"The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do."

-- Charles Bukowski

“I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.”
“Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos,”
“His voice was low and rough â€¦ â€œWhat about you? Do you like bad boys?â€ â€œThereâ€™s definitely appeal,â€ she breathed. â€œGood,â€ He bent and clipped her earlobe with his teeth â€¦ â€œBecause they donâ€™t come badder than me.”
“There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried”
“You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.”

Source : Sabrina Jeffries (2015). “What the Duke Desires”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
“The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.”
“He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.”
“Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!”

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