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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 902591f | Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a sudden crash of thunder,' said Otto. 'And if I vas to point at a castle on a towering crag and say "Yonder is . . . zer castle" a volf would be bound to howl mournfully.' He sighed. 'In zer old country, zer scenery is psychotropic and knows vot is expected of it. Here, alas, people just look at you in a funny vay." | psychotropic uberwald vampire | Terry Pratchett | |
| e643c52 | A witch didn't do things because they seemed a good idea at the time! That was practically cackling. You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap. But you didn't because, as Miss Tick had once explained: a) it would make the world a better place for only a very short time; .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 34b46c2 | Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones. | love | Andrew Solomon | |
| 3f53259 | It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out. A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help. | grandeur heart help inward inward-significance otherness outward-appearances self understand want world | Donna Tartt | |
| 546ba10 | Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found? | redemption sin sinners | Donna Tartt | |
| 111c292 | The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides. | corrosive shame taint tainted torment worthless worthlessness | Donna Tartt | |
| fcaf01d | The idea of living there, of not having to go back ever again to asphalt and shopping malls and modular furniture; of living there with Charles and Camilla and Henry and Francis and maybe even Bunny; of no one marrying or going home or getting a job in a town a thousand miles away or doing any of the traitorous things friends do after college; of everything remaining exactly as it was, that instant - the idea was so truly heavenly that I'm .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| b1c6246 | But though it was the most resonant and real-seeming thing that had happened in a long time, I didn't want to spoil it by talking about it... | Donna Tartt | ||
| c59a943 | And yet she was wholly herself: a rarity. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 49d4fbc | Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time. | patience wisdom | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 3b6db53 | What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 4a6cd4e | There's no such thing as forever. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| dd03488 | We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive. | love | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 77a03a3 | Kneeling before him, Regin murmured, "Don't let that Fegley worm get to you." Still staring ahead, the kid slowed his banging. "There's a good ... male of indeterminate species." | dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant thad valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| e0533ae | Thirty nerve-shattering minutes passed before Cadeon returned. "What happened? Tell me!" "Everything's taken care of." She frowned. "You smell like beer." He rolled his eyes. "Oh, yeah, Holly, like me and the cop were downing a beer together." Of course, he and the cop had completely been downing a beer together." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 6ad4350 | He shot to his feet, faced off against her. "No more mercy for ye, Valkyrie." Holding nothing back, he launched a haymaker at her head. She ducked and laughed. "That accent you work so hard to hide is coming out! Are ye feckin' Oirish this time? Eh, boyo?" She leapt atop his desk, punting the side of his head. "Those swords are ! Touch them, and I'll use 'em to slice off your nutsack! For a coin purse!" | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 06d9bb2 | When Thad began nuzzling her neck, pressing his opened lips against her, she smacked him in the back of the head. "Don't go vamp on me now!" "Whaa!" He shot upright, his fangs sharp. "Where am I?" She glanced at his fangs, then down. "Oh, my gods, when do you sport wood? There are bathrooms in the back, so go burp the worm or whatever." | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant thad valkyrie vampire-phantom | Kresley Cole | |
| 4a342f1 | Emma convinced herself she'd lost him because she was fast. She was also adept at convincing herself of things that might not be - good at pretending. She could pretend she took classes at night by choice, and that blushing didn't make her thirsty-- A vicious growl sounded. Her eyes widened, but she didn't turn back, just sprinted across the field. She felt claws sink into her anckle a second before she was dragged to the muddy ground and .. | paranormal-romance werewolf | Kresley Cole | |
| d6f2845 | If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister. The teenybopper sister snaps bug stretchy pink bubbles over her tongue and checks her lipgloss in the rearview mirror, . . . Teeny plays the radio too loud and bite.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 9813916 | The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework. | safe-sex sex | Jennifer Weiner | |
| 0a6f061 | People always think that happiness is a faraway thing ... something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up. | Betty Smith | ||
| a195591 | And the child, Francie Nolan, was of all the Rommelys and all the Nolans. She had the violent weaknesses and passion for beauty of the shanty Nolans. She was a mosaic of her grandmother Rommely's mysticism, her tale-telling, her great belief in everything and her compassion for the weak ones. She had a lot of her grandfather Rommely's cruel will. She had some of her Aunt Evy's talent for mimicking, some of Ruthie Nolan's possessiveness. She.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 6dcf94d | Say something," demanded Fancie. "Why don't you say something?" "What can I say?" | Betty Smith | ||
| 4862d98 | I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing | Gertrude Stein | ||
| b9c0fce | One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It's not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else's. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| e232093 | The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich. | past present time | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 576854b | To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact. | Joanne Harris | ||
| c11d2d6 | Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored. | Joanne Harris | ||
| db19888 | The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| f81742e | Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing. | Karen Cushman | ||
| fd6d3c2 | The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| aebe365 | She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she... | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 5c6c04b | Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 8bb6148 | You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 6e43c7f | My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5634800 | I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 934fac7 | Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen | Judith McNaught | ||
| 5ef1eaf | Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her. | remembering-quotes-from-books underlining-books | Pat Conroy | |
| 501e928 | I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me. | Pat Conroy | ||
| e2fa6bf | There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue. | the-south | Pat Conroy | |
| 66ae506 | But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'll forgive my saying so, anywhere. | love | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 4d371e3 | The past is just something that's over. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 5f724e2 | As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 2f24fcc | The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. | conformity | Henry David Thoreau |