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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 023de97 | Don't worry, Mrs. Colder. For the most part, we keep him leashed and gagged. We only let him free when the cute little animal jokes are needed. ~Sherra Callahan (on Kane Tyler)~ | Lora Leigh | ||
| 492beea | The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b9acb38 | I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry.... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a wonderful dream. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 5cecca2 | Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer." -Rose" -- | Colm Tóibín | ||
| d56da41 | She felt almost guilty that she had handed some of her grief to him, and then she felt close to him for his willingness to take it and hold it, in all its rawness, all its dark confusion. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 1165c00 | We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge. | great-opening-lines mystery | John D. MacDonald | |
| 0881aa8 | Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes-they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.... The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 89ac332 | Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| fc2746b | Gyr 'n lqr@ blfrsh t`tbr 'kthr mn mjrd tmDy@ llwqt, nh tmthl nw`an mn lwHd@ flmr ytrj` mrkzan `l~ dhth wytrk ljsd yrtH,wyj`l mn nfsh b`ydan l ymkn lwSwl lyh mkhfyan `n l`lm | Alberto Manguel | ||
| d7467c2 | There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield. | Michael Shaara | ||
| ab72eb4 | Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. | Jean Rhys | ||
| e2ab1fc | ROBBING GRAVES! SHES ASKING US TO ROB GRAVES! | Brandon Mull | ||
| 028c209 | The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 2ecf315 | The past is no further away than the last breath you took. | present | Robin Hobb | |
| 67cf71b | I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool. | protection | Robin Hobb | |
| af2037e | Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a850987 | I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 089393c | Knowing and believing are sometimes hard to combine. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 0087a27 | Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| fcb3f3f | As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. "My dear Mr. Babbage," he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, "I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, .. | Susan Cain | ||
| 74ba4a4 | The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a persence online and then extend these relationships into the real world. | Susan Cain | ||
| 317b6d1 | We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments. | happiness life-lessons perception perception-of-reality perceptions reality | Stefan Zweig | |
| fab352a | We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal. | Alexandre Dumas-fils | ||
| 09ee7d5 | I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 1c76e6b | The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person. | desperation thinking thoughts wisdom | Jonathan Tropper | |
| bbdecb7 | Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground. | short-people tough-lady | Jim Butcher | |
| 3a7b3e2 | Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5e6b43e | I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0d832be | They don't make morgues with windows. In fact, if the geography allows for it, they hardly ever make morgues above the ground. I guess it's partly because it must be eisier to refrigerate a bunch of coffin-sized chambers in a room insulated by the earth. But that can't be all there is to it. Under the earth means a lot more than relative altitude. It's where dead things fit. Graves are under the earth. So are Hell, Gehenna, Hades, and a doz.. | harry-dresden humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 6dc6e91 | Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain. | pain power | Jim Butcher | |
| 5a4732b | It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget. | life-and-living | Jim Butcher | |
| b58563c | I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family. | paranoia | Jim Butcher | |
| 86cc012 | We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be | remember white-cat | Holly Black | |
| ea65b29 | On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. "How could you be so stupid? I shrug, stung in spite of myself. "I thought I grew out of it." Philip pulls out his key fob and presses the remote to unlock his Mercedes. I slide into the passenger side, brushing coffee cups off the seat and onto the floor mat, where crumpled printouts from MapQuest soak up any spilled liquid. "I hope you mean sleepwalking," Philip says, "since you obviously did.. | Holly Black | ||
| d618051 | We're all dying, Cassel. It's just that some of us are dying faster than others. | Holly Black | ||
| b268aa3 | Sometimes I felt like I was waiting for my life to begin and more than anything, in that moment, I wanted to force some kind of beginning. I wanted things to be different than usual. I wanted to bend reality. | Holly Black | ||
| 5c58e37 | He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It's easy to think you're succeeding when you're failing spectacularly. | Holly Black | ||
| 88eff14 | An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face."Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me." I took a swing at him, but he jumped back nimbly, and all I did was jar my left arm, making it hurt. He laughed at me, then pointed at the woods ouside the window."Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it." | James Patterson | ||
| 4a5f6e3 | But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished into sensuality and we have reduced what is holy into what is logical.-Drizzt Do'urden | god religion | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 04049a0 | No one remembers the singer. The song remains. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7582876 | Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| d755fbc | Witches aren't like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it's wicked of them to say we don't. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 120d4bc | It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 83c3638 | That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives." IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIVE AT ALL." | Terry Pratchett |