"what red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met."

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Source : Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.51, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Annette Curtis Klause

#Kissing Quotes #Ears Quotes #Red Quotes

“God never tires of forgiving us.”
“I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.”
“Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.”
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”

Source : Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”
“The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.”
“What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.”
“I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.”
“Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.”

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