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I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.
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S.J. Watson (Before I Go to Sleep)
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I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
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S.J. Watson (Before I Go to Sleep)
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Perhaps scorpions were the only ones who could save each other.
Whatever lay ahead, it would always be the two of us above the rest of the universe, and woe to any who dared step in out path.
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S.J. Kincaid (The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1))
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I will never abandon you. I love you too much.
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S.J. Watson (Before I Go to Sleep)
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There’s just one thing I want to know.”
Julian nodded. “Anything.”
“When you peed and had sex outside, it wasn’t at the same time, was it? Because that’d be really
nasty.
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S.J. Frost (Conquest (Conquest, #1))
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Some might call us a monstrous pair, and they would be right. Tyrus and I were both scorpions in our way, dangerous creatures crossing the most treacherous of rivers together. Together we might sting - but we also would float.
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S.J. Kincaid (The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1))
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring
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S.J. Perelman
“
But then, I’ve always believed love is the most volatile substance in the universe. It erupts, it incinerates, and then it simply flames out. . . .
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S.J. Kincaid (The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1))
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You can’t make someone love you just because you want them to. It has to be freely given or it doesn’t mean anything.
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S.J. West (Cursed (The Watchers, #1))
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world. Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis"
-Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together.
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S.J. Watson
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Be attentive, be intelligent, be responsible, be loving, and if necessary, change.
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Bernard J.F. Lonergan (Creativity and Method: Essays in Honor of Bernard Lonergan, S.J.)
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People kill over money and power and love, but no one kills over gnomes.
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S.J. Kincaid (Vortex (Insignia, #2))
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I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough.
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S.J. Watson (Before I Go to Sleep)
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I do. I love you, Tyrus.
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S.J. Kincaid (The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1))
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I saw love on his face. It was real. A villain could love. He loved me. But love was no reason, no justification, no excuse.
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S.J. Kincaid (The Nemesis (Diabolic, #3))
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Because I want to know that there’s someone – anyone – that might love me the way I want to be loved.
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S.J. Tilly (Latte Darling (Darling #2))
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Fear is nothing to be ashamed of. It keeps us alive more often than not. Gives us caution, spares us pain. It can also hold us back. Wisdom comes from knowing the difference between listening to our fear, and when to be brave.
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S.J. Himes (The Solstice Prince (Realms of Love, #1))
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This book is dedicated to Nero, the beautiful bastard who started it all. I love your unhinged ass. - This battle belongs to all of us. Because we’re all human. And that makes it ours.
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S.J. Tilly (Hans (Alliance, #4))
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He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and that you got better. He would have given everything for that. Everything. Nothing else mattered.
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S.J. Watson
“
Men always say I LOVE YOU as a QUESTION
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S.J. Watson
“
Love. Comfort. I didn’t know what those were, but I wanted them. I would have them. I closed the distance and snapped the man’s neck.
As the third corpse dropped to the floor at my feet, the Matriarch smiled.
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S.J. Kincaid (The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1))
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You make me feel like a whole person. Like someone worthy of love. You make me a better man. Like I could take on the world and win.
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S.J. Tilly (Sleet Banshee (Sleet, #3))
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We are in a restaurant, smilling, leaning in over a half-eaten meal, our faces flushed with love and thr bite of the sun.
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S.J. Watson (Before I Go to Sleep)
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And that’s my fault for not telling you.” My hands clutch at his bare sides. “Tell me what?” My throat is tight. Emotion filling my veins. And then he says it. “I should’ve told you how much I love you.
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S.J. Tilly (Latte Darling (Darling, #2))
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My girl is here. I close the distance between us. Reaching out, I wrap my fingers around the front of her throat and hold her in place. “Hi, Bunny.” Her throat moves with a swallow against my palm. “Hi —” My lips find hers. I can’t wait another moment.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
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To me, if someone is a true friend, it doesn’t matter how often you see them, or even how often you talk. What matters is that when you do see each other, nothing has changed. You’ve got news to catch up on, but you’re still the same people. You still love each other.” Carter
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S.J. McCoy (Carter (Remington Ranch, #3))
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The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams but you will only enjoy them to the extent of your faith and love. The more a soul loves, the more it longs, the more it hopes, the more it finds. —Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. (1675–1751), The Sacrament of the Present Moment
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James Martin (The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life)
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Tyrus stepped down from his dais, and he was blinding like the sun itself with his halo of hair done in the Helionic ceremonial fashion, his effervescent gold ceremonial coat. But in that face that could look utterly ruthless, there was a softness, a need, and he said, 'Nemesis, did you hear her speak?'
I looked up at him, so wary, choking on uncertainty. 'How could I miss it?'
'I did this for you. This was all for you. The universe may deliver itself into my possession, and I'll still feel as though I've lost everything without you by my side. I am madly in love with you, and I hope to all the stars you still feel something for me.
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S.J. Kincaid (The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1))
“
I’m sorry. I figured you knew already, but there’s a difference between knowing and doing, especially with sex,
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S.J. Himes (The Solstice Prince (Realms of Love, #1))
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Mike glares at him.
Jason just smiles, like Mike won't kick his ass. Which he won't. Because Mike is a fucking pansy who loves his friends, goddamn it.
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S.J. Goslee
“
It doesn’t matter if he’s sex incarnate. Never again.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
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A soul mate doesn’t only pertain to romantic love,” God tells me. “Sometimes love between friends can be just as strong, if not stronger and longer lasting.
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S.J. West (Ascension (The Watcher Chronicles, #4))
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With Darkness Comes Light.
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S.J. Batsford (With A Beat of My Heart (Loving Lily, #2))
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So I accept myself, love myself, affirm myself and celebrate my self because in so doing I am accepting, loving, affirming and celebrating God.
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Rodney Kissinger S.J. (The Joy of the Spiritual Exercises)
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I’m never letting you go, Hannah Bunny.” He presses another soft kiss against me. “I hope you understand. I’m never letting you go.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
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All I have to offer is my love. But I’ll give you every last bit of it. Every inch of my heart. All the best parts of me.
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S.J. Tilly (Latte Darling (Darling, #2))
“
Something warm wraps around my heart. Hans will always love me.
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S.J. Tilly (Hans (Alliance, #4))
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I don’t regret knowing him. Something sharp bites into my neck. I’ll never regret loving him.
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S.J. Tilly (Hans (Alliance, #4))
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We keep her. She will be our pet. And cum dump. Pregnant.”
“That’s right little rabbit, this is your life now. Our little whore.”
“Heirs. She will give us heirs,
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S.J. Ransom (Psychos in Love (Psychos in Love #1))
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Mo ghra," Caius whispered, the Old World endearment slipping free before he could control himself. No one was close enough to hear him, hear the slip that once would have been fatal to them both.
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S.J. Himes (Wolves of Black Pine (The Wolfkin Saga #1))
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I don’t know how to handle this, the hot and cold, the rough and sweet, with him. But a part of me knows that I’m just broken enough to accept it. To take what he’s willing to give, because what he gives feels so damn close to love.
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S.J. Tilly (Nero (Alliance, #1))
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My heart is yours to nourish or to break. For as long as I live I will love no one else, because no matter what happens my life is now forever connected to yours. You are my last companion because death is preferable to life without you in it.
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S.J. West (Moonshade (Vampire Conclave #1))
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Please stop pushing me away. It’s okay if you don’t love me yet. Just don’t—” King closes the distance, his big palms cupping my face. “There is no yet, Savannah Baby.” His thumbs brush across my cheeks. “Please stop crying. I love you too fucking much to watch you cry.
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S.J. Tilly (King (Alliance, #2))
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I know you were forced to love me," she said, clutching her hands together. "But--but just because someone forced those feelings on you doesn't mean they're less important, or that you're less human. You're my best friend, and I love you, Nemesis. And my feelings aren't worthless just because I feel them for you. Maybe the fact that I love you whatever you are means my feelings are worth more because no one made me feel this way, it just happened. I choose to love you. I choose to care about what happens to you, and you can't take that away from me.
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S.J. Kincaid (The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1))
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The parts of me that need sanity are whispering one more taste is all I will need to finally regain my faculties. The parts already lost to you remind me a single taste of you is what brought me here, and to take more of you will be diving into my undoing. Knowing I'll never be able to get enough. You're a drug. I'm so thoroughly addicted, I can't see through the high you bring me to realize I can't exist without you anymore.
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S.J. Stewart (Bound Blossoms and Blades: A Seven Realms Novella)
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Your mother left you. Trevor used you and gave you up. Your father is dead. None of it was your fault, yet you constantly want to saddle yourself with the guilt, and this ridiculous notion of being unworthy. Its fucking destroying you. And not just you. Everyone who cares about you. So just shut up. I may not know the depth of you pain. I may not have been with you through every single dramatic incident that has happened in you life, but I love you, Sarah. And I want you to be happy.
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S.J. Wright (The Vampire's Release (Undead in Brown County, #4))
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Except they kept asking me questions like 'What is your biggest source of conflict about the Pope?' Or 'Has the Pope ever tried to suppress your scientific work?' Completely out of left field!
"They didn't want to hear me tell them how much Pope Benedict supported the Vatican Observatory and its scientific work. So, finally, frustrated that they weren't getting the story they wanted out of me, one of them asked, 'Would you baptize an extraterrestrial?'
"What did you answer?"
"Only if she asks!"
"I love it! How did they react?"
"They all got a good laugh, which is what I intended. And then, the next day, they all ran my joke as if it were a straight story, as if I had made some sort of official Vatican pronouncement about aliens.
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Guy Consolmagno
“
leverage your day when it comes to habit stacking. Take advantage of your location and the time of day when it comes to your habits. Energy is usually at its peak during the first part of your day, which means you should be completing habits that inspire or excite you about the day ahead. A great example is sending an inspirational quote or story to a loved one. It takes energy to find such a piece of content and decide who to send it to, but this habit is highly rewarding and will help you kick off your day feeling great and ready to tackle all the following habits you have in your routine. Well, there you have it—all the important elements of habit stacking. You must take all these elements into account when creating your habit stacking routine because they all work together to ignite positive life changes.
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S.J. Scott (Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less)
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Terrell, Paul, 66–67, 68 Tesler, Larry, 96–97, 99, 114, 120, 136, 301 Tevanian, Avadis “Avie,” xvi, 259, 268, 272–74, 300–301, 303, 308–9, 362, 366, 458–59, 461 textbook industry, 509–10, 554 “There Goes My Love” (song), 498 “Things Have Changed” (song), 412 “Think Different” advertising campaign, vii, xviii, 328–32, 358 original Jobs version, 577 Thomas, Brent, 162 Thomas, Dylan, 19 Through the Looking Glass (Carroll), 235 Thurman, Mrs., 12 Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 119 Tiffany, Louis, 123 Time, xvii, xviii, 90, 166, 218, 290, 323, 381, 383, 429, 473, 495, 504, 506 SJ profiled by, 106–7, 139–41 Time Inc., 330, 473, 478, 504, 506–7 Time-Life Pictures, 330 “Times They Are A-Changing, The” (Dylan), 168, 207 Time Warner, 506 Tin Toy (film), 248 Toshiba, 385, 386 touchscreens, 93 Toy Story (film), 285–91, 305, 311, 372, 373–74, 427, 428, 430, 434, 437, 472, 565 basic idea for, 285–86 blockbuster success of, 290–91 budgeting of, 288
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Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs)
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Last night I was stupid. I was still a little bit scared, but I’m not now. I’m over it and I want, I want... I want you!
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S.J. McCoy (Love like You've Never Been Hurt (Summer Lake, #1))
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What happened to a world in which we can sit with the people we love so much and have slow conversations about the state of our heart and soul, conversations that slowly unfold, conversations with pregnant pauses and silences that we are in no rush to fill?
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S.J. Scott (Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking)
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In our own generation, as never before, there is need to demonstrate that Christianity is capable of bringing mankind into a truly universal society based not on fear and compulsion but on mutual love. To manifest the unitive power of Christian charity we must make faithful use of the means of unity which Christ has provided for His church. Among these the Eucharist holds a place of honor as the supreme source and symbol of Catholic unity.
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John LaFarge (The Catholic Viewpoint on Race Relations (The Catholic Viewpoint Series, #1))
“
Sei straordinaria" disse piano. È molto egoista da parte mia riuscire solo a pensare che ti voglio solo per me?" Mi misi a balbettare. "Mi vuoi... in... che senso...?" Curvò la bocca in uno strano sorriso. E poi mi baciò.
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S.J. Kincaid (The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1))
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Kane hugged Ghost to him. Ghost clung, pressing his face into Kane’s chest. “Whether you are Luca or Ghost or you choose a new name, none of that will change how I feel about you. Your family may not be the way it was before you got lost, but I am here. You came back to me. And I am never going to let you go.
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S.J. Himes (Wolf of the Northern Star (The Wolfkin Saga #2))
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There are streaming media devices like Roku, Kodi, or Amazon’s Fire TV Stick that allow you to access most of the same programs that you normally get through a cable subscription. Each of these devices gives you access to thousands of streaming channels. Some are free and some are premium. Even if you pay for two or three of these services, it still results in a significant cost savings. For instance, my setup is simple right now and only costs an average of $40 (as of March 2017), which is significantly less than the $130+ cable bill we once had: Netflix ($7 monthly) Amazon Prime ($99 per year or $8 monthly) Sling TV ($25 monthly) With Netflix and Amazon, you can watch most of the movies, documentaries, and premium TV shows that you love. And with Sling TV, you have access to your favorite network shows. It’s television-on-demand at its best, and more importantly, you don’t have to sit through commercials, which are distracting and reinforce negative spending habits.
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S.J. Scott (Habit Stacking: 127 Small Actions That Take Five Minutes or Less)
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What you went through taught you that it’s better not to love or trust at all. What I went through taught me that love and trust should be earned, not given blindly. Some people will never be worthy of them, but when you find the ones who are, you let yourself love them with all that you are, you cherish them and protect them.
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S.J. McCoy (Summer Lake Romance Box Set: Book 1-3 (Summer Lake, #1-3))
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Baker, Sharon L. Razing Hell: Rethinking Everything You’ve Been Taught About God’s Wrath and Judgment. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2010. *Batto, Bernard. Slaying the Dragon: Mythmaking in the Biblical Tradition. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1992. Bell, Rob. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2011. Brettler, Marc Zvi, Peter Enns, and Daniel Harrington, SJ. The Bible and the Believer: Reading the Bible Critically and Religiously. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. *Brown, Raymond E., and Francis J. Moloney S.D.B. An Introduction to the Gospel of John. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Brueggemann, Walter. An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009. *———. Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997.
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Peter Enns (The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It)
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If you find work that you love, you not only free your mind from oppressive thoughts, but will also feel energized in all areas of your life.
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S.J. Scott (Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking)
“
This good and kind person-embodied what St. Anselm meant when he talked of theology as fides quarens intellectum: how God can draw us to understand the transcendent through reason, and how leaning and erudition can coexist with humility and love.
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James Martin, SJ
“
I keep telling you, Sweet Girl, I’m a bad man. I have enemies that will kill you, or worse, to torture me. And when they find out how much I love you, they’ll battle each other, just to be the first to get to you. And if something ever happened to you…” He sucks in a breath. “I’ll burn this entire city to the ground.
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S.J. Tilly (Nero (Alliance, #1))
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I learned long ago not to fight my emotional reactions. Life is way more fun when you just let yourself feel and don’t bother with psychoanalyzing every moment to death.
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S.J. Tilly (King (Alliance, #2))
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I love this movie,” he says, almost to himself. What. In. The. Hell. Is happening?
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S.J. Tilly (Nero (Alliance, #1))
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I never made love to them.” The hand on my stomach drops away. “And I never killed for them.
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S.J. Tilly (Nero (Alliance, #1))
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I’ve loved her for a while. I think I started falling in love with her when she kicked me in the balls while I was kidnapping her.
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S.J. Tilly (King (Alliance, #2))
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I may not live a perfect life, but I will live a life filled with love, honor, and absolutely no regrets.
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S.J. West (Moonshade (Vampire Conclave #1))
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Because I missed you.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
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An intense sense of loss fills me, and I fucking hate it. There’s so much time we could have had together, but instead, we lost it all.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
“
The last time we had sex, it was frantic. A little drunk. And our clothes mostly stayed on. But I have a feeling tonight is going to be a little more intense.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
“
Maybe we can arrange a company game of dodgeball, and I can chuck something at his face.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
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I’m here. Just busy wondering how you’ve already managed to sleep with this woman without, it seems, actually talking to her.” I stare forward at the wall. “I hate you.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
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Held hostage to our own genetic design, destroyed by our inbuilt capacity for unwavering devotion. We had been created to love villains-to gladly offer our throats to their knives.
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S.J. Kincaid (The Nemesis (Diabolic, #3))
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I would have welcomed anger, embraced it, for anger was simple - so much simpler than this hideous sorrow I felt at the sight of the broken, destroyed soul I'd once loved
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S.J. Kincaid (The Nemesis (Diabolic, #3))
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You may be going through a season in your Christian experience when it seems as if God is silent. You may sense the sweetness of His presence, but He doesn’t appear to be saying much of anything. More often than not we interpret this to mean that He’s somehow upset with us. We think it’s a sign of disapproval or separation. But I believe there are times when even our Bridegroom God steps back and simply admires us. Overcome with emotions for His bride, He is moved beyond words. This may stretch our imaginations, but this is how deeply He cares for us.
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S.J. Hill (Enjoying God: Experiencing the Love of Your Heavenly Father)
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O.M.G. Lucca, what are you feeding her? Everyday I look at you, and I swear those twinnes must double in size. Look at your bump in this dress, how are you managing to cart that around? Rather you than me chubby." ~Hazel
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S.J. Molloy (Luminoso (Luminara, #4))
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March 4 CHARITY is being rescued by the LORD I love you just as the Father loves me. ~ John 15:9 Someone asked an old chief “Why’re you always talking about Jesus?” The chief didn’t say anything. Instead, he collected some dry grass and twigs and put them into a circle. Next he caught a caterpillar, feeding on a nearby clump of weeds. He placed it inside the circle. Then, he took a match and set fire to the dry grass and the twigs. As the fire blazed up, the caterpillar began to search for an escape. At this point the old chief extended his finger to the caterpillar. Instantly, it climbed on to it. He said, “That’s what Jesus did for me. I was like the caterpillar, without hope. Then Jesus rescued me. How can I not talk about my Savior’s love and mercy?” ~ Mark Link, S.J. How grateful are you for what Jesus did for us? How do you show it concretely? It wasn’t the nails that held Jesus on the cross but his love for us. ~ Author unknown
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Scott Hahn (Knights to Christ, Daily Devotions for Knights Seeking Christ)
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When an introvert loves someone, they are very loyal and expect the same in return.
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S.J. Scott (Confident You: An Introvert's Guide to Success in Life and Business)
S.J. McCoy (Love like You've Never Been Hurt (Summer Lake, #1))
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Storms of the ages and winds of the sea,” said Serena, closing her eyes and focusing on the warm sensation in her gut. Triton looked puzzled. Serena continued, “Shall have only half the strength of the force ‘tween you and me.” Triton’s quizzical smile slackened along with the rest of his face. His eyes never moved from Serena’s, but his mind seemed elsewhere. Serena’s skin felt alive and tingly. Hazel’s eyes darted between the two of them as a thin, pink tendril of liquid smoke seeped from the necklace and reached out towards Triton. Serena continued, “One shall live for two, and two shall be one. Only by true love’s kiss may this spell be undone.
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S.J. Valfroy (The Sea Witch (The Era of Villains, #1))
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The doctor nodded. “Nemesis is bonded to you now. She’ll live and breathe for you all the days of your life.”
“I like her, too,” Donia declared, smiling at me. “I think we’ll become friends.”
The doctor laughed softly. “Friends, yes. I promise you, Nemesis will be the best friend you’ll ever have. She’ll love you until your dying day.”
And at last, I had a name for this feeling, this strange but wonderful new sensation within me—this was what the Impyrean Matriarch had promised me.
This was love.
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S.J. Kincaid
“
This was what I loved about books. Even when my life was low, I was happy to lose myself in fiction and forget about it for a short while.
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S.J. Pajonas (The Daydreamer Detective Braves The Winter)
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A home isn't made from a building, or the furniture inside it, it's made from the people and the love that fill it.
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S.J. McCoy (Summer Lake Romance Box Set: Book 1-3 (Summer Lake, #1-3))
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The twin flame union is the strongest, deepest, and purest form of love that can be experienced by two entities within this universe. It transcends all other types of bonds and relationships. However, the success of a twin flame union requires that both entities are spiritually prepared, that they are capable of releasing their egos in order to act only out of unconditional love. The
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S.J. Morgan (Soul Mates & Twin Flames: Discover a Timeless Love, Fulfill Your Soul's Purpose, and Experience a Higher Level of Love)
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If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own, but because you do not belong to the world, the world hates you.
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Rodney Kissinger S.J. (The Joy of the Spiritual Exercises)
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I love you completely." Trent bared his soul with those four simple words; heavy in weight they held his whole heart.
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S.J. Higgins (The Dark Side Of Chemistry (The Chemistry Series #1))
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Before I met you,” Mason says, “I allowed my life to be filled with so much darkness I used it as a shield to keep people out. I never allowed myself to see the beauty of the world around me, and I closed myself off to those who loved me and wanted to be my friend. It was only after I met you that I felt my heart begin to beat again. The light of your soul pierced through the darkness I let surround mine and brought me back to life. You showed me there is still beauty in the world. I can’t imagine my life without you in it, Jess. From this day forward, I promise to cherish you with all my heart, to always be there when you need to unburden your soul of troubles, and to help you raise our children and build a loving home for them so that they always know how important they are to us.
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S.J. West (Ascension (The Watcher Chronicles, #4))
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Christianity is not a blueprint for complacent mediocrity. Conformity with the Gospel is not easy. Without God it is impossible. The crucifix reminds us that it costs to be a lover. The language of love is sacrifice.Is the easy life really the happy life?
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Fr. Rodney Kissinger S.J. (Divine Simplicity)
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The language of love is sacrifice. In this life, “ecstasy without agony is baloney.
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Rodney Kissinger S.J. (The Joy of the Spiritual Exercises)
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I am not just a conduit for others. God loves me for myself.
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Rodney Kissinger S.J. (The Joy of the Spiritual Exercises)
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Yes, and I married him! And I thought that meant we would live happily ever after. Pity he didn’t believe in the ‘forsaking all others’ part.
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S.J. McCoy (Love like You've Never Been Hurt (Summer Lake, #1))
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abstain from the good stuff because you don’t want to do the work to pay for it.” It was a philosophy that had sat well with Emma and she still lived by it. She ate well and she worked out every day. More than that, though, she applied it to the rest of her life.
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S.J. McCoy (Love like You've Never Been Hurt (Summer Lake, #1))
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Lust is a gift. It’s the desire for souls so beautiful Love is a gift. It’s the Lust for souls deep within Light is a gift. It’s the Love for both souls illuminating – SJ Molloy
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S.J. Molloy (Lussuria (Luminara, #1))
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Dieting is like saying you’re going to abstain from the good stuff because you don’t want to do the work to pay for it.
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S.J. McCoy (Love like You've Never Been Hurt (Summer Lake, #1))
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God does not love us in our goodness; God loves us in our entirety.
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SJ, James F. Keenan (Moral Wisdom: Lessons and Texts from the Catholic Tradition)
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Learning to love well means aiming to respond to others according to their needs.
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SJ, James F. Keenan (Moral Wisdom: Lessons and Texts from the Catholic Tradition)
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present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams but you will only enjoy them to the extent of your faith and love. The more a soul loves, the more it longs, the more it hopes, the more it finds. —Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. (1675–1751), The Sacrament of the Present Moment The
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James Martin (The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life)
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Ruth seems reasonable.” I scoff. “I’m sorry, what part of anything she did or said was reasonable?” “Telling Chelsea she could have boys over when she turned thirty-five.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
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I know how to take care of myself,” she tells me, one hand on the door. “I know you do, Babe. But let me do some of that caring too.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
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That’s right, Babe. When I say taste, you look at my mouth.
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))
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I almost roll my eyes. What sort of grown-ass man has a cotton candy flavored energy drink to start his day?
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S.J. Tilly (Love, Utley (Love Letters, #1))