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no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one for their mistakes, or you can love them for the flaws they try to correct.
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C.M. Owens (Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1))
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If I want reality, I’ll walk outside and breathe in the toxic air, dammit. I’ll take a look at my own miserable life. If I read or watch a movie, I’d better get a fucking happily-ever-after.
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C.M. Owens (Loving War (Sterling Shore, #4))
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I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen
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Pat Barker (Regeneration (Regeneration, #1))
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If we are truly fortunate, we will be blessed with one to love us, truly love us. To accept us in all ways, to see us in all our weaknesses and in our glory and to take our hearts, as we take theirs.
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J.C. Owens (Gaven: The Bonding (The Gaven Series #2))
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As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.
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David C. Downing (Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis)
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People talk whether you're in school or not, but it doesn't dictate anything. You choose how much you allow people to rule you.
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C.M. Owens (Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1))
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I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up.
“It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere…
“…but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day.
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James A. Owen (The Search for the Red Dragon (The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, #2))
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Sadan was so...beautiful. There seemed no other word for him, even if he had proved to be an ass and deserved to die in lakes of his own blood.
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J.C. Owens
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I don't believe in second chances. If someone will do something once, they'll do it again.
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C.M. Owens (Daughter of Aphrodite (Daughter Trilogy, #1))
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We’re all fucking crazy. It’s the only way to be.
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C.M. Owens (Perfectly Toxic (Sterling Shore, #9))
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You've witnessed what you c-c-c-call a miracle and now you believe-you believe everything," Pastor Merrill said. "But miracles don't c-c-c-cause belief-real miracles don't m-m-m-make faith out of thin air; you have to already have faith in order to believe in real miracles.
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John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)
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For the record, the proposal was just a courtesy. You would have been mine regardless. -KANE
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C.M. Owens (Red Moon Secrets (Deadly Beauties #3))
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I don't want you out of my life... ever. I'm not scared of you at all. I'm pretty fucking scared of your dad, but that's a typical guy reaction to any girl's dad. -KANE
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C.M. Owens (Poison's Kiss (Deadly Beauties, #2))
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One of his closest friends, Owen Barfield, once said of Lewis that “what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything.”12
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Michael Ward (The Narnia Code: C. S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens)
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Beware of the quiet ones, for they carry the darkest fury.
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C.M. Owens (Bitten Beauty (The Deadly Beauties Live On, #3))
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Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Passion does not translate easily into good income.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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In my opinion, no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some mainly qualitites.
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C.M. Owens (Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1))
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It'd be great if I actually got to have sex while being a slut. -ALYSSA
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C.M. Owens (Blood's Fury (Deadly Beauties, #1))
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My mind and my sanity have both abandoned me.
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C.M. Owens (Daughter Trilogy Bundle (Daughter Trilogy, #1-3))
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Far from breaking with tradition, they understood the Great War and its aftermath in the light of tradition, believing, as did their literary and spiritual ancestors, that ours is a fallen world yet not a forsaken one.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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he expects me to elaborate. Boundaries. These damn people need boundaries. "So no boyfriend, but you're not a virgin?" he prods, seeming to delight
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C.M. Owens (Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1))
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like this conversation. Too many memories are attached to the questions he's asking.
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C.M. Owens (Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1))
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They had kissed so often in lust, in passion, but never like this.
This felt like a renewal, a pledge… A beginning.
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J.C. Owens (The Emperor's Wolf)
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I don't take good selfies, so I can only imagine how I'll look in a mug shot.
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C.M. Owens (Breaking Even (Sterling Shore, #5))
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I groan as I lose all my ability to hold back, and I lower my head while pushing her dress and bra down in unison to allow way for my mouth to close over the hard little nub.
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C.M. Owens (Loving War (Sterling Shore, #4))
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it's nothing special to me to kiss someone. It's kissing someone special that changes everything.
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C.M. Owens (Poison's Kiss (Deadly Beauties, #2))
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Before I got here, I thought a size four was a good size. And then I saw the natives wearing a size negative-triple-zero, or something crazy like that.
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C.M. Owens (Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1))
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A zebra like him would never change his stripes, and I’d been an idiot to fall for his gorgeous looks.
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C.M. Owens (Love & College)
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Wild Ones Tip #238
It’s rare we have feelings. Don’t fuck with them when we do.
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C.M. Owens (Becoming a Vincent (The Wild Ones, #1))
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First rule of family: brothers don’t hit sisters. They take their beatings, because sisters only beat them when they deserve it.
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C.M. Owens (Becoming a Vincent (The Wild Ones, #1))
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I swallow hard, wondering how in the hell I'm going to be able to fit into any of these clothes. I've seen his models on TV. They eat air for breakfast and ice for lunch. There's no way.
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C.M. Owens (Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1))
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His right eyebrow raises questioningly, and then his panty-dropping smile comes up as he leans down to get right in my face. “You thought that douche could stop me from doing anything I want to you?
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C.M. Owens (Loving War (Sterling Shore, #4))
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Well, if you lived your whole life without socks, your feet would be just fine. You wouldn't know the difference. But, once you've had socks and felt their comfort in hard shoes, warmth in cold weather, and softness against the harsh floor, then you become a little spoiled, and you notice when they're gone. You want socks again… a lot.
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C.M. Owens (Blood's Fury (Deadly Beauties, #1))
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have to tell him that all three times we had sex were terrible. Personally, I learned sex is highly overrated. I see no point in reliving the worst six minutes of my life... total. I don't get the appeal. Maybe
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C.M. Owens (Hooked on the Game (Sterling Shore, #1))
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Love is a consuming, unrelenting beast that bitch slaps you in the middle of the night like a rude awakening during a dream. It devours you whole, and it leaves you wrecked when it starts to slip through your fingers. “Yeah.
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C.M. Owens (Perfectly Toxic (Sterling Shore, #9))
C.M. Owens (Blood's Fury (Deadly Beauties, #1))
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Apparently I sat down in modern-day Sterling Shore, and woke up in medieval Camel-toe-lot,
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C.M. Owens (Talk Nerdy to Me (Sterling Shore, #12))
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J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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their great hope was to restore Western culture to its religious roots, to unleash the powers of the imagination, to reenchant the world through Christian faith and pagan beauty.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Words contain the "souls" or minds of people in the past; as such, they tell the story of consciousness.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Nothing physical defines a person. So why do we rely so much on the superficial to give us meaning? Prom
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C.M. Owens (The Sterling Shore Series (Sterling Shore #1-3))
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Have fun,” she yells as I shut the door. That’s my plan - a night of fun with a game of catch and release.
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C.M. Owens (Daughter Trilogy Bundle (Daughter Trilogy, #1-3))
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I can barely walk barefoot. What made you think these walking stilts of death would be a good idea?" I chuckle out.
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C.M. Owens (Daughter Trilogy Bundle (Daughter Trilogy, #1-3))
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I could stop, or I could finish. Depends on what you give me, Ace." He smirks, and then he leans over. "I'll give you something to scream about.
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C.M. Owens (Tainted Gifts (Gifts Trilogy #2))
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Dude, did you do drugs or something? Because you look like you’re tweaking.
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C.M. Owens (Loving War (Sterling Shore, #4))
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You might want to run now,” my eerie tone slithers out as I slowly stand to my feet. Brazen stumbles backwards before yelling to everyone, “Get the fuck out, now!
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C.M. Owens (The Curse Trilogy (Curse Trilogy, #1-3))
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Like someone ripped my heart out, chewed it up, and then spit it into the pits of hell.
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C.M. Owens (The Devil's Artwork (Faders Trilogy, #1))
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Well… I feel awkward now.
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C.M. Owens (The Devil's Artwork (Faders Trilogy, #1))
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you’ll be faded by the viewer you’re trying to use to threaten us.
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C.M. Owens (The Devil's Artwork (Faders Trilogy, #1))
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winks at Thad before biting her bottom lip, and Thad leans in closer. “Any time you want, blondie.
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C.M. Owens (Dark Beauty (The Deadly Beauties Live On, #1))
C.M. Owens (The Sterling Shore Series (Sterling Shore #1-3))
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It's all the rage. Billionaire Doms. Kink. All that stuff. But they just like the fantasy of it. Tie a girl up and slap her ass and you're going to get slammed with a lawsuit.
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C.M. Owens (Make Me (Sterling Shore #10))
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My father always said not to drink when you had secrets to keep. You never know what might come out.
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C.M. Owens (Breaking Even (Sterling Shore, #5))
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Oh, that tights-wearing, level-one, squire douche, nerd-girl-chasing son of a bitch,
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C.M. Owens (Talk Nerdy to Me (Sterling Shore, #12))
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This hulking man starts climbing out of the driver's side, and there's so much of him that he just keeps on getting out.
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C.M. Owens (Daughter of Aphrodite (Daughter Trilogy, #1))
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Pa pointed to a crumpled dollar and loose coins on the kitchen table. “This here’ll get ya food fer the week. Thar ain’t no such thang as handouts,” he said. “Ever’thang cost sump’m, and fer the money ya gotta keep the house up, stove wood c’lected, and warsh the laundree.
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Delia Owens (Where the Crawdads Sing)
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Fall apart, Tria. Slap me, punch me, kick me, scream at me until you can’t breathe… Do whatever you want to, but please don’t leave. I swear I’ll put you back together if you’ll let me.
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C.M. Owens (Loving War (Sterling Shore, #4))
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What?” I ask, wondering why he’s keeping his body on the bed instead of coming down on top of me while he holds my shoulders. “You need an engraved invitation or something? ‘Maya’s hungry, talented vagina cordially invites your big penis to come stay the night.’ How’s that work for you?” I
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C.M. Owens (Axle's Brand (Death Chasers MC, #3))
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I’ve survived countless broken hearts. I’ve been betrayed. I’ve been hurt. I’ve tasted regret. I’ve been mocked and laughed at. I’ve been pushed to the bottom over and over. I got back up. I’ve smiled. I’ve laughed. I’ve loved. I’ve lived my life the way I want to. I’ve learned the value of happiness. I got stronger.
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C.M. Owens (Bitten Beauty (The Deadly Beauties Live On, #3))
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It’s hard on her, Ruby,” Bo sighs. “Sometimes we think we’re ready to cut strings to the ones who’ve broken us the most, only to realize we don’t know who we are without them. Give her time to figure things out. She’s had years’ worth of guilt trips and mind games played on her. You don’t just walk away with your head on right.
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C.M. Owens (Triple Dare (Sterling Shore, #7))
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The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, by hideous ugliness, by hideous starvation. It is inevitable that they should be strongly moved by all this. The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on the function of criticism, it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Accordingly, with admirable, though misdirected intentions, they very seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease.
They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or, in the case of a very advanced school, by amusing the poor.
But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. And the altruistic virtues have really prevented the carrying out of this aim. Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good; and at last we have had the spectacle of men who have really studied the problem and know the life – educated men who live in the East End – coming forward and imploring the community to restrain its altruistic impulses of charity, benevolence, and the like. They do so on the ground that such charity degrades and demoralises. They are perfectly right. Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism, the Socialist Ideal Art, and the Coming Solidarity. by Oscar Wilde, William Morris, W.C. Owen)
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Whatever the unknown in Europe, it had to be better than the known in a small town, where truth was hidden behind smiles, pleasantries, and an abundance of stretch lace at weddings. Whatever, the yet-to-be-written truth about her own life, it seemed certain to be waiting elsewhere on a blank page, somewhere people made no attempt to predict the future based upon a person's past.
Quote from: A Summer Abroad, Mrs. Duchesney's First Real Mystery
c. 2013 Peggy Kopman-Owens
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Peggy Kopman-Owens
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The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Please," I murmur, surprised by how much it sounds like I'm begging. "Please what?" he murmurs, feigning coyness. "Fuck me." The low growl in his throat proves he liked my crude, blunt answer. The panties slide down my legs, leaving a damp trail from my inner thigh
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C.M. Owens (Blood's Fury (Deadly Beauties, #1))
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Oxford in the Inklings' day was not so different in look and smell from the Oxford of today. Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation. Then, as now, there was bound to be disappointment.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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Fate is just a made-up word used to give us hope or absolution. We find hope when we believe bad things happen to us for a reason. We find absolution when we feel as though the wrongs of our past were just fate's twisted design to bring us to our present, and all of it was out of our hands. Of
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C.M. Owens (Axle's Brand (Death Chasers MC, #3))
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We don’t ask you to take the stick out of your ass, so don’t ask us to be normal.
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C.M. Owens (Wilder (The Wild Ones #3))
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You calling me stupid?” he asks, scowling. “No. I just think you have bad luck when you try to speak and think at the same time.
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C.M. Owens (Going Wild (The Wild Ones, #2))
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Sorry doesn't piece back together my dignity or my confidence.
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C.M. Owens (Blood's Fury (Deadly Beauties, #1))
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Thought ya could use that fer yo’ feathers, bird nests, and all that other stuff ya c’lect.
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Delia Owens (Where the Crawdads Sing)
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C’è una cosa che dovete sapere, Miss Hartwell. Nella boxe non vince il più forte, ma il più ostinato. Come nella vita.
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Ann Owen (Schiava per vendetta)
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Her body is scantily clad in a seductive leather attire that not even Araya would wear. Her cleavage is exposed and meant for allure. Her boots rise to her knees, and her skin tight leather pants are seamlessly tucked inside, but there are strategic, purposely placed slashes from head to toe. All that’s missing is a whip. I’m going to die at the hand of a dominatrix. Fuck my luck.
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C.M. Owens (Awakened Gifts (Gifts Trilogy #3) (The Gifts Trilogy))
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This here’ll get ya food fer the week. Thar ain’t no such thang as handouts,” he said. “Ever’thang cost sump’m, and fer the money ya gotta keep the house up, stove wood c’lected, and warsh the laundree.
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Delia Owens (Where the Crawdads Sing)
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Tolkien said of himself that “I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size),” he spoke the truth, not only about his material likes (trees, farms, tobacco, mushrooms, plain English food) and dislikes (cars, French cooking, early rising) but also about the disposition of his soul. He, like a hobbit, was at home in his shire; he, like a hobbit, trusted the cosmos—but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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He stands and heads back to the door, but he stops short of opening it. "I love you, Alyssa. That's all I have to say." With that, he's out the door before my mind can process his retreat. Fucking immortals.
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C.M. Owens (Poison's Kiss (Deadly Beauties, #2))
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Love is a consuming, unrelenting beast that bitch slaps you in the middle of the night like a rude awakening during a dream. It devours you whole, and it leaves you wrecked when it starts to slip through your fingers.
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C.M. Owens (Perfectly Toxic (Sterling Shore, #9))
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In a largely autobiographical paper Tolkien wrote in 1931 for the Oxford Esperanto Society (“A Hobby for the Home,” later entitled “A Secret Vice”), he would maintain that the making of a language necessitates the making of a mythology in which that language is spoken, that the two processes are intertwined, each giving rise to the other. People thought Tolkien was joking when he later said that he wrote The Lord of the Rings to bring into being a world that might contain the Elvish greeting, so pleasing to his sense of linguistic beauty, Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielmo (“A star shines on the hour of our meeting”). The remark is witty—but also deadly serious.
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Philip Zaleski (The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams)
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I don't know anything anymore. I've trusted two men with something as intimate as a person can offer, and both of you have hurt me in your own ways. Maybe we should just take a step back. I don't want to be with you right now. After seeing you with her... It's not the same. You looked at her the way you look at me. I feel as played as she probably does.
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C.M. Owens (Poison's Kiss (Deadly Beauties, #2))
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only one who is interested in taking her to prom. Justin has been sniffing around her.” Kode cracks his fingers, grinning in the direction where Tria went, and he dusts his blonde hair away from his eyes before winking at Corbin. “Then I guess I’ll just have to start up a new rumor. She won’t have a prom date, and I will win this damn bet.” Gross. All of them. Well,
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C.M. Owens (Make Me (Sterling Shore #10))
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can happen is he’ll say no, and I’ll end up finding someone else. I can do this. I can do this. I. Can. Do. This. Just as I round the corner, I spot Dale Sterling at his locker, and my stomach flips over itself, which is a chore because my stomach is bubbling over the tops of my jeans like a muffin. I probably should have started a diet six months ago, but stress makes me eat, and I’ve been really stressed about prom. Actually, I’ve been
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C.M. Owens (Make Me (Sterling Shore #10))
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Your ass is actually very nice. Well, at least what I can see of it. If your ass is that nice, no wonder they have an obsession with your—”
“Concentrate,” I grumble, snapping my fingers in front of his face.
“I’m trying,” he lies, still staring down at my ass. I start to turn to face him instead of sitting comfortably on the bed, just so my ass will be facing the wall, but the door flies open and slams into the wall.
Drake curses, then he grunts a, “Fuck me.”
“The fuck is going on in here?” Drex growls, letting his eyes drop to my exposed back, and apparently my exposed ass. Not my fault this hospital keeps the ridiculous slit in the back of their gowns.
“We’re having a conversation,” I say with a sweet smile. “It’s full of dirty innuendo and intriguing assumptions about my pussy.”
“No the hell it isn’t,” Drake refutes, looking at me like I’ve lost my damn mind.
“But you were just saying that my—”
“Damn it, you crazy woman! Don’t give him a reason to break my arms while I can’t fight back!” Drake barks.
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C.M. Owens (Property of Drex #2 (Death Chasers MC, #2))
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But you of all people!” I said to him. “Look at me—I never was a believer, not until this happened. If I can believe it, why can’t you?” I asked Mr. Merrill. He began to stutter. “It’s easier for you to j-j-j-just accept it. Belief is not something you have felt, and then not felt; you haven’t l-l-l-lived with belief, and with unbelief. It’s easier f-f-f-for you,” the Rev. Mr. Merrill repeated. “You haven’t ever been f-f-f-full of faith, and full of d-d-d-doubt. Something j-j-j-just strikes you as a miracle, and you believe it. For me, it’s not that s-s-s-simple,” said Pastor Merrill. “But it is a miracle!” I cried. “He told you that dream—I know he did! And you were there—when he saw his name, and the date of his death, on Scrooge’s grave. You were there!” I cried. “How can you doubt that he knew?” I asked Mr. Merrill. “He knew—he knew everything! What do you call that—if you don’t call it a miracle?” “You’ve witnessed what you c-c-c-call a miracle and now you believe—you believe everything,” Pastor Merrill said. “But miracles don’t c-c-c-cause belief—real miracles don’t m-m-m-make faith out of thin air; you have to already have faith in order to believe in real miracles. I believe that Owen was extraordinarily g-g-g-gifted—
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John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)