#tricks

You’re not as sexy as I think you are.” She squinted. Wait. That hadn’t come out right. ↗

— Thea Harrison

#tricks #humor

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. ↗

— Joseph Chamberlain

#dogs #new #old #teach #tricks

I’m busy, you’re busy, everybody’s busy. I’ve got a lot I want to say to you, though.” “All right,” Pia told her. “Hit me with it.” “First, I’m so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we’re going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let’s do lunch, okay? ↗

— Thea Harrison

#pia #tricks #business

Love is a fine thing while it lasts, but rarely is it permanent ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#fine #lasts #life #love #never

[On marriage and permanent attachment:] Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who 'play their cards well' -- but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the game ... [C]lever [women] bide their time -- make themselves indispensable first, and then se font prier [=play hard to get]. Clever -- but I can't do it. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#cleverness #deception #honesty #marriage #men

The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#long-term-relationships #marriage #vows #love

I’ll flick a penny to the dirt, and if I see one on the ground I won’t pick it up. So why is .99 cents so much sexier than a dollar?
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— Jarod Kintz

#currency #dirt #disrespect #dollar #gimmick

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#jacqueline-patricks #life-lessons #maturity #perscpective #life

He had come for her. He had promised everything was going to be okay, and he had come for her, and he had looked so crazy-sexy. No, monstrous. No, sexy. Oh damn. ↗

— Thea Harrison

#tricks #sexy