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“I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing - turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness. Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things - you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you're my best friend, too.”

“I love you,” she said softly. Jason's arms tightened around her. He grinned sleepily. “I know.” Taylor drifted off contentedly. Until through the darkness, she heard a low, sneaky whisper. “Mrs. Taylor Andrews . . .” She didn't bother to open her eyes. “Still not gonna happen.”

Knows Said Stills Happens Eye Darkness Heard Love You Arms Lows Bother Her Eyes Jason Andrew Sneaky

Author:Julie James

“Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.”

Long Lost Love Is Grief Sadness Type Long Time Pops Disappear Bereavement Someone You Love Sneaky Lost Someone

Author:Daniel Handler

“Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.”

Woods Silly Greek Temples Estates Lurking Sneaky

Author:Victoria Alexander

“I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said. Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. "Surprise attack back." "Sneaky," I said, my voice breathier than I intended.”

Said Voice Mines Kissing Mouths Down And Surprise Lips Teeth Toes Shiver Lingering Sneaky Grazing Surprise Attacks

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

“Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.”

Mind Said House Possibility Mere Settling Alright Crossings Knocking Sneaky

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker . . ." A chuckle drifted up to me. "Pillow talk already? You'll have me hard before we're even back in our room.”

Hard Rooms Pillow Sneaky Chuckles Bloodsuckers

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)”

Order Interesting Style Rebellion Pilots Wedges Sneaky

Author:Aaron Allston

“In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.”

Thinking Children Parent Spite Thrill Youngsters Sneaky

Author:Eoin Colfer

“You're sure he's not a vampire?' Claire said.'I've seen movies. They're sneaky.' She was kidding. Eve didn't smile.”

Said Vampire Claire Sneaky

Book:Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

“Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.”

People Knows World Feels Sneaky Snicket

Author:Daniel Handler

“Where are you going?" "Nowhere special. I just have some... things to do." "Why did you pause?' "I'm sorry?" "You paused. You have 'some... things to do.' "No reason, I just--" "You're up to something." "No--" "Then why'd you pause?" "Get in the car." She got in. He got in. "Seat belt," he said. Why'd you pause?" His head drooped. "Because I'm up to somthing." "And why can't I come with you?" "Because it's something sneaky." "Do you promise to tell me later?" "I do." "Well all right then." She clicked her seat belt into place. "Let's go.”

Wells Said Reason Special Car Promise Sorry Things To Do Seats No Reason Pauses I'm Sorry Belts Sneaky Seat Belts

Author:Derek Landy

“This is my favorite part. It starts and ends here. The pebbles shine, the plan worked, Hansel Triumphant. Lesson number one: be sneaky and have a plan. But the stupid boy goes back, makes the rest of the story postscript and aftermath. He shouldn’t have gone back. And this is the second lesson I took from the story: when someone is trying to ditch you, kill you, never go back.”

Trying Ends Stories Numbers Boys Gone Plans Stupid Lessons Shining My Favorite Triumphant Aftermath Pebbles Sneaky

Author:Richard Siken

“He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, “But you’ve got an advantage, sweetheart. You’re already in his head. And you know how to mess with it.”

Knows Voice Know How Advantage Distance Mess Sweetheart Dens Sneaky

Book:Kiss of Snow

Source: Kiss of Snow

“We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!”

Want Needs Littles Wicked Sneaky Two Towers

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask yourself this important question: "How long am I going to be dead?" With that perspective, you can now make a free, fearless choice to do just about any goddamned sneaky thing your devious little mind can think up. Go ahead. Have your fun. You're welcome. Go on. See you in hell.”

“Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.”

Men Children Littles Pain Joy Enjoy Laughing Cry Sorrow Extremes Selfish Lazy Liars Hypocrite Trifles Envious Little Man Joys And Sorrows Haughty Sneaky Contemptuous

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.”

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Author:Phil Boyer

“I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.”

World Believe Persons Important Self Lying Opinion Nice Honesty Absolutes Greed Folks Lust Substitutes Schemes Compelled Sneaky Sleazy

Book:The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company

Source: The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company

“But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.”

Too Much Bugs Sneaky

Author:Evan Dando

“In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.”

Real Moments Order Opportunity Lifetime Real Life Historian Catastrophe Turning Points Tangled Sneaky

Book:The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

Source: The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden

“If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.”

Ifs Way Trying Jobs Sneaky

Author:Ian St John

“I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.”

Men Years Heart Soul Jobs Church Hell Honest Like You Lonely Smell Holes Giants Good Job Posing Sneaky

Book:Getting to Happy

Source: Getting to Happy

“Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.”

Ifs Age Source Baby Disease Comfortable Doctors Asking Shoes Illness Forty Triggers Flu Vaccines Annuals Chronic Illness Aspirin Sneaky Comfortable Shoes Flu Vaccine

Author:David Agus

“America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.”

Thinking Knows Way Ideas Funny America Next Nations Millions Humorous Ideology Concentration Camps Thank God Idealism Concentration Camp Sneaky Gulags

Author:P. J. O'Rourke