"How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?"

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Source : Anna Gavalda (2003). “I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere”, p.11, Penguin

#Waiting Quotes

“She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual lifetime she had never known anything like it. Had never tasted such a dark kiss, one that warned her he had no intention of making allowances for sensual inexperience. He was hungry. Needy. And she was the meal he craved.”
“April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.”

Source : Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7
“An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.”
“The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.”
“Happy birthday,â€ she said. â€œAnd next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.”
“Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.”
“Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.”
“I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.”

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