Dk Quotes

When you stop thinking others have power you do not, you will be formidable,

Never dislike anything in life because you may struggle when you get it.

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

In architecture volume can be seen to be either a portion of space contained and defined by wall, floor and ceiling or roof planes or a quantity of space displaced by the mass of the building.

Anytime you pray serious prayers and have attacks in your dream, know that the prayers worked. So what you should do is to continue with the same prayers.

A man's sexual organ is penis and woman's sexual organ is brains.

Do not deceive yourself. Hell is real, heaven is real too. Do not allow the earth to rob you of heaven.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul." Joyce Carol Oates

Knowledge has never equaled wisdom, Maelen. Gaining knowledge is easy. Wisdom takes time and experience. Unlike those who came before, you are well on the way to understanding.

There were other ways to learn, she decided. Things which could not be found in books,

Father Lord, let Christ dwell in my heart by faith, in Jesus' name.

the history of mathematics is above all a story of discovery rather than invention.

Sk my dk, it's organic!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU NANAY I am forever grateful to you, my dearest Nanay, You are the most precious being in my life. You have given us, your children so much, raised us, nurtured us and loved us unconditionally.. I can't imagine life without you. We love you Nanay.

You don’t have to believe in God to do the programme. You just have to accept that there’s a higher power – it could be the lamp in the corner of the room, for all they care. Some people use nature, the ocean, their d**k – whatever comes to mind.

Oh Lord, give me the ability that is equal to my opportunity.

Not only was good ole boy intolerance the norm in big sky country, there appeared to be no need or desire to change the way things had been done since Custer tried to take out the original Americans at Little Bighorn.

As the Maestro is never loath to tell us, a human who suffers from too much ambition succeeds only in exemplifying the Creator’s own lack of anticipation. The D.K., wishing His Vision to be innovative, had created the human will as an instinct all but free of Him. Once again, God had miscalculated.

Grown women don’t get on their knees for boys, do they Cressida? So, you have a choice. You can tell me to get out or you can get on your knees for me now and I’ll show you how a real man treats his woman, starting by letting you worship my d#$k with that beautiful mouth of yours like I know you’re aching to.

In our path of life respect the Signals (Parents) to reach our destinations safely

An action, in and of itself, is just the movement of objects. It is the earnestness, and the depth of feeling behind the action, that give it meaning.

When God begins to reveal startling details of what happens in the spiritual realm, you will understand why strange weapons are needed when fighting strange battles.

Therefore, those who display ignorance concerning spiritual warfare will continue to be casualties on the field of battle.

When you make use of prayer points that carry the mysteries of the evening tide, your enemies are in trouble.

HUMANITARIANISM HOPE FOR HUMANITY

Learning can only start with an awareness and acceptance of ignorance.

pray that where they have rejected you, you shall become the change in the name of Jesus. God is a God of compensation

That’s the funny thing about life...you don’t know you’re missing something. Then when you get it, you don’t know what you’d do without it.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The enemy tries to puncture the faith of God's people by making them go weary; when there is an expected blessing and it is delayed.

This was Montana, and, frankly, the man on the mountain had a point.

The greatest thing is to live on earth and spend eternity with God in heaven.

Seeing is a vigorous, pattern-seeking process.

O Lord, I desire breakthroughs concerning . . . this month, in the name of Jesus.

Death is on a scar filled with shadows and temptations.

A joyful life is one filled with good people, good work and good books." – DK Raymer

Thomas Aquinas put forward the basis of modern just war theory, suggesting that war cannot be fought for personal gain and must be waged by a legitimate body, and that the overriding motive must be to secure peace.

With hindsight we visualize memories of things, places, and events from the past. With foresight, we are also able to look forward in time—to use our imagination to envision a possible future. Imagination therefore enables us to have both a sense of history as well as a plan for the future. It establishes connections—visual bridges—between the past, present, and future.

serves as prevention. Gives physical healing in the body. No matter what name is given to any problem; it will be solved, when the Blood of Jesus is brought in. If you keep pleading the Blood of Jesus, no matter how terrible an infirmity is, it will disappear by the power in the Blood of Jesus. If your life is pure and you lay your hands on any sickness, pleading the Blood of Jesus, it will vanish. You might wonder if it is really as simple as that but that is the Power in the Blood of Jesus. The Power in pleading the Blood of Jesus is yet to be understood by Man. Some people criticise those pleading the Blood of Jesus. It is because they have not passed through the valley, so they cannot know what it means. Someone who has never been tortured by a terminal disease cannot know what it means to be threatened by death, so he or she cannot understand why a cancer patient is praying fervently for healing, or why the person is jubilating after he or she has been miraculously healed. The preachers, who discourage people from praying fire prayers or pleading the Blood of Jesus, do so, because they have not experienced such things. The Blood of Jesus cannot dry up; neither can it lose its power. Therefore you can plead it a million times, if you want to. The more you plead the Blood of Jesus, the more the chance of totally submerging the disease, in the pool of the Blood

People don’t necessarily realize it when they contribute to the erosion of a child’s self-worth, but kids pay attention to how people treat them, and they get the message loud and clear. I wish I could say it didn’t distort their self-perception and make them more sensitive and insecure, but it does.

The key difference between a geek and a critic is that a critic digs deep and tries to get behind the surface of things, for better or worse, while a geek is interested in his own hedonism, the thrill of discovery.A geek is expansive and associative and doesn’t necessarily care what a film or a scene ‘means’. It’s the difference between the encyclopaedia and the scholar. A critic likes an interesting association, a nice phrase; the geek admires the beau geste, a pulpy story and its codes of honour taken seriously. Tarantino rather combines those two roles. He is encyclopaedic but also interpretive. He is a human Rolodex of credits. His films are like stuffed overnight bags breaking at the seams. The Handel of filmmakers, he takes the whole of cinema as his resource. But he also provides new meanings, new interpretations of old moments by the way he recontextualizes them.

The white man is very clever … He has put a knife on things that held us together and we have fallen apart." Things Fall Apart

His mind relished the sudden prick of words as her soft, ethereal lips kissed his forehead, filling his mind with a rhythm of words.

A flash of lightning illuminated the object ... it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life." Frankenstein

He puts their eyes in a bag and carries them to the crescent moon to feed his own children..." “The Sandman

Oh I am burning! I wish I were out of doors—I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free." Wuthering Heights

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." Don Quixote

Tell me, Senor Don Alvaro,’ said Don Quixote, ‘am I at all like that Don Quixote you talk of?

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em." Twelfth Night

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players." As

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves." Oedipus

Endure the hardships of your present state, Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden." Pierre Bourdieu

Women are the spices of Life"...

They all stared at him in mute agreement. Intelligence and kindness in their stares. No one would misbehave.

isn’t the choice of a child much easier to gauge than the choice of a toddler?

The ideas and ideals that we have in our 18 year old heads when we graduate from high school are hardly realistic.

For some people, the enemy wears them out with worry when victory is delayed.

Cyber security like a game of chess, its main challenge not to win, but never surrender.

Human beings must understand that they only inhabit, rather than own, the Earth, and that only resources that satisfy vital means must be used.

When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. Mal. 4:2: But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of

Lord, I desire breakthroughs concerning . . . his year, in the name of Jesus.

Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians all sought help from exorcists and omen-interpreters to gain protection from malign supernatural entities and discover the future.

Epics are narrative poems that recount the story of a hero who represents a particular culture.

Time, which diminishes and erodes all things, increases and augments generous deeds …

I’d like to turn the deepest of yellows, / Falling, drop by drop, in a golden shower, / Into her lap..." Les Amours de Cassandre

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness … all mortal greatness is but disease." Moby-Dick

He’s got enough hoses running out of him to be a stunt double for Doc Ock,

Unlike those who have been simply handed their place, you have to find your own way, make your place.

The League failed to stop a militarist Japan invading Manchuria in 1931 and Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia four years later.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do." Jane Eyre

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity, according to its very notion, that causes peace." Thomas Aquinas

Like the atomic bomb, it’s there; like the bomb, the temptation will always exist to use it.There can no longer be a world without the atomic bomb; there can no longer be a world without violent movies.

Islam is misunderstood by many. The extremists grab the headlines; those of us who want to practise our religion and live under this country’s laws do not make the news.” Sadiq Khan Mayor of London since 2016

Shiva” is Life. Shiva can be split as Sha+ee+Va where Sha stands for Shareeram or body, ee stands for eeshwari or life giving energy and Va stands for vayu or motion. Thus Shiva represents the body with life and motion.

I remember one time, back in the day, I was at his [Bill Ward] house and he said, ‘Oh, ’ello Ozzy. You’ll never guess what? I’ve just come out of a coma.’ ‘What d’you mean, a coma? That’s one stage removed from being dead. You know that, don’t you, Bill?’ ‘All I know is I went to bed on Friday, and now it’s Tuesday, and I only just woke up. That’s a coma, isn’t it?’ ‘No, that’s taking too many drugs and drinking too much cider and sleeping for three days in a row, you d**k.’

The devil and his wicked cohorts hate marriage with perfect hatred. In fact, he has raised up and sent a demonic squad to prevent Christian homes from being set up. The devil even throws evil spanners in the works of already established Christian homes.

7. Yoke-breaking: Whenever you plead the Blood of Jesus, people and things are set free from any kind of yoke. 8. Overcoming power. 9. Door-opening power to open every door that has been closed against good things in the life of a person. 10. Creative and re-creative power. Anything that is supposed to be in the life or body of a person, or has been removed through surgery or witchcraft, can be recalled back into existence by the Blood of Jesus. 11. Renewing power. 12. Battle dissolving power that makes the enemies go in disarray. 13. Promotion power and energy. 14. Breakthrough power. 15. Miracle receiving power 16. Poison destroying power. Many have been poisoned physically or spiritually. The Blood of Jesus neutralises such poisons and flushes them out of the system. 17. Mountain-moving power 18. Demon-paralysing power.

Paradoxically, that large screen in the cavernous, crowded room creates intimacy. And violence is an intimate act. If you are punching someone, or if you are pinpointing someone in the telescope of your rifle, you are as close to your victim as to a lover, trying to think like them, anticipate their moves, overcome them.

In truth, I bear the fault alone, for a writer longs to see his words come to life, especially as a playwright to see the characters you create in your mind come to flesh and blood on the stage. What delight strokes the vanity of a writer to hear the swoons of the penny-stinkers clamorng at your feet and calling your name.

In truth, I bear the fault alone, for a writer longs to see his words come to life, especially as a playwright to see the characters you create in your mind come to flesh and blood on the stage. What delight strokes the vanity of a writer to hear the swoons of the penny-stinkers clamoring at your feet and calling your name.

The ring-tone on one of my phones is the song: "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing Blood, are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb..." One day, I was sitting somewhere and the phone rang; before I could answer the call, a woman had started to manifest and a strange voice spoke from her mouth, screaming: "Stop that music, stop that music!" The demon in her was affected by the song, because of the power in the Blood of Jesus. 19. Virtue-restoring power. 20. Burden-removingpower. 21. Bondage-destroying power: When you plead the Blood of Jesus into any situation, it will eventually bow. Many people do not understand the overcoming weapons that they have in the word of God. The Bible says: "And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony." Today, you will watch that Blood in display, if you will pray the prayers I am suggesting below, from your heart. That Blood was not shed in vain; it was shed for forgiveness, deliverances, protection, etc. You would be cheating yourself, if you do not use that facility. A 26 year old sister, who was looking like an old woman, heard a message like this and decided to use it. She locked herself up for three days, pleading the Blood of Jesus into her situation. By the time she came out, her correct body, shape, face, had been restored to her. She now looked

of Jesus. Many Christians do not understand the power in the use of the weapons that God has given us against the enemy. Unbelievers could sit throughout the night, chanting incantations or reciting things against people. 3. Gives emotional healing. 4. Gives mental healing. 5. Helps in battling dark powers. 6. Helps in battling the adversary. 7. Gives financial healing If you stand in front of your shop or house and plead the Blood of Jesus every day, you will find out that the powers of darkness in that environment will dissipate. As we are moving towards the End Times, we need to plead the Blood of Jesus, all the time. There is a lot of tragedy and disaster all over the place. Too many Christians are being robed or cheated or raped or murdered. Many are being hypnotised and confused. Pleading the Blood of Jesus, will give you immunity against these things. 8. Cleanses from all sins. Jesus came to die for the sins of the world and His Blood was shed for us. You can claim the cleansing power in His Blood and God will open a new chapter in your life.

You can plead the Blood of Jesus, over any and everything; your spirit, soul and body, your house, car, work, children, spouse, business, as a form of protection or prevention against evil. You can plead the Blood of Jesus over your journey, the road, the vehicle or aircraft, etc. If you are living or passing through a dangerous zone; you can draw a bloodline of protection, therefore making a boundary, against any evil. A man had a poultry where, all of sudden, the chickens began to die. When he saw that he was going bankrupt with the loss, he cried unto the Lord, who ministered to him about drawing a bloodline around the poultry. Thus, creating a boundary that the enemy cannot cross. He walked round and drew the bloodline around the poultry that night. The following day, he found the carcass of a wolf, about two feet into the circle that he drew. It was stone dead; it had passed its bounds. Today, I pray that any, wolf assigned against your life, shall die in the Name of Jesus. Draw the Bloodline and the enemy will keep off. These are very serious matters and we should recognise and know these secrets. Recently, there have been disasters that have destroyed many lives in many countries. I was told of a man, who saw the flood raging towards his house and he came out and pleaded the Blood of Jesus. The flood obeyed him, not a single drop of water entered his house but the houses next to him, were submerged. That is the power in the Blood of Jesus!

The Blood of Jesus is a battle-weapon; through it, you can achieve the following: 1. Cleansing: the Blood of Jesus possesses cleansing power. If there is any form of dirt of filth in your life or environment, the Blood of Jesus will cleanse them. 2. Sanitisation: the Blood of Jesus could serve as disinfectant. Anything that wants to pollute, will not be able to get in. You should sanitise your life, your body, house, shop, etc. In fact, before you move into a new apartment or house, you should sanitise it and the surroundings, with the Blood of Jesus. The foundations of many houses were laid with sacrifices of all kinds. Houses that were built thirty or forty years ago, have things buried in them, by the owners and such things work negatively on the inhabitants of such houses, especially if they are not born again. 3. Deliverance: when you call the Blood of Jesus into operation, it causes the enemy to flee, because it contains the life of God. It sets people free from bondage. 4. Healing: It can heal all forms of infirmity. When you plead the Blood of Jesus, things begin to happen. 5. Protection. 6. Life-giving power: to revive anyone or anything that is dead. It could be marriage, finances, business, etc.

All pictorial form begins with the point that sets itself in motion… The point moves … and the line comes into being—the first dimension. If the line shifts to form a plane, we obtain a two-dimensional element. In the movement from plane to spaces, the clash of planes gives rise to body (three-dimensional) … A summary of the kinetic energies which move the point into a line, the line into a plane, and the plane into a spatial dimension.

It was getting on Tiffany’s nerves. She didn’t need a drill sergeant. What she needed was a pair of pants. The dress only inhibited her legs. “Why do I have to wear this stupid dress?” Tiffany snapped. “Because you’re tailless,” D.K. replied evenly. “If you had a tail, you wouldn’t need a sail between your legs to help steer. When your wings get bigger, you won’t need the gown. Be thankful you’re not wingless, too. Now, try again.” I’d rather be wingless.

Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death ". I would like you to read this message with rapt attention, so that you can key in to what God intends to do through this miracle power. The verse above is a very interesting part of the Bible; it gives us weapons and it would be good, if you could memorise it and appropriate it to yourself. There is a weapon that has never lost its power, but people have not learnt to use it; whereas, it is highly effective. Even the enemy is afraid, when you start to talk about it. That old serpent, the dragon, that the Bible talks about, saying: "Woe unto the earth and the sea ... " There is a weapon that can overcome it. There is nothing that God created, that He cannot rearrange; there is no enemy that God cannot defeat. A two-year old girl learnt this song and was always singing it: "There is power, there is power, there is power in the Blood of Jesus." Her mother noticed that she never took ill. One day, the mother washed the girl's clothes and hung them outside. There was a high wind, which blew her small panty to the compound next to theirs and it landed in the sitting room of a neighbour, who was a herbalist. Immediately the panty landed, there was pandemonium in the room; everything turned upside down. Everything he knew how to do failed; nothing could avail for him. He did his consultation and he found out that there

US linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky’s view is that in most countries a wealthy minority controls the key social and political institutions, such as the mass media and the financial system, ensuring that the functioning of modern society favors a powerful elite. In turn, this means that dissent and meaningful change are nearly impossible, because the dominant institutional structures in society—from newspapers to banks—focus on maintaining their positions to their mutual benefit.

BAPTISM BY FIRE Scriptures for meditation: 2 Chronicles 6; 7:1-6 Confession: Jer. 20:9 PRAYER POINTS Thank God for the purifying power of the fire of the Holy Ghost. I cover myself with the blood of the Lord Jesus. Father, let Your fire that burns away every deposit of the enemy fall upon me in the name of Jesus. Holy Ghost fire, incubate me in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I reject any evil stamp or seal placed upon me by ancestral spirits in the name of Jesus. I release myself from every negative anointing in the name of Jesus. Let every door of spiritual leakage be closed in the name of Jesus. I challenge every organ of my body with the fire of the Holy Spirit. (Lay your right hand methodically on various parts of the body beginning from the head.) Let every human spirit attacking my own spirit release me in the mighty name of Jesus. I reject every spirit of the tail in the name of Jesus. Sing the song "Holy Ghost fire, fire fall on me". Let all evil marks on my body be burnt off by the fire of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. Let the anointing of the Holy Ghost fall upon me and break every negative yoke in the name of Jesus. Let every garment of hindrance and dirtiness be dissolved by the fire of the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus. I command all my chained blessings to be unchained in the name of Jesus. Let all spiritual cages inhibiting my progress be roasted by the fire of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. Now Make this Powerful Confession Before You Proceed I boldly declare that my body is the temple of God and that the Holy Ghost is dwelling in me. I am cleansed through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, whosoever wants me to go into captivity shall go into captivity. Whosoever wants me to die by the sword shall die by the sword. The strangers shall fade away and be afraid out of their close places in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth,

You may be broken now, and things look rather bleak. I know. You may not believe me when I say you can heal because your heart is breaking in a way it never has. It’s like every broken heart you’ve ever had has come together to magnify the brokenness. It seems everything has fallen apart, but soon it will all come together again, I promise you—the way it was supposed to be. Deep down, we have the answers. When we are ready, we’ll align our will with the will of our highest power of love and light. I’m here with you.

A person can only have one love, Hen. People delude themselves into thinking that they can love many things, or many people, at once. It's all an illusion. A person only has the capacity to love- really love - one thing. Generally speaking, people love themselves but they play at having families and hobbies because that's what society tells us to do. Addicts and crooks are the only ones who are honest about it. Crackheads love crack. Gamblers love to gamble. They put those things above anyone and anything else in their lives. That's what love does.

When we place someone on a pedestal, we elevate them almost to the status of a god. Our perception of them goes from one extreme to another. This paragon of the ideal either walks on water or is a monster We trust them; then we don’t. They can’t possibly live up to the image we created of them or meet all of the expectations we have because what we want is the fantasy—not the human being donning the costume. We don’t really know the human being behind the fantasy. All the while, we may swear that we love them, but we can’t love someone we don’t see.

The revolutions in France and North America near the end of the 18th century were founded on liberal ideas. In fact, Thomas Jefferson, one of the architects of the American Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, revered Locke, and used many of his phrases in the founding documents. The emphasis on protection of “life, liberty, or property” found in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, and the inalienable rights to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration can all be traced directly back to John Locke’s philosophy a century earlier.

Someone else’s idea of what constitutes a good life or “happily ever after” is not a one-size-fits-all. You can be someone for whom relationships are too complicated. You can be going through something in your life, processing trauma you may have denied for too long, or you can be going through physical changes in your body. Either way, you might not have the desires other people expect you to have. Maybe all you want right now is a friend. Friendship is the best foundation, anyway, for whatever may evolve beyond that. It boils down to this: Not everyone wants the same thing, and that’s okay.

But he had had taken him from the city,

How poetic.” Jenna drained her coffee and pushed to her feet. “Thanks for dinner but I must be getting home. I’ll put my cup in the dishwasher and see you in the morning. As much as I would like to stay and chat all night, I don’t really want to sleep in your spare room again.” “Leave the cup, I’ll walk you home.” Kane whistled to Duke then headed for the door. “Duke needs to go outside before I turn in.” They strolled across the grass to her front porch and she opened the door, punched in the code on her house alarm, and turned back to

Avevano già provato i passi, il testo e l’arrangiamento più e più volte, tutto per merito suo. Quando DK aveva cominciato a piangere, dopo aver sbagliato un verso, Angel lo aveva consolato e gli aveva dato lo schiaffo mentale necessario per tornare concentrato. Quando Toby era inciampato ed era caduto di faccia durante una complicata piroetta finale, e per tutta risposta aveva tirato un pugno al muro, era stato Angel a far smettere tutti di ridere e a massaggiare le nocche dolenti di Toby. Poi gli aveva fatto i complimenti per il suo entusiasmo, assicurandogli che era lui l’unico di tutto il gruppo a provarci davvero. E diavolo se, dopo tutta quella scena, gli altri non avevano cominciato a impegnarsi altrettanto! Quando Scott si era buttato a terra, lamentandosi di quanto fosse esausto, era stato Angel a sedersi su di lui e a fargli il solletico fino a fargli passare la fiacca. E per quanto riguardava Corey? Angel era il centro della sua attenzione, la sua luce, l’unica cosa che aveva perfettamente senso. Ecco perché, in quel momento, tutti lo consideravano una guida. C’era solo una cosa che preoccupava Corey: cosa sarebbe successo se fosse stato Angel, ad avere bisogno di aiuto? A chi si sarebbe rivolto?

«Ciao,» disse, inclinando il capo e mettendo il broncio. «Chi è il gay?» Il tizio davanti agli altri lo indicò, premendogli un dito sul petto. Il resto gruppo si esibì in una risata più simile a un grugnito. «Già!» esclamò Angel. L’ubriaco lo squadrò. «Eh?» «Mi hai scoperto, sono gay.» Angel allungò una mano. «Piacere di conoscerti. Sei etero?» Stavolta l’ubriaco ridusse gli occhi a fessura. «Mi prendi per il culo?» «Niente affatto.» Angel si mise le mani sui fianchi. «Ho solo pensato di chiedere, visto che a quanto pare stiamo tutti definendo la nostra sessualità. E poi non mi piace molto la birra di qui.» «La birra.» Il tizio si allontanò di un passo dal ragazzo. «Che cazzo...» «Il tempo però non è stato male. Ricordi che l’anno scorso in questo periodo pioveva sempre?» «Gesù.» L’ubriaco oscillò e sbatté le palpebre, cercando di concentrarsi sul volto di Angel. Poi sbuffò. «Andiamocene. Mezza sega.» I quattro ubriachi se ne andarono e Angel aspettò che la porta del pub si chiudesse alle loro spalle, prima di tornare al tavolo, facendo spostare Scott per sedersi accanto a Corey. «Beh,» esalò Scott, con enfasi. «Che qualcuno mi prenda a sprangate.» Angel scosse il capo, posò una mano sulla gamba di Corey sotto il tavolo e ingollò una bella sorsata di orrida birra. «Se proprio insisti...» «Gli hai chiesto... gli hai chiesto ehi sei etero!» DK non riusciva a formare la frase correttamente. «È stato fantastico.» Il ragazzo scrollò le spalle. «Non è la prima volta che ho a che fare con dei bulli. Era ubriaco, facile da confondere e probabilmente domani non ricorderà nulla.» Toby si scrocchiò le nocche. «Ti avrei guardato le spalle. Se le cose si fossero messe male, dico.» «Lo so, grazie.» Corey non disse nulla, mise solo una mano su quella di Angel e la strinse

Corey sorrise, un sorriso che gli partiva dal fondo dello stomaco come una bolla d’eccitazione e che lo riempì di gioia. «Ti amo,» si lasciò sfuggire. Tutti lo guardarono, ma Corey si concentrò solo sull’espressione di Angel. Non si era rabbuiato, ma nemmeno sorrideva. Scott sembrò afferrare al volo ciò che stava succedendo, così trascinò DK e Toby fuori dalla soglia. «La stanza è tutta vostra,» disse, prima di chiudersi la porta alle spalle. «Scusami,» si affrettò ad aggiungere Corey. «Non avrei dovuto dirlo così, lo so.» Angel sorrise, un sorriso che gli increspò i lineamenti. La sua postura si rilassò. «Anche io ti amo,» dichiarò. Poi si avvicinò e prese il volto di Corey tra le mani. «Così tanto che non puoi neanche immaginare.» Il giovane sorrise di rimando e gli scoccò un rapido bacio, niente più che una delicata pressione delle labbra. «Però vorrei provarci.» Angel lo strinse a sé e lo baciò, continuando a ripetere all’infinito: «Ti amo... ti amo...» Corey stava così bene, in pace con se stesso, sereno e amato. Era come tenere in braccio il coniglio della sua infanzia