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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 89e939a | I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 9798683 | Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop." | Toni Morrison | ||
| 9445dce | Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 9b4eb99 | The night is dark and full of terrors. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3150cb8 | Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals. | James A. Owen | ||
| a64b946 | If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign. | optimism | James A. Owen | |
| 7c7d3e1 | Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| be02d54 | I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b398fa9 | Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. ~Sir Bannor | life love | Teresa Medeiros | |
| 0071682 | The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 60eaafd | As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another. | J.R. Ward | ||
| a9a9c11 | No stonger allies no greater friends no bigger fighters of honor could a king behould then these assembled afore me mine brothers mine blood | J.R. Ward | ||
| a3c3728 | I'm going to love you so good and so long you're gonna be convinced no earthly thing could have brought us together | J.R. Ward | ||
| 4e5f05b | Qhuinn looked at each of the hoods again. How ironic, he thought. Nearly two years ago, an Honor Guard of black robes had been sent to him to make sure he knew his family didn't want him. And now, here these males were, come to draw him into a different kind of fold-- that was every bit as strong as that of blood. | qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| ea29915 | Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty. Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head. "Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy? On the Tv s.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| d64e5a1 | Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird... and just frickin' fine. No bullet holes, no scars, no contusions. "You keep looking at me like that and you'd better buy me dinner afterward." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 79f6bb2 | I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire... | Marcel Proust | ||
| 17fb947 | And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. | girl memory | Marcel Proust | |
| 6114ad1 | The look he was going for was Friendly Suburban Dad, because that's what he was, but he suspected he'd achieved only Cialis Guy. | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| 29e9cda | In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| f029991 | The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 3a8192f | There isn't any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 444e972 | I love you sons of bitches. You're all I read any more. You're the only ones who'll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that'll last for billions of years. You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simpl.. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 197b6e3 | Open the pod bay doors, Hal. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 18d4211 | 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. | magic possibility science technology | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 403324e | A Gift for You I send you... A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is a cabinet near the front door, where your favorite meals appear, several times a day. Desserts are plentiful and calorie free. The closet is stocked with colorful robes and pajamas, and a painting in the bedroom slides aside to reveal a pl.. | creativity dreaming procrastination writing | Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (SARK) | |
| a9d8025 | I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain. | John Green | ||
| 3dbc0d7 | There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain. | John Green | ||
| 5d71511 | It's not how you die. It's who you die. | John Green | ||
| 9cae8c2 | He missed his imagined future. | John Green | ||
| 6231349 | Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention. | John Green | ||
| c85e13c | We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome. | will-grayson-will-grayson | John Green | |
| 39f3cd6 | 10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5. | john-green katherine-carter katherine-xix | John Green | |
| 069e164 | Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom. | gus hazel-grace hazel-grace-lancaster john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 3813924 | We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. I do, Augustus. I do. | heartbreaking hope love philosophy sad the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 64f66f9 | I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world. | John Green | ||
| 903d470 | That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors." | person | John Green | |
| 40ea2e2 | It's just..." She scrubbed a hand across her face. "I keep looking for someone to share life with, someone patient. Not afraid of a mop or use the stove. Even-tempered, understanding, not allergic to emotion." She closed her eyes momentarily. "Someone sweet." Hunter stifled a grimace. She was describing a female with a penis." | Shayla Black | ||
| f76eae4 | Red Riding Hood ran from her wolf," he told her with an edge of amusement. "Red Riding Hood didn't know what the hell she was missing" | Lora Leigh | ||
| ddcc79a | Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. | experience wisdom youth | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| bd94e2c | Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 94877ab | Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little .. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 7fbec2a | Scout released me, then wiped tears from beneath her eyes. Catharsis, I guessed. "I've said it before and I'll say it again--you seriously rock, Parker." "Tell me again, Green," I said as we switched on flashlights and headed through the tunnel. "Seriously, you rock." "One more time." "Don't press your luck." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 55c7b62 | That took all of three minutes," he pointed out, sprinkling red pepper across his noodles. | Chloe Neill |