In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life. Define yourself. – Harvey Fierstein.
Secrets weren’t secrets unless they were hidden away. Those things that we shared openly, that we talked, laughed, and even cried about, couldn’t hurt us because they were out there for the world to see. It was the things that we kept hidden, that we didn’t share, that lurked in the shadows – those held the power to hurt, harm, and even destroy.
Emotions flooded his expression, creating a spinning kaleidoscope. Happiness and sadness battled, and at the same time, I saw loss and duty as well as pride and shame.
She weighed her possibilities.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. – Mark Twain.
You can’t lose everything, until you have everything to lose.
Anger is not the opposite of love, for the opposite of love is indifference. To be angry is to care tremendously. – Doris Moreland Jones.
He remembered the day.
You need to get out in the world.
To the world you may be just one person, but to the one person you may be the world. – Mother Theresa.
Hope is the dream of a waking man. – Aristotle.
As an esteemed businessman, he forgot one very important rule. He forgot to read the fine print. It wasn’t an acquisition to own another person as he’d previously assumed. It was an agreement to acquire a soul.
Everyone has to make their own decisions. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining. – Grace Jones.
The one person who didn’t pressure Claire was Tony. He was, however, omnipresent every day.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. – Charles Darwin.
There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love. – Washington Irving.
We can discuss it tomorrow. Good night.
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. – Alfred A. Montapert Aleatha.
Sometimes... the easy way doesn’t have the same destination.
Remember this, you can want the whole goddamn world but NEVER show it... if they know what you want, they’ll watch you and take it away. Keep up appearances, boy. If you do that, you can take everything you want, the whole damn world is yours.