Sylvain Sylvain Quotes & Sayings

I don't expect you to understand. You're only a magnet for mishap, Miss Mitchell, while I am a magnet for sin. — Sylvain Reynard

Women are mysterious, he mused.
She laughed, In what way?
They're a study in contrast: soft and strong, fierce and gentle. They can do everything, of course, and yet one feels compelled to do everything for them. — Sylvain Reynard

Falling asleep in your arms again reminded me that I was only half a person in your absence. You make me whole. — Sylvain Reynard

A double shot of Laphroaig twenty-five-year-old, neat, please. And ask the bartender for a small shot glass of spring water, non-sparkling," Gabriel instructed without making eye contact with the waitress.
The waitress left, and Rachel began to laugh. "Big brother, only you could make ordering a drink sound pretentious."
-Rachel to Gabriel — Sylvain Reynard

The universe isn't based on magic - there isn't one set of circumstances for the good and one for the evil. Everyone suffers sometime. The question is what you do with your suffering. — Sylvain Reynard

For the rest of my life, I'll dream of hearing your voice breathe my name. — Sylvain Reynard

Miss Mitchell had a lovely voice, it was true, but Miss Mitchell speaking Italian was something celestial. Her ruby mouth opening and closing, the delicate way she almost sang the words, her tongue peeking out to wet her lips from time to time ... Professor Emerson had to remind himself to close his mouth after it had dropped open. — Sylvain Reynard

If I were to taste your mouth now, I couldn't answer for the consequences. So I can only adore this beautiful neck. I know that in a few seconds I will have to pull away, before the temptation becomes too much. It's too much already. You have no idea how much I want you. — Sylvain Reynard

I want you forever, not just for tonight. — Sylvain Reynard

I found my hope when I found you. — Sylvain Reynard

I didn't realize i would have to wait seven hundred years to find my soul mate. — Sylvain Reynard

Why do you do that?" he whispered, after a few minutes.
"Do what?"
"Provoke me."
"I don't ... I ... I'm not provoking you. I'm stating a fact."
"Nevertheless, it is extremely provocative. Every time I try to have a conversation with you like a normal person, you provoke me. — Sylvain Reynard

He was handsome. One might even say he was beautiful, with blond hair, gray eyes, and a youthful appearance. His body, although less than six feet tall, was lean and muscular beneath his black suit. — Sylvain Reynard

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a family,' thought Julia, as she watched Rachel and Scott hug their father. 'Where love and forgiveness replace tears and suffering — Sylvain Reynard

It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible ... — Sylvain Tesson

Gabriel reclined against the banquette and regarded her with a slow and sinuous smile. "That would rather defeat the purpose of watching, don't you think? — Sylvain Reynard

The modified Mozart used by Tomatis, Paul, iLs, and others over time in an individualized therapy must be distinguished from claims made in the media in the 1990s that mothers could raise the IQ of their children by having them briefly listen to unfiltered Mozart. This claim was based on a study not of mothers and babies but of college students who listened to Mozart ten minutes a day and improved IQ scores on spatial reasoning tests - an effect that lasted only ten to fifteen minutes! Hype aside, different studies by Gottfried Schlaug, Christo Pantev, Laurel Trainor, Sylvain Moreno, and Glenn Schellenberg have shown that sustained music training, such as learning to play an instrument, can lead to brain change, enhance verbal and math skills, and even modestly increase IQ.] — Norman Doidge

Mr. Emerson watched, almost breathless, as she swirled the wine in her glass expertly, then lifted it so that she could examine it more closely in the candlelight. She brought the glass to her nose, closed her eyes, and sniffed. Then she placed the glass to her plump lips and tasted the wine, holding it in her mouth for a while before swallowing. She opened her eyes, smiled even more widely, and thanked Antonio for his precious gift. — Sylvain Reynard

I wandered in the darkness looking for something better, something real. I found you, and I'll be damned if I'm going to lose you. — Sylvain Reynard

I didn't know it was possible to love someone other than you so much. — Sylvain Reynard

There's nothing sexier than having the woman you love shave you, while you enjoy her body. — Sylvain Reynard

If he could communicate to her with his body, perhaps he failed to see the need to communicate with words. — Sylvain Reynard

Never Leave." His voice dropped, and he turned to face her.
"I'm more worried about losing you."
He leaned over and kissed her forehead. "Then you have nothing to worry about — Sylvain Reynard

It isn't God who's evil-it's us ... Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddle with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from? Human beings have a tremendous capacity for cruelty. Why is there any goodness at all? Why are people like Grace and Richard so kind? Because there's a God, and he hasn't allowed the earth to be entirely corrupted. There are sticky like leaves, if you look for them. And when you recognize them, you can feel his presence. — Sylvain Reynard

This is the culmination of all my hopes, Gabriel. Julia reached out to him and he strained to catch her pinky finger with his own. This is my happy ending. — Sylvain Reynard

Gabriel gazed at his reflection in the mirror. To his shock and dismay, he was clad only in his underwear, a cheeky pair of boxer shorts that had the phrase 'Medievalists Do It in the Dark (Ages)' printed all over them in phosphorescent lettering. — Sylvain Reynard

The brown-eyes angel was weeping over the demon. The angel wept because she was grieved at the mere thought of someone hurting him — Sylvain Reynard

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow — Sylvain Reynard

Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind. — Sylvain Neuvel

I have become a great many things since you made me your lover. — Sylvain Reynard

You will not die of pain, but you will never get used to it. Pain is unique in that it does not show habituation or neural adaptation, like smell, or touch. — Sylvain Neuvel

The cabin will return to the soil when abandoned by its owner, yet in its simplicity it offers perfect protection against the seasonal cold without disfiguring the sheltering forest. With the yurt and the igloo, it figures among the handsomest human responses to environmental adversity. — Sylvain Tesson

She thinks most people fail to reason at all. The way she describes the world today, most people are monkeys who happen to wear clothes. On occasion. — Sylvain Reynard

Gabriel noticed with satisfaction the way Julia intentionally fingered one of her diamond earrings, as if she understood his revelations and received them gladly. As if she knew he was revealing his love for her through art. His heart swelled. — Sylvain Reynard

Projects get sent to you, and you read them, and there's something for you there. There's something to be done. — Sylvain White

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. — Sylvain Neuvel

When everyone in the whole world believes one thing and you are the only one who believes differently, it's very tempting to assimilate — Sylvain Reynard

I never understood why people use words they do not understand. — Sylvain Neuvel

I didn't know what darkness was until I lost you. — Sylvain Reynard

A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it. — Mike Tindall

Agape, eros, and chastity, a heady combination that would make even the strongest man fall to his knees — Sylvain Reynard

You can't do it, can you? Your skin remembers me, and so does your heart. You told them to forget, but they can't. Remember me, Beatrice. Remember your first. — Sylvain Reynard

Of course, one might object that it is impossible for one person, one woman, to represent the ideal of both agape and eros. If you will allow my indulgence for a moment, I will suggest that such skepticism is a form of misogyny. For only a misogynist would argue that women are either saints or seductresses - virgins and whores. Of course, a woman, or a man for that matter, can be both - the muse can be lover to both soul and body. — Sylvain Reynard

Those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga. — Sylvain Tesson

Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddled with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from? — Sylvain Reynard

I am about to bring you into the underworld, Persephone. Can you be brave? — Sylvain Reynard

No relationship is absolutely reciprocal. Sometimes, when couples try to split everything in half, they discover that the relationship is not a partnership but a bean counting exercise. Striving for reciprocity in a relationship can be unhealthy. — Sylvain Reynard

A tall and shirtless Gabriel looked down at her. He was clad only in his underwear, which made him look slightly sexy and slightly ridiculous.
His fists were clenched, and Julia saw the tendons standing out in his magnificent arms.
"Don't you remember what happened last night, Gabriel?"
"No, thankfully I don't. And get up! You're on your knees more than the average whore." He spoke through clenched teeth, glaring at her servile form. — Sylvain Reynard

Sylvain flung out his hands. "You think my father never screwed up with me? You think I never screwed up with him? You don't get only one chance, for God's sake. You get five million chances, second after second every day. You don't have to get every single one of them perfect. Merde. It's not chocolate. — Laura Florand

Look at me and tell me it meant nothing to you, and I will let you go. — Sylvain Reynard

Think about what this day might have been if my dear one, the only person on this earth whom I miss even when she's with me, had deigned to be here. Do not think about the reasons that led her not to come along. Get quietly drunk because of the impossibility of not thinking about the above. Rejoice at the coming of night that will hide the shit on my shitfaced face. — Sylvain Tesson

Rachel looked annoyed. "Do you think he's embarrassed by us?"
"More likely he's embarrassed by her," said Gabriel. "She's probably a stripper."
"Professors in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." Rachel glared at her brother and stormed out. — Sylvain Reynard

All believers are hypocrites because none of us live up to our beliefs. — Sylvain Reynard

That was before I decided to bring an angel to my bed. — Sylvain Reynard

Sin isn't something that is attracted to a human being, Professor. It's the other way around. — Sylvain Reynard

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book — Sylvain Tesson

Evil had its own logic and it was not something he, given his own moral code, would ever understand. And humans think we are monsters. — Sylvain Reynard

She did not know what she had expected from her Dante, but she definitely hadn't received it. So with the wisdom that comes only from having experienced a broken heart, she resolved to let him go once and for all. — Sylvain Reynard

His declaration was so honest and so frightening, the words burned into her like fire. — Sylvain Reynard

Don't you think she's had her quota of assholes? — Sylvain Reynard

All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things are transient, ambiguous, subject to vicissitudes. Mathematicians go backward and forward from one world to another. They're adults in the crystalline world, infants in the real one. — Sylvain Cappell

You can't eliminate your past but you don't have to be controlled by it. — Sylvain Reynard

Your the closest thing to an angel I'll ever touch. — Sylvain Reynard

That's my Heaven. And my Hell. — Sylvain Reynard

said once that you were not my equal, but my better. — Sylvain Reynard

She wanted to be someone's muse - to be worshipped and adored, body and soul. She wanted to play Beatrice to a dashing and noble Dante and to inhabit Paradise with him forever. And to live a life that would rival the beauty of Botticelli's illustrations. — Sylvain Reynard

Lillian Hellman wrote a play called The Little Foxes. In it a young girl tells her mother that some people eat the earth, like locusts, and others stand around and watch them do it. — Sylvain Reynard

Cassita vulneratus. Raven awoke with a start. — Sylvain Reynard

I want to be your first and your last. I love you, Julianne. I offer you my heart and my life. — Sylvain Reynard

If I have a soul, it's yours. — Sylvain Reynard

Beauty is vain. It appears and, like the wind, it's gone. Remember that. — Sylvain Reynard

I can't understand why everyone just doesn't want kindness. Life is painful enough. — Sylvain Reynard

He knew he lived in hell. He accepted it. He rarely complained. But truth be told, he desperately wished he could make his escape. His prayers went unanswered, and his plans for reform were almost always thwarted by something or other. — Sylvain Reynard

Hands off the Precious, Gollum. — Sylvain Reynard

When I am an old man and I can remember nothing else, I will remember this moment. The first time my eyes beheld an angel in the flesh. "I will remember your body and your eyes, your beautiful face and breasts, your curves and this." He traced his hand around her navel before dragging it lightly to the top of her lower curls. "I will remember your scent and your touch and how it felt to love you. But most of all, I will remember how it felt to gaze at true beauty, both inside and out. For you are fair, my beloved, in soul and in body, generous of spirit and generous of heart. And I will never see anything this side of heaven more beautiful tham you — Sylvain Reynard

I thought something bad might have happened to him. It's nice to know he just doesn't want to talk to me. — Sylvain Neuvel

I like your ... outfit." His eyes took in the naked flesh that was visible below the edge of the shirttail.
"I like your outfit too. You're looking awfully casual this morning, Professor."
He leaned forward and gave her a heated look. "Miss Mitchell, you're lucky I decided to put on any clothes at all." He chuckled at her fierce blush and disappeared into the kitchen.
Oh, gods of all virgins who are planning to have sex with their sex-god (no blasphemy intended) boyfriends, please don't let me spontaneously combust when he finally takes me to bed. I really need a Gabriel-induced orgasm, especially after last night. Please. Please. Pretty please ... — Sylvain Reynard

Wrath is one of the seven deadly sins," she remarked, turning away from him to gaze out the window, trying to alleviate the burning sensation in her middle.
He laughed bitterly. "Remarkably, I have all seven; don't bother counting. Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, lust."
She lifted an eyebrow but did not turn around. "Somehow, I doubt that."
"I don't expect you to understand. You're only a magnet for mishap, while I am a magnet for sin. — Sylvain Reynard

Look at her. She does blossom under kindness. Just like a rose, opening her petals. — Sylvain Reynard

I love you far too much, I'm sure. But I don't know how to love you any other way. — Sylvain Reynard

Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us. — Sylvain Reynard

You're an emotional rollercoaster, and I wanted to climb off. — Sylvain Reynard

I would like you to talk to someone."
Julia lowered her eyes? "I talk to you."
"I meant someone who isn't an ass. — Sylvain Reynard

I don't like to think of anything as hopeless — Sylvain Reynard

I love you too. I love you far too much, I'm sure. But I don't know how to love you any other way." His final words were a whisper, but they burned in the air. "I don't know how to love you any other way, either," she whispered back. "Then God have mercy on us both. — Sylvain Reynard

As Julia scanned the crowd, one face stood out. A young-looking, fair-haired man with strange gray eyes stared unblinkingly in her direction, his expression one of intense curiosity. — Sylvain Reynard

You're gorgeous, Gabriel. You always were, you know."
"Nature's cruelty - the fallen angel retains his beauty. But I'm ugly on the inside. — Sylvain Reynard

Thank you for making everything beautiful just by being. -Gabriel — Sylvain Reynard

I was smart enough to know it was wrong, but not brave enough to stop them. — Sylvain Neuvel

In fact, it's probably easier to give a pill to a cat than to a man. Then again, a man can't scratch you. — Sylvain Reynard

She glanced over at the twisted wreckage of the chair - (a nice, Swedish chair that had done nothing in its short life to hurt anyone — Sylvain Reynard

I told you I would go to Hell to rescue you and that's just what I did ... And I'd do it again. — Sylvain Reynard

She was his as surely as if he'd branded his name on her skin. — Sylvain Reynard

I never left you. I was the shadow on your wall. — Sylvain Reynard

The cycle of abuse interspersed with occasional bouts of kindness keeps you stuck, waiting and hoping for the kindness to return. And it does, on occasion, only to be swept away. — Sylvain Reynard

I breathe you," he whispered. "You're everything. You're the air."
-Gabriel — Sylvain Reynard

And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that. — Sylvain Reynard

Some grief is so great, it can't be felt; it can only be observed. Or denied. — Sylvain Reynard

Gabriel caught her hand in his and pressed his open mouth to her palm. Julianne, you were never just my student. You're my soul mate. My bashert. — Sylvain Reynard

Well, you always worry about being pin holed. I haven't been yet. You always worry about that, no matter which genre you do. Luckily for me so far, every time I've done a movie it's been a completely different genre. — Sylvain White