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Arrr, shiver me timbers,” he said in an exaggerated pirate twang. He winked his uncovered eye and hooked his thumbs in his pants. “This is the nicest your mom’s been to a poor old bloke like me-self in days.” Sandra poked a finger in his chest, but grinned. “Don’t make me regret it, or you’ll walk the plank.” He grinned back and, with that eye patch, turned knee-meltingly rakish in under ten seconds flat. “Aye, I won’t be asking you to make me Roger jolly, if that’s what has you worrying. ↗


— Jennifer Shirk


#romantic-comedy #romantic

One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things. ↗


— Kathleen Rowland


#paranormal-romance #romantic-suspense #sensuous #romantic

I believe in making my potential models comfortable,’ he explained when she shot a surprised look at him. ‘I’m considerate, unlike some artists who bend their sitters into difficult positions and expect them to stay there for hours. My demands are entirely reasonable.’ For a moment, her libido got interested in his demands. What would it be like to listen to the soft caress of his voice as he told her how he wanted her? To have those midnight-blue eyes roam over every inch of her body? To be passive, helpless, whilst he did whatever he pleased? ↗


— Christine Stovell


#romantic-comedy #romantic

Kitty waved her free hand to show that she was ok, although she was very tempted to stand over one of Adam’s window-washing puddles and pretend her waters had broken just to see what he would do. ↗


— Christine Stovell


#romantic-comedy #romantic

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect. ↗


— Galt Niederhoffer


#books #cruel #discussing #dissecting #driving

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. ↗


— Arthur C. Clarke


#conflict #science-fiction #science

I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure and social grace of a psychotic slug with halitosis and a bad head cold. ↗


— Sharon Sant


#humour #quirky-characters #romantic-comedy #sisters #ya

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill. ↗


— Wayne Gerard Trotman


#chi-ro-jin #confidence #deception #disciple #limitations

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before. ↗


— Kim Stanley Robinson


#psychology #science #science

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved. ↗


— Jeffrey D. Sachs


#future #science #sustainability #science






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