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“She gave as good as she got, even in submission she was never passive, and Andy felt her own lips swell under the determined attention of the insolent mouth.”
― McKayUndercover, The Other Woman

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

“People need people. It’s the flaw in our design.”
― Monica McCallan, The Flaw in Our Design

“Seeing someone read a book you love is seeing a book recommend a person.”
― Reddit user coolstoryreddit

“I could have existed in those worlds, a different me with a different someone else in a different life. But I know without a doubt I could live in a thousand lifetimes and still never be as happy as this one with you.”
― Haley Cass, Forever and a Day - A Those Who Wait story

“[They] passed the next two weeks orbiting one another like a double star: ever moving, never touching, never truly separating.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“Why cast about for artful phrases when there were much better things to do with one’s mouth?”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“How much of your innocence can I ruin in the course of one evening?

I’m already reasonably ruined.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“Because I’ve never been any good at staying away from the things I want. Even if I know I should.”
― Robin Hale, Silhouette

“Something’s going to kill me. It might as well taste good.”
― Miranda MacLeod, Accidental Honeymoon

“I don’t think we’ll ever have the answer for sure, but I suspect when a woman owns everything she’s always known she wanted, the only place left to turn is the unknown.”
― Rachel Spangler, Spanish Surrender

“Fantasies are dangerous that way, they never are the reality.”
― Stephanie Kusiak, Loved and Lost

“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”
― Dr. Seuss

“By the time Ava returned home, she was ready for a long shower and a date with the only boys she’d ever really been into—Ben and Jerry.”
― Alex K. Thorne, Chasing Stars

“A hand on the waist was OK, a kiss on the cheek was within bounds and slow dancing was fine as long as you left room for Jesus.”
― Natasha West, The Plus One

“Once people saw what I did, really saw it and acknowledged it, they’d believe other women were capable of thinking, of learning, of discovering the world in the same way that men are. But tonight I learned that there were other women before me. So very, very many of them. They were here all along: spotting comets, naming stars, pointing telescopes at the sky alongside their fathers and brothers and sons. And still the men they worked with scorned them. Scoffed at them. Gave the credit and the glory to the men who stole their work—or borrowed it or expanded it. Rarely cited it directly.”
― Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“She’d always assumed that it would mean the most for someone to promise they’d stay. She never knew that it would mean a million times more for someone to ask her not to go.”
― thefooliam, She

“Sometimes the best things in life aren’t things we fight for but that unexpectedly fall into our laps.”
― Monica McCallan, When I'm With You

“There were things I couldn’t say; I could only write them. Because when I spoke, I thought; and when I wrote, I felt.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.”
― Ruthie Lindsey