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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 62b1902 | '`Ttny lqr@ `dhr mqbwl l`zlty, bl rbm '`Tt mGz~ ltlk l`zl@ lmfrwD@ `ly. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| a773d08 | Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion. | north-and-south passion | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| bc176f9 | I will be forever grateful for your presence in my life. I am a much better human being because of you. The experience of loving you, living with you, was the greatest journey of my life thus far. You showed me an alternative to the man I was becoming. I know I still have much to learn, much to accomplish, and I know my future is bright. I owe you the confidence I now have in myself. This is the confidence that could only come from the know.. | love-letters | Emma Forrest | |
| 8695d32 | False humility is more insulting than open pride! | Brandon Mull | ||
| bb17e77 | Seth hustled over. "What's the password?" "Passwords are for sissies," Warren's muffled voice responded. "Works for me," Seth said, unlocking the door and opening it." | warren-burgess | Brandon Mull | |
| f2ae1b2 | Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. | mercy | Timothy Keller | |
| 8520142 | I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt. | Anne Brontë | ||
| ae02d52 | Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 676cb6b | They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8144c2d | To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9ecf096 | Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others. | saphira work | Christopher Paolini | |
| 79c1267 | That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.] | Christopher Paolini | ||
| cae4b93 | Searching for self implied either not liking who you are or wanting to escape who you've been. | women | Barbara Delinsky | |
| 9602cb2 | I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness. | surreal | Anaïs Nin | |
| b47b18d | June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what I want. Your beauty has drowned me, the core of me. You carry away with you a part of me reflected in you. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. You are the woman I want to be. I see in you that part of me which is you. I feel compassion for your chi.. | lesbian-lgbt love lovers madness sincerity | Anaïs Nin | |
| 8b0167e | Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| a65aa80 | Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can't be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 7a310a2 | Before Kiki and I headed toward the Keep, I thanked my friends. "For what? We didn't do anything," Janco grumbled. "For caring enough to follow my guards. And the next time, I might need the help." "There better not be a next time," Ari said, giving me a stern look. "How touching," Janco said, pretending to wipe his eyes. "Get going, Yelena. I don't want you to see me cry." He faked a sniffle. "I'm sure your ego can handle it," I said. "Or .. | janco yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 40e0633 | In the end, only Leif believed that you were still alive. He thought you might be hiding somewhere, playing a game. As the rest of us grieved, Leif searched the jungle for you day after day." "When did he finally stop?" I asked. "Yesterday." -- | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 491e2e4 | There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions. | Susan Cain | ||
| 8f7bc47 | In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared. | bear-arms guns | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 2d1fef6 | Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 80b7f63 | We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you. | joy love | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 87cb900 | Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7757023 | My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night? | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3060b64 | Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck." | Jim Butcher | ||
| ea362cb | Rest. Heal. Sleep. I shall most likely kill you on the morrow." "You? A Princess Bride quote?" I croaked. "What is that?" she asked." | harry-dresden humor princess-bride | Jim Butcher | |
| 98ead53 | Do you know my dog's name? [...] "It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.'" I blinked. "You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog *Spot*?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| b6ca67d | Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 02173f0 | He leans in and closes his eyes. "Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop." -- | Holly Black | ||
| 4b9b90a | Only idiots aren't scared of things that are scary. | Holly Black | ||
| 8eb26d3 | Once upon a time, there was a human girl stolen away by faeries, and because of that, she swore to destroy them. | Holly Black | ||
| 1d39589 | We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep down inside. | vampire | Holly Black | |
| ddd1242 | I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it | Holly Black | ||
| 6eb3dbb | It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me. | Holly Black | ||
| 8941da4 | No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 56b4423 | Kyo-kun and Tohru sitting in a tree... K-I-S... - Shigure Sohma | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 485584c | The Cold Within" Six humans trapped in happenstance In dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so the story's told. The first woman held hers back For of the faces around the fire, She noticed one was black. The next man looking across the way Saw not one of his church, And couldn't bring himself to give The fire his stick of birch. The third one sat in tattered clothes He gave his coat a hitch, Why should his log be .. | judgemental racism religion | James Patrick Kinney | |
| 7914e85 | It's quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8461632 | And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 99c8078 | There's lots of people will help you with alcohol business, but there's no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, 'My name is Sam Vimes and I'm a really suspicious bastard. | suspicious | Terry Pratchett | |
| f7303e3 | He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you." | fright humor rincewind | Terry Pratchett | |
| 49b39d3 | When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0457761 | The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world. | Terry Pratchett |