83 Quotes About Adam

Adam was the first human to live an immortal life. He was also the first of God’s creations. Today, Adam is the name of the first man, and the Bible refers to him as both man and Adam. The story of Adam and Eve is one of humanity’s most important stories Read more

It sets the foundation for many other Biblical accounts, including Jesus Christ’s story. Find out what this story is all about with this collection of quotes about adam.

I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has,...
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I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again! Jenny Downham
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward....
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Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. Gayle Forman
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All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he must needs have unto heaven, who was the Sonne of God. For holding no dependence on any preceding efficient but God; in the act of his production there may be conceived some connexion, and Adam to have been in a moment all Navel with his Maker. And although from his carnality and corporal existence, the conjunction seemeth no nearer than of causality and effect; yet in his immortall and diviner part he seemed to hold a nearer coherence, and an umbilicality even with God himself. And so indeed although the propriety of this part be found but in some animals, and many species there are which have no Navell at all; yet is there one link and common connexion, one general ligament, and necessary obligation of all whatever unto God. Whereby although they act themselves at distance, and seem to be at loose; yet doe they hold a continuity with their Maker. Which catenation or conserving union when ever his pleasure shall divide, let goe, or separate, they shall fall from their existence, essence, and operations; in brief, they must retire unto their primitive nothing, and shrink into that Chaos again. Thomas Browne
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Not a believer in the mosque am I, Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.I am not the pure amongst the impure, I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.Bulleh, I know not who I am. Not in the holy books am I, Nor do I dwell in bhang or wine, Nor do I live in a drunken haze, Nor in sleep or waking known. Bulleh, I know not who I am. Not in happiness or in sorrow am I found. I am neither pure nor mired in filthy ground. Not of water nor of land, Nor am I in air or fire to be found. Bulleh, I know not who I am. Not an Arab nor Lahori, Not a Hindi or Nagouri, Nor a Muslim or Peshawari, Not a Buddhist or a Christian.Bulleh, I know not who I am. Secrets of religion have I not unravelled, I am not of Eve and Adam.Neither still nor moving on, I have not chosen my own name! Bulleh, I know not who I am. From first to last, I searched myself. None other did I succeed in knowing. Not some great thinker am I.Who is standing in my shoes, alone? Bulleh, I know not who I am. Bulleh Shah
Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love...
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Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations. Michael Grant
God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human...
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God designed life to be enjoyed by all, but human being turned things around and made it to be endured. Bamigboye Olurotimi
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Though I’d proven to be a wretched, foolish woman, I knew deep in my broken heart that God was still just as good and loving as he’d been the moment he plucked a rib from Adam’s side and used that bone to give me life. Kristen Reed
One of the reasons God did not make a lover...
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One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Often blaming, is a trait of a childish soul.
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Often blaming, is a trait of a childish soul. Toba Beta
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I stood like Adam in his lonely garden On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves, Like tissue on some vast, incredible gift. Mary Oliver
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Satan, " he said, "couldn't undo anything God had done. She could at least try to make existence for His little toys less painful. She could see what He couldn't: To be alive was to be either bored or scared stiff. So she filled an apple with all sorts of ideas that might at least relieve the boredom, such as rules for games with cards and dice, and how to fuck, and recipes for beer and wine and whiskey, and pictures of different plants that were smokeable, and so on. And instructions on how to make music and sing and dance real crazy, real sexy. And how to spout blasphemy when they stubbed their toes." Satan had a serpent give Eve the apple. Eve took a bite and handed it to Adam. Hee took a bite, and then they fucked. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy? Karen Marie Moning
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The first sight I beheld when I first awakened was a pair of eyes filled with pure adoration and a joyful grin that shone more brightly than the afternoon sun. Though he hadn’t spoken a single word, I knew exactly who he was. He was my creator … my Lord … my God. Kristen Reed
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When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away. Maggie Stiefvater
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In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth. He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare. Toba Beta
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I have no desire to spend every night of the next few months at balls and soirees or drowning in tea with morning callers. Sarah M. Eden
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People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born. Joseph Adam Pearson.
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Tuatha De do not walk the human realm alone. Actually, they don't walk alone much anywhere. Only the occasional rogue Fae will do so."" Like yourself?"" Yes Most of my kind have no fondness for solitude. Those who walk alone are not to be trusted."" Really, " she said dryly. "Except for me, " he amended, with a faint, insouciant grin. Karen Marie Moning
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Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter. Gayle Forman
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Caitlyn (telling a story of her friend): So. [She] grew up and left Neverland for the distant planet called College...And made a bunch of new friends. So. There was the one guy who was there since the beginning basically... Zechariah: Since the beginning? Zechariah Barrett
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The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life. Max Lucado
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The obedience of Christ was far more acceptable to God, than the innocence of Adam; so that a thousand such as Adam could not have equalled Christ alone. For however he, had he continued in the state of innocence, would have left us an hereditary righteousness, of which we should have been possessed: notwithstanding, unspeakably greater, and more excellent, is our union with God in Christ, since he being made man, hath so purified and exalted the human nature in himself, that the primitive state of Adam is not once to be compared with it. Johann Arndt
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When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, ThouSaw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead C.s. Lewis
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As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its restoration in a garden. Eden and Gethsemane were the two gardens around which revolved the fate of humanity. In Eden, Adam sinned; in Gethsemane, Christ took humanity's sin upon Himself. In Eden, Adam hid himself from God; in Gethsemane, Christ interceded with His Father; in Eden, God sought out Adam in his sin of rebellion; in Gethsemane, the New Adam sought out the Father and His submission and resignation. In Eden, a sword was drawn to prevent entrance into the garden and thus immortalizing of evil; in Gethsemane, the sword would be sheathed. Fulton J. Sheen
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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve. . Bertrand Russell
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Clinical, brilliantly medical-minded Adam believes in fate. A fate with Fia. Kiersten White
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I am only my money. It is all anyone sees, even Adam. Maggie Stiefvater
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Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There's a plenty of signs. He is getting belittled to a germ–a little bit of a speck that you can't see without a microscope powerful enough to raise a gnat to the size of a church.(' The Refuge of the Derelicts' collected in Mark Twain and John Sutton Tuckey, The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings (1980), 340-41. - 1980) . Mark Twain
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It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. `Glockenspiel, ' Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away. Glen Duncan
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The earth had two children A son named Adamand a daughter Karan Patade
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He had a come-and-get-me-baby- I'm-pure-trouble-and-you're-gonna-love-it kind of attitude. Karen Marie Moning
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Oh, God, " Lori said without looking at me, "what are they thinking, leaving the two of us alone out here on the dock together? We might TALK or something."" That would be awful, " I said. "I might give you a hickey." She laughed, still watching for Cameron's start instead of looking at me. "Just by talking to me?"" I can talk really dirty. You'd be surprised. Jennifer Echols
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A smaller rocket cut across the sky, trailing smoke. It exploded in a red heart." Awwwww! " said the crowd." Upside down, " said Sean.The heart was, indeed, upside down. It grew and grew, upside down, until it's lights trailed and faded. A bigger rocket exploded in bright golden sparks, and then came another red heart." Upside down, " said all the boys. Three explosions layered on top of one another, gold, blue, pink. Then still another red heart exploded, growing and growing before it faded." Upside down, " said everyone in the boat but me. My own heart expanded for Adam.I whispered, "I know what he meant. . Jennifer Echols
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Your confidence in me is heartwarming. Makes me want to return all the money I stole from the little old ladies and kick the heroin. Jennifer Echols
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Adam ” Lori called loudly enough for me to hear her but not so loud that her voice would carry up to my mom in the marina office- or to her dad who might be listening from their screened porch facing the water. “I came over to get some tips from the boys about teaching Tammy and Rachel to board. Of course I did not come over here to see you. How could you think such a thing That would be disobedient.” I held up the wax. “For my own disobedience I have to buff the boat. Then I’m going for a jog.” She tilted her head. Probably her eyes widened but I couldn’t see them behind her sunglasses. I hated not being able to see her eyes. She asked “In this heat?” I didn’t mind jogging in the heat. The heat was a big friendly animal that liked to wrestle and only occasionally sat on me until I lost my breath. Anyway she was missing the point. I repeated carefully ”I am GOING for a JOG.” “I HEARD you the FIRST time ” she said. “It’s late afternoon in the middle of June. It’s ninety-five degrees out here.” “He means he’s GOING for a JOG” Rachel and Tammy said at the same time. “He’s GOING for a JOG.”Lori still didn’t get it. Normally her blondeness was one of the things I loved about her. At the moment not so much. Exasperated Cameron told her “Adam wants you to go for a jog too.” She said “Oh ” “If you two airheads have to hook up secretly for very long ” Sean said “you’re not going to make it. Jennifer Echols
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Let's go, " I said." Go where?"" On Lori's date with Parker."Now he looked at me over the nerdy spectacles he wore for reading." I wasn't aware it was a double date. And you're not my type. Jennifer Echols
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Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me.""Woof, " I said. Jennifer Echols
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Think like a middle-aged man with OCD, a dead wife, and a teenage daughter. Think like a woman with three teenage sons who once ran a golf cart into the side of their granddad's house."" Cameron and Sean shouldn't have let me drive, " Adam said in his own defense. "I was seven."" You shouldn't have ASKED to drive. You were seven. Jennifer Echols
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Stay away from her."" Okay."" Keep your hands off her."" I'll try." He scowled at me." I will, " I said. Jennifer Echols
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Son, " he said, "you monkeyed up. Jennifer Echols
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I need to explain all this to Adam in private. I can't get McGillicuddy to explain it to him. Something will be lost in translation."" Well, excuse me that I can't look at him all googly-eyed, " my brother said." And he's liable to punch you, " I said. Jennifer Echols
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What did Kevin Ye get arrested for anyway? Didn't he steal a car?" "He stole the driver's ed car." I laughed. Then I saw how Adam was looking at me. "He gave it back." "They MAKE you give stuff back, Lori, after they arrest you for stealing it. Jennifer Echols
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I'm not stalking her, " I insisted." I'm making sure she's safe. Besides, how could you stalk Lori McGillicuddy?She'd see you and come out to your truck and say, "Hi, I'm Lori. Are you my stalker? It's so neat to meet you! While you're stuck here watching my every move, can I bring you anything? Sweet tea? Jennifer Echols
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He sighed, then said, "So basically, you're stalking her."" I am NOT stalking her." I insisted." That's where you come in. If I followed her by myself, someone who did not understand the situation and did not realize that I am so responsible-" Mc Gillicuddy snorted."- might mistake what I am doing for stalking. However, her big brother is with me. Therefore we are protecting her. Jennifer Echols
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Stubble or what?" Eyes still closed he chuckled. "I'm not shaving until our parents let us date again." He kissed my cheek. "What if it takes.. a.. while?" I asked struggling to talk. He'd made his way down to my neck. His tongue circled there slowly. "There are only six or seven weeks until August football practice starts right?" "Hm." His mouth moved up my neck toward my ear. Oh. "Will you be able to stuff your beard into your helmet?" I croaked. In answer he put his lips on my ear. I forgot the next joke I'd planned to make and lost myself in Adam. Jennifer Echols
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You make terrible, terrible plans." "Hey, " I protested. "One of my plans caught you didn't it?" "Yeah, but you meant to catch Sean." He took his hand off my shoulder. I waved his concerns away, along with a cloud of gnats that had found us in the forest. "You're getting lost in the details. Keep the big picture in mind. Jennifer Echols
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Adam thinks that you two are in an argument." My body zinged into alert mode. My mind didn't know what Mrs. Vader meant, but my body already did. Even Sean glanced over at her with a cautious look." He does?" I asked faintly." A bad one, " she confirmed." How could we be in a bad argument without me even knowing about it? Jennifer Echols
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Better you than Cameron " McGillicuddy grumbled. "I know where Cameron's been." Sean snorted. Cameron said "I already told you I did NOT come on to Lori. Jennifer Echols
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Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask" Who's driving the boat?" Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed. Jennifer Echols
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Oof! " Adam caught me all right, with the side of his head. I could tell by the feel of his skull on my foot as I kicked him. He grabbed me the best he could anyway, and we half landed, half fell in the pine needles. He lay facedown on the ground. I flopped him over on his back to make sure he was alive. If he had a concussion, we'd have to call the ambulance, which meant we'd get caught and he'd get sent to military school. On the bright side, maybe the military school would not take him if he had brain damage." I'm so sorry."" Worth it, " he grunted. He rolled onto his feet like a ninja and grabbed my hand. "Hurry, before they release the hounds. Jennifer Echols
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Taking his hand I said "Fank woo."" Hm " he laughed with his mouth closed. Jennifer Echols
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Now it's not just my lip you'll be needing to kiss if you're wishing to make amends with me, Irish. Karen Marie Moning
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True love is still true, even if you can't live it the way you want to, " I told her. G.J. WalkerSmith
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I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe. Ann M. Martin
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Your Eve was wise, John. She knew that Paradise would make her mad, if she were to live forever with Adam and know no other thing but strawberries and tigers and rivers of milk. She knew they would tire of these things, and each other. They would grow to hate every fruit, every stone, every creature they touched. Yet where could they go to find any new thing? It takes strength to live in Paradise and not collapse under the weight of it. It is every day a trial. And so Eve gave her lover the gift of time, time to the timeless, so that they could grasp at happiness.. And this is what Queen Abir gave to us, her apple in the garden, her wisdom--without which we might all have leapt into the Rimal in a century. The rite bears her name still. For she knew the alchemy of demarcation far better than any clock, and decreed that every third century husbands and wives should separate, customs should shift and parchmenters become architects, architects farmers of geese and monkeys, Kings should become fishermen, and fishermen become players of scenes. Mothers and fathers should leave their children and go forth to get other sons and daughters, or to get none if that was their wish. On the roads of Pentexore folk might meet who were once famous lovers, or a mother and child of uncommon devotion--and they would laugh, and remember, but call each other by new names, and begin again as friends, or sisters, or lovers, or enemies. And some time hence all things would be tossed up into the air once more and land in some other pattern. If not for this, how fastened, how frozen we would be, bound to one self, forever a mother, forever a child. We anticipate this refurbishing of the world like children at a holiday. We never know what we will be, who we will love in our new, brave life, how deeply we will wish and yearn and hope for who knows what impossible thing! Well, we anticipate it. There is fear too, and grief. There is shaking, and a worry deep in the bone. Only the Oinokha remains herself for all time--that is her sacrifice for us. There is sadness in all this, of course--and poets with long elegant noses have sung ballads full of tears that break at one blow the hearts of a flock of passing crows! But even the most ardent lover or doting father has only two hundred years to wait until he may try again at the wheel of the world, and perhaps the wheel will return his wife or his son to him. Perhaps not. Wheels, and worlds, are cruel. Time to the timeless, apples to those who live without hunger. There is nothing so sweet and so bitter, nothing so fine and so sharp. Catherynne M. Valente
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As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality. Bruce R. McConkie
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It was not the Fall of Adam, therefore, that set God’s agenda; it was the decision to share the great dance with us through Jesus. Adam’s plunge certainly threatened God’s dreams for us, but that threat had been anticipated and already strategically overcome in the predestination of the incarnation. Jesus Christ did not become human to fix the fall; he became human to accomplish the eternal purpose of our adoption, and in order to bring our adoption to pass, the Fall had to be called to a halt and undone…. Jesus is not a footnote to Adam and his Fall; the Fall, and indeed creation itself, is a footnote to the purpose of God in Jesus Christ. . C. Baxter Kruger
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The temptation of Christ was harder, unspeakably harder, than the temptation of Adam; for Adam carried nothing in himself which could have given the tempter a claim and power over him. But Christ bore in himself the whole burden of the flesh, under the curse, under condemnation; and yet his temptation was henceforth to bring help and salvation to all flesh. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No! Unknown
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But as she looked over toward the doors, her breath caught. Her eyes locked on the deep blue ones of a man just entering. He was tall and muscular, his hair blonde and well cut. And he was dressed impeccably in a dark grey suit and a deep blue tie. But it was his eyes that drew her focus and made her heart beat faster. M. Tyler
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She was tipping her head back to inquire, when two men entered the great hall and the question flew right out of her head. They were simply two of the most gorgeous men she'd ever seen. Twins, though different. They were both tall and powerfully built. One was taller by a few inches, with dark hair that swept just past his shoulders and eyes like shard of silver and ice while the other had long black hair falling in a single braid to his waist, and eyes as gold as Adam's torque. They were elegantly dressed in tailored clothing of dark hues, with magnificent bodies that dripped with raw sex ap . Karen Marie Moning
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Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny. Patricia Briggs
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For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever.“ Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable.“ Really what?” I asked.“ Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me.“ Adam, ” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you. Patricia Briggs
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Adam didn't approve of Wal-Mart. Patricia Briggs
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Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?"He smiled at me. "Go to sleep." I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?" His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd...do anything. Patricia Briggs
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Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron. Patricia Briggs
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Such a small thing to cause so much trouble. Patricia Briggs
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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it. Patricia Briggs
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Yes, ” I told him. “I think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.” He stopped where he was.“ What?” I asked, frowning at the big smile on his face.“ I didn’t say I liked the Pirate King, ” he told me.“ Oh.” I closed my eyes–and there he was. A warm, edgy presence right on the edge of my perception. When I opened my eyes, he was standing right in front of me. “Cool, ” I told him. “You’re back.” He kissed me leisurely. When he was finished, I was more than ready to head home. Fast.“You make me laugh, ” he told me seriously. Patricia Briggs
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You going to watch my butt all day, or are you going to join me?" asked my mate." What if I had said I was going to watch your butt all day?" I asked curiously as I opened the door an stepped into the hot water." I've been considering belly-dancing lessons, " he told me in a serious voice. Patricia Briggs
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One more month, " he said finally. "And then they–and Samuel, too–will just have to get used to it. His eye is the color of a bitch with dark chocolate, worst few years and he leaned forward. "And you will marry me." I smiled, showing my teeth. "Don't you mean, ‘will you marry me?’" I meant it to be funny, but his eyes brightened until the gold flecks were swimming in the darkness. "You had your chance to run, coyote. It's too late now. . Patricia Briggs
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Werewolf games, " Mercy said solemnly, "play for keeps, or go home." She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt. Patricia Briggs
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Heart turned to me, his face thought­ful. “Yes­ter­day morn­ing. Yes, that means that Daphne hadn’t been home for two days be­fore that.” He smiled at me. “You were sup­posed to be the Al­pha’s eye can­dy.” Adam laughed.“ What?” I asked him. “You don’t think I’d be good eye can­dy?” I looked down at my over­alls and grease-â€â€¹stained hands. I’d torn an­oth­er nail to the quick.“ Hon­ey is eye can­dy, ” said Ben apolo­get­ical­ly. “You’re . . just you.”“ Mine, ” said Adam, edg­ing be­tween Heart and me. “Mine is what she is. . Patricia Briggs
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Boys, tell your mother to shut her lying whore mouth before I shove the nearest apple down her throat. Jason Aaron
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Cole gets up and then says, “Adam. Five texts. I can read them to you.” He pauses. “Unless they’re personal.” I roll my eyes. “Not that it’s any of your business, but I’m pretty sure he’s desperately in love with my sister.” Cole snorts. “He’s crazy.” “He’d have to be, right? Kiersten White
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When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant! Thomas Hood
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Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was that they escaped teething. S. L. Clemens
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Whilst Adam slept Eve from his side arose Strange his first sleep would be his last repose. Anonymous
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When Adam dolve and Eve span Who was then the gentleman? John Ball
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When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant. Thomas Hood
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Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache. Hungarian Proverb
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In Adam's fall - We sinned all. New England Primer