Renegado Serie Quotes & Sayings

But I trust in my faith that we are descendants of rectitude. That each of us, no matter how bad we may think ourselves to be, the core lining of us is threaded in holy fibers. — E.K. Blair

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection. — Brene Brown

It's so old, I think when it opened, Burger King was still a prince. — James Patterson

Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task ... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules. — Sarah Fielding

I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self...God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually. — Ian McEwan

The Filipino houseboy was conscious now — Charles Willeford

But he sleeps on the top of his mast
with his eyes closed tight.
The gull inquired into his dream,
which was, I must not fall.
The spangled sea below wants me to fall.
It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all. — Elizabeth Bishop

The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if it all depended on this particular up or down. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parades ain't for the people on the floats, they're for the ones watching it go by. — Alex Bledsoe

Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. — Mo Ibrahim

We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment. — Marlena De Blasi

[A] permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon. — G.K. Chesterton

When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people. — Steven Magee

The arousal I'd felt at the gym returned, this time dressed in Kevlar, and it was kicking my ass. A slow-rolling, hot-as-sin lust swept through my body, setting every cell on fire. Fielding's mouth was sweet and minty and warm, and the suction was just right. He was a quick study, mirroring my actions, alternating between sucking gently at my mouth and suggestively lathing with his tongue. But there was an innocence in him, a surprised and eager passion that trembled through his body, unable to be contained. I could feel how much it was affecting him, and it made me crazy. — Eli Easton

Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing! — Rupert Everett