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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8b343d1 | My name," I tell Wilbur in the most dignified voice I can find, "Was inspired by Harriet Quimby, the first female American pilot and the first woman ever to cross the Channel in an aeroplane. My mother chose it to represent freedom and bravery and independence, and she gave it to me just before she died." There's a short pause while Wilbur looks appropriately moved. Then Dad says, "Who told you that?" "Annabel did." "Well, it's not true at.. | lol tortoise | Holly Smale | |
| a9f17d1 | First off, don't swear to God around me. He's not listening when I'm in the room. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 6095390 | Why is it that the people you come to love are the ones that seem to hurt you the most? | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 78fa927 | Even when I was a kid, Lo would put his hands on my cheeks and kiss me really quickly, and we'd burst into laughter afterwards. He'd end up chasing me through the fancy parties that our parents brought us to, trying to steal another. I'd always let him catch me. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 2093a70 | No means no. I don't care when you say it, Lily. Once it's out there, it's out there. Any halfway decent guy would have backed off. | addicted-to-you lily-calloway ryke-meadows | Krista Ritchie | |
| 0b8f389 | yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone and unrecoverable, of the land almost allowed to claim its better destiny, only to the claim jumped by evildoers known all too well, and taken instead and held hostage to the future we must live in now forever. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 8224cb8 | No! and are not the same thing at all! | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8ecc2a2 | Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos. | chaos cosmos identity personality stories story | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| cb0603d | And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning. | performance reflection solitude soul | Patrick Süskind | |
| cd0df45 | n t`s@ lnsn tntj mn kwnh l yryd 'n yqb` sknan fy Grfth hnk Hyth yjb 'n ykwn | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 9f3d2d0 | It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know? | love-triangle | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 82411f8 | I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6cb74a7 | The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3112c58 | If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e0fec2d | Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?" | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 6a37a20 | It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 08d5c5e | The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste. | life living suicide | Frank Wedekind | |
| 794cd17 | Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?" "Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested." | Gordon Korman | ||
| c2b3636 | I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us. | Alan Brennert | ||
| fba4801 | Todos nacemos felices. Por el camino se nos ensucia la vida, pero podemos limpiarla. La felicidad no es exuberante ni bulliciosa, como el placer o la alegria. Es silenciosa, tranquila, suave, es un estado interno de satisfaccion que empieza por amarse a si mismo. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 3e5bae3 | I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously . . . And now I seek my hatred and cannot seem to find it. I feel its flame going out as I come to unders.. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 05c5267 | Esa noche crei que habia perdido para siempre la capacidad de enamorarme, que nunca mas podria reirme ni perseguir una ilusion. Pero nunca mas es mucho tiempo. | eternity isabel-allende love | Isabel Allende | |
| 8f1f9ee | Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love. | Yann Martel | ||
| 274a528 | I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules," said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. "Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words," Dumbledore went on, smiling." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0265800 | Let muggles manage without us! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 3469e83 | The dementors send their love, Potter! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c6765e8 | Don't you see? Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fe8be57 | She was dashing back, an enormous old book in her arms. "I never thought to look in here!" she whispered excitedly. "I got this out of the library weeks ago for a bit of light reading." " " said Ron." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b498a3b | This is precisely why I being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. Has it not occurred to you, my poor puffed-up poppinjay, that there might be an excellent reason why the Headmaster of Hogwarts is not confiding every tiny detail of his plans to you? Have you never paused, while feeling hard-done-by, to note that following Dumbledore's orders has never yet led you into harm? .. | teaching | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2fcfff4 | Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind of chill emanating from him and noticed that the Dursleys drew very slightly closer together. "You did not do as I asked. You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflic.. | dudley-dursley mistreatment petunia-dursley vernon-dursley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 5624388 | Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I'll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don't - well, I think I've cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don't know that they've got a daughter, you see. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 49acd48 | Oh, I'm going to Mundungus Fletcher! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8f4a1be | Oh, it was Malfoy, I was thinking about him and I lost track of things! | dramione hermione-granger | J.K. Rowling | |
| 85e5743 | In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b08e9cb | He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 9085ae2 | You fainted," I told Tank. "I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e77e57d | Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?' That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's an evil flying pizza out there, and it's got Brenda's name on it. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a089b6d | That was close,"he said, helping himself to coffee. Yeah, you almost opened the door to Morelli." I wasn't talking about Morelli. I was talking about us." That too," I said. Ranger sliced a bagel and looked for the toaster. It's broken,"I told him. He truned the boiler on and slid the bagel into the oven. That's surprisingly domestic for a man of mystery," I said to him. He looked at me over the rim of his coffee mug. "I like things hot." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 18055b4 | Morelli beeped his truck unlocked. "If you're looking for your rent-a-cop, I told Ranger you'd be with me this morning." "Did he make you take a blood oath that you'd protect me?" "He asked me if I had adequate health insurance." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 8ac3f19 | I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic. | romance | Janet Evanovich | |
| bf57a72 | Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 6cde118 | Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it. | John Banville | ||
| b9173d1 | Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand before and after in which they are innocent victims who have no say in the matter. Perhaps they simply are kissed and want to kiss back. Perhaps they even kiss first. And why should they not? | kartik | Libba Bray | |
| c16ceb1 | The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one," Dr. Poblocki said. "When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?" | Libba Bray |