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For all the romance books I've read and all the happy endings I've enjoyed, I can't imagine my own. I'd like to hope I'll have one, but hope can be dangerous.
It's not p*rn. It's a romance book that happens to have a little bit of sex in it.
"Oh, my sweet summer child." He laughs. "You're a straight white man. That's your red flag."
And I really do need to be convinced to behave.
It's normal to understand something logically but emotionally feel something different.
I hope we last. I need us to last. Going from frenemies to lovers in three months wasn't something I ever thought would happen. But despite my best efforts, I'm so freaking in love with this man.
"Do I need to get on my knees and beg you, Anastasia? Is that what you want?" She shakes her head and laughs. "The only time I ever want to see a grown man on his knees in front of me, Nate, is when his face is between my legs. So no, I don't want you to beg me."
You ate twenty chicken nuggets in about four minutes. It was like you were in an eating competition, but you were the only contestant. I've never been more in love with you.
I pinch the book from between her fingers, examining the turquoise cover, then flicking to a random page in the middle of the book. "You're reading p*rn in public? You're disgraceful!"
What is it about tall, muscular men who are good with their hands that makes me weak?
We're still individuals, but we're individuals together, and I never knew relationships could be like this.
And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
Jordan Peterson in 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
Jordan Peterson in 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Shooting Star:
Once I blazed across the sky,
Leaving trails of flame;
I fell to earth, and here I lie -
Who'll help me up again?
Over the past two years, he had become a rabid fan of some cartoon involving anthropomorphic turtles who knew karate and battled evil.
Phil Taylor in The Sneaker Tree
That whole cellular idea is idiotic. Who wants to carry around a phone all the time? I don't want people calling me wherever I am.
Phil Taylor in The Sneaker Tree - November 2013
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
Michael Connelly in The Black Echo
Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.
Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict
There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
Michael Connelly in The Scarecrow
What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?
Michael Connelly in The Last Coyote
I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.
No matter how successful you are, the haters will never go away.
Sam Altman in Startup Playbook
If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.
Banksy in Cut It Out
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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly.
Banksy in Wall and Piece
People who should be shot:
Fascist thugs,
religious fundamentalists,
people who write lists telling you who should be shot.
Banksy in Wall and Piece
People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one
Banksy in Cut It Out
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
Banksy in Wall and Piece
T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.
Banksy in Wall and Piece
They say there is a graffiti problem. The only problem with graffiti is that there isn't enough of it.
Banksy in Existencilism
I sucked a lot of breasts to get where I am today.
Banksy in Wall and Piece
"There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover." - Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
Banksy in Wall and Piece
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
Banksy in Banging Your Head Against A Brick Wall
Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
Banksy in Wall and Piece
Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a living breathing thing which belonged to everybody, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like this and stop leaning against that wall - it's wet.
Banksy in Existencilism
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning.
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.
Never love a wild thing... If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
"Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege."
Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky.
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
Would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
We don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.
I've committed to nothing... and that's just suicide by tiny, tiny increments.
I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.
It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.
It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.