#pens

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#being #being a man #change #changes #changing

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#country #current #excessively #forms #instead

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions. ↗

— Graham Nash

#everything #generally #happens #influenced #living

He thoroughly intended to do some major grovelling. Olympic-style begging, if necessary. ↗

— Christy Reece

#romantic-suspense #romantic

A man doesn't want to be rejected. We're really quite sensitive. 'Sensitive?' She laughed, her head on one side. 'Sensitive egos you mean. Never met a man who didn't have one of those. ↗

— Helene Young

#romantic-suspense #romantic

I am threatened by the resolve that you are my soul. You are my being, you are every breath I take, you are my home, you are my sweet sin. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#ya-romance #romantic

Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#get #happens #men #professional #theirs

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

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

From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: As Cassie’s body hurled toward him in the swirl, she realized the brevity of the situation. This was it. This was the moment that determined whether she lived to see another day or drowned in this filthy brown water. This was the moment she proved she had never been a quitter, never been a weakling. All the problems she’d dealt with at work today seemed trivial. ↗

— Shelley K. Wall

#novel #romancel #romantic-suspense #suspense #thriller