Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.”
“I don't need to be straightened out,” Carmine said. “Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust?


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I got through it, and I wore it like a badge of honor—I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.
J.M. RICHARDS
You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that,...
J.M. RICHARDS
As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, stro...
J.M. RICHARDS
Being in love with your best friend is problematic.
J.M. RICHARDS
Um, you don’t have to join me, but if you’re looking for a table, there are a couple good seats ...
J.M. RICHARDS
Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
J.M. MCDERMOTT
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but see...
J.M. SYNGE
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made...
J.M. SYNGE
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
J.M. SYNGE
You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.
J.M. BARRIE
Boy, why are you crying?
J.M. BARRIE
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
J.M. COETZEE
I am not the we of anyone
J.M. COETZEE
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of l...
J.M. COETZEE
It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.
J.M. BARRIE
He was never more sinister than when he was most polite...
J.M. BARRIE
For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange...
J.M. BARRIE
She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was li...
J.M. BARRIE
If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colo...
J.M. BARRIE
There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was...
J.M. BARRIE
The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse.
—ALEXANDER S. ...
J.M. CARLISLE
Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS
Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN
With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to...
J.M. COETZEE
Who are you?” he asked, in a bewildered tone. I cocked my head at him, totally baffled. “I told ...
J.M. RICHARDS
I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again...
J.M. RICHARDS
It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di...
J.M. RICHARDS
The only ghosts, I believe, who creep into this world, are dead
young mothers, returned to see...
J.M. BARRIE
Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE
Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world.
J.M. BARRIE
It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to ...
J.M. BARRIE
When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in yo...
J.M. BARRIE
Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the oth...
J.M. BARRIE
It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not ...
J.M. BARRIE
Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE
This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; ...
J.M. BARRIE
Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is...
J.M. COETZEE
Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der...
J.M. COETZEE
The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets.
J.M. COETZEE
I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st...
J.M. COETZEE
Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD
From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.
J.M. COETZEE
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J.M. BARRIE
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
J.M. BARRIE
Of course Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no nigh...
J.M. BARRIE
You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
J.M. BARRIE
We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
J.M. BARRIE
Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and me...
J.M. BARRIE
See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
J.M. BARRIE
he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.
J.M. BARRIE
Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies
away with the big crust, you k...
J.M. BARRIE
All children, except one, grow up
J.M. BARRIE
For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and
the moment you doubt whether yo...
J.M. BARRIE
No fue el dolor, sino lo in­jus­to del asun­to, lo que aton­tó a Peter. Lo dejó im­po­ten­t...
J.M. BARRIE
Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night
J.M. BARRIE
I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf...
J.M. RICHARDS
The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS
I don’t want to go home yet.” He twisted at the waist and patted the seat behind him. “Take a ...
J.M. STEWART
The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot...
J.M. COETZEE
Adam delayed only a second longer before traversing into the uncertain future, crossing the hidden d...
J.M. NORTHUP
He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and mo...
J.M. COETZEE
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo...
J.M. COETZEE
I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what...
J.M. COETZEE
People who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
J.M. BARRIE
All you need is Faith, Trust and a little Pixie Dust
J.M. BARRIE
Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben kö...
J.M. COETZEE
I am not young enough to know everything.
SIR J.M. BARRIE
Christians should put survival of the planet ahead of national security...Here is the mystery of our...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN