Our Dark Duet Quotes & Sayings

I wandered in the streets, what with the noise the people made, the number of the coaches, the running of the footmen, the swaggering of great courtiers, and the thrusting aside of everybody, many a time I longed to be back among the sheep again, for fear of losing my peacefulness of spirit. — R.D. Blackmore

A sense of humor is essentially a sense of perspective. It is an understanding that comes from a true sense of proportion. Humor is not a matter of laughing at things, but of understanding them. At its highest it is a part of understanding life. It is an ability to see ourselves as we are, and to smile at the comic figure that the biggest of us cuts in strutting across life's stage. — Nivard Kinsella

James never met anyone named Livvie. He never hurt her. — C.J. Roberts

Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. And now he'd taken the last of it, the last of me. But who did that make me? An extension of him? Someone new? I didn't know. Didn't want to know. — C.J. Roberts

Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary. — Robert A. Heinlein

Life is a continuum; neither black nor white, but a series of shades from light to dark. When the shadow is in front of you, all you see is the darkness and forget the sun is at your back. — Brownell Landrum

A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that. — Steve Wozniak

Will you cry? Will you miss me? — C.J. Roberts

Miss Roberts, where should I send the check for the steam cleaning of your furniture and replacement of your ruined panties? — Alexandra Iff

And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table. — George W. Bush

For Caleb's kittens — C.J. Roberts

Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful. — Brownell Landrum

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere. — Edward Abbey

In modern times, the sisters have largely disappeared from the collective consciousness, but the idea of Fate hasn't. Why do we still believe? Does it make tragedy more bearable to believe that we ourselves had no hand in it, that we couldn't have prevented it? It was always ever thus.

Things happen for a reason, says Natasha's mother. What she means is Fate has a Reason and, though you may not know it, there's a certain comfort in knowing that there's a Plan.

Natasha is different. She believes in determinism- cause and effect. One action leads to another leads to another. Your actions determine your fate. In this way she's not unlike Daniel's dad.

Daniel lives in the nebulous space in between. Maybe he wasn't meant to meet Natasha today. Maybe it was random chance after all.

But.

Once they met, the rest of it, the love between them, was inevitable. — Nicola Yoon

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces. — Robin Hobb

Tell me to stop and I will. Tell me you don't want me to pull your tights down and fuck you up against this wall. Remind me of what a terrible person I am. Tell me I'm a sick bastard and you want me out of your life forever. — C.J. Roberts

Then you can have me all to yourself! You can keep me in your dark little room
and fuck me stupid. You can own me. it's what you want isn't it? — C.J. Roberts

We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us. — Jay Weatherill

Either you're one hell of an actress, or you're the dumbest person to ever walk the face of this planet. — Kimberly Spencer

My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered. — Lil' Mama

And when I heard her turn away, love made me beg. — C.J. Roberts