To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Hostage Humor

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

~ Orson Scott Card

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She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted.

~ Stephen M. Irwin

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That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and no more feelings - back then I thought it an act of empowerment. Otherwise I had very little power to make any decisions about my life, my body, my actions. Taking my own life seemed my last trump card.

~ Natascha Kampusch

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Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

~ Shannon Celebi

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Don't allow yourself to be held hostage by the opinion of others.

~ Laurie Buchanan

Laurie Buchanan Hostage Opinions Of Others Self Esteem

The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.

~ Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen Emotions Hostage Hostage Crisis Hostage Situation

The men and women who continue to hold Lynn's mind hostage against her will believe the future will be tilled with terrorism, death, destruction and a challenge to the survival of America. They believe Lynn and the other lab rats must still respond to their programming for they are the second line of defence against enemies from within and without and the first line of offence in a catastrophe which would require the recreation of America's constitutional government. They are still intent on preparing Lynn for the day when she will he necessary for battle. One summer day, all these dark realisations came flooding upon Lynn and she knew if she was ever to free herself, she needed to get immediate help.

~ Lynn Hersha

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If nostalgia holds you hostage,the ransom is the present.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Khang Kijarro Nguyen Hostage Nostalgia Now Present Ransom

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

~ Mira Bartok

Mira Bartok Crisis Hostage Mental Health

Olivia sat back and propped her half-boots on the table. 'So far it's working. He has to return to me because I have his sister hostage.' She briefly put her fingertips to her lips. 'Did I just say that? I mean I'm protecting the baby sister and earning his trust

~ Kresley Cole

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