“I’m not saying that you will ever be over the breakup of your marriage. Any relationship that started with that six-second love stays with you forever, and that is as it should be. Like everything else in this life, it changes constantly—it subsides, flares, grows distant, comes close, gets smooth—but, make no mistake, it stays.”
― A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story
― A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story
“Of course, he did. Because people now think she’s Trixie Belden.” At the blank looks from the men in the room, she mockingly translated, “A more mature version of Nancy Drew.”
― Rogue Justice
― Rogue Justice
“Fruit is not my thing,” Kate said. “Watch me eat an In-N-Out burger sometime.”
― The Job
― The Job
“In white America, prisons are good places where bad men pay for their crimes. In black America, they are too often used as warehouses to keep minorities off the streets.”
― The Guardians
― The Guardians
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
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