Akeboshi Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

It's time, little one," he coaxes from above me.
I take a deep breath as I crawl to where he instructs me. My heart is racing and I feel like tears could be close again. But I am resolved. I am going to do this. I know my own wilful obstinacy will see me into the stocks and from there it really is up to Shaw. He positions me in front of the stocks and waits a few seconds, letting me absorb their magnitude, before speaking.
"Kneel."
Just one word but it seals my fate. I comply immediately, wordlessly, allowing my terror to turn into the first shoots of arousal. This is really happening ... — Felicity Brandon

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. — Robin Hobb

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic. — Nadya Suleman

You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow. — Thomas Hood

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker. — Jill Shalvis

I don't do things that are illegal. — Patricia Cornwell

You sort of have to become what you're wearing. — Pharrell Williams

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear. — Ashly Lorenzana

She'd survived Brandon. Just to die all over again. "Well, hell."
He smiled wanly at her. "Indeed. — Erin Kellison

You're never where you want to be. There's always waiting. There's always some new project that's coming down the road - some new thing you're working on, some creative direction you're wanting to explore. — Laura Allen

Ignore cynicism, appreciate criticism, and embrace optimism. — Debasish Mridha

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! — Charles Darwin