#temporary

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it. ↗

— Jean Thompson

#inspirational-quote #inspirational

That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms." "Clumsy of them. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#intelligence

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#administration #agencies #assist #bureaucracy #civil

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#britain #century #challenge #contemporary #effort

The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#contemporary #i #i think #jungle #lipstick

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#contemporary #drink #many #more #than

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that. ↗

— Jordan Knight

#automatically #challenge #contemporary #go #heaven

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#antagonistic #circle #circles #closed #contemporary

Does Playboy still run fiction?” “I have absolutely no idea, Melinda,” he said, grinning. ↗

— Robyn Carr

#funny #humour #romance #funny

I love you when you’re happy. I love you when you’re sad. I love you if you’re angry, And I love you if you’re bad. No matter how you feel, I love you all the time. Oh my sweet, dear baby, I love you all the time. ↗

— Carla J. Hanna

#edgy-teen-fiction #inspirational-love #new-adult-contemporary-romance #teen-romance #young-adult-romance