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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7840ca4 | But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?" | value | Terry Pratchett | |
| cbff295 | It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways. | crime | Terry Pratchett | |
| 57c3b28 | Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9efa195 | As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages. Quite why they should dress up for children's wallpaper as well was a mystery. Hello, little folk, this is what you're going to eat... He felt that if only he could find the key to it, he'd know a lot more about human beings. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8f9d055 | What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 6623759 | When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch of wall space. There are coils of wire and rolls of paper tucked into shelves and drawers. The sculptures remind me of kites, or model airplanes. I say this to Clare one evening, standing in the doorway of her studio in my suit and tie, home from work, ab.. | birds creativity freedom love woman | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| a21db48 | The possible, as it was presented in her Health textbook (a mathematical progression of dating, "career," marriage, and motherhood), did not interest Harriet. Of all the heroes on her list, the greatest of them all was Sherlock Holmes, and he wasn't even a real person. Then there was Harry Houdini. He was the master of the impossible; more importantly, for Harriet, he was a master of escape. No prison in the world could hold him: he escaped.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 34a287c | The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star... | dreams star | Donna Tartt | |
| 2cbfc9d | and yet isn't it always the inappropriate thing, the thing that doesn't quite work, that's oddly the dearest? | Donna Tartt | ||
| 10b5fcb | I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I tried to recall all my best memories of her--to freeze her in my mind so I wouldn't forget her--but instead of birthdays and happy times I kept remembering things like how a few days before she was killed she'd stopped me halfway out the door to pick a thread off my school jacket. For some reason, it was one of the clearest memo.. | loss mother | Donna Tartt | |
| 475ae4b | And I know I said earlier that he was perfect but he wasn't perfect, far from it; he could be silly and vain and remote and often cruel and still we loved him, in spite of, because. | Donna Tartt | ||
| ca667c5 | And more to the point, I was reasonably certain he wasn't going to try and devour my soul. My expectations for a husband had lowered. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 57025b1 | In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss. | past | Richard Flanagan | |
| ddfd0ef | He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness. Only I did not think it would be so soon. Or that he would precede us. Two passing temporarinesses developed feelings for one another. Two puffs of smoke became mutually fond. I mistook him for a solidity, and now must pay. I am not stable and Mary not stable and the very buildings and monuments here not stable and the greater city not stable and th.. | George Saunders | ||
| 9f9d1e5 | What I mean to say is, we had been . Had been . Not lonely, not lost, not freakish, but wise, each in his or her own way. Our departures caused pain. Those who had loved us sat upon their beds, heads in hand; lowered their faces to tabletops, making animal noises. We had been loved, I say, and remembering us, even many years later, people would smile, briefly gladdened at the memory. | grief loss | George Saunders | |
| a608f72 | You have two choices, grasshopper. Out-slut Clotile - or go Springer on her ass. I'm down for the assist in both scenarios. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 41b2fb1 | I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone." "I don't know how to... to bite or drink! But you could teach me." "And what could you possibly do in return?" Lothaire waved a negligent hand. "Play football for me? Break in my jeans really well?" | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore lothaire paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant thad valkyrie vampire vampire-phantom | Kresley Cole | |
| 7c9f2bc | You're a fuckin' parasite." . Filthy leeches. "Words still hurt, Chase. Besides, you should be thanking me. My advice about the Valkyrie clearly worked. And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it." | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore lothaire paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie vampire | Kresley Cole | |
| 50cf094 | Everything between us is sick... twisted. And it doesn't have to be." "Shh, shh." He rocked her in his arms. Never had he comforted another in such a manner. He was awkward with this as well. "I h-hate you s-so much." She sobbed so hard her body quaked against him, her tears wetting his chest. "I know." | Kresley Cole | ||
| b19a7cb | Why don't you just buy me a minivan, zip me into mom jeans, and shoot me in the face" - Melanthe the potential Queen of Persuasions:" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 99047b8 | One last question." "Very well, dearling." "Can I trust Cadeon?" Nix gave her a sunny smile with blank golden eyes. "As far as you can throw him." -- | Kresley Cole | ||
| 2fa9aeb | Aww, did I just become the most popular person in this tent? | Kresley Cole | ||
| b6fe7b3 | How much longer are we going to do this? We have to talk about what happened." With a harsh laugh, he'd turned to me. "It's very simple. I want you, you want another, and I'm owed a wife." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 600ba53 | Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 28f21f6 | All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real. | life-and-living truth truth-of-life truthful | Carrie Vaughn | |
| 39a4147 | So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed... | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 59e5764 | It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don't correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him. | gospel soverignty-of-god word-of-god | R.C. Sproul | |
| 85e0f98 | George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: "Yes, this will do". Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of.. | marriage | Edward Albee | |
| 8d49a7b | There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 84ad488 | A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme, | cats magic witch | Joanne Harris | |
| 8eee2c5 | We can't stand it, to be alone. We cannot bear it, any more than the monks of old could bear it, men who though they had renounced all else for Christ's sake, nevertheless came together in congregations to be with one another, even as they enforced upon themselves the harsh rules of single solitary cells and unbroken silence. They couldn't bear to be alone. We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creater, and wh.. | Anne Rice | ||
| e029a04 | Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe | Ann Brashares | ||
| 751c296 | Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| bb263eb | There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 3128d6f | The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 0b33d7d | The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 7f534d4 | I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| ce09a0e | Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| ea5049d | You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form. | John Fowles | ||
| 1ca0727 | It came to me...that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through my being there. I was experiencing...a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice. | John Fowles | ||
| 41a4f04 | Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness? | Judith McNaught | ||
| 4770102 | She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 8ae085a | But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters. | Pat Conroy | ||
| c1738f8 | Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart. A great teacher is my adversary, my conqueror, commissioned to chastise me. He leaves me tame and grateful for the new language he has purloined.. | passion teaching | Pat Conroy |