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But Bellamy had been doing stupid things his whole life, and he had no intention of stopping now.
Kass Morgan (The Hundred (The Hundred, #1))
Bellamy didn’t know why the ancient humans even bothered doing drugs. What was the point of shooting junk into your veins when walking through the forest had the same effect?
Kass Morgan (The Hundred (The Hundred, #1))
He’d never known a girl who was so beautiful and intense at once.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
He tasted like joy, and joy tasted better on Earth.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Bellamy leaned back with a sigh and closed his eyes, wondering how long it would take until she stopped being the last person he thought about before he fell asleep. - Bellamy about Clarke
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Bellamy had come down from scanning the heavens only to find himself in the depths of hell.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
exhilaration fizzed through Clarke’s body. Before she realised what she was doing, she had thrown her arms around Bellamy. He joined in her laughter as he staggered backward, and wrapped his arms around her waist, lifting her up and spinning her through the air. The colours of the clearing swirled, green and gold and blue all blurring until there was nothing in the world but Bellamy’s smile, lighting up his eyes. Finally he set her down gently on the ground. Be he didn’t loosen his grip. Instead he pulled her even closer, and before Clarke had time to catch her breath, his lips were on hers. A voice in her brain told her stop, but it was overpowered by the smell of his skin and the pressure of his touch. Clarke felt like she was melting into his arms, losing herself in the kiss. He tasted like joy, and joy tasted better on Earth.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
I am become death, destroyer of worlds
Kass Morgan
You keep us alive, and I'll keep you on two feet. - Bellamy Blake
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Everything about you is how I wanna be; Your freedom comes naturally; Everything about you resonates happiness; Now I won't settle for less...
Matthew Bellamy
He'd always assumed those ancient poets had been full of shit, or at least had much better drugs than he’d ever tried.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Who we are and who we need to be to survive are two different things.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart. I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask. I want to exorcise the demons from your past. I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.
Matthew Bellamy
why were you so mean to little Chancellor Junior?” Clarke looked at him with a mixture of shock and indignation. For a moment, he thought she might actually hit him, but then she just shook her head. “That’s none of your business.” “Is he your boyfriend?” Bellamy pressed. “No,” Clarke said flatly. But then her mouth twitched into a questioning smile. “Why do you care?” “Just taking a census,” Bellamy replied. “Specifically, to determine the relationship status of all the pretty girls on Earth.
Kass Morgan (The Hundred (The Hundred, #1))
Bellamy took Clarke’s hand, then leaned in and whispered, “Should we go check on your parents?” She turned to him and tilted her head to the side. “Don’t you think it’s a little early to be meeting my parents?” she teased. “After all, we’ve been dating less than a month.” “A month in Earth time is like, ten years in space time, don’t you think?” Clarke nodded. “You’re right. And I suppose that means that I can’t get mad at you if you decide to call it off after a few months, because that’s really a few decades.” Bellamy wrapped his arm around her waist and drew her close. “I want to spend eons with you, Clarke Griffin.” She rose onto her toes and kissed his cheek. “Glad to hear it, because there’s no going back now. We’re here for good.
Kass Morgan (Homecoming (The 100, #3))
I thought I was a fool for no one; But ooh baby I'm a fool for you; You're the queen of the superficial; how long before you tell the truth?
Matthew Bellamy
Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not only to race, but to be the best. Once a champion, he was spoiled with attention and permissive handling. Add to that, he's an ungelded male, with a strong natural mating drive. It all adds up to a horse with a mile-wide streak of arrogance, bloody bored out of his mind. Without proper exercise and opportunities to mate, all that aggressive energy festers. He becomes moody, intractable, withdrawn, destructive." Ashworth raised an eyebrow at Bellamy. "Is it just me, or is this conversation becoming uncomfortably personal?" Spencer fumed. "I'm not referring to myself, you ass.
Tessa Dare (One Dance with a Duke (Stud Club, #1))
When the Zetas fill the sky, Will our leaders tell us why? Fully loaded satellites, Will conquer nothing but our minds.
Matthew J. Bellamy
It's unnatural selection
Matthew J. Bellamy
Let your inhibitions go. Make every touch electrical. When you're feeling beautiful, will you remember me?" ~Easily
Matthew J. Bellamy
And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?
Edward Bellamy
Are you afraid to die? 'Cause it scares the hell outta me, And the end is all I can see, And it scares the hell outta me, That the end is all I can see.
Matthew Bellamy
He'd always assumed those ancient poets had been full of shit, or at least had much better drugs than he'd ever tried.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)
Destroy the Spineless. Show me it's real. Wasting our last chance to come away. Just break the silence 'cos I'm drifting away, away from you..." ~New Born
Matthew J. Bellamy
You make me sick. Because I adore you so..." ~Space Dementia
Matthew J. Bellamy
So for the moment, she contented herself with leaning against Bellamy, letting the sound of his steady heartbeat temporarily drown out the rest of her thoughts.
Kass Morgan (Day 21 (The 100, #2))
I am a free Prince, and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world as he who has a hundred ships at sea and an army of 100,000 men in the field." -Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy
Colin Woodard (The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down)
Bellamy brought his hands behind his head and tilted his face towards the sun, exhaling as the warmth seeped into his skin. It was almost as nice as being in bed with a girl. Maybe even better, because the sun would never ask him what he was thinking.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Bellamy Plunged Into The Lake and Closed The Distance Between Them With a Few Powerful Strokes. He'd Boasted About Teaching Himself To Swim. During His Treks to The Stream and For Once He Had'nt Been Exaggerating. He Disappeared Under The Water,Just Long Enough for Clarke To Feel a Flicker of Worry then His Hand Grasped Her Wrist and She Squealed as He Spun Her Around. Expecting Him to Splash Her in Retaliation,But Bellamy Just Stared at Her For a Moment Before Raising a Hand and Running His Fingers Along Her Neck "No Gills Yet" He Said Softly
Kass Morgan (Day 21 (The 100, #2))
You are my Muse..." ~I Belong to You (Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix)
Matthew J. Bellamy
And you will suck the life out of me Bury it I won't let you bury it I won't let you smother it I won't let you murder it And our time is running out And our time is running out You can't push it underground You can't stop it screaming out How did it come to this?
Matthew Bellamy
Now I've got nothing left to lose You take your time to choose I can tell you now without a trace of fear That my love will be forever And we'll die we'll die together Lie, I will never 'Cause our love will be forever" ~Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)
Matthew J. Bellamy
Insieme Siamo Invincibili
Matthew J. Bellamy
Finally, he set her down gently on the ground. But he didn’t loosen his hold. Instead, he pulled her even closer, and before Clarke had time to catch her breath, his lips were on hers.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)
And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each other. Everyone says things to each other, the television, your parents, your friends, that’s all we are, is a collection of intermingling ideas as a collective.
Matt Bellamy
Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a girl's name," writes Dodie Bellamy).
Chris Kraus (I Love Dick)
Hi, I am Matt Bellamy and I am in a band called Muse and we play Music
Matt Bellamy
You keep us alive, and I'll keep you on two feet.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward: 2000-1887)
Exhilaration fizzed through Clarke’s body. Before she realized what she was doing, she had thrown her arms around Bellamy. He joined in her laughter as he staggered backward, and wrapped his arms around her waist, lifting her up and spinning her through the air. The colors of the clearing swirled, green and gold and blue all blurring until there was nothing in the world but Bellamy’s smile, lighting up his eyes.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.
A.E. Samaan (From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848)
He was extremely angry with Bellamy who had, when Clement needed him, refused to be with him.
Iris Murdoch (The Green Knight)
That was also true of Morris Bellamy, a crazy literature buff who had killed his favorite writer.
Stephen King (The Outsider)
THE ORIGINAL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, much like the Constitution itself, did not acknowledge the existence of God. Its author, Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister from Rome, New York, was a decidedly religious man, but when he wrote the pledge in the 1890s he described himself as something that would seem an oxymoron in Eisenhower’s America: a “Christian socialist.
Kevin M. Kruse (One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America)
He’s a good horse,” Bellamy said, a bit defensively. “He was always willing if you knew how to manage him. Oh, you know, like most horses, he’d get away with whatever he could, but he was never mean-tempered. Not like this.” Ash liked the fact that Bellamy stood up for his horse. “How long has he been off his feed?” “Couple weeks.” “What’s his name?” “Crusher.” Ash raised an eyebrow. “Crusher?” At the sound of his name, the gelding’s ears pricked forward. Bellamy grimaced. “He’s a warhorse, all right? Man doesn’t want to ride into battle on a horse named Daisy.
Cinda Williams Chima (Flamecaster (Shattered Realms, #1))
Clarke shifted so she was leaning against Bellamy. He wrapped his arms around her waist and leaned back, so they were both looking up at the sky. The roar of the fire was enough to muffle the voices of everyone around them, and with their eyes tilted upward, it almost felt like they were the only two people on Earth.
Kass Morgan (Day 21 (The 100, #2))
I think you are very beautiful," René said, "especially when you are admiring mischief." "You must think that every time I look at you, then." He gave her all of his grin. "You admire me, Mademoiselle?
Sharon Cameron (Rook)
I do a squat to demonstrate. Generally I do squats with weight – lots of it – but since the most physical exercise Chloe seems accustomed to is running her mouth. I figure I’d better start at the beginning. The very beginning. “Okay?” I say, doing another since she didn’t mimic my motion the second time. She watches my movement in the mirror. “One more time,” she says. I comply, and then mutter a string of curses because Chloe Bellamy has just reached out in the middle of a busy gym and patted my ass. “Very nice,” she says, sounding surprised. “Chloe!” She shrugs. “You just got so upset when I was ogling that other guy instead of you, so I wanted to make you feel good.
Lauren Layne (Crushed (Redemption, #2))
You keep us alive, and I'll keep you on two feet.
Bellamy Blake
Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it isn't the end.
Kellie Bellamy Tayer
Slaves to our media delivery devices, we are ever available to this vague, demanding elsewhere, and our ability to experience the "now" is dissolving.
Dodie Bellamy (When the Sick Rule the World)
Bellamy Plunged Into The Lake and Closed The Distance Between Them With a Few Powerful Strokes. He'd Boasted About Teaching Himself To Swim. During His Treks to The Stream and For Once He Had'nt Been Exaggerating. He Disappeared Under The Water,Just Long Enough for Clarke To Feel a Flicker of Worry then His Hand Grasped Her Wrist and She Squealed as He Spun Her Around. Expecting Him to Splash Her in Retaliation,But Bellamy Just Stared at Her For a Moment Before Raising a Hand and Running His Fingers Along Her Neck "No Gills Yet" He Said Softly” 
Kass Morgan (Day 21 (The 100, #2))
The dedication had been anticipated nationwide. Francis J. Bellamy, an editor of Youth’s Companion, thought it would be a fine thing if on that day all the schoolchildren of America, in unison, offered something to their nation. He composed a pledge that the Bureau of Education mailed to virtually every school. As originally worded, it began, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands …
Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City)
And so you see, dear reader, the death of my friend Sophie forced me to realize that the whole universe is one big concentration camp run by God -- the biggest Nazi of them all! So slavery in Virginia wasn't all that bad. And it was really God's fault anyway. Pretty good tragic insight there. Think I'll crank some Bellamy Brothers and get loaded!
William Styron (Sophie’s Choice)
Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)
public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don’t see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power.
Dodie Bellamy (The Buddhist)
We're friends, I told him, it's an indefinable relationship.
Dodie Bellamy (Pink Steam)
It was time to go. But René didn't move. Instead he lifted the hand that still held his and kissed it, holding it close against his lips before he let it go.
Sharon Cameron (Rook)
Bellamy wasn’t used to sitting on his ass, doing nothing. He didn’t like feeling helpless. Useless.
Kass Morgan (Homecoming (The Hundred, #3))
It is 12:23 in the morning, and people are coming to be here, coming to help. They saw what happened, and they can’t stay in their houses. Not just Harry and Craig’s friends. But their friends’ parents, too. Jim from the tech crew has sped over with more lights from his basement. There have to be at least a dozen people. Then more than a dozen. Smita’s mom is here. Two more police officers. And a man Harry’s never seen before walks up and goes straight to Mr. Bellamy, saying, “I’m staying right here with you.” They wear matching rings.
David Levithan (Two Boys Kissing)
A fleeting look of pain crossed Clarke’s face before she retreated behind her mask of steely resolve. She’ll get over it, Bellamy thought bitterly. She’d find someone else to go traipsing through the woods with her. “I
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward: 2000-1887)
G'deveingReadingfestival!
Matthew Bellamy
Dont waste time or time will waste you.
Matt Bellamy
The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward: 2000-1887)
Don't worry, silly boy, I'm not going behind your back. Why would I do that when you're a willing, wonderful cuckold for me?' April asked as she leaned over and kissed his cheek.
Becca Bellamy (Serving the Cuckoldress Next Door)
He felt jealous, insecure, horny, and as happy as he'd ever been all at the same time.
Becca Bellamy (Serving the Cuckoldress Next Door)
Francis J. Bellamy, an editor of Youth’s Companion, thought it would be a fine thing if on that day all the schoolchildren of America, in unison, offered something to their nation. He composed a pledge that the Bureau of Education mailed to virtually every school. As originally worded, it began, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands …” A
Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City)
Dejó que sus labios expresaran todo aquello que, por incapacidad o tozudez, se sentía incapaz de decir. Le mordió con suavidad el labio inferior. Lo siento. Deslizó la boca por su mentón. Me he portado como un idiota. La besó en el hueco de la clavícula. Te deseo. La respiración de Clarke se estaba tornando agitada, y cada vez que los labios de él cambiaban de lugar, se estremecía. Bellamy le acercó los labios al oído. Te quiero. No bastaba. Tenía que pronunciarlo en voz alta. Quería oírse a sí mismo diciéndolo.
Kass Morgan (Día 21 (Los 100 2): ¿Sacrificarías tu libertad para sobrevivir? (Spanish Edition))
At this point Bellamy suddenly remembered another dream which at the time had made him smile. He dreamt he was a little tiny frightened animal called 'Spingle-spangle'. Later he did not smile. The little doomed creature was an image of what he most feared, insanity.
Iris Murdoch (The Green Knight)
Bellamy took a step back. “What? And put you in charge of those as well?” He ran his finger along the bow. “No way. I’m ready to hunt.” Graham snorted. “And what exactly did you hunt back on Walden except for girls with low standards and even lower self-esteem?” Bellamy
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music. ...I don't believe in heaven or hell, I don't really believe in that version.
Matthew Bellamy
There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family cooperation, each individual may possibly support himself, though even then for a part of his life only; but from the moment that men begin to live together, and constitute even the rudest of society, self-support becomes impossible. As men grow more civilized, and the subdivision of occupations and services is carried out, a complex mutual dependence becomes the universal rule. Every man, however solitary may seem his occupation, is a member of a vast industrial partnership, as large as the nation, as large as humanity. The necessity of mutual dependence should imply the duty and guarantee of mutual support...
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)
With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward, 2000-1887)
The chief causes of the environmental destruction that faces us today are not biological, or the product of individual human choice. They are social and historical, rooted in the productive relations, technological imperatives, and historically conditioned demographic trends that characterize the dominant social system. Hence, what is ignored or downplayed in most proposals to remedy the environmental crisis is the most critical challenge of all: the need to transform the major social bases of environmental degradation, and not simply to tinker with its minor technical bases. As long as prevailing social relations remain unquestioned, those who are concerned about what is happening are left with few visible avenues for environmental action other than purely personal commitments to recycling and green shopping, socially untenable choices between jobs and the environment, or broad appeals to corporations, political policy-makers, and the scientific establishment--the very interests most responsible for the current ecological mess.
John Bellamy Foster (The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (Cornerstone Books))
C’est tout bonnement incroyable, comment un paysage peut changer en l’espace d’une même journée. Le matin, tout paraît frais et nouveau. Même l’air possède une certaine qualité. En revanche, l’après-midi, la lumière devient plus douce et les couleurs sont plus pastel. C’est ce que Bellamy préfère sur Terre pour le moment : la surprise permanente.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
Throw away the rule book and create your own.
Sandra Bellamy
…io sono un principe libero e ho altrettanta autorità di fare guerra al mondo intero quanto colui che ha cento navi in mare.
Samuel Bellamy (Pirata alle Antille nel XVIII secolo)
That when you have something precious in your hands, you need to hold on tight.
Melanie Harlow (Make Me Yours (Bellamy Creek, #2))
snatched a grape off his plate and ate it. “Thief,” he said.
Jaclyn Osborn (Bellamy (Sons of the Fallen, #5))
You've got what my dad calls moxie." "Moxie?" "Yeah. It means courage. Determination. You can handle what comes at you and land on your feet.
Melanie Harlow (Call Me Crazy (Bellamy Creek, #3))
Yes. Sleeping Bianca is my favorite. She smells just as good as Awake Bianca, but she never rolls her eyes and she doesn’t give me any lip.
Melanie Harlow (Call Me Crazy (Bellamy Creek, #3))
It's such a burden to have to pull off smart...
Dodie Bellamy (Pink Steam)
All of this occurs in the past, except this sentence.
Dodie Bellamy (Pink Steam)
Getting her submissive cuckold to agree to something that didn't particularly turn him on only increased April's lust. Soon all she could think of was ways to push him further.
Becca Bellamy (Serving the Cuckoldress Next Door)
I love you so much, Hyacinth,” he whispered. “Please don’t break my heart, darling.” He kissed the delicate pink shell of her ear. “Not when you have just put it back together again.
Minerva Spencer (Hyacinth (The Bellamy Sisters, #2))
It is insufficient to only tell your children that racism and racists are bad. It is insufficient to simply explain “We love people of all colors.” It is lazy and near damaging to proclaim a love for all people but never make the leap of actually reaching out to people of color or adding tangible diversity to your life. In a world filled with empty rhetoric, our children don’t need to hear words from us without action. They need to see us embody the beliefs we claim to hold dear.
Bellamy Shoffner
Self-sacrifice isn’t like you at all. Where’s that annoying, cocky-as-fuck demon I love to hate?” “He died that day on the beach when you held a blade to his throat,” I said. “I still remember the way you looked, covered in blood and sweat. Messy bangs falling into your face. You were beautiful and devastating. I knew right then you’d be my undoing.
Jaclyn Osborn (Bellamy (Sons of the Fallen, #5))
She’s my best friend,” Clarke said, taking his hand. “The only person on Earth who knows the real me.” She shot an embarrassed smile at Bellamy, but he nodded. “I know what you mean.” Octavia was the only person in the world who truly knew him. There was no one else he really cared about ever seeing again. But then he glanced over at Clarke, who was leaning over to breathe in the scent of a bright-pink flower, the sun catching the gold strands in her hair, and suddenly he wasn’t so sure.
Kass Morgan (The 100 (The 100, #1))
This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily lost but carried to great perfection by your ancestors, of shifting the burden of one's support on the shoulders of others.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward: 2000-1887)
It’s like um… I’ve become used to change I think from my life, when I was younger when I lived with my mum for awhile, we used to move house every like six months, you know, and I sort of became used to things changing all the time… It was like, I learned to like it. It got the point where you travel, like you start to reduce the amount of possessions you have… You start to, you know… If you live in one place, same house, same friends, same job for years and years and years, and the same possessions and everything, then you start to believe that is your identity. Um… I have none of those things, I have no consistency, and I like that. Everything’s changing all the time so, when everything does change around you and you become used to changing, you become in-touch with the one thing that is consistent… And the thing that is consistent is something inside you which is like, not really that individual, it’s not like a pure individual, it’s something that everyone has inside them I think. And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each other. Everyone says things to each other, the television, your parents, your friends, that’s all we are, is a collection of intermingling ideas as a collective.
Matt Bellamy
We live not for ourselves… it’s what my father always said to justify the sacrifices he had to make, like not spending enough time with me and Mom… or not marrying the woman he loved. But I never knew they had a child together.” [...] The dark outlines of the trees, the patches of star-filled sky, Clarke’s stunned expression, the nervous face of the kid Bellamy had once thought he hated, but now seemed to be… something else entirely. “So that makes you…” “Your half brother.” Wells let the final word hang in the air, as if giving both of them time to examine the shape of it before they claimed it for their own. “I guess you and Octavia aren’t the only siblings in the Colony anymore.” A laugh escaped from Bellamy’s lips before he had time to stop it. “Half brothers,” he repeated. “This is insane.” He shook his head, and with a grin, extended his arm and reached for Wells’s hand. “Brothers.
Kass Morgan (Day 21 (The 100, #2))
Though widely used in the 1892 Columbus Day ceremonies, Bellamy’s pledge did not officially become the pledge until after the Second World War. Indeed, at the turn of the century, a number of different pledges competed for the loyalty of American schoolchildren. In New York State, schools that held flag ceremonies had a choice of five pledges, none of which made any reference to a deity. In San Francisco, the sixty different public schools followed their own preferences, resulting in a considerable range of pledges. Only after the First World War was there any real effort to select a single pledge for the entire nation, a movement that peaked with a pair of National Flag Conferences in 1923 and 1924.
Kevin M. Kruse (One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America)
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward: 2000-1887)
And I didn’t think about anything except that I loved the way it felt to share something so deeply intimate with him, to share myself with him, to share this bed and this night and this experience. It was the most powerful and intense feeling I’d ever had. No wonder, I thought as we clung to each other in the warm, breathless aftermath. No wonder this is how a life begins.
Melanie Harlow (Call Me Crazy (Bellamy Creek, #3))
They were not serving the public interest, but their immediate personal interest, and it was nothing to them what the ultimate effect of their course on the general prosperity might be, if but they increased their own hoard, for these goods were their own, and the more they sold and the more they got for them, the greater their gain. The more wasteful the people were, the more articles they did not want which they could be induced to buy, the better for these sellers.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward: 2000-1887)
Salt reached into his pocket and took out his matte black gun, pointing it directly at Charlie. “You have made a very bad mistake crossing me, Charlatan—” Charlie froze. Vicereine’s shadow cat roared as three shadows spread from Malik, their mouths full of teeth. Bellamy drew a sword of shadow. “Lionel,” Malik said. “There’s no need for this.” Behind Salt, Vince lifted his wrists and the cuffs came away, falling to the ground. He stepped forward with inhuman swiftness, pressing the point of a letter opener to Salt’s throat. Adeline made a sharp sound that was almost a scream. The sounds of the party seemed very far away. “You said I was a creature of hate.” Vince spoke into Salt’s ear. “And I do hate you. For Remy, whose blood is my blood, whose flesh is my flesh, and whose hate is my hate. For Char, who will survive tonight. Aim that gun somewhere else, or I will hurt you and go on hurting you until there is nothing but pain.” “You can’t—” Salt began, voice trembling. “I’m sorry, Char.” Vince wore a small, sad smile. “It was always going to happen like this. I knew he’d let me get close to him, and it’d give me a chance.
Holly Black (Book of Night (Book of Night, #1))
Nothing could be simpler,” was Dr. Leete’s reply. “We require of each that he shall make the same effort; that is, we demand of him the best service it is in his power to give.” “And supposing all do the best they can,” I answered, “the amount of the product resulting is twice greater from one man than from another.” “Very true,” replied Dr. Leete; “but the amount of the resulting product has nothing whatever to do with the question, which is one of desert. Desert is a moral question, and the amount of the product a material quantity. It would be an extraordinary sort of logic which should try to determine a moral question by a material standard. The amount of the effort alone is pertinent to the question of desert. All men who do their best, do the same.
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward 2000-1887)