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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 67d924c | You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me, Mother. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer, that's all | Anne Rice | ||
| d0b4ea0 | You know what I like about New York?" he said. "There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just fit right in." | Graeme Simsion | ||
| e42b924 | Tori joined us for dinner --in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it. | humor summoning tori | Kelley Armstrong | |
| d45f79d | Tori swiveled in her seat as we came in. "There are more," she said. "He sent one every couple of weeks. The last one was only a few days ago." "Good," I said. "Would you mind keeping and eye on Andrew?" "Sure." She took off. "Wait." I grabbed Derek's sleeve as he headed for the chair Tori had vacated. I wanted to say something. I didn't know what. But there was no way to tell him that wouldn't be much of a shock, so I ended up stupidly mur.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 8c6faa6 | I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced | Joseph Conrad | ||
| eba3d65 | It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. | Albert Camus | ||
| 881a0cc | On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you. | Albert Camus | ||
| 44c5c2d | O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!" | irony salvation selfishness | Albert Camus | |
| 3a1ff61 | We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inf.. | social-commentary | Jim Thompson | |
| d398485 | Alice: "No one will dare to call you plain when I'm through with you." Bella: "Only because they're afraid you'll suck their blood." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 7f99898 | And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9099f5e | He placed his hands against the Jeep on either side of my head and leaned forward, forcing me to press back against the door. He leaned in even closer, his face inches from mine. I had no room to escape. "Now," he breathed, and just his smell disturbed my thought processes, "what exactly are you worrying about?" "Well, um, hitting a tree -" I gulped "- and dying. And then getting sick." He fought back a smile. Then he bent his head down and.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| ebf613f | Stop being so... optimistic. It's getting on my nerves. | twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 6b47847 | Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 338b081 | It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there. | destination resignation | Samuel Beckett | |
| e5af7ca | I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat. You know how if you turned on a faucet in your sink to wash your hands, the idea of leaving the bathroom without turning it off is insane? That's how I am about ignoring delicious food. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 8a19d67 | I want you to leave your incidental Dick, and this awful hole, and come to live with me, and die with me, and everything with me. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 28b8bbd | Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again. | Stephen King | ||
| 2d7c47a | Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic. | Stephen King | ||
| 4f18d04 | It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life. | Stephen King | ||
| 7299059 | I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. | Stephen King | ||
| 66460b3 | It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged. | tools writing | Stephen King | |
| b9717e1 | You're on, Ted," I told him. "Your big chance, boy. Don't blow it. Folks, this kid is going to dance his balls off before your very eyes." | rage stephen-king | Richard Bachman | |
| 39b8ed9 | Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake. | Stephen King | ||
| e17365e | You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written, but I know it's true. If I had a nickel for every person who ever told me he/she wanted to become a writer but "didn't have time to read," I could buy myself a pretty good steak dinner. Can.. | stephen-king writing | Stephen King | |
| 313bbe1 | There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times. | Annie Dillard | ||
| f70e0da | Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be. | aging contentment experience getting-older life maturing | Anne Lamott | |
| 4b3f995 | I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9093f5a | For fear you will be alone | loneliness | Richard Brautigan | |
| 3857a0d | The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say, 'We're sorry we did it,' that would be nice. But if that just assuages guilt, it's just another crime. To become minimally civilized, we would have to say, 'We carried out and benefited from vicious crimes. A large part of the wealth of Franc.. | apologies civilisation crime france french-imperialism guilt haiti history imperialism reparations united-states wealth | Noam Chomsky | |
| be87dcd | What are you gonna do if I break one of your *&^%$ing rules? | Simone Elkeles | ||
| bece49f | Because I'm tryin' to push you away when all I want to do is hold you. I know you say you don't want a hero, but damn I'd like to be that guy who'll save you from spiders and whatever and whoever else hurts you. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 2fd45c4 | I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| f0c51fa | Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 868baf3 | Sometimes moving on takes effort. Sometimes moving on is harder than it looks. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| cbd3eeb | it's the proper morning to fly into Hell. | Arthur Miller | ||
| a3bdd57 | Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead. | William Shakespeare | ||
| b1a9e07 | I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . . | William Shakespeare | ||
| a8131e1 | Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. | hurry impatience love time | William Shakespeare | |
| ac0235e | So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. | falsehood law ornament pretense religion vice virtue | William Shakespeare | |
| 046ef6c | Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 9b30b35 | I was there that first night her called you. I've seen how he looked at you in pictures. Any bloke with a working prick would be insane not to like you. | anna-olimphant etienne-st-clair stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 79389fc | We straighten , bu our snickering is barely contained as we attempt to focus our attention on a picture of a discarded Coke can. "This guy's lady love is kind of a slob, don't you think?" he whispers. I cover my mouth with my hands again. "A reaaaaaaaal litterbug." "Stop it," I hiss. My eyes are watering. "Ohmygod look at this one! How did he get her toenail clippings?" "If you were my girl," he whispers, "I'd take creepy pictures of your t.. | romance stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 967a856 | What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do | James Patterson |