Xhex's Quotes

#1. Oh my God ...
Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink ... in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted ... in a billboard-size front with flourishes ...
Her name in the Old Language.

J.R. Ward

#2. John took his fucking time in Xhex's shower , washing himself thoroughly not because he was dirty, but because he figured two could play at the whole whip-the-state-clean, what-happened-didn't-happen thing.

J.R. Ward

#3. Amazing, John thought as he stood behind Xhex. If you looked down at your cock and balls and told them that if they behaved badly you would slice them up and bury them in the back yard, they actually listened to you.

J.R. Ward

#4. Acorns were good until bread was found.

Francis Bacon

#5. Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance.

Seth Roberts

#6. The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

Bassem Youssef

#7. Tohr: "Doesn't have to be easy to be right."
John: "In that case, we're meant for each other.

J.R. Ward

#8. There are only two days on my calendar, today and THAT DAY!

Martin Luther

#9. It was hard to explain. But what was between them went further than a mating ceremony or a back carving or a witnessed exchange of commitment. He couldn't put his finger on the why of it ... but she was his missing puzzle piece, the twelfth in his dozen, the first and last pages of his book.

J.R. Ward

#10. People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes.

J.R. Ward

#11. He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him ... and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.

J.R. Ward

#12. And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.

J.R. Ward

#13. Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

Peter Drucker

#14. I have always loved too much,
or not enough.

Dorianne Laux

#15. You don't go after what's mine. Now be a good boy and gut yourself. -Xhex, Lover Mine.

J.R. Ward

#16. I would hold you up. I will ever hold you up and hold you dear, lover mine.

J.R. Ward

#17. You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.

Brett Brown

#18. What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

Najib Mikati

#19. Nector got even by the use of penmanship.

Louise Erdrich

#20. We learn only to ask more questions.

Larry Niven

#21. No, you've got it all wrong, John." Reading his emotions, she shook her head. "You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.

J.R. Ward

#22. He was having an illicit affair ... with his own mate.

J.R. Ward

#23. It would be possible to say without exaggeration that the miners' leaders were the stupidest men in England if we had not frequent occasion to meet the owners.

Sam Smith

#24. If you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

Phyllis Bottome

#25. Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.

J.R. Ward