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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1823548 | Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 850c5ac | He stepped forward to keep our bodies aligned, and took my chin in his hand. "I will have you. Body, mind, and soul. And I won't share you with anyone else." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 2f2f240 | Sullivan, just pick it up." "My way is more genteel." "Your way is more tight ass." "Your respect for me, Sentinel, is astounding." "I'd respect you more if you took a bite of that dog." "You don't respect me any." "Like I said, I'd respect you more. More than none." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 343ad18 | He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. | old value | John Piper | |
| a676512 | Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical--as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can't exist. | hypocrisy | T.H. White | |
| 5770b96 | Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right. | T.H. White | ||
| dc711cb | I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. The kid gets gifts from everybody, and he buys one present for his mom since she was there, too. I think that would be nice. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 3f1b98c | Bare," came her answer in a squeak. "Yes, we'd both have to be bare," he said with a laugh. "Not bare naked," she gasped. "Bear bear. Furry bear. Bear!" -Mortimer and Sam" | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 1cfe81d | Whatcha doin', Freak Girl?" --------------------------- "What does it look like, brainiac?" I shot back, even surprising myself with the force of my jab. "I'll give you three guesses. No, wait. Don't strain yourself. Wouldn't want to hurt your head." I waved a flyer in his face, channeling my inner mean girl. "See these? I'm hanging them...on a...wall!" I spoke the last part slowly, as if addressing a dim-witted child. Which wasn't far off.. | Mari Mancusi | ||
| 3c25eda | I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am; Maelstrom of passions in that hidden sea Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me; And in small compass the dark waters cram. - | passion philosophy sea | Mervyn Peake | |
| 4a1fa2f | I am here," Eric said. "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm. "Eric, my big bullshitter." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 97b950a | I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver... a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| a44da34 | You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 9fb6e9a | How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly. She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a .. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| d39df76 | Amelia stopped before him, her skirts crowded between his parted knees. The clean, salty, evergreen scent of him drifted to her nostrils. "I have a proposition for you," she said, trying for a businesslike tone. "A very sensible one. You see--" She paused to clear her throat. "I've been thinking about your problem." "What problem?" Cam played lightly with the folds of her skirts, watching her face alertly. "Your good-luck curse. I know how .. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 2877447 | one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with. | life love partner problems storms | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 948591d | He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say. | freedom-of-choice mysogyny womens-rights | John Irving | |
| 6bb8df4 | The two soldiers laughed, and even the king smiled. Reinforcing Costis's suspicion that Eugenides had been responsible for Ornon's lost sheep, Boagus asked, "Do you still baa like a lamb when he walks into the room?" Eugenides shook his head. "Ornon took me aside first thing after the coronation and explained that it would be against my dignity." Aulus and Boagus stared. Eugenides expression was bland. "He said that?" Aulus asked. "He did,.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 3aae6f6 | We would have died without the additional men," he admitted matter-of-factly. "But we would have taken the entire Mede army with us. Poets would have written about us, and songs would have been sung about us-" "For all the good that would have done your dead bodies," Eugenides cynically interrupted. "Well, I wasn't looking forward to it," said Sounis caustically. "But over our dead bodies the Medes would never have been accepted by the peop.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| edc70fc | Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. | embarrassment true | Michel Faber | |
| 63f808a | It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they .. | nationality place | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| d67bc53 | You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| a7b7aad | Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. | Irving Stone | ||
| a886d65 | Now I want you to listen to me," he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing her to look at him. "And listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once. You are going to marry me before this week is out. Since you have conveniently run off to Scotland, we don't need a special license. You're just lucky I don't haul you off to a church right this instant. Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 44cdd7c | Why? It's because I love you, damn me to hell. Because I've always loved you. Because I loved you when you were with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don't deserve you, but I love you, anyway. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 833383b | The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It's us. Only us. | Alan Moore | ||
| b0f353f | Men are born to sin...What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition. | repentance | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 01223f2 | The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm, while if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 28f504d | Un lector vive mil vidas antes de morir. Aquel que nunca lee vive solo una. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 13d0a37 | You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 5ceed66 | She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats. | tyrion-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| b0d8ade | Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 010cb1d | She wondered where this courage had come from, to speak to him so frankly. From Winterfell, she thought. I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell. | sansa-stark | George R.R. Martin | |
| a8e298b | Why do you read so much?" "I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind... and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3a081c4 | We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally. | a-song-of-ice-and-fire arya feast funny george-r-r-martin ironic joffrey prince sansa winterfell | George R.R. Martin | |
| 4ec9b55 | If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore. | meg-cabot strawberry-shortcake | Meg Cabot | |
| 0a6a557 | even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 0c8a469 | I don't think he could ever be a serial killer. He's way too shy. That Ted Bundy guy, he was pretty outgoing , from what I heard. | Meg Cabot | ||
| cbe6574 | Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well)." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 19e448e | My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home. | weather | Elise Broach | |
| af39ea1 | Lass dich nicht unterkriegen; sei frech und wild und wunderbar. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 3609b35 | Some people never find it Some only pretend | Jimmy Buffett | ||
| 05da127 | We must strive to be like the moon | Ishmael Beah | ||
| e5fd599 | HE was standing across the street, staring at her with a look of shock and dismay. One look in Oliver's eyes and she knew he knew. But how? How could he have known? The'd been so careful to keep their love a secret. The grief etched all over his face was too much to bear. Schuyler felt the words catch in her throat as she crossed the stree to stand in front of him. "Ollie...it's not..." Oliver shot her a look of pure hatred, turned on his h.. | Melissa de la Cruz |