Femme fatale Quote by Lawrence Block

““She knew how much I needed her. And now she was teasing, playing games. I looked at her and watched her turn into a sex symbol in front of my eyes. She did not look sweet and virginal and lovely anymore. I looked at the very simple summer dress and saw breasts and belly and hips. I looked at her eyes and saw lust as naked as my own.””

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If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

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“She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.”

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“that would have hidden the decades of filth that had left their stamp upon the wooden floor.”

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Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

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I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

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