#v

I don't deny that impulse drew us together, but while physical gratification began and ended it for you, in making love, dumbo here——' she jerked a thumb at her chest '—was also demonstrating that she cared.' His tongue moistened his lips. 'You're very up-front, aren't you?' 'You mean none of your other rejects have ever looked you in the eye and complained?' Sian queried. She might have made things easy last night, but she refused to make anything easy for him now. 'I suppose you'd prefer it if I shrugged my shoulders, muttered something about it being nice while it lasted, and filed the experience away under lessons learned? Well, sorry, but for me, and for most women if they're honest, going to bed with someone is a darn sight more complicated than that! ↗

— Elizabeth Oldfield

#experience

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#accounted #case #i #low #myself

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#art #conceal #his #may #novel

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#had #happen #her #life #lot

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. ↗

— Robert Hall

#confide #equally #friend #once #opinion

I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks. ↗

— Theodore Hall

#emotional #i #i think #me #revulsion

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check. ↗

— Beanie Sigel

#cartoons #check #clothing #get #gonna

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories. ↗

— Fred Durst

#ever #i #i think #movies #since

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#contributions #dialogue #hear #i #i love

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ↗

— Tarja Halonen

#among #competence #inequality #itself #other