Desiree Dacosta Quotes

Oh to let go of it all ... The pain, the anguish, the shame and disgust ... Just let it all go. Embrace chaos. ~ Pippa DaCosta

and shined the flashlight up ~ Pippa DaCosta

I do feel strongly that we have got to do a little brand-positioning work. Wouldn't it be great to have something that everybody could say: 'Yep, that's Chicago.' ~ Desiree Rogers

Except when Kellan and Lucas sleep with Sydney, a woman Kellan has flirted with for weeks, things quickly spiral out of control. Because ~ Pippa DaCosta

Passmore used his personality the way a magician used smoke. It was all for the diversion. ~ David B. Dacosta

I fell in love,
I can't quite remember her name.
But it started with random adventures,
awkward kisses. ~ Tiffany Desiree

My sparkling personality? Razor-sharp wit? The great hair? Chicks dig the hair. ~ Pippa DaCosta

God is the infinite and eternal judge
What others say or think about you is trivial pursuit ~ Simone DaCosta

One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free. ~ Pippa DaCosta

He's just watching out for you, Desiree.' Dee patted Mace's arm. 'Bless his heart.'
Mace growled. 'I know that's not a compliment, Dee-Ann. ~ Shelly Laurenston

There's nowhere to escape," Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the Valley.
That's not true, baby," said Desiree.
She took his hands and pulled him to her, wrapping her legs around his torso. She could feel the sobs in both of them, but quiet, silenced by the kiss.
They could escape inside each other. ~ Francesca Lia Block

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. ~ Yaya DaCosta

I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."
Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm. ~ Pippa DaCosta

I considered how the princes were masters of manipulation and wondered if Ahkeel knew exactly how this would end and if I'd survive his game. ~ Pippa DaCosta

Besides, what is human consciousness if not a data stream? A means for human beings to harvest information and interpret the world around them? ~ Pippa DaCosta

Oh, I'd kill him - once I figured out how to summon my demon before he could pin her down again. He was so going on my revenge list. ~ Pippa DaCosta

Of the authors' imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt ~ Desiree Holt

I should have known he'd be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn't have known he'd be the death of me. ~ Pippa DaCosta

The lust for chaos wrenched reason from my mind. She wanted the power I'd called before. She wanted to burn it all; to slice open the veil and summon the fires of hell to dance for her. She burned for it, and so did I." ~ Muse ~ Pippa DaCosta

In London, a lot of the time you don't see the sun shine. ~ Desiree Rogers

Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum." ~ Desiree Akhavan

You have more control than I've given you credit for. I underestimated you, Muse. Yah think? ~ Pippa DaCosta

The dreamer is in every soul. Every soul is surrounded by a dream giver, and a dream taker. ~ Tiffany Desiree

Love bears no heavier burden,
than the fool who carries a fairy tale so close to their soul,
to immense their deep desire,
to fall so hard that their hearts retire. ~ Tiffany Desiree

Now I'm going to have my dinner. Unless you'd like me to further kick your mangy ass. ~ Nalini Singh

You were a crushed and broken thing, like a butterfly crumpled in the hand of a child. ~ Pippa DaCosta

Fire is ever the optimist. ~ Pippa DaCosta

What were you keeping me for, if not to use against your enemies?" His gaze softened. "Once, yes. Now I find myself in the alarming situation of fearing I may lose you again and caring. ~ Pippa DaCosta

Why do you have a picture of my mentor, Siri, on the shelf above your fireplace? - Evaline.
...
That's not your mentor... That's my mother, Desiree. - Mina ~ Colleen Gleason

And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can't remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven't thought of her every second of every day. Then--then you feel more alone than on the day you lost her. ~ Desiree Banks

I'm human, you're not. What are you?" "Royally fucked." The door closed with an abrupt click. ~ Pippa DaCosta

I shook my head. Akil was right about one thing. Stefan would never understand. He spent his life killing demons. He had it simple. I'd spent my life among them. I might despise the majority of them, but I knew them. They were family. Twisted, bitter, dangerous, slippery, back-stabbing, but family all the same. ~ Pippa DaCosta

He had no right to look so accommodating when I knew the sort of man he really was; the sort who sacrificed his own son in the name of science, the sort who used his daughter to entrap a Prince of Hell. I'd known demons more human than Adam Harper. ~ Pippa DaCosta

Desiree the child bride, and her sister Miranda, had gone grave-robbing for a wedding gown. In the north end of the cemetery, among the palatial mausoleums with their broken windows of stained glass where the ivy crept in, was the resting place of a young woman who'd been murdered at the altar while reciting her marital vows. The decaying tombstone, among the cemetery's most envied, was a limestone bride in despair, shoulders as slumped as a mule's, a bouquet of lilies strewn at her feet. Though her murder, by her groom's jealous mother, had been long in the past, everyone knew that her father had had her buried in her gown of lace and silk. ~ Timothy Schaffert

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die. ~ Pippa DaCosta

Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised. ~ Sabrina Childress

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people. ~ Desiree Rogers

I curled my lip at the sight of sizzling human hair and skin clinging to my demon flesh. Damn, I'd have given anything to be back in Boston, sipping chai tea latte." ~ Muse, Ties That Bind, #5 The Veil Series. ~ Pippa DaCosta

I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note. ~ Desiree Akhavan

I don't know if I can."

I splayed my hand on the bulkhead beside Fran's shoulder and looked her in those pretty green eyes. "It's easier if you don't think about it. Shut it away, think about something else. Drink, fuck, do what you gotta do. Bury it so damn deep, it can't touch you. And before long, you'll forget what you were worried about."

Her lips turned down at the corners. She closed her eyes and sighed. "Is that what you do?"

"It works." Or it had. Until recently. Until One somehow made me look at myself though her eyes. Now I had shit going on in my head, like not wanting to let her down. Not wanting to let any of them down. Like this life and my place in it might actually mean something. That kinda thinking would get a man killed.

~ Caleb ~ Pippa DaCosta

I owe Oprah and that show a tremendous debt. ~ Edwidge Danticat

Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't. ~ Yaya DaCosta

Like physical work, if you don't practice, you shouldn't expect results. ~ Desiree Linden

You'd best teach me how to raise hell because we're going to need it. ~ Pippa DaCosta

I don't believe in being lazy, but I do think that this "big kid" thing may just be misinterpreting people who are taking advantage of all their opportunities and not tying themselves down to traditional gender roles or traditional life roles. ~ Desiree Akhavan