#pen

Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul. "At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary ↗

— Sharon K. Garner

#children-s-book-illustrators #farming-in-brazil #mercenaries #romance #romantic-suspense

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground. ↗

— Dave Navarro

#day #either #ground #gym #hours

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land? ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#after #allow #come #else #independent

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#end #fight #hang #happened #history

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife. ↗

— Ilie Nastase

#card #credit #credit card #haven #i

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#coal #down #even #fall #few

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#constant #fool #labor #life #man

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#cynicism #only #penetrating #success #valid

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#comedian #him #his #laugh #mouth

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#dirty #down #father #find #get