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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Fiona Apple
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Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
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Roald Dahl (Matilda)
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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Fiona Apple
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I live for sex.
I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being.
I can see no better reason for being alive.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
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And you can tell Darroc that Ms. Lane is mine. If he wants her, he can bloody well come and get her
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Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever (Fever, #4))
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It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
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Home is where my habits have a habitat
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Fiona Apple
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I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.
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Diana Wynne Jones (Fire and Hemlock)
β
You can kiss me if you like," she said.
Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse.
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Anthony Horowitz (Point Blank (Alex Rider, #2))
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When I was a kid--10, 11, 12, 13--the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: "There's never gonna be a room someplace where there's a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, 'You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.' That'll never happen. There's nothing interesting about me." I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.
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Fiona Apple
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The intercourse was over in no time. That intercourse gave Karl a feeling of unprecedented pleasure. On the other hand, it failed to bring back Luna to reality, as she had been floating into another dimension. And it left Fiona with a deep hatred for Luna.
β
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Rebecca Harlem (The Pink Cadillac)
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It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.
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Fiona Apple
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The first time someone else touched me with the intent to pleasure, I fell in love. Not with that person, but with the act itself. Such intimacy and accord. Even with the awkwardness of first time lovers there was a grace and purity, carnal and beautiful that I knew from that moment on I could never live without.
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Fiona Zedde (Bliss)
β
I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.
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Fiona Apple
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You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun
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Fiona Apple
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Be kind to me, or treat me mean
I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
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Fiona Apple
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I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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Fiona Apple
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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Fiona Apple
β
When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right
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Fiona Apple
β
We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.
β
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Fiona Wood (Six Impossible Things)
β
Amanda doesn't hate you. She's jealous of you."
"What? Todd listen. Drugs are bad, buddy. You shouldn't do them first thing in the morning. Wait until after lunch at least.
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
β
Turn off that music!β Fiona shouts from the next room. βNo emo shit in my flat.β
βI am emo shit. βThis is electronic soul,β I mutter.
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Rainbow Rowell (Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3))
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To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
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...when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever.
~ Fiona MacCarrick ~
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Kresley Cole (If You Deceive (MacCarrick Brothers, #3))
β
How terrible it must be to be a member of the noble class. So many rules. Such restraint. You must feel like a caged bird, battering its wings against the sides of its golden prison.
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))
β
Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.
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Fiona Wood (Six Impossible Things)
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I was so self-critical. I still am; but it's not as bad anymore.
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Fiona Apple
β
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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Fiona Apple
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I love being aroused.
I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again.
Itβs like Iβm being made new.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.
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Fiona Apple
β
Fiona grabbed Rick in her arms and sobbed, βOh Rick, this song drives me crazy. I canβt stop myself when youβre around me. Iβm losing control of myself. Rick, please tell them to stop, otherwise I donβt know what I will do.β Saying this, Fiona placed her lips on Rickβs lips. Now Rick was no longer in a position to speak so that he could ask the DJ to change the song. He only needed to signal the DJ to do that. But after tasting the moisture on Fionaβs lips, which was like dewdrops on rose petals, he realized that this endeavour would have required a lot of courage, which he most certainly lacked at the time.
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Rebecca Harlem (The Pink Cadillac)
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I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.
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Fiona Apple
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If I was Todd's wife in real life, I'd have to kill myself. Okay, maybe I'm being a bit melodramatic. I wouldn't kill myself. But I'd definitely turn lesbian, at the very least.
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
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Are you kidding?β He grinned at Annabeth. βA chance to do quests, just the three of us? Like old times? The Three Musketeers!β βThe Powerpuff Girls,β Annabeth suggested. βShrek, Fiona, and Donkey,β I said. βWait a minute,β Grover said. βIβm fine with this,β Annabeth said.
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Rick Riordan (The Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #6))
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How can I ask anyone to love me
when all I do is beg to be left alone?
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Fiona Apple
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Please read this [book] so I'll have someone to talk about it with? I'll get you cigarettes.
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Fiona Staples (Saga, Volume 2)
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He said, "Everyone knows how short life is. Fiona and I know it especially. But no one ever talks about how long it is.
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Rebecca Makkai (The Great Believers)
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Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.
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Fiona Apple
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Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona
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Karen Marie Moning (Dreamfever (Fever, #4))
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The truth never hurts more than finding out someone you love has lied to you.
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Fiona Paul
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He smiles, and he's made of trouble. We should have dropped him in the Thames in a bag of stones. We should have left him out for the fairies.
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Rainbow Rowell (Carry On (Simon Snow, #1))
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Han made no effort to put up a brave front. Most of the time he just screamed himself hoarse, though a couple of times he amused himself by screaming Fionas's name as if he were in the throes of passion. FEEE-OHHH-NAAA! Lord Bayar made him pay for that, but afterward, Fiona didn't come down anymore, which Han appreciated.
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Cinda Williams Chima (The Crimson Crown (Seven Realms, #4))
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βMadness weakens the mind and
disease weakens the body,
but nothing destroys the spirit
like the loss of true love.β
-THE BOOK OF THE ETERNAL ROSE
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))
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He didnβt save us ; havenβt you been listening?β Elizabeth held an icepack to her chin where sheβd been hit by an meaty elbow . βFiona stabbed one of them with a Susan Bates needle, Marie was wielding a tequila bottle, Sandra pistol-whipped the other, and I shot the third.β
βWhere were Janie and Kat?β Ashley looked from me to Kat.
βHiding behind the couch like sane people!β Kat said before anyone else could speak.
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Penny Reid (Neanderthal Seeks Human (Knitting in the City, #1))
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He was the kind of man I wanted: wild, hot, horny, and losing control.
And it all pointed back to me, about how much I felt in control of him, with the power of my body.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
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Falco's eyes widened in fake shock. "Well, then perhaps I should ask for a tour of the house." He grinned, clearly relishing Cass's embarrassment. "Can we start with your bedroom?
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))
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We all grow into our coffins, Danny. And I saw myself growing into mine.
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Fiona Mozley (Elmet)
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong; only true and false.
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Fiona Apple
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And I could liken you to a lot of things
But I always come around
'Cause in the end I'm a sensible girl
I know the fiction of the fix
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Fiona Apple
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-Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick.
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Irvine Welsh (Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1))
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You should be more careful, you know."
"Careful?" she managed to croak. "You're the one who knocked me over."
"I couldn't resist," he said, and he actually had the nerve to wink at her. "It's not often I get the chance to put my hands on such a beautiful woman.
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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Fiona Apple
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My problems are like waves - just as one disappears with a snarl and a hiss thereβs another shaping up to knock me down.
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Fiona Wood (Six Impossible Things)
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I remember looking at him lying there in a small pool of blood and thinking βoh well, thatβs the end of his nonsense
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Fiona Barton (The Widow (Kate Waters, #1))
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Rhythm? Not only do I have to defy gravity. I have to have rhythm while I do it?
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
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I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun?
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
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Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that wonβt quit. I canβt remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, thatβs for sure.
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Fiona Wood (Six Impossible Things)
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I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?
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Fiona Apple
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You're not gay, are you?
What?!
I mean you've never had a boyfriend. And you're not exactly...girly.
I'm not gay. I'm just unpopular.
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
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But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.
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Nick Hornby (About a Boy)
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.
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Fiona Apple
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We ignore the blackness of outer space and pay attention to the stars, especially if they seem to order themselves into constellations. βCommon as the airβ meant something worthless, but Hackworth knew that every breath of air that Fiona drew, lying in her little bed at night, just a silver flow in the moonlight, was used by her body to make skin and hair and bones. The air became Fiona, and deservingβno, demandingβof love. Ordering matter was the sole endeavor of Life, whether it was a jumble of self-replicating molecules in the primordial ocean, or a steam-powered English mill turning weeds into clothing, or Fiona lying in her bed turning air into Fiona.
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Neal Stephenson (The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer)
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Fiona, itβs me, Shrek. I rescued you from your tower to prove Iβll fight for us. Iβll fight for us every single time. Youβll never even have to wonder if Iβll be there, because Iβll show the fuck up before that thought can even cross your mind. I want you, Ronin, and Iβll risk everything for you. I will never walk out on you.
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J.A. Huss (Panic (Rook and Ronin, #3))
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I"d done more apologizing in the past week than a politician with a crack pipe and a sex addiction.
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
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I know you want this as much as I do," he said. "You aren't going to report me. And even if you did, I'm inclined to think a night with you might well be worth imprisonment.
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))
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How can God be so cruel to grow love in such hopeless places?
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))
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Your neck smells like cheese,' I said.
'Oh,' He said, 'that's my cheese cologne. I have a whole selection. Chedder, American, Swiss.
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
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He also says I tried to throw him down a flight of stairs that year. Really, we were fighting at the top of the staircase, and I got in a lucky punch that sent him flying. Then, when my aunt Fiona asked me if Iβd pushed Simon Snow down a flight of stairs, I said, βFuck yes I did.
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Rainbow Rowell (Carry On (Simon Snow, #1))
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I took off my glasses while you were yelling at me once more than once so as not to see you see me react. Should've put 'em, should've put 'em on again
so I could see you see me sincerely yelling back.
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Fiona Apple
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Go with yourself.
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Fiona Apple (When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King...)
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If I had your body, I'd stare at it for hours. Days, maybe.
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))
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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, itβs about learning to dance in the rain.
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Fiona Valpy (The Beekeeper's Promise)
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Come on," Falco said. "I'll see you safely home to your fancy sheets. I'd say you need your beauty sleep, but it looks like you've been getting plenty.
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))
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Cause I don't appreciate
People who
Don't appreciate
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Fiona Apple
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As Jack began to climb the stairs, Fiona looked up at her new home. Five stories of stately mansion
rose above her head. Heavy molding around the large windows and doors bespoke a quality and
craftsmanship that was obvious even in the dim night. βGood God! Itβs massive!β
Jack paused with his foot on the last step. βI do wish youβd keep those comments until we are in bed,
love. I would appreciate them all the more there.
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Karen Hawkins (How to Abduct a Highland Lord (MacLean Curse, #1))
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She's gone. Been gone for ages. They split up right after you left. That's why the grass out front started growing again."
"He's got a new girlfriend?" she said quietly. "Thank god. You must be happy."
"Yeah. He does. It's a relief. She's a lot nicer. But then, your average angry snake is nicer than Fiona. I'm sure she's happier wherever she is now, burning orphans or whatever she does with her time.
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Maureen Johnson (The Last Little Blue Envelope (Little Blue Envelope, #2))
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You may study the bodies of the living and the dead for clues about the mechanism of the muscles, the bones, and even the brain, but you can never unravel the mystery of the human heart. . .
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))
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My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights
I looked like a neon zebra, shaking rain off her stripes
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Fiona Apple
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The simple lies are the hardest, funnily enough. The big ones seem to just fall off the tongue:
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Fiona Barton (The Widow (Kate Waters, #1))
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It's refreshing to see you using your psychology skills for evil as well as for good.
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
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If you name things, then you treat them better.
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Aaron Starmer (The Riverman (The Riverman Trilogy, #1))
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There's this sky I know
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Fiona Wood (Six Impossible Things)
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Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
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I tell you how I feel
But you don't care
I say tell me the truth
But you don't dare
You say love is a hell
You cannot bear
And I say gimme mine
Back and then go there
For all I care.
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Fiona Apple (Fiona Apple - Tidal Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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It was the impatience of the way he tore my panties from my body, that really turned me on: I was all he could think of, as his lust got the better of him.
I glanced back, and saw the underwear torn and discarded, a little strip of thin black material on the floor, and thought, Yes, this is the kind of impatient sex Iβm looking for.
The way they looked so small, and cruelly forgotten, was a beautiful symbol of how much we both needed to satisfy our lusts.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
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I'm thinking about three things this morning. The obstacle is the path. Today is a good day. And what comes is a gift.
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Satya Robyn
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It was the most exciting sentence I've ever heard," Lydia said. Reaching out, she stroked the back of Jean's hand. "In front of your friends, to call me your love.
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Fiona Shaw (Tell It to the Bees)
β
He isn't so bad."
"You're not fake-married to him.
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
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Dad. I love that you arenβt afraid to carry around romance novels with almost-naked men on the cover and hand them out as βtipsβ to waitresses, hairdressers, and anyone else you come across. Thanks for being one of my biggest fans.
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Susan Stoker (Protecting Fiona (SEAL of Protection, #3))
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Just because Iβve been gone from this country for most of my life doesnβt mean I understand it any less. When I was fifteen I left Jamaica. I knew that I was a lesbian then and, because of what I looked like, I was an out lesbian. It was hard for me. It was hard for the thirteen years I was in England, for various reasons, and itβs going to be difficult here as well. I donβt anticipate anything being easy. But Iβd rather suffer the chance of someone accosting me for being a dyke than suffer the emotional violence Iβd do to myself if I wasnβt honest about who I am.
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Fiona Zedde (Bliss)
β
Was Fergus Urvill anywhere, still? Apart from the body - whatever was left of him physically, down there in that dark, cold pressure - was there anything else? Was his personality intact somehow, somewhere?
I found that I couldn't believe that it was. Neither was dad's, neither was Rory's, nor Aunt Fiona's, nor Darren Watt's. There was no such continuation; it just didn't work that way, and there should even be a sort of relief in the comprehension that it didn't. We continue in our children, and in our works and in the memories of others; we continue in our dust and ash. To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constipatory, too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss.
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Iain Banks (The Crow Road)
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I could feel his whole body trying to claim me, want me, own me in lust, and it made me feel so valuable and wanted. As I was bent over the table, I felt like I was the world to him, and he could think of nothing else, could feel nothing else: he was consumed with my body, dedicated to exploring my female sexual power and energy, and his desperate hitting of me with the belt felt like he would rather die, than be without the chance to connect with me in sex.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
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It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?
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Fiona Mountain (Lady of the Butterflies)
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People say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. They say that when you been through something terrible ... But it doesn't. It breaks your bones, leaving everything splintered and held together with grubby bandages and yellowing sticky tape. Creaking along the fault lines, Fragile and exhausting to hold together. Sometimes you wish it had killed you.
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Fiona Barton (The Child (Kate Waters, #2))
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You know, thereβs no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman.
You can take your careers, your money, your houses and possessions, and you go and throw them in a lake.
Because life is really all about sex.
Thatβs what I keep learning, again and again.
Itβs the most important thing, woven into the very centre of life.
And I just know I was put on this earth to be a sexual woman, and to explore as much about sex as I can.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
β
Never listen to fools who dis Jane Eyre as being a story about a girl who gets her mean man. This is a character who gets what she wants and lives on her own terms by having moral fortitude, intelligence, courage, imagination and a will of iron. And that is one hell of a checklist. Imagine Charlotte BrontΓ« writing this book in 1847. What a powerful story for women living at that time!
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Fiona Wood (Cloudwish (The Six Impossiverse #3))
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Around here news travels faster than mono, and by the end of the day, the whole school had heard about Todd's and my standoff with Principal Miller and Maggie Klein. By the time the story circulated and came back around to me, I had apparently bitch-slapped Maggie Klein and then tongued Todd in front of Principal Miller.
Oh, and Mom was a former showgirl in an all-gay revue.
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Kristin Walker (A Match Made in High School)
β
I came home to find three rocks on my desk and a card with a penguin on the front. Seeing it was from Greg, I did a little happy dance as I bounced into my room, reading his inscription.
Dearest Fiona,
Iβm missing you dreadfully. Itβs been an age, I donβt think youβll recognize me when next we meet. Iβve put on ten stone and lost all my hair. And an eye. I hope you fancy a fat bald man with an eye patch.
Come out with me on Friday. Finals will finally be over and itβll be time to celebrate. Iβll pick you up at four. Weβll do a first date do-over, eat at Manganielloβs again, plus a new, improved surprise.
Also, FYI: Gentoo penguins mate for life. Whereas AdΓ©lie penguins prostitute themselves for rocks.
Iβd like to be your Gentoo penguin.
-Greg
P.S. Unless youβre open to a rock arrangement. If so, please find my first down payment enclosed.
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Penny Reid (Ninja at First Sight (Knitting in the City, #4.75))
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I heard him sweeping with the broom, and then he suddenly stopped.
I had obviously got his attention, and he was looking.
Take a good look, honey, I thought. Take a good look at what Iβm offering.
I liked the sound of that silence. Do you know what I mean? Have you heard that silence yourself?
I love that silence you get, when a man who you fancy notices your body.
In a weird way, itβs so loud, itβs deafening.
It could be because of the way you sway your hips, your legs, or thrust your breasts.
And you just know his erection is talking to him, about what heβd like to do to your body. How heβd like to have his delightfully wicked way with you, undress you, smother your naked skin with hungry urgent kisses, and thrust his hard and moist cock deep inside the pouting red lips of your mouthβ¦
I think you get my drift.
Thereβs a lovely tension in that moment; I call it the lust moment.
When a sexy man sees what youβve deliberately put out on offer, and he stops in his steps as his lust lights up his mind, and puts him on a new track.
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Fiona Thrust (Naked and Sexual (Fiona Thrust, #1))
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To my lovely starling,
Maybe there are magical words that will make you understand, but if so, I do not know them. Words are your domain. I've always been better with pictures.
I fear you think I am a monster. It's true I've disrupted many graves. The way I see it, the dead are dead. If, after their death, we can learn things from the about the human form - things that will increase the sum of human knowledge and the possibilities of art - what harm is that? After death, new life, new beauty. How can that be wrong? My friends and I have made use of some of the bodies as models. some we sell to surgeons who study them with the hopes of learning something about the frail mechanisms of the human body.
I don't know exactly what Dottor de Gradi does in his workshop on the Rialto, and I was as surprised as you were to stumble on it. He couldn't - he wouldn't tell me if your friend's body ended up there. But he did assure me all of his work is focused solely on extending human life.
I won't lie. I did it for the money as well. Don Loredan is holding a private exhibition in his palazzo tomorrow. The entry fee was quite steep but two of my paintings were accepted. This could be the beginning for me. I could find my own patrons. I could be more than just a peasant. Tommaso's assistant.
So yes; a little for money. But mostly I did for the art.
I don't expect these words to change how you feel. I simply want you not to see me as a monster. I don't want to be a monster. Not anymore. Not after meeting you. I know that we disrupted you dear friend's body, and for that I am deeply regretful. But if we had not done so, if I had not lingered in the San Domenico churchyard after standing guard for my friends, you and I might never have met. Meeting you is one thing I will never regret.
I hope you like the painting. Consider tit a wedding gift. How stupid of me to let my heart go. It was a lovely fantasy while it lasted, though, wasn't it?
Yours,
Falco
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Fiona Paul (Venom (Secrets of the Eternal Rose, #1))