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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c504916 | If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "danger" on the floor around them. Look, it's "danger", don't step in it!" | satire t-fyrr | Mercedes Lackey | |
| e1dc12f | I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 03943f3 | That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 3e1d843 | all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath. | loss | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 124a1ca | It's living up to being happy that's the most difficult part. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 18e8280 | It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. "I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself some cocoa or whatever you like!" She stopped short of adding "...future child-bride of my only son." -- | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 048a8af | though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 25cdb90 | We have art in order not to die from the truth. --NIETZSCHE | Donna Tartt | ||
| 58fbee4 | And you love her, yes. But not too much." "Why do you say that?" "Because you are not mad, or wild, or grieving! You are not roaring out to choke her with your own bare hands! Which means your soul is not too mixed up with hers. And that is good. Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| aa16ee2 | I az chuvstvam, che ima neshcho mnogo seriozno, mnogo vazhno, koeto triabva da ti kazha, moi nes'shchestvuvashchi chitateliu, i chuvstvam, che triabva da go kazha taka nastoiatelno, kakto ako stoiakh v staiata pred teb. Che zhivot't - kak'vto i drugi kachestva da ima - e krat'k. Che s'dbata e zhestoka, no mozhe bi ne e proizvolna. Che Prirodata (s koeto iskam da kazha Sm'rtta) vinagi pobezhdava, no tova ne oznachava, che triabva da se prekl.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| ff83ca7 | Or rather, I dreamed of her constantly, only as absence, not presence: a breeze blowing through a just-vacated house, her handwriting on a notepad, the smell of her perfume, streets in strange lost towns where I knew she'd been walking only a moment before but had just vanished, a shadow moving away against a sunstruck wall. Sometimes I spotted her in a crowd, or in a taxicab pulling away, and these glimpses of her I treasured despite the f.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| e45d77e | And if beauty is terror," said Julian, "then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?" "To live," said Camilla. "To live forever," said Bunny, chin cupped in palm." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 06c9ac7 | But I couldn't. It was real; I knew it, even in the dark. Raised yellow streak of paint on the wing and feathers scratched in with the butt of the brush. One chip on the upper left edge that hadn't been there before, tiny mar less than two millimeters, but otherwise: perfect. I was different, but it wasn't. And as the light flickered over it in bands, I had the queasy sense of my own life, in comparison, as a patternless and transient burst.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 60d1c2b | But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog. | love | Richard Matheson | |
| b5fe4f0 | He would only shrug and look at me expectantly again, waiting for high magic: magic that came only when you made some larger version of yourself with words and promises, and then stepped inside and somehow grew to fill it. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 336d66b | It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| adaf89b | Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause. | vanity virtue | Richard Flanagan | |
| 4adad0d | Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, & your self-respect & independence. After a while you start throwing people out - friends, everyone you know. & it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, & you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people. I think that's why I'm sick of love. - Karla | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| c4f0ee7 | Wroth, darling," she purred, smiling so sweetly. "I can't wait for the next time I get to put my mouth on you." In an instant the smile faded and she snapped her teeth and yanked her head back as if she was chewing something free." | humor humorous | Kresley Cole | |
| 4b73f0a | Declan and Regin: "Kiss ?" As he waited for the revulsion to seize him, he found himself wondering how she would react. Would she moan into his mouth? "It will help you remember me. Kiss me. Come on, you know you want to so bad. You want so bad." "Never." . But he to be above her like this, to master her, overpower her. "Never? That boner of yours just called you a lair." | declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radient valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 4b0abfd | Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards. | Colin Wilson | ||
| e76f2d0 | You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 1db2b23 | i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 2de5e19 | Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. | Günter Grass | ||
| 16c0fec | The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world? | reality time | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 57c6107 | I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things you must risk it. And here is the shock- when you risk it, when you do the right thing, when you arrive at the borders of common sense and cross into unknown territory, leaving behind you all the familiar smells and lights; then you do not experience great joy and huge energy. You are unhappy. Things get worse. It .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5642d27 | Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 076f0f0 | Is there some kind of rule for when Sam should be a boy and when he's a Wolf?" "A Wolf lifts his leg and yellows up the snow. A boy has to use the toilet." "And that will work?" "Only if he needs to pee." | humor wolfs | Anne Bishop | |
| 537ff63 | Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree? | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 6b86142 | Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much. | fantasy wicked | Gregory Maguire | |
| 37edc7c | Hey, Hachi | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 3f93afb | Laugh at love and love will make you cry. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| d8eae39 | But it turns out that even if I don't talk a lot, when it's something that matters I still have a lot to say. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 0a99fa8 | There is no safer. There's not even safe, never has been. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 839a834 | Having a friend made everything else suck less. | friendship | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 89df635 | I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead. | control kidnap | John Fowles | |
| 2ecc3d5 | What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once. | Lorna Landvik | ||
| 5e3fada | Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climate.. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 2cc847e | A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. | library reading | Pat Conroy | |
| f276251 | No man ever followed his genius til it misled him. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 86768a9 | I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide. | Norton Juster | ||
| b5f0b4e | It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. "I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself some cocoa or whatever you like!" She stopped short of adding "...future child-bride of my only son." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 73bfb06 | No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. | dangerous purity | James Baldwin | |
| c609590 | I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is. | imagination | L.M. Montgomery |