Tad Blust > Tad's Quotes

“Why is it that good times aren't permitted to last? Especially when we have put in so much time and effort, as these two had? It is as if enjoying the fruits of our labours is one of life's luxuries that we are not permitted to indulge for too long - one day we have summer sun and the next winter storms !”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

“There is no universe per se. Nor is there a beginning, Big Bang or otherwise. We live in an energy field that recycles quarks, which format with given configurations, because they've done that before.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“Why do I want you? Because you are smart. Because you are beautiful. Because you make me laugh. Because you are sensual and passionate and the way you give me your body drives me absolutely fucking wild, and now I am rock-hard again for you. There. Satisfied?”
― Lauren Blakely, Nights with Him

“Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else’s truth.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“I settled deeper into the pillow and tried to relax. It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn’t lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn’t lived yet. It would only seem like five minutes to Laila, but to me it would feel like a month. I concentrated on the energies around me, and everything went hazy.”
― Kasie West, Pivot Point

“Sometimes you don’t even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.”
― Gayle Forman, I Was Here

“But now, it’s almost six o’clock,”
― Kendall Ryan, The Gentleman Mentor

“I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower."

He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence

“that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”
― Brené Brown

“Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.”
― Charlaine Harris

“An old gunslinger once told me that you never draw a gun unless you intend to use it, and you never—ever—tell someone you are going to draw your gun. You just do it.”
― Michael Scott

“Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.”
― J.D. Robb

“Since when do you care about rules?"
"I'm a changed person."
"When did you change? Just now? 'Cuz I heard about your smack down in the cafeteria yesterday.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure

“That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing more that you'll have with Spinnerbait boy, or the guy after that, or the guy after that. Right?"
"Yeah, I said, shrugging. "You're right."
He just stood there, looking at me, as if I had actually changed before his eyes. But this was the girl I'd been all along. I'd just hidden her well.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“ثبت اهتزاز الوتر
سكت الوتر
هذا الفتى يأكل من كتابتِه السَّهر
هذا الفتى يرعى
من مواسمه المطر
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قبرٌ يضمك بعد أن
ضمتك كل قلوبنا زمنًا
وما زلنا بشعرك نأتزر
(لا تعتذر عما فعلت)
صنعتَ تاريخًا نحبكَ باسمه
والعابرون سيفرحون سيجلسون القرفصاء
يقول آخرهم من القوقاز شاعرهم مضى
لن يدركوا الكلمات باقيةً
ويمضي العابرون مع الكلام بلا أثر”
― محمد فرحات

“All it took was a chance meeting with a stranger, some unexpected conversation. A few moments of kindness from someone who had no inkling of what she’d been through. Someone who wandered into her workplace on a whim and ended up making the worst day of her life seem less awful simply by being in it. “Nice to meet you, Gideon.” “Likewise, Savannah.”
― Lara Adrian, A Touch of Midnight

“She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“Our worst critics prefer to stay.”
― Stephen J. Dubner, When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

“Right. I’m sure that poor etiquette is the number one reason for most failed revolutions.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress