Outback Romance Quotes & Sayings

When she reaches down to touch his shoulder - a gesture only a few species and a million or so years removed from lifting a leg and marking him as her territory with a stream of urine - enough bracelets and bangles to lay track across the Australian Outback slide down her arm and come to a jangling stop at her wrist. — Elle Lothlorien

The only thing worse than parents who don't pay attention to you is parents who pat you on the shoulder on their way out the door — Katie Alender

All that was good in me thrilled in my heart at that moment, all that I hoped for in the profound, obscure meaning of my existence. Here was the endlessly mute placidity of nature, indifferent to the great city; here was the desert beneath these streets, around these streets, waiting for the city to die, to cover it with timeless sand once more. There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down. — John Fante

The story goes like this: he falls in love with Specter first, then he falls in love with Jenny Hill. L — Daniel Wallace

I wasn't the only one hungry on the road, it seemed; a single bite - even a minor scratch - from one of the infected, and we were as good as dead. (And so the cycle repeats.) — Bryant A. Loney

Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from the creation of neighborhoods. — Avi Friedman

If the man screwed like he kissed she was a goner — Amy Andrews

I don't write 'romance' stories, but character love stories, like the short story fiction published at Romantic4Ever and at WeddingNight, with romance of the heart and of adventure, in its many, many human varieties, as seen through the eyes and hearts and bodies of realist characters; whether about military special forces regiments, mail order brides in the outback, class-crossed samurai lovers, wealthy Victorian 'minorities,' or luscious vampires of another color. — Neale Sourna

A woman really had no business looking that good in a man's hat — Amy Andrews

You think I don't know that you're hard for me right now? — Amy Andrews

Lacey.." If it was supposed to be a protest it was a weak one. It was more groan than warning — Amy Andrews

There was just something so damn male about a man doing something with his hands. Something mechanical. Something sweaty. And dirty. Watching Coop in his natural environment was seriously turning her on. — Amy Andrews

Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share. — Swami Vivekananda

I just love to watch people get scared. It's like, 'Yes, I accomplished my goal!' — Kathryn Newton

(Regarding check-cashing places):
It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check. — Angela Nissel

He turns back to me, a strong hand swooping down and sculpting hair off my face, familiar looking arms curling back around me and cradling me into a chest harder and hotter than a mountain left baking in the Australian outback. — Poppet

My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me. — Priyanka Chopra

Similar considerations arise with regard to recovery and rehabilitation after strokes and other injuries. There are no rules; there is no prescribed path of recovery; every patient must discover or create his own motor and perceptual patterns, his own solutions to the challenges that face him; and it is the function of a sensitive therapist to help him in this. And — Oliver Sacks

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing. — Albert Einstein

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past. — Jack London

but we did not come into India, as they did, at the head of great armies, with the avowed intention of subjugating the country. We crept in as humble barterers, whose existence depended on the bounty and favour of the lieutenants of the kings of Delhi; and the 'generosity' we have shown was but a small acknowledgement of the favours his ancestors had conferred to our race. — William Dalrymple

No sharing a tent because you say you have to protect me or stuff like that, okay? — Annie Seaton