Seductively Sweet Quotes & Sayings

Destiny had decided that he was to become a Don and had brought Fanucci to him to set him on his destined path. — Mario Puzo

I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony. — Lara Stone

I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you."
And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in. — Patrick Ness

Our Christianity loves its ease and comfort too well to take up anything so rough and heavy as a cross. And — Charles M. Sheldon

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims. — Mia Bloom

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama. — Mitch Albom

YOUR ABUSIVE PARTNER DOESN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIS ANGER; HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR ANGER.
One of the basic human rights he takes away from you is the right to be angry with him. No matter how badly he treats you, he believes that your voice shouldn't rise and your blood shouldn't boil. The privilege of rage is reserved for him alone. When your anger does jump out of you - as will happen to any abused woman from time to time - he is likely to try to jam it back down your throat as quickly as he can. Then he uses your anger against you to prove what an irrational person you are. Abuse can make you feel straitjacketed. You may develop physical or emotional reactions to swallowing your anger, such as depression, nightmares, emotional numbing, or eating and sleeping problems, which your partner may use as an excuse to belittle you further or make you feel crazy. — Lundy Bancroft

Kitsch is much more than a question of style; it's a preference for consolation over truth. Disney's version of reality is not just cleaned up, it's pernicious. Unlike the best forms of art and philosophy, it undercuts the possibility of transformation because it portrays a world that's just fine as it is
or as it will be by the time the credits come up. — Susan Neiman

Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Well, is ev'wything weady?' asked Denisov. 'Bwing the horses. — Leo Tolstoy

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world. — Albert Sorel

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

... the rain was a fine thing. She often preferred it to the warm slant of sun and the clear brilliance of cloudless blue skies. The rain was a soft gray curtain, tucking her away from the world. — Nora Roberts