“
Hud would love his child the way his mother had loved him: actively, every day, and without ambiguity.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.
”
”
Irvine Welsh
“
Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not, Hud thought. They express themselves through us in the way we hold a pen or shrug our shoulders, in the way we raise our eyebrow. Our heritage lingers in our blood. The idea of it scared the shit out of him.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the world.
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Irvine Welsh (Porno (Mark Renton, #3))
“
Johnny wis a junky as well as a dealer. Ye hud tae go a wee bit further up the ladder before ye found a dealer whae didnae use. We called Johnny ‘Mother Superior’ because ay the length ay time he’d hud his habit.
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Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting (Mark Renton #2))
“
There would be a trial, of course. But I had watched a few trials in Thalia, and I had seen people a lot dumber than Hud get away with a lot worse than what he did.
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Larry McMurtry (Horseman, Pass By)
“
Darman: I want my HUD back. I want my enhanced view.
Fi: But you get to wear face camo instead. Makes you feel wild and dangerous.
Sev: I'm wild. And then I get dangerous. Shut up.
Fi: Copy that. [exits Sev's comlink channel] Miserable di'kut.
Scorch: Don't mind him. He'll be fine once he's killed something.
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”
Karen Traviss (Star Wars: Triple Zero (Republic Commando #2))
“
Hy gododin catann hue
Hud a lledrith mal wyddan
Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri
Varigal don Fincayra
Dravia, dravia Fincayra
(Talking trees and walking stones,
Giants are the island's bones.
While this land our dance still knows,
Varigal crowns Fincayra.
Live long, live long Fincayra.
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”
T.A. Barron
“
En kvinne bør ligne på en kvige: øm, tillitsfull og frodig, med en kropp så hvit som fløte - en hud som gamle skuespillerinner, skjønner dere, en hud som er myk av massasje og gjennomtrengt av sminke og pudder.
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”
Irène Némirovsky (Suite Française)
“
She whipped around and found Hud standing there staring at her. He was in ski patrol gear today, looking official.
And officially hot.
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Jill Shalvis (My Kind of Wonderful (Cedar Ridge, #2))
“
I TEND TO believe in government because it was the U.S. government that paid for my brain surgery when I was five months old and provided USDA food so I wouldn’t starve during my poverty-crushed reservation childhood and built the HUD house that kept us warm and gave me scholarship money for the college education that freed me. Of course, the government only gave me all of that good shit because they completely fucked over my great-grandparents and grandparents but, you know, at least some official white folks keep some of their promises.
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Sherman Alexie (You Don't Have to Say You Love Me)
“
Jag måste sluta ta åt mig så mycket. Måste skaffa mig tjockare hud över själen.
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Johanna Nilsson (Konsten att vara Ela)
“
Är du säker på att du blir lycklig av att vara som alla andra?" En tyst viskning; hans andedräkt mot mitt öra och min hals, hans mun som nuddar min hud. Och då tänker jag att jag kanske redan är död. Kanske bet hunden mig och jag blev slagen i huvudet och allt det här är bara en dröm - resten av världen har försvunnit. Bara han. Bara jag. Bara vi.
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Lauren Oliver (Delirium (Delirium, #1))
“
I took one look at you,” Hud said to Bailey, “and control went flying out the window. You tore down the brick wall around my heart one smile at a time.
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Jill Shalvis (My Kind of Wonderful (Cedar Ridge, #2))
“
We need to make him watch the ‘Juno’ positions clips and figure out which ones he likes.” Grant drops to the floor and thrusts into the rug. “Have you ever tried this one, Hud?
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Chelsea Curto (Slap Shot (D.C. Stars, #3))
“
The story of June and Mick Riva seemed like a tragedy to their oldest child, Nina. It felt like a comedy of errors to their first son, Jay. It was an origin story for their second son, Hud. And a mystery to the baby of the family, Kit. To Mick himself it was just a chapter of his memoir. But to June, it was, always and forever, a romance.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.
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Larry McMurtry
“
Ah wis gaunny say thit Tommy hud a choice; wee Maria disnae. Aw that would huv done wis precipitate an argument aboot whair choice began and ended. How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? Wish tae fuck ah knew. Wish tae fuck ah knew anything.
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Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2))
“
— So what! So fuckin what!
— So ye hud they powers, ye jist couldnae be bothered usin thum. That's why ah'm interested in ye Boab. You're jist like me. A lazy, apathetic, slovenly cunt. Now ah hate bein like this, n bein immortal, ah canny punish masel. Ah kin punish you though, mate. That's whit ah intend tae dae.
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Irvine Welsh (The Acid House)
“
It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow 'em.
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”
Homer Bannon
“
Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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”
Hud Bannon
“
I don’t care! Hud can fuck all my ex-girlfriends ten times in front of me and I’d still like him more than I like you.” Jay yelled.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
The third morning found me re-watching Star Wars XXVII on my HUD. I was just at the point where Jabba's son begins the lightsaber dual with Yoda's son when Big Dog interrupted me.
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Isaac Hooke (Just Another Day (ATLAS))
“
Opening my mouth never works as well as keeping it shut and minding my own business.” Hud
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Jill Shalvis (Nobody But You (Cedar Ridge, #3))
“
Christ – wid ye take a look at that numpty? Fuckin "Popeye" izzit?’ Jimmy gestured towards the bar. ‘C**t obviously husnae hud his spinach, eh?
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Jamie Holoran (Rounder's People)
“
She had chosen to love him and it had changed his life. Hud would love his child the way his mother had loved him: actively, every day, and without ambiguity.
”
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
It was this kind of thoughtfulness for his sister, despite having met her only a few times, that Hud had found so enchanting about Ashley from the beginning. “I know but … we have
”
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
Hud liked thinking of himself as a good guy. And yet … sleeping with your brother’s girlfriend was exactly the sort of thing a good guy would never do.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
Jeg prøvde å forestille meg mitt eget hode ribbet for hud og kjøtt, hjernen tatt ut og stilt opp på en hylle, og så kom det en gammel krok og ga meg en smekk med en rustfri ildtang. Herlig.
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Haruki Murakami (Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World)
“
Jag kupade händerna om tändaren för att skydda lågan från vinden, och när min hud nuddade hans kände jag hur det fladdrade till i bröstet. Var det lust, kärlek eller bara ett tidigt tecken på lungcancer?
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Lauren Weisberger (Everyone Worth Knowing)
“
Säjer att jag rymt hit för din skull men ljuger förstås det låter vackrare då ville bara att du skulle ta bort nåldynan från badrummet ställa in kanske mjölk i kylen låtsas att vi lever lika mycket båda två
stängde dörren för längesen om mej och du bänder loss brädorna men kommer inte in du förstår älskling jag har kilat fast alla öppningar med frusna tårar avbrutna morrhår död hud och blodiga kräkningar har byggt berg utanför av uppsprättade drömmar och klätt in hela trappuppgången i tomhet och du kommer aldrig igenom
man kommer aldrig igenom
men inimej kom inimej och där nånstans låt mej liksom leva bara
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Åsa Ericsdotter
“
I broke up with him. And I think you should know that I love you.” Hud had pulled her inside and taken her face in his hands and said, “I love you, too. I’ve loved you since…I don’t know. Well before I should
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
But you were brave, eh, Granda, charging up that beach, ye must have been brave.’ ‘I was scared, son,’ he’d telt me, his face sombre. ‘But most of all ah wis angry; angry at being there. Really angry. I wanted tae take it out on somebody, then go hame.’ ‘But that man hud tae be stoaped though, Faither,’ my dad had implored, ‘ye said so yirsel!’ ‘Ah know that. Ah wis angry that he wis allowed tae git started in the first place.
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Irvine Welsh (Skagboys (Mark Renton Series Book 1))
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Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not, Hud thought. They express themselves through us in the way we hold a pen or shrug our shoulders, in the way we raise our eyebrow. Our heritage lingers in our blood.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) deems a family that is spending more than 30 percent of its income on housing to be “cost burdened,” at risk of having too little money for food, clothing, and other essential expenses. Today there is no state in the Union in which a family that is supported by a full-time, minimum-wage worker can afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent without being cost burdened, according to HUD.
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Kathryn J. Edin ($2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America)
“
Han har en känslig själ också? Det verkar så. Som att han tar in världen genom för tunn hud. Har svårt att ta lätt på saker och ting. Gräver sig djupt in i tingen och människorna, fast tingen och människorna inte alltid kräver det. Ungefär så.
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Johanna Nilsson (Konsten att vara Ela)
“
To paraphrase HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson, if Trump is racist, he's certainly a bad one. What kind of self-respecting racist would help would help employ over a million more African Americans and oversee the elevation of hundreds of thousands more out of poverty?
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Horace Cooper (How Trump Is Making Black America Great Again: The Untold Story of Black Advancement in the Era of Trump)
“
Pretty cool,” Hud said, as he gave Jay a high five. Kit wrapped her hands around his neck and jumped up onto him. Nina smiled. He had been right. The whole afternoon had been exhilarating. The trying and crashing, the trying and doing, the trying harder, doing better.
”
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
God, June thought, I have to get my life together. For my
children.
She thought of Nina’s bright smile, and Jay’s cocksure
determination, and Hud’s gentleness, the way he always
hugged her tight. She thought of Kit, that spitfire, who
might just one day rule them all.
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”
Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
Hud would love his child the way his mother had loved him: actively, every day, and without ambiguity. And maybe twenty-five years from now, all of them plus a whole new generation of Rivas would be right here on this very beach. And maybe there would be another reckoning. Perhaps his children would tell him he’d been too permissive or he’d been too strict, he’d put too much emphasis on x when it should have been y. He smiled to think of it, the ways in which he would mess this whole thing up. It was inevitable, wasn’t it? The small mistakes and heartbreaks of guiding a life? His mother had screwed up almost as much as she’d succeeded. But the one thing he knew in his bones was that he would not leave. His child—his children, if he was lucky—would know, from the day they were born, that he was not going anywhere. • • •
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
These two had no real understanding of doing anything alone. They had come together at such a young age that they knew of no world but the one they inhabited alongside each other.
But they were not twins. And they had no illusions that they were, despite what their mother pretended in polite company. Each one of the children knew how Hud had joined the family. June had always told the kids the story with a sense of awe and destiny. She told them sometimes wild circumstances help fate unfold.
Jay and Hud. An apple and an orange. They did not have the same abilities or wear the same virtues. And yet, they still belonged side by side.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
Then you clean it up! I’m sick of cleaning it and having you come in and mess it up again,’ Hud would say. ‘I’m not your maid.’
‘You are, though,’ Jay would say. ‘Just like I’m the fluff and fold around here.’
Jay was in charge of the laundry. He handled his sisters’ underwear and bathing suits with chopsticks, unwilling to touch them whether they were clean or dirty. But Jay quickly became a wiz at stain removal, each mark a puzzle to solve. He threw himself into searching the right combination of liquids that would unlock the dirt from Kit’s soccer shorts. He found the golden ticket by asking an older woman in the laundry aisle what she did to get out grass stains. Turned out it was Fels-Naptha. Worked like a charm.
‘Look at this, motherfucker!’ Jay called out to the rest of the house one day from the garage. ‘Good as fucking new!’
Kit peeked her head in to see her white shorts bright as the sun, unblemished.
‘Wow,’ she said. ‘Maybe you can open Riva’s Laundry.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
When the patronising cunt left, ah missed him. He nearly took us oot ay masel. It wis like auld times, but in a sense, that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed. Something hud happened. Junk hud happened. Whether ah lived wi it, died wi it, or lived withoot it, ah knew that things could never be the same again.
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”
Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting)
“
Det är natt och jag sover inte. Jag tänker på hud. En mans hud. Mot min. Får inte tänka så. Får inte längta. Längtan är grym. Längtan är reklam som inte håller vad den lovar. Relationer betyder arbete. Man måste kompromissa. Jag vill varken arbeta eller kompromissa. Jag vill leva. Vara vild, fri, galen. Utan löften som kommer att gå sönder. Som snärjer mig.
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Johanna Nilsson (Konsten att vara Ela)
“
Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas
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Paul Newman
“
Her siblings were out there seeing the world while Kit was still slinging crab cakes. She wanted some of the glory, too. Some of the glamour of Nina’s life, some of the thrill of Jay’s and Hud’s. She had spent so much of her childhood following them all into the water. But she suspected that even if none of them had ever picked up a surfboard, she still would have.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
The Sandwich didn’t exist without Nina. When Nina was sick, she still went in and made the Sandwich. When she was out of town on a shoot, no one ate the Sandwich. It would never have occurred to Jay, Hud, or Kit to make the Sandwich themselves, to make the Sandwich for Nina. Nina didn’t mind. She took care of her siblings and they thanked her for it, loved her for it, and they all left it at that.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
It felt as if Jay would always be the one who had made it to the sand and Hud would be the one thrown off the wave. But even before 10 years old, Hud was managing this, redirecting his interests.
‘Nice one!’ Hud said, giving Jay a thumbs-up. This was some thing Hud took pride in, his lack of ego, his ability to appreciate the success of others, even when he had failed. His mother called it ‘good character’.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
Popularity at the box office did not translate into support from [director John Sturges'] peers in the Academy. In February, when Oscar nominations were announced, The Great Escape had to make do with one, for [Ferris] Webster’s editing. Paramount’s Hud and UA’s Tom Jones, which would bring Tony Richardson the best-director Oscar, dominated the field. Sturges’s rightful place in the best-picture category was taken by 20th Century Fox’s Cleopatra, a lavish flop.
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Glenn Lovell (Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges (Wisconsin Studies in Film))
“
Las historias familiares son simplemente historias. Son mitos que creamos sobre las personas que vinieron antes que nosotros para dotar nuestras propias vidas de sentido.
Para la mayor, Nina, la historia de June y Mick Riva era una tragedia. Para su primer hijo, Jay, era la comedia de las equivocaciones. Para su segundo hijo, Hud, era la historia de sus orígenes. Y para el propio Mick era tan solo un capítulo más de su vida.
Pero para June siempre fue una historia de amor.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
In the name of God, with the help of God I liked to clarify little bit regarding those Ayahs in the beginning of some Swras in the holy Quran which they are 29 Swras, these Ayas are as follows:
{الم ,Swra Al-Baqara, Al-Imran, Al- Ankabwt, Al-Rom, Lukman, Al-Sajda} {المص ,Swra Al-Aaraf}
{الر ,Swra Younis, Hud, Yousif, Ibrahim, Al-Hijr} {الر, Swra Al- Raied} {کهیعص, Swra Maryam} {طه, Swra Taha} {طسم, Swra Al-Shuaraa, Al-Qasas} {،طس Swra Al-Naml} {یس, Swra Yasin} {ص Swra Sad} {حم, Swra Ghafir, Fwsilat,Al- Zakhraf, Al-Dwkhan, Al-Jathya, Al-Ahqaf} { حمعسق, Swra Shwra} { ق, Swra Qaf} { ن, Swra Al-Qalam} Dear brothers and sisters if these Ayahs are clarified they will take years. With the assistance of God I would clarify one of the clarifications the letters of the Arabic alphabetical Abjadyah are 28 letters 14 letters are brightness {النورانیة} and 14 letters are darkness {الظلمانیة} the brightness letters are:
{ ا ح ر س ص ط ع ق ك ل م ن ه ي} the rest of letters are darkness the clarification of these Ayahs In most Swras the God says these Ayahs as oaths and endless sacred God refer to these letters saying these are the holy Quran these are the miracles of Quran , the holy Quran is the light and guidance in the holy Quran lightness is above darkness go and discover the Quran more than the three fourths 3/4 of Quran consist on brightness letters. These Ayahs are the key of supplication, if someone attained the key of God’s door, easily will get close to God’s throne. The letters of Arabic alphabetical Abjadyah as follows:
أ ب ج د هـ و ز ح ط ي ك ل م ن س ع ف ص ق ر ش ت ث خ ذ ض ظ غ
Clarified by Kamaran Ihsan Salih on 09/06/2027
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Kamaran Ihsan Salih
“
Clinton did not stop there. Determined to prove how “tough” he could be on “them,” Clinton also made it easier for federally assisted public housing projects to exclude anyone with a criminal history—an extraordinarily harsh step in the midst of a drug war aimed at racial and ethnic minorities. In his announcement of the “One Strike and You’re Out” Initiative, Clinton explained: “From now on, the rule for residents who commit crime and peddle drugs should be one strike and you’re out.”102 The new rule promised to be “the toughest admission and eviction policy that HUD has implemented.”103
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Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness)
“
Hud took a wave out and then bailed once it all started to crumble. When he popped back out of the water, he saw Jay and Kit both floating on their boards, bickering. He spotted Nina walking out of the ocean. He watched her walk her board back over to her shed. She made her way up the steep stairs that led to her home. Hud knew she was heading in to welcome the cleaning staff. She was going to offer them all a glass of water or iced tea. If one of them broke a plate or a vase, if they forgot a room, if they didn’t make the beds the way Nina liked, she would still thank them profusely. She would overtip them.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
Interesting how fashion is cyclical,” Jaccob said when she came out of the store with two black plastic bags. “Goth was the look when I was young, too.”
“It’s not a look,” Chuck said. “I’m just wearing my feelings on the outside.”
“Uh huh.” His phone buzzed. “Hang on a second."
He rolled up his sleeve to check his HUD, but the call hadn’t come through there.
Huh. He had to pick up his phone and check the read-out, which listed a phone number: an old school page. “That’s funny…”
“Dad, you’re doing that thing again,” Chuck said.
“What thing?” Jaccob asked.
“That thing where you have to check every single doohickey you carry around.”
“I am not.” Jaccob took his hand out of his coat pocket, where he’d been reaching to check his police scanner or music player (he hadn’t decided which to use first).
”
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Erik Scott de Bie (Cobalt City Double Feature)
“
She let out a sigh. “Would you stop being weird and just look at my boobs already? It’s not like you didn’t check them out on the regular before last night. I thought we were supposed to be normal tonight.”
My gaze snapped back to hers. “What? I did not check out your boobs on the regular.”
She twisted her lips and looped a small, black clutch around her wrist. “Uh, yeah, you did. I always just assumed you weren’t breastfed enough as a baby or something. Though, looking back, you did always smile when I caught you. I should have seen your obsession for me coming.”
“I did not look at your boobs!” I defended again, but I’d be damned if my gaze didn’t drop. And before I could stop it, an involuntary smile tipped my lips.
“There it is.” She patted me on the chest as she headed toward my truck, calling over her shoulder, “Good to have you back, Hud.
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Aly Martinez (When the Time Is Right)
“
Ah fall off the pan, ma knees splashing ontae the pishy flair. My jeans crumple tae the deck and greedily absorb the urine, but ah hardly notice. Ah roll up ma shirt sleeve and hesitate only briefly, glancing at ma scabby and occasionally weeping track marks, before plunging ma hands and forearms intae the brown water. Ah rummage fastidiously and get one ay ma bombs back straight away. Ah rub off some shite that's attached tae it. A wee bit melted, but still largely intact. Ah stick it oan toap ay the cistern. Locating the other takes several long dredges through the mess and the panhandling of the shite ay many good Muirhoose and Pilton punters. Ah gag once, but get ma white nugget ay gold, surprisingly even better preserved than the first. The feel ay water disgusts us even mair than the shite. Ma brown-stained airm reminds us ay the classic t-shirt tan. The line goes right up past ma elbow as ah hud tae go right aroond the bend.
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Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2))
“
It was an old tradition: landlords barring children from their properties. In the competitive postwar housing market of the late 1940s, landlords regularly turned away families with children and evicted tenants who got pregnant.3 This was evident in letters mothers wrote when applying for public housing. “At present,” one wrote, “I am living in an unheated attic room with a one-year-old baby….Everywhere I go the landlords don’t want children. I also have a ten-year-old boy….I can’t keep him with me because the landlady objects to children. Is there any way that you can help me to get an unfurnished room, apartment, or even an old barn?…I can’t go on living like this because I am on the verge of doing something desperate.” Another mother wrote, “My children are now sick and losing weight….I have tried, begged, and pleaded for a place but [it’s] always ‘too late’ or ‘sorry, no children.’ ” Another wrote, “The lady where I am rooming put two of my children out about three weeks ago and don’t want me to let them come back….If I could get a garage I would take it.”4 When Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968, it did not consider families with children a protected class, allowing landlords to continue openly turning them away or evicting them. Some placed costly restrictions on large families, charging “children-damage deposits” in addition to standard rental fees. One Washington, DC, development required tenants with no children to put down a $150 security deposit but charged families with children a $450 deposit plus a monthly surcharge of $50 per child.5 In 1980, HUD commissioned a nationwide study to assess the magnitude of the problem and found that only 1 in 4 rental units was available to families without restrictions.6 Eight years later, Congress finally outlawed housing discrimination against children and families, but as Pam found out, the practice remained widespread.7 Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.8
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Matthew Desmond (Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City)
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Christina died of a stroke in the fall of 1971, at the age of sixty-one.
June watched the nurses take her mother's body away. Standing there in the hospital, June felt like she'd been caught in an undertow.
How had she ended up here?
One woman all alone, with four kids, and a restaurant she had never wanted.
The day after the funeral, June took the kids to school. She dropped Kit off at the elementary building and then drove Nina, Jay, and Hud to junior high.
When they pulled into the drop-off circle, Jay and Hud took off. But Nina turned back, put her hand on the door handle, and looked at her mother.
'Are you sure you're OK?' Nina asked. 'I could stay home. Help you at the restaurant.'
'No, honey,' June said, taking her daughter's hand. 'If you feel up for going to school, then that's where you should be.'
'OK,' Nina said. 'But if you need me, come get me.'
'How about we think of it the other way around?' June said, smiling. 'If you need me, have the office call me.'
Nina smiled. 'OK'
June felt herself about to cry and so she put her sunglasses over her eyes and pulled out of the parking lot. She drove, with the window down, to Pacific Fish. She pulled in and put on the parking brake. She took a deep breath. She got out of the car and stood there, staring up at the restaurant with a sense of all that she had inherited. It was hers now, whatever that meant.
She lit a cigarette.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Malibu Rising)
“
In the manuscript recorded by Elis Gruffudd we are provided the following wonderful description of her abilities: “a oedd geluydd a dysgedic ynn y tair Kyluyddyd, yr hrain yssyd y’w henwi: hud, witshkrafft, a sossri (and she was learned in the three arts of magic, witchcraft, and sorcery).
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Kristoffer Hughes (From the Cauldron Born: Exploring the Magic of Welsh Legend & Lore)
“
I’m glad you found your home, Hud.” His fingers tilt my chin up to meet his eyes. “You’re our home, blackbird.
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J. Rose (Desecrated Saints (Blackwood Institute, #3))