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ef97b65 If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people. J.R.R. Tolkien
7dd9b0b You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in his eyrie at night! J.R.R. Tolkien
dbaef55 The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards. J.R.R. Tolkien
60eda8a And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...) metaphor pride purr smile Ray Bradbury
db6eddb Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. Kahlil Gibran
250418a Working really hard is what successful people do... Malcolm Gladwell
540058d Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaot.. Tom Wolfe
061ba11 Tell me, did you summon me just so you could beat the crap out of me? Or is there a more productive reason for why I'm here? (Eros) Sherrilyn Kenyon
d2f8d15 Then shut up or grab a sword and come help. (Takeshi) Is that a challenge? (Savitar) It would be if I didn't know for a fact that you're too lazy to rise to one. (Takeshi) Sherrilyn Kenyon
46b71b6 Take notice of your emotions as well as logic. Emotions have their own logic. And try to go with the flow. Graeme Simsion
d5cd8ae His gaze travelled down me, then zipped back to my face. "Sorry." "Focus, Rafe." "I am. Just on the wrong thing." Kelley Armstrong
a42139d I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me. Kelley Armstrong
0781a45 The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. peter-beagle the-last-unicorn Peter S. Beagle
f0bbf5d Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power. Peter S. Beagle
8d2868b When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard. Albert Camus
f73bd1d The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. love people universe J.D. Salinger
972c505 Edward: "After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved." eclipse edward-cullen Stephenie Meyer
c982901 She was thinking what I think she was thinking, wasn't she? Stephenie Meyer
b8bda30 Edward: Bella, please stop taking your clothes off! Bella: Why? Did you wanna do that part? eclipse edward-cullen seduction Stephenie Meyer
dbbc73f He's playing every bit as hard as I am, only he knows what he's doing and I don't. Don't blame me because he's a better manipulator than I am -- I haven't been around long enough to learn all his tricks. Stephenie Meyer
f27363a It's pretty obvious, isn't it? I'm joining your crappy little renegade pack. The vampires' guard dogs. Stephenie Meyer
50f4e55 When I was young" ... "Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus, it would get richer and deeper each year. You kept learning more, getting wiser, having more insight, going further into the truth" - she hesitated. Port laughed abruptly. - "And now you know it's not like that. Right? It's more like smoking a cigarette. The first few puffs it tasted wonderful, and you don't even think of its.. life life-and-death Paul Bowles
38ae2d9 My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer. Ludwig Wittgenstein
194fc98 Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
f1d57a0 Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word." Sue Monk Kidd
660f259 The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief. Sue Monk Kidd
e967f32 Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning. waste Samuel Beckett
e549e46 I don't know: perhaps it's a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I'll wake, in the silence, and never sleep again. (It will be I?) Or dream (dream again), dream of a silence, a dream silence, full of murmurs (I don't know, that's all words), never wake (all words, there's nothing else). You must go on, that's all I know. They're going to stop, I know that well: I can feel it. They're going to abandon me. It will be the silence, fo.. silence story suicide words Samuel Beckett
47b7cc5 The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never. Samuel Beckett
490d4bc Why didn't you talk about whether women are funny or not? I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn't. Mindy Kaling
26cda71 Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed. Richard Adams
41ca4b8 It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. knowledge self understanding Joseph Conrad
a636796 And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. someone may say. It seems to occur to few of the attendees that if you have a feeling you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class. Stephen King
19e7a99 When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married. Stephen King
6b63adc You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it. hopelessness Stephen King
d1c674d Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are. Stephen King
290b37d I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations. And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (a.. Stephen King
c4b1d85 I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit. pride reading television thought writing Stephen King
12d8e93 I read a jaw-dropping online defense of these weapons from a California woman recently. Guns, she said, are just tools. Like spoons, she said. Would you outlaw spoons simply because some people use them to eat too much? Lady, let's see you try to kill twenty schoolkids with a fucking spoon. Stephen King
88e0b1b Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend Stephen King
811fe18 I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one. stephen king
53517dc I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it. Stephen King
79e5582 Why must you hurt me, when I love you so? When I can do nothing else nor want to, for love made me and fed me and kept me in better days? Why will you cut me, and disfigure my face, and fill me with woe? I have only loved you for your beauty as you once loved me for mine in the days before the world moved on. Now you scar me with nails and put burning drops of quicksilver in my nose; you have set the animals on me, so you have, and they hav.. the-beam the-dark-tower Stephen King
1c69a0c Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground. Stephen King