Laqueur Quotes

#1. To paraphrase Walter Laqueur, a pioneer in the study of the Allies' response to the Holocaust, although many people thought that the Jews were no longer alive, they did not necessarily believe they were dead.18

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#2. I want to wake up every morning and listen to your heart. I want to be the last man you slept with. When you say it's been a long time since you made love, I want that time to be a matter of hours. Because I loved you last night. And I'm going to love you again tonight.

Suanne Laqueur

#3. His heart expanded until he was nothing but a heart. A giant pounding heart on two shaking legs walking over to her.

Suanne Laqueur

#4. The earth yawned and stretched toward the sky, rather than assaulting it. The peaks were mighty, but gentle. "Friendly,

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#5. Like I said, my friend, she seems the type who likes to make something beautiful with her partner, rather than just be carried around and adored in the spotlight.

Suanne Laqueur

#6. Aware of how tenuous life can be. How too many things go unsaid or undone. How we wait too long and miss the chance." "Miss

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#7. Day One of being on the shit list." She dug her fingers into her hair, scratching vigorously. "And I haven't a thing to wear." Get

Suanne Laqueur

#8. No matter what you do, be excellent at it." Rafael

Suanne Laqueur

#9. Whatever you have, you give it to me. Whatever you put in my way, I will move it. I'm not afraid of anything you show me. I'll never leave you.

Suanne Laqueur

#10. I want to kiss you until I die.

Suanne Laqueur

#11. All of the little triumphs of their love story had been banked away over the years, accumulating interest. Now they made lavish withdrawals, cashed in every bond, every insurance policy.

Suanne Laqueur

#12. And every atom in her body was throwing itself on the floor in protest, beating fists and toes and yelling. Me. Want. Now.

Suanne Laqueur

#13. She was a beautiful china cup on a table, quietly asking to be filled. And little by little, Erik was tipping over and pouring out.

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#14. He kissed like a fucking dream. Like Deane filled out an application, requested, "Send me a boy who kisses like this," and the universe followed instructions to the letter.

Suanne Laqueur

#15. Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.

Suanne Laqueur

#16. And then they were staring again. And it happened again, just as it had in the theater yesterday. Time slowed, atoms and particles separating and recombining in a secret sphere around them.

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#17. Unlike the made and broken promises of love, the transactions of employment were absolute. "Love's

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#18. You're sparse." "Sparse?" "You're rake thin with obese emotions." His

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#19. I'm still learning how to feel what I feel as I'm feeling it.

Suanne Laqueur

#20. The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.

Walter Laqueur

#21. Some seek the light and hold the light in place. Erik Fiskare didn't like being the center of attention, but he liked situations where he had to keep the attention centered.

Suanne Laqueur

#22. to become a parent was to go around with your heart flayed open for the rest of your life. Moving the earth and giving your best for your kids, with no guarantee your best would be enough to keep them safe.

Suanne Laqueur

#23. Among a thousand other things, she loved Alex for his easy use of we. His willing, unconscious way of taking an oar at the galley of your problem, even if it was just to listen. Even if both of you knew he couldn't do jack shit to help, he made it about us and made you feel less alone. "I

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#24. This is the best thing I've ever done," he said. And he pushed into her, hungry to take the step for his own mankind. Daisy

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#25. But we'll never see her again, she thought. She and Dad won't see us married. They won't see their grandchildren. We won't see their faces seeing us in our adult lives. "I

Suanne Laqueur

#26. Seeing her was a key turned in a rusty lock and now all his gears were churning.

Suanne Laqueur

#27. Fuck everything else," they whispered. "I just need you.

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#28. He new it frustrated her that he had dehydrated parts of his heart so thoroughly, no amount of drenching love and affection could revive them.

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#29. I can't," he whispered, knowing he could, but wishing with every fiber of his being he didn't have to.
"You can," Will said. "You don't have to do it well. You just have to do it.

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#30. How many times did you have to take a guy's hand and tell him, "Dude, it's right here." If he had that kind of learning disability in sports, he'd be a bench decoration. She

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#31. Bowl of rejection," Kees was saying. "Or bowl of regret. That's what it comes down to, those are your choices. Which will taste worse? You ask me, rejection sucks, but you can choke it down. Regret will give you food poisoning for the rest of your life.

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#32. Some men can't do anything unless there's an audience." "What

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#33. A watershed moment exists in every man's life...sometimes it's profound, sometimes it's barely a blip. But every man has the moment when he stops being his mother's son and becomes another woman's man. When he goes from protected to protector.

Suanne Laqueur

#34. Some seek the limelight and some hold the light in place

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#35. Maybe that's life. Trading in one tragedy for a better tragedy.

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#36. Because music makes good citizens and beautiful hearts.

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#37. A bittersweet truth: she wasn't anyone's baby anymore. She'd been left bereft. Her value diminished. She was poor. Alex

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