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Quote:- Nodding, Parker ate. He’s an exceptional kisser.He really is. He . . . How do you know? When Parker just smiled, Emma’s jaw dropped. You? You and Jack? When? How?I think it’s disgusting, Mac muttered. Yet another best pal moving on my imaginary ex.Two kisses, my first year at Yale, after we ran into each other at a party and he walked me back to the dorm. It was nice. Very nice. But as exceptional a kisser as he is, it was too much like kissing my brother. And as exceptional a kisser as I am, I believe he felt it was too much like kissing his sister. And that’s how we left it. I gather that wasn’t an issue for you and Jack.
Bed of Roses
Author:- Nora Roberts
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Noemi wondered if High Place had robbed her of her illusions, or if they were meant to be shattered all along. Marriage could hardly be like the passionate romances one read about in books. It seemed to her, in fact, a rotten deal. Men would be solicitous and well behaved when they courted a woman, asking her out to parties and sending her flowers, but once they married. the flowers wilted. You didn't have married men posting love letters to their wives. That's why Noemí tended to cycle through admirers. She worried a man would be briefly impressed with her luster, only to lose interest later on. There was also the excitement of the chase, the delight that flew through her veins when she knew a suitor was bewitched with her. Besides, boys her age were dull, always talking about the parties they had been to the previous week or the one they were planning to go to the week after. Easy, shallow men. Yet the thought of anyone more substantial made her nervous, for she was trapped between competing de sires, a desire for a more meaningful connection and the desire to never change. She wished for eternal youth and endless merriment.
Mexican Gothic
Author:- Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Non aver fretta, la vita non scappa via.
Quello che il silenzio nasconde
Author:- Arbron Gashi
Category:- Life,motivational
Quote:- Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
Author:- Seneca
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Non ricordavo più se in passato mi fosse già accaduto, ma nell'affrontare il buio che ognuno ha dentro di sé dopo una ferita profonda, distrutta dalla stanchezza, all'improvviso un'energia sconosciuta aveva cominciato a riemergere.
Asleep
Author:- Banana Yoshimoto
Category:- hope
Quote:- Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.
Author:- Deepak Chopra
Category:- best
Quote:- None can choose their fates," said the king in a grave voice. "They can only choose how they shall tread the path laid before their feet.
Daughter of Kings
Author:- Isabella Auer
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Author:- Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:- science
Quote:- None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.
Rule of Wolves
Author:- Leigh Bardugo
Category:- hope
Quote:- None of us has a right to dictate how another human being finds happiness. Our time on this planet is short and all types of commitment are valid when they're built on love.
Hot 4
Author:- Stephanie Brother
Category:- Love
Quote:- None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hills or the thick boughs heavy with greenery. You are no longer a role, or a status, not even an individual, but a body, a body that feels sharp stones on the paths, the caress of long grass and the freshness of the wind. When you walk, the world has neither present nor future: nothing but the cycle of mornings and evenings. Always the same thing to do all day: walk. But the walker who marvels while walking (the blue of the rocks in a July evening light, the silvery green of olive leaves at noon, the violet morning hills) has no past, no plans, no experience. He has within him the eternal child. While walking I am but a simple gaze.
A Philosophy of Walking
Author:- Frédéric Gros
Category:- philosophy,poetry
Quote:- Nonetheless, its future is known, much as one might wish to ignore it: the photo will live briefly in somebody's memory, and then become dormant once again—that is, in no one's active memory—and after that it will hibernate in some electronic corner of the world for a long time before disappearing for good. In the other photo, which I took so as to capture the entire building from the ground up, you can make out, on the eave or cornice above the doorframe, several patches of peeling paint.
My Two Worlds
Author:- Sergio Chejfec
Category:- time
Quote:- Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules. [...] Analyzing the behavior of a nonlinear equation like the Navier-Stokes equation is like walking through a maze whose walls rearrange themselves with each step you take.
Chaos: Making a New Science
Author:- James Gleick
Category:- science
Quote:- Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.
Author:- William Butler Yeats
Category:- hope
Quote:- Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one.
Author:- Robert Frost
Category:- Life,best
Quote:- Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won't keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect?
Author:- Cristina Marrero
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Norse mythology hints at Odinic cults, with Odin being worshipped through a combination of ecstatic and seemingly shamanistic rituals. From the eddic poem The Sayings of the High One ( Hávamál ), he is said to have hanged himself in a sacrificial ritual on a tree. Barely surviving this ordeal, Odin gains arcane knowledge, including the use of runes, the ancient Scandinavian alphabet sometimes used for magical purposes. In the poem, Odin chants : I know that I hungon the wind-swept treeall nine nightswith spear was I woundedand given to Odin,myself to me,on that tree which no one knowsfrom which roots it grows.Bread I was not given, no drink from the horn,downwards I glared;up I pulled the runes,screaming I took them,from there I fell back again.- excerpt from Jesse L. Byock's Introduction and Notes, of Sturluson's Prose Edda.
The Prose Edda
Author:- Snorri Sturluson
Category:- knowledge