#spring

If I release you, you won't scream? I'd rather not continue the conversation like this." She shook her head, and he freed her. She scrambled away from him, feeling the grooves of the headboard bite into her back when she slammed into it. He sat back on her bed, his hands on his jean-clad thighs. The hair at his neck curled from dampness. "You don't have to be afraid of me." She almost laughed. "A stranger breaks in, and I'm supposed to be cool with that?" "Amy, we're not strangers. ↗

— Jaime Rush

#pnr #psychic #romantic-suspense #urban-fantasy #romantic

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#city #even #october #sort #spring

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#below #degrees #egypt #half #income

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#away #direction #former #had #human

No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#arab #cetera #challenges #critical #east

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#arab #back #fifteen #five #good

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#blossom #fairest #gratitude #soul #springs

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#economic #economic growth #follow #growth #prosperity

Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: "Playing 'tag, you're it' against a car is a bad idea. ↗

— Jaime Rush

#pnr #shapeshifter #suspense #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. ↗

— Clarence Day

#curiosity #enjoy #facts #far #mainspring