Beka: 'Will you keep me here forever? My hands are sticky.'
Dale: 'I'll lick the honey off,
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I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.
TAMORA PIERCE Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
TAMORA PIERCE Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am....
TAMORA PIERCE My mother is my doctor
Caring for me when am ill
I will love her forever till
We are ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let the s...
GEORGE ELIOT Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar
IRISH SAYINGS I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a g...
STEVE NASH How long will you keep me?" I asked.
You shrugged. "Forever, of course.
LUCY CHRISTOPHER Stay away from her."
"Okay."
"Keep your hands off her."
"I'll try."
He scowled a...
JENNIFER ECHOLS You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If...
TAMORA PIERCE A noble maiden must convey dignity and chastity without appearing to think about either one. Let com...
TAMORA PIERCE What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked.
"I don't see where blaming me f...
TAMORA PIERCE Love is for the birds.
Honey is for the bees.
And you, my special one.
Are the only o...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Will you be?” I asked, suddenly anxious. “Will you really be here?”
“As long as you wan...
STEPHENIE MEYER You are my drug of choice
I know you’re no good for me
And though I swear my lips
W...
JUSTIN WETCH Fate has carried me
'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--
Not shrink and let the shaf...
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'
My plan was indeed to stay...
OLIVIA SUDJIC I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I will never hurt you.
I will always help you.
If you are hungry
Ill give you my food...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.
When I'm dead and gone,
T...
SUE MONK KIDD Hey... you gonna ignore me like that?
...
Forever?
...
You gonna rej...
DEYTH BANGER I’ll find you—
Keep calling for me, Viola—
Cuz here I come.
PATRICK NESS You ever lick butter off your finger and then realize it was soap? Me neither
KRIS HUEN I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My desce...
TAMORA PIERCE 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You turn me on.” He cups my face, brushing my hair away from my eyes and a tear off my cheek.” PENELOPE DOUGLAS If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we wou...
NICOLE LYONS O love! Poor love! How did you pierce my heart?
How did touch my soul?
How did you win my...
DEBASISH MRIDHA The rarest jewel you hold in your hands is my heart, forever it will be yours to hold close.
HOLYHELL111 Trust me to return to you."
"I will wait forever.
however long it takes.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Never say I love you
If you really don't care.
Never talk about feelings
If they...
ANON. I want the fever to grab me forever
and want you
to be my fever.
SUMAN POKHREL String of love
Universe surrounds you
The Saints kneels to you
My freezin...
JHUNMAR SIMILA Will you accept me?" Fury
"No. I'm here naked with you because all my clothes fell off by accid...
SHERRILYN KENYON I keep my kindness in my eyes
Gently folded around my iris
Like a velvety, brown blanket...
SANOBER KHAN I nipped little kisses along his jawline. God, I just couldn't keep my hands or lips off of him. "Go...
TISH THAWER i want you so much I feel like I'm going to explode."
"I hear that Marines are good with explos...
DEBORAH BLAKE I did not ask you out. But I would seriously think about not shooting you down if you asked me. Nice...
LIZ REINHARDT Exactly when will you give up?
When things will seem out of your hands ?
When ...
SANHITA BARUAH This isn't the life I thought we'd have, my love.
This isn't the way I thought we'd be living, my de...
JESSICA MADLE Share yourself with me.
I will never judge you.
I am here
and I will stay here KAMAND KOJOURI How long can you keep me invisible?"
"As long as were in physical contact."
My throat felt...
RACHEL VINCENT Let me out," Harry said again.
"No," Dumbledore repeated.
"If you don't - if you keep me i...
J.K. ROWLING I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep
How did we ...
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN Ash!” I called, squinting through the rain and darkness, through the glow of the streetlamps that ...
JULIE KAGAWA What part of Canada are you from, honey?"
"THE LEFT PART," said Jay.
ADAM REX A heat wave crashes into my body and I tug at the collar of my winter coat. I could take this thing ...
KATIE MCGARRY So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on t...
PABLO NERUDA No matter what happens or what you go through im here for you i always will be.No one will keep me f...
NICKOLI LEE ALLEN D'AVANZO I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm.. this body will never keep me safe from harm.
I still feel...
JEFF BUCKLEY Honey, are you being safe?'
'I wear my seat belt, yes.'
'Does this Rob Lovely wear a seat ...
LETA BLAKE Talked my head off
Worked my tail off
Cried my eyes out
Walked my feet off
Sang ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Talked my head off
Worked my tail off
Cried my eyes out
Walked my feet off
Sang ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Enough pain will keep you humble.
Enough grief will keep you compassionate.
Enough trouble...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Don't go far off, not even for a day,
because I don't know how to say it - a day is long
a...
PABLO NERUDA My aim is that when my hands will work no longer, that the works of my hands will still continue to ...
UNKNOWN Well I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot."
"Forever?" s...
CASSANDRA CLARE My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn't keep my hands off him.
RICHELLE MEAD Woe is me!
The winged words on which my soul would pierce
Into the heights of love's rare uni...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break y...
C.S. LEWIS Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind.
That's how the s...
EMMA BRYNSTEIN I drop my face to my hands and scrub hard.
"I wish I had your boobs," I hear Sam announc...
KRISTEN PROBY I’ve learned to lick
my own foul wounds
and prize the taste of ache.
CHILA WOYCHIK Here, when I say I never want to be without you,
somewhere else I am saying
I never want t...
BOB HICOK Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever.
BRIAN WILSON You’re safe now,” Rider said. “I here. You’re safe, Mouse. And I know you might not believe ...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT LOVE is the glue that holds all the pieces of me and you...
PHILIP T. M. Sleep my friend and you will see
That dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this c...
METALLICA WELCOME HOME SANITARIUM But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here?
MARIE ANTOINETTE My secret friend,
Oh, take me to the river.
My secret friend,
So we can swim forever.
İAMX You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee.
ALBERT H. FITZ There is not enough air in the room but you are breathing.
There is nobody here but you are hel...
JEANETTE LEBLANC You can two-time satan
But you can't lick the Holy Ghost.
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA THE NAKED HEART
From womb to tomb,
There came and went -
Only you.
Poor or...
SUZY KASSEM My friend once told me
she liked this guy because of his hands
And I found it absurd that ...
CAROL SHLYAKHOVA Where is my oasis? Too far from
here for me to crawl with these
dead legs, refusing to co-...
KIERA WOODHULL My darling I still love you,
no matter that you're gone.
You'll always be with me,
fo...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in sta...
T.E. LAWRENCE The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again.
TAMORA PIERCE Take off your coat."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off."
"No."
"I want it off."
"Th...
J.R. WARD That really pissed me off, because I am worth it, goddamn it!”
“I know you—”
“St...
ROBIN L. ROTHAM My hands are still shaking from
nights spent not knowing
how to want you.
TRISTA MATEER Skies are crying,
I am watching,
Catching teardrops in my hands.
Only silence, as it'...
DEMI LOVATO I will not trust you, I,
Nor longer stay in your curst company.
Your hands than mine are q...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE NAKED HEART
From womb to tomb,
There came and went -
Only you.
P...
SUZY KASSEM Tell me again about the girl whose hands
have no color. Whose hands are completely
white. ...
REBECCA WADLINGER I will miss
my chest exploding
you coming home late
not turning on the light
alw...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Dreams are memories.
Memories are dreams.
But my time with you hasn’t become a dream j...
F.K. PRESTON The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
MARCUS AURELIUS The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth, you have given away
MARCUS AURELIUS The acronym was derived from the title of the first book--a pamphlet, really-- in which Khyfo was ex...
F. PAUL WILSON God’s vessel
When God is finished molding me, I will be a beautiful vessel in his hands.
ELLEN JEAN BARRIER I know I’m just a human woman, but so help me, if anything happens to her while she’s with you�...
WENDY HIGGINS You like me?” I repeat, because, well, I want to be really, really sure that I heard him right. Th...
CARRIE JONES Keep your hands busy, what you do well will announce you
SOTONYE ANGA You have my heart,
send me a little word,
that I may go
unto her and take her hands
...
BJORK -What's so funny?"
"-Sorry," David said, reddening again. "You just taste so sweet."
"-Wha...
APRILYNNE PIKE We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We...
NEIL GAIMAN I had my hands down and he threw a big left hand at me and he got me. He got me buzzing. You learn q...
DONALD BRASHEAR
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- Daja refer...
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Bri...
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TAMORA PIERCE I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.
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A long arm snaked around her, and he pulled her against h...
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"So? He was stupid. If...
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TAMORA PIERCE Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much i...
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-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift
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The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I ...
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Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' ey...
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She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm...
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TAMORA PIERCE Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
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I was too flummo...
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Goodwin: "No, I am....
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Alanna shook her head....
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Neal: Youth and skill!
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I think I'm going to puke.
TAMORA PIERCE I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.
TAMORA PIERCE Funfunfunfunfun!
TAMORA PIERCE He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.
TAMORA PIERCE Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatu...
TAMORA PIERCE Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's onl...
TAMORA PIERCE Either I've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.
TAMORA PIERCE Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.
TAMORA PIERCE Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper
TAMORA PIERCE Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.
TAMORA PIERCE Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
TAMORA PIERCE I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.
TAMORA PIERCE A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for sayin...
TAMORA PIERCE When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing ...
TAMORA PIERCE I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.
TAMORA PIERCE A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. TAMORA PIERCE Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.
TAMORA PIERCE Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
TAMORA PIERCE cheek.
TAMORA PIERCE Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be alwa...
TAMORA PIERCE I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps mi...
TAMORA PIERCE I love you,” he whispered. “If you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
TAMORA PIERCE What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?
TAMORA PIERCE You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything.
TAMORA PIERCE Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accus...
TAMORA PIERCE Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and t...
TAMORA PIERCE I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My desce...
TAMORA PIERCE You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-"
"I think as a human being," she ret...
TAMORA PIERCE You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly.
"...
TAMORA PIERCE I will tell the stork-man.
TAMORA PIERCE I love you, if you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.
TAMORA PIERCE You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused.
She sat back and stared at him. Sh...
TAMORA PIERCE We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I ...
TAMORA PIERCE When I say I want time to think, I want time to think!"
Jonathan sighed wearily. "All right, yo...
TAMORA PIERCE (AUTHOR) Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion
PIERCE I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And whe...
WENDELL PIERCE I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
WENDELL PIERCE We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
WENDELL PIERCE It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y...
WENDELL PIERCE Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
WENDELL PIERCE One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people...
WENDELL PIERCE New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ...
WENDELL PIERCE At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ...
WENDELL PIERCE I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
WENDELL PIERCE A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
WENDELL PIERCE The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
WENDELL PIERCE What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec...
WENDELL PIERCE The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w...
WENDELL PIERCE And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
WENDELL PIERCE The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
WENDELL PIERCE Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
WENDELL PIERCE With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
PIERCE BROSNAN Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
PIERCE BROSNAN Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I...
PIERCE BROSNAN You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu...
PIERCE BROSNAN