Contemporary Quotes

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

~ D.h. Lawrence

He faced Doug. His eyes were wet. I am not one of your tricks, Douglas.Of course, you're not.That's what I feel like tonight, seeing you in there with all those bodies. One of a thousand nights. One of a thousand fucks. And fuck you for making me feel this way. And fuck you again for making me say fuck in this beautiful place.

~ Eric Arvin

Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.

~ Tessa Emily Hall

I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight.

~ Ashley Earley

Fair enough…No inhaling battery acid,” I smirk. “We can’t breathe batteryacid, can we?

~ M.a. George

You and your siblings are the most precious part of my life. And of all my children, you have the most potential to go anywhere you wish in this world – your test scores and grades have always been among the highest of your peers. But it’s clear now that you cannot reach your full potential in Syria.

~ Zack Love

It’s not a bad thing, if you’re responsible about it. Just don’t start having boyfriends. Wait until you’ve found your husband.” “And how am I supposed to find a husband if I can’t have a boyfriend until then?” I asked ironically.

~ Zack Love

Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.

~ Banani Ray

Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations.

~ Banani Ray

I’m not sure. But – unless I’m struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.

~ Zack Love

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.

~ Shih-T'ou

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence,” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

~ Zack Love

So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.

~ Zack Love

She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak, are all within the palm of her hand

~ Holly Ducarte

Sometimes,you don't wake up.But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same.

~ Ellen Hopkins

And then he was kissing me like we were both on fire and he was trying to put the flames out, and I kissed him back like an arsonist with a pocketful of matches.

~ Jenn Bennett

Talking to you is like talking to someone I’ve never met before. When did you become so competitive? When did you decide that you needed to win all of the time?’He stopped dead in the promenade and grabbed her hand, turning her to face him.He caught her by surprise. She leant her neck backwards slightly in defence.‘When I lost you.

~ Tan Redding

Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up,” she used to warn me.

~ Zack Love

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

~ Zack Love

Rubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles.

~ Karina Halle

When I’d remember this night in weeks, months, or even years, it wouldn’t be the sex. Sex would fade and so would the need to be filled with him, but right now I felt him inscribe his soul around my chest, and the reminder would be there with every beat for as long as I lived.

~ Rebecca Berto

Funny how I keep forgetting you’re insane.” - Colleen O’Brien

~ Shannon Macleod

Identify yourself,” Colleen demanded. “I’ve got a bat and I will beat the living shit out of you if you so much as blink. I’ve got a black belt,” she lied frantically, “and…and…a gun. A big one.” - Colleen O’Brien

~ Shannon Macleod

Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre

~ Shannon Macleod

His deep voice drifted to her through the crowd of women. “…my lady when she returns. Och, there ye are, Blossom,” Faolán grinned, standing up and taking her hand so she could ease back into the restaurant booth. “These lasses were just asking if I was a stripper. I told them I doona think so,” he said, his face clouded with uncertainty. “I’m not, am I?”The inquisitive lasses in question flushed scarlet and scattered to the four corners of the room at the murderous look on Colleen’s face. “No, you’re not, but I guess I can see how they’d think that,” she muttered darkly. “What you are is a freaking estrogen magnet.

~ Shannon Macleod

Submitted for your approval--the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and thegorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” – Rod Serling

~ Shannon Macleod

Och, lass. Yer going to have to not do that.” Faolán exhaled. “Creeping up on a man is a dangerous thing, and I confess I’m jumpier than most. Yer feet are soft as a cat’s.”“I wasn’t creeping anywhere, I was going to make coffee and this is my house, I’ll creep anywhere I like,” Colleen muttered with a petulant scowl. “But I wasn’t creeping.

~ Shannon Macleod

You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in the living room…” her voice broke off. “Wait. Can you read?”His chin took a slight tilt upward. “Aye,” Faolán replied, his voice cool, “in English, Gaelic, Latin, or French. My Welsh is a bit rusty, and I doona remember any of the Greek I was taught except for words not fit for a lady’s ears. I can also count all the way up to…” He looked down and wiggled his large bare toes, “…twenty.” – Faolán MacIntyre

~ Shannon Macleod

Refusing to lean back against him, Colleen sat ramrod straight until they reached the road. “I guess I should say thank you for saving my life,” she muttered then turned and slapped Faolán hard across the face. “And that’s for you having to save it in the first place. And I’m not your woman, you big, arrogant, lying, betraying…faery loving…” She searched for the perfect insult and couldn’t find one, “…Scot.” She gave a very unladylike snort. “Happy now? That fiery enough for you?

~ Shannon Macleod

Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe theyare big. Maybe they are green. Maybe they are all those things. But you should not be afraid of them just because of how they look. You may find they are nice to you if you arenice to them.

~ Jeff Hutchins

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory.You must remember this.

~ Neil Gaiman

I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.

~ Gail Honeyman

This is love not business or politics. I love someone. How can I replace her with someone else?

~ Pramod Verma

Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy

~ Jennifer Gold

Fate bring two people togetherand it is love's job t o keep them there.

~ Juvy Ann

Words, to me, are the same as an instrument is to a musician. I never know where this typewriter is going to take me until I begin. I never know what I'm feeling until I read over what I have written.

~ Tessa Emily Hall

Life was a swirl of mysteries, each one waiting to be plucked up and explored, but not necessarily solved. As the weight of responsibility bore down on a person, it could feel like a long list of chores leading up to the final one - figuring out how to die with dignity. But Quincy’s interpretation of his surroundings seemed a truer representation of life’s meaning, or rather, the lack of meaning other than to dazzle and delight and befuddle from cradle to grave.

~ Roy L. Pickering Jr.

People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we’d all fit inside some multiple-choice question.

~ Riley Cavanaugh

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother.

~ Linda Joyce

In French culture, the best way of buying time or getting off the hook entirely in a thorny personal situation is to claim that it’s complicated. The French did not invent love, but they did invent romance, so they’ve had more time than any other culture on earth to refine the nuances of its language.

~ Mark Zero