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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a3c87e1 | But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me. | Mary Karr | ||
| 3d5c700 | Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like. | George Saunders | ||
| 40b1200 | It's a big world, and I really like it. | George Saunders | ||
| e4ed368 | There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life. | philosophy | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 4078827 | The crowd quieted as a whole, but more than one creature cursed under his breath, "Not Regin." A drunk hunched over the bar muttered, "That glowing one made me eat a transistor radio once." -- | Kresley Cole | ||
| 572b237 | He sat up, going still. "Am I wearing a wife-beater, Lizvetta?" He gaped down. "Oh, come on!" | paranormal-romance vampire | Kresley Cole | |
| b056c21 | I'd bet the leeches are looking for me. Because I glow and I'm wicked smart. They probably want to breed with me." (Regin)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 3db2bd5 | You'll strip in front of a vampire when you don't even know his name?" "You're right! So what's your name?" "My answer will be as forthcoming as yours. What do you want it to be?" "Some kind of name that fits a battle-scarred, overgrown vampire warlord." | Kresley Cole | ||
| cc355a9 | I can't believe you're going to sacrifice your archery mojo for MacReive." Lucia would forfeit her fantastical skill with a bow if she was unchaste. "Who am I going to hang out with when your a talentless nobody?" | archer berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore lucia paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| b88990e | He clenched Nix's shoulders. 'Why did you hesitate? I saw you hesitate!' He shook her until her head lolled, while she grinned and said, 'Wheeee! | kresley-cole nix-the-ever-knowing | Kresley Cole | |
| 4a60dd9 | You will be leaving, of course." "Or I could help you." "I've had a bit of practice bathing myself and I think I can stumble my way through this." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 3f245c1 | Though we were curfew-free- I'd told Mom I was spending the night at Mel's after our double date, and Mel had told Mrs. Warren that she'd be home "whenever my happy ass walks through the door"- I was nervous about tonight." | evie happy-ass mel | Kresley Cole | |
| 9c601fb | Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| c319d3f | He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 46243d1 | The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things." | Betty Smith | ||
| 899ec51 | She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting. | Gertrude Stein | ||
| 81b556e | Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitatio.. | truth | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 698e3ca | Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5f2c8e8 | If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 27ad08d | Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. | science words | Tim O'Brien | |
| dc7bf8f | Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 8d77738 | Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up." | Louis Sachar | ||
| 908e3a0 | But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way! | Louis Sachar | ||
| ef3842e | It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 9f189a6 | Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character. | character death dissociation resolve | Gregory Maguire | |
| 2b23b15 | Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one's beloved extended community. | accountability beloved-community civic-duty civic-responsibility civic-virtue civil-disobedience communities democracy democratic-process discourse-on-a-better-world discourse-on-democracy discourse-on-freedom editorials-on-democracy emigrants gun-laws gun-violence human-rights immigration leadership leadership-characteristics leadership-theory national-history-day peace peace-on-earth police-culture police-reform political-art political-chaos political-commentary political-ethics political-philosophy political-poets political-posters political-rights political-theory postered-poetics-by-aberjhani practicing-democracy presidential-election right-to-vote sustainable-living teaching-democracy voting | Aberjhani | |
| dc33b3f | It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 572c57f | Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love. | henry-viii historical-fiction | Philippa Gregory | |
| e6957ea | I had meant my promise to George. I had said that I was, before anything else, a Boleyn and a Howard through and through; but now, sitting in th shadowy room, looking out over the gray slates of the city, and up at the dark clouds leaning on the roof of Westminster Palace, I suddenly realized that George was wrong, and that my family was wrong, and that I had been wrong-- for all my life. I was not a Howard before anything else. Before anyt.. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 4f022b7 | Note: 'family' does NOT only mean a biological unit composed of people who share genetic markers or legal bonds, headed by a heterosexual-mated pair. Family is much, much more than that. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c09cf04 | She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 6f041c9 | Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren't looking, alluring and ever out of reach. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 7a06a8b | Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart. | murder words | John Fowles | |
| 249fdd5 | It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me. | the-collector | John Fowles | |
| 100f5aa | The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 346d23d | Every fop and fool in London has been sniffing after her." Having said that, Jason returned his attention for the report. "Go ahead and read off the names, if you must." Frowning in surprise at Jason's dismissive attitude, Charles took the seat across the desk from him and put on his spectacles. "First, there is young Lord Crowley, who has already asked my permission to court her." "No. Too impulsive," Jason decreed flatly. "What makes y.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 3ab389c | It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day. | Roddy Doyle | ||
| 66061c7 | I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 315fabb | Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. | poetry writing | Pat Conroy | |
| 6e67333 | For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons. | Norton Juster | ||
| e0f9fa9 | He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way." | incompetence sword-fighting | Lynn Kurland | |
| 834503a | I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all. | history humans life personality soul time | James Baldwin | |
| b3c68ed | The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain. The great question that faced him this morning was whether or not had had ever, really, b.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 0026ca8 | People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted. | sad | James Baldwin |