I could tell from his skeptical smile that he didn’t believe me, but mercifully he chose to change the subject. “You know, you do look frightful. Scared me half to death coming out of the trees like that.”
“James, you did this to me.”
“Yes, but in the dark in that tiny little shed, it wasn’t the same. With all the light on you and that look on your face…”
“Well,” I said, “blood will have blood.”
“Well, I plan never to get on your bad side.”
“Likewise,” I said. “You make a surprisingly convincing villain.”
He shrugged. “Better me than Richard. He looks really murderous.”
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thoughts of Kyle Hunter about his wife, Rai Sokolov
It's been over twenty-seven years since I met her, but she still looks as breathtaking as when I first laid eyes on her.
Elegant, majestic, and brutally demanding of my attention.
This woman hasn't only changed my perspective about life from feeling unwanted to accomplished, but she's also been by my side through everything.
The good, the bad, and the disgustingly ugly.
We don't only love each other, we literally complete one another in ways I find hard to describe.
When a woman gets out of a bad marriage, what does she get? Applause! Cheers, flowers, congratulations. Everyone is so proud of her for taking charge of her life and getting away from that awful beast. Friends throw parties, support groups gush all over her, self-esteem oozes from her pores. But what happens when a man decides to leave his wife? Just the opposite! Everyone rushes to the wife’s side. Overnight, a nice guy becomes a creep, a cheat, a crook. Judges punish you, friends desert you, the world condemns you.
It doesn’t matter if your wife was the world’s worst woman – unbearable and loathsome. It simply doesn’t matter. It’s like this: When a woman wants out, she’s good; when a man wants out, he’s bad.
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Bir kadın kötü bir evlilikten çıktığında eline ne geçer? Alkış! Şerefe, çiçekler, tebrikler. Hayatının sorumluluğunu üstlendiği ve o korkunç canavardan uzaklaştığı için herkes onunla gurur duyuyor. Arkadaşları partiler veriyor, destek grupları onun her yanından fışkırıyor, özgüveni gözeneklerinden sızıyor. Peki bir adam karısını terk etmeye karar verirse ne olur? Tam tersi! Herkes karısının yanına koşuyor. İyi bir adam bir gecede bir sürüngene, sahtekara, dolandırıcıya dönüşür. Yargıçlar seni cezalandırır, arkadaşların seni terk eder, dünya seni kınar.
Karınızın dünyanın en kötü kadını, dayanılmaz ve iğrenç olması önemli değil. Bunun hiçbir önemi yok. Şöyle: Bir kadın çıkmak istediğinde iyidir; bir adam dışarı çıkmak istediğinde kötüdür.
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Sunny Side Down
NOTHING. sitting in a cafe having breakfast. NOTHING. the waitress,
and the people eating. the traffic runs by. doesn’t matter what
Napoleon did, what Plato said. Turgenev could have been a fly. we are worn-
down,
hope stamped out. we reach for coffee cups like the robots about
to replace us. courage at Salerno, bloodbaths on the
"Suppose I break all the rules and stop this. What then? Where does it end, Donna? Do I stop every disaster that ever happened? On every planet? Stop every murder in history? Accidents? How about people having bad thoughts who are about to do something, do I stop them before they do it? What would that make me? I don't want to be a dictator. I just do what I can, where I can, but when it's a fixed point in history, there's nothing I can do. And sometimes, yes, that means watching poeple die. Sometimes people I love.'
The Doctor turned away, annoyed at himself. His vulnerable side was showing, and now he briefly looked human again. Maybe Donna was rubbing off on him. After all, she couldn't have been more human, the humanity was practically pouring out of her."
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-so…so I just can’t help him?
+ I didn’t say that.
- H-how, then?
+ Well… there are lots of ways. You can be just there. To listen. To talk. To cheer him up if he’s having a bad day. And on the bad days… You can ask what you could do to make things easier. Standing by his side, even when things are hard. But also knowing that sometimes people need more support than just one person can give. That’s love, darling.
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“I didn’t know what right felt like until you,” he choked out. “I’m holding on to the good you give me. I’m holding on to you.”
“I’m hanging on to you, too, Fox Thornton,” she murmured unevenly, her body propelled up the bed on his first drive, eyes glazing. “Never letting go.”
“I’m in for the good, bad, and everything in between, Hannah.” He pressed his open mouth to the side of her neck and pushed deeper, deep enough, close enough to feel her breathe, and rejoiced in it. “Decades. A lifetime. I’m in.”
I sigh. “My original crew was three. Now it’s just me.” I put my hand up against the divider.
Rocky puts a claw on the divider opposite my hand. “Bad.” “Bad bad bad,” I say.
We stay like that for a moment. “I’ll watch you sleep.” “Good. Me sleep,” he says.
His arms relax and he looks for all the world like a dead bug. He floats free in his side of the tunnel, no longer hanging on to any support bars.
“Well, you’re not alone anymore, buddy,” I say. “Neither of us are.”
