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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 31a0b75 | the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| d02262f | If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 527da42 | I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. | poet poetry poetry-quotes | Luke Davies | |
| 7ef3b38 | A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 38c81ca | You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| e70bf35 | km hy hsh@ lHy@ `ndm tuhjr | José Saramago | ||
| a3aba7e | Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| abcdf8d | How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were. | Richard Bach | ||
| fb769cd | Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8922d3c | The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| d7ea681 | There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been." | fantasy humor | Michelle Sagara | |
| 13b7df1 | Welcome home, Rachel mariana Morgan, he said, his goat-slitted eyes holding a new, dangerous light. It's a pleasure to finally meet you. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 45820e4 | The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty. | memory undead | Kim Harrison | |
| 1bee7c8 | My body was heading into a flare. I paced a bit, tried to remember how to breathe right, how to calm my skin. But it blared at me. Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 02fc425 | Danish. I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 04895c8 | It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh, there will be days you wish you'd never done it. And those will be the good times, when it's only days of regret and not months. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0401bf8 | You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. | liberals sexual-discrimination | Gillian Flynn | |
| ec34ed1 | Because I realized I'd be stuck doing all the hard stuff," she reasoned. "All the diapers and doctors' appointments and discipline, and you'd just breeze in and be Fun Daddy. I'd do all the work to make them good people, and you'd undo it anyway, and they'd love you and hate me." | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a5e3515 | I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me. | mothers | Gillian Flynn | |
| ed810b8 | So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern. | dating | Gillian Flynn | |
| 0e7c9aa | I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, .. | writing | Paul Auster | |
| 1f74a2f | Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player. | William Golding | ||
| 90cd90f | I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0116fd7 | There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 17f8f8d | I think the man who designed this should have committed suicide. A man who can conceive a thing as beautiful as this should never allowed it to be erected. He should not want to exist. But he will let it be built, so that women will hang out diapers on his terraces, so that men will spit on his stairways and draw dirty pictures on his walls. He's given it to them and he's made it part of them, part of everything. He shouldn't have offered i.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 8a477b4 | Everything,' his father said, 'comes down to time in the end--to the passing of time, to changing. Ever thought of that? Anything that makes you happy or sad, isn't it all based on minutes going by? Isn't sadness wishing time back again? Even big things--even mourning a death: aren't you really just wishing to have the time back when that person was alive? Or photos--ever notice old photographs? How wistful they make you feel? ... Isn't it .. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 1e0c74c | Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn't doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it, that property is him, and some way he's bigger because he owns it. Even if he isn't successful he's big with his property. That is so.' 'But let a man get property he doesn't see, or can't ta.. | ownership | John Steinbeck | |
| 579c8b2 | I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate. | john-steinbeck lie story writer | John Steinbeck | |
| 26bd17d | What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 6004b2d | If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 83b5f5c | I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely be called a colleague for cribbing my notes on a story and since the editor-who happened to be the asshole's uncle-took his word over mine, I quit." "To write books. Is it fun?" "I guess it is." "I bet you killed the asshole in the first one you wrote." "You'd be right. Beat him to death with a shovel. Very sa.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 3ab6f85 | And history has proven repeatedly that lunatics will rise to power again and again on tidal waves of aggressive nationalism and intolerance, even in places where it seems utterly incomprehensible. | Dan Brown | ||
| 6866128 | An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. | double-standards empowerment inequality prison women women-s-liberation women-s-rights | Pearl S. Buck | |
| c5e4154 | I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 2da74cb | As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list. | inspirational-quotes | Rick Warren | |
| a0c9b3d | Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice. | church-life fellowship | Rick Warren | |
| 9878279 | The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do. | Rick Warren | ||
| 9da39b9 | The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears. | Rick Warren | ||
| f00c747 | The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| b0b9641 | Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, and I would send him hom.. | murder rape retribution time-to-kill vigilante-justice | John Grisham | |
| 8f31869 | She said people found running to something easier than running from something. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| bf373c1 | To live with angels and chase their dreams. | James Frey | ||
| a87a281 | Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay. | James Frey | ||
| 6e59899 | Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them. | gray observational people vitality | John Steinbeck |