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Colin: "1 dinna understand why we canna just go to bed and have sex." He looked truly puzzled. ↗

— Nina Bangs

#men #sex #women #humor

She looked like she believed in something, or wanted to, and I hoped to hell it wasn’t God, not in the way The Dad believes, because all that does is make him forced and desperate. No, it was something else, not just that I saw a pretty girl and just got all excited. I mean, yeah, that part is true, and she really was gorgeous, and the freckles covering her, the freckles on top of freckles all spread out and folding into one another made her skin look like it had grain and texture, like polished wood, like it would feel smooth to the touch, and so soft. I knew that. But it wasn’t how she looked. ↗

— Brad Barkley

#heather-hepler #humor #love #humor

A woman never reveals her national origins. Once people know that, none of her information is personal. Soon they'll want to know her religion, her marital status, and her real hair color. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #mysterious #women #funny

There's no perk in being closed-minded as a minority. It's never, ever, ever going to help you, ever. ↗

— Baratunde R. Thurston

#wisdom #humor

Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?” “Yes,” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six. ↗

— Sage Blackwood

#humor #humor

I’ll accompany you too, fair lady,” said Reven. “I would fain meet your grandmother.” “You would what?” said Elfwyn. “He means he’d like to,” said Jinx. Some of the books in Simon’s house used old-fashioned words like that. ↗

— Sage Blackwood

#humor #humor

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #imagination

Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do? ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#cinder #marissa-meyer #imagination

I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.” “What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#love-speech #romance #sweet #imagination

You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live. (Interview, The Paris Review) ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#imagination #writing #imagination