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I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?"
"Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple."
"But...you did something nice. Why?"
He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?
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Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4))
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The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.
β
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Anne Perry (The Whitechapel Conspiracy (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #21))
β
You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.
β
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Tyler Perry
β
It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.
β
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Tyler Perry
β
Do you ever miss anything?'
Perry smiled. 'You, all the time.
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Veronica Rossi (Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky, #2))
β
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Donβt rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what youβre doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?
Youβre cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but youβre stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. Itβs now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now youβll never know.
β
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Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl (Stargirl, #2))
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In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
β
Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed, so you can open one that leads you to the perfect road.
β
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Katy Perry
β
What I was trying to say,β he whispered, βis that I see you in everything. There isnβt a word for you that means enough, because youβre everything to me.
β
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Veronica Rossi (Into the Still Blue (Under the Never Sky, #3))
β
Fall off your own roof.
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
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It's time, Perry". He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the tiny inperfections that made him beautiful. Without a word, she turned and made her way downhill.
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
β
You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul
β
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Christina Perri
β
If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?
β
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
β
Iggy: Now what? Who you gonna call?
A quiet voice in the hallway outside: Ghostbusters!
(Captain Perry and John groan)
John: That phrase is ruined forever.
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β
James Patterson (Max (Maximum Ride, #5))
β
I caught myself thinking about falling in love with someone who I hoped was out there right now thinking about the possibility of me, but I quickly banished the notion. It was that kind of thinking that landed me in this situation to begin with. Hope can ruin you.
β
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Perry Moore (Hero)
β
You said move on, where do I go?
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Katy Perry
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You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.
β
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Tyler Perry
β
Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.
β
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Tyler Perry
β
No matter what happened, he was Dex and I was Perry and that combination only led to trouble.
β
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Karina Halle (Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror, #6))
β
I donβt know what to tell you, Perry. Lifeβs hard. Loveβs harder
β
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C.C. Hunter (Taken at Dusk (Shadow Falls, #3))
β
Perry," he said quietly, his fingers trailing down the side of my face, "you'll never have to save my life. You gave me life. I never lived a single day until the first day I met you.
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Karina Halle (On Demon Wings (Experiment in Terror, #5))
β
This is me trying, Perry,β he said softly, the anger being drained of his face. βThis is me taking my heart out of my chest and putting the bloody mess in your hands. I canβt give you much more than that.
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Karina Halle (Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror, #6))
β
I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.
- Oliver Hazzard-Perry
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Melissa de la Cruz (Revelations (Blue Bloods, #3))
β
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that βunless you love yourself, no one else will love you.ββ¦The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation
β
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Bruce D. Perry (The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook)
β
Without thinking, he reached for her hand. Tucked it against her chest, feeling that was where it should be. Perry's heart slammed against his ribs. She had to feel it.
β
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
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He kissed her slowly. Everything went slowly so he could follow her temper, and search into her eyes. When they joined, her scent was brave and strong and certain. Perry took it into himself, breathing her breath, feeling what she felt. He'd never known anything as right.
β
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
β
Okay... My name is Ellie Mason and I have a feeling you don't like me."
Kylie stopped and swerved around... "Okay, let's get something out in the open. I know you had sex with Derek."
"Damn!" Perry said, and grinned. "This is gonna be better than I thought.
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C.C. Hunter (Taken at Dusk (Shadow Falls, #3))
β
You think I'm pretty
Without any make-up on
You think I'm funny
When I tell the puch line wrong
I know you get me
So I'll let my walls come down, down
β
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Katy Perry
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People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.
β
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Tyler Perry
β
I love you Perry,β he whispered, mouth moving in my hair. βI love you so fucking much. And Iβm losing myself. Iβm losing myself to you and I donβt care anymore because thereβs never been a better feeling in the whole fucking world. I love you. So much. Too much. Always.
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Karina Halle (Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror, #6))
β
You change your mind
Like a girl changes clothes
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Katy Perry
β
Youβre the light in all this madness. Youβre my light. I should have been with you...β The thought hit him as his face crumpled in amazement. βOh God, why am I not with you?β
βBecause youβre an idiot,β I said.
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Karina Halle (Lying Season (Experiment in Terror, #4))
β
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
β
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Tyler Perry
β
if you spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror, you will crash your car.
β
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Matthew Perry (Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing)
β
We elicit from the world what we project into the world; but what you project is based upon what happened to you as a child.
β
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Bruce D. Perry (What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing)
β
Wow,β Kylie muttered, and grinned.
βYeah, wow.β Della leaned in closer. βI think Perry just grew a pair.β
Kylie bit down on her lip to keep from laughing. βIf this was a movie,
there would be some music playing in the background.β
βI could sing,β Della chuckled.
βAnd ruin it,β Kylie teased back. βIβve heard you singing in the
shower.β Both grinning, they looked back at the kissing couple.
β
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C.C. Hunter (Awake at Dawn (Shadow Falls, #2))
β
The wise ask questions, Perry. The weak doubt.
β
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Veronica Rossi (Roar and Liv (Under the Never Sky, #0.5))
β
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting throught the wind
Wanting to start again
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards
One blow from caving in
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Katy Perry
β
I was trying to be a better man, Perry. For you.β I shifted in my seat. βDexβ¦β βAnd Iβll keep trying,β he quickly said, voice low and somber. βUntil I get it right.
β
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Karina Halle (Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror, #6))
β
What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.
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Tyler Perry (Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life)
β
You're so hypno-something, could you be the devil, could you be an angel, your touch is something good, feels like
going floating, leave my body glowing."
"Katy Perry? She's singing Katy Perry in the hospital bathroom. Just when you think you've seen it all," Sally mumbled. She knocked on the door again. Still no answer, so she started banging. Then she was banging and hollering, "JEN! OPEN THE FREAKING DOOR!" Wouldn't you know, she just sang louder. Why am I not surprised, she thought.
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Quinn Loftis (Blood Rites (The Grey Wolves, #2))
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Comparisons are easily done, once you've had a taste of perfection
β
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Katy Perry
β
The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
β
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Bruce D. Perry (The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook)
β
I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out," Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now?
β
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Katy Perry
β
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
β
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Oprah Winfrey (Oprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice)
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No time for foreplay?β I teased breathlessly.
His smile was sly. βOh, weβve had nothing but foreplay from the day we first met.
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Karina Halle (Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror, #6))
β
You told me once you forget you are a woman, and I understand it now β you think to be a woman is to be weak β you think ours is a sisterhood of suffering! Perhaps so, but doesnβt it take greater strength to walk a mile in pain than seven miles in none? You are a woman, and must begin to live like one. By which I mean: have courage.
β
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Sarah Perry
β
Baby you're a firework, c'mon show 'em what you're worth..." ~Firework
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Katy Perry
β
I shot him an unimpressed look. βDo you really think youβll win me over by having sex with me?β
He scratched at the side of his chin. βWell, they say the way to a womanβs heart is through her vagina.
β
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Karina Halle (Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror, #6))
β
Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.
He looked up, meeting her eyes. 'I'm called Peregrine. Like the falcon. People call me Perry.'
She smiled. 'We're alike, Perry. My voice is called a falcon soprano.'
His hand brushed past her cheek and slid into her hair. 'We're the same, Aria.
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Veronica Rossi (Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky, #2))
β
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
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Bruce D. Perry (The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook)
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Perry. I want to see your back."
Another surprise, but he nodded and turned away. Dropped his head forward and took the moment to try and calm his breath. He jerked when she traced the shape of the wings on his skin, a groan sliding out of him. Perry silently cursed himself. He couldn't have sounded more savage if he'd tried.
"Sorry," she whispered...
"He's magnificent. Like you," she added softly.
That was what did it.
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
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I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.
β
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Tyler Perry
β
Thank you for believing in my weirdness!
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Katy Perry
β
Perry, Iβve wanted you since the moment I saw you. Iβm not going to stop showing you off or rubbing it in to everyone I know, anytime soon β¦ Youβre mine. And youβre mine alone. From now until the end of time.
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Karina Halle (Come Alive (Experiment in Terror, #7))
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He watched as she pressed the berry to her lower lip. He kept looking at her mouth after she'd done it. He knew he should look away, but he couldn't. "Right. Good. If there's no stinging, you'd put it to your tongue."
Perry shot to his feet before he finished the words, nearly tripping over himself. He ran a hand over his head, feeling skitty, like he needed to laugh or run or do something. He picked up a stone and tossed it into the creek, trying to get the image of her tasting the berry out of his mind.
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
β
Do you think you should warn him (the guard) that I'm going to kiss you?"
He loved the flush that appeared on her face, and there was an intake of breath from the girls.
"Aldron," she said clearing her throat,"if he agrees to become king, I'm going to let him kiss me. Please don't stop him."
Aldron thought for a moment and sighed, holding up his hand. "Wait there and do not move," he ordered Finnikin, before calling out to one of the other guards who stood on the platform. "Ask Perri if he's allowed to touch her if he's agreed to be king.
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Melina Marchetta (Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles, #1))
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Soren huffed. βI saw her looking at me when we were changing into our uniforms.β
βShe was looking at you because youβre built like a bull.β
Sorenβs laugh was nervous, clipped. βIs that good?β
βItβd be great if she were a cow.
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Veronica Rossi (Into the Still Blue (Under the Never Sky, #3))
β
And if youβre going to blame your parents for the bad stuff, you also have to give them credit for the good stuff.
β
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Matthew Perry (Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing)
β
Because what I know for sure is that everything that has happened to you was also happening for you. And all that time, in all of those moments, you were building strength. Strength times strength times strength equals power. What happened to you can be your power. β Oprah
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Bruce D. Perry (What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing)
β
Do you know what St. Peter says to everyone who tries to get into heaven?"
...
"Peter says, 'Don't you have any scars?' And when most would respond proudly, 'Well, no, no I don't,' Peter says, 'Why not? Was there nothing worth fighting for?
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Matthew Perry (Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing)
β
We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.
β
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Anne Perry
β
Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
β
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Tyler Perry
β
Fine. Then I love you, my little Night Crawler.
β
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Veronica Rossi (Into the Still Blue (Under the Never Sky, #3))
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I think you actually have to have all of your dreams come true to realize they are the wrong dreams.
β
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Matthew Perry (Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing)
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Please donβt think so lightly of liking someone. Itβs terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a lot longer than romance. You can fall out of love, as well in. Most of us do, especially if you donβt actually like the person as well. It doesnβt always grow into love by any means, but sometimes it does.
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Anne Perry (Pentecost Alley (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #16))
β
I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.
β
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Erle Stanley Gardner (The Case Of The Careless Cupid (Perry Mason, #79))
β
Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.
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Perry Moore
β
I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart
β
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Christina Perri
β
It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.
β
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Sarah Perry (The Essex Serpent)
β
Honestly kiddo? Youβre beautiful. You use your weight as an excuse but youβre just all woman. Not every woman has to look like a stripper. Or a model. Or Megan Fox. Youβre petite, have a tiny waist, a fantastic rack, a devastating assβ¦what the hell more do you want? You should know it. Everyone else knows itβ¦thatβs why youβre getting all these asinine comments. Canβt you just see that itβs just jealously thatβs ripping these people apart?
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Karina Halle (Dead Sky Morning (Experiment in Terror, #3))
β
What Iβve learned from talking to so many victims of traumatic events, abuse, or neglect is that after absorbing these painful experiences, the child begins to ache. A deep longing to feel needed, validated, and valued begins to take hold. As these children grow, they lack the ability to set a standard for what they deserve. And if that lack is not addressed, what often follows is a complicated, frustrating pattern of self-sabotage, violence, promiscuity, or addiction.
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Bruce D. Perry (What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing)
β
How do I get better once I've had the best?
β
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Katy Perry
β
Tell me what to say. What can I say to make you want me the way I want you?
β
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Veronica Rossi (Into the Still Blue (Under the Never Sky, #3))
β
That was my first kiss," she said. "My first real one."
He brought his head close, resting his forehead on hers. Blond waves fell around her face, soft against her cheeks. His chest rose and fell as he drew in a breath. "Felt like the first real one for me, too.
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Veronica Rossi (Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1))
β
Fire can warm or consume,
water can quench or drown,
wind can caress or cut.
And so it is with human relationshps;
we can both create and destroy,
nurture and terrorize,
traumatize and heal each other
β
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Bruce D. Perry
β
I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something....
β
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Perry Moore (Hero)
β
Cora, you cannot always keep yourself away from things that hurt you. We all wish we could, but we cannot: to live at all is to be bruised.
β
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Sarah Perry (The Essex Serpent)
β
Baby you're a firework, come on, let your colors burst!!
β
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Katy Perry
β
Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.
β
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Bruce D. Perry (The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook)
β
I feel like Iβm a disappointment to mankind,β he remarked woefully as he placed the shirt through my arms and began to pull it down over my breasts. βSomeone this gorgeous should be on display in a museum.
β
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Karina Halle (Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror, #6))
β
Who can resist this handsome mug?β He stroked his broad jaw and I tried my hardest not to nod along. βComplete with rapist facial hair,β I added.
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Karina Halle (Dead Sky Morning (Experiment in Terror, #3))
β
Too many girl rush into relationships because of the fear of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. Don't do that.
β
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Katy Perry
β
Iβm not the biggest fan of confrontation. I ask a lot of questions. Just not out loud.
β
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Matthew Perry (Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing)
β
I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.
β
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Isaac Marion (Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1))
β
Heβs the need and the sparks and the laughter, and he touches my heart in a way itβs never been touched before. Itβs terrifying and so honest it makes me dizzy.
β
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Jolene Perry (Dizzy)
β
In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.
β
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Katy Perry
β
I saw a spider-I didn't scream 'cause I can belch the alphabet-Just double dog dare me! And I chose guitar over ballet and I take these suckers down 'cause they just get in my way. Then you look at me kinda like a little sister-You high five your goodbyes and it leaves me nothing but blisters- I don't want to be one of the boys, one of your guys-Just give me a chance to prove to you tonight that I just wanna be one of the girls, pretty in pearls and not one of the boys...
β
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Katy Perry
β
Because brothers donβt let each other wander in the dark alone
β
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Jolene Perry (My Heart for Yours (Crawford, #1))
β
Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you
β
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Katy Perry
β
You've been quiet these past days," Trevanion said. "Are you going to tell me what the...exchange of words was about?"
"Who said there was an exchange of words?" Finnikin asked with irritation.
"When a woman says 'I hope you fall under your horse' and 'catch your death, then see if I grieve you,'" Perri said, "then there's been an exchange of words."
Finnikin glared at him.
"In my humble opinion.
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Melina Marchetta (Quintana of Charyn (Lumatere Chronicles, #3))
β
...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
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Tyler Perry (Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life)
β
Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.
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Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)
β
You've always asked me to wait, as if we had time in abundance. But time is too precious, Perry. We've wasted years, when we could have been with each other. Don't you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach and not take it!" She clamped her teeth on her trembling bottom lip to steady herself
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Lisa Kleypas (Dreaming of You (The Gamblers of Craven's, #2))
β
Boom, boom, boom,
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon,
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through, ooh, ooh.
Cause, baby, you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, "Oh! Oh! Oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y.
Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go, "Oh! Oh! Oh!"
You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down-own-own.
β
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Katy Perry
β
If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and I'll take it from there...There's one condition...You have to be my wife
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Tyler Perry
β
Itβs interesting-most people think about therapy as something that involves going in and undoing whatβs happened. But whatever your past experiences created in your brain, the associations exist and you canβt just delete them. You canβt get rid of the past.
Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you donβt use it much anymore. Therapy is building a better alternative, a new default. And that takes repetition, and time, honestly, it works best if someone understands how the brain changes. This is why understanding how trauma impacts our health is essential for everyone.
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Bruce D. Perry (What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing)
β
Go out with me tomorow night," Perry went on. "Let me prove to you that I'm the guy you want."
"I...I guess I coul go out tomorrow night," Miranda sounded shocked and a little swept off her feet.
Then, from the corner of her eyes. Kylie saw something move at the office window. When she looked back, she spotted Burnett and Holiday standing there high-fiving each other. No doubt Burnett was listening to the coversation and sharing the details with Holiday.
Perry nodded, stepped closer, and then pressed a quick kiss on Miranda's cheek. It had to be the most romantic thing Kylie had ever seen.
..."What?" Miranda asked. "You're happy my date [with Todd] wasn't exciting?"
"No," Kylie said. "Let's just say we're more excited about tomorrow night's date."
A bright smile lit up Miranda's face. "Me too. Can you believ Perry did that? I mean, he was so..."
"Romantic," Kylie said.
"Hot," Della added.
"Sweet," Miranda whispered. "I couldn't stop thinkibng about him all night."
And that was the best news Kylie had gotten all day.
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C.C. Hunter (Taken at Dusk (Shadow Falls, #3))
β
Froi saw the rage in Arjuroβs eyes, his clenched fists.
βIf I could find the men who did those things to you as a child I would tear them limb from limb.β
Froi embraced him.
βOne day,β Froi said, clearing his voice of emotion, βIβll introduce you to my queen and my king and my captain; and Lord August and Lady Abian, who have given me a home; and the Priestking and Perri and Tesadora and my friend Lucian; and then youβll understand that I would never have met them if you hadnβt journeyed to Sarnak all those years ago, Arjuro. And if the gods were to give me a choice between living a better life, having not met them, or a wretched life with the slightest chance of crossing their path, then I'd pick the wretched life over and over again.β
He kissed Arjuroβs brow. Finnikin called it a blessing between two male blood kin. It always had made Froi ache seeing it between Finnikin and Trevanion.
βI'd live it again just to have crossed all of your paths. Keep safe, Arjuro. Keep safe so I can bring your brother home to you.
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Melina Marchetta (Quintana of Charyn (Lumatere Chronicles, #3))
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Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How do be brave
How can I love when I'm afraid
To fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt
Suddenly goes away somehow
One step closer
I have died everyday
waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything
Take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath,
Every hour has come to this
One step closer
I have died everyday
Waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
And all along I believed
I would find you
Time has brought
Your heart to me
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
One step closer
One step closer
I have died everyday
Waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid,
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
And all along I believed
I would find you
Time has brought
Your heart to me
I have loved you for a
Thousand years
I'll love you for a
Thousand more
β
β
Christina Perri