"He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear."

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Lilith Saintcrow

#Tears Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
“What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.”
“So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.”
“Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?”
“They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.”

Source : Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1973)
“I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.”
“I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.”
“What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.”

Source : Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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