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oofluc · 5 years ago

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⌠ AXEL AURIANT, 20, CISMALE, HE/HIM ⌡ welcome back to gallagher academy, LUC MONTAGNIER! according to their records, they’re a FIRST year, specializing in AWARENESS TRAINING, BREATH CONTROL, HAND TO HAND COMBAT + KNIFE FIGHTING SKILLS, SWORD TRAINING, PRECISION SHOOTING, FIREARMS & SWAT TRAINING; and they DID go to a spy prep high school. when i see them walking around in the halls, i usually see a flash of ( dried blood on busted knuckles, forced smiles and sweat drenched after training ). when it’s the (virgo)’s birthday on 09/17/1999, they always request their SEARED SCALLOPS from the school’s chefs. looks like they’re well on their way to graduation. ⌿ ooc mochi, 23, she/her, gmt ⍀

slight warning to those who saw i originally planned him to be an anxious soft boi … i was wrong also there is a suicide mention & some subtle child abuse maybe... plus it’s kind of long ? and an incoherent mess but whatever !! plotting is welcome either on tumblr or on discord which you can find me at mochi#7066 !! his pinterest is here yes i went overboard with sections esp bc im gonna add more hdjf !! stats here and a full connection page here with most stuff i have so far ! @gallagherintro

PARALLELS

fred jones | scooby doo

stefan salvatore | the vampire diaries

hatsuharu sohma | fruits basket

noatak | avatar: the legend of korra

FAMILY

phillipe montagnier | 54

ameline montagnier | 46

marc montagnier | ✝

luc montagnier | 20

charles montagnier | 18

elias montagnier | 18

HISTORY

the montagnier family was originally located in the south of france until luc’s grandfather moved them to quebec. their empire was in manufacturing all kinds of weaponry and selling them to governments and other spy families and organisations. if you needed something a bit obscure or unique, this was the family you'd come to.

luc grew up in a fairly isolated countryside area in a family of four brothers who he loved for the first few years of his life. first was marc, shy and respectful, luc himself two years behind, and then another two years graced the family with twins; charles and elias who lived by their own rules. marc and luc had always been close, marc was the best big brother possible and luc loved him a lot.

eventually after being pitted and forced to compete against each other for so long, it got quite personal and their bonds started being tested. their mother turned a blind eye to their father's borderline abusive methods when luc overtook his older brother in their father’s tests and training. bruises and broken bones were only natural in training so there wasn't much she could say even if she wanted to.

from as long as he could remember, he'd been firing guns. there was a shooting range on their estate and they went on hunting trips, too. his dad often had him show customers the potential of their weaponry and so he'd always been thrusted into that life whether he wanted a say or not. it’s been clear since he was around fourteen that if anyone was taking over the family business it'd be him, not his older brother, marc.

this definitely caused somewhat of a rift between him and marc, as he'd end up getting much harsher punishments when luc would disarm or ground him.

luckily for luc, he did enjoy fighting and was exceptionally gifted in the life planned out for him. he was always the most determined to gain their father's approval, which definitely showed in their results and how obedient he was in front of the man. when he finally got what he wanted, he didn't quite expect it to mean what it did. it was rare but every now and then he would kill for his dad. whether it was someone who betrayed the family or a potential threat to their business, if his dad told him to, he would, no questions asked. it was during this time he was more excluded from training with his brothers since he would be with his dad instead.

SUICIDE TW !!!!!!

his oldest brother marc was sent to blackthorne once he was eighteen and ended up committing suicide at the end of his second year, with luc set to follow the next year. this news was shocking for the montagnier family as luc's father was bitterly embarrassed and disappointed by his firstborns' death, wanting to cover it up as a murder so it couldn't be tied to the family name with such dishonour. it quickly created a divide as charles and elias defended marc's actions and revealed he'd been struggling with depression for the majority of his life, much like they did, which was all unknown to luc, who, for the first time, felt the repercussions of his father's favouritism. he had a new found rebellion against him that was violent with them going at each other's throats for the foreseeable future. luc ended up avoiding his place at blackthorne in hopes to piss off his dad and becoming more reclusive and bitter as time went on.

he really took his brother's death personally, believing he was a factor in it and wishing he'd been there for him more closely. if anyone so much as mentions marc to him he will be on guard and very easily angered. i think before marc died he was very charismatic, egotistical at times and driven whereas now he’s lost a lot of his energy and is more negative & aloof.

the following year was Rough™. he was no longer his dad's golden boy and the family dynamic shifted a lot with marc's death as luc ended up protecting his younger twin brothers instead of beating them for their dad's favour. he's certain he'd have been disowned had his mother not aligned herself with the kids as well.

i think their family dynamic is kinda like the cha family from sky castle if anyone has seen it !

luc eventually decided to enrol in school late, only to end up at gallagher instead. which... i mean, i think before marc died he was excited about attending blackthorne. so he’s bit ??? uncertain about the girls school.

PERSONALITY

genuinely i think it comes down to so many factors, whether he’s in a good mood, who’s speaking to him etc but neutrally he’s quite charming, happy to mess about a bit but more or less takes most stuff too seriously. since he’s not around his dad i do think he will explore a lot more and seek out adventure and fun but if he’s got a test or something due the next day then he’ll bail early since he is defo the type to never let his grades or performance be ruined

he’s quite cocky + likes to win no matter what so yes he will ruin a friendship to beat u at monopoly. second place is last place in his head.

at his best he can be confident, alluring, courteous, loyal… at his worst he's aggressive, destructive, apathetic and always says shit he doesn't mean !!!! will he apologize ?? unlikely but he'll try n make it right once he’s calmed down

thinks the best way to deal with things is with his fists, he’s so EASY to snap and start a fight n he’ll.... maybe apologise for it

i think he defo likes to pretend he’s got no problems and so reverts to a social, supportive friend every once in a while. the type to be brutally honest !!

he’s a definite know it all, thinks he’s the dog’s bollocks, gods gift etc !!!!! doesn’t believe in god but still. I kinda see him a bit jocky idk why but more brooding n isolating 70% of the time bc he’s easily pissed off but when he’s having fUNNNNN he’s ok like a solid guy at times just easily angered

very flirty, he's a major ladies man despite actually being GAY. which is a secret. sh. only two people know he’s gay and that’s his current beard girlfriend ellie cavanagh and childhood friend regine ren. more ppl can defo find out in time and i’m sure ppl have speculations ? maybe have seen him hooking up with guys or something when he thought no one was looking etc probs think he’s bi who knows!!! but for now those two are the only people he’s actually spoken to about it!!!! so if anyone else tries he will deny it as he’s very against the idea of coming out so will not discuss it ty pls.

and it’s not that he doesn’t enjoy sleeping with girls, he’ll be having a great time regardless but he just aint abt to love them like that pls understand

still, he is in a current relationship with ellie who is acting as his beard for him. they have ‘ dated ’ before and are off and on a lot, so they probably seem pretty toxic tbh since ellie n him can clash n argue and he defo still hooks up with other girls despite being in a relationship so feel free to kill him for cheating !

wanted connections !!!

going off the last point, maybe some of ellie’s friends who come at him for how he seemingly treats her !!!

i'd love for blackthorne ppl to have known his brother, he'd have been around about 22/23 and a fourth year now if he was still alive so ?? it might help luc with some closure if he could talk about him since it happened at blackthorne

ppl to know the family, some family friends would be amazing !!! i feel regardless of alliances etc their family would have stayed as neutral as possible since they're selling weapons so they want all the customers.

so people that know HIM while he was growing up would be interesting esp those expecting him to have joined blackthorne when he was supposed to 2 years ago, and obvs him probably changing from who they knew him as to a more negative version now

might put a wc for his twin bros as they potentially joined his arrival at gallagher as first years too but who knows. they’d be 18 so if anyone wants a family friend connection that is around that age, maybe they were closer to the twins than luc ??

he sleeps with a lot of girls to kinda ‘make sure’ no one knows he’s gay as he defo doesn't feel comfortable with being out. the guys that he sleeps with he'll always pin it on being too drunk to remember or he'll threaten them if they told etc ?? he's very on edge about it and would only hook up super secretly sooo if anyone’s down for that with him

and then obvs need a lot of ladies he’d wanna sleep with to keep his image

previous ex gfs ?? from prep schools !!!!!!!

some positive influences would be good

bad influences as well bc tho he is a bit of a party guy, he doesn’t drink loads and he doesn’t do drugs !!!!!!!!!!!!!! but…. I mean i bet he could be convinced now he’s away from home so

study / sparring buddies !!

i’d love someone to teach him pop culture n normality !! his childhood was training and competing with his bros so he defo doesn’t watch many movies or tv or play games etc so ? someone making him watch all the harry potters ?? binging parks and rec ?? he’d find it so dumb but who wouldnt enjoy it ??

#gallagher:intro #i know a lot of u have seen this bc i cant keep secrets but whatever #genuinely think this is my longest intro ever

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lady-charinette · 5 years ago

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The Cute Suspect Chap. 5 - Cop!Adrien & Criminal!Marinette AU

Tagging: @crazylittlemunchkin @mariladrichatinette @im-here-for-the-content @miraculous-elcie-fanfics

Chapter 5

“Bonjour!” the friendly couple greeted back.

The shorter woman stood behind the cash register as the man disappeared back into the kitchen, a handful of dough held in his hands. “What would you like to order?”

Adrien’s hand rested on his badge hidden by his jacket. The slip of paper felt like it was burning up in his pocket, but his friendly smile remained as he walked up to the counter, gaze scanning the assorted sweets and pastries lined up aesthetically pleasing.

A chuckle passed his lips when he straightened, “Honestly, it’s so difficult choosing something from the best bakery in all of Paris.” He smiled in embarrassment at the older woman who laughed.

“Why thank you very much, would you perhaps like some butter or chocolate croissants? My husband just took out a fresh batch from the oven.” And sure enough, a steaming platter of golden-brown croissants was already making it’s way onto the front. Carried by none other than a proud-looking baker, who winked at him with a friendly smile as he set the platter down and disappeared back into the kitchen.

Adrien laughed, genuinely amused by the pair despite the nature of his visit. “Well, if you don’t mind two croissants, please.”

“Butter or chocolate?”

Adrien rubbed his chin, green gaze locked onto the delicacies and his stomach flared up at the prospect of eating any of them, ‘I’m on duty but…’

The man cleared his throat, smiling. ”…Butter please for both.” He was already taking out his wallet when the two croissants were steaming on the plate, along with the coffee machine working in the background. Probably for the woman herself, it was still early, after all.

Adrien gratefully took his order and sat at one of the many free tables, the sweet smell of baked goods filling his senses from all around.

“She’s a suspect.”

Adrien froze, mid-way in taking his first bite out of the mouth-watering pastry.

“Do you have any evidence denying it?”

The blond’s mouth pulled into a dark frown, gaze narrowed as the croissant dropped back to the plate. Wayhem’s words replaying in his mind.

“It could be an act!”

He was ripped out of his thoughts by the dark-haired woman placing a steaming mug of coffee in front of him, “Your coffee, sir.”

Adrien blinked, glancing from the coffee to the kind woman, “I’m sorry I didn’t order any coffee, mademoiselle.”

The Chinese woman smiled kindly, “It’s on the house, we usually serve a beverage for our customers. It’s still early and I’m sure you’ll need the caffeine for your shift.”

The blond quirked a confused brow, until the woman motioned towards something at his midsection.

It was his badge, on full display thanks to jacket falling away to the sides. He quickly tucked his badge away farther up his belt, clearing his throat again. ��Apologies, I’m…off duty at the moment.”

The older women nodded, smiling. “That’s alright officer, you just enjoy your break.”

Adrien smiled, nodding his thanks before she turned around to tend to other things behind the counter.

Finally.

It was time.

The still steaming croissant was inching closer and closer towards his mouth, a burning fire already settling into the pit of his stomach at the very real thought of finally eating the delicious pastry.

When he bit into it at long last, Adrien’s senses were overwhelmed with a sweet, savory explosion, the crunchy outside mixing with the softness from the inside. He washed it down with the warm coffee, sweetness accompanied by mild bitterness.

Adrien turned around in his chair to flash a bright smile at the woman placing more goods on display, “This is delicious! My greatest compliments to the chef.”

She giggled, bowing in gratitude, “Thank you, officer, that’s very kind of you.”

He waved casually, “Off duty I’m no officer.”

She nodded, a warm, motherly smile on her lips, “I hope your coffee isn’t too sweet, Marinette always liked to drink milder coffee in the morning to start her day, she was never a morning person.” Another giggle, this one speaking volumes of fond memories.

Adrien perked up at the name, attention successfully shifted, mouth still taking another small bite out of his breakfast. “Marinette? Oh your co-worker?” he feigned ignorance, which by all accounts he should be having to the woman.

“No, my daughter. She moved out a few years ago, she was always a bit of a clutz you must know.” She covered her mouth with her hand, giggles escaping her. “She never could carry a platter full of cookies without at least a few dropping to the floor, but she was a good baker, just like her papa.” She gave a side glance to the back of the kitchen, obviously getting the same returned, for her eyes softened even further.

Adrien took a gulp of the warm concoction in his hand, mind filing away information. “She sounds charming, your daughter, I mean.”

He remembered the episode in the morning, the kitchen scene where both of them got a scare and her jittery, ditzy reactions made sense.

“Oh she is. Always such a sweetheart, not to mention as busy as a bee, working on her designs and everything!” the mother gushed proudly, making Adrien’s lips curl into a smile.

“Designs?” Adrien drank his coffee, raising a brow in interest.

The woman nodded. “Yes, she is a designer and has her own art and design studio. She may not be as famous as Mr. Agreste of course, but she is- are you alright?”

Adrien was coughing violently into his hand, the woman rushing forward to hand him a spare napkin, the blond quickly wiping his mouth and taking a breath to compose himself.

“I-I’m sorry, pardon me!” he held up a hand, residue coughs still wracking his body from before. Quickly taking a big bite out of his croissant, Adrien chewed quickly. “Um, your-your daughter sounds lovely.” Adrien filed away all and any information for later, ignoring the pitter patter of his heart. “You mentioned her being a designer? So, she…doesn’t have any affiliations with any sort of other…dealings?” he coughed, taking a larger gulp of his coffee.

Marinette’s mother rose an eyebrow. “Well, she does get contracts often and commissions from models to design for them.” And suddenly, a small knowing smile crossed her lips. “Would you perhaps like to meet her once? I’m sure I can call her and arrange for her to be here, she hasn’t called in a while, living alone as she is but I’m sure meeting such a young handsome man like yourself will bring a bit more liveliness in this quaint bakery again.”

She winked and Adrien’s mind reeled, identifying the wink and tone as all mothers used to imply their daughters meet a potential suitor.

Wait.

Adrien coughed again and the woman quickly rushed to give him another napkin.

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Once he was back inside his car, Adrien leaned back against the headrest, hands running down his face.

With reddened cheeks, Adrien killed the engine and drove back to the direction of the precinct, mind still replaying the lovely, if not eccentric conversations he’d had in the bakery.

The situation had worsened when Marinette’s father, as Adrien learned was Tom, had gotten involved, happily suggesting how his daughter was a shy lovely woman with the kindest heart in all of France.

‘You’re on duty, get yourself under control, Agreste!’

Hands tightening on the steering wheel, Adrien pulled over to stop, taking out a small notepad he kept stored in the compartment.

He listed all the things he’d managed to find out about the suspect.

Marinette Dupain-Cheng

26 years old

Likes cats, designing clothes, sewing, helping others, baking

Master’s degree in fashion design

Owns fashion and art studio

Co-workers: Nathaniel Kurtzberg, Juleka Couffaine, Rose Lavillant, Marc Anciel

Clients: Unknown, suspected models from the region

Parents: Tom and Sabine Dupain-Cheng

Adrien sighed, tapping his forehead with the rim of the notepad.

There were still many points missing. Of course, he didn’t make it seem like he was actually interrogating her parents, he’d asked questions expected of someone with interest in…their daughter.

Adrien groaned, running a hand through his hair before catching a glimpse of himself in the mirror.

His hair was a mess.

Taking out a small comb he kept in the compartment above, Adrien quickly ran it through his hair a few times, combing it to the side so it didn’t look like his bedhead anymore.

Nino kept suggesting to use hair gel, but old habits, no matter how detested, died hard.

Adrien opened his wallet, flipping open a small case and spotting the side of a well-tailored white suit, a red and white patterned tie and red pants along with the grey slicked back hair.

Averting his gaze, Adrien quickly closed his wallet and killed the engine, face focused as he drove back towards the precinct.

His knuckles were white on the steering wheel, but the officer paid it no mind.

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The silence over dinner almost seemed a welcome reprieve.

Except for the noises of cutlery, the two women only sparingly exchanged words. Since they sat down to eat, they hadn’t uttered a word.

Marinette was hyper focused on her food, vegetables, a garlic-smelling spicy sauce and noodles. She noted the captain must have skills in cooking, it had actually tasted good, contrary to her first impression of the woman.

She wore make-up on her face, light blue eyeshadow and the like, kept her nails well-manicured but on the shorter end. The woman seemed to be of the ‘no nonsense’ kind and yet there was something there that Marinette sensed was…different.

She had no idea how the next phone call would prove her correct.

The ringing of a phone blared loudly in the room like an alarm and Plagg hissed from his spot on the pillow. Captain Bourgeois spared the cat no mind, steps swift and precise as she fished out her phone from her bag.

“Captain Bourgeois here.” She answered with a curt, clipped tone, all professional, no weakness.

Marinette didn’t dare turn her head to look at her, too afraid to be caught red-handed, instead, she continued to eat her food.

Then, she noticed the barest, most subtle changes in the blonde’s voice. “Yes…please give her to me.” Several seconds passed until Marinette heard a shrill scream through the phone. The captain didn’t seem unsettled by the sound, so Marinette tried not to let her heart jump out of her throat.

Was that another suspect? Had someone been injured? Was it a criminal? A colleague? Why was there screaming? Who was on the phone? Why was the woman so calm?

If Marinette had turned her head, she would’ve seen the smallest of smiles grace Chloe Bourgeois lips. “Are you okay?” the curtness and icy chill was gone, replaced by something much more…human-sounding.

Marinette didn’t dare say it was gentleness.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be home soon.” Several more seconds passed and the call ended.

Marinette sat frozen still, feeling like a fish circled by a great white shark as the blonde captain walked around the table to get to her seat again.

Once seated and eating, Marinette forgot to chew the food in her mouth, until a sharp voice promptly reminded her of it: “Chew your food Miss Dupain-Cheng.”

There it was, the icy chill again.

Captain Bourgeois didn’t look at her while eating from her own plate, but Marinette nearly choked at the command, furiously chewing the food to bits before swallowing thickly. “Y-Yes!”

The high pitched response left her lips in a panicked hurry and Marinette didn’t look up once from her plate again.

Several more minutes passed until the police woman spoke again. “For your information, since you seem to be dying internally, that had been my daughter on the phone.”

The fork in the dark-haired woman’s hand froze and the chain rattled when her hand spasmed reflexively. “Y-You have a d-daughter?!”

How?!

How could…how could someone like her have children?

Those poor kids!

Marinette’s eyes went bugeyed and the captain in front of her laughed haughtily, waving her hand. “Of course I do.” As if it was the most natural thing in the world.

Marinette nearly choked.

“B-But…w-why are you telling me this?”

She was still a suspect wasn’t she? While Marinette would never do anything to harm children, the police woman didn’t know her, she knew protocol, surely she didn’t just tell anyone about her having a daughter-

“Because, according to your background, you’ve watched over children before as an assistant in schools and kindergartens, correct? I can only assume they weren’t foolish in choosing you to watch over the safety of many children.” She continued eating, as if not even holding a conversation at all, while Marinette was sweating buckets.

She fidgeted with her fingers, shifting her weight on the chair and sliding her feet on the floor. “T-That’s, um…t-that’s nice of you to-“

Sudden laughter cut her off and Marinette blinked in surprise when the captain lifted her fork to point at her, a haughty look on her face. “Oh, you should’ve seen your face, Miss Dupain-Cheng, how gullible of you to believe I would truly reveal any sort of private information about myself to a suspect.” She laughed, wiping the corners of her mouth with a napkin. “Utterly ridiculous.”

Marinette’s cheeks tinged red in embarrassment, her bottom lip jutting out at the charade the woman had thrown just to make fun of her.

Of course, how could she have believed the ice queen to even entertain the thought of having children? No child would ever be happy having her as a mother, Marinette was happy that wasn’t the case.

Seething in silence over the humiliation, Marinette stabbed her fork into a sliced carrot and chewed.

———

It was late in the afternoon when Adrien Agreste finally came home from work and captain Bourgeois left.

The two fellow officers conversed quietly at the doorway, too low for Marinette to understand, all she caught was a genuine ‘thank you so much Chloe’ from officer Agreste, along with a quick kiss on the cheek, before the woman finally left the apartment.

Once the door was locked and closed, Marinette leaned her head back against the soft cushioning of the couch and sighed heavily in relief.

What a day.

Marinette sincerely hoped she would never see the blonde woman again, or at least that she not be put in charge to watch over her again.

Even Plagg had kept his distance away from her, only walking towards his food bowl when the woman walked away from it, even sniffing it cautiously, as if expecting her to poison him.

Marinette wouldn’t be entirely too sure she wouldn’t attempt it either.

At least officer Agreste was here, he was a blond Marinette felt far more comfortable with.

With a small, tired smile Marinette greeted the officer in the living room, with Plagg lounging on her lap contently.

“I hope she was nice to you.” He smiled, a genuine, kind smile, the polar opposite of the witch that just left the house.

Marinette forced on a smile, trembling and thin, all teeth showing. “Yeah….she was…nice.”

And in that moment, Plagg released something akin to a yowl or the most human groan Marinette ever heard and she couldn’t help but snort in amusement.

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It was night by the time captain Chloe Bourgeois arrived home.

She unlocked her door, armed with not one but three keyholes, a different key for each lock until the thick door finally granted her entry.

The house was warm and filled with a sweet scent, and as soon as her feet hit the soft surface of the carpet on the floor, a weight crashed into her legs.

The previously icy aura of the blonde vanished immediately, replaced by the warmest smile ever seen on her face, the hard lines disappearing, icy blue eyes filled with love and kindness.

She bent down to pick up the small figure with large blue eyes, small chubby hands grabbing at her hair and face.

Chloe laughed, nuzzling her daughter and kissing her forehead and cheek, one arm supporting her bottom while the other balanced her back, rubbing soothing circles on the warm body tenderly. “I’m home!”

An orange haired head shot out from the kitchen, sea green eyes softening at the sight of her friend. “Welcome home, you’re late.”

Chloe steadied the small bundle of squealing gurgles and wiggling limbs on her hip, walking towards the kitchen.

It was warm, almost humid, but the sweet smell that filled the area made Chloe’s head spin. “Open a window, it’s too stuffy in here, Aline will suffocate.” She patted her daughter’s back again, smiling when she burped.

Her friend rushed to open a window and Chloe took the time to peek beneath the cloth covering the pie. It was some sort of fruity pie, slices of mangoes or a similar fruit littering its smooth baked surface. “I see you were busy today, Sabrina.”

The other woman laughed, taking Aline from the captain and sitting her back in her high chair, so she sat at the table with her mother. “It wasn’t too bad. How was work?”

“Busy.” Was her only explanation while Chloe took out two plates and a knife, walking towards the table and cutting the pie in slices.

Aline made grabby hands towards the pie, but Chloe gently wagged her finger and bopped her nose playfully. “No, no, no, you are getting fruit, young lady.” Sabrina smiled and made to cut up small pieces of bananas for Aline to eat.

Once everything was cut and set, the two women sat down at the table, Chloe handing Sabrina her own plate with two slices. “You really didn’t have to Chloe, I have to get going anyway.”

The blonde shook her head, fork digging into the soft fluffy texture. “Don’t be ridiculous and eat.”

With a soft, knowing smile, Sabrina ate her fill, the two friends casually talking about their day.

Chloe every so often played with Aline, softly stroking her growing blonde head and fixing the saliva and bits of banana stuck to her chin.

Sabrina leaned her chin on one hand, watching the heartwarming interactions. “She missed you.”

The answer was immediate. “And I missed her.” Chloe glanced towards her friend and sighed. “I’m sorry about earlier, I was with a suspect.”

Sabrina giggled. “No worries, I figured. I’m sorry I called, she started hiccupping for too long so I got worried.”

Chloe snorted softly, shaking her head. “It’s fine, I’m not mad you called or anything. She must’ve swallowed to quickly and tried to breathe at the same time, since she’s not an infant anymore, she lost that ability.” Chloe gently pinched her daughter’s cheek, Aline immediately grasping her mother’s finger and laughing.

“Thanks for watching over her.” The soft confession made Sabrina laugh.

“Of course, you know I’m always here.”

Chloe smiled, watching her daughter eat, but Sabrina knew her attention was on both. “Thank you.”

“Always.”

Thanks for reading! (And I’m so sorry for the long wait, I’ll try to update faster) What did you think so far?

#ml fic #ml fanfic #ml au #adrinette #ml adrinette #adrienette #adrienette fic #cop!adrien & criminal!mari #cop!adrien #criminal!marinette #miraculous ladybug #crossposted on AO3 & FFnet #the cute suspect fic #chloe bourgeois

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manuelmueller · 5 years ago

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5 (anger) for neuller and you know who i want to say that 11 (bliss) for hömmels but maybe make it with a hint of skepticism 20 (anger) steno but like only if u want to bubba but i miss them okay i love you 💗💕

ANGER 20: “Let go of me.”

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Marc hates it. He honestly, truly does.

He’s known Bernd Leno for what feels like forever, and never ever had the barely older goalkeeper not been able to make his blood boil to the point where he could hear it ringing in his ears.

There’s always been a distaste to watching him, a quiet loathing that came naturally with their rivalry, a flame that grew higher when people had started jokingly comparing them, both by their abilities as well as their looks, fiercer, more seething.

Marc has always hated being faced with Leno, and now, here they are, playing their first senior tournament for Germany together, number two and three (in an order that’s not even clear to Jogi Löw, apparently) behind one Manuel Neuer, a goalkeeping legend in his own right, and Marc hates that he has to share this experience with him.

But moreso, Marc hates how it’s not only kindred hatred he feels for the other blond, not anymore.

He has no idea when it has started, but there are feelings now. Pesky, annoying, terrible feelings that came seemingly out of nowhere – and yes, Marc is in fact pointedly ignoring the voice at the back of his mind whispering that it’s only a small journey from hatred to something else; after all, both of them are very much intense emotions.

He hates it.

Leno is eating breakfast, and it makes Marc want to stab his pancakes. Violently.

Leno is talking to Tah, smiling and gesturing, his hair unstyled and slightly curled and … yes, Marc is begrudgingly admitting it – is looking cute.

Shocking, terrifying. Entirely unwanted. Definitely not the way one should feel about their personal achnemesis. But that doesn’t change the fact that Marc does, and has probably since they boarded that flight to go to Switzerland for training camp. He’s found he started to find Leno adorable, good-looking, and god behold, he’s even caught him being sweet at times.

Not to Marc, of course. No, never to him. For him, Bernd only had icey glances, sneers and annoyed huffs. And while at first that had been welcomed, as it had been all those years, by now, Marc finds that it stings each time Leno’s smile turns into a frown when Marc enters his field of view, finds that himself wondering what it would feel like to be at the receiving end on one of those sunshine smiles instead. Heck, he’s started to wish for it, even.

God, he’s a mess. A bumbling, idiotic mess with a goddamn crush – on Leno, of all people.

Marc is pretty sure that someone up there is currently laughing at him. This could happen only to him, truly. And now he’s not only stuck with the petty, annoying outrage mixed with a good bit of jealousy and annoyance with Leno, but also struck by how pretty his eyelashes are, how much he loves it when his hair is soft after a shower. He marvels at the way Leno’s voice sounds, appreciates the way his training shirt stretches over his biceps.

Sure, Marc has always been aware that men interest him as well, but – him? Really, universe?!

But as it is, stabbing his pancake once again, until it looks like a mushy lump more than anything else, he knows that at this point, there’s nothing he can do about it.

Mario, next to him, is sending him concerned glances.

“You okay?” he asks, and Marc only grunts, almost disbelieving of what Bernd Leno’s presence has reduced him to.

Honestly, he shouldn’t even be surprised when it only gets worse once they have to turn up for training. Manuel keeps shooting him curious looks (or are they simply confused?) as if Marc’s ambivalent feelings were so obviously painted on his features that it’s a miracle that Bernd himself hasn’t picked up on it yet.

– and that’s another thing. For a few days already, Marc has been able to catch himself slipping, thinking of the idiot by his first rather than his last name. It’s such a stupid name, old-fashioned and really not for a young goalkeeper, but it suits the idiot, it really does.

Marc wants to kiss him.

Yes, he actually wants that. Yes, it scares him too. Leno has very pretty lips. Thin but delightfully pink, as if he was always chewing on them. Marc thinks of them often, and even for his annoyed, flustered brain, that thought is usually a bit too much.

Especially now, when he keeps staring at Leno’s mouth as he’s whispering to Tah once again. Manuel, on his right, elbows him into the side, quirking an eyebrow. And yeah, he should really pay attention to what Löw is saying, he knows that, but looking at Leno is just so much more interesting now; so, he keeps doing it.

It’s only three minutes later, when Löw is almost done, that it ends in disaster – Leno catches him staring.

Immediately, Marc can feel the blood rush to his cheeks as Leno musters him with scrutiny. He has to turn his head away to hide his blush – Mario, on his left, probably has noticed, but at least Marc is sure the younger could have no idea what’s actually going on; or at least, he hopes so. This is so embarrassing, he doesn’t even want to picture how it would be admitting this crush to someone.

Of course, that’s not all of it.

As soon as they return back to the goal, Manuel walking ahead with Andi Köpke, Leno next to Marc, it gets brought up again.

“What’s your deal, ter Stegen?”

Marc blanks.

“I mean,” Leno coughs awkwardly, “I know you’re weird, but you’re acting even weirder than usual.”

Marc blatantly ignores the insult, then simply shrugs. “I don’t know why you assume that’s any of your business. Newsflash: it’s not.”

He hates this. Hates that for a second, Bernd looks actually concerned about him. Hates how it makes his heart skip, that treacherous, silly heart.

“Hey,” Leno puts a hand on his arm. Violently, Marc janks it out of his grip.

“Let go of me,” he hisses, something in him shattering when he sees how Leno’s face falls, regret flooding over him like a spring tide, and for the first time in his life, he wants to apologize to him.

He doesn’t. Of course he doesn’t, not after the way they’ve treated each other for so many years, from hurling insults to ignorance to borderline fistfights – but yet, he hopes that his eyes show his remorse plainly.

He wants him to know.

Leno takes a deep breath. “Alright, then. Sorry for trying to care.” And with a huff, he stomps away, taking ridiculously long strides with those ridiculously long legs to catch up with Andi and Manuel.

And Marc, Marc is left behind, wishing he could reach out and lace their fingers together. Wishes he could mumble an apology and give his biggest rival a hug. He pictures what that would feel like, how it would come to be, sees them being caring towards another, supportive, bickering; and it’s then that he realizes.

He would do anything for that to become an actual possibility. And from now on, he will do anything to make it become a reality.

He likes Leno. Bernd.

And he fiercely, desperately wants him to know that – even if it’s in the face of rejection. But even more so, he hopes that the kindness the older has shown him if only for a moment … he hopes that it means that he’s not alone in this.

God, he really hopes that he isn’t.

emotional prompts – closed!

#landonenorris #my writing #steno #prompt fics #THE OTHER TWO WILL FOLLOW!!!#but have this to start with <3 #also happy bday bernd #im actually not too late for once akjshkajs #is this too sappy for steno – probably #eh :D

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• A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood… A day will come when we shall see… the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas. – Victor Hugo • A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom. – William F. Buckley, Jr. • Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away. – Lafcadio Hearn • Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man. – Madison Grant • After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene. – Jacques Barzun • All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe’s technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact. – Lewis Nkosi • And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian. – Philippe Perrin • Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units. – Margaret Chan • Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. – Eleanor Roosevelt • As an observer of markets – whenever everyone focuses on one thing – like Greece and Europe – maybe they miss issues that are far more important – such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China. – Marc Faber • Asia’s crowded and Europe’s too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada’s too cold. And South America stole our name, let’s drop the big one. – Randy Newman • Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes. – Jacob T. Schwartz • Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance. – Will Rogers

• Be advised that there is no parking in Europe. – Dave Barry • Being and working in America, it’s very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it’s slow-moving and it’s not always good. – Mireille Guiliano • Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me. – Jackie Kennedy • But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now. – Laurent Fabius • But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke • But, I’ve made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. – Sydney Pollack • Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let’s say, over western Europe. You just can’t use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan. – Lloyd Cutler • Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe – has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance … It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests … Christianity … is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries. – Evelyn Waugh • Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea. – Guy Kawasaki • Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia’s EU entry talks. – Stjepan Mesic • Does this boat go to Europe, France? – Anita Loos • Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. – Jackie Mason • Europe and the U.K. are yesterday’s world. Tomorrow is in the United States. – Tiny Rowland • Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden. – Juan Carlos I of Spain • Europe cannot survive another world war. – Christian Lous Lange • Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism. – Gijs de Vries • Europe has to address people’s needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. – Peter Mandelson • Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it. – Vladimir Zhirinovsky • Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities. – James A. Baldwin • Europe is a collection of free countries. – Douglas J. Feith • Europe is and will be a Union of States. – Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero • Europe is good at many things, which is why we are the largest exporter in the world. Thirty million people in Europe are employed in making our exports of goods and services. Just under 900 thousand of them are in Sweden. – Cecilia Malmstrom • Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it’s like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars. – Mark Gatiss • Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity. – Ulrich Beck • Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility. – Napoleon Bonaparte • Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. – Mike Myers • Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher • Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith – even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. – Karen Armstrong • Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. – H. G. Wells • Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe’s spiritual and social order… catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society. – Peter Drucker • For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy. – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen • For years, we’ve grown dependant on American consumers as the world’s spenders of last resort. They’ve kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they’ve not been looking after their own futures. – Evan Davis • France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster. – Johnny Depp • From the dome of St. Peter’s one can see every notable object in Rome… He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe. – Mark Twain • Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence. – Benjamin Franklin • Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn’t take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren’t interested in it. – Norman Granz • Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy. – Derek Bok • Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America – except Guy had more talent! – Jim Steranko • He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage. – Lamar Hunt • Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth. – Tim Cahill • I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania’s future. – Victor Ponta • I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia. – Suzi Quatro • I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook. – Bruce Bennett • I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man. – Catherine Ashton • I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody – not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong. – Gregoire Akcelrod • I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself ‘culture’ a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture. – Friedrich Nietzsche • I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe. – Jose Manuel Barroso • I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me. – Amrita Sher-Gil • I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn’t have money to travel. I thought I’d have to join the military to get to Europe. So I’m thrilled to travel. – Chris Isaak • I defy anyone – and I have said this to the Germans – to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France’s consent. – Pierre Laval • I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe. – Enya • I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience. – Alan Furst • I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children. – John James Audubon • I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don’t get homesick. – Magnus Carlsen • I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. – Eddie Izzard • I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok. – David Gerrold • I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe. – Nick Denton • I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it. – Montel Williams • I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag • I haven’t travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I’ve never even been to US. – Ville Valo • I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy… and then I did Spain and France by myself. – Michael Fassbender • I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I’d make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it’s overtime. – Michelle Rodriguez • I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan. – Billy Higgins • I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure. – Henry David Thoreau • I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe. – Hidetoshi Nakata • I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We’ve always said German unity, European unity and integration, that’s two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness. – Angela Merkel • I saw what Purple meant to people and I still hear it now when I’m in Europe. I’m always shocked that I’m still asked about Purple because it was such a long time ago. – David Coverdale • I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe. – Francois Gautier • I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it’s an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income. – Frank Bruno • I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren’t as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don’t resort to violent revolution. – Harold H. Greene • I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat. – Barack Obama • I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two. – Stephen Cole Kleene • I think the race went as well as it could and I drove well to finish sixth. The chassis is working better and through the corners we are more or less there; we’ll move onto Europe and see if we can get further up the grid and keep improving. The weekend went pretty smooth for me until the end of the race, I don’t know what happened, but the team will have a look at it. – Daniel Ricciardo • I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace. – William Blake • I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier. – Napoleon Bonaparte • I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair. – Madeleine Albright • I was with a folk trio back in ’63 and ’64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe. – Creed Bratton • If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR’s already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all. – Dwight D. Eisenhower • If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. – James Joyce • If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie. – V. S. Naipaul • If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy. – Mikhail Saakashvili • If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us. – Tony Blair • If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding. – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau • I’m not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn’t owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us. – Tony Blair • Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world. – James F. Byrnes • In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles. – Dennis Banks • In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece’s parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front’s Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France’s presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent’s prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself. – George Soros • In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe. – David McCallum • In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don’t shoot films any more. There’s more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent. – Paul Bettany • In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don’t want you to succeed, and they cut you down – especially people from your own social class. – Mark Burnett • In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure. – Hartmut Esslinger • In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one’s got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit. – Sybille Bedford • In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that’s not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep. – Jeffrey Tate • In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance. – Robert Edison Fulton, Jr. • In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. – Carol P. Christ • In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. – Queen Elizabeth II • In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don’t think I would have seen as much change if I’d lived in any other city in the world. – Shalom Harlow • In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. – C. L. R. James • In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories. – Yannick Noah • In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world – in America first but also in Europe – has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. – Wim Wenders • In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn’t have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. – Jeremy Rifkin • Information and inspiration are everywhere… history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. – John Howe • Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies. – Jose Manuel Barroso • It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore. – Margaret Fuller • It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery. – Mohamed El-Erian • It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal. – Pierre Laval • It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If Europe were to become once more the Europe of bankers, of fat corrupt bourgeoisies we should prefer Communism to win and destroy everything. We would rather have it all blow up than see this rottenness resplendent. Europe fights in Russia because it [i.e., Fascist Europe] is Socialist. what interests us most in the war is the revolution to follow The war cannot end without the triumph of Socialist revolution. – Leon Degrelle • It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. – Julien Benda • It’s been President Clinton’s dream that we’ll have finally a fully integrated Europe. – Warren Christopher • It’s hard to explain why I like Europe so much. – Broderick Crawford • It’s like night and day… to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward. – Caprice Bourret • It’s monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. – Vladimir Zhirinovsky • I’ve always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany’s taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too. – Paul Keating • I’ve always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones. – Joe Elliott • I’ve never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking. – Puff Daddy • I’ve worked behind counters serving food, and I’ve lived on the circus train, and I’ve led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I’ve been a key liner for a newspaper, I’ve done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things. – Bonnie Jo Campbell • Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. – Minoru Yamasaki • Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man’s religion and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world. – Billy Graham • Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe. – Ibrahim Rugova • Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts. – Mary McCarthy • Maimed but still magnificent… Europe’s mightiest medieval cathedral. – R. W. Apple • Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation’s natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we? – Daniel Henninger • Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe. – Douglas Hurd • Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? – Nigel Farage • Modern Existentialism… is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe. – William Barrett • Morality in Europe today is herd-morality – Friedrich Nietzsche • More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international. – Agnes Smedley • More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth – those of Europe – are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history. – David Duke • More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people. – Joseph Lelyveld • Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. – Frank Gaffney • Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S. – David Rockefeller • Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! – Ronald Reagan • Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher’s privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe’s economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It’s hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you’d also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency. – Mark Steyn • Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity. – Jean-Pierre Raffarin • Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man’s life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. – Lafcadio Hearn • Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling. – Christian Lous Lange • Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you’ll get in Europe these days. – Michael Carrick • Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe’s fiscal, banking, and monetary union. – Barry Eichengreen • Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. – H. A. L. Fisher • Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history – the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere – modern man is filled with pride in the progress accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism. – Savitri Devi • Remember one thing – that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe. – Goran Persson • Romania will always defend the Roma’s right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is no evidence they broke the law they should enjoy the same rights of any European citizen. – Traian Basescu • Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball. – Henry L. Stimson • Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. – John Bruton • Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control. – Barbara Amiel • Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia. – Robert Cailliau • Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe. – Jose Manuel Barroso • So Europe’s a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn’t devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher. – Jim Cantalupo • So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany’s banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 – a reference to the collapse of Austria’s Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe. – Martin Walker • Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe. – Steven Chu • Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe’s economy remains unable to grow. – Barry Eichengreen • Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in which inhumanity to animals is most wanton and unrebuked. – William Edward Hartpole Lecky • Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. – Edmund Burke • Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe. – Oliver Ellsworth • Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. – Elliott Carter • Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe. – Sigmar Gabriel • Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on. – Jan Peter Balkenende • That in order to achieve the triumph of liberty, justice and peace in the international relations of Europe, and to render civil war impossible among the various peoples which make up the European family, only a single course lies open: to constitute the United States of Europe – Mikhail Bakunin • The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises. – Barry Eichengreen • The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change. – John Monks • The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows – which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach – but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen. – Kim Cattrall • The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. – Henry Lawson • The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. – Carl Jung • The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. – Jacques Chirac • The Drafters of the Constitution were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even longer heritage of church-state problems in Europe. – John M Swomley • The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. – Jacques Delors • The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here. – Jeremy Rifkin • The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people, or a territory, or a nation, but rather the human race and the planet we inhabit. – Jeremy Rifkin • The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more. – Gijs de Vries • The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe. – Maggie Gallagher • The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I’d not seen that in England. – Richard Dawson • The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary. – Heinrich Himmler • The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another. – Edmund Wilson • The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof – Mary McCarthy • The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion. – Bertrand Russell • The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I’ve learnt to be more economical. – Roman Coppola • The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. – Arthur Erickson • The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America might otherwise bear alone. America needs a strong and effective U.N. I want to work with this new Congress to pay our dues and our debts. We must continue to support security and stability in Europe and Asia – expanding NATO and defining its new missions, maintaining our alliance with Japan, with Korea, with our other Asian allies, and engaging China. – William J. Clinton • The poor are the blacks of Europe. – Nicolas Chamfort • The primary goal of collectivism – of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America – is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals’ lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government. – George Will • The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. – Lajos Kossuth • The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe. – Dave Barry • The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. – Alfred North Whitehead • The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions. – Eleanor Roosevelt • The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf. – Lewis Mumford • The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages. – Freeman Dyson • The territorial state is such an ancient form of society – here in Europe it dates back thousands of years – that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland. – Christian Lous Lange • The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history – the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. – Josiah Strong • The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. – Douglas Hurd • There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation. – Laurent Fabius • There are some great divers in Europe and I’m really excited about going to Eindhoven. – Tom Daley • There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists. – Jose Maria Aznar • There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe. – Charles Olson • There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers! – Winston Churchill • There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe. – Herman Gorter • There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe. – Mario Draghi • There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn’t travel with them so it’s hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all. – Tim Henman • There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House. – Herman Melville • They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they’re not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it’s not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here. – Michael D. Barnes • This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It’s not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It’s not an intellectual cinema in America. – Jacqueline Bisset • This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish. – Laurent Fabius • To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe’s intricate diversity – and its lost creativity. – Timothy Garton Ash • To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep. – Dave Barry • To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists – the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador – are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun. – Michael Novak • To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon’s time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe’s menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures. – Raymond Sokolov • To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French. – Madeleine Albright • Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere. – Heinrich Himmler • We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends. – Winston Churchill • We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn’t need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. – Traian Basescu • We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust. – Gene Tierney • We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. – Robert Mugabe • We go to Europe to be Americanized. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe. – Dan Quayle • We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia. – John T. Flynn • We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe. – Phil Collins • We swear we are not going to abandon the struggle until the Last Jew in Europe has been exterminated and is actually dead. It is not enough to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind – the Jew has got to be exterminated! – Robert Ley • Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete. – John Major • Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia. – Richard Rorty • What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy. – Margaret Thatcher • Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today. – Leonid Brezhnev • When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. – Michael Tilson Thomas • When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life. – Norman Rockwell • When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don’t like it you can change it. – Tony Benn • When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. – Frantz Fanon • When I’ve seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can’t tell you what that phenomenon is. – Carlisle Floyd • When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons. – Caleb Cushing • Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. – Adolf Hitler • Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression. – Otto von Bismarck • With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe. – Peter Drucker • With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient. – Lee Kuan Yew • With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right – it does look like that. – David McCullough • Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso. – Ludwig Erhard • Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world. – Charles de Gaulle • You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can’t survive without it, or you don’t. If you don’t it tends to suggest there is a price which you are not willing to pay. – Liam Fox • You, the Spirit of the Settlement! … Not understand that America is God’s crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries. – Israel Zangwill • Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here… is France, and we’re in the middle – that’s my map of Africa. – Otto von Bismarck

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