#lesa

I don't think he meant to kiss me," I said finally. "What? Did he slip and fall on your mouth? Those things are known to happen. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#lesa #fall

His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy. ↗

— Lani Wendt Young

#fiction #mythology #samoa #telesa-series #young-adult-book

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#development #economic #economic development #mandated #new

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#constitutes #days #down #each #ever

At the end of 1964, wholesale prices had been relatively stable for some years. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#end #had #prices #relatively #some

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#been #began #beginning #civilization #class

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#doing #extremely #i #mean #our

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#art #does #east #hand #know

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. ↗

— William James

#business #cannot #convenience #does #exclusively

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#again #clause #commerce #conservatives #court