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“Toklo raked his companions with a hard glance. “Don’t risk your own safety.”“I bet you’ll risk yours,” Lusa said, aware once again of how deeply she trusted this bear.“That’s what I’m here for,” To...”
“Life’s gonna kick you in the butt.That’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what...”
“The people are hungry,” Mihali said. He lifted his hands, spreading them to encompass the city. “The people need to be fed. They need bread and wine and soup and meat. But not just that. They need ...”
“Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all affliction,’ wrote John Muir. ‘Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal.’ Now I knew this for what it was: a beguiling but dangerous li...”
“Miss Selina, you have over the past minutes—as in the past months, and indeed, in all the years of your association with him—demonstrated an understanding of Master Bruce, his aspirations, his desi...”
“How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”
“I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something differe...”
“We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit.”
“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
“He is not my focus," Diana told writer Rodney Tyler of Arne. "He’s my husband, my companion, my lover, my confidant. But not my focus. I wasn’t lost, then found by Arne. I was single and met a wond...”
“Let me lay bare my soulto show you’re not alonein this naked rawness- Vulnerable”
“When you are in love with someone you want to be near him all the time except when you are out buying things and charging them to him.”
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.”
“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day ah now that's a real treat.”
“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long intricate intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.”
“Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons longing as all individuals do to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals can participate in...”
“You can't put a price tag on love but you can on all its accessories.”
“When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”
