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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aaf9d5b | But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish. | love | Raymond E. Feist | |
| 692f85c | I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me." | humorous-comebacks inflation sarcasm seller | Tamora Pierce | |
| 87d6a94 | Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound Rat's shirt. "Let that be a lesson to you not to gamble," he told the Rat soberly. "The trickster asks you pay for any luck you may have, one way or another." "Bless the boy, he's a priest with it," one of the Goddess warriors said with a grin. "After this, laddie, what's say I take you home and rub some of that off yez?" Ersken actually wi.. | gamblers graceful-letdown guards repriminding | Tamora Pierce | |
| fdc3b21 | A belligerent samurai, an old Japanese tale goes, once challenged a Zen master to explain the concept of heaven and hell. The monk replied with scorn, "You're nothing but a lout - I can't waste my time with the likes of you!" His very honor attacked, the samurai flew into a rage and, pulling his sword from its scabbard, yelled "I could kill you for your impertinence." "That," the monk calmly replied, "is hell." Startled at seeing the truth .. | Daniel Goleman | ||
| b9a871f | I now realize that lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. Lives fall apart when the foundation upon which they were built needs to be relaid. Lives fall apart, not because God is punishing us for what we have or have not done. Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren't built the right way in the first place. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 5de6d2c | I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| cfc2d51 | she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?" | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 6f72007 | Happiest day of my life when my dad made him human. (Devyn) Happy for you, bonebag...It cost me my girlfriend. (Vik) It was a lamp, Vik, not a girlfriend. (Devyn) I really loved that lamp. She lit up my entire world. (Vik) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9fedb86 | I'm through begging for mercy. No one heeds it when I do anyway. Better I should die on my feet with all the dignity a whore can manage than crawling on my belly like a worthless slave. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 21c7e01 | My son has few friends and even fewer who know him for what he is. So long as you protect him, you live. Sumerian or not. But if you prove false in anything you've said here today, I will bring a wrath down on you so sever that you will spend eternity trying to dig out your own brains to alleviate the pain of it. (Apollymi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5b6f86e | Oh man. I hate that poofing shit. You scared me so bad, Ash, you made me eat this crappy cheese. What is this stuff anyway? (Nick) Soy cheese. (Talon) So much for my dinner. Now his whole system is polluted. Be at least a week before it leaves his cell tissue and he's edible again. (Fang) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b864ea1 | Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert." Nick" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9d55f68 | Calm down. I'm a demon, Nick. Hematite doesn't like my genetics. It doesn't mean anything other than I have really bad parentage." "Then why am I having flashes of you killing me?" "What'd you eat this morning?" Nick didn't care for that answer. Not one little bit. "I saw it happen. You were choking the life out of me." Caleb rolled his eyes. "Oh yeah. That is definitely a figment of your overactive, over-Hollywood-stimulated imagination. I.. | nick-gautier | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 3fd50df | Acheron kissed her lightly on the cheek. "Rest. We'll be back when he needs you." He watched her climb into bed before he took his nephew down to his room. "Well, it appears to be just the two of us, little one. What say you we get naked, drunk and find us some wenches?" The baby actually smiled up at him as if he understood. Acheron nodded. "So that's it, eh? Barely a month old and you're already lecherous. You are your father's son." | father lecherous | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 5784643 | You go to him for advice? He's only what? Five years old? I swear I own older sweaters. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 07b549f | Yeah, it's me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. 'Cause right now, I'm pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 524c441 | Here. (Zarek) What is it? (Astrid) Arsenic and vomit. (Zarek) Really? And yet you managed to hack that up so quietly. Who knew? Thanks. I've never had vomit before. I'm sure it's extra special. (Astrid) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a4cb355 | I haven't noticed you being slammed into anyone's locker lately. (Nick) That's because you're not around me all the time. Trust me. Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder. (Caleb) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 479af60 | The only vampires I've ever seen are the Goths trying to get a glimpse of Anne Rice's house, who drink strawberry sodas and tell each other it's blood. | nick-gautier | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| ddac36d | Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b399203 | She went from angry to calm so fast that he wondered if she wasn't the Ferrari of moms. Her top speed had to be .65 nanoseconds.' (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9ba90b7 | Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here." "Yeah, but what if he's naked or something?" Ash led him into the foyer. "I've known Kyrian for over two thousand years, and I can honesty say that I have never once caught him naked in his living room." The door closed behind them without Ash or Nick touching it- something that always unnerved Nick wh.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d3130ee | The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to. | Harriet Lerner | ||
| 0ec5edf | But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one. | women | Thomas Hardy | |
| f5fd6a5 | He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death. | life unhappiness | Graham Greene | |
| c3c2f8f | In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty. | socialism wealth | Will Durant | |
| 84faffb | you can't fool all the people all the time," but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country." | Will Durant | ||
| 686f6cb | So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means. | Andy Warhol | ||
| 0e5042b | How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use? | Audre Lorde | ||
| c17b63a | It is impossible to say just what I mean! | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 7f5168f | Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| ecb8c88 | I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. | ape fallen fellow fellow-man | Desmond Morris | |
| f600038 | It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import. | horror | Bram Stoker | |
| d8a61cc | As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died. | men | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 9dc51b2 | I'll never forget my first time with you' Min said as she edged the doughnut off her finger. 'The earth moved, and then my mother asked my father who he was going down on at lunch. | sex | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 6874c0c | Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| a858129 | TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew - Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two, | river thames | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 31a5e5a | Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. | oscar-wilde | Oscar Wilde | |
| c24d7ac | Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 6654d4d | Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 0eeda57 | The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| e64b8ee | Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 4bcea54 | Time is a waste of money. | time | Oscar Wilde | |
| 63577ae | How come it can't fly no better than a chicken?' Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.' The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion. | peacock | Toni Morrison |