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Sexuality is something that should be discussed in our society. Being hush-hush doesn't benefit our society, which is why I wrote the article.


Elizabeth Butler

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SCOTT STRAIN I don't recall any hush-hush, whisper-whisper going on.
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BECCA FITZPATRICK ...więc mów szeptem. Szeptem się nie kłamie.
PATCH Class was like watered down porn today." Vee said
BECCA FITZPATRICK They have been really hush-hush about it.
NICOLE BOSTIC It had to be extremely hush-hush, otherwise he wouldn't have made it out of Colombia.
HUMBERTO DOMINGUEZ still so hush-hush that word of it has not appeared in the memos that circulate among the [S&S] edit...
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on ...
EMILY BRONTë Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed aga...
BECCA FITZPATRICK I think that our society still has some prejudice in it, and baseball is a reflection of the society...
JIMMIE LEE SOLOMON This should have been started here a long time ago. It promotes girls being involved at school and b...
ASHLEY CHANDLER Hush a-bye my little bird
Hush a-bye my child

I have lost a love so great
Oh...
KELLY CREAGH You should go," I breathed. "You should definitely go."

"Go here?" His mouth was on my sh...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Killer skirt, deadly legs.
BECCA FITZPATRICK Let’s get out of here.”

“Where are we going?”

“You’ll see.
BECCA FITZPATRICK It's so hush hush that they have sworn everyone to absolute secrecy and haven't revealed the exact d...
CHARLIZE THERON And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything ...
MINORU YAMASAKI I work in a secret whisper factory. It’s all very hush-hush. Her love for me could be found there,...
JAROD KINTZ You smell good, too,” said Patch

It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahea...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever b...
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ROB WALTON You're a liar!"

He turned around, his black eyes snapping. "I'm also a thief, a gambler, ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK You're staying here, Angel."

"You're taking this one alone?"

"First, Hank can'...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Patch wore black jeans and a matching T- shirt that hugged his form. He rested his hands on my shoul...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Patch backed me into a tree and kissed me, hard.
I regained my breath. "Boys take not everywher...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Patch's eyes grazed me with silent heat. My reflection swirled in them, red hair and lips aflame. I ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business ...
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TREVANIAN I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.
RAVEN-SYMONE That whole feeling that society is showing our children that sex appeal is something that they need ...
DARLENE ROSE I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.
TED CHIANG Hush, self, let me think.
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SUSAN COOLIDGE (PSEUDONYM OF SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) I watched him pitch the ball at a table neatly lined with six bowling pins, my stomach giving a litt...
BECCA FITZPATRICK If you can't feel, why did you kiss me?"
Patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed...
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ORSON SCOTT CARD Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obli...
ISAAC BARROW Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,huma...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it dif...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, w...
THICH NHAT HANH There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in m...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist t...
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex s...
TIM HARFORD Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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JOE ONDERKO Mr. Schwarzenegger should be ashamed of himself, ... He supported 187, and he has said that one of h...
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BECCA FITZPATRICK You're infringing on my personal space."

~Nora
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BECCA FITZPATRICK -"you dress to impress"
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BECCA FITZPATRICK Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and...
BECCA FITZPATRICK And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.
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JOSEPH P. BRADLEY A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
SARA TEASDALE A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring
SARA TEASDALE Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disag...
TOM ROBBINS Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
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DON WILLIAMS, JR. When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of ...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
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