Etablissement Recevant Quotes

#1. Don't kid yourself. Keep the baby - I have no other advice for you. Children are the best thing in the world.

Elvira Baryakina

#2. Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. Why do you weep? Have I taken anything of yours? Only what was mine did I take.

The Talmud

#5. The scent of Havana tobacco draped thick from the magnolia trees in the front yard. Ice cubes mingled and clinked against the sides of crystal tumblers. Patrick said hello to a group of men sitting on the veranda. I heard the pop of a champagne cork and laughter from inside.

Ruta Sepetys

#6. I've heard the women in the Refuge talk about how sensual it is when you feed from them."
Naasir shrugged. "Cooperative food is better than noncooperative food"
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"But the Refuge food is too cooperative," he grumbled. "How much blood do they think I can drink?

Nalini Singh