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Quotes About Forbidden

The curve of her smile promised things that were probably illegal, and bad for you, and would carry warnings from the Surgeon General, but that you'd still want to do over and over again.
~ Jim Butcher
They were donuts of darkness.
~ Jim Butcher
What is the absolute worst place in this Valley one could go? The most insanely suicidal place to be found? The place where only a great fool would venture—and only an insane fool would follow?
~ Jim Butcher
Philippe Ariès, in a series of lectures he delivered at Johns Hopkins in 1973 and later published as Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present, noted that beginning about 1930 there had been in most Western countries and particularly in the United States a revolution in accepted attitudes toward death. "Death," he wrote, "so omnipresent in the past that it was familiar, would be effaced, would disappear. It would become shameful and forbidden.
~ Joan Didion
Death," he wrote, "so omnipresent in the past that it was familiar, would be effaced, would disappear. It would become shameful and forbidden.
~ Joan Didion
Le cose proibite hanno sempre il gusto migliore.
~ Joanne Harris
Sometimes, being told not to do something just makes us want it all the more. Sometimes, a little of what you crave is better than total abstinence.
~ Joanne Harris
love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
~ Jodi Picoult
I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.
~ Victoria Pratt
Do it today! Yesterday is gone and tomorrow it might be forbidden.
~ Unknown
It was a serious offense to invite a Deep Witch to cross the border of the Five Kingdoms. They had been banished many years before, together with werewolves and sorcerers.
~ Unknown
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~ Voltaire
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.
~ Voltaire
As though it had always been forbidden to remember each of us grew up knowing nothing about the beginning
~ W.S. Merwin
I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.
~ Cesare Borgia
Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.
~ William Shakespeare
Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror. The scaffolds on the corners, the list of things you may not read. These things always go together.
~ Philippa Gregory
To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.
~ Philippa Gregory
Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to question the very place of the earth itself, safe at the center of the universe.
~ Philippa Gregory
Why are you storing forbidden books?' I cried out in frustrated anger. 'Why store John Dee's books for him?' His face was gentle. 'Because all books are forbidden when a country turns to terror.
~ Philippa Gregory
Because I love you desperately. Because I can't sleep for thinking of you. Because I burn up with desire for you. Because I dare not look at you, because if I did, every man and woman at court would sell at that in my eyes.
~ Philippa Gregory
Because I love you desperately. Because I can't sleep for thinking of you. Because I burn up with desire for you. Because I dare not look at you, because if I did, every man and woman at court would see all that that in my eyes.
~ Philippa Gregory
Zillah took her arm and led her toward the van. Ann kept her arm squeezed against her body so that his fingers would come into contact with the sideswell of her breast. He didn't move his hand away. Soon she felt his fingers begin to move, subtly caressing her, a forefinger darting out to graze her nipple. The nipple shivered erect
~ Poppy Z. Brite