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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e4b4d97 | Natalya's lips quirked. "You're glowing like a Lite-Brite." "Shut it, fairy." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 88d020a | I told you once and I'll tell you again: there's nothing that can happen to you that we can't get past. Just give me a chance to get to you. Promise me." "Jack..." "Promise me. You doan leave me again." "I promise." Staring at his lips, I said, "Would you always come for me?" He drunkenly murmured, "Chase you like a junkyard dog." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 830f4c7 | This mountain of a man was learning that his considerable might- which he'd clearly relied on for - was futile with her. | néomie | Kresley Cole | |
| 248ec0a | Your ultimatum didn't sit well with me, so naturally, I voiced my opinion." "Which was?" "That you should go copulate with a pig. It sounded way cooler in medieval French." | Kresley Cole | ||
| fe9bd27 | All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more. | Betty Smith | ||
| 7d2a2b9 | As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us. | lesbian tomboy | Jeanette Winterson | |
| d9fd70a | I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many. | heights | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 8632c4e | They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things. There is only the present and nothing to remember. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| fe28634 | If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 5272eb2 | Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 8b544b3 | Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can. | Barry Hughart | ||
| 0585c28 | On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you feel blocked, write through it until you feel your creative juices flowing again. Write. Writing is what makes a writer, nothing more and nothing less. --- Ignore | Anne Rice | ||
| 5b85f2a | You make the decision: Whom did God punish? | Louis Sachar | ||
| 3cc85a0 | Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather--storms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history, which each tree remembers even after it has been felled. | trees | Anne Michaels | |
| 2e5e5c9 | You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. .. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 847e9f6 | I wasn't really able to love someone but I couldn't help but want to be loved. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 7da0f44 | People's feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in people's eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 7a0c2cb | I have learned the power of surviving. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| af1b47c | If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6922e72 | I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself. | high-school | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| bfcc184 | Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder." -- | killing veterans war | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 6642408 | Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi) | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| f6a7a5c | Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| b12e799 | Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education... | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 93109c0 | The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? | John Fowles | ||
| 5d82bbb | If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 3ee40f8 | But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention. | Pat Conroy | ||
| afc2358 | Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise. | Pat Conroy | ||
| f5032da | You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 190fea5 | Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| b912d75 | Well,' I said, 'Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn't what you feel in New York -- 'He was smiling. I stopped. 'What do you feel in New York?' he asked. 'Perhaps you feel,' I told him, 'all the time to come. There's such power there, everything is in such movement. You can't help wondering--I can't help wondering--what it will all be like-- many years from now. | paris | James Baldwin | |
| c84a370 | The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters. He encounters, because he must encounter, those people who see his secrecy before they see anything else, and who drag these secrets out of him; sometimes with the intention of using them against him, sometimes with more benevolent intent; but, whatever the intent, the moment is awful and t.. | James Baldwin | ||
| b20b4f8 | When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible. | James Baldwin | ||
| b48c8a6 | Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence. | Robert Cormier | ||
| b759530 | You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1103c20 | Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one's feelings of self-worth and one's capacity to be a political agent. | Cornel West | ||
| 368ea92 | To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quart.. | critical-reflection improve individuality jazz jazz-freedom-fighter social-justice unity | Cornel West | |
| 127d62e | When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate | love-quotes making-love sight | John Berger | |
| c64fc02 | Whether it's men, women--it doesn't really matter. The human race is filled with passion and lust. And to coin terms like heterosexuality, homosexuality or even bisexuality makes no sense to me. You are human. You love who you love. You fuck who you fuck. That should be enough--no labels. No stigmas. Nothing. Just be to be. But life isn't that kind. People will always find things to hate. | hate heterosexuality homosexuality human-race lust men no-labels no-stigmas passion women | Krista Ritchie | |
| ff1c5dc | Promises from Connor Cobalt are like oaths spilled in blood. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| adb3e89 | I fell in love with Lo like a little girl opening her heart to magic. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 826bab5 | Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 01526fd | this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath... | ocean sailing sea wind | Gary Paulsen | |
| 46380b2 | A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about cliches: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought cliches got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the cliched saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliche. | writing | Khaled Hosseini |