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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7e196c0 | Daemon: I have something really corny to say. Get ready for it. Katy: I'm ready. Daemon: I'm mental for you. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e2748ec | I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 6e0ea3d | What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? --- I wish I knew ... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can ... [More croquet sounds] Later tonight I'm going to tell you I love you an' maybe by that time you'll be drunk enough to believe me. Yes, they're playing croquet ... Big Daddy is dying of cancer ... What were you thinking of when I caught you looking at me like that? Were you thinking of Skipper? [Brick crosses to the bar, .. | Tennessee Williams | ||
| 234e9d0 | They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them. | Max Brooks | ||
| 4be0961 | Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. But she did something that surprised me even more... She kissed me. | Rick Riordan | ||
| dc38657 | See, lady, that's what happens to snow in Texas. It- freaking- melts. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1fc7722 | Lei had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo! | Rick Riordan | ||
| fcdcbf5 | The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I'm~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades was shaped like an omega: O--the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Maybe that was because the axe would be the last thing his victims ever saw | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2c16320 | Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else. | Rick Riordan | ||
| d02b25d | If it weren't for dreams," he said. "I wouldn't know half the things I know about the future. They're better than Olympus tabloids." He cleared his throat then held up his hands dramatically: "Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff" "Apollo?" I guessed, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad. He put his finger to his lips, "[Shh] I'm incognito. Call me Fred." | beast fred funny haiku percy | Rick Riordan | |
| 96dcc35 | You sure you're not a Roman, Annabeth? Or an Amazon? | Rick Riordan | ||
| b844a11 | I think it's time you met Percy. - Annabeth | Rick Riordan | ||
| 466a156 | Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above us. "I think she's unconscious!" "Roooaaarrr!" "Maybe not," Grover corrected." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 76686da | Back in Khufu's day I knew a magician who parted the Nile just so he could climb to the bottom and retrieve a girl's necklace. Then there was that Israelite fellow, Mickey." "Moses?" "Yeah, him." | Rick Riordan | ||
| b6b91a6 | Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions." -- | hephaestus | Rick Riordan | |
| b861b88 | So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess. What else is new? | Rick Riordan | ||
| bc6aec6 | Dark seams radiated outwards like a shotgun blast of ink, as if Nico's body were trying to expel all the shadows he'd travelled through. Yesterday had been worse: an entire meadow withering, skeletons rising from the earth. Reyna wasn't anxious for that to happen again. | shadow-travel | Rick Riordan | |
| a9a9b54 | I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and realized my head was in Khufu's lap. The baboon was foraging my scalp for munchies. "Dude." I sat up groggily. "Not cool." "But he gave you a lovely hairdo," Sadie said. "Agh-agh!" Khufu agreed." | Rick Riordan | ||
| a0e0e66 | You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2ff2d18 | Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father's throne. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0ab36bb | Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 616d431 | Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved. | J.D. Robb | ||
| c71e3f9 | he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details? | J.D. Robb | ||
| 055ed59 | Now he felt temper snapping at the nerves. "If you can't be comfortable in the house while I'm not here, you can barricade yourself in this apartment. You can damn well barricade yourself in it while I am here. It's up to you." "Yes, it is." She took a deep breath and turned to him. "You did this for me." Annoyed, he inclined his head. "There doesn't seem to be much I wouldn't do for you." "I think that's starting to sink in." No one had.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| a5d366d | I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else. | love | J.D. Robb | |
| ace9a48 | You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya--life--to me. | Jane Yolen | ||
| b9ab94b | What's the point of doing all that work," Tesch asks, "if no one sees it?" "It makes me happy. It's peaceful, spending hours working on it. It doesn't really matter to me if anyone else sees it." | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 52b1b89 | It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6e7e086 | I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?" | Marian Keyes | ||
| 71c348f | being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 4d6a830 | Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle. | fate | Dodie Smith | |
| 7728a8e | Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal belonging liberates longing into its surest and most potent c.. | longing | John O'Donohue | |
| 4f2d366 | You, Doctor Martin, walk from breakfast to madness. Late August, I speed through the antiseptic tunnel where the moving dead still talk of pushing their bones against the thrust of cure. And I am queen of this summer hotel or the laughing bee on a stalk of death. We stand in broken lines and wait while they unlock the doors and count us at the frozen gates of dinner. The shibboleth is spoken and we move to gravy in our smock of smiles. We c.. | Anne Sexton | ||
| b2b260c | There are times when you stand on the cusp of moments so huge, you know you'll remember them forever. This is that moment for me and for Ryan. | Katie McGarry | ||
| f06ca55 | Fuck me and the rest of the world, i was in love- Noah | Katie McGarry | ||
| 25afb21 | The boy everyone sees but nobody knows is with the girl who everybody knows but nobody sees. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 172a59d | You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul." | julie-garwood romance | Julie Garwood | |
| 702460a | I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized." | purity | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 9743926 | Are you ever going to kiss me without swearing first? | funny jessica | Christine Feehan | |
| 233c81f | She knew he'd be back. No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it. She sensed that in some strange tangential way, he needed her shade as much as she needed his. And she had learned from experience that Need was a warehouse that could accommodate a considerable amount of cruelty. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| b4bd1dd | Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 82454b8 | At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? | capitalism corporations dam economics environmental-degradation equality exploitation false-gods government government-corruption human-rights india inspirational narmada-valley nationalism reality truth women | Arundhati Roy | |
| bceb277 | You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--" | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| 4040788 | Listen to me. I'm shy. I'm not stupid. I can't meet people's eyes. I don't know if you understand what that's like. There's a whole world going on around me, I'm aware of that. It's not because I don't want to look at you, Lucinda. It's that I don't want to be seen. | shy | Jonathan Lethem |