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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6947439 | And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years. | Connie Willis | ||
| a8bf0be | When you suffer, I suffer with you. To the end I am close to you. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 98e8e3a | For the moment I can think of nothing-- except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world. | forgotten henry-miller relfection sentient-being sentient-beings tropic-of-cancer water | Henry Miller | |
| ad1d043 | He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals | morals nationalism religion science | Henry Miller | |
| 945a7bc | either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. | Henry Miller | ||
| 52ee58a | Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to have the of pollution. We can't really to eliminate it - not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend. | Milton Friedman | ||
| b0e512a | There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| b9f7475 | I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 438756f | Diplomacy was never my strong suit and my patience had run dry. I crouched and called out, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty." [...] "Kitty, kitty?" asked a level male voice.[...] "What kind of woman greets the Beast Lord with 'here, kitty, kitty'?" he asked. "One of a kind". I murmered the obvious reply." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| cca57a2 | He wanted to wear sweatpants, because "they tear easier." I asked him if he wanted me to get him some male stripper jeans so he could avoid looking like a Russian gangster from pre-Shift movies, after which he got all offended and put on a pair of regular jeans instead." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a5f23e8 | You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you? Sure, do you have one handy? Oh, I think I could scrounge one up somewhere. As often as I have to rescue you. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4a4edb3 | Maybe I should drive," Troy said. "She knows what she's doing," Mad Rogan said. I sniffed. "What?" "The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| fdb6aa6 | I gave him my Order smile: sweet grin, hard eyes, reached over to my passenger seat, and pulled out my submachine gun. About twenty-seven inches long, the HK was my favorite toy for close-quarters combat. The rider's eyes went wide. "This is an HK UMP submachine gun. Renowned for its stopping power and reliability. Cyclic rate of fire: eight hundred rounds per minute. That means I can empty this thirty-round clip into you in less than three.. | humor | Ilona Andrews | |
| e1fcc3e | Look, he isn't even concerned." I poured the tea. "He's concerned, Mother. He just doesn't panic, because he's in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic." "I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like," Jim offered." | don-t-panic humor jim | Ilona Andrews | |
| 0ece14e | So crosses don't do anything against your kind?" Sean asked. "No," Arland said. "There is no mystical force repelling us." "Then why?" "We're forbidden to kill a creature in a moment of prayer or invocation of their deity. Well, we can, technically, but you have to do penance and purify yourself and nobody wants to spend weeks praying and bathing themselves in the sacred cave springs. The water's only a fraction warmer than ice. When one of.. | vampires | Ilona Andrews | |
| d377e46 | You're touching me," I chided him. He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting every sensitive point I hadn't even known I had. "No, this is touching you. That was just accidental contact." "Oh? Good to know. If you touch me again and I break your arm off, you can be sure it will be completely accidental." | raphael | Ilona Andrews | |
| b5f5a6a | Now remember, Kate." Barabas leaned over to me, grinning. "You are the Consort. Be the Consort." He stretched "be" into a three-syllable word. "Think like a-" "Open the door or I'll punch you right in the face," I growled." | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 3982f3c | If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| ae771e3 | It's to do with knowing and being known. I remember how it stopped seeming odd that in biblical Greek knowing was used for making love. Whosit knew so-and-so. Carnal knowledge. It's what lovers trust each other with. Knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face. Every other version of oneself is on offer to the public. We share our.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| cd943db | Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get twenty-four? Artemis: I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d02370d | You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. | enemies-and-opposition | Victor Hugo | |
| 44fb695 | Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I .. | god life thoughts | Victor Hugo | |
| 4898993 | Is there an infinite outside of us? Is this infinite, one, immanent, permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite, and because, if matter were lacking in it, it would in that respect be limited; necessarily intelligent, because it is infinite, and since if it lacked intelligence it would be to that extent, finite? Does this finite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we are able to attribute to ourselves the idea of existence.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 699e513 | The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6c650b9 | Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 63647de | Freedom is just chaos with better lighting | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| c885923 | While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 1a45f58 | But, hell, I wouldn't have grudged him your body. I know how little bodies mean - especially women's bodies. But I do grudge him your heart and your dear, hard, unscrupulous mind. He doesn't want your mind, the fool, and I don't want your body. I can buy women cheap. But I do want your mind and your heart, and I'll never have them. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 6f103bc | Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 180226e | If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning. | maxim-de-winter rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | |
| cf724e2 | Memories always kill nightmares. | Beth Revis | ||
| 9fd53a5 | Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly. The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on. People intervene all the time, "doing something"; academics participate in meaningless "debates," etc.; but the truly difficult thing is to step back, to withdraw from it all. Those in .. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| f452b4b | Hands learn. More than minds do. | Sarah Kay | ||
| e95963c | I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams. | dreams night | Virginia Woolf | |
| f133b45 | Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life--the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within--can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. | George Eliot | ||
| efd1971 | The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. | mood temper | George Eliot | |
| c0062ea | Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 75d1ffe | But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mi.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 39a3686 | Now it's high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What's left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 691d4f3 | I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn't know I had that power. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| d497586 | It might have been done before, but it hasn't been done by you! | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2b6f465 | Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 30807b5 | This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237) | stories | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 36b9e44 | Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them. | Irvin D. Yalom |