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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a4a4bb | Taking the law into your own hands, fuck what's wrong with that? | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 9093888 | Your boyfriend is...well, way buff. Monster buff. Lord, king buff. (Sunshine) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 29926c9 | Have any of you taken a look out at Greece in the last, say, hour or so? (Hermes) What? Are they reacting to the fact I cursed the Apollites? (Apollo) I don't think that bothers them nearly as much as the fact the island of Atlantis is now gone and the Atlantean goddess Apollymi is cutting a swathe through our country, laying waste to everyone and everything she comes into contact with. And in case you're curious, she's headed straight for .. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 99d8a1e | Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed. | elena leblanc | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 2a60a93 | Release the demon under promise that I'd be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 877c1b1 | Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. | Albert Camus | ||
| 15b6636 | When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It's rain and sun both, noon and midnight. ... I think of the lips I've kissed, and of the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I'm all those things at once. I'm sure there are times when you wouldn't even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness--I can't say it. | Albert Camus | ||
| b6df442 | Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear. | Albert Camus | ||
| 3420b90 | That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love. | Albert Camus | ||
| f92f60c | On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man. | Albert Camus | ||
| 49e5018 | It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 5965ec8 | non-reality was black, and it didn't hurt so much. | breaking-dawn twilight-saga | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 4691fff | It won't be the same for me," I whispered, half to myself. "You won't let me be like that. We'll live in Antarctica." Edward snorted, breaking the tension. "Penguins. Lovely." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| a7b3e2d | You're not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you're scared silly, and I'm guessing it's because you're afraid of me. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 7844741 | Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin. | twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| e335800 | And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 36a7182 | Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours." This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, "One cloud feels lonely": and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast." | proverb rabbit rain | Richard Adams | |
| aad4ad5 | And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| ffeb29c | He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't. | bravery character cowards life-lessons | Stephen King | |
| 8e795af | You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them. | Stephen King | ||
| df83889 | Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street. A teenage boy named Albert Schweitzer getting out of a bathtub and not quite stepping on the cake of soap lying beside the pulled plug. A Nazi Oberleutnant burning a piece of paper with the date and place of the D-Day Invasion written on it. He saw a man who intended to poison the entire water supply of Denve.. | Stephen King | ||
| ae44d24 | Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home. | bookstore bookstores | Stephen King | |
| 90dc5be | Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act. | Stephen King | ||
| 575c9d8 | A life without love is like a tree without fruit. | Stephen King | ||
| 2c845d8 | There had never been a shortage of fools in the world | stephen-king stupid world | Stephen King | |
| 5bf8173 | She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders. | Stephen King | ||
| 6bfaa19 | But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years. | Stephen King | ||
| 93b7b68 | Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion. | Stephen King | ||
| d717098 | Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vulnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted. | Stephen King | ||
| 1101326 | Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't thi.. | peter-mcvries resignation tiredness | Stephen King | |
| df4f6de | Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters. | Stephen King | ||
| afa29a3 | Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness. | Stephen King | ||
| a82581c | In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| ae2c4fd | I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad one. What, after all, is the measure of difference? The good guy may be 65 per cent good and 35 per cent bad--that's a very good guy. The average decent fellow might be 54 per cent good, 46 per cent bad--and the average mean spirit is the reverse. So say I'm 60 per cent bad and 40 per cent good--for that, must I suffer eternal punishment? ".. | hell punishment reward | Norman Mailer | |
| 14ccea8 | Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart | Norman Mailer | ||
| 5a7fb6d | You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 9af50cc | Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play. | Mary Roach | ||
| c1e02e4 | The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide. | economics humor money | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 271f31e | No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 240f190 | It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. | fearsomeness fury humor | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 273b807 | Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone. | Amy Tan | ||
| 2197cf7 | Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served. | Anne Fadiman | ||
| ad0547a | There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future. | conservatism economics intellectuals keynesianism law politics politics-of-the-united-states united-states violence welfare-states | Noam Chomsky | |
| b652059 | Truth is, it's a relief to finally put my life in the hands of someone I trust. | Simone Elkeles |