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Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)
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Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1))
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I know what it's like when you can't get no one to listen to you. When what you say don't matter. I half think every girl knows what it's like to be silenced.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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His arms went round my waist. He had a big grin, full of teeth like stars. "You saying you're the jealous sort,Scar?" "I'm saying that some girls slap, but I have knives.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (The Bhagavad-gita (Bhagavadgita))
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It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
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A.C. Grayling (The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century)
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Of a band with three actual boys, why is it that all the maids lust after the fake one?
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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I’ll keep your heart, Scar,” he whispered. β€œIf you keep mine.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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You are my whole heart, Scarlet. And this is breaking it.' My heart cracked open and clear dropped out of me. My mouth opened, and I looked round me and stamped my foot. 'Does this look like a good time to tell me that, you damn stupid boy?' I meant to sound mean but my voice wobbled. 'Now?' He gave a little smile. 'My foul-mouthed warrior.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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A.C. Grayling
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Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.
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Oliver Bowden (Renaissance (Assassin's Creed, #1))
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Because we always have a choice, even when it feels like we don't.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
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A.C. Grayling (The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century)
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We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.
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Alexandra Bracken (The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1))
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I do what I do because I will always believe that no matter how awful life gets for however many of these people, there is something I can do about it. There is something I will do about it.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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We do what we do because there's something we can do about it. Things like 'how long' and 'what if' aren't part of that. It's about the hope, not the horror.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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He takes the guilt and responsibility that others can't. John takes the punches. I just take the hunger, and most times it feels like awful little.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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To me, true love is about finding someone who not only sees and accepts your demons but also is willing to step up and fight them when you stumble.
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A.C. Gaughen
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Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Rob looked a little shocked. "Don't you look at me like that," I snapped at him. "Just because I can't trim a beard don't mean I can't swear." "Like a sailor," he added. "I've never heard so many curses in my whole life. All combined.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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I wouldn't never bathe with him or pass water when he were near. He got suspicious quick. Seems real boys are awfully eager to parade their bits around.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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You are my whole heart, Scarlet. And this is breaking it.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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The best gift we can give other people is our whole selves in truth. By doing so we give them a true and accurate mirror that allows them to see themselves. We also give ourselves the best opportunity to grow.
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A.C. Ping (Be)
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Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.
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A.C. Crispin (Time for Yesterday)
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On the day of the dead, when the year too dies, Must the youngest open the oldest hills Through the door of the birds, where the breeze breaks. There fire shall fly from the raven boy, And the silver eyes that see the wind, And the light shall have the harp of gold. By the pleasant lake the Sleepers lie, On Cadfan’s Way where the kestrels call; Though grim from the Grey King shadows fall, Yet singing the golden harp shall guide To break their sleep and bid them ride. When light from the lost land shall return, Six Sleepers shall ride, six Signs shall burn, And where the midsummer tree grows tall By Pendragon’s sword the Dark shall fall. Y maent yr mynyddoedd yn canu, ac y mae’r arglwyddes yn dod.
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Susan Cooper (The Dark Is Rising Sequence (The Dark is Rising, #1-5))
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You have to stay safe, Scar. Maybe it's your bits in a dress and maybe it's just you, but I'm awful fond of something in there. So don't get killed.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Your power, your great gift, is that you never give up. When something fails you make a new plan, and another, and another. You never accept defeat. You never give up.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lady Thief (Scarlet, #2))
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You traitorous bitch!" he yelled. "You goddamn liar!" I laughed. "You knew I were a bitch and a liar when you married me, Guy. It's your own damn fault for agreeing to it.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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To say that nothing is true is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile and that we must be the shepherds of our civilization. To say that everything is permitted is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious of tragic.
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Ezio Auditore da Firenze
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Tough times don't last but tough people do
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A.C. Green
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I know what it is to look at your past, and see nothing more than your mistakes
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?" I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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We spent a few minutes painting light graffiti. Grover wrote Pan 4ever. I wrote AC+PJ.
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Rick Riordan (The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #6))
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He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to forgive, to pardon, to forgo vengeance and violence. It's the weak man that must prove himself such.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lady Thief (Scarlet, #2))
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Do not fear the darkness, but welcome it's embrace.
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Ezio Auditore da Firenze
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I will not be broken or diminished or belittled by the choices of men around me.
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A.C. Gaughen (Reign the Earth (The Elementae, #1))
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I picked up the mop and started washing again as Rob struggled to his feet, red faced. John laughed, and Much covered a smile. "You lot think this is funny?" I asked. "I'll unman you too if you wish it." They jumped back, and Rob grunted. "You haven't unmanned me, and I resent the implication of it." "It were a warning blow," I told him, shoving the mop 'cross the floor. "Next time I'll try harder.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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A.C. Grayling (Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God)
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Sometimes it's harder to be bright when you feel the darkness inside you. Sometimes the very hardest thing is to let the pain go.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))
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It seems a precious thing, for someone to know the very worst part of you and love you anyway.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))
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When shall we break into the jail, then?" John asked. "Midnight. The guard changes then, and you'll fair certain look less conspicuous in that crowd." "So you think I look like a guard? I'll take that nicely." He took a drink of his beer, his eyes shining at me over the brim. I flicked my eyes over him. "Brutish and stupid? Yes, you look quite like a guard.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
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A.C. Grayling (The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century)
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Not only is a book without conflict something no one wants to read, but a life without conflict is something where nothing is gained, nothing is earned, nothing is won.
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A.C. Gaughen
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
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A.C. Grayling (The Meaning of Things)
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Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (Bhagavad-Gita As It Is)
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One whose happiness is within, who is active within, who rejoices within and is illumined within, is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (Bhagavad-gita As It Is)
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He put his hand to my cheek, just touching the fingertips to my skin before pulling away. "You are.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Stories are told to make you feel something, and they can tell ours over and over again, and every time it will be something different.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))
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Rob's breath were pushing over my ear, his chest puffing up underneath me. His heart were beating so close to my own that it calmed me for sheer distraction.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Much were bent over in laughter. I pushed him, and he rolled to the floor without my intended insult. β€œCome off it!” I stamped my foot. β€œWhat’s so funny?” John asked, coming over in the middle of eating an apple. He tossed me an apple and I threw it at Much. He only laughed harder. β€œK-k-kissed Scar!” he hooted. β€œSomeone kissed you?” John asked, turning to me. He didn’t look like it were too funny. β€œWho is he?” This made Much laugh more. β€œNone of your business, John Little,” I told him. He stepped closer to me with a flat face that, if I could ape it, I’d never be kissed by a stupid girl when I didn’t want to be. β€œWho, Scar?” β€œJenny Percy!” Much roared. John’s face broke open, like a smile could split a black mood. β€œWait till Rob hears this.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna: "It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga)
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I will always return to him. I can deny it all I like," I told her in a whisper, "but when someone holds your heart, its impossible to stay away.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))
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Nothing is True. Everything is Permitted
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Ezio Auditore da Firenze
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Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (Bhagavad-Gita As It Is)
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I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.
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Joe Hill (Horns)
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The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
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A.C. Grayling (Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God)
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You see the world as fixed and finite, and it is not. It is liquid and ever moving, and one act can change everything.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))
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True power does not force others to make themselves smaller.
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A.C. Gaughen (Reign the Earth (The Elementae, #1))
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Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna is manifested by physical representations.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (Bhagavad-Gita As It Is)
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In the event of a total loss of direction in life, be sure to sort our your own shit before you start telling people what to do.
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A.C. Ping (Be)
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I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it.
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John Ringo (A Hymn Before Battle (Posleen War, #1))
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I left little packages in front of the doors; the people looked for them in the morning, and I knew, in some bit of a way, it bucked them up. I did as much as I could, but it weren't like I could get everyone something every night. That seemed like the cruelest part. I tried not to think 'bout the people that woke up and rushed to the door and didn't find nothing; it made my chest hurt.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (Bhagavad-Gita As It Is)
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A fault denied is twice committed.
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A.C. Grayling
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Country’s for dancing and crying. AC/DC is for cleaning your truck.
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Jamie McGuire (Beautiful Sacrifice (The Maddox Brothers, #3))
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
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A.C. Grayling (The Good Book: A Humanist Bible)
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When she leaned forward to mess with the AC vents, her hair brushed against my leg and it was really soft. It made remember all over again. It made it hard to stay pissed and keep her at arm's length the way I'd planned. It was pretty near damn impossible. When I was near her, I just wanted to grab her and hold her and kiss the shit out of her. Maybe then she'd forget about my asshole of a brother.
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Jenny Han (It's Not Summer Without You (Summer, #2))
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And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer--by demonstration--would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light--
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Isaac Asimov (Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4))
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Dirty deeds done dirt cheap.’ – AC/DC
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Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption)
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I won't teach my daughter that her only choice is to be sheltered by the men around her.
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A.C. Gaughen (Reign the Earth (The Elementae, #1))
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This is the hope, not horror
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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A yogΔ« is greater than the ascetic, greater than the empiricist and greater than the fruitive worker. Therefore, O Arjuna, in all circumstances, be a yogΔ«.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (Bhagavad-gita As It Is)
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More people care about you than you know, Scarlet. No matter how you got your scars.” I covered my cheek, looking at her. β€œNot just those scars. The ones that make you think you’re unlovable.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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You and I are going to happen, that's all I'm sayin'. You say the word, I will make your body feel things that your pretty boy at home has never even come close to making you feel." Holding On (Lights of Peril)
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A.C. Bextor
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We were supposed to have time. We'd paid dear, in blood and promises that took my soul with them. It was all supposed to have meant something.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lady Thief (Scarlet, #2))
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Talking one way or another doesn't make you better
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Rob sidled up next to me. "You don't have to come," he told me. "We can do it." Glaring at him, I said, "I'm coming. For Heaven's sake, I put on a dress and you lot think I'm a girl.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))
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My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (Bhagavad-Gita As It Is)
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I want to stand beside you. I want to learn to fight with you. I won't accept you as a protector. But I will accept you as something else. Something far greater. Because with whatever scraps of my heart are left, I love you...
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A.C. Gaughen (Reign the Earth (The Elementae, #1))
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Saya iri ke Menak Jinggo .... Hidup luntang lantung bagai gelandangan di bawah pohon tapi hatinya penuh cinta. Kami hidup enak di ruang AC, bergemilang duit, tapi cinta kami redup bahkan kering kerontang," ungkap seorang anggota dewan
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Sujiwo Tejo (Ngawur Karena Benar)
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If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and if this deity is the creator of all things, then it is responsible for cancer, meningitis, millions of spontaneous abortions everyday, mass killings of people in floods and earthquakes-and too great mountain of other natural evils to list besides. It would also,as the putative designer of human nature, ultimately be responsible or the ubiquitous and unbeatable human propensities for hatred, malice, greed, and all other sources of the cruelty and murder people inflict on each other hourly.
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A.C. Grayling
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We roll tonight to the guitar bite Stand up and be counted for what you are about to receive We are the dealers We'll give you everything you need Hail hail to the good times Cos rock has got the right of way We ain't no legends ain't no cause We're just livin' for today For those about to rock, we salute you For those about to rock, we salute you
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AC/DC
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Our love filled the broken bits and made me whole again. There weren't a perfect time to love him, not ever, and it had always been with the threat of death and hurt hovering round us. And we'd love each other anyway. Sure, and true.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))
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The paradox is that the ecosysytem as a whole needs its participants to ac with restraint in order to avoid collapse, but the participants themselves have no inbuilt mechanism to encourage such behavior. Other than fear? Other than fear, which is a feeling you want to avoid or stop at all costs
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Becky Chambers (A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1))
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Many Americans and Western Europeans proudly trumpet the diversity of cosmopolises like London and New York without realizing that cosmopolitanism does not mean people of different skin colors all sitting around over wine at a bistro table complaining about organized religion. It means people who hold profoundly different, even mutually exclusive, beliefs and cultural norms functioning in a shared space based on toleration of disagreement.
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Jonathan A.C. Brown (Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy)
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Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.
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A.C. Grayling
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Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, "This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife." These are the dualities of delusion. Those who are so deluded by dualities are completely foolish and therefore cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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A.C. Prabhupāda (Bhagavad-Gita As It Is)
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Words cannot express my disappointment that I must pass on the invitation to once again witness your gelatinous buttocks swaying as you try to climb a greased pole naked in search of athletic glory. Sadly, the last occasion on which I witnessed this event had a deleterious effect on my psyche for which I am still seeking the attention of a therapist. A.C. Kemp as Lady Arabella Snark
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A.C. Kemp (The Perfect Insult for Every Occasion)
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David punched him across the face. Allan dropped like a sack of potatoes. I crossed my arms. "Was that necessary?" "I won't tolerate an insult to your person," David told me, straightening his tunic. "But no. That was more for my enjoyment." "Well, now you have to carry him, you know," I told David. He raised a grim eyebrow to me. "Worth it.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))
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When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house and slip through into Fillory...it’s like he’s opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.
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Lev Grossman (The Magicians (The Magicians, #1))
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. . .the most important philosophical question we can each ask ourselves is, β€˜Do I or do I not wish to commit suicide?’ If we say, β€˜No I do not,’ as most of us would, it is because we have reasons for living, or at the very least real hope that we can find such reasons. Then the next question is: what are the reasons I personally have for saying β€˜No’ to that question? The answer contains the meaning of my life.
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A.C. Grayling (The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism)
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We do what we do because there's something we can do about it. Things like 'how long' and 'what if' aren't part of that. It's about the hope, not the horror." Thoughts of London welled up in my pipes but I kept going. "And for that matter, you know all about the horrors, just like I do, just like John does, just like Much. We shoulder it so these people don't have to know it too. And I know this because that's what you say. And when you say it, I believe you. and when I believe you, I'll follow you anywhere.
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A.C. Gaughen (Scarlet (Scarlet, #1))
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Just as ceremonial fasting was a legitimate means for getting God's attention (Mt 6:16-18; Ac 13:2-3; 14:23), the casting of lots was a legitimate means for inviting God to intercede on a matter. (Pr 18:18) It was not expected that God should intervene every time (1Sam 28:6), but the ceremonial casting of lots was an invitation for God to participate in the final decision.
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Michael Ben Zehabe (A Commentary on Jonah)
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Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
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A.C. Grayling
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There's a funny thing about light and darkness--like hope, you can never blot out either one completely. They always exist, side by side, bright light making shadows darker, darkness making the light more beautiful, a tempting siren call. I can't hate the dark parts of myself. They are the things that showed me how special and rare the bright flames of trust, loyalty, friendship, and love were. My darkness showed me how to love Rob. But now I choose light and fire and love. No I choose freedom.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))
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Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticβ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
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A.C. Grayling
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Ten Best Song to Strip 1. Any hip-swiveling R&B fuckjam. This category includes The Greatest Stripping Song of All Time: "Remix to Ignition" by R. Kelly. 2. "Purple Rain" by Prince, but you have to be really theatrical about it. Arch your back like Prince himself is daubing body glitter on your abdomen. Most effective in nearly empty, pathos-ridden juice bars. 3. "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones. Insta-attitude. Makes even the clumsiest troglodyte strut like Anita Pallenberg. (However, the Troggs will make you look like even more of a troglodyte, so avoid if possible.) 4. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leppard. The Lep's shouted choruses and relentless programmed drums prove ideal for chicks who can really stomp. (Coincidence: I once saw a stripper who, like Rick Allen, had only one arm.) 5. "Amber" by 311. This fluid stoner anthem is a favorite of midnight tokers at strip joints everywhere. Mellow enough that even the most shitfaced dancer can make it through the song and back to her Graffix bong without breaking a sweat. Pass the Fritos Scoops, dude. 6. "Miserable" by Lit, but mostly because Pamela Anderson is in the video, and she's like Jesus for strippers (blonde, plastic, capable of parlaying a broken nail into a domestic battery charge, damaged liver). Alos, you can't go wrong stripping to a song that opens with the line "You make me come." 7. "Back Door Man" by The Doors. Almost too easy. The mere implication that you like it in the ass will thrill the average strip-club patron. Just get on all fours and crawl your way toward the down payment on that condo in Cozumel. (Unless, like most strippers, you'd rather blow your nest egg on tacky pimped-out SUVs and Coach purses.) 8. Back in Black" by AC/DC. Producer Mutt Lange wants you to strip. He does. He told me. 9. "I Touch Myself" by the Devinyls. Strip to this, and that guy at the tip rail with the bitch tits and the shop teacher glasses will actually believe that he alone has inspired you to masturbate. Take his money, then go masturbate and think about someone else. 10. "Hash Pipe" by Weezer. Sure, it smells of nerd. But River Cuomo is obsessed with Asian chicks and nose candy, and that's just the spirit you want to evoke in a strip club. I recommend busting out your most crunk pole tricks during this one.
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Diablo Cody
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Telah kukirim warna warni pelangi itu bersama salam dari adikmu. Ternyata ia juga rindu berkelakar denganmu. Jadi baik baiklah engkau melihat dunia, Nak. Mungkin ia tak seindah taman bunga yang pernah Bunda ceritakan. Ada teman yang akan menyambutmu dengan senyum dan jabat tangan. Tapi mungkin, ada mata yang akan menatapmu dengan curiga. "Apa yang akan engkau perbuat di sini? Jangan kau curi apa yang aku punya!" Pandai pandailah engkau menyalin baris baris ingatan dari semua petuahku dulu. Seberapa penting dan bernilainya itu bagimu kini. Sebab, hanya cinta Bunda yang akan mengatarkanmu melewati hari hari hujan. Hari hari tanpa mimpi. Keras suara guntur dan kilat berkelebat. Tapi kau tak perlu takut Nak. Karena kau tak pernah sendirian. Ada Bunda yang akan membimbingmu melewati jalan kelok berliku. Jalan yang penuh tikungan dan tanjakan yang tersembunyi. Jalan yang mungkin tak selamanya lurus. Jalan yang akan membuatmu letih. Awalnya mungkin engkau akan mengeluh. Mungkin engkau akan menangis sesekali. Mungkin engkau akan merasa jengkel dan bahkan marah. Tapi biarlah perasaan perasaan itu mengalir seperti sungai. Karena akan selalu ada laut di hati Ibu, di hati Bundamu ini. Luas samudra yang akan menampung semua keluh kesahmu. Ada pesan pesan pendek yang akan menyapamu setiap pagi. Jadikan itu roti dan selai choco crunchy sarapan kegemaranmu. Akan ada bunga yang wangi semerbak yang di kirim dari kantor ayah untuk menceriakan pagi harimu. Ia mungkin tak banyak bicara menyuarakan perasaannya, tapi ketahuilah Nak, bahkan di tengah kesibukannya ia tak pernah berhenti memikirkanmu. Sesekali ia berhenti mengajar, hanya untuk mengirim pesan padaku, "Adakah kabar dari putri kesayangannya hari ini?" Bahkan ia tak sabar menunggu datangnya akhir pekan, agar ia leluasa berbicara denganmu dari hati ke hati. Sebab ia tahu, betapa harimu kadang mendung kadang hujan. Dan ketika mati lampu, matanya seperti menerawang di dalam gelap. Dengan setengah berbisik ia bicara kepada Bunda, seandainya saja ia bisa jadi pelita yang menyala untukmu sepanjang hari. Saat malam datang mengendap dan adikmu lelaki telah lama mendengkur, Bunda acap mendengar suara ayahmu seperti mendesah di dalam mimpi. Ia menangis terbata menyebut nyebut namamu. Bunda tak hendak membuatnya terjaga. Sebab tangis itu seperti juga doa. Seperti kerinduan laut yang tak bertepi. Seperti cerah langit merah jelang subuh dini hari. Kamu bisa menyebutnya sebagai cinta. Itulah cinta yang menambatkan hati bunda ke pelukan ayahmu. Ia seperti senyap pawana yang menyelinap di malam buta dan berusaha masuk lewat jendela kamarmu. Ia mungkin tak akan berucap sepatah kata pun. Ia hanya akan menatapmu sejenak. Memastikan engkau tidur terlelap. Ia mungkin cuma ingin tahu, apakah selimut yang kamu pakai cukup tebal dan hangat membungkus tubuhmu. Apakah AC di kamarmu menyala terlalu dingin? Apakah senyum manis menghias wajahmu dan membawamu bermimpi tentang surga? Ketahuilah Nak, itu adalah kerinduan kami dan perasaan perasaan lain yang tak terlukiskan.
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Titon Rahmawan
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The heartwood," Rob murmured, looking at me. "You wanted to marry me in the heart of Major Oak." I beamed at him grateful that he understood. "And Scar," he whispered. I leaned in close. "Are you wearing knives to our wedding?" Nodding, I laughed, telling him, "I was going to get you here one way or another, Hood." He laughed, a bright, merry sound. Standing in the heart of the tree, he reached again for my hand, fingers sliding over mine. Touching his hand, a rope of lightening lashed round my fingers, like it seared us together. Now, and for always. His fingers moved on mine, rubbing over my hand before capturing it tight and turning me to the priest. The priest looked over his shoulder, watching as the sun began to dip. He led us in prayer, he asked me to speak the same words I'd spoken not long past to Gisbourne, but that whole thing felt like a bad dream, like I were waking and it were fading and gone for good. "Lady Scarlet." he asked me with a smile, "known to some as Lady Marian of Huntingdon, will thou have this lord to thy wedded husband, will thou love him and honour him, keep him and obey him, in health and in sickness, as a wife should a husband, forsaking all others on account of him, so long as ye both shall live?" I looked at Robin, tears burning in my eyes. "I will," I promised. "I will, always." Rob's face were beaming back at me, his ocean eyes shimmering bright. The priest smiled. "Robin of Locksley, will thou have this lady to thy wedded wife, will thou love her and honor her, keep her and guard her, in health and in sickness, as a husband should a wife, forsaking all others on account of her, so long as ye both shall live?" the priest asked. "Yes," Rob said. "I will." "You have the rings?" the priest asked Rob. "I do," I told the priest, taking two rings from where Bess had tied them to my dress. I'd sent Godfrey out to buy them at market without Rob knowing. "I knew you weren't planning on this," I told him. Rob just grinned like a fool at me, taking the ring I handed him to put on my finger. Laughs bubbled up inside of me, and I felt like I were smiling so wide something were stuck in my cheeks and holding me open. More shy and proud than I thought I'd be, I said. "I take you as me wedded husband, Robin. And thereto I plight my troth." I pushed the ring onto his finger. He took my half hand in one of his, but the other- holding the ring- went into his pocket. "I may not have known I would marry you today Scar," he said. "But I did know I would marry you." He showed me a ring, a large ruby set in delicate gold. "This," he said to me, "was my mother's. It's the last thing I have of hers, and when I met you and loved you and realized your name was the exact colour of the stone- " He swallowed, and cleared his throat, looking at me with the blue eyes that shot right through me. "This was meant to be Scarlet. I was always meant to love you. To marry you." The priest coughed. "Say the words, my son, and you will marry her." Rob grinned and I laughed, and Rob stepped closer, cradling my hand. "I take you as my wedded wife, Scarlet. And thereto I plight my troth." He slipped the ring on my finger and it fit. "Receive the Holy Spirit," the priest said, and kissed Robin on the cheek. Rob's happy grin turned a touch wolflike as he turned back to me, hauling me against him and angling his mouth over mine. I wrapped my arms around him and my head spun- I couldn't tell if we were spinning, if I were dizzy, if my feet were on the ground anymore at all, but all I knew, all I cared for, were him, his mouth against mine, and letting the moment we became man and wife spin into eternity.
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A.C. Gaughen (Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3))