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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b6d450d | Well," she finally said, "he's coming back shortly, so you are absolved of your responsibilities." "No." The word came from him like an oath, emerging from the very core of his being. She looked at him in impatient confusion. "What do you mean?" He stepped forward. He wasn't sure what he was doing. He knew only that he couldn't stop. "I mean no. I don't want to be absolved." Her lips parted. He took another step. His heart was pounding,.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 2ad3df6 | There is so much I hope to teach you, little one. I hope that I may do so by example, but I feel the need to put the words to paper as well. It is a quirk of mine, one which I expect you will recognize and find amusing by the time you read this letter. Be strong. Be diligent. Be conscientious. There is never anything to be gained by taking the easy road. (Unless, of course, the road is an easy one to begin with. Roads sometimes are. If that.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 3aa3ea5 | The look Anthony shot at his sister was so comically malevolent Simon nearly laughed. He managed to restrain himself, but mostly just because he was fairly certain that any show of humor would cause Anthony's fist to lose its battle with his brain, with Simon's face emerging as the conflict's primary casualty. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 55893b6 | I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell. | Alan Moore | ||
| 1b0e2ac | If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going. | Alan Moore | ||
| e103052 | Flaubert] didn't just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together. | progress science technology | Julian Barnes | |
| 51b4a1a | Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure. | meaning | Julian Barnes | |
| 4928cc2 | No fight is hopeless till it has been fought. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 603cbc5 | Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning | Jean Craighead George | ||
| ddbc19d | Do not listen to her," Alaric said. "She is going to tell you in some kind of code only the two of you will understand, because you are siblings, to call the police on your cell phone. But if you do that, I will kill you and dispose of your body in a place where no one will find it. The river, I think. Your doorman is so stupid, he won't notice if I leave this building carrying a body in a rolled-up carpet." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 6c41be6 | This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself. | Meg Cabot | ||
| bb3855b | Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. | bait enemies home strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| fdfde06 | You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 0c01b37 | When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| e5b00e1 | Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting. | mimi | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 25e0613 | Almost halfway down the aisle, she saw someone she wasn't expecting, and she almost stumbled on her satin heels. Kingsley Martin stood at the end of a pew, his arms crossed. He was wearing a tuxedo as well. Just like any other guest. What was he doing here? He was supposed to be in Paris! He was supposed to be gone! He looked directly at Mimi. She heard his voice loud and clear in her head. Leave him. Why should I? What do you promise me? N.. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| f076bf7 | There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you're with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 78b63d3 | The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask. | Agatha Christie | ||
| f02533e | He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him. | mr-thornton prejudice pride | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| de23921 | That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it. | writer-quotes | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| b245cee | that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 79313b3 | Are you missing the library again?" Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room. Kendra turned to face her brother. "You caught me," she congratulated him. "I'm reading." "I bet the librarians back home are panicking. Summer vacation, and no Kendra Sorenson to keep them in business. Have they been sending you letters?" "Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in .. | curiosity library nerd reading | Brandon Mull | |
| 720a62a | I think we should probably get Vanessa out of the Quiet Box to help us. What do you guys say?' 'Absolutely,' Newel affirmed. 'Best idea I've heard all day.' 'I'll second that,' Doren said gladly. Seth gave the satyrs a doubtful scowl. 'Wait a minute. You guys just think she's pretty.' 'I've been around a long time,' Newel said. 'Vanessa Santoro is not jut pretty.' 'He's right,' Doren agreed. 'She's walking dynamite. My pulse is rising just .. | Brandon Mull | ||
| b0caf38 | Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength. | marriage strength | Timothy Keller | |
| 0067b96 | Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways. | love marriage spirituality | Timothy Keller | |
| 624890d | There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities | dishonesty hypocrisy misanthropy people relationships society stereotypes words | Molière | |
| 5a8ba91 | The first time I taught a writing class in graduate school, I was worried. Not about the teaching material, because I was well prepared and I was teaching what I enjoyed. Instead I was worried about what to wear. I wanted to be taken seriously. I knew that because I was female, I would automatically have to prove my worth. And I was worried that if I looked too feminine, I would not be taken seriously. I really wanted to wear my shiny lip g.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0cbacf1 | So teach Chizalum that biology is an interesting and fascinating subject, but she should never accept it as justification for any social norm. Because social norms are created by human beings, and there is no social norm that cannot be changed. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b184f36 | How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the end. They are too numerous.... We cannot defeat them, only be defeated. - Saphira | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 08b9534 | Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 7a73e7e | How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false. | parody reasoning | Peter Sloterdijk | |
| a07db95 | I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 48c38ec | I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 215a256 | You missed the point completely! You're acting..." The word stuck in my throat. He didn't hesitate to say it. "Jealous?" When I nodded, he continued. "Now you're missing the point. It isn't jealousy. It's fear." "Fear?" Not the emotion I expected. "Yes. Fear. I'm afraid you'll be hurt or killed. I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you. I'm afraid I'll lose you to another man." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 186dafb | Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 1059c5e | We should make all spiritual talk Simple today: God is trying to sell you something, But you don't want to buy. That is what your suffering is: | Hafez | ||
| 8eed047 | Be kind to your sleeping heart. | Hafez | ||
| 42a3f46 | You have taken root in the Beloved. I love your golden branches And the hundred graceful movements Your body now makes each time The wind, children and love come near. | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez | ||
| e008a06 | Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it | Eric Ambler | ||
| df9b019 | It is only the dead who do not return. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| f0968f0 | Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 73013e6 | dr khnh m fqr bh ndzh y bwd khh adm khyly zwd yd my grft chyzy r tlf nkhnd, hrchyzy pwl my brd, grn bwd. | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| ffa39c0 | If you don't want to have a baby, that's fine. And if you want sex on the kitchen table, you'll get it." He glared down at his wife. "But you're coming home, and you're coming home now, and I will be happy to discuss this further once you're naked and in my bed." He paused. "Or on the table." His face flushed. "And the next time you leave me, you'd better mean it, woman, because I'm not going to be treated like a doormat. Understand?" -.. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 3f497a0 | She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over. | Jonathan Tropper |