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Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.

Gregory Maguire

Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.

Gregory Maguire

Tags: day, evanescent, fade, fog, night, simile, spectral, wound

Must be nice, I said, caressing the stick as if it might be my buddy and help me win. Money makes life all kinds of nice. Oh, and the way you’re fondling the stick is making me super horny here. I als...

Bijou Hunter

Must be nice, I said, caressing the stick as if it might be my buddy and help me win. Money makes life all kinds of nice. Oh, and the way you’re fondling the stick is making me super horny here. I als...

Bijou Hunter

Tags: cooper and farah

Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.

Jack London

Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.

Jack London

Tags: classic, classic literature, happiness, jack london, nature

Laughing, Bailey still put on a little frown. I want a man to cuddle. Tucker stopped kissing Maddy long enough to look at Bailey. Everyone needs love. Even the dipshit. I’ll find someone for you. Tuck...

Bijou Hunter

Laughing, Bailey still put on a little frown. I want a man to cuddle. Tucker stopped kissing Maddy long enough to look at Bailey. Everyone needs love. Even the dipshit. I’ll find someone for you. Tuck...

Bijou Hunter

Tags: cooper and farah, tawny, tucker

It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government...

Joseph J. Ellis

It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government...

Joseph J. Ellis

Tags: civic duty, community, liberalism

Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Ni...

Rick Riordan

Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Ni...

Rick Riordan

Tags: eros, heroes of olympus, house of hades, jason grace, love, nico di angelo, percy jackson, revelation, rick riordan

I didn't burn down anyone’s house! I didn’t. I wouldn’t!Maddie looked at Jacob.You know I wouldn’t. I didn’t kill you when I had the chance!

Christina Dodd

I didn't burn down anyone’s house! I didn’t. I wouldn’t!Maddie looked at Jacob.You know I wouldn’t. I didn’t kill you when I had the chance!

Christina Dodd

Tags: christina dodd, suspense, thriller, virtue falls

Hero might have enjoyed the evening spent at Almack's Assembly Rooms, but it had not been one of unmixed pleasure for her escort, while for one other person it had been an evening of almost unleavened...

Georgette Heyer

Hero might have enjoyed the evening spent at Almack's Assembly Rooms, but it had not been one of unmixed pleasure for her escort, while for one other person it had been an evening of almost unleavened...

Georgette Heyer

Tags: hero wantage, isabella milborne, jealousy, love triangle

He attacked her throat and she was so startled by the sudden move that she squeaked. He was laving her with his tongue, openmouthed, and she moaned, arching, wondering wildly if this was the same man...

Elizabeth Hoyt

He attacked her throat and she was so startled by the sudden move that she squeaked. He was laving her with his tongue, openmouthed, and she moaned, arching, wondering wildly if this was the same man...

Elizabeth Hoyt

Tags: bridget crumb, making love, val napier

Gary. Gregori drawled the name slowly and sat back in his chair, totally relaxed. He looked like a sprawling tiger, dangerous and untamed. Tell us about yourself. I work a lot. I’m not married. I’m re...

Christine Feehan

Gary. Gregori drawled the name slowly and sat back in his chair, totally relaxed. He looked like a sprawling tiger, dangerous and untamed. Tell us about yourself. I work a lot. I’m not married. I’m re...

Christine Feehan

Tags: gary, gregori and savannah

Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens...

Judith McNaught

Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens...

Judith McNaught

Tags: elizabeth, ian, judith mcnaught

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Norman G. Finkelstein

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Norman G. Finkelstein

Tags: christopher hitchens, conversion, politics, rationality, reason, religion, revelation, united states, zealotry

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the...

Herman Melville

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the...

Herman Melville

Tags: first lines, water, whale, sailor, sea stories

Listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come...

Elizabeth von Arnim

Listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come...

Elizabeth von Arnim

Tags: butterflies, hidden beauty, voice

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

Aisha Tyler

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

Aisha Tyler

Tags: motorcycle, up, back

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

Tags: new, ability, assignment

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Benjamin Franklin

Tags: praise, flattery

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

Douglas McGregor

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

Douglas McGregor

Tags: homo, sapiens

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Pythagoras

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Pythagoras

Tags: caring for others, massacre, thought provoking

As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:genuine claritygenuine feelingthe right wordthe exact English sentencethe eloquent detailthe rigorou...

Richard Yates

As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:genuine claritygenuine feelingthe right wordthe exact English sentencethe eloquent detailthe rigorou...

Richard Yates

Tags: advice for writers, writer guides, writer techniques, writers on writing, writers
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