This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Meaning

ใจแข็งไปเถอะ สักวันหนูจะทำให้อย่างอื่น ‘แข็ง’ กว่านี้อีก! ป.ล.นิยายเรื่องนี้ไม่มีนอกกาย ไม่มีนอกใจ มีแต่ความคลั่งรักจัดเต็มค่ะ

Melihat sudut pandang detektif dalam novel misteri, agaknya sudah umum kita ketahui. Akan tetapi, bagaimana jika kita melihat dari sudut pandang sang pembunuh? Apa kau juga percaya dengan arwah yang balas dendam? "Meski melihatku menderita di ujung ambang kematian, tampaknya mereka tidak akan berhenti sampai aku benar-benar mati ...." Dia adalah George Owens, pria yang semasa mudanya bekerja pada pihak kepolisian Selatan. Menjadi seorang detektif adalah impiannya di masa remaja. Bersama Smith Hegner dan juga Niels Johansen, George melakukan pekerjaannya dengan baik dan cepat. Namun, siapa sangka, di balik pekerjaannya yang selalu berurusan dengan para penjahat ulung tersebut. Nyatanya ada fakta yang dia sembunyikan rapat-rapat. Lantas, bagaimana dengan akhir hidupnya? Apakah semua dosa yang pernah dia lakukan di masa lalu akan menimbulkan sebuah karma yang justru membuatnya lebih memilih mati daripada hidup bersama dengan berbagai kenangan buruk? Inilah kisah seorang pembunuh berantai yang juga merangkap sebagai detektif swasta di kepolisian bagian Selatan. Sang psikopat ulung, George Owens.

I, Xavier Locke, had married the same woman, Melanie Slater, seven times. But for the sake of her first love, Leonard Blueman, she divorced me seven times. The first time we got married, she told me, "I'll only love you for the rest of my life." But every time Leonard came back to the country, she sang a different tune. "Can't you be more sensible? How can you bear to stand by and let Lenny be called a homewrecker who snatches a married woman from her husband?" The first time we divorced, I cut my wrists to make her stay. I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, but she never showed up even once to see me. The third time we divorced, I humbled myself and applied to be her assistant at her company. I did that just so I could see her a little more. By the sixth divorce, I had learned to quietly pack my things and move out of the home we shared. My hysteria, my repeated backing down, and my tolerant compromises brought me nothing—just Melanie repeatedly divorcing and remarrying me. Time and time again, she pulled the same trick. With history repeating itself, I decided enough was enough. After hearing that Leonard was coming back again, this time, I handed her the divorce papers myself. As always, she set a date for our next remarriage. But what she didn't know… was that I was leaving for good this time.

22-year-old Anastasia Sanchez is a diehard fan of the e-book, Bonded: a werewolf love story with millions of fans around the world. When the final pages of Bonded cruelly tear the main leads apart, she is livid! She confronts the author and demands her to write the sequel with the two main leads getting back together. Instead of agreeing with her, the author gives her the task that’ll change her life forever: to write the sequel herself! But there’s a catch! Instead of writing the sequel with a laptop and Wi-Fi, Anastasia is magically transported inside the virtual world of Bonded and becomes one of its characters! Her problem doesn’t end there, her desire to give the two main leads a happy ending is cut short when she finds herself falling in love with Bonded’s male lead, Alpha Hugh Montemayor. Caught between loyalty to her beloved characters and the undeniable allure of Hugh’s embrace, will Anastasia sacrifice her own desires for the sake of the story, or will she rewrite the script of her own heart?

Elle pensait que sa vie était ordinaire. Jusqu’au jour où elle a croisé son regard. Quand Sophia romano, une talentueuse restauratrice d’art, est envoyée à New York pour restaurer une toile rare, elle ignore qu’elle vient de mettre les pieds dans l’antre du diable. Dante Velasco, milliardaire énigmatique et redouté, règne sur la ville avec un pouvoir absolu. Derrière ses costumes trois-pièces et son empire légal se cache un chef de la mafia impitoyable, capable d’écraser quiconque menace son règne. Mais une nuit, Sophia voit quelque chose qu’elle n’aurait jamais dû voir. Dès cet instant, elle devient une cible. Pourtant, au lieu de l’éliminer, Dante décide de la garder près de lui. Piégée dans une cage dorée, Sophia découvre un monde de luxe, de violence et de désir interdit. Dante est un homme dangereux, et il ne laisse personne s’approcher de son cœur. Mais Sophia est un mystère qu’il ne peut ignorer. Elle éveille en lui une obsession aussi brûlante que destructrice. Alors que les ennemis de Dante se rapprochent et qu’un complot menace de tout détruire, Elena devra choisir : fuir avant qu’il ne soit trop tard… ou succomber à l’homme dont elle ne peut détourner le regard, même si cela signifie brûler vive. Le danger a un nom. La passion aussi : Dante Velasco.

I accompany my husband, Michael Yates, to a stationed assignment on a remote island. Out at sea, a sudden storm hits. The ship capsizes and begins to sink. As the commanding officer, my husband gives the last life vest to his so-called godsister, Naomi Hollister. I don't cry or scream. I just watch silently as he carefully fastens the straps around her body. In my past life, I had clutched my pregnant belly and begged him for help. After a brief hesitation, he finally put the vest on me. But Naomi was swept away by the waves, and her body later washed up on shore. Only half of it remained. Michael insisted it wasn't my fault. He also said that saving me was his duty, both morally and professionally. He even took leave to stay by my side before I gave birth. But when my water broke in the dead of night, he pushed me into the sea. His eyes were bloodshot and burning with hatred. "Leah, if it weren't for you, Mimi would still be alive! Did you really have to force me to give you the vest when you were just pregnant? Couldn't you have waited a little longer? Why do you get to live? Go down there and die with her!" I drown, and fish tear my body apart. I die without even a full corpse left behind. And then, I open my eyes. I'm back on the day of the storm.

[Cerita ini hanyalah karya fiksi semata, tidak terjadi di dunia nyata dan hanya bersifat khayalan. Mohon bijaklah dalam membaca. Terima kasih] *** Informasi mengenai kematian siswi berbakat, Kathia Lovata, telah menggemparkan SMA Teratai Global. Usut punya usut, ternyata penyebab kematian dari Kathia adalah karena ia telah diracuni oleh racun yang bernama polonium-210. Hal itu membuat Sanggara Abhimanyu, kakak tirinya, sangat marah dan bertekad mencari tahu siapa pembunuh dari adiknya tersebut. Ia yakin bahwa pelakunya adalah orang terdekat adiknya, tentu saja dengan motif bahwa ia iri dengan adiknya. Di sisi lain, Feyya Oktafiani, teman satu geng Kathia berusaha untuk mencari alibi agar tidak dicuragai. Bukan. Bukan karena Feyya adalah pembunuh dari Kathia, itu hanyalah ketidaksengajaan. Feyya menganggap Kathialah yang membunuh dirinya sendiri. Namun tidak akan ada yang mempercayainya. Dari situlah pengetahuan serta kecerdasan Gara dan Feyya diadu, mereka memegang teguh kebenaran yang paling benar menurut versi mereka masing-masing. Feyya yang mencoba bertahan hidup dengan kehidupan normalnya atau Gara yang ingin membuat sang pembunuh adiknya masuk penjara. Lantas akhir seperti apakah yang akan terjadi untuk membuat kisah ini menjadi menarik?

Sa hindi inaasahang pagkakataon ay may nabanggang guwapong binata si Marinel sa beach na dinaluhan niya. Pero wala roon ang focus niya kahit guwapo pa ito. Pangarap niyang makapagtapos ng college at makapagtrabaho sa isang pribadong hospital bilang isang nurse. Pero sadyang mapaglaro ang tadhana dahil muli silang pinagtagpo ng binatang kanyang nabangga sa beach. Bigla nitong binago ang kanyang buhay but things went rough. She never imagine na hahantong siya sa sitwasyong kailangan niyang sumugal para lamang sa binata. Hanggang saan niya kayayaning ipaglaban ito? Kung ang tadhana na mismo ang humahadlang sa pagmamahalan nilang dalawa.

Matapos ang masakit na nangayari kay Marinel ay nagpatuloy siya sa kanyang buhay kahit wala na si Calvin sa buhay niya. Inisa-isa niya lahat ng pinangako niya rito ayon na rin sa kahilingan nito noong nabubuhay pa ang binata. Maayos ang naging buhay ni Marinel hanggang sa biglang dumating ang isang surpresa sa kanyang buhay. Biglang nagpakita sa kanya ang kakambal ni Calvin at bigla siya nitong inakusahang manggagamit. Sinabi pa nitong mag-asawa silang dalawa. Hindi mawari ni Marinel kung bakit at kung paano nangyari ito. Ngunit sa biglaang pagdating ng binata sa kanyang buhay ay malalaman niyang may mas malalim pa pala itong kaugnayan sa kanya. Matatanggap kaya niya ang bagay na iyon? O magdadala lamang sa kanya ng malaking problema.

Sarah James was an average college student before she died in an accident when she was on her way to find a job. To her surprise, the next she opened her eyes, she was confronted with the truth that life had something against her. She was reincarnated into the Novel ‘True Love’ where the villainess Rubia Mary Albert Charleston was fated to die by the guillotine. Just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, she learns that the body she was reincarnated into was the body of the Villainous Lady herself...! Sarah's goal in her second life is to not shame the Charleston household whom she holds dear. She also has an ambition to humiliate the nobles that not only disrespected but also looked down upon Rubia. On her road to achieving the goals she has set for her second life she decides to unite the original female lead Catherine and Fredrick. Falling in love with Fredrick was the last thought on her head. Little did she know that she would come to love him little by little during their stay together. Sarah notices that the original events of the novel end up altering because of her appearance. Mathew who was saved by Rubia wishes to repay his debt to her through a promise. Catherine who was later declared a 'Saint' from a prophesy had no affection for Fredrick and, Fredrick who was supposed to fall in love with her at first sight also had no affection for her. The question to be asked is... "Will the villainous lady die once again..?"