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Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul. "At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary ↗

— Sharon K. Garner

#children-s-book-illustrators #farming-in-brazil #mercenaries #romance #romantic-suspense

Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#bringing #came #christians #groups #jews

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#certain #certain degree #cynicism #degree #energizing

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#citizens #elected #good #good citizens #officials

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off. ↗

— David Naughton

#hard #hard work #i #off #paid

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#corruption #country #crooks #destroyed #duty

Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#artists #believe #campaign #concern #conservative

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#began #being #cars #come #could

In America, music is more tightly categorized. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

#categorized #more #music #tightly

Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

#brazilian #country #influences #international #latin