#tempo

Trouble was, everyone always made talking out a problem sound like it was so simple and solved everything, but actually doing it, and securing the desired outcome without screwing up, seemed about as easy as rowing upriver with a teaspoon. ↗

— Babette James

#contemporary-romance

Right, 'the Queen of Hearts.' Sounds to me like you’re just one bitch in a whole pack of cards, baby. ↗

— Elle Lothlorien

#contemporary-romance

The wind and the sea and the storm were his domain and I wanted nothing to do with them any longer. I just wanted Cain. ↗

— Jennifer Silverwood

#fantasy-romance #mythical-romance #new-adult-romance #paranormal-romance #new-adult

Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem... ↗

— P.W. Creighton

#new-adult #nightfall #paranormal #paranormal-romance #paranormal-suspense

This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory and criticism. I would argue that a closer analysis of collaborative and collective art practices can reveal a more complex model of social change and identity, one in which the binary oppositions of divided vs. coherent subjectivity, desiring singularity vs. totalizing collective, liberating distanciation vs. stultifying interdependence, are challenged and complicated. ↗

— Grant H. Kester

#collaborative #contemporary #modernism #practice #subjectivity

A million possible endearments ran through his head. But he said, “Help. ↗

— Robyn Carr

#funny #humour #romance #funny

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it. ↗

— Jandy Nelson

#young-adult #contemporary

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#contemporary

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #contemporary-fiction #contemporary-literarture #downtown #dream

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either. ↗

— Robert Barany

#contemporaries #either #find #great #mystery