"Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. "I met a very nice man who bet me he had the best security system in Istanbul." His breath was warm on the back of her neck. "He was mistaken."

-- Ally Carter

#Nice Quotes #Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”
“I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.”
“Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.”
“But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how great shall that be which shall follow His glorious advent! For He shall come on the clouds as the Son of man, so Daniel foretold, and His angels shall come with Him.”

Source : Justin Martyr, Aeterna Press (2016). “Dialogue of Justin With a Jew”, p.37, Aeterna Press
“Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.”
“The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”
“I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.”
“Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.”

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