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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 87d6734 | No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think. | love relationships | Sherwood Smith | |
| 3d94b23 | It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 1b2eacb | Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly. | hate lesson self-loathing | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1a6776c | Armies have spent a lot of time and effort training their soldiers not to think of the enemy as human beings. It's so much easier to kill them if you think of them as dangerous animals. The trouble is, war isn't about killing. It's about getting the enemy to stop resisting your will. Like training a dog not to bite. Punishing him leaves you with a beaten dog. Killing him is a permanent solution, but you've got no dog. If you can understand .. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 133a5b3 | Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 41d98ec | This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 287f22c | It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can. --Boldred | Brian Jacques | ||
| 8328a4a | It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much. | Nora Ephron | ||
| b3b8f59 | No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world" - the little prince" | antoine-de-saint-exupery little-prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 6e41f46 | I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom! | work | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 44659a2 | The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 26dec72 | I'd take out an army, burn down an entire city, and throw the world into chaos if I had to in order to keep Kat out of that place. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 782c873 | Hoping never really got us anywhere, did it? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e404f64 | Each time I saw you, I felt like . . . I felt like I knew you a little bit better. I never talked to you but seeing you always smiling or laughing . . . or being peaceful . . ." He shook his head, and my heart spasmed. "There's something about that . . . it drew me in, Calla. Fuck. I fell for you before you even knew my name." | jax love stay-with-me | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| c31b23b | Persephone smiled. "Caleb and I play Super MArio Kart every day at one, and when he cancelled on me I knew something was up." I looked at Caleb slowly." -- | caleb persephone underworld | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 39dd85a | Fear sells. | Max Brooks | ||
| 77fce56 | There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 968d779 | Ella is nervous," the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. "The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella." | heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians son-of-neptune | Rick Riordan | |
| 2c40ea7 | Well ... Zeus approves, Aeolus muttered. --He says ... he says it would be better if you could avoid saving her until after the weekend, because he has a big party planned--Ow! That's Aphrodite yelling at him, reminding him that the solstice starts at dawn. She says I should help you. And Hephaestus... yes. Hmm. Very rare they agree on anything. Hold on | aphrodite hephaestus zeus | Rick Riordan | |
| 9f6c901 | Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair. | house-of-hades jason-grace notus percy-jackson prophecy rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 603fb58 | Despicable creatures, vultures: without a doubt the most disgusting birds ever. I suppose they served their purpose, but did they have to be so greasy and ugly? Couldn't we have cute fuzzy rabbits that cleaned up roadkill instead? | Rick Riordan | ||
| ed5fe0f | I'll admit that I was staring. Suddenly my whole perspective had flipped inside out, like when you look at an inkblot picture and see just the black part. Then your brain inverts the image and you realize the white part makes an entirely different picture, even though nothing has changed. That was Alex Fierro, except in pink and green. A second ago, he had been very obviously a boy to me. Now she was very obviously a girl. | Rick Riordan | ||
| d569545 | Before I could respond, Thalia tromped up the stairs. She was officially not talking to me now, but she looked at Grover and said, "Tell Percy to get his butt downstairs." "Why?" I asked. "Did he say something?" Thalia asked Grover. "Um, he asked why." "Dionysus is calling a council of cabin leaders to discuss the prophecy," she said. "Unfortunately, that includes Percy." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2d451d4 | I'm Carter Kane-part-time high school freshman, part-time magician, full-time worrier about all the Egyptian gods and monsters who are constantly trying to kill me. Okay, that last part is an exaggeration. Not the gods want me dead. Just a lot of them. | egypt son-of-sobek | Rick Riordan | |
| d58b9aa | Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 133634e | How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much don't, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sun's wrath. Back in the day when Ra was active, she would have been much more impressive, but still. .She's unstoppable. A born killer. A slaying machine-- "Okay, I get it!" I yelled." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1920c29 | They know they've won," Carter guessed. "They're making a show of it." "Yes," Amos said. "Well, let's blow up the boats or something!" I said. Amos looked at me. "Is that your strategy, honestly?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| b098c0a | The baby!' Nico grinned, which hurt his face muscles. He wasn't used to making that expression. 'Mellie and the kid are all right? | Rick Riordan | ||
| e88c63a | I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regularly fought monsters with golden swords, but I had promised Bill Nye the Science Guy I would always promote safe laboratory practices. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 47e47e1 | Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 37de017 | In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She'd bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena's, which had led to Mount Olympus's first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way. | athena funny humor lol wicked | Rick Riordan | |
| 4ba764c | Power makes good people uneasy rather than joyful or boastful. That's why good people so rarely rise to power. | Rick Riordan | ||
| ea94e1f | What if we promoted, like, Adidas shoes?" Percy wondered. "Would that make Nike mad enough to show up?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8d2951b | You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around. | kronos percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 00e2dbc | I haven't devoured a soul in...What month is this? March? | Rick Riordan | ||
| 07ef7c9 | Boy," Annabeth interrupted, "I'm sure you both would've been wonderful at killing each other. But right now you need some rest." | Rick Riordan | ||
| d3f88de | The world will end. The big picture cannot be changed. But in the meantime, as Loki once said, we can choose to alter the details. That's how we take control of our destiny. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 58e8545 | It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this -- this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back! | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8d6877e | Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. "You HAD to break," she scolded it. The ankle did not reply." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 887b1dd | Amos clapped his hands. "Khufu!" I thought he'd sneezed, because Khufu is a weird name, but then a little dude about three feet tall with gold fur and a purple shirt came clambering down the stairs. It took me a second to realize it was a baboon wearing an L.A. Lakers jersey." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 60b3722 | His heart was simply to big for his body. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 050048f | I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| d38247d | In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 80aae17 | Why doesn't it bother her? Seriously, it doesn't. She's not putting on a front. She's in a serious relationship with a guy who has sex with other women for a living, and it doesn't matter to her." "I married a cop." Roarke smiled at her. "We all have our levels of acceptance. He was an LC when they met, just as she was a doctor, and one who often works in dangerous areas of the city." She shot him the same easy smile. "So...if I'd been an L.. | eve-dallas level-of-acceptance louise roarke | J.D. Robb |