"I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall."

-- Kim Harrison

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“I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.”
“It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.”
“Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.”
“I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.”

Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.254
“I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the category of "founder of discursivity" for the authors he likes. Slippery, perhaps, but you can see what he means.”
“She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.”
“I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.”
“There is no standard way of using painting techniques.”

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