Top 40 Jordan L. Hawk Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Rule by cats, that’s what we really need. My first decree would be for more naps.” “And.”

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2. “I just want to be myself,” I said at last. “But no one else wants just me, except for you.”

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3. “You’re really choosing him over your family?” “Whyborne is my family.”

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4. “Strange, how much harder it was to expose my heart than it had been my body.”

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5. “I’d never cared what anyone thought of me before. Everyone already considered me odd, but I’d accepted my fate even before I reached adulthood. I wasn’t athletic enough, or competitive enough, or manly enough; I was too bookish, too quiet, too awkward.”

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6. “Of course I love you. You are my other self.”

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7. “Bullies like him were only strong while assured of victory; when faced with anyone more powerful, they turned into fawning sycophants, desperate to prove themselves.”

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8. “She kept leaning farther and farther forward, and I became concerned her bodice wasn’t up to the task of containing her bounty.”

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9. “He was a man’s man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and redcoats alike, taming the wilderness, proving their worth with bulging sinews and roaring guns.”

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10. “Whatever am I to do with you?” he murmured. The warmth of his breath feathered over my skin. Heat collected in my groin, my lips. My mouth was dry, my voice hoarse, and perhaps he was right and it was madness when I whispered, “Whatever you want.”

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11. “Hot breath ghosted across my cheek. “What is between us is fire, and passion, and a need I have never felt before for anyone. I am not some flower, bruised if you touch me the wrong way. I want everything you have to give me.” I swallowed against the tightness of my throat. “I’m yours,” I whispered. “Come to bed and show me.”

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12. “It’s me. Your Ival.”

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13. “I need you.” The skin of his neck was warm, just above the collar, and he shivered when my breath touched it. “You make me feel alive. Everything else is just a role, but this is real.”

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14. “Christine seems more the type to shoot you in the chest than stab you in the back.”

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15. “My entire view of the world has changed,” he muttered as he went to the sink and began to scrub at the plates. “Sorcery, entities from the Outside, fish-men in my family tree, I can accept. Mr. Farr and Mr. Durfree as lovers crosses the line.”

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16. “He kissed me again. “And I sat here in this very room and fell completely and utterly and irrevocably in love with you.”

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17. “I’d never set out to have a cult of librarians who answered only to me and my sister, but it did come in handy whenever I needed to do research.”

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18. “Perhaps he simply couldn’t imagine anyone would stay with a man who wasn’t entirely whole. Who had been broken, and hadn’t managed to put all the pieces back together.”

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19. “I seldom ate out, both for reasons of economy and because I feared someone might try to speak to me.”

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20. “I wasn’t strong, or brave, or anything really. But he made me want to be.”

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21. “It knew him. And it loved him, without reservation or condition. He didn’t have to do anything to earn its affection, or even to keep it. It loved him, always had, always would, and such was simply the way of things.”

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22. “Yes. I wish to be with you until the breath leaves my body, until the last stars burn out, and the earth falls into the dying sun.”

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23. “Why did he have to be kind? If only he’d mocked me, or sneered at me, or merely tolerated me, then I would have known how to deal with him. But he insisted on being kind, on pretending I had some worth. How was I to defend myself against that?”

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24. “I never asked for a cult of book-wielding librarians!” I exclaimed.”

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25. “I don’t see why one can’t simply rely on the telegram,” Whyborne said, eyeing the telephone with an air of distrust. “Why on earth must you talk to people when you can simply write a short message?”

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26. “I had dedicated my life to words. But sometimes, words are not needed.”

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27. “Buck up, old fellow. If we cannot find models in our past, we must try to build a future where they can exist, and devil take anyone who tries to tell us we can’t.”

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28. “What was wrong with me? Even a cursory glance at the revelers behind me showed other people had no trouble with boisterous crowds, and some even relished them. And although I might not have minded viewing the kinetoscope, the promise of winning cheap prizes by shooting clay pigeons or tossing a ring onto a milk jug held no appeal for me. I’d rather be curled up in a chair at home, reading a book.”

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29. “I will not surrender my profession simply because men throughout history have been unduly enamored of their penises!”

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30. “God, no wonder I’d fallen in love with Leander. He was an Apollo to my Hades: a being of golden light and life, while I was something growing among the shadows of the dead.”

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31. “I returned from Boston and rallied my fellow librarians to defend the town,” Quinn replied, as if the answer should have been obvious. He offered me a small bow from his seat. “The librarians are at your disposal, Widdershins. We will fight to the last man.”

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32. “What if I want you forever?”

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33. “You blind me, my dear, with your fire. Carefully controlled, directed only into the outlets you allow, but otherwise left to boil beneath the surface. You’re like a bottle of fine champagne, yearning to be opened. Year after year, the pressure building slowly, with no release. And ever since I met you, all I could think was what it would take to make... you... pop.”

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34. “Congratulations on coming to your senses and asking Whyborne to put up with you on a permanent basis.” “Christine!” I exclaimed. Forget the griddle; Griffin could just fry our breakfast eggs on my face.”

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35. “Our two chairs were drawn up to the fire; a stack of scholarly books beside his and the latest volume of The Casebook of Simon Feximal by mine. Our cat Saul curled on the couch; he opened one sleepy eye at our entrance, then closed it again. The.”

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36. “That would be quite the headline: Niles Whyborne’s Son Run Over by Own Train. Father would probably raise me from the dead just so he could kill me himself.”

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37. “The monsters are real, but they aren’t here now. You’re safe.”

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38. “If I start to sound a bit megalomaniacal, forgive me.” Her eyes shone. “You’re the greatest arcane vortex that has ever existed. I understand.” I winced. “Er, perhaps, but I’m really just a fellow who gets paid to translate what other people find. I ordinarily try to save my insane ranting for grant proposals.”

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39. “Ival?” “Yes?” “Stop arguing, accept what I say, and let me drag you to bed and make you scream my name.”

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40. “Don’t be absurd. They’d only do murder in the grand foyer, where they’d be sure of an audience.”

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41. “No,” he repeated in between kisses. “I can’t stand the thought of anyone else’s hands on you.”

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42. “If the director fired everyone here who might go mad, half the museum would be depopulated”, Christine replied. She exaggerated, of course – I felt fairly confident less than a quarter of those who worked here could reasonably be said to have taken leave of their sanity at some point or another. The library staff would be rather decimated, though.”

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43. “Before Griffin had come along, I’d been living inside a photograph: just a facsimile of life, without either color or depth.”

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44. “Then the town will rise to his hand,” I whispered. “One for the sea, and one for the land.”

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45. “Th-that would be indecent.” “I’m an indecent fellow,” he murmured in my ear, even as his hand stole down to cup me through my trousers. “And you like it.”

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