Eiselen History Quotes & Sayings

What happened was pain and pleasure and shock and satisfaction all rolled into one. Pain as he withdrew and thrust over and over again past the soreness of her newly opened womanhood. Pleasure because it was more wonderful, more exhilirating, than any other sensation she had ever experienced. Shock because she had not expected such a deep and vigorous and prolonged invasion of her body. Satisfaction because now, before it was too late, he was her lover. Because she would always be able to remember him as her lover — Mary Balogh

You understand nothing, I told him with a weary shake of the head, but I would not try to make him understand. That there was no justification for it: the murder of another, no matter how vile. We had all been wrong and, blackest of ironies, I had known this to hold that precious and wondrous thing, life, in my hands. To hold it in my hands before I destroyed it. — Krisi Keley

If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all. — Gary Weiss

New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them. — Ratan Tata

Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret. — Lisa Kleypas

It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it. — Sidney Crosby

You are such a chick."
I widened my eyes in mock surprise.
"No way. Are you sure? — Gena Showalter

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity - they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. — Larry McMurtry

Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they've been told was true. Scientists are no different; they've just been told a lot more things. — Sylvain Neuvel

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous ... — James Tiptree Jr.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff ... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway? — Jane Yolen

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. — Manuel Puig

My true social media passion is making creepy short movies on Instagram. — Jenny Lewis

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance. — Kate Zambreno

Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society. — Marsden Wagner