"You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did"

-- Elliot Perlman

#Use Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Way Quotes

“So this is the young man who has intentions toward my little girl." Bobby shifted in his seat and crossed his legs. "It is not fun on this side of the table, is it, Robert?" Uncle Eddie huffed, and Kat had to remember that once upon a time her mother had been a dark-haired girl in that kitchen, and her dad had been the stray she'd brought home. She watched the two men looking at Hale as if they'd never before laid eyes on him. "He's better-looking than the last vagabond I had to take in," Eddie said, standing and carrying empty bowls to the sink. "I'll give him that.”
“Death is not goodbye.”
“He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.”
“Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.”
“We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.”
“There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.”
“When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!”
“I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?”

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