#Ilona and Andrew Gordon

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Came to me in a flash of genius

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Review: Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

Series: Innkeeper Chronicles #5Author: Ilona Andrews (Ilona & Andrew Gordon)Publisher: IndieReleased: December 13, 2022Received: Own Can we just take a moment to dance and celebrate the release of Sweep of the Heart? This series is phenomenal! Book Summary: Dina Demille and Sean Evans are Innkeepers. They keep the peace, maintain secrecy, and protect their guests – at all costs. Yet Gertrude…

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A Woman Named Jackie - NBC - October 13 - 15, 1991

Biography (3 episodes)

Running Time: 246 minutes total

Stars:

Roma Downey as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Stephen Collins as John F. Kennedy

William Devane as John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III

Joss Ackland as Aristotle Onassis

Wendy Hughes as Janet Lee Bouvier

Ashley Crow as Caroline Lee Bouvier Radziwill

Boyd Gaines as Hugh Dudley "Yusha" Auchincloss

Tim Ransom as Robert F. Kennedy

Lisa Eichhorn as Dr. Jordan

Rosemary Murphy as Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Andrew Buckley as John F. Kennedy Jr.

Nadia Dajani as Christina Onassis

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Teenage Jacqueline Bouvier

Josef Sommer as Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

Eve Gordon as Marilyn Monroe

Brian Smiar as Lyndon B. Johnson

Bob Gunton as Hugh D. Auchincloss

Jessica Tuck as Lorraine Murphy

Anna Thomson as Ilona

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So two of the things I like to do to center myself are journaling (though I need to work on consistency) and turning back to House Andrews work for comfort.

They never fail to make me feel better and I have controlled some pretty bad anxiety or panic attacks by going back to their books.

One of their quotes that makes me feel most poetic is this one: "If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons" and inspiration hit me to try and incorporate it into one of my doodles.

All of this to say thanks. Thank you so much for the work you do Ilona and Gordon. Your words have given wings to my imagination and transported me to many many worlds and close to the characters I love so much.

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What's the series???? *very curious*

I guess I should have told!

The series is Kate Daniels, by Ilona Andrews. The author is actually the husband and wife team of Ilona and Gordon Andrews, and I more or less recommend all their books. 

Kate Daniels is strict Urban Fantasy, with romance - magic has returned to the world, but it’s a cyclical process between tech and magic, and they don’t work at the same time. The books takes place (mostly) in post-apocaplyptic Atlanta, and the world building is wonderful and unique. Gods and myths and magic come alive - and they play with that a lot. It a shape-shifter focused series, but the main the character is not a shape shifter. 

They also have the (complete) The Edge series which is almost slip stream more than urban fantasy? Our world borders a magical world and all sort of things happen. Its a loosely connected series with strong romance. 

Then they have a paranormal/urban fantasy romance, which is stronger in romance than the Kate Daniels series, Hidden Legacy. I love that one too! 

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Ilona Andrews Emerald Blaze: Cover Reveal & Author Interview

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We have an exclusive first look at the cover for Emerald Blaze, the lastest in the Hidden Legacy series by Ilona Andrews.

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What if a serum could change humanity, giving some super-human magical powers while turning others into monsters? What if it were locked away so keep everyone safe, but someone opened the box, changing and distorting humanity for their own reasons? A protector would rise to stop them: and in the newest installment of the Hidden Legacy series, that protector is Catalina Baylor, Prime Siren, Head of House Baylor, and an unstoppable force when it comes to doing what she believes is right—and protecting her family.

Emerald Blaze, the second novel in Catalina’s story arc, is due to hit shelves in August 2020, but Den of Geek got exclusive access to reveal its gorgeous cover. Check it out...

The Ilona Andrews author team—husband and wife Ilona and Gordon—gave Den of Geek some excellent insider information about how the cover came to be, and about the future of the series.

Unlike the case for most authors, for Catalina’s Hidden Legacy novels, the authors had a huge amount of input. When they negotiated the contract for the books, they requested that Gene Mollica, who did the cover for the book Iron and Magic, be the artist for all the covers. When Avon agreed, they started the process of working with Gene on the covers.

The initial cover for Sapphire Flames was completely in the wrong tone: “It was very urban fantasy. Black leather. It was a beautiful cover,” Ilona said, but it just wasn’t suited to the story. They asked to have it reshot, and Gene asked them to let him know what they wanted instead. The worked with their agent and the art team at Avon, and Gene gave them a tremendous series of shots to look through, and they got to choose their favorites.

They give feedback from everything from poses to dress color to how Catalina’s partner (and the man who broke her heart), Alessandro, holds his gun. The color of Catalina’s dress—and the magic swirls in the background—match the title’s gemstone in all the books in the series (even novella prequel, Diamond Fire, features some of the same color coding), and those choices do have some significance for the series.

But the way the theme came about was more outside of the box. The team was in New York, discussing the series with their editor, agent, and publicist, brainstorming title ideas. Since they’d already done Diamond Fire, they decided to go with gems and flames.

“I think it was written on a cocktail napkin,” Gordon joked. Savvy readers can definitely expect to see a reference in each book to the title, however: “We always have to put the title somewhere” in the book, Ilona added.

The Hidden Legacy series is on its second narrator, as Catalina became the point of view character starting with Diamond Fire, and some readers struggled to adjust to losing the viewpoint of Catalina’s older sister, Nevada, who launched the series. In Sapphire Flames, readers learn that because Nevada was overworking herself to the point of endangering her health, the Baylor family decided Catalina should become the Head of the House, removing that pressure from Nevada, but—so it appeared—ousting her from her position.

“Fans were livid,” Ilona confessed. (In our review at Den of Geek, we praised Catalina as “strikingly different” and a “fresh new voice.” Some readers have also thanked Team Andrews for writing a character who has anxiety and questions herself, rather than always being strong.) Those concerned readers may be relieved, however, to know there was more to what happened than meets the eye—there are even clues in Sapphire Flames that they might have missed—and more will be revealed in Emerald Blaze. Readers are given insight into what Nevada looks like to others, including her younger sister, who finds her a little bit scary.

“She’s older. She knows when you’re lying,” Ilona explained, which Catalina views in a far different way from Nevada herself, who thinks she’s all “sunshine and rainbows.” Changing narrators also gave the authors a chance to explore different themes. “The first arc was very much about solving murders, yes, but [it was] also politically motivated,” Ilona explained. “This one is more [about] what happens if the science goes wrong.”

Catalina’s decision to get to the bottom of the reemergence of the serum puts her back in the path of Alessandro Sagredo, whose own secrets intertwine with Catalina’s quest. Sapphire Flames left readers on a cliffhanger with Alessandro; readers got a glimpse into his perspective, revealing his true feelings for Catalina and giving the barest peek into the dangerous revenge mission that drives him.

The truth behind his back story “all comes out” in Emerald Blaze, Gordon promised—so readers can rest assured that Catalina won’t trust a man she believes toyed with her emotions without discovering his motives. As the story follows Catalina embracing her role as Head of the House, as well as the secret Deputy Warden enforcing order in the magical community, it doesn’t leave the roots of solving a murder mystery behind—the mystery just becomes more of a subplot.

Catalina’s arc will continue beyond Emerald Blaze into a third and final book, but readers who love the Hidden Legacy world are sure to hope for more books, perhaps from the perspective of another major character. On their website, the Andrews team revealed that they’d love to do a story from the perspective of Catalina’s cousin Leon; fans have also wondered if Nevada and Catalina’s younger sister, Arabella, will star in her own trilogy.

“If this goes well, and if Avon wants to continue, I really think the next three would be Arabella,” Gordon agreed. The Andrews team also shared that the personalities of Catalina and Arabella are loosely based on their own daughters. The younger daughter, on whom Arabella is based, has said to her parents, “Everybody wants me,” Gordon shared. (Ilona, quoting her daughter, continued: “The public wants what the public wants.”)

Arabella, who is “often wrong, but never in doubt,” according to Gordon, would be a totally different character to write for the authors, but would grant an entirely new lens into the world for devoted readers. Fans of Ilona Andrews, especially those who have enjoyed delving into the alternate Hidden Legacy world, are sure to hope the series will continue—and will be eagerly awaiting Emerald Blaze’s publication next summer.

In the meantime, here's the official synopsis:

Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author, continues her spellbinding series set in the Hidden Legacy world where magic controls everything…except the hearts of those who wield it.

As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her sisters have extraordinary powers—powers their ruthless grandmother would love to control. Catalina can earn her family some protection working as deputy to the Warden of Texas, overseeing breaches of magic law in the state, but that has risks as well. When House Baylor is under attack and monsters haunt her every step, Catalina is forced to rely on handsome, dangerous Alessandro Sagredo, the Prime who crushed her heart.

The nightmare that Alessandro has fought since childhood has come roaring back to life, but now Catalina is under threat. Not even his lifelong quest for revenge will stop him from keeping her safe, even if every battle could be his last. Because Catalina won't rest until she stops the use of the illicit, power-granting serum that's tearing their world apart.

Emerald Blaze is scheduled to be released on August 25th. You can pre-order it now.

Read and download the Den of Geek Lost In Space Special Edition Magazine right here!

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Feature Alana Joli Abbott

Dec 20, 2019

Fantasy Books

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.｡.:*☆   MUSE INFO.   under the cut you’ll find a list of all muses + sexual orientations + established ships / things i ship or do not ship.  just because a muse has ships listed doesn’t mean i’m not open to discussing / plotting other ships!   (   unless they’re listed as singleship   )

hannah baker  /  demisexual  /  ships:  clay jensen. olivia baker  /  heterosexual  /  ships:   single-ship w/ andy baker.   /  prefer non-ship plots. jenna maroney  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none beatrice baudelaire  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  lemony snicket,  bertrand baudelaire. genevieve quagmire  /  demisexual  /  ships:  mr quagmire. louise banks  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  ian donnelly.  thea queen  /  bisexual  /  ships:  roy harper. andrew ryan  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none.  /  prefer non-ship plots. booker dewitt  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  anna dewitt. diane mcclintock  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none.   (   i do acknowledge that she loved andrew,  i just don’t ship it   ). eleanor lamb  /  asexual  /  ships:  none.  /  prefer non-ship plots. elizabeth comstock   /  demisexual  /   ships:  none.   (   potential ship under development with @lovcdandlost​‘s lincoln campbell   ) frank fontaine  /  asexual  /  ships:  none.  /  prefer non-ship plots. jack ryan  /  demisexual  /  ships:  none.  /  prefer non-ship plots. leslie burke  /  pansexual  /  ships:  jess aarons. gina linetti  /  pansexual  /  ships:  rosa diaz. michelle simms  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  hubbel flowers. paige matthews  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  henry mitchell. patty halliwell  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  sam wilder,  victor bennett. penny halliwell  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none.  /  prefer non-ship plots. phoebe halliwell  /  pansexual  /  ships:  cole turner,  coop halliwell. piper halliwell  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  leo wyatt.  notps:  dan gordon. prue halliwell  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  andy trudeau.  notps:  jack sheridan. abed nadir  /  asexual  /  ships:  none.  /  prefer non-ship plots. annie edison  /  bisexual  /  ships:  jeff winger,  frankie dart,  troy barnes. ben chang  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. britta perry  /  bisexual  /  ships:  jeff winger,  frankie dart. craig pelton  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. frankie dart  /  homosexual  /  ships:  annie edison,  britta perry. jeff winger  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  annie edison,  britta perry. troy barnes  /  bisexual  /  ships:  annie edison. hayes morrison  /  bisexual  /  ships: maxine bohen.  /  notps:  conner wallace. haley hotchner  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  aaron hotchner. jennifer jareau  /  bisexual  /  otp:  will lamontagne jr.  /  ships:  emily prentiss,  spencer reid.   elle greenaway  /  bisexual  /  ships:  derek morgan. emily prentiss  /  bisexual  /  ships:  aaron hotchner,  jennifer jareau. erin strauss  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  david rossi. marion waldo  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. amelia smollet  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  delbert doppler. beatrice potts  /  heterosexual  /  no ships.  /  prefer non-ship plots. belle  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  adam. ella  / demisexual  /  ships:  kit.   elsa  /   asexual  /   prefer non-ship plots. eugene fitzherbert  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  rapunzel. giselle  /  pansexual  /  ships:  robert philip,  edward. kit  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  ella. madame de garderobe  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  maestro cadenza. 9th doctor  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. 10th doctor  /  pansexual  /  ships:  rose tyler. amelia pond  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  rory williams.  /  notps:  the doctor. rory williams  / heterosexual  /  ships:  amelia pond.  /  notps:  the doctor. rose tyler  /  pansexual  /  ships: 10th doctor  /  notps:  mickey smith. rita vrataski  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  cage. april nardini  /  asexual  /  prefer non-ship plots. babette dell  /  heterosexual;  single ship w/ morey dell.  /  prefer non-ship plots. jess mariano  /  asexual  /  ships:  rory gilmore. kirk gleason  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  lulu.  /  prefer non-ship plots. lorelai gilmore  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  luke danes,  max medina,  jason stiles.  /  notp:  christopher hayden  (  requires significant plotting  ) logan huntzberger  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  rory gilmore,  odette. paris geller  /  bisexual  /  ships:  doyle mcmasters. rory gilmore  /  asexual  /  ships:  logan huntzberger,  jess mariano.  /  notp:  dean forester. sookie st. james  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jackson bellville. brittany pierce  /  bisexual  /  ships:  santana lopez. jesse st. james  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  rachel berry. rachel berry  /  bisexual  /  ships:  finn hudson,  jesse st. james,  quinn fabray. addison montgomery  /  bisexual  /  ships:  jake reilly,  derek shepherd,  mark sloan,  alex karev.  /  notps:  pete wilder,  sam bennett. alex karev  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jo wilson,  addison montgomery,  izzie stevens. april kepner  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none  /  notp:  jackson avery. amelia shepherd  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none  /  notp:  owen hunt. arizona robbins  /  homosexual  /  ships:  callie torres,  eliza minnick. charlotte king  /  heterosexual  /  otp:  cooper freedman. cristina yang  / asexual  /  notps:  preston burke,  owen hunt. denny duquette  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  izzie stevens. ellis grey  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  richard webber  /  notp:  thatcher grey. eliza minnick  /  homosexual  /  ships:  arizona robbins. george o'malley  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. isobel stevens  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  denny duquette,  alex karev. jake reilly  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  addison montgomery. jo wilson  /  demisexual  /  ships:  alex karev. miranda bailey  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  ben warren.  /  notp:  tucker bailey. meredith grey  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  derek shepherd,  nathan riggs. naomi bennett  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  sam bennett. nathan riggs  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  meredith grey. violet turner  /  demisexual  /  ships:  none.  /  notp:  pete wilder. alice longbottom  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  frank longbottom. amos diggory  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none  /  prefer non-ship plots. ginny weasley  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  harry potter,  dean thomas.   hannah abbott  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  neville longbottom. harry potter  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  ginny weasley.  /  notp:  hermione granger. hermione granger  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  ron weasley. lily evans  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  james potter.  /  notp:  severus snape. narcissa malfoy  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  lucius malfoy. newt scamander  /  demisexual  /  ships:  tina goldstein. molly weasley  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  arthur weasley.  /  prefer non-ship plots. nymphadora tonks  /  pansexual  /  ships:  remus lupin.  porpentina goldstein  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  newt scamander. sirius black  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none  /  notps:  remus lupin,  james potter. ted tonks  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  andromeda tonks. aloy  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. elisabet sobeck  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none.  /  notp:  ted faro. mia dolan  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  sebastian wilder. sebastian wilder  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  mia dolan. chloe price  /  homosexual  /  ships:  none. max caulfield  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. aida  /  demisexual  /  ships:  none. antoine triplett  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jemma simmons. bobbi morse  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  lance hunter. cassie lang  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jonas. gamora  /  asexual  /  ships:  peter quill  /  prefer non-ship plots. gwen stacy  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  peter parker,  harry osborn. jean grey  /  demisexual  /  ships:  none. jemma simmons  /  asexual  /  ships:  leo fitz,  will daniels.  /  notps:  daisy johnson,  grant ward. jessica jones  /  demisexual  /  ships:  luke cage,  trish walker.  /  notps:  kilgrave. kraglin  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none  /  prefer non-ship plots. leo fitz  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jemma simmons. mantis  /  asexual  /  ships:  none. melinda may  /  demisexual  /  ships:  phil coulson,  andrew garner. nebula  /  asexual  /  ships:  none  /  prefer non-ship plots. peggy carter  /  demisexual  /  ships:  steve rogers,  gabe jones,  daniel sousa,  angie martinelli.  notps:  jack thompson,  dottie underwood. pepper potts  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  tony stark,  happy hogan. peter parker  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  gwen stacy,  mj watson. peter quill  /  pansexual  /  ships:  gamora. steve rogers  /  asexual  /  ships:  peggy carter,  @analyticallyminded‘s jemma simmons.  /  notps:  tony stark,  bucky barnes,  wanda maximoff. tony stark  /  pansexual  /  ships:  pepper potts.  /  notps:  steve rogers,  bruce banner. sara ryder  /  pansexual  /  ships:  liam costa. amalia balash  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  singleship w/ @idyllicism‘s georg nowack. anya  /  demisexual  /  ships:  dimitry. cathy hiatt  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jamie wellerstein. elizabeth vaughan  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  josh barton. elsa schräder  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. evan hansen  /  asexual  /  ships:  zoe murphy. gleb vaganov  /  demisexual  /  ships:  @anastcsie‘s anya ilona ritter  /  pansexual  /  ships:  paul  /  notp:  steven kodaly. ilse neumann /  asexual  /  ships:  none  /  prefer non-ship plots. jamie wellerstein  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  cathy hiatt. jenna hunterson  /  demisexual  /  ships:  jim pomatter. lily craven  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  archibald craven.  /  notp:  neville craven. lily malevsky-malevitch  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  vlad popov. margaret bennett (mother)  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  father,  tateh. miles tuck  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  happiness tbh. sarah  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  coalhouse walker jr.  mary gleason (the baker’s wife)  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  the baker. vlad popov  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  lily. wendla bergmann  /  demisexual  /  ships:  none  /  notp:  melchior gabor  /  prefer non-ship plots. winnie foster  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jessie tuck. zoe murphy  /  demisexual  /  ships:  evan hansen. brook soso  /  bisexual  /  ships:  poussey washington. gloria mendoza  /  heterosexual  /  prefer non-ship plots. lorna morello  /  pansexual  /  ships:  nicky nichols. nicky nichols  /  homosexual  /  ships:  lorna morello. poussey washington  /  homosexual  /  ships:  brook soso. janie beck  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. kara rhodes  /  bisexual  /  ships:  none. terence bowen  /  asexual  /  ships:  none. zachary rhodes  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. alison hendrix  /  pansexual  /  ships:  donnie hendrix.  /  notp:  clonecest. beth childs  /  asexual  /  ships:  paul dearden.  /  notp:  clonecest. gracie johanssen  /  demisexual  /  ships:  mark rollins. helena  / asexual  /  ships:  none.  /  notp:  clonecest /  prefer non-ship plots. krystal goderitch  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none  /  notp:  clonecest. rachel duncan  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none  /  notp:  clonecest,  ferdinand. sarah manning  /  bisexual  /  ships:  paul dearden.  /  notp:  clonecest. siobhan sadler  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none  /  prefer non-ship plots. adam braverman  /  heterosexual  /  singleship w/ kristina braverman. amber holt  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  ryan york.   crosby braverman /  bisexual  /  singleship w/ jasmine trussell. drew holt  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  amy ellis. haddie braverman  /  bisexual  /  ships:  alex,  lauren. joel graham  /  heterosexual  /  singleship w/  julia graham. kristina braverman  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  adam braverman. sarah braverman  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  hank rizzoli,  mark cyr. andy dwyer  /  pansexual  /  ships:  april ludgate. ann perkins  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  chris traeger. ben wyatt  /  bisexual  /  ships:  leslie knope. chris traeger  /  pansexual /  ships:  ann perkins. leslie knope  /  bisexual  /  ships:  ben wyatt. ron swanson  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  diane swanson. carina smyth  /  demisexual  /  ships:  henry turner. will turner  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  elizabeth swann. b'elanna torres  /  demisexual  /  ships:  tom paris.  /  notps:  seven of nine,  kathryn janeway. beverly crusher  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jean luc picard,  jack crusher. chakotay  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  kathryn janeway  /  notp:  seven of nine. deanna troi  /  pansexual  /  ships:  will riker,  tasha yar.  /  notp:  worf. the doctor  /  pansexual  /  ships:  seven of nine.  /  prefer non-ship plots. ezri dax  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. geordi la forge  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. harry kim  /  bisexual  /  ships:  none. icheb /  asexual  /  prefer non-ship plots. jadzia dax  /  pansexual  /  ships:  worf,  @starraised‘s julian bashir,  @astrcnautical‘s jim kirk,  kira nerys. jake sisko  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. kathryn janeway  /  demisexual  /  ships:  chakotay,  mark johnson.  /  notps:  seven of nine,  b’elanna torres. keiko o'brien  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  miles o’brien  /  ot3:  miles&kira. kira nerys  /  demisexual  /  ships:  odo, jadzia dax.  /  ot3:  miles&keiko. lwaxana troi  /  pansexual  /  ships:  odo. miles o'brien  /  pansexual  /  ships:  keiko o’brien  /  ot3:  keiko&kira. natasha yar  /  homosexual  /  ships:  deanna troi. q  /  pansexual  /  ships:  lady q. samantha wildman  /  pansexual  /  ships:  greskrendreck. seska  /  demisexual  /  ships:  none.  /  notps:  chakotay,  culluh. seven of nine  /  asexual  /  ships:  the doctor.  /  notps:  harry kim,  chakotay,  b’elanna torres,  kathryn janeway.  /  prefer non-ship plots. tom paris  /  pansexual  /  ships:  b’elanna torres.  /  notp:  kes. tuvok  /  asexual  /  ships:  his wife tbh.  /  prefer non-ship plots. william t. riker  /  pansexual  /  ships:  deanna troi. worf  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jadzia dax.  /  notps:  ezri dax,  deanna troi. han solo  /  pansexual  /  ships:  leia organa.  /  notps:  luke skywalker. jyn erso  /  bisexual  /  ships:  cassian andor. leia organa  /  pansexual  /  ships:  han solo. luke skywalker  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none.  /  notps:  han solo. padme amidala  /  bisexual  /  ships:  anakin skywalker. shmi skywalker  / demisexual  /  prefer non-ship plots. emily charlton  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. rachel watson  /  demisexual  /  ships:  none. emily ( ofglen )  /  homosexual  /  ships:  none. janine ( ofwarren )  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. june ( offred )  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  luke bankrole  /  notp:  commander waterford,  nick. luke bankrole  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  june. moira  /  homosexual  /  ships:  none. katniss everdeen  /  demisexual  /  ships:  peeta mellark,  gale hawthorne. bilbo baggins /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none  /  prefer non-ship plots. faramir  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  eowyn. frodo baggins  /  asexual  /  ships:  none legolas  /  pansexual  /  ships:  aragorn,  tauriel. meriadoc brandybuck  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. peregrin took  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. samwise gamgee  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  rosie cotton. beth johanssen  /  asexual  /  ships:  chris beck. andy bernard  /  pansexual  /  ships:  erin hannon. angela martin  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  dwight schrute. dwight schrute  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  angela martin. erin hannon  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  andy bernard. holly flax  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  michael scott. jim halpert  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  pam beesly pam beesly-halpert  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jim halpert. jack pearson  /  heterosexual  /  singleship w/ rebecca pearson. kevin pearson  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  sophie  /  notp:  olivia maine,  sloane sandburg. randall pearson  /  heterosexual  /  singleship w/ beth pearson. rebecca pearson  /  heterosexual  /  singleship w/ jack pearson. lucy preston  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  wyatt logan  /  notp:  garcia flynn. rufus carlin  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jiya. wyatt logan  /  bisexual  /  ships:  lucy preston. alice cullen /  heterosexual  /  singleship w/ jasper hale. bree tanner  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. esme cullen  /  demisexual  /  singleship w/ carlisle cullen. jasper hale  /  demisexual  /  singleship w/ alice cullen. kimmy schmidt  /  asexual  /  ships:  none.  /  prefer non-ship plots. titus andromedon  /  homosexual  /  ships:  mikey politano. beth washington  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. hannah washington  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. jessica  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  mike. mike  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  jessica,  emily. samantha  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. lev calder  /  demisexual  /  ships:  none. risa ward  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  connor lassiter. diana trout  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  none. kelsey peters  /  pansexual  /  ships:  none. liza miller  /  heterosexual  /  ships:  charles,  josh.

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Novel review - Magic Triumphs

Novel review – Magic Triumphs

It’s been a while since I’ve touched on this book series. In fact it’s been a while since I’ve found the time to read any novel because of my new job. It doesn’t help that I’m falling behind on comics. But with NaNoWriMo less than a week away, reading a novel is part of my warm up. I’m glad to finally finish this series after the first entry is one of the books that helped me get back into…

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Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews

As Halloween2017 neared, I was kind of bummed because I haven’t read even one fantasy book I planned to read (Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, Eliza Victoria’s Wounded Little Gods and of course, Stephen King’s Carrie, were among them) so what did I do? I READ A NEW BOOK OUT OF THE BLUE! LOL

Nah, I was actually planning to give up fantasy reading for Halloween but my good friend Chachic recommended one of her favorite books and now I am an Ilona Andrews fan!

Burn for Me is the first book in the Hidden Legacy series featuring and alternate history US where powers and magic is the norm and is embedded deep into society and culture. Nevada Baylor is a private investigator forced to track and bring home an out of control pyrokinetic (a pyromanianc, really). One of the most dangerous magical people in their world, Mad Rogan, is out to get him, too, and things get even more complicated when a hot romance blossoms between Nevada and Rogan.

This is quite different from the books I’ve been reading because it’s contemporary romance but the world building is that of a tight fantasy novel. I love that the magic was dealt with the same importance as the love parts and there was a perfect balance between them. It is also important to point out how diverse the characters are in this universe and that they had huge roles to the advancement of the plot, however small their parts were.

Nevada’s POV was fantastic, I loved knowing what went on in her head especially when it came to her relationship with her family. I especially loved her motivations for every action and the personal rules they followed in running their family business.  Nevada is such an amazing heroine!

What really got me hooked was the sexual tension between Nevada and Rogan and how their magic played in the flirting and avoiding of it all. I didn’t think a book could be so hot without, you know, the hot parts but this was indeed BURNING! The characters are also well-rounded, complementing the compelling writing making reading it so much fun! No wonder Ilona Andrews are popular, I’ve known of them even before I read this book, and now I’m set to get the other two books in the series.

5 of 5 Stars. Awesome worldbulding, awesome magic powers, awesome romance! My Halloween reads were saved at the last minute! Haha!

Blurb:

Nevada Baylor is faced with the most challenging case of her detective career—a suicide mission to bring in a suspect in a volatile case. Nevada isn’t sure she has the chops. Her quarry is a Prime, the highest rank of magic user, who can set anyone and anything on fire. Then she’s kidnapped by Connor “Mad” Rogan—a darkly tempting billionaire with equally devastating powers. Torn between wanting to run or surrender to their overwhelming attraction, Nevada must join forces with Rogan to stay alive. Rogan’s after the same target, so he needs Nevada. But she’s getting under his skin, making him care about someone other than himself for a change. And, as Rogan has learned, love can be as perilous as death, especially in the magic world. 

Buy Links:

Kindle : https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Me-Hidden-Legacy-Novel-ebook/dp/B00I7V11WU

About the authors:

“Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian and Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army. Contrary to popular belief, Gordon was never an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was never the mysterious Russian spy who seduced him. They met in college, in English Composition 101, where Ilona got a better grade. (Gordon is still sore about that.) Gordon and Ilona currently reside in Texas with their two children and many dogs and cats. They have co-authored several NYT and USAT bestselling series. They are currently working on urban fantasy of Kate Daniels, the paranormal romance of Hidden Legacy, and thjeir independently published series, Innkeeper Chronicles.  You can read more about their work on their website: http://www.ilona-andrews.com

Shout out to my dear friend Chachic, because this is one of the best book gifts I’ve received in a long while! Check out her amazing book blog here: https://chachic.wordpress.com/ (She’s been book blogging for years so it is wise to listen to her and her recommendations! ;) ) Thank you, Thank you!

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Review: Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews

Review: Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews

Series: Hidden Legacy #6Author: Ilona Andrews (Ilona & Andrew Gordon)Publisher: AvonReleased: August 23, 2022Received: NetGalley/Own Pardon me as I squeal. I can’t believe it’s time for the sixth novel in the Hidden Legacy series! For those new to the world, Ruby Fever is the sixth novel of the series but the third novel following Catalina Baylor. Catalina Baylor is a Prime magic user and has a…

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So two of the things I like to do to center myself are journaling (though I need to work on consistency) and turning back to House Andrews work for comfort.

They never fail to make me feel better and I have controlled some pretty bad anxiety or panic attacks by going back to their books.

One of their quotes that makes me feel most poetic is this one: "If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons" and inspiration hit me to try and incorporate it into one of my doodles.

All of this to say thanks. Thank you so much for the work you do Ilona and Gordon. Your words have given wings to my imagination and transported me to many many worlds and close to the characters I love so much.

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Ok, so these guys are writing some of my favorite urban fantasy books, and I really, really wish this interview was published in its full length, but it is a short good read. 

I could not imagine writing anything with my husband (there would definitely be more than angry dishwasher loading involved), but it is really cool it works. 

Really short, as I said, but I really loved this:

We treat sex scenes kind of the way that we treat fight scenes. Fight scenes work best when they make sense and when they’re emotional — there has to be an emotional current in the scene. Something has to change. 

Something has to change. I like that a lot. 

In any case, I recommend ALL their books :)

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If there was a golden age of serial fiction, it might have been the era when Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain were publishing their stories-in-installments in print periodicals, with their readers desperately waiting for the next part of the tale. But if that’s true, right now might just be the platinum age of serial fiction. The digital medium is perfect for publishing stories as episodes, and modern readers who are used to receiving stories in an episodic format, thanks to television, may appreciate the medium in a more nuanced way than their historical predecessors.

Modern serials make use of both styles of writing. Some rely on a single author who publishes their novel bit by bit, keeping readers hooked. Others are developed in a television-style writer’s room. Some feature added features like music or illustrations, making use of transmedia opportunities made possible in the digital world. These stories span genres, including near futuristic sci fi (The Vela or Machina), urban fantasy (Ilona Andrews’s “Innkeeper Chronicles”), heart-pounding stories that will keep you guessing (C. D. Miller’s Dark Heights, Ray N. Kuili’s Eden Can Wait, or Casey Lucas’s Into the Mire), your favorite comics or television characters in prose (Black Panther: Sins of the King and Doctor Who), and illustrated (Twice) or audio only (Hope and Red) fantasies. Whatever you enjoy reading, there’s a serial for you to enjoy.

Find out more about where you can read online serial fiction here.

Ongoing Serial Fiction

While the science fiction and fantasy genres have the lead as far as the number of individual serials available for purchase, the serial format has always included realistic fiction and intrigue, as well as expanding into erotic novels. Take a peek at what’s new and what’s ongoing!

Hope and Red

Jon Skovoron’s Hope and Red was originally published in 2016, but the author is back with a serialized version—delivered straight to your podcasting app, narrated by the author. As the story that launched Skovoron’s “Empire of Storms” series, the novel introduces warrior Hope and thief Red, who must team up to take down a corrupt empire. This fast-paced fantasy has all the right cliff-hangers to keep you waiting for the next episode.

The Vela 

One of my favorite recent space operas is The Vela, a Serial Box original written by powerhouse team Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, and SL Huang. The story centers on soldier-for-hire Asala Sikou, who’s more worried about taking care of number one than she is about the imminent death of her star system. But when she takes a job to find a missing rescue ship, The Vela, she and her teammate, Niko, the child of the inner planet’s president, find themselves embroiled in endgames that will decide the fate of the universe. The season one conclusion had me sobbing at the end. (Check out my review of The Vela here.) Season two, The Vela: Salvation, is posting episodes right now, and I will be hanging onto my seat for each week’s new episode.

Doctor Who

This summer, Serial Box partnered with The Big Finish to release their full-cast audio dramas of Doctor Who to the serial audience. Two collections of stories, The Tenth Doctor Adventures and The Tenth Doctor Chronicles, feature the adventures of the Tenth Doctor and his companion Donna Noble, voiced by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in one and narrated by Jacob Dudman in the other. Four other offerings focus on earlier Doctors, crossovers with multiple Doctors, and the enigmatic Lady Christina. Fans of the television series are sure to find something to enjoy in these companion tales to the program, and listeners who have never watched the show (as rare as those may be!) have the opportunity to dip their toes into a very complex and well-loved world.

Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire

In Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire, Jessica transitions from comics and small screen to a prose serial—written by Lauren Beukes, Vita Ayala, Sam Beckbessinger, Zoe Quinn, and Elsa Sjunneson. She’s focusing on developing some healthier coping mechanisms (not drinking so much) and trying to take some cases less likely to kill her. But when a simple, cut-and-dry case has more lurking beneath the surface, Jessica can’t let it go, even when the stakes get dangerous. This is sure to be a hit with fans of the Netflix series, and it’s great to see a frequently underused Marvel superhero get more air time.

The 18th Century Man

While the conceit for The 18th Century Man, a serial on Medium by Dan Morrison, seems simple enough—a young man, conceived during a power outage, negates electricity—the first chapters indulge in a hefty dose of social and political commentary that let readers know they’re in for something that aims deeper. James grows up on his grandmother’s farm in Woodstock, Vermont, as the focus of speculation. Everyone wants to know how he became the way he is—including James himself. Reading on Medium requires either using a limited number of stories for free or becoming a subscriber; to help his readers, Morrison posts chapters into the same story, with email alerts that let them know when the next one is added. Readers just picking up this serial can easily binge the first seventeen chapters—and then keep a watch on Morrison’s email list or Facebook group for the next installment.

The Innkeeper Chronicles (and others) by Ilona Andrews

Husband-and-wife team Ilona and Gordon Andrews have been releasing a series of free novellas on their website as a reward to loyal readers. They’re fantastic at providing new content, some in the serial specific world of The Innkeeper Chronicles, which has now produced several novellas. Each weekly installment is a partial chapter, typically readable inside of fifteen minutes, and enough of a bite sized chunk to whet your appetite for whatever comes next. 

They’re currently posting a new novel, Blood Heir, set in the world of Kate Daniels, featuring an adult Julie—Kate’s adopted daughter—in an Atlanta eight years after the original series concluded. For readers who weren’t ready to let the series go with Magic Triumphs, this brilliant relaunch is just the reward we needed for surviving a pandemic.

“The Innkeeper Chronicles,” the more frequent ongoing serial series, revolve around Dina, an Innkeeper, host for interstellar travelers that include familiar mythological figures like werewolves and vampires, as well as more outlandish aliens. Her inn feeds magic into her, so she can change reality on her inn’s grounds to better accommodate–and defend against–her guests. In Clean Sweep, the first novella, a supernatural danger threatens Dina’s non-magical neighbors. Dina isn’t supposed to get involved, but she’s not the type to let what she’s supposed to do stop her from doing what’s right. While most of the stories center on Dina, one focuses on Maud, Dina’s sister, navigating the intergalactic politics of space faring vampire civilization while keeping her half-vampire daughter, Helen, safe. Meanwhile on Earth, a holiday celebration at the inn is complicated when a cosmically powerful being needs a safe place to meet her amoral human uncle. The series is a fantastic hybrid of space action, swordplay, and romance, and shows that the series has plenty of room to grow.

Team Andrews creates a very cool world mixing fantasy and science fiction tropes and populates it with a fully realized cast, including not only Dina and her sister, but also the local (hunky) werewolf, a temperamental Quillonian chef, and Dina’s struggling inn’s only regular guest, a vampire noble claiming asylum on earth due to her previous ruthless acts. Can’t wait for the next installment? Andrews is updating the main blog with chapters of a new project in the world of Kate Daniels, which should tide you over!

Into the Mire 

In this dark fantasy in a post-war world, a badass mercenary captain leads her crew on a hunt for the missing heir of a baron—who happens to be her old commanding officer. Unfortunately, the marsh into which they must travel is populated by carnivorous trees—and human enemies who may be even more dangerous.

Riss Chou, the head merc, is appealingly snarky; her second-in-command is a posh bisexual sorcerer who, on first read, reminded me of one of my favorite characters from Kill the Queen; and another team member is a blood sorcerer hiding his talent (because it’s illegal). While the first few chapters hint at the much larger world, the narrative never overwhelms, keeping the main quest story line at the forefront, and building the world in the background.

Launched April, 2018, the serial has completed its first full novel and is deep into book two. In 2020, the serial was nominated for New Zealand’s top literary prize in SFF: the Sir Julius Vogel Award. Author Casey Lucas updates the serial weekly on Wednesdays, New Zealand Time.

Twice

Matthew Rhymer is not what he seems—even those who know him best don’t really know his story. When his estranged friends receive a letter intended to be delivered to him, they become privy to an unbelievable story, which has to do with the Lady, her rule, and the hungers of a mysterious enemy. The newly launched illustrated serial “Twice” parcels out the mystery a tiny bit at a time, each episode giving a little more for readers to piece together. Each episode features a gorgeous painting from author/illustrator Mark J. Ferrari. While Ferrari has a tip jar on the site, subscriptions to the ongoing serial are free, and each episode can be read on the website, or delivered directly to your email. Season one concluded earlier this summer, but season two promises to bring readers even deeper into Rhymer’s world.

Dark Heights

If the audio experience is important to you and you’re looking for something for a mature audience, you might be interested in checking out music-enhanced serial Dark Heights by C. D. Miller, with music composed and performed by C. D.’s brother, Chris Miller. The music and prose are developed in tandem, so that they are intentionally intertwined. This indie serial is available at its original website but Part One was picked up by Serial Box, and is available through their app.

The story is of a town, Park Heights, where supernatural forces in a war of shadows converge. Caught in the chaos are town native Tess Bellamy and drifter Gabriel Majeaux. The series features an HBO-level of graphic content (so it’s not for young readers) and bends genres and genre expectations. If you’re a fan of psychological horror, this unique music and prose blend might be right up your alley. Just… be careful of those shadows.

Lady Victoria Howard

One of the reasons some readers may prefer a serial subscription to a paperback is that they can read bite-sized fiction discreetly on their phones. That’s one of the goals of the Lady Victoria Howard web app, an erotic serial written for women, by women. Billed as the world’s first serialized erotic novel, the web app has subscriptions available for the first three seasons (39 episodes), which are delivered weekly depending on when you start your subscription. The story follows Lady Victoria Howard, sister to a modern duke, whose past heartbreak has led her to a sexual awakening, that allows her to explore her sensuality—and live her life to the fullest.

Amazon Original Stories 

Amazon Original Stories produces one-sitting fiction reads, such as their premiere releases Joyce Carol Oates’s novel The Sign of the Beast and nonfiction book Crown Heights by Colin Warner and Carl King. Their most recent collection, “Hush,” is a series of contemporary thrillers from authors like Oyinkan Braithwaite and Jeffrey Deaver. Other recent releases include the “Disorder” series of short stories, designed to keep you awake at night, and the “Inventions” series, which explores the true stories from the age of innovation. The imprint has also published “The Real Thing Collection,” six nonfiction essays about relationships including pieces by Fresh off the Boat author Eddie Huang and Pretty Little World coauthors Elizabeth LaBan and Melissa DePino; and the recent “Inheritance” collection, with stories from Alice Hoffman, Julie Orringer, Alexander Chee, and others. Other authors who have written for the imprint include Jennifer McMahon, Lisa Unger, Edgar Cantero, Emily Raboteau, Adam Haslett, Brandi Reeds, Dean Koontz, Nick McDonell, Susan Straight, Jeffrey Deaver, and Janice Y. K. Lee. 

The stories are available for free to Prime and Kindle Unlimited subscribers; other readers can purchase the books for $1.99.

Ninth Step Station

In Ninth Step Station, a future Tokyo is torn, divided between the invading Chinese and the supposedly peacekeeping Americans. Disaster after disaster have kept Japan from recovering, and their police are short handed and short supplied.

When Metropolitan Police Detective Miyako Koreda is paired with US Peacekeeper Emma Higashi as her new partner, neither of them is pleased with the arrangement. But despite their hesitations, they solve a series of crimes that feature espionage, rebellion, and humanity at its worst, many of which revolve around the war.

Created by Malka Older, Ninth Step Station feels at once like great near-future sci-fi and a modern police drama in which both of the main detectives are, refreshingly, women. The second season, with writing team Older, Fran Wilde, Jacqueline Koyanagi, and Curtis C. Chen, just wrapped—but the cliffhanger indicates the solid possibility of a third season in the works.

Coming Soon

The Haunting of Beatrix Greene

What happens when a medium and a scientist are at odds in Victorian England—and a vengeful spirit enters the mix? That’s the premise of this forthcoming serial: scientist James Walker hires spiritual medium Beatrix Greene to host a seance. She’s worried he intends to prove that she’s a fraud, and she’s determined not to let that happen. Neither of them expect to have to banish a ghost—or to be so attracted to each other. The first episode is live (and free) at Serial Box, and the second releases just in time for Halloween chills and thrills.

The Co-Founder

One of two Serial Box titles in development for television, The Co-founder is a contemporary drama set to launch later in 2020. When two women, Val and Jules, create what could become the next big thing in gaming, they face a hurdle: they’re women. In order to fit in with the Silicon Valley tech-bro culture, they hire barista and failed actor Toby to act as their third co-founder. It’s a plan that might just work—until Toby tries to steal their gaming platform out from under them. The season, written by Alexis Wilkinson, is available for preorder.

Marvel’s Black Panther: Sins of the Father

It’s difficult waiting for news about the MCU’s Black Panther 2, but fear not: there’s a serial to tide you over! With a sneak peek released in August 2020, the full serial won’t release until January 2021, but I’m already ready to keep hitting refresh until it launches. Led by Ira Madison III, the writing team (Geoff Thorne, Mohale Mashigo, Steven Barnes, and Tananarive Due) take readers to a Wakanda plagued by undead. T’Challa, striving to be both a good king and an Avenger, must turn to his long-lost father to find out how to stop the supernatural onslaught—and face the demons of Wakanda’s past. With Emmy-nominated William Jackson Harper announced as the narrator, this one is going to be a fantastic read—or listen—when it releases.

Serials You Can Binge

These serials, which are not currently updating, are worth checking out, especially as some of them may later get a second season.

Marvel’s Black Widow: Bad Blood

We might not yet have a fully official release date for the Black Widow movie, but fans who can’t get enough of the Russian assassin/Avenger can get a fix with this recently released serial, which just wrapped its first season in July. As the second collaboration between Marvel and Serial Box, Black Widow follows Natasha Romanov as she tries to track down whoever stole her blood—because they also stole the blood of Bucky Barnes. There’s no good reason for someone to take the blood of two secret operatives, especially when there’s a possibility that the someone responsible is trying to develop their own brand of super soldier serum. A Barnes/Romanov team-up is something we’ll never really get to see in the MCU, but pairing these two is sure to hit all the right spy movie tropes. Serial Box veterans Lindsay Smith (lead writer for The Witch Who Came in from the Cold) and Margaret Dunlap (Bookburners) are joined on the writing team by feminist writer Mikki Kendall, urban fantastist L.L. McKinney, and thriller writer Taylor Stevens.

Knox

This recently completed serial is set in 1930s Manhattan, where a serial killer is on the loose, and Knox is the PI on the job. Both she and the murderer, John Craddock, served in World War I; the experience left Knox with the unenviable ability to see the paranormal. And the case with Craddock is anything but what it seems. Elements of Lovecraftian horror infuse this story of a badass Afro-Latina detective, and New York noir combines with queer romance to give the story a while different flavor from anything else in this genre. Let K Arsenault Rivera, Brooke Bolander, Gabino Iglesias, and Sunny Moraine take you on a trip of horrors beyond space and time—and try to hold onto your sanity while you’re reading.

Machina

The world is a mess, and the future lies off-planet if humanity is to survive at all. Machina is set after a climate apocalypse ravages Earth. In the first episode, readers meet a group of dreamers—best friends Trey, Stephanie, and Smits—who intend to save humanity from their crumbling planet, ravaged by earthquakes and worse, by creating AI that will terraform Mars. Skip forward a few years, and those Trey and Stephanie are feuding, running rival tech companies both striving toward the same goal. Although Trey’s company focuses on a more traditional style of programming—where the AI is guided at every step by humans at the helm—Trey is innovating with the help of AI anthropologist Noor Venable, whose understanding of AI may change the way everyone thinks. Stephanie’s group, determined to give their AI more independence, is led in part by ace-programmer Cameron—who finds themself as charmed by Noor as Trey’s AI. The competition is being covered by intrepid “kid-reporter” Hiro Watanabe, who steals every scene he’s in. With the writing team of Malka Older, Fran Wilde, Curtis Chen, and Martha Wells, all of whom have followings beyond their serials, this is one tech corporate drama that readers will be happy to binge—and hope for a second season.

Thor: Metal Gods

One of my favorite bits in the MCU is when Thor and Loki team up in some old-school “Road Movie” style comedy. This prose serial, the audio version of which is narrated by Daniel Gillies of The Vampire Diaries, doubles down on the fun of the Loki-Thor duo. Here, the at-odds brothers voyage through the galaxy to track down a dangerous artifact. But the cast doesn’t stop with familiar faces: new characters include a Korean tiger-goddess, Frost giant mercenaries, and a charismatic, gender-fluid space pirate.This is the first prose serial collaboration between Serial Box and one of the big comic publishers, featuring the writing team of Aaron Stewart-Ahn, Jay Edidin, Brian Keene, and Yoon Ha Lee. If you love it (or prefer a different hero), keep an eye out for Serial Box’s other Marvel titles!

Orphan Black: The Next Chapter

If you were among the fans who lamented the end of the Canadian SF show Orphan Black, celebrate the return of the Clone Club—eight years after the conclusion of the show! (Den of Geek chatted with Tatiana Maslany about continuing the series as the audio book narrator.) The first Serial Box season has concluded, but fans can keep hoping for more time with the Clone Club.

Other Half of the Grave

This may not be the vampire romance POV swap that everyone’s been talking about, but The Other Half of the Grave has some of the same appeal! Fans of Jeanine Frost’s “Night Huntress” series encouraged her to write scenes from the male lead of her first “Night Huntress” novel, One Foot in the Grave, for behind the scenes goodies. It’s not an entire book—readers would do best to read the original novel first—but the bite sized installments are a huge reader perk.

Foreshadow

After a hugely successful IndieGogo campaign, editors in chief Emily X.R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma have launched what they term a YA Serial anthology. Contributors include Dhonielle Clayton (in Issue 0), Malinda Lo (in Issue 1), Justine Larbalesteir (issue 10), and more. A print edition of some of the stories is due out in fall, 2020, but the original 12 issues remain available online.

Born to the Blade 

High fantasy meets political intrigue in Born to the Blade, a serial that combines elements from Game of Thrones, Avatar the Last Airbender, and The West Wing. Duelist-diplomats fight for the fate of not only the neutral Twaa-Fei islands, but the world. Rumor has it there’s no second season yet in the plans, but if you’re like me and can’t handle the cliff-hanger from season one, spread the word!

Gods and Lies

Billed as American Gods meets The Maltese Falcon, Gods & Lies follows investigator Justix Iris Tharro, a human agent of the goddess of Justice. In order to solve the bizarre murder in the Temple of Wind, she has to team up with Andy, a disgraced demigod, trying to win back the favor of his divine parent.

First Street

First Street delves into contemporary events by focusing on four young clerks working in the Supreme Court. Recommended for fans of The West Wing and Shondaland series, who are sure to get drawn into the intrigue.

The Understudy

A dance school is the unlikely setting for this social thriller, where a group of moms must team together to protect their daughters from a series of brutal attacks—all of which began when new dancer, Imogen, started attending the same dance academy. 

Alternis

In a not-too-distant future, the world’s governments have agreed to allow their standings in an MMORPG to determine their share of the world’s resources. A game designer has a choice: join Team USA or have her life’s project taken away. (We chatted with the writing team for Alternis in an exclusive cover reveal and with Summer Glau, who narrated the audio book.)

The Triangle 

A covert group travels to the Bermuda Triangle to investigate disappearances, only to be stranded on an uncharted island… where they discover they aren’t alone. Secrets are slowly revealed in Michael Crichton style suspense, with a healthy dose of television’s Lost.

False Idols 

FBI crime thriller False Idols pits Layla el-Deeb against a terrorist network operating via Ciaro’s art scene. Her entry into the world of Cairo’s financial elite is complicated by her impoverished childhood in Cairo’s slums, and going undercover in her home city comes with greater challenges than she expected. 

Tensorate

JY Yang’s Tensorate novellas tell a technology-vs.-tradition tale of two twin siblings, Mokoya and Akeha, drawn to opposite sides of a rebellion. A prequel reveals the history of the Protector’s rise, and a continuation of the original duology, The Descent of Monsters, features a female inspector trying to solve a mystery that involves a cover up, an escaped experiment, and strange dreams she can’t define.

The Witch Who Came in From the Cold

This Cold War with witches spy saga had two seasons—and ended on a cliffhanger. If you like a good KGB vs. CIA story, definitely let Serial Box know you’d love to see a third season! 

Silverwood: The Door

Continuing on from stories originally introduced in the Black Box TV series Silverwood by Tony E. Valenzuela, this serial offers a Lovecraftian creature driving people to madness, and nods to splatterpunk and slashers. (Check out our interview with the writers.)

Bullet Catcher

Imma Moreno’s dead-end life changes directions when she decides to apprentice herself to a bullet catcher—mythical warriors whose heroics are told in hushed voices, but who were supposed to have been slaughtered by the gunslingers long ago. Tales of Jedi and the series Avatar: The Last Airbender inspired this weird western by Joaquin Lowe.

The Fisher of Bones

Sarah Gailey’s The Fisher of Bones is a fantasy novelette in twelve parts released by Fireside Fiction, with an audio version produced by Serial Box. It’s a beautiful and desolate fantasy story filled with trials of faith, and the short chapters make it a quick read–but the chapters will linger in a reader’s thoughts much longer.

Dead Air

College senior Macy Walker is obsessed with death, and in her on-air show, “Dead Air,” she airs out the old case of horsewoman Peg Graham’s murder. But though she starts reporting her own findings—and realizing that plenty of people would like Graham’s case to stay buried. 

ReMade

Twenty three teenagers, all of whom died in the same minute, become the last hope for humanity when they awaken in a brand new world. Here, there are robots that hunt humans, a dangerous jungle, and the ruins of an ancient civilization. 

Geek Actually

This contemporary fiction piece focuses on a circle of female friends whose careers revolve around their geeky passions. The focus on powerful and healthy female friendships is a delight, and the diversity of the cast is wonderful.

Bookburners

Bookburners, the flagship series for Serial Box (and one of my personal favorites on this list), is the story of a team of Vatican-employed agents trapping demons in books—until they realize that magic is too big to be contained. The story finished its fifth and final season, and the collected episodes are too good to miss.

Tremontaine

This completed serial is a prequel to Ellen Kushner’s Riverside fantasy series, and the the swashbuckling and political intrigue kept readers hooked through the serial’s ultimate conclusion. Series creator Ellen Kushner has posted a guide to the Riverside novels and the order in which they occur chronologically for readers wanting to delve more deeply into that world.

1776

The Associated Press series 1776: The World Turned Upside Down was originally published for the bicentennial of the United States in a hardcover, large format book for news organizations. The serial features dramatized audio narration with voice work by Clint McElroy as Alexander Hamilton, Bob Garfield as Thomas Paine, Chris Jackson as Washington, Nicholas Christopher as John Adams, and Robin Miles as the narrator. (We talked with CEO Molly Barton about the project.)

A Most Dangerous Woman

Brenda Clough takes up the mantle of Wilkie Collins in creating a sequel to what many critics consider the first and finest example of the modern mystery genre, The Woman in White. 

Exquisite Corpse and Embodied

You’ve heard of the game: several authors create a story together, writing a chapter at a time and then handing it off to the next, so that none of the authors really know where it’s going to end up until the last moment. Serial Box took the concept and turned it into a serial format, with two event serials: Exquisite Corpse and Embodied.

Royally Yours

Looking for something a little lighthearted for your bite-sized reads? In honor of the real royal wedding in May, Serial Box released a short, mini-series of love stories, not about the bride and groom, but about couples involved in the day’s events. 

Whitehall

In the mood for courtly drama, full of machinations, intrigue, and fantastic clothing? Settle in for the turmoil of the romance of Queen Catherine of Braganza, her husband, King Charles II of England, and his mistress, Barbara. This is captivating historical fiction, vividly set in the 17th century.

Belgravia

Fans of Downtown Abbey will gravitate to this story, written by Julian Fellowes, of the Trenchant family. Belgravia integrates real historical details into the text through hyperlinking; the setting is viscerally described, and the characters presented with an open eye to their flaws as equally as their virtues.

Conclusion

The best part about serials is that they’re happening live — and if enough people are reading them, they make great Internet water-cooler conversation. So if you’re catching up on the latest episode of The Vela, or the most recent installment of whatever Team Andrews is writing, and need to gush — or just want to make sure I know about the hot new serial you’re reading — come on over and find me on Facebook.  

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The only thing in the world not for sale is character. – Antonin Scalia • Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean. – Deborah Bull • Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter. – Betty Rollin • Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing – building more muscle! – Denise Austin • But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It’s a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing. – Harvey Fierstein • But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever. – Ron White • But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea. – Agnes de Mille • Commitment is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. – Chalene Johnson • Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. – Ruth Gordon • Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. – Ruth Gordon • Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration…..The body must perspire, or must be out of order. – Noah Webster • Death’s a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness. – Robinson Jeffers • Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. – Grantland Rice • Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. – Germaine Greer • Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body — the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don’t know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know. – Donald Curtis • Don’t wait until you’re not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you’ll start to develop a ‘fearlessness muscle’. – Arianna Huffington • Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor’s. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. – Norman Rockwell • Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other, the sounds of the ball touching the wooden floor, the sneakers touching the floor, and the sounds of the fight, the muscle and the sweat. Oh, and the last one-when the ball goes through the net. Don’t laugh at my sensitivity and romanticism – those sounds really attract me. – Yao Ming • Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. – Roger von Oech • Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way to discharge tension, work through emotional blocks, release anger, and gain self-esteem. – Ellen Bass • Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don’t pass out. They don’t go on. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. – Terry Pratchett • Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the larger muscle groups such as the thighs, and then they wonder why it is that they never make gains in overall size and strength. – Reg Park • Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. – Arianna Huffington • Five minutes later, we were rolling around on the helipad as he tried to muscle his way out of my armlock, after slamming me onto the helipad. “I finally realized the source of your mutual attraction,” Saiman said, his voice dry. I looked up. He was standing a few feet away. “Do enlighten us.” Curran tried to roll into me to break the lock. Oh no you don’t. “You both think violence is foreplay. – Ilona Andrews • Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I’ve starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility. – Samantha Stosur • For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man’s whole body records his emotional thinking. – Mabel Elsworth Todd • Frankly, I’ve never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all. My biggest single concern used to be getting enough to eat. Now I have to worry about eating too much. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights. I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise. – Marilyn Monroe • Freedom is a muscle…you have to exercise it. – Roy Scheider • Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. – Charles Scott Sherrington • God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy. – John Howe • Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle. – Arnold Haultain • Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows. – Alan Cohen • Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas A. Edison • Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew. – Shannon Miller • He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. – Frances Wright • Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. – Joan Lunden • How can anyone be interested in war? – that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it – this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable? – Margaret Caroline Anderson • I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me. – Ryan Gosling • I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much. – Alyssa Milano • I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets. – Rodman Philbrick • I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. – Mike Tyson • I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn’t feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you’re doing a play you’re using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away. – Matthew Macfadyen • I don’t always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else. – Elisabetta Canalis • I don’t do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.- Markus Ruhl • I don’t need to worry about that, that’s always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.- Chris Pine • I found enormous opposition to my religion. It’s like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion. – Ricardo Montalban • I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I’ve never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman – she’s really my only idol. It’s going to be a big stretch – certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile. – Judy Holliday • I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. – Mae West • I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine. – Rita Rudner • I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise. – Marilyn Monroe • I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away. – Marianne Williamson • I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain. – Samuel Johnson • I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. – e. e. cummings • I like when a guy wears a T-shirt, and you can see a little curve of the muscle sticking out. That’s sexy! – Jennifer Morrison • I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of my imagination. And I went back to the massage room so that my faithful Morizot could take the trouble off my muscles. This soothed me considerably and I thought I was back to a normal state until somebody summoned me to the starting line. It was like feeling a blade go through my flesh. – Jules Ladoumegue • I look at myself and pick out the things I don’t like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area. – Tyra Banks • I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone. – Gabriela Sabatini • I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are. – Ludacris • I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there’s no substitute for live theater. – Eddie Cahill • I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles. – Jill Clayburgh • I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way. – Josh Hutcherson • I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that’s my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I’ve finished a movie but don’t tell anyone. – Eric Bana • I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring. – Wladimir Klitschko • I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. – Smedley Butler • I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. – Smedley Butler • I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. – Mahatma Gandhi • I think it’s going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density. – John L. Phillips • I use very few muscles at the best of times. – Johnny Vegas • I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can’t put on weight though, no matter how much I eat. – Christopher Parker • I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that. – Benedict Cumberbatch • I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage. – Esther Williams • I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine. – Rita Rudner • I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You’d use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up. – Carmen Electra • I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming. – Johnny Bench • I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren’t involved that they don’t have to go into spasms too. – Dick York • I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. – Og Mandino • If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him. – Aiden Wilson Tozer • If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes. – Shakuntala Devi • If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you’ll be so weak you won’t be able to believe the simplest true things. – Lewis Carroll • If you’ve got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You’ve got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet. – Jack LaLanne • I’ll never harden my heart but I’ve toughened the muscles around it. – Dolly Parton • I’m not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars. – Lady Gaga • I’m training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman. – Henry Cavill • In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera. – Philippe Halsman • In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel. – Tommy Bolt • In life’s small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know’st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she’ll say to thee, “I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?” – James Russell Lowell • It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible. – Henry Ward Beecher • It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. – Henry Ward Beecher • It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal. – Stirling Moss • It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle. – David Levithan • It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. – Alex Karras • It’s funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but it’s a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition. – Lou Ferrigno • It’s not about weight, it’s about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is. – Deborah Bull • It’s not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you’ll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you’ll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling. – Al McGuire • I’ve always known that I was a gifted person. … I’ve always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn’t continue to make use of that gift. It’s very important that you don’t let the muscle get flabby. It’s really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid. – Merle Haggard • Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. – Paul Whiteman • Kobe’s heart is as strong as his muscles. – Yao Ming • Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. – Dag Hammarskjold • Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. – Edna Ferber • Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data – or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on. – Alan Rusbridger • Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree. – Eddie Redmayne • Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. – Peter Drucker • Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize. – Michael Zaslow • Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. – Lynn Jennings • Mind is everything. Muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. – Paavo Nurmi • Muscle and water is critical in burning fat. – Lee Haney • Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. – G. Stanley Hall • Muscles come and go; flab lasts. – Bill Vaughan • My body cheerfully informed me that he felt really good pressed against me like that, all hard muscles and smooth contours and ominous bulges. My body liked the air of barely leashed strength and caged mayhem he was giving off. My body thought he smelled really good, like heat and coffee and electricity. My body was going to get me killed. – Karen Chance • My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old. – Matthew Broderick • Nervous? He’s tighter than Pat Buchanan’s sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. – Dennis Miller • No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement. – Hugh Leonard • No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I’ll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine? – Salma Hayek • No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart…only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood. – Alexander Clark • Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles. – Michel de Montaigne • Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It’s like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. – Thomas Carlyle • Now take a human body. Why wouldn’t you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don’t you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn’t a single muscle which doesn’t serve its purpose; that there’s not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. – Ayn Rand • Nuclear is nothing but trouble. Do you say “new-clear” or do you say “nuke-you-ler”? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don’t have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin’ out loud. – Paul Feig • Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. – Stephen Covey • Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. – Eknath Easwaran • People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. – Emily Dickinson • Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. – George Combe • Practice puts brains in your muscles. – Sam Snead • Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. – Charles Spurgeon • Problems are God’s resistance to create spiritual muscles. – Tony Robbins • Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart. – Jonathan Swift • RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular. – Corey Taylor • Rather than strive to ‘lose weight,’ most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle. – Mark Sisson • Right now I’m 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I’ve got big bones and I’m maintaining muscle. – Lisa Leslie • Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding – E. M. Forster • She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended. – Kathleen Winsor • So it’s really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles. – Michael C. Hall • So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don’t get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity. – Jack LaLanne • Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight. – Veronica Roth • Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. – Neil deGrasse Tyson • Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Strength is not measured in muscle, but in will. – Margaret M. Morrow • Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. “Losing one’s head,” language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience. – Robert Musil • Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda • Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don’t use your muscles, they get weak. If you don’t use your mind it begins to fail. – John Templeton • That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising. – Charles Scott Sherrington • That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they’d never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind’s first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man. – Christopher McDougall • The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It’s like you have a little BMW – you want to race the hell out of this car, because you know it’s just going 110. But if you see guys driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in every field. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking. – Julien Offray de La Mettrie • The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought. – Joyce Carol Oates • The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.- Carl Sagan • The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? – Dag Hammarskjold • The business of beauty isn’t a natural model; It’s built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple. These magazines got you caught in a hustle, Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn’t burn fat, it burns muscles. – Immortal Technique • The c**k isn’t a muscle so it doesn’t grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can’t make it bigger through exercise, that’s for sure. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling–these are the tools of the dancer. – Rudolf Arnheim • The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement. – Jean-Georges Noverre • The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles… are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. – William Matthews • The exact process you use to build courage isn’t important. What’s important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don’t regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don’t consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you’ll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren’t regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground. – Steve Pavlina • The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. – Charles Babbage • The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed. – Mary Wollstonecraft • The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out. – Barbara Deming • The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. – Leonardo da Vinci • The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once. – Jean Paul • The heart is a hollow muscle, and it will beat billions of times during our lives. About the size of a fist, it has four chambers: two Atria and two ventricles. How this muscle can house something as encompassing as love is beyond me. Is this heart the one that loves? or do you love with your soul, which is infinite?I don’t know. All I know is that I feel this love in every molecule in my body, every breath I take, all the infinity in my soul. – Katy Evans • The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous … strain on the muscles and tendons. – Bernardino Ramazzini • The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it off, the things in your control can be distilled down to a few principles: Get stronger in the right rep ranges, eat appropriately, commit to the program and consistently work hard at it. – Daniel Roberts • The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition. Washing works the biceps and then the triceps by conditioning. And vigorously rubbing all of your body with soap really defines the abs and the pectoral muscles. And if you do squats while you’re bathing – that’s it! – Jake Gyllenhaal • The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. – Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre. – Ernest Starling • The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands. – F.B. Meyer • The mind is just another muscle. – Ted Turner • The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart. – Natalie Goldberg • The point of the feminist movement wasnt simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no ones worth was judged on their take-home salary. – Mariella Frostrup • The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own – Jeff Allen • The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? – Georges Duhamel • The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths. – Charles Scott Sherrington • The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking]. – Evan Esar • The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles – I have no interest. – Andrew Lincoln • The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? – James Hillman • Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one’s personality. – Victor Garber • There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle. – Ernest K. Gann • There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle. – Laurel Clark • There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don’t move a muscle. I love all three kinds. – Eve Babitz • There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it’s true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second…. We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time. – Don DeLillo • There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her. The pounding was diminished, cushioned by the horse’s muscles and the springiness of his hindquarter joints . . . The ridden horse was a marvel, diminishing space. – Morgan Llywelyn • There’s a lot of muscles in your eyes even that you dont ever work, but little human traits like showing signs of exertion while running, you couldn’t do that. Blinking when you’re shooting a gun, you know. Things that you take for granted every day that had to be eliminated, so it was always interesting. – Kristanna Loken • Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle. – Peter Brimelow • They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn’t be able to throw a ball because they’d be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years. – Jack LaLanne • This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle. – Stephen Batchelor • This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs. – Haile Gebrselassie • Those who work standing … carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons … are liable to varicose veins … [because] the strain on the muscles is such that the circulation of the blood is retarded. Standing even for a short time proves exhausting compared with walking and running though it be for a long time … Nature delights and is restored by alternating and varied actions. – Bernardino Ramazzini • To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. – Tryon Edwards • To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end. – Alistair Cooke • To make a muscle grow, you must force it to go beyond its capabilities. The most potent way to apply that force is to train to failure. Training to failure means…the muscles are forced to grow stronger and bigger – Nasser El Sonbaty Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. – Alex Karras • Train children to bear responsibility as you would train them to build muscle. Add what they can handle, then prepare them for more. – Wes Fesler • Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed…He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it. – Franz Stampfl • Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I’m happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look – it’s useable, functional muscle. – Channing Tatum • Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles. – Moshe Feldenkrais • Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint. – Sid Waddell • Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast. – Benjamin Franklin • Use what you have in your gym. Try to do my training program, you will lose your fat and gain muscles at the same time. – Serge Nubret • We are adhering to life now with our last muscle – the heart. – Djuna Barnes • We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy. – Carl Sagan • We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. – Djuna Barnes • We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles. – Stephen Covey • We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves – Edward George, Baron George • We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance…We admire…the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder. – Nicolas Steno • We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. – Albert Einstein • We’re trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom. – Mikhail Baryshnikov • What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top. – Michael Bay • What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles. – Frank Miller • What I’m doing is the thing I want to do. I don’t care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they’re not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence. – Natalie Angier • Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else. – Evelyn Ashford • When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn’t heard. – May Sarton • WHEN AT 15, MY GIRLFRIENDS STARTED DROPPING OUT OF THEIR BELOVED SPORTS TEAMS, BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T WANT TO APPEAR MUSCLE-Y, WHEN AT 18, MY MALES FRIENDS WERE UNABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR FEELINGS, I DECIDED THAT I WAS A FEMINIST. – Emma Watson • When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I’m probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle – a LOT of muscle in high school. When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am. – Ashley Greene • When Scripture talks about the heart, it’s not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It’s talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt). – Billy Graham • When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don’t like really buff guys. – Nicole Eggert • When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle – Lee Haney • Will you still want me if I’m poor, Kat?” “What kind of question is that?” “No. Seriously. You’re the planner. Simon’s the genius. The Bagshaws are the muscle. And Gabrielle is . . . Gabrielle. But what am I, Kat? I’m the guy who writes the checks.” “No. You’re the most naturally gifted inside man I have ever seen. And I was raised by Bobby Bishop.” She made him look into her eyes. “I don’t care about your money. – Ally Carter • Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use. – Abbi Glines • Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility. – Dorothea Brande • You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise. – Grenville Kleiser • You can’t get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you’ve got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It’s the fat! – Jack LaLanne • You don’t really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn’t even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.- Arnold Schwarzenegger • You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don’t keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy. – Roger Bannister • You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid ‘no’ muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it’s our choice. Your ‘no’ muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, ‘I don’t care if that’s what you want. I don’t want that. No.’ – Iyanla Vanzant • You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn’t the case. – Deborah Bull • You know you’ve got to exercise your brain just like your muscles. – Will Rogers • Your play account is also designed to strengthen your “receiving” muscle. – T. Harv Eker

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• A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. – Walter Martin • A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up. – Florence Griffith Joyner • A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell. – Virginia Foxx • A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn’t mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose. – Marge Piercy • Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, ‘Tis done–And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed. – William Wordsworth • After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can’t paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn’t just build muscle he creates muscle. You can’t be a robot. – Tom Platz • All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi • All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You’ve said that you will commit to this part, and I just can’t live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. – Christian Bale • All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power. – Allegra Kent • And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road. – George A. Sheehan • Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! – Charles Atlas • At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles – Constantin Stanislavski

jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Muscle', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '68', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_muscle').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_muscle img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character. – Antonin Scalia • Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean. – Deborah Bull • Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter. – Betty Rollin • Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing – building more muscle! – Denise Austin • But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It’s a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing. – Harvey Fierstein • But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever. – Ron White • But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea. – Agnes de Mille • Commitment is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. – Chalene Johnson • Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. – Ruth Gordon • Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. – Ruth Gordon • Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration…..The body must perspire, or must be out of order. – Noah Webster • Death’s a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness. – Robinson Jeffers • Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. – Grantland Rice • Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. – Germaine Greer • Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body — the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don’t know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know. – Donald Curtis • Don’t wait until you’re not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you’ll start to develop a ‘fearlessness muscle’. – Arianna Huffington • Eisenhower had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor’s. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out. – Norman Rockwell • Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other, the sounds of the ball touching the wooden floor, the sneakers touching the floor, and the sounds of the fight, the muscle and the sweat. Oh, and the last one-when the ball goes through the net. Don’t laugh at my sensitivity and romanticism – those sounds really attract me. – Yao Ming • Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. – Roger von Oech • Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way to discharge tension, work through emotional blocks, release anger, and gain self-esteem. – Ellen Bass • Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don’t pass out. They don’t go on. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. – Terry Pratchett • Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the larger muscle groups such as the thighs, and then they wonder why it is that they never make gains in overall size and strength. – Reg Park • Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me. – Arianna Huffington • Five minutes later, we were rolling around on the helipad as he tried to muscle his way out of my armlock, after slamming me onto the helipad. “I finally realized the source of your mutual attraction,” Saiman said, his voice dry. I looked up. He was standing a few feet away. “Do enlighten us.” Curran tried to roll into me to break the lock. Oh no you don’t. “You both think violence is foreplay. – Ilona Andrews • Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I’ve starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility. – Samantha Stosur • For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man’s whole body records his emotional thinking. – Mabel Elsworth Todd • Frankly, I’ve never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all. My biggest single concern used to be getting enough to eat. Now I have to worry about eating too much. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights. I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise. – Marilyn Monroe • Freedom is a muscle…you have to exercise it. – Roy Scheider • Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles. – Charles Scott Sherrington • God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy. – John Howe • Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle. – Arnold Haultain • Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows. – Alan Cohen • Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas A. Edison • Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew. – Shannon Miller • He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. – Frances Wright • Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. – Joan Lunden • How can anyone be interested in war? – that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it – this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable? – Margaret Caroline Anderson • I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me. – Ryan Gosling • I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much. – Alyssa Milano • I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets. – Rodman Philbrick • I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. – Mike Tyson • I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn’t feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you’re doing a play you’re using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away. – Matthew Macfadyen • I don’t always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else. – Elisabetta Canalis • I don’t do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles.- Markus Ruhl • I don’t need to worry about that, that’s always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.- Chris Pine • I found enormous opposition to my religion. It’s like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion. – Ricardo Montalban • I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I’ve never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman – she’s really my only idol. It’s going to be a big stretch – certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile. – Judy Holliday • I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. – Mae West • I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine. – Rita Rudner • I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise. – Marilyn Monroe • I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away. – Marianne Williamson • I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain. – Samuel Johnson • I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. – e. e. cummings • I like when a guy wears a T-shirt, and you can see a little curve of the muscle sticking out. That’s sexy! – Jennifer Morrison • I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of my imagination. And I went back to the massage room so that my faithful Morizot could take the trouble off my muscles. This soothed me considerably and I thought I was back to a normal state until somebody summoned me to the starting line. It was like feeling a blade go through my flesh. – Jules Ladoumegue • I look at myself and pick out the things I don’t like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area. – Tyra Banks • I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone. – Gabriela Sabatini • I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are. – Ludacris • I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there’s no substitute for live theater. – Eddie Cahill • I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie youre watching, they have these toned arms and muscles. – Jill Clayburgh • I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way. – Josh Hutcherson • I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that’s my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I’ve finished a movie but don’t tell anyone. – Eric Bana • I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring. – Wladimir Klitschko • I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. – Smedley Butler • I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. – Smedley Butler • I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. – Mahatma Gandhi • I think it’s going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density. – John L. Phillips • I use very few muscles at the best of times. – Johnny Vegas • I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can’t put on weight though, no matter how much I eat. – Christopher Parker • I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that. – Benedict Cumberbatch • I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage. – Esther Williams • I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine. – Rita Rudner • I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You’d use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up. – Carmen Electra • I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming. – Johnny Bench • I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren’t involved that they don’t have to go into spasms too. – Dick York • I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. – Og Mandino • If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him. – Aiden Wilson Tozer • If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes. – Shakuntala Devi • If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you’ll be so weak you won’t be able to believe the simplest true things. – Lewis Carroll • If you’ve got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You’ve got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet. – Jack LaLanne • I’ll never harden my heart but I’ve toughened the muscles around it. – Dolly Parton • I’m not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars. – Lady Gaga • I’m training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman. – Henry Cavill • In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera. – Philippe Halsman • In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for a scalpel. – Tommy Bolt • In life’s small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know’st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she’ll say to thee, “I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?” – James Russell Lowell • It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible. – Henry Ward Beecher • It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. – Henry Ward Beecher • It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal. – Stirling Moss • It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle. – David Levithan • It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. – Alex Karras • It’s funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but it��s a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition. – Lou Ferrigno • It’s not about weight, it’s about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is. – Deborah Bull • It’s not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you’ll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you’ll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying “Shhh” and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling. – Al McGuire • I’ve always known that I was a gifted person. … I’ve always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn’t continue to make use of that gift. It’s very important that you don’t let the muscle get flabby. It’s really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid. – Merle Haggard • Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. – Paul Whiteman • Kobe’s heart is as strong as his muscles. – Yao Ming • Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. – Dag Hammarskjold • Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. – Edna Ferber • Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data – or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on. – Alan Rusbridger • Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree. – Eddie Redmayne • Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. – Peter Drucker • Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize. – Michael Zaslow • Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. – Lynn Jennings • Mind is everything. Muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. – Paavo Nurmi • Muscle and water is critical in burning fat. – Lee Haney • Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. – G. Stanley Hall • Muscles come and go; flab lasts. – Bill Vaughan • My body cheerfully informed me that he felt really good pressed against me like that, all hard muscles and smooth contours and ominous bulges. My body liked the air of barely leashed strength and caged mayhem he was giving off. My body thought he smelled really good, like heat and coffee and electricity. My body was going to get me killed. – Karen Chance • My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old. – Matthew Broderick • Nervous? He’s tighter than Pat Buchanan’s sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. – Dennis Miller • No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement. – Hugh Leonard • No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I’ll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine? – Salma Hayek • No system of education is complete that does not harden the hands and toughen muscles, while it is also develops the intellect and enlarges the heart…only through work do we attain the true symmetry, strength, and glory of godly manhood and womanhood. – Alexander Clark • Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles. – Michel de Montaigne • Not many people understand what a pump is. It must be experienced to be understood. It is the greatest feeling that I get. I search for this pump because it means that that my muscles will grow when I get it. I get a pump when the blood is running into my muscles. They become really tight with blood. Like the skin is going to explode any minute. It’s like someone putting air in my muscles. It blows up. It feels fantastic. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. – Thomas Carlyle • Now take a human body. Why wouldn’t you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don’t you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn’t a single muscle which doesn’t serve its purpose; that there’s not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. – Ayn Rand • Nuclear is nothing but trouble. Do you say “new-clear” or do you say “nuke-you-ler”? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don’t have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin’ out loud. – Paul Feig • Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. – Stephen Covey • Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. – Eknath Easwaran • People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. – Emily Dickinson • Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. – George Combe • Practice puts brains in your muscles. – Sam Snead • Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. – Charles Spurgeon • Problems are God’s resistance to create spiritual muscles. – Tony Robbins • Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart. – Jonathan Swift • RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular. – Corey Taylor • Rather than strive to ‘lose weight,’ most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle. – Mark Sisson • Right now I’m 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I’ve got big bones and I’m maintaining muscle. – Lisa Leslie • Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding – E. M. Forster • She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended. – Kathleen Winsor • So it’s really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles. – Michael C. Hall • So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don’t get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity. – Jack LaLanne • Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight. – Veronica Roth • Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. – Neil deGrasse Tyson • Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • Strength is not measured in muscle, but in will. – Margaret M. Morrow • Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. “Losing one’s head,” language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience. – Robert Musil • Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda • Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don’t use your muscles, they get weak. If you don’t use your mind it begins to fail. – John Templeton • That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising. – Charles Scott Sherrington • That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they’d never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind’s first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man. – Christopher McDougall • The better you get, the less you run around showing off as a muscle guy. You know, you wear regular shirts-not always trying to show off what you have. You talk less about it. It’s like you have a little BMW – you want to race the hell out of this car, because you know it’s just going 110. But if you see guys driving a Ferrari or a Lamborghini, they slide around at 60 on the freeway because they know if they press on that accelerator they are going to go 170. These things are the same in every field. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking. – Julien Offray de La Mettrie • The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought. – Joyce Carol Oates • The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.- Carl Sagan • The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form? – Dag Hammarskjold • The business of beauty isn’t a natural model; It’s built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple. These magazines got you caught in a hustle, Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn’t burn fat, it burns muscles. – Immortal Technique • The c**k isn’t a muscle so it doesn’t grow in relation to the shoulders, say, or the pectorals. You can’t make it bigger through exercise, that’s for sure. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling–these are the tools of the dancer. – Rudolf Arnheim • The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement. – Jean-Georges Noverre • The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles… are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. – William Matthews • The exact process you use to build courage isn’t important. What’s important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don’t regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don’t consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you’ll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren’t regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground. – Steve Pavlina • The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. – Charles Babbage • The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed. – Mary Wollstonecraft • The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone – by trying to act it out. – Barbara Deming • The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue. – Leonardo da Vinci • The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once. – Jean Paul • The heart is a hollow muscle, and it will beat billions of times during our lives. About the size of a fist, it has four chambers: two Atria and two ventricles. How this muscle can house something as encompassing as love is beyond me. Is this heart the one that loves? or do you love with your soul, which is infinite?I don’t know. All I know is that I feel this love in every molecule in my body, every breath I take, all the infinity in my soul. – Katy Evans • The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous … strain on the muscles and tendons. – Bernardino Ramazzini • The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it off, the things in your control can be distilled down to a few principles: Get stronger in the right rep ranges, eat appropriately, commit to the program and consistently work hard at it. – Daniel Roberts • The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition. Washing works the biceps and then the triceps by conditioning. And vigorously rubbing all of your body with soap really defines the abs and the pectoral muscles. And if you do squats while you’re bathing – that’s it! – Jake Gyllenhaal • The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. – Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre. – Ernest Starling • The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands. – F.B. Meyer • The mind is just another muscle. – Ted Turner • The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart. – Natalie Goldberg • The point of the feminist movement wasnt simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no ones worth was judged on their take-home salary. – Mariella Frostrup • The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own – Jeff Allen • The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? – Georges Duhamel • The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths. – Charles Scott Sherrington • The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking]. – Evan Esar • The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles – I have no interest. – Andrew Lincoln • The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? – James Hillman • Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one’s personality. – Victor Garber • There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature whose brain and muscles frequently originate movements which suggest flight; and then there are pilots who regardless of their airborne time remain earth-loving bipeds forever. When these latter unfortunates, because of one urge or another, actually make an ascension, they neither anticipate nor relish the event and they drive their machines with the same graceless labor they inflict upon the family vehicle. – Ernest K. Gann • There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle. – Laurel Clark • There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don’t move a muscle. I love all three kinds. – Eve Babitz • There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it’s true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second…. We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time. – Don DeLillo • There was a rhythm to the canter. Up, forward, down; up, forward, down. It soon became pleasant. The broad warm rump felt good beneath her. The pounding was diminished, cushioned by the horse’s muscles and the springiness of his hindquarter joints . . . The ridden horse was a marvel, diminishing space. – Morgan Llywelyn • There’s a lot of muscles in your eyes even that you dont ever work, but little human traits like showing signs of exertion while running, you couldn’t do that. Blinking when you’re shooting a gun, you know. Things that you take for granted every day that had to be eliminated, so it was always interesting. – Kristanna Loken • Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle. – Peter Brimelow • They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn’t be able to throw a ball because they’d be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years. – Jack LaLanne • This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle. – Stephen Batchelor • This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs. – Haile Gebrselassie • Those who work standing … carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons … are liable to varicose veins … [because] the strain on the muscles is such that the circulation of the blood is retarded. Standing even for a short time proves exhausting compared with walking and running though it be for a long time … Nature delights and is restored by alternating and varied actions. – Bernardino Ramazzini • To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. – Tryon Edwards • To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end. – Alistair Cooke • To make a muscle grow, you must force it to go beyond its capabilities. The most potent way to apply that force is to train to failure. Training to failure means…the muscles are forced to grow stronger and bigger – Nasser El Sonbaty Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. – Alex Karras • Train children to bear responsibility as you would train them to build muscle. Add what they can handle, then prepare them for more. – Wes Fesler • Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed…He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it. – Franz Stampfl • Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I’m happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look – it’s useable, functional muscle. – Channing Tatum • Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles. – Moshe Feldenkrais • Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint. – Sid Waddell • Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast. – Benjamin Franklin • Use what you have in your gym. Try to do my training program, you will lose your fat and gain muscles at the same time. – Serge Nubret • We are adhering to life now with our last muscle – the heart. – Djuna Barnes • We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy. – Carl Sagan • We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. – Djuna Barnes • We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles. – Stephen Covey • We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves – Edward George, Baron George • We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance…We admire…the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder. – Nicolas Steno • We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. – Albert Einstein • We’re trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom. – Mikhail Baryshnikov • What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top. – Michael Bay • What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles. – Frank Miller • What I’m doing is the thing I want to do. I don’t care what other people think. I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me. – Arnold Schwarzenegger • What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they’re not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence. – Natalie Angier • Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else. – Evelyn Ashford • When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn’t heard. – May Sarton • WHEN AT 15, MY GIRLFRIENDS STARTED DROPPING OUT OF THEIR BELOVED SPORTS TEAMS, BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T WANT TO APPEAR MUSCLE-Y, WHEN AT 18, MY MALES FRIENDS WERE UNABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR FEELINGS, I DECIDED THAT I WAS A FEMINIST. – Emma Watson • When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I’m probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle – a LOT of muscle in high school. When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am. – Ashley Greene • When Scripture talks about the heart, it’s not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It’s talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt). – Billy Graham • When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don’t like really buff guys. – Nicole Eggert • When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle – Lee Haney • Will you still want me if I’m poor, Kat?” “What kind of question is that?” “No. Seriously. You’re the planner. Simon’s the genius. The Bagshaws are the muscle. And Gabrielle is . . . Gabrielle. But what am I, Kat? I’m the guy who writes the checks.” “No. You’re the most naturally gifted inside man I have ever seen. And I was raised by Bobby Bishop.” She made him look into her eyes. “I don’t care about your money. – Ally Carter • Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use. – Abbi Glines • Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility. – Dorothea Brande • You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise. – Grenville Kleiser • You can’t get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you’ve got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It’s the fat! – Jack LaLanne • You don’t really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn’t even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.- Arnold Schwarzenegger • You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don’t keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy. – Roger Bannister • You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid ‘no’ muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it’s our choice. Your ‘no’ muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, ‘I don’t care if that’s what you want. I don’t want that. No.’ – Iyanla Vanzant • You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn’t the case. – Deborah Bull • You know you’ve got to exercise your brain just like your muscles. – Will Rogers • Your play account is also designed to strengthen your “receiving” muscle. – T. Harv Eker

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