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"She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. The sort that normally came in a black bottle, and was called something like SHOCK or EXCITE or BLUNT TRAUMA."
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"And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness."
"Lust is the blessing of the fruit of the womb."
"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have only one desire, and that too is a discharging desire of doing 'Jagat kalyan' (world's salvation)."
"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
"There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied-who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy. It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back. Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy. And you cannot make them so."
"Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings you simple pleasure?"
"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."
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"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air."
"Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with--""Drugs?""Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?""No. But maybe rituals""Drugs might be better."
"Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast."
"It's rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don't know you're doing it."
"Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing."
"Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on."
"So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality."
"His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain."
"A symptom," Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. "You're both fools."
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