Three59 Quotes & Sayings

Even beyond my craving for sex was my longing for intimacy. Matty advertised intimacy. He dangled it in front of my face and jerked it away the second my arm shifted to reach for it. The moment my interest weaned, he'd dangle it again. The scraps of attention Matty tossed me was merely a flickering candle on the other end of a cold dungeon. I couldn't escape incarceration, but I was certain that its flames would thaw my frostbite. — Maggie Young

What's the point in looking back," he told me in one email. "I'd rather — Brent Schlender

The people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as the people who despise money speak as if its only use were to be kept in bags and gloated over? Isn't it fairer to look at them both as opportunities, which may be used either stupidly or intelligently, according to the capacity of the user? — Edith Wharton

drank more scotch. "Probably he wasn't alone," I said. "Probably not," Hawk murmured. "So," I said. "How you want to handle this? — Robert B. Parker

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry. — Jesse Ventura

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place. — Penn Badgley

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after? — Kabir

Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it. — Leslie A. Gordon

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. — Gretel Ehrlich

It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its own decay. This longing had historically been the domain of religion, and was now the increasingly fertile terrain of technology. — Mark O'Connell

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre. — George Orwell

Chinese migrants had learned from long experience to expect little of governments, and to rely much on the networks of kinship, culture, and trust. — Anthony Reid

It was more than a kiss ... it was a sentence of unbroken kisses, the hot sweet syllables of lips and tongue making her drunk on sensation. — Lisa Kleypas