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“Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life. If you try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

“He was wooing me. And I was letting him woo. I wanted the woo. I deserved the woo. I needed the wow that would surely follow the woo, but for now, the woo? It was whoa.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“Fucking Wallbanger,” I hissed, frozed on the spot.
His grin slid off as well as he played place-the-face for a moment. “Fucking Pink Nightie Girl.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“You done with work?
Yep, at home waiting for you.
Now that's a nice visual...
Prepare yourself, I'm taking bread out of the oven.
Don't tease me woman...zucchini?
Cranberry orange. Mmmm...
No woman has ever done breakfast bread foreplay the way you do.
Ha! When you coming?
Can't. Drive. Straight.
Can we have one conversation when you're not twelve?
Sorry, I'll be there in 30
Perfect, that will give me time to frost my buns.
Pardon me?
Oh, didn't I tell you? I also made cinnamon rolls.
Be there in 25.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“Red", I write "is the color of life. It's blood, passion, rage. It's menstrual flow and after birth. Beginnings and violent end. Red is the color of love. Beating hearts and hungry lips. Roses, Valentines, cherries. Red is the color of shame. Crimson cheeks and spilled blood. Broken hearts, opened veins. A burning desire to return to white.”
― Mary Hogan, Pretty Face

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
― H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Te voy a añorar cada instante, cada momento del día, porque te has convertido en el sol que ilumina mi vida”
― Megan Maxwell, Deseo concedido

“Beneath the sheet—which was already lower on his hips than should be legal —
He
Was
Still
Hard”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“Todo el mundo desea estrellas. Todo el mundo quiere echar mano de lo que existe fuera del alcance. Tener lo extraordinario en sus manos y guardar lo asombroso en sus bolsillos.”
― Erin Morgenstern, El mar sin estrellas

“Yo diria, Cazadora, que crees fervientemente en el amor. Todos tus actos están motivados por tu necesidad de atencion, de ser amada. Siempre lo has deseado. -Se acercó tanto que las siguientes palabras rozaron los labios de Zafira-. Lo ansiabas.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“When one door closes, another one opens. I might just have to do a little breaking and entering to get the right one for me.”
― Mariana Zapata, Kulti

“He’s sin and pleasure wrapped in a package I’m tempted to peek at.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“The monsters in here can’t compare to the monster I am.”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo:
así te amo porque no sé amar de otra manera,

sino así de este modo en que no soy ni eres,
tan cerca que tu mano sobre mi pecho es mía,
tan cerca que se cierran tus ojos con mi sueño.”
― Pablo Neruda, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether. Elusive, difficult to hold on to. But not much is needed.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“No one is truly honest,” Nigel answered. “Even if we don't lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. And the word good means different things to different people.”
― stephanie garber, Caraval

“She remembered thinking falling for him would be like falling in love with darkness, but now she imagined he was more like a starry night: the constellations were always there, constant, magnificent guides against the ever-present black.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Whatever you've heard about Caraval, it doesn't compare to the reality. It's more than just a game or performance. It's the closest you'll ever find yourself magic in this world.”
― stephanie garber, Caraval

“Amor a primer oído, solía decir su padre. Después, su madre le daba un beso en la mejilla y añadía: Para mí, fue simplemente amor desde el principio.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“ambos se aseguraban de que Evangeline supiera que no todos los amores surgían de inmediato; algunos tardaban un tiempo en crecer, como las semillas, o eran como bulbos, latentes hasta que llegaba la estación apropiada. Pero Evangelina siempre había querido un amor inmediato; quería el amor de sus padres, el amor de las historias.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“He looked criminal, filled with wicked intent and handsome enough to tempt the pope to sin.”
― Giana Darling, When Heroes Fall