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1 " Sometimes you just have to have faith. Sometimes you have to leap first to see if your parachute will open. "
― Sonali Dev , A Change of Heart (Bollywood, #3)
2 " You find the most important things in life suddenly. And it's almost funny how ordinary those extraordinary moments feel. "
3 " His voice was the sound of gravel crunching underfoot when you went in search of gravestones. "
4 " What kind of monsters walked the earth? He couldn't bring himself to call them animals. Because animals never took what wasn't theirs. Never took something only because it was vulnerable, never destroyed what was beautiful simply because they could. "
5 " The point is that things can be repaired. That they are even more beautiful for having been repaired. "
6 " We are cooper, kanchi. They can bend us and twist us but they can't break us. "
7 " When I was too young to know better, I dreamed of a white knight. Someone who'd rescue me, protect me, keep me from harm. By the time I found him, all I wanted was for him to know I didn't need protecting. "
8 " …her entire being suspended between newborn faith and ancient hopelessness. "
9 " …what could be better than making love to your wife, than listening to her, rolling around in her incredible mind, drowning in her laughter, and soaking up her love-drenched moans as she came around you? "
10 " Why is it easier to claim those we lost while forgetting those we rescued? "
11 " People think secrets are about lies, or shame. But what secrets are really about is fear. "
12 " He had never felt so out of control. Not even as a hormonal teenager. She took his control. She had taken his ability to hold back last night. Stripped him to the bone. "
13 " fuck you. You’re right I’m banging the shit out of her. But it’s just about the sex. That’s what I am now. Someone who needs to fuck to feel alive.” But Vic wasn’t looking at him anymore. His gaze was frozen over Nikhil’s shoulder. He realized with a dull thud of horror that the sound of the water in the bathroom had stopped. He spun around. Jess looked like he had stabbed her in the gut with a blunt knife and then done it again, harder. "
14 " She couldn't believe she had told him. Now she would forever be a broken pot in his eyes. And yet, speaking those words last night had been like digging shrapnel out of her flesh. She was sore, but the piercing weight of the deeply lodged shards was gone. The relief was indescribable. "
15 " Why was it that it took losing things to recognize the full value of them? "
16 " But with evil the roots are as deep and branched as the oldest tree. The motivations are such a spiderweb of nature and nurture and choice and anger and greed and hatred all woven into a sticky mess. "