β
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
β
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Edward Weston
β
Weston is everything
And all at once.
Weston is gentle
And harsh.
Weston can be blindingly bright
But then he can also be
Delicately soft.
Weston is a paradox.
β
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Abbie Emmons (100 Days of Sunlight)
β
Sheesh, one hot girl walks into the house and all trust vanishes.
-Vane Weston
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Shannon Messenger (Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1))
β
I know exactly who I am. Itβs everyone else who seems to be having a problem.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
We're quiet for a moment. And then: 'Why did you call me Matt?'
'It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now that I know you, I realise I should have called that character Dick.'
He laughs, and then the couch shakes. 'Honestly, Gabe, I forgot you could be this much fun.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
I know things are messy with us, but do you really think I could just walk away from you?"
This time he doesn't look away. "Do you really think I'd let you?
β
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Paula Weston (Haze (The Rephaim, #2))
β
Weston did not know the Malacandrian word for laugh: indeed, it was not a word he understood very well in any language.
β
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C.S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1))
β
We were doomed from the start. A lost cause. A losing battle. And yet, in that narrow instant, I didn't give a single fuck.
β
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Julie Johnson (Erasing Faith)
β
Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway?
β
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Julie Johnson (Erasing Faith)
β
It's been a long time since you asked me for anything. I'm not going to fuck it up.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
I'm Vane Weston: The Last Westerly
Great- it sounds like something out of an anime cartoon.
β
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Shannon Messenger (Let the Sky Fall (Sky Fall, #1))
β
At his core, Weston Ryder was gentle, and I thought that was the best thing that a man could be.
β
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Lyla Sage (Swift and Saddled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #2))
β
You believe what he's saying - that they're demons?"
Simon nods.
"Like, from hell?'"
"No," Rafa says, "from Comic-Con." He shakes his head. "Yes, from hell.
β
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Paula Weston (Haze (The Rephaim, #2))
β
Most stories are based on something real.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
Calm down," Rafa says.
"Yeah," I say, "because you're an expert at patience."
"Which is why I look to you to set the example."
"Oh, fuck off.
β
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Paula Weston (Shimmer (The Rephaim, #3))
β
Seriously." He turned me so I was facing him. "I'm not gonna lie. I want you. I want you so freaking bad that I'm pretty sure when I get to heaven I'm going to be sainted.
β
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Rachel Van Dyken (Ruin (Ruin, #1))
β
I had never realized before how quickly men deteriorate without razors and clean shirts. They are like potted plants that go to weed unless they are pruned and tended daily. A single day's growth beard makes a man look careless; two days', derelict; and four days', polluted. Blix and Weston hadn't shaved for three.
β
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Beryl Markham (West with the Night)
β
I hear you've been with every Rephaite in a skirt.'
Crap. Where did that come from?
'Who told you that?' HIs smile shifts into something less amused. 'Daniel. Who else? The prick.'
'Is he a liar?'
Rafa leans against the pale wall. 'I haven't been with everyone.'
'What about Taya?'
'Hell, no. I'm no monk, but I have standards.'
I wonder what else Daniel was wrong about. 'What about me?'
Rafa's teasing smile doesn't quite reach his eyes. 'You had standards too.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
Thank you, Professor Weston... <β How about those ellipses? Did they fit there)
βGillian
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Whitney G. (Turbulence (Turbulence, #1))
β
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
β
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Weston H. Agor
β
Love. Nightmares. Angels. War.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
How can you be so sure?" I badly want to believe him, but this is Rafa. The guy who's all action and no plan.
His smile is tired, knowing. An echo of a shared past I don't remember. "Because I'm not smart enough to give up, and you don't know how to.
β
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Paula Weston (Haze (The Rephaim, #2))
β
Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.
St. Francis of Assisi,
Canticle of the Sun
β
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Francis of Assisi
β
Mind your mettle, Tessa.β- Weston
β
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Brigid Kemmerer (Defy the Night (Defy the Night, #1))
β
Morning after morning, I wake up with him lingering in my thoughts and I feel guilty without having any idea why.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
Juliette Ferrars." A voice detonates my name. There's a heavy boot pressed on my back and I can't lift my head to distingush who's speaking to me.
"Weston, dim the lights and release her. I want to see her face." The command is cool and strong like steel, dangerously calm, effortlessly powerful.
The brightness is reduced to a level I'm able to tolerate. The imprint of a boot is carved into my back but no longer settled on my skin. I lift my head and look up.
I'm immediately struck by his youth. He can't be much older than me. It's obvious he's in charge of something, though I have no idea what. His skin is flawless, unblemished, his jawline sharp and strong. His eyes are the palest shade of emerald I've ever seen.
He's beautiful.
His crooked smile is calculated evil.
β
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Tahereh Mafi (Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1))
β
Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as βtoo long.
β
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Wes Locher (Musings on Minutiae)
β
I would never have to wonder what it was like to be loved, because Weston Ryder would love me all the way.
β
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Lyla Sage (Swift and Saddled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #2))
β
You have no idea, do you? You two lost each other - I lost both of you." He hurls the bottle at the wall. It smashes against the tiles over the sink and the place instantly reeks of beer. "Screw this." He shifts. Two seconds later something hits the wall in his room.
β
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Paula Weston (Haze (The Rephaim, #2))
β
~ You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that youβre a Hebrew... Next time youβre at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that.
~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags.
β
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Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2))
β
Make your life count, Henry David Weston. For when you reach the end of your days, you will not look back and wish you'd garnered more money, or power, or fame. You will look back and wish that you had been a better parent, spouse, friend, and Christian. And you will wish for just a little more time with those you love.
β
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Julie Klassen (The Tutor's Daughter)
β
The stars in their courses were fighting against Weston.
β
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C.S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1))
β
No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare
β
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Kingsley Amis
β
Weston helped me to not be afraid.
Weston took me outside and showed me the world.
β
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Abbie Emmons (100 Days of Sunlight)
β
I donβt believe I have been compromised. At least not past redemption. -Isabella Weston
β
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Sara Lindsey (Promise Me Tonight (Weston #1))
β
I knew this was still here somewhere." He pulls a knife from the back of the drawer, takes it out of its sheath and shines the torch on it. I move closer until our shoulders touch.
"That's beautiful," I whisper.
"You gave this to me."
I take the knife. It's heavier than I expect. "Please, tell me it was a gift and not something I stabbed you with.
β
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Paula Weston (Shimmer (The Rephaim, #3))
β
Here is a story thatβs stranger than strange.
Before we begin you may want to arrange:
a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable seat,
and maybe some cocoa and something to eat.
Iβll warn you, of course, before we commence,
my story is eerie and full of suspense,
brimming with danger and narrow escapes,
and creatures of many remarkable shapes.
Dragons and ogres and gorgons and more,
and creatures youβve not even heard of before.
And faraway places? Thereβs plenty of those!
(And menacing villains to tingle your toes.)
So ready your mettle and steady your heart.
Itβs time for my storyβs mysterious start...
β
β
Robert Paul Weston (Zorgamazoo)
β
He guides my fingers under his hair to the nape of his neck. To the shape of a crescent moon.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
I have these secret pangs of shame about being single, like I wasn't good enough to get a husband. Rita reminded me of something I'd told her once, about the five rules of the world as arrived at by this Catholic priest named Tom Weston. The first rule, he says, is that you must not have anything wrong with you or anything different. The second one is that if you do have something wrong with you, you must get over it as soon as possible. The third rule is that if you can't get over it, you must pretend that you have. The fourth rule is that if you can't even pretend that you have, you shouldn't show up. You should stay home, because it's hard for everyone else to have you around. And the fifth rule is that if you are going to insist on showing up, you should at least have the decency to feel ashamed.
So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
β
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Anne Lamott (Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year)
β
Your kidsβand I imagine they had more helpβdug a wide but shallow grave on Westonβs football field. They stole the kidβs car, drove it into the hole, and buried it. They even made a nice little tombstone for it.β Snorts
β
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Penelope Douglas (Next to Never (Fall Away, #4.5))
β
The air around Weston was always electric. A crackling force field that kept people away, fueled by his barbed tongue and acid wit. If I reached through it to touch him, no doubt Iβd be shocked. It would hurt like hell.
β
β
Emma Scott (Bring Down the Stars (Beautiful Hearts, #1))
β
You have no idea, do you? You two lost each other - I lost both of you." He hurls the bottle at the wall. It smashes against the tiles over the sink and the place instantly reeks of beer. "Screw this." He shifts. Two seconds later something hits the wall in his room.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
It's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos"- Weston Michel
β
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Rachel Van Dyken (Ruin (Ruin, #1))
β
Pirate queens never trip. -Isabella Weston
β
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Sara Lindsey (Promise Me Tonight (Weston #1))
β
The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someoneβs hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your family, or your adoption as a child.
β
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Wes Locher (Musings on Minutiae)
β
How can you forgive what I did?"
"Because I know you. Because I've seen the best and the worst of you. Because of everything we've been through in the last hundred and thirty-nine years and what we've been through since you found me in the bar. God, because I want to move forward."
"Yea, but --"
"Because I love you, you idiot!
β
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Paula Weston (Burn (The Rephaim, #4))
β
Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I
trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. The gross vapors of earth were gathering around me, and closing in upon my inward heaven; and thus it was that Mr. Weston rose at length upon me, appearing like the morning star in my horizon, to save me from the fear of utter darkness; and I rejoiced that I now had a subject for contemplation that was above me, not beneath.
β
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Anne BrontΓ« (Agnes Grey)
β
The Yale anthropologist Weston La Barre goes far as to argue that `a surprisingly good case could be made that much of culture is hallucination` and that `the whole intent and function of ritual appears to be... a group wish to hallucinate reality`.
β
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Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)
β
You make me want to do better,β he says suddenly, and his voice is thick with emotion, so I go still. βYou make me wish Weston Lark was real, because you will never look at me the way you look at him. I donβt know how to fix everything Iβve done wrong, Tessa. I donβt even know if I can. But I want to try.
β
β
Brigid Kemmerer (Defy the Night (Defy the Night, #1))
β
If I could count the infinity of you
Iβd place each second within your soul,
and lay my breath between the stars
that form your heart and whole.
β
β
Phen Weston (Under the Rose)
β
You have a thousand heartsβ worth of love to give. A thousand tears may fall when one heart breaks. But never cry for shame.β He kept my chin in his thick hand. βEven love lost was well-spent.
β
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Emma Scott
β
Ever since the robot was first invented, there have been people who swear up and down that this marks the first step towards the fall of man β¦ To be fair, their arguments are backed with scientific fact taken from documentary films such as The Terminator, The Matrix, and RoboCop.
β
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Wes Locher (Musings on Minutiae)
β
I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
β
β
Jane Austen (Emma)
β
You're right. You're not a princess -- you're Little Red. and I'm the Big Bad Wolf.
β
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Julie Johnson (Erasing Faith)
β
Thirty minutes until I saw Weston. I shouldn't be this excited about a ride home.
β
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Jennifer Laurens (Penitence (Heavenly, #2))
β
He does not even hate Francis Weston, any more than you hate a biting midge; you just wonder why it was created.
β
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Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2))
β
Weston, with his foppish hair and calculating smile, wouldnβt last two minutes against her mother.
β
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Allison Saft (A Far Wilder Magic)
β
He would have thought God could make his own decisions, but Weston believes the creator may be pushed and coaxed and maybe bribed a little.
β
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Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2))
β
I straighten and stretch my neck side to side. βI really need to hit something.β
Rafaβs mouth quirks. βI know what you need.β
βIn your dreams.β I know where this is going: itβs been the same banter for about five decades now. Usually he saves it for an audience.
βIn my dreams, Gabe, you end up slick with sweat and moaning.β
βI have food poisoning?β
He laughs, a beer halfway to his lips. Condensation drips from the bottle. Heβs completely at ease here: three-quarter cargoes, frayed t-shirt, bare feet. βIβm just saying that if you need distracting, Iβm your man.β
βIf I wanted to go places everyone else has been, Rafa, Iβd take a trip to Disneyland.β
He leans in closer. βYeah, but donβt you want to know why everyone loves Space Mountain?
β
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Paula Weston (Burn (The Rephaim, #4))
β
Of the seminal moments in my life, Careers Day in the autumn of Year 5 is my favorite. Everyone had to dress as whatever they wanted to be once they grew up. I had gone in a tweed jacket and a bow tie, and when Miss Weston asked me what I wanted to be, I told her that I wanted to be the Doctor.
'Shouldn't you be wearing a lab coat and stethoscope like Paul?' She pointed to Paul Black, who was trying to strangle everyone with the stethoscope in question.
Before I could answer, a boy I didn't know from the other class spoke up.
'Paul's *a* doctor,' he explained, giving me a look of approval. 'He wants to be *the* Doctor.'
'Who?'
'Exactly,' we said at the same time, relieved that she understood.
She didn't. We were sent to the quiet table to reflect on why cheeking teachers was wrong.
β
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Non Pratt (Trouble)
β
nothing was seen or heard of Mr. Weston; until, at last, I gave up hoping, for even my heart acknowledged it was all in vain. But still, I would think of him: I would cherish his image in my mind; and treasure every word, look, and gesture that my memory could retain;
β
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Anne BrontΓ« (Agnes Grey by Anne BrontΓ« - ( illustrated ))
β
It wasnβt enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with possibility that one of my teammates could be dragged off the field by the inhabitants of the mental hospital.
β
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Wes Locher (Musings on Minutiae)
β
You have ten minutes to be angry, ten minutes to be sad, ten minutes to be anything other than thankful that you have an eleventh minute to look forward to.
β
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Melissa Foster (Bursting with Love (Love in Bloom #8; Love in Bloom: The Bradens #5; The Bradens at Weston, CO #5))
β
It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.
β
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Anthony Weston (A Rulebook for Arguments (Hackett Student Handbooks))
β
It appeared painful to regrow a set of hands, but I can hardly blame her for dabbling in street magic. Anyone can see she's addicted to being whole.
β
β
Robert Paul Weston (Dust City)
β
The wind took me away from you,
Draped with fear, waking nightmare,
I lost all sense of who I could become,
Your exuberant hold slipped away,
Irresolute, impulsive, irreconcilable.
β
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Phen Weston (Nothing But The Rain: A Collection of Poems)
β
My priest friend Tom said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
β
β
Tom Weston
β
[The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when Iβm carrying piping hot coffee.
β
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Wes Locher (Musings on Minutiae)
β
Maybe you're right, Red. Maybe I am hateful. Maybe I ruined your life. Maybe I'm the devil, and the worst thing that ever happened to you, and a million other awful things... But did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster... I might be your soulmate, anyway?
β
β
Julie Johnson (Erasing Faith)
β
Weston: Look at my outlook. You don't envy it, right?
Wesley: No.
Weston: That's because it's full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it?
Wesley: Yes.
Weston: Yes, you do. I can see that you do. My poison scares you.
Wesley: Doesn't scare me.
Weston: No?
Wesley: No.
Weston: Good. You're growing up. I never saw my old man's poison until I was much older than you. Much older. And then you know how I recognized it?
Wesley: How?
Weston: Because I saw myself infected with it. That's how. I saw me carrying it around. His poison in my body.
β
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Sam Shepard (Curse of the Starving Class)
β
Married women, you know, may be safely authorised. It is my party. Leave it all to me. I will invite your guests."
"No," he calmly replied, "there is but one married woman in the world whom I can ever allow to invite what guests she pleases to Donwell, and that one is-"
"Mrs. Weston, I suppose," interrupted Mrs. Elton, rather mortified.
"No, Mrs. Knightley; and, till she is in being, I will manage such matters myself.
β
β
Jane Austen (Emma)
β
The fact is that Superman should be fat. He should be a lard-assed superhero with flabby arms, a beer gut, and soft muscles.
...when Superman bench-presses a Cadillac, he doesn't even break a sweat. It's like picking up a bag of feathers. Would Batman be buff if he bench-pressed feathers? Because that's essentially what Superman does every day.
β
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Weston Ochse (SEAL Team 666 (SEAL Team 666 #1))
β
I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is." -The Thing, 1982, Directed by John Carpenter
β
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Weston Ochse (Blaze of Glory)
β
Today words curve around my vision,
Stumbling from my parched core
To soak again those strands of silence.
β
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Phen Weston
β
What do you feel?β Curiosity hung in the air.
Matt was thankful Darian didnβt walk out except now he had to explain himself. βI feel jittery.β
βOh, then itβs gotta be love.β Darian shook his head and turned away.
Matt knew sarcasm when he heard it. He grabbed Darianβs elbow and pulled him into his arms. Darianβs hands were smashed to his chest and his face was very close to Mattβs. βIβm not letting you walk out.β He asserted. βYou make me feel sick.β
βOh, thatβs so much better.
β
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Wade Kelly (When Love Is Not Enough (Unconditional Love, #1))
β
On my way home that evening I felt an effervescence of spirit which built up inside me until I felt like shouting out loud for the sheer hell of it. The school, the children, Weston, the grimy fly-infested street through which I hurried - none of it could detract from the wonderful feeling of being employed. At long last I had a job, and though it promised to tax my capabilities to the full, it offered me the opportunity - wonderful word - of working on terms of dignified equality in an established profession.
β
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E.R. Braithwaite (To Sir, With Love)
β
Rafa straightens. β'Just let me figure a few things out.β'
β'Like why you didnβt help me?β'
He shrugs, unrepentant. β'I thought it was an act. It didnβt cross my mind you wouldnβt fight.β'
β'If I knew how to fight, Rafa, you wouldnβt still be conscious.β'
That brings a quick grin to his face. β'See, now that gives me hope allβs not lost. Youβre still in there somewhere.β'
β'Whoβs still in here? Who is it you and those psychopaths think I am?β'
His smile fades. β'You really donβt know.
β
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
β
Whatever her purposes, I wonβt have my grandsons raised by an invertebrate.β βSebastian,β she chided softly, although her lips quivered with amusement. βI mean for her to partner with Weston Ravenel. A healthy young buck with sharp wits and a full supply of manly vigor. Heβll do her much good.β βLetβs allow Phoebe to decide if she wants him,β Evie suggested. βShe had better decide soon, or Westcliff will snap him up for one of his daughters.
β
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Lisa Kleypas (Devil's Daughter (The Ravenels #5))
β
I was alone, for twenty-five years. And I didn't give a shit, because I didn't know what I was missing.
Then, this stubborn, beautiful fucking brunette came barreling into my life and shoved her way through all the shadows.
β
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Julie Johnson (Erasing Faith)
β
Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.
β
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D.J. Niko (The Tenth Saint (The Sarah Weston Chronicles, #1))
β
... He remembered once hearing his grandmother... say plaintively: "Why daughter, I presume I can go without -- BUT I CAN'T ECONOMIZE.
β
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Edith Wharton (Hudson River Bracketed (Vance Weston #1))
β
Right. Why make lemons into lemonade when you can throw them at people instead?
β
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Sara Lindsey (Promise Me Tonight (Weston #1))
β
You will never learn to fly unless you jump!
β
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Weston L. Blair (Vision of Opportunity: The Key to Creating Wealth)
β
Explosions happened. People died. And I slept.
β
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Weston Ochse (FUBAR: A Collection of War Stories)
β
It might've started as a lie, Faith, but it sure as hell didn't end as one. I might not have been real to you, and that's fine. But you have to know... you were real to me." His voice dropped so low I could barely hear him. "It was real to me. It's still real. The realest fucking thing I've ever felt.
β
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Julie Johnson (Erasing Faith)
β
Yes,β said Oyarsa, βbut one thing we left behind us on the harandra: fear. And with fear, murder and rebellion. The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end. If you were subjects of Maleldil you would have peace.β Weston
β
β
C.S. Lewis (The Space Trilogy)
β
ahead. The way out.β His deep, melodious voice crafted words of air and sound that landed gently on my chest, seeping into my bones. βBut there is the Twice Born man, Weston,β he said, his hand tightening on mine. βThe man who walks into the dark forest of his life and suffers. Sometimes unimaginably. The way back is forever closed to him, but the Twice Born man walks forward. The path becomes more twisted, the hardships seemingly impossible to overcome. But he keeps going until one day, the shadows lift. The branches cease to scratch at his skin and they part for him. Heβll regard the scars with pride as he emerges from the forest reborn. Stronger for what he has endured. Wiser. Transformed. And grateful for the lessons he learned.
β
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Emma Scott (Long Live the Beautiful Hearts (Beautiful Hearts, #2))
β
Weβre not doing that, and you know it.β He doesnβt speak again I lean closer, lower my voice. βI know things are messy with us, but do you really think I could just walk away from you?β
This time he doesnβt look away. βDo you really think Iβd let you?
β
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Paula Weston (Haze (The Rephaim, #2))
β
but Ransom soon perceived that it regarded intelligence simply and solely as a weapon, which it had no more wish to employ in its off-duty hours than a soldier has to do bayonet practice when he is on leave. Thought was for it a device necessary to certain ends, but thought in itself did not interest it. It assumed reason as externally and inorganically as it had assumed Westonβs body.
β
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C.S. Lewis (Perelandra (Space Trilogy #2))
β
No, I'm not smart," he whispered against her ear, "but I was wise enough to fall in love with you and clever enough to convince you to marry me. I hope I'm not so stupid that I would ever let you go.
β
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Sara Lindsey (A Rogue for All Seasons (Weston #3))
β
He does not know what caused him to break off from Weston and walk out. Perhaps it was when the boy said 'forty-five or fifty'. As if, past mid-life, there is a second childhood, a new phase of innocence. It touched him, perhaps, the simplicity of it. Or perhaps he just needed air. Let us say you are in a chamber, the windows sealed, you are conscious of the proximity of other bodies, of the declining light. In the room you put cases, you play games, you move your personnel around each other: notional bodies, hard as ivory, black as ebony, pushed on their paths across the squares. Then you say, I can't endure this any more, I must breathe: you burst out of the room amd into a wild garden where the guilty are hanging from trees, no longer ivory, no longer ebony, but flesh; and their wild lamenting tongues proclaim their guilt as they die. In this matter, cause has preceded effect. What you dreamed has enacted itself. You reach for a blade but the blood is already shed. The lambs have butchered and eaten themselves. They have brought knives to the table, carved themselves, and picked their own bones clean.
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Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2))
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Thank you.β A bright blush stained her cheeks. βFor last night. For chasing the monsters awayβ¦β βAnytime. Itβs kind of my job to protect you.β βA job sounds like youβre forced.β βNah,β I argued. βSaying itβs my job just means itβs my identity in a way. You know how people go, βHey, Iβm Rick. Iβm a janitor.ββ I smiled. βNow I can say, hey Iβm Weston, and I kill monsters on behalf of my very sexy girlfriend so she can sleep
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Ruin by Rachel Van Dyken
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Thank you.β A bright blush stained her cheeks. βFor last night. For chasing the monsters awayβ¦β
βAnytime. Itβs kind of my job to protect you.β
βA job sounds like youβre forced.β
βNah,β I argued. βSaying itβs my job just means itβs my identity in a way. You know how people go, βHey, Iβm Rick. Iβm a janitor.ββ I smiled. βNow I can say, hey Iβm Weston, and I kill monsters on behalf of my very sexy girlfriend so she can sleep at night.
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Rachel Van Dyken (Ruin (Ruin, #1))
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After all, this was the place where Iβd had my first meaningful conversation with a female, it was the site of a footballβs first encounter with my groin, and above all, it was the location where I was first punched in the face by a bully. Somewhere out there, a tooth of mine lay deep within the soil.
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Wes Locher (Musings on Minutiae)
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A straightforward, open-hearted man like Weston, and a rational, unaffected woman like Miss Taylor, may be safely left to manage their own concerns. You are more likely to have done harm to yourself, than good to them, by interference.β βEmma never thinks of herself, if she can do good to others,β rejoined Mr. Woodhouse, understanding but in part. βBut, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up oneβs family circle grievously.
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Jane Austen (Emma)
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Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth.
Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery.
A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error,
for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief.
Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false.
Let no man fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it;
for doubt is a testing of belief.
The truth stands boldly and unafraid; it is not shaken by the testing;
For truth, if it be truth, arises from each testing stronger, more secure.
He that would silence doubt is filled with fear;
the house of his spirit is built on shifting sands.
But he that fears no doubt, and knows its use, is founded on a rock.
He shall walk in the light of growing knowledge;
the work of his hands shall endure.
Therefore let us not fear doubt, but let us rejoice in its help:
It is to the wise as a staff to the blind; doubt is the handmaiden of truth.
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Robert T. Weston
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I can't help wanting. I want you to burn as I burn. I want you to lie awake at night thinking of me. If you sleep, I want you to dream of me. I want you to tell me that you can't stand the sight of me dancing with another woman. I want to know this last week has been as miserable for you as it has been for me.
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Sara Lindsey (A Rogue for All Seasons (Weston #3))
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You and he were never ...you know. You were our best fighters. You bickered all the time, but you brought out the best in each other as warriors. Going into battle to you turned him on more than any woman could.'
I give her a dubious look and she laughs.'Maybe a slight exaggeration, but he really did love it.' Her smiles fades.'And you and Jude were inseparable. That's why it made no sense that you would take the opposite side to either one of them - let alone both...It got worse after you and Jude disappeared last year. We thought he'd gone back to the Sanctuary to be with you. And when we heard you'd both dies...Honestly, I though Rafa was going to harm himself. He wouldn't talk to anyone for weeks. He drifted in and out of our operations, and then a few months ago he lost interest completely and stopped answering calls. We only know he was still alive because he's send Zak an occasional text. We he told Zak about the possibility you'd resurfaced there was no doubt he's come looking for you-'
A fist bangs on the door. 'Gabe' Rafa barks. 'Your boyfriend's here. Get your arse into gear.'
'Yeah' I get to my feet. 'I'm the wind beneath his wings.
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Paula Weston (Shadows (The Rephaim, #1))
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Dear Mr. Weston,
Hello again. We were beginning to wonder what had happened to you. I guess things have been pretty quiet since the Salvation Army tried to take over the world.
We are sorry, but after much deliberation we have elected not to assign any men to Protect Trillium Air Base. We feel that the Forces can protect themselves, and if they can't, who is going to protect the country?
Also, thank you for sending us that shard of broken glass with the fingerprint on it. It was yours. Our mail clerk required four stitches and a tetanus shot.
Relay our condolences to your Mr. Waghorn. We have no idea what unfortunate circumstance (for him) drew him to your ever-watchful attention, but he has no criminal record and his face is not known to us. Yours Sincerely,
Bruce Hmmm, thought Sidney, Waghorn has no criminal record.
"Let me see one of those," said Tom.
"I'm sorry, Tom, but I can't show you the letters."
Tom muttered something about a lack of trust. He was extremely alarmed at the intensity of Sidney's expression. As Sidney himself would have put it, the investigation was progressing. That meant trouble. There was always trouble when his brother got to the letter-writing stage. Tom would have to stay on his toes.
Sidney opened the last letter. Dear Mr. Weston,
Please stop bothering us. Cordially yours,
The Ontario Provincial Police.
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Gordon Korman (Our Man Weston)
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Jiminy," says the old woman. The mothballs gleam with excitement and she claps her hands. "A wolf!"
"Gram!" Siobhan glares across the room. She turns to me. "You'll have to excuse her. She's real old. Wasn't a lot integrating between the species back in her day."
I pad over and put out a paw. "Pleased to meet you, madam."
She blushes, the varicose veins in her cheeks swelling with blood. Instead of taking my paw to shake, however, she turns it over as if it's a piece of bruised fruit in a market. "Hmmm..." She pores over my palm, nodding like a fortune-teller. Her spectacles slide comically down the bridge of her nose, and when she looks up at me, her face is full of mock astonishment. "Oh, my! What big teeth you have!" She giggles and kicks her slippered feet.
"Gram!!
The old elf claps her tiny hands. "I always wanted to say that!
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Robert Paul Weston (Dust City)