#tempo

..then he pushed the call button again and asked, "Are you sleeping with anyone?" "Why is that any business of yours?" "Because I want to fuck you, Eva. I need to know what's standing in my way, if anything. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#eva-tramell #gideon-cross #business

Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting. ~Piper - 'Breathe Me ↗

— Alexia Purdy

#literary-fiction #love #love-hurts #second-chances #love

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. ↗

— David Elliott

#between #concerned #contemporary #contemporary art #intelligible

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#contemporary music #i #know #listen #music

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ↗

— Billy Joel

#always #around #artist #contemporary #contemporary life

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#contemporary #events #i #i am #i love

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#age #contemporaries #how #hungry #i

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#condition #defeated #giving #giving up #makes

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ↗

— Walter Scott

#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#fair #flooding #giving #illegal #illegal immigrants