#nic

...and Lucy." She looked like she might cry. 'What about her?' "Lucy smells like food." She nearly gagged saying it. 'Sol, all that's normal. Lucy smelled good before I turned, and now she smells even better. But I haven't tried to eat her face and neither will you.' "She's not safe in this house." 'Safer than out there,' I argued, even though I agreed with her. 'Look, you used to eat hamburgers.' She blinked, confused. "So?" 'So, did you ever walk through one of the farms at a field party and suddenly try to eat a cow?' "Um, no." Her chuckle was watery but it was better than nothing. "And, ew." 'Exactly. You can crave blood and not eat your best friend. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#drake-chronicals #humor #lucy-hamilton #nicholas-drake #solange-drake

They DO live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#change

all Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#communication

I've changed my mind," said Nick. "The demons can have you. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#nick #change

His kiss was brutal, punishing, for making him feel like this. He was desperate. Out of control. Never had he experienced this kind of irrational urgency. He needed her. Like a starving man needed food. Like a dying man needed salvation. Now. Before everything went to hell. Before she could change her mind. ↗

— Monica McCarty

#monica-mccarty #patrick #change

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#politics #realism #change

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#puritanical #society #somewhat #still #ways

Why would anyone want to listen to you if he felt you had not first listened to him? ↗

— Dr. Xavier Amador

#communication

A wave of possessiveness came over him, almost frightening in its intensity. Mine. The thought of another man looking at her was almost enough to make him change his mind about leaving. ↗

— Monica McCarty

#monica-mccarty #patrick #change

There's a part of everyone that needs to be taken care of. Denying it exists doesn't change the truth, it only makes you very lonely. ↗

— Katherine Allred

#change