"What do you want?" "You," he said, his voice lowering an octave. "I want you, Dutch, body and soul. I want you in my bed every night. I want you there when I wake up in the morning. I want your clothes strung across my apartment and your scent on my skin."

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Source : Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.680, St. Martin's Press

Darynda Jones

#Morning Quotes #Night Quotes #Voice Quotes

“We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.”

Source : Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Two Women in One”, p.26, Saqi
“It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.”

Source : Page Smith (1990). “Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America”, Viking Adult
“Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.”
“There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. Thats just encouraging and inspiring.”
“When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”
“There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt”
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
“I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.”

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