Claire Nichols Quotes

#1. Does one fight when one knows she can't win? Does one protest when she knows it falls on deaf ears? Does one pray for escape, even if death is the most viable alternative? ~ Claire Nichols Rawlings

Aleatha Romig

#2. Lifting his head to gently kiss her lips, he whispered, "I trust you." Then he covered his own eyes with her satin mask.

Aleatha Romig

#3. By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

John Newton

#4. A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

Robert Frost

#5. Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions.

Edward Witten

#6. Claire, I don't want to lose that look. I promise, I'll never demand it again ... I don't want that. I want what I have today. I'm concerned that, when all my confessions are out - it'll be gone.
Anthony

Aleatha Romig

#7. God help me, I do care about you. Gently hugging her against his chest, he tenderly moved her hair away from her angelic face. Seeing her sleep, peaceful and trusting, his thoughts of waking
her for his desires were quickly replaced.

Aleatha Romig

#8. This was wrong. Tony didn't want to have feelings. The sex was great. It was okay to want her, dominate her, and control her. It was not okay to want to be with her, please her, and love her. Yet every one of his senses desired Claire.

Aleatha Romig

#9. The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

#10. My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

Dmitry Medvedev

#11. She put her arms around his waist and looked up at his face. "I did? What did I take?"
He bent down to kiss her. She stood to meet
him halfway. His lips softly touched her lips and her neck as his hands became tangled in her hair.
"I believe it was my heart.

Aleatha Romig

#12. I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

Henri Rousseau

#13. I don't doubt you can handle it; you've
handled so much. You've always been so strong. It's what - "
"I know - it's what infuriated you about me."
He squeezed her hand. "Yes - and it's
what made me fall in love with you.

Aleatha Romig

#14. In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

James Baldwin

#15. A wish, a dream, a miracle - Whatever it is, it's real.

Aleatha Romig

#16. Which meant I got left with Quinn yet again. Given the time he was taking to make his decision, I wasn't exactly happy about that. I mean, putting me with him was like flashing chocolate my way then telling me I couldn't have it. It was just plain mean.

Keri Arthur

#17. Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#18. There are 23 bootlegs now. Robert Plant came home with a bootleg video and said 'Tori, you've made it. You're nothing until you've been bootlegged.'

Tori Amos