"Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do."

-- Neal Shusterman

#No Friends Quotes #Icy Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.”
“No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand
“Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.”
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
“The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!" "I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.”

Source : P. W. Catanese (2009). “Happenstance Found”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“After doing STAR TREK for so many years, to do just regular makeup is such a treat. Just put some makeup on and "thank you very much," you're on your way.”
“Life truly is precious. Gather every moment of it into your arms & embrace it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from May 15, 2012
“We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.”

Source : "Pressure grows to end ban on CIA assassinations abroad" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2001.

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