She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
Interpretation
This quote highlights a playful and affectionate connection between two people.
In this quote, a character affectionately expresses a specific admiration for another person's physical traits, framed within a charming and flirtatious exchange. The humor and warmth of the interaction suggest a deeper emotional connection, conveying the author's appreciation for individuality and attraction in relationships.
In practice
Using this quote in a romantic card to express admiration for a partner's unique traits.
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.
The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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