Stephanie Julian Quotes

Damn, the guy was sexy as hell. Even his feet turned her on. They were lean and long and ... Oh, for chrissakes, she was lusting after his feet. ~ Stephanie Julian

Collapsing over her, breathing like a freight train, he pressed a kiss to her forehead and whispered, Name's Tim. Nice to meet you. ~ Stephanie Julian

If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred. ~ Stephanie Julian

Sometimes a girl needed more than Special K with Red Berries in the morning. This qualified as one of those mornings. ~ Stephanie Julian

Why are you looking at me I'm chocolate cake and you're PMSing? ~ Stephanie Julian

Sure, she'd come across one or two things she couldn't explain. Cold spots, disembodied voices, Lady Gaga. Unfortunately, Bigfoot was not one of them. ~ Stephanie Julian

Especially when she wrapped one hand around his cock and realized her fingers didn't meet. Thank you, Goddess of ... well, whatever goddess handled huge guys with accessories to match. ~ Stephanie Julian

If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa. ~ Stephanie Perkins

No, I said. Nothing you do is ever embarrassing. You're not a girl. ~ Stephanie Danler

If you're willing to roll with the punches, you find you get punched less. ~ Stephanie Evanovich

There's another uncomfortable tug on my heart. Why do I care so much about him, and why do I wish I didn't? How can one person make me so confused all the time? ~ Stephanie Perkins

Discipline is the concrete that allows you to be creative.' - Verna Gibson ~ Stephanie Winston

He sat on one side of a love seat, leaving space to sit beside him. Was it an invitation? Or a gesture of kindness, in that he was offering me the room's larger couch? WHY WAS THIS SO HARD? ~ Stephanie Perkins

She already knew she would never build up an adequate immunity to his dimples. ~ Stephanie Evanovich

By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust. In truth, the whole progress of civilization is based upon this power. ~ Julian Huxley

I don't understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It's like we're incapable of normal human interaction. ~ Stephanie Perkins

For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be. ~ Julian Barnes

He gripped her so tightly she could barely breathe. Then he let go. He did it as if he was forcing himself, as if he were starving and he was putting aside the last piece of food he had. But he did it. ~ Cassandra Clare

That's because true travel, the kind with no predetermined end, is one of the most selfish endeavors we can possibly undertake-an act in which we focus solely on our own fulfillment, with little regard to those we leave behind. After all, we're the ones venturing out into the big crazy world, filling up journals, growing like weeds. And we have the gall to think they're just sitting at home, soaking in security and stability.
It is only when we reopen these wrapped and ribboned boxes, upon our triumphant return home, that we discover nothing is the way we had left it before. ~ Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?
- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith) ~ Julian Fellowes

We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God. ~ Julian Of Norwich

My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance. ~ Stephanie Laurens

If you ask me to kiss you, I will," he says.
His fingers stroke the inside of my wrists, and I burst into flames.
"Kiss me," I say.
He does. ~ Stephanie Perkins

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one? ~ Julian Assange

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy. ~ Stephanie Mills

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way. ~ Stephanie Herseth

Though the natural weakness of her body hinders her from doing what men can perform, she has a mind as valiant and as active for the good of her country as the best of us. - Plutarch ~ Stephanie Dray

I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else. ~ Stephanie Perkins

The world's first sidewalks appeared around 2000 B.C. in what is now Turkey. But it was in Paris - where there are at least as many styles of wandering (flanerie, derive, errance) as there are the customary cheek kisses (la bise) - that the sidewalk became an avenue for pleasure. No need to follow the 1920s-style red METRO sign underground, or climb into the taxi with 'Parisien' on its rooftop light. From the sidewalk, the best of the city can be had for free. ~ Stephanie Rosenbloom

You only had to look at Noah and his wife, or at their three sons and their three wives, to realize what a genetically messy lot the human race would turn out to be. ~ Julian Barnes

it (government) can't run out of dollars any more than a carpenter can run out of inches. ~ Stephanie Kelton

He turns back to me. "So did you enjoy the book?'
"I did." Discomfort lingers between us. "Did you?"
St. Clair considers it for a moment. "I like the author's name the best," he finally says, "Ba-nah-na. ~ Stephanie Perkins

While Saladin is attacking Reynald at Kerak:

"As it happens, Raynald is hosting a wedding party for his wife's son, Humphrey of Toron, and princess Isabelle, King Baldwin's half sister, who is eleven years old.The pounding continues increasingly, but the guests have traveled from all over the Latin East for this party and they are not about to put an end to the festivities over a mere Moslem attack. Finally, Lady Stephanie, Raynald's wife, has her servants take some dishes from the wedding feast to Saladin's tent. Saladin is delighted to receive the gifts and offers profuse thanks to lady Stephanie. He then ask where the newly weds will be spending the night. When the servants point out the location, Saladin orders his army not to bombard that tower until morning. ~ Paul L. Williams

Even his hair seemed more startled than usual. ~ Stephanie Perkins

God can heal anything, especially if you let go and let him take over your relationship. ~ Stephanie Boyette

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them. ~ Julian Lennon

Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back against my ribs. I'm just being paranoid. Julian fumbles with the ~ Lauren Oliver

He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome. ~ Julian Of Norwich

If you're watching Scooby Doo and think of someone because it's their favorite cartoon. If you're allergic to flour but still eat someone's burnt pancakes. Or if you hate the color green but you wear it because it reminds you of a person's eyes just before you kiss them - well, it might be love. ~ Julian Winters

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma. ~ Julian Clary

Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man ! ... ~ Liona Boyd

Those in favour rarely stayed in favour; it was just a question of when they fell. ~ Julian Barnes

I'm speechless.I think at the rooftops of Paris.
he touches my cheek,pulling my gaze back to him.I suck in my breath.
"Anna.I'm sorry for what happened in Luxembourg Gardens.Not because of the kiss-I've never had a kiss like that in my life-but because I didn't tell you why I was running away.I chased after Meredith because of you."
Touch me again. Please,touch me again.
"All I could think about was what that bastard did to you last Christmas. Toph never tried to explain or apologize. How could I do that to Mer? And I ought to have called you before I went to Ellie's,but I was so anxious to just end it,once and for all,that I wasn't thinking straight."
I reach for him. "St. Clair-"
He pulls back. "And that.Why don't you call me Etienne anymore?"
"But...no one else calls you that.It was weird.Right?"
"No.It wasn't." His expression saddens. "And every time you say 'St. Clair,' it's like you're rejecting me again."
"I have never rejected you."
"But you have.And for Dave." His tone is venomous.
"And you rejected me for Ellie on my birthday. I don't understand.If you liked me so much,why didn't you break up with her?"
He gazes at the river. "I've been confused. I've been so stupid."
"Yes.You have."
"I deserve that."
"Yes.You do." I pause. "But I've been stupid,too.You were right.About...the alone thing. ~ Stephanie Perkins

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. ~ Julian Barnes

I bet you to believe me when I say again that we do not need a great house, Sarah. We only need a great love. ~ Stephanie Grace Whitson

For some people, the time differentials established in youth never really disappear: the elder remains the elder, even when both are dribbling greybeards. For some people, a gap of, say, five months means that one will perversely always think of himself
herself
as wiser and more knowledgeable than the other, whatever the evidence to the contrary. Or perhaps I should say because of the evidence to the contrary. Because it is perfectly clear to any objective observer that the balance has shifted to the marginally younger person, the other one maintains the assumption of superiority all the more rigorously. All the more neurotically. ~ Julian Barnes

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork. ~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I'm more interested in life than life-style. Life-style means you have to drive a certain car. ~ Stephanie Zimbalist

The tides here are too rough. I sink here, happy only when I hoard my little blue sleeping pills, stash the blades of my razor. I accumulate a drawer of drop-out devices, so by December I can escape to a Merry Christmas. ~ Stephanie Hemphill

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty. ~ Julian Schnabel

Despite his words, Lee knew that with someone like Wren, the amount of time didn't really matter all that much. She was the kind of person who could leave a mark with just one meeting. ~ Stephanie Fournet

Unfailingly optimistic: ~ Stephanie Danler

I didn't mean to mess things up, I don't know what got into me-"
He rubs his temples. "Please don't apologize.It's not your fault."
"But if I hadn't dragged you out to dance-"
"Anna." Etienne speaks slowly. "You didn't make me do anything I didn't want to do."
My face grows hot as the knowledge explodes inside of me like dynamite.
He likes me.Etienne really does like me. ~ Stephanie Perkins