“As if our choices, our fates, were locked from our first breath.”
Source: Recursion
“As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.”
“As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“As if poetry can't survive in such impoverished conditions. In fact, poetry (and honor) might be all you have.”
“As if reading her mind, he leaned into her again, pupils dark, irises glowing like a forest caught in the last rays of sun before dusk… “Do you want me to make you come?”
“Is that a trick question?”
Source: Cry Of The Wolf
“As if reading his mind, Jamal-al-Din said, 'To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.”
Source: The Kindness of Enemies
“As if reading his mind, Lily huffed. “You’re as predictable as the spring rains, son of mine, and as boring as drying paint. Unless there’s an emergency, you’re home every night by seven, you eat dinner by yourself, go for a run, watch exactly one hour of TV by yourself, and go to bed at ten o’clock. If God ever loses his watch, he only has to look at Lance Beaufort to get back on schedule.”
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“I’ve been having trouble with my phone,” he tried.
Lily took two strides to the desk, leaned over it with both hands braced on the surface, and stared.
“Okay, yes! I have been over there. But it’s for work. And…and it’s work related!”
“Oh? Explain that to me, because I thought you were the sheriff, not in training for a role in Lassie.”
Source: How to Howl at the Moon
“As if reading his mind, she smiled happily up at him. “Gary really came through for us, didn’t he?”
“Absolutely, ma petite. And Beau LaRue was not so bad either. Come, we cannot leave the poor man pacing the swamp. He will think we are engaging in something other than conversation.”
Wickedly Savannah moved her body against his, her hands sliding provocatively, enticingly, over the rigid thickness straining his trousers. “Aren’t we?” she asked with that infuriating sexy smile he could never resist.
“We have a lot of clean-up to do here, Savannah,” he said severely. “And we need to get word to our people, spread the society’s list through our ranks, warn those in danger.”
Her fingers were working at the buttons of his shirt so that she could push the material aside to examine his chest and shoulder, where two of the worst wounds had been. She had to see his body for herself, touch him to assure herself he was completely healed. “I suggest, for now, that your biggest job is to create something for Gary to do so we can have a little privacy.” With a smooth movement, she pulled the shirt from over her head so that her full breasts gleamed temptingly at him.
Gregori made a sound somewhere between a sigh and a moan. His hands came up to cup the weight of her in his palms, the feel of her soft, satin skin soothing after the burning torture of the tainted blood. His thumbs caressed the rosy tips into hard peaks. He bent his head slowly to the erotic temptation because he was helpless to do anything else. He needed the merging of their bodies after such a close call as much as she did. He could feel the surge of excitement, the rush of liquid heat through her body at the feel of his mouth pulling strongly at her breast.
Gregori dragged her even closer, his hands wandering over her with a sense of urgency. Her need was feeding his.
“Gary,” she whispered. “Don’t forget about Gary.”
Gregori cursed softly, his hand pinning her hips so that he could strip away the offending clothes on her body. He spared the human a few seconds of his attention, directing him away from the cave. Savannah’s soft laughter was taunting, teasing. “I told you, lifemate, you’re always taking off my clothes.”
“Then stop wearing the damn things,” he responded gruffly, his hands at her tiny waist, his mouth finding her flat stomach. “Someday my child will be growing right here,” he said softly, kissing her belly. His hands pinned her thighs so that he could explore easily without interruption. “A beautiful little girl with your looks and my disposition.”
Savannah laughed softly, her arms cradling his head lovingly. “That should be quite a combination. What’s wrong with my disposition?” She was writhing under the onslaught of his hands and mouth, arcing her body more fully into his ministrations.
“You are a wicked woman,” he whispered. “I would have to kill any man who treated my daughter the way I am treating you.”
She cried out, her body rippling with pleasure. “I happen to love the way you treat me, lifemate,” she answered softly and cried out again when he merged their bodies, their minds, their hearts and souls.”
Source: Dark Magic
“As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.”
Source: Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage
“As if sensing the hostile turn of the conversation, Max barked and jumped on his hind legs. A gift from her cousin Layla at a very down time in her life, her Westie wasn't just a pet; he was an emotional support dog who knew just when she needed him.”
Source: The Dating Plan
“As if she could hear his thoughts, she glanced over and quirked her mouth up at him. "What are you looking at?"
"You," he said. "Did you know, you grow more beautiful every day?"
"Well that's odd," said Tessa, resting her chin thoughtfully on the spine of her book, "because as a warlock I do not age, and so I should look the same day to day, neither improving nor worsening. "
"And yet," said Will, "you continue to accrue radiance.”
Source: Chain of Iron
“As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her.”
Source: Songbirds
“As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his unprotected leg and he yelped and clutched it. That was a mistake. The second barrage was entirely directed at his legs.”
“As if sloths were parading out of her ears.”
Source: The Hidden Kingdom
“As if some kind of demon were racking his brain, Curley Joe stood in front of the jukebox with a small, silver handgun still pointed at the hole its bullet had blown through the shattered Plexiglas.”
Source: Full Moon Saturday Night
“As if somehow irony,” she recaps for Maxine, “as practiced by a giggling mincing fifth column, actually brought on the events of 11 September, by keeping the country insufficiently serious — weakening its grip on ‘reality.’ So all kinds of make-believe—forget the delusional state the country’s in already—must suffer as well. Everything has to be literal now.”
“Yeah, the kids are even getting it at school.” Ms. Cheung, an English teacher who if Kugelblitz were a town would be the neighborhood scold, has announced that there shall be no more fictional reading assignments. Otis is terrified, Ziggy less so. Maxine will walk in on them watching Rugrats or reruns of Rocko’s Modern Life, and they holler by reflex, “Don’t tell Ms. Cheung!”
“You notice,” Heidi continues, “how ‘reality’ programming is suddenly all over the cable, like dog shit? Of course, it’s so producers shouldn’t have to pay real actors scale. But wait! There’s more! Somebody needs this nation of starers believing they’re all wised up at last, hardened and hip to the human condition, freed from the fictions that led them so astray, as if paying attention to made-up lives was some form of evil drug abuse that the collapse of the towers cured by scaring everybody straight again.”
Source: Bleeding Edge
“As if someone had taken their brush and painted the purest greens and deepest blues onto a canvas.”
Source: Moments Unframed
“As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her.”
“As if Spencer's thoughts were sending out a homing beacon, Justice looked over in his direction, making eye contact, and Spencer understood what Gimli saw when he gazed upon Galadriel. But, no. Just no. He hadn't even known this kid existed five hours ago. It was scientifically impossible to develop a crush in that amount of time, right?”
Source: The Passing Playbook
“As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat”
Source: Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“As if summoned by my private musings, Robert came rolling down the hill.
Think of the boy and he appears; what kind of faerie meddling was this?”
Source: With a Reckless Abandon
“As if the death that squatted in the dark beside us had drawn thoughts to his own mate as well.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“As if the future was subtly bringing us closer, crafting the next chapter of our tale without our words ever having to be said.”
Source: Two Hearts in Sync: A Contemporary Love Story
“As if the lock that binds us is the one that sets Anand free.
Locks are funny like that.”
Source: A People's History of Heaven
“As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!”
“As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.”
Source: Pendennis
“As if the restrictive shell of a body is more important than the infinite possibilities of a mind.”
Source: Voyage of the Damned
“as if the universe has finally created a moment so awkward, that it had stopped time itself”
Source: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
“As if the weight of such a commitment to life and health of America were not enough, another burden of responsibility was placed upon me in 1964; and I cannot forget that the Nobel Peace Prize was also a commission, a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for the brotherhood of man. This is a calling that takes me beyond national allegiances.”
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“As if the whimsy of chugging through a gargantuan slice of watermelon wasn't enough, you can actually smell the mouthwatering scent of watermelon as you breeze through it. The box of animal crackers that you travel through smells of vanilla cookies-- always a soothing scent--and a giant gnawed apple exudes an apple fragrance as you pass.”
Source: The Disneyland Book of Secrets 2014 - DCA: One Local's Unauthorized, Rapturous and Indispensable Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth
“As if the world and they were hand and glove.”
Source: The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative
“As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.”
“As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.”
“As if these diverse characteristics weren’t enough, bring them all into a social context where we must work, live, love, and engage with people different from ourselves—is it any wonder that communications can be challenging?”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“As if they are a mountaineer climbing across the great slopes of Mount Everest, meth monkeys take quite the health risk. Their minds become mush due to sleep deprivation. Like pillows with way too many hours of sleep invested into them, these minds exhaust themselves and become overworked. Like that of old television shows, their minds become reruns on repeat.”
“As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.”
Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“as if this girl were the converging halves of a broken fate, setting face, in sleep, toward itself in time, as an image and its reflection in a lake seem parted only by the hesitation in the hour.”
Source: Nightwood
“As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.”
“As if to banish the terror and pain already screaming through his body, he shook his head, backing away.
“No!” he whispered, and then his voice rose to a tormented shout. “No, damn you! Don’t tell me that—!”
“Jason—”
“Don’t you dare tell me that!” he shouted in agony.
Mike Farrell spoke, but he turned his head away from the unbearable torment on the other man’s ravaged face.
“Her horse threw her off the ridge into the river, about four miles from here. O’Malley went in after her, but he couldn’t find her. He—”
“Get out,” Jason whispered.
“I’m sorry, Jason. Sorrier than I can say.”
“Get out!”
When Mike Farrell left, Jason stretched his hand toward Victoria’s cloak, his fingers slowly closing on the wet wool, pulling it toward him. The muscles at the base of his throat worked convulsively as he brought the sodden cloak to his chest, stroking it lovingly with his hand, and then he buried his face in it, rubbing it against his cheek. Waves of agonizing pain exploded through his entire being, and the tears he had thought he was incapable of shedding fell from his eyes. “No,” he sobbed in demented anguish. And then he screamed it.”
Source: Once and Always
“As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.”
Source: Man's Place in Nature
“As if true pride
Were not also humble!”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations
“As if turning her back on the wampyrs would somehow keep her safe from them, she busied herself with tea and pot.”
Source: The White City
“As if we’d have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.”