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I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t fight like this, or start a revolution, or be a queen. I can’t do anything like this. I’m broken. I’m literally broken.” Iko settled a hand on Cinder’s shoulder. “Yeah, but broken isn’t the same as unfixable.
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Marissa Meyer (Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4))
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Are tou trying to be annoying?" I demanded. My patience was not waning, but entirely gone. "Because if you are, then be assured, you have succeeded."
Jared and Wes looked at me with shocked eyes.
"I am female," I complained. "That 'it' business is really getting on my nerves."
Jared blinked in surprise, then his face settled back into harder lines. "Because of the body you wear?"
Wes glared at him.
"Because of me," I hissed.
"By whose definition?"
"How about by yours? In my species, I am the one that bears young. Is that not female enough for you?"
That stopped him short. I felt almost smug.
'As you should', Melanie approved. 'He's wrong and he's being a pig about it'.
Thank you.
'We girls have to stick together'.
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Stephenie Meyer (The Host (The Host, #1))
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...You know, lots of
female cyborgs are left infertile because of the invasive
procedures, but from the looks of it, I don’t suspect you will
have any problems.”
Cinder sat on one of the exam tables, chin settled atop
both palms. “Lucky me.”
The doctor wagged a finger at her. “You should be
grateful your surgeons took such care.”
“I’m sure I’ll feel much more grateful when I find a guy
who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.
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Marissa Meyer (Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1))
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You are the killer. You are the predator. You know nothing of loyalty or love.” She held her hand out to Ryu, who sniffed it, before settling his warm head down on her knee. “We may be animals, but we will never again live in your cage.
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Marissa Meyer (Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4))
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I’m broken. I’m literally broken.” Iko settled a hand on Cinder’s shoulder. “Yeah, but broken isn’t the same as unfixable.
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Marissa Meyer (Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4))
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Well, I'm nearly a hundred and ten. It's time I settled down
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Edward Cullen (Stephenie Meyer)
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And then the world beats you down a little, and some of the color goes out of life, and you settle for reality…
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Stephenie Meyer (The Chemist)
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If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get.
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Stephenie Meyer (New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2))
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I would have to commit to this- commit as much of me as there was left, every one of the broken pieces. It was the only way to be fair to him. Would I? Could I?
Would it be wrong to try to make Jacob happy? Even if the love I felt for him was no more than a weak echo of what I was capable of, even if my heart was far away, wandering and grieving after my fickle Romeo, would it be so very wrong?
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Stephenie Meyer (New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2))
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Her interface did that sometimes—recording moments of strong emotion and replaying them over and over. Like déjà vu or when the last words of a conversation linger in the air long after silence has settled in.
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Marissa Meyer (Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1))
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A laugh reverberated through his chest, into her, and before she was ready Wolf settled her feet onto a patch of squishy moss. She scrambled out of his hold, caught her balance, then punched him squarely in the arm. “Never do that again.
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Marissa Meyer (Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2))
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I didn't have the faintest idea how to be seductive. I would just have to settle for flushed and self-conscious.
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Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3))
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Peace is our inheritance from Jesus, but we have to choose to follow Him daily. Colossians 3:15 teaches us that peace is to be the “umpire” in our lives, settling every issue that needs a decision. To gain and maintain peace in our hearts, we may have to learn to say no to a few things.
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Joyce Meyer (21 Ways to Finding Peace and Happiness: Overcoming Anxiety, Fear, and Discontentment Every Day)
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Leyna settled her chin into her palms and waited for the door to shut to say, “Mama, I thought you didn’t like poetry.
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Marissa Meyer (Gilded (Gilded, #1))
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Iko settled a hand on Cinder’s shoulder. “Yeah, but broken isn’t the same as unfixable.
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Marissa Meyer (Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4))
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Ran sprawled out opposite the fire from her, lounging as if the shore were his own private beach. After a moment, Wolf settled down between them. Not lounging.
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Marissa Meyer (Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2))
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Cinder’s tirade ceased and she gaped at Scarlet. Between them, Thorne settled his chin on his palm as if watching a great show—though his free hand still held the shotgun aimed at Wolf’s head.
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Marissa Meyer (Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2))
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Thirty, forty miles?” “Well,” said Lila, verbally pouting. “I guess we’d better settle in for a long trip.” She pushed her body even harder against Raj, then glared at the side of her father’s head. Lila and Trevor got along with Meyer, but they were still teenagers. Piper, recently a teen herself, tried to understand, but often there was no use. Somewhere around your twenty-second birthday, teenagers started sounding like melodramatic idiots no matter what you did. “That’s another reason to get a hotel room,” Piper said. “They might let planes fly again. We can take the Gulfstream.
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Sean Platt (Invasion (Alien Invasion, #1))
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I closed my eyes—unnecessary in the inky darkness—and settled in for a consultation. Okay, Mel. What now? I was glad to find that she was still awake and alert. Opposition brought out her strength. It was only when things were going well that she drifted away.
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Stephenie Meyer (The Host (The Host, #1))
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For we know Him Who said, Vengeance is Mine [retribution and the meting out of full justice rest with Me]; I will repay [I will exact the compensation], says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge and determine and solve and settle the cause and the cases of His people. Hebrews 10:30
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Joyce Meyer (Do Yourself a Favor...Forgive: Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through Forgiveness)
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I can’t believe [he's] is alive.” He sighed. He folded his long legs under the blanket and settled to the floor beside his brother’s head. “I can’t believe he lied to me. I can’t believe he let me think he was a criminal… I can’t believe he let me think he died… I can’t believe how many times I visited him—do you know how long it takes to drive from DC to Milwaukee?
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Stephenie Meyer (The Chemist)
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Wasn’t that exactly what I’d needed to be alone to think about? I slouched against the wall. The rice bag made a decent pillow. I closed my eyes—unnecessary in the inky darkness—and settled in for a consultation. Okay, Mel. What now? I was glad to find that she was still awake and alert. Opposition brought out her strength. It was only when things were going well that she drifted away. Priorities, she decided. What’s most important to us?
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Stephenie Meyer (The Host (The Host, #1))
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Drax's first reaction was to lurch forward and tear Meyer's cards out of his hand. He faced them on the table, scrabbling feverishly among them for a possible winner.
Then he flung them back across the baize.
His face was dead white, but his eyes blazed redly at Bond. Suddenly he raised one clenched fist and crashed it on the table among the pile of impotent aces and kings and queens in front of him.
Very low, he spat the words at Bond. "You're a che-"
"That's enough, Drax!" Basildon's voice came across the table like a whiplash. "None of that talk here. I've been watching the whole game. Settle up. If you've got any complaints, put them in writing to the Committee.
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Ian Fleming (Moonraker (James Bond, #3))
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How did the court feel empowered to put new limits on the settled law of Meyer-Pierce and give public schools the power to override parents on teaching about sex? Simple. The three liberal judges based their decision on “our evolving understanding of the nature of our Constitution.” Liberal judges have no shame in proclaiming their belief that our written Constitution is “evolving.” In this case, the judges bragged that the Constitution has evolved to create the right to abortion, and then ruled that the evolving Constitution takes sex education away from parents and puts it “within the state’s authority as parens patriae.” “The country as parent.” That’s Obama’s view of our future.
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Phyllis Schlafly (No Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom)
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I could have been someone from the book if you’d told me in advance.”
“Yes, well, today you’d make a really great Moaning Myrtle.”
Peter gives me a blank look, and disbelieving, I say, “Wait a minute…have you never read Harry Potter?”
“I’ve read the first two.”
“Then you should know who Moaning Myrtle is!”
“It was a really long time ago,” Peter says. “Was she one of those people in the paintings?”
“No! And how could you stop after Chamber of Secrets? The third one’s the best out of the whole series. I mean, that’s literally crazy to me.” I peer at his face. “Do you not have a soul?”
“Sorry if I haven’t read every single Harry Potter book! Sorry I have a life and I’m not in the Final Fantasy club or whatever that geek club is called--”
I snatch my wand back from him and wave it in his face. “Silencio!”
Peter crosses his arms. Smirking, he says, “Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn’t work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts.” He’s so proud of himself for the Hogwarts reference, it’s kind of endearing.
Quick like a cat I pull down his mask, and then I put one hand over his mouth. With my other hand I wave my wand again. “Silencio!” Peter tries to say something, but I press my hand harder. “What? What was that? I can’t hear you, Peter Parker.”
Peter reaches out and tickles me, and I laugh so hard I almost drop my wand. I dart away from him but he pounces after me, pretend shooting webs at my feet. Giggling, I run away from him, further down the hall, dodging groups of people. He gives chase all the way to chem class. A teacher screams at us to slow down, and we do, but as soon as we’re around the corner, I’m running again and so is he.
I’m breathless by the time I’m in my seat. He turns around and shoots a web in my direction, and I explode into giggles again and Mr. Meyers glares at me. “Settle down,” he says, and I nod obediently. As soon as his back is turned, I giggle into my robe. I want to still be mad at Peter, but it’s just no use.
Halfway through class he sends me a note. He’s drawn spiderwebs around the edges. It says, I’ll be on time tomorrow. I smile as I read it. Then I put it in my backpack, in my French textbook so the page won’t crease or crumble. I want to keep it so when this is over, I can have something to look at and remember what it was like to be Peter Kavinsky’s girlfriend. Even if it was all just pretend.
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Jenny Han (To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1))
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May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love. —EPHESIANS 3:17
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Joyce Meyer (The Confident Woman Devotional: 365 Daily Inspirations)
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And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state].” In other words… let peace make the call!
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Joyce Meyer (Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind, and Unleash Yourself from the Pressure of Stress)
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Oscar Meyer: I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener...
...but I'll settle for a 2 inch longer sausage.
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Beryl Dov
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Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. Instead of seeing the benefits of a vital conversation between the academy and the average person in the pew about how a third-millennium man or woman might still follow a first-century Jewish sage, many Christians view scholarship as a threat to church doctrine. They believe that professors who make clever arguments against the virgin birth, for example, are careless vandals poking holes in the dike of faith. To shore up that dike, they believe they need to show “true faith” by accepting uncritically the tenets of their particular tradition without question. Such defiance is captured in a popular bumper sticker: “THE BIBLE SAYS IT, GOD WROTE IT, AND THAT SETTLES IT!”
Ironically, biblical scholars are actually interested in the same “trinity” of ideas, but they put question marks where others put exclamation points. What does the Bible really say? What does it mean to say it is inspired by God? And why do we believe that God’s voice is exclusively in the past tense? Perhaps, as my denomination is fond of saying, God is still speaking.
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Robin Meyers (Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus)
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I’m sure.” I smiled and took a sip of coffee. “I don’t want to be stranded on the side of the road. Will that old thing even make it that far?” He looked toward his truck. “That old thing hasn’t let me down yet.” “So how long will it take to get there?” “’bout six, six and a half hours. That should give me time to get settled into my motel room and practice a little before I go to the studio in the morning.” I nodded. “Have you had breakfast?” “I ate at Mrs. Wrigley’s when I dropped Amy off.” “How about a cup of coffee?” I said. “No thanks. It’ll just make me have to stop and pee.” I laughed. I stood and stepped to him. “Call me when you get there. Okay?” “I’ll call. I promise.” He turned to look down at Bo, who sat in the yard looking up at us, stick in mouth, waiting. “I asked Mike to keep an eye on you while I’m gone,” he said. “The
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Heather Meyer (The Music Box)
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She never let her intelligence get in the way of a good time.
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Christopher Paul Meyer (Icarus Falling: The True Story of a Nightclub Bouncer Who Wanted to Be a Fucking Movie Star But Settled for Being a Fucking Man)
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And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ’s] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always]. COLOSSIANS 3:15
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Joyce Meyer (Trusting God Day by Day: 365 Daily Devotions)
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If there is anything I want you to understand at the end of this book, it’s this: don’t settle for a secondhand relationship with God. That’s not the life of passion He is calling you to. Knowing God will keep you stable in hard times. It will make you secure and enable you to press past fear. It will cause you to know He is always with you whether you feel His Presence or not. You can know His forgiveness and mercy, His restoration and favor; truly knowing God will fuel your passion for life. When we see how beautiful and wonderful He really is, and realize all He has done for us in love, how can we not pursue Him and His will passionately?
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Joyce Meyer (I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion)
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In spite of the Attorney General’s warning to Hoover that the ADL’s “fact finding” was nothing but gossip which the Jews were using to settle scores with their opponents in the culture wars of that era, Hoover retained the Bureau’s contacts with the ADL. He refused to break ties with the ADL because Jewish criminals like Meyer Lansky were paying the ADL to blackmail Hoover by gathering information about his homosexuality.
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E. Michael Jones (Jewish Privilege)
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I didn’t say that the church is a sham.” He put his bottles and dead frog down, then leaned against the counter, settling in for some good, solid explaining. “I said that they can’t prove their belief system, and that the lack of proof is part of that system. It’s all belief and no proof. You and I, we’re both science guys. In science you question everything and prove ideas through experimentation. It’s all proof and no belief. It’s easy for us to sneer at the church for claiming the Earth was created in six days, five thousand years ago, when there’s clear evidence that it’s much older,
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Scott Meyer (Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0, #1))
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Be Filled at All Times Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but ever be filled and stimulated with the [Holy] Spirit. (EPHESIANS 5:18) It is important for you to know that you are instructed in God’s Word to “ever be filled” with the Spirit—that is, to be filled at all times. To do that, it is necessary to give Him first place in our lives. Often this requires discipline, because many other things demand our time and attention. There are many things we want and need, but nothing is more important than God. Seeking God daily through His Word and spending time with Him is the key to staying filled with His presence. An attitude of gratitude is also very helpful, as is guarding our thoughts carefully. The Holy Spirit never goes away; once He takes up occupancy, He settles in and refuses to leave. But it is important that we keep ourselves stirred up in spiritual things. Anything that is hot can grow cold if the fire goes out. I went through a six-month period of time when God forbade me to ask for anything except more of Him. It was a great discipline in drawing near to Him on a deeper level of intimacy than I had known before. I would start to say, “God, I need_____,” then I would stop myself as I remembered His instruction to me. I would finish my sentence with, “more of You.” God gives us everything we need; and He knows what we need before we ask for it. If we delight ourselves in Him and hunger for Him, He will also give us our hearts’ desires. I encourage you, today and every day, to keep yourself filled with the Holy Spirit and to want more of God than anything else. He’ll take care of the rest. GOD’S WORD FOR YOU TODAY: Be sure you’re always “filled up” with the Holy Spirit.
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Joyce Meyer (Hearing from God Each Morning: 365 Daily Devotions)
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DECEMBER 21 Peace in the House Fill up and complete my joy by living in harmony and being of the same mind and one in purpose, having the same love, being in full accord and of one harmonious mind and intention. PHILIPPIANS 2:2 When Jesus sent the disciples out two by two to do miracles, signs, and wonders, in essence He said to them, “Go and find a house and say, ‘Peace be unto you.’ And if your peace settles on that house, you can stay there. If it doesn’t, shake the dust off your feet and go on” (see Mark 6:7-11). One day God showed me what Jesus was really saying to them: “I want you to go out with the anointing, but to do that you need to have peace in the house.” You need to do whatever you can to maintain peace in your home because it dramatically affects the anointing and power of God that rests on your life. Keep the strife out of your life! No peace, no power! Know peace, know power!
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Joyce Meyer (Ending Your Day Right: Devotions for Every Evening of the Year)
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LA owed me. LA was like a beautiful painting that I could only see afterhours through the museum window. It was like a Firebird blasting some catchy tune until the light turns green and it speeds off, leaving me stuck with Katy Perry in my head the rest of the day. LA had promised me a lot and it had paid off very fucking little.
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Christopher Paul Meyer (Icarus Falling: The True Story of a Nightclub Bouncer Who Wanted to Be a Fucking Movie Star But Settled for Being a Fucking Man)
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She was Bloomingdale’s, not Victoria Secret. She was vanilla, not peach. She was Paul Reiser, not Lenny Bruce. This was not my kind of chick.
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Christopher Paul Meyer (Icarus Falling: The True Story of a Nightclub Bouncer Who Wanted to Be a Fucking Movie Star But Settled for Being a Fucking Man)
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By the end of the interview, George and I had clicked....I mean, we weren't BFF's spray-painting hearts and our initials on freeway underpasses or anything. But we seemed to understand each other.
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Christopher Paul Meyer (Icarus Falling: The True Story of a Nightclub Bouncer Who Wanted to Be a Fucking Movie Star But Settled for Being a Fucking Man)
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After the path of bones, the next sign was the odor. They made a game of trying to describe what it smelled like, and settled on “somebody cooking rotten eggs and broccoli in a microwave.
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Scott Meyer (An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0, #3))