100 Quotes About Contemporary

The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird. Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can’t even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let her see how it feels to teeter on that cliff. Nyrae Dawn

I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me the most I would say it was that one. Megan Hart

Have you ever been so blindsided by a kiss you had to hold on for dear life to avoid toppling over like a sapling in a fierce storm? Yeah, me either. This was a first. It was no ordinary kiss. This felt like a revelation. Like a thunderclap accompanied by the soulful voices of a Greek chorus. Lane Hayes

Impressive, " Court offered, gallantly bending to retrieve the shoe. "You should join the theater."" Fuck you."" I owed you that."" Revenge is a dish best served with a side of handcuffs and a hard ass-fucking. Remember Finn Marlowe

Not only were my nerves shot, but my body was a traitor. I didn’t want to melt against him. I didn’t want to enjoy the feeling of his lips sliding across my skin. I didn’t want to like the possessive way his fingers dug into my waist or the way his erection pressed against me. E.M. Denning

... because the Legs wasn't fearful of heights or swimming in rough water or Death itself she wasn't afraid to risk making a fool of herself. Maybe you think that's something of no consequence but it isn't - for making a fool of yourself, offering yourself to others to laugh at, to jeer, that takes guts. Joyce Carol Oates

Honest dishonesty. That’s quite the oxymoron — but I like the originality that you’ve brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer, ” he added jokingly. Zack Love

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today. D.h. Lawrence

Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun. Tessa Emily Hall

I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight. Ashley Earley

I’m not sure. But — unless I’m struggling with the darkness within — I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is. Zack Love

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, ” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany. Zack Love

So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition. Zack Love

She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak, are all within the palm of her hand Holly Ducarte

And then he was kissing me like we were both on fire and he was trying to put the flames out, and I kissed him back like an arsonist with a pocketful of matches. Jenn Bennett

Talking to you is like talking to someone I’ve never met before. When did you become so competitive? When did you decide that you needed to win all of the time?’ He stopped dead in the promenade and grabbed her hand, turning her to face him. He caught her by surprise. She leant her neck backwards slightly in defence.‘ When I lost you. Tan Redding

Don’t invite envy to your house — you never know who will show up, ” she used to warn me. Zack Love

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke) Zack Love

Rubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles. Karina Halle

When I’d remember this night in weeks, months, or even years, it wouldn’t be the sex. Sex would fade and so would the need to be filled with him, but right now I felt him inscribe his soul around my chest, and the reminder would be there with every beat for as long as I lived. Rebecca Berto

I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness. Gail Honeyman

This is love not business or politics. I love someone. How can I replace her with someone else? Pramod Verma

Words, to me, are the same as an instrument is to a musician. I never know where this typewriter is going to take me until I begin. I never know what I'm feeling until I read over what I have written. Tessa Emily Hall

People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we’d all fit inside some multiple-choice question. Riley Cavanaugh

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother. Linda Joyce

For in America this season is decreed “family season”. (Eat your hearts out, you pitiable loners who don’t have families! ) Melancholy as Thanksgiving is, the Christmas-New year’s season is far worse and lasts far longer, providing rich fund of opportunities for self-medicating, mental collapse, suicide and public mayhem with firearms. In fact it might be argued that the Christmas-New year’s season which begins abruptly after Thanksgiving is now the core-sason of American life itself, the meaning of American life„ the brute existencial point of it. How without families must envy us who bask in parental love, in the glow of yule-logs burning in fireplaces stoked by our daddie’s robust pokers, we who are stuffed to bursting with our mummie’s frantic holiday cooking; how you wish you could be us, pampered/protected kids tearing expensive foil wrappings off too many packages to count, gathered about the Christmas tree on Christmas morning as Mummy gently chided: “Skyler! Bliss! Show Daddy and Mummy what you’ve just opened, please! And save the little cards, so you know who gave such nice things to you”. . Joyce Carol Oates

Playdate. (n) A Date arranged by adults in which young children are brought together, usually at the home of one of them, for the premeditated purpose of “playing”. A feature of contemporary American upscale suburban life in which “neighborhoods” have ceased to exist, and children no longer trail in and out of “neighbor childrens” houses or play in “backyards”. In the absence of sidewalks in newer “gated” coummunities, children cannot “walk” to playdates but must be driven by adults, usually mothers. A “playdate” is never initiated by the players (i.e., children), but only by their mothers. In American-suburban social climbing through playdating, this is the chapter you’ve been awaiting. Joyce Carol Oates

... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself. Thomas Sweeney

Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to protect it? Thomas Sweeney

The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining. Thomas Sweeney

My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible. Thomas Sweeney

We are one. Thomas Sweeney

Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay in bed enabling my hopelessness. I’d been the ugly in my world. Rebecca Berto

She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all? S. Elle Cameron

Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level. James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss. Lucy: My head-hair volume is fine. James: You say that like I should be concerned about leg-hair volume. Kristen Tracy

Humph! A text message that said, ‘What’s up, sexy?’ You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the bedroom– N. Wood Lane

Something refused to come into focus in my thinking. Indistinctly, as though in a fog, shapes moved toward me and retreated just beyond cognition. But that getting a hold of things is the uncertainty. As the Tractatus says right at the beginning, “The world is everything that is the case.” It seemed as though the Mammy≈Divas® were just like Steve Jobs, trying to have reality bent to their own wills. Objectively, the i Phone was a muddle of mysticism and logic–breakable glass, non-ergonomic design, lousy battery life, lousy irreplaceable battery, lousy headphone jack, lousy virtual keyboard, lousy email, lousy memory, lousy lice, etc., etc, and an interface that you had to adapt to by pretending as an article of faith that no adaptation was required. The Mammy≈Divas® promised a seamless racial interface–eternal blackness ordered and majestic. They put a benign face on their lust for panoptic power. They promised to discipline and punish with pancakes. Jon Woodson

The animals known as human beings live in humongous condominium blocks, just going about their daily lives. I've come to realize that it's just a modern jungle. And I'm the girl who's wandered into the forest. Inio Asano

Seeing him again had been a gut punch. Tan Redding

Stop saying hurt.’ She turned on him; the wounded animal finally breaking free. ‘You fall over on the pavement, that hurts; you stub your toe, that hurts; you trap your finger in a car door, shit, that hurts. You did not hurt me. James. It was like you took a razor and pressed down hard in the tenderest place. Tan Redding

How will the performer-audience interaction change, now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers? Natasha Tsakos

This person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe it. But believing is not an issue here, the time for faith and fantasy is over, it is really really happening. It involves stepping forward and bowing. Possibly there is some kneeling, such as when one is knighted. One is almost never knighted. But this person may kneel and receive a tap on each shoulder with a sword. Or, more likely, this person will be in a car or a store or under a vinyl canopy when it happens. Or online or on the phone. It could be an e-mail re: your knighthood. Or a long, laughing, rambling phone message in which every person this person has ever known is talking on a speakerphone and they are all saying, You have passed the test, it was all just a test, we were only kidding, real life is so much better than that. . Miranda July

Before I could respond, I looked out the window again and as if in response to my thoughts, I saw Cooper walking up my driveway. My jaw dropped. I peeked around the kitchen doorframe. Mom was still lost to the television. I turned and looked out the window to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating. No, it was really him. And he had a horse walking beside him. How clichéd could it get? Pixie Lynn Whitfield

I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us. Laurie Halse Anderson

Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug. Gayle Forman

I can't stop thinking about what he felt like against my body, against my lips. I can't remember anything else, anything before that. And I realize in this moment that I've finally done it. That horrible, awful thing I swore I would never do. The frosting. The cigarettes. The blue glass triangle. The shooting stars. The taste of his mouth on mine in the hall closet. Gone. All I can think about is Sam. Matt is — erased. My whole body is warm and buzzing. Sam is smiling next to me, because of me. And I've never felt so lonely in all my life. Sarah Ockler

Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears. Deepak Chandra

The modern man needs to catch on to the fact that women want to be treated as equals, but only when it suits us. the modern woman's fierce need for independence doesn't mean we want to pay for our half of a meal, or that we don't want a man to hold a door open for us. We still want to be looked after, but on our terms. Jodi Ellen Malpas

Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before? JoAnne Kenrick

Dean bristled at the idea of outsiders on our turf. I completely understood his apprehension. New people tended to want to kill us. I don’t know why. We were nice people. Suzanne M. Sabol

Milagra led Riona further into the room and away from me, directing the Queen’s attention elsewhere. I let her. Slicing the fae queen open probably wasn’t in our best interests at the moment. I could be diplomatic too. Suzanne M. Sabol

Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem... P.W. Creighton

He kept glancing at my hair, and that meant one of three things; he was trying to figure out if I dye, he had never seen a ginger before in his life, or he was wondering whether the carpet matched the drapes. Martinez, Katerina (2014-09-25). Midnight Magick: A Romantic Witch Suspense (Amber Lee Mysteries Book 1) (Kindle Locations 202-203). Katerina Martinez. Kindle Edition. Katerina Martinez

I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67).. Kindle Edition. R.K. Ryals

The thing is, Sara, writing's scary. You have to be prepared to go deep...... And when your brain's shouting, 'No, no, no, I'm not going to think that thought; it's too dirty, it's too scary, it's too painful, ' that's when you must make yourself think it and make yourself write it. Felicity Everett

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it. Jandy Nelson

In his arms, I slowly unfolded like a love note read in secret. Jill S. Alexander

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky. Jandy Nelson

I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places. Huntley Fitzpatrick

I promise I'll protect you now. I won't let them touch you again. " "I know you'll try." I can do more than try. Katie Mcgarry

The pure menace radiating from my younger sister is undeniable. She can hate me, but I need her to know that she has something that Stella never did: a place to fall. "And if he hurts you or if anyone hurts you...you have me." It feels unnatural, but I hug my sister. Her arms are limp at her sides, but she doesn't push me away. "Remember, you have me, " I repeat. Katie Mcgarry

I don’t know. I guess I’d just like to see you live one day for yourself. Jessica Brody

It’s like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them. Jessica Brody

I’m so tired of crying. I’m so tired of losing. I’m just so tired. Jessica Brody

I can’t help to feel like they’re staring at me, too. Judging me. Deeming me not good enough. Not pretty enough. Not cool enough. And to be honest, sometimes I wonder if they’re right. Jessica Brody

But there’s nothing. My life is one big meaningless cycle of nothingness. Jessica Brody

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them. Estelle Maskame

You've got nothing to be worried about, " he whispers slowly, his breath hot against my cheek, "because, baby, I'm all yours. Estelle Maskame

I don't know what being in love with someone is supposed to feel like, " Tyler admits with a breathy laugh, "but if being in love means thinking about someone every second of every day... If being in love means your entire mood shifts when they're around... If being in love means you'd do anything and everything for them, " he murmurs, "then I am endlessly in love with you. Estelle Maskame

Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone? Estelle Maskame

The truth is, we are never just one thing. We all have many titles and many labels, but far too often, we get trapped inside a single definition. The Teacher's Pet, the Rule Follower, the Cheerleader, the Athlete, the Princess, the Basket Case, the Criminal.. the Rock Star's Girlfriend. Whether we wrote that definition or it was given to us, it somehow becomes our only identity. We get so lost in it that we forget about all the other pieces that make up who we are. Jessica Brody

Dark haired guys are so, so much better. Estelle Maskame

It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you. Estelle Maskame

I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you. Estelle Maskame

It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me. Estelle Maskame

We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim. Estelle Maskame

While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane. Shaun David Hutchinson

What you loved as a child, you will love forever Francesca Zappia

I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up. Ashley Earley

Acknowledging that my biological imperative may not include the drive to procreate, that I just might be attracted to XX chromosomes instead of XY? That's so stupid-minor in comparison to the fact that I might actually be in love for the first time in my life. It's with a girl..so what? Lesbian, bisexual, whatever! Thus isn't about categorisation or chromosomes. This is about how I feel about another person. Kristen Zimmer

Because even if we were struggling, we had goals. It didn't matter that we weren't there yet. What mattered is that we both experienced setbacks, and full-blown failures, but we got up, brushed ourselves off, and kept going-and were making the best of it. Jamie Mcguire

I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you’ll forgive the dramatic metaphor, I was a lousy swimmer. Kody Keplinger

Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he was handing me his shirt. The sight of him with no shirt on hit me. Holy hell, what was he doing? Christie Cote

I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts. S. Elle Cameron

You’re not going to disappear, ” I said. “I won’t let you”.“ Even if this is all there is? Going to school and working at my uncle’s restaurant and fighting with Mari? Why would anyone want to remember this?”“ I want to remember you. Just like this.” She rolled onto her back, hands covering her face, and I pulled them away.“ People like you don’t disappear, ” I said.“ Then where do they go?”“ Everywhere. Laekan Zea Kemp

My mouth dropped open, because even if it wasn't my best friend, I knew the guy who was presently rubbing the short stubble on his chin. The only new thing about him was the little scar on his left eyebrow. It was Gabriel Green, known to me as Gabe the douche bag. Great! Stephanie Witter

Blaire, even if all we do is kiss or just lay there and talk, I'm okay with that. I just wanted you up here. Close to me. Abbi Glines