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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 03f4a8b | I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. When one's hostess starts in with self-deprecations such as "Oh, I don't know how to cook...," or "Poor little me...," or "This may taste awful...," it is so dreadful to have to reassure her that everything is delicious and fine, whether it is or not. Besides, such admissions only draw attention to one's shortcomings (or self-perceived shortc.. | cooking food | Julia Child | |
| 4f47b04 | Who is Spain? | snowden | Joseph Heller | |
| 2c4cd5c | It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else's shoes and understand the other's different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them. . . | Azar Nafisi | ||
| c769c89 | Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done"." -- | heartbreak love-story | Judith McNaught | |
| fd3fa39 | I made a list of skills in which I think every adult should gain a working knowledge. I wouldn't expect you to become a master of any, but mastery isn't necessary. Luck has a good chance of finding you if you become merely good in most of these areas. I'll make a case for each one, but here's the preview list. Public speaking Psychology Business Writing Accounting Design (the basics) Conversation Overcoming Shyness Second language Golf Prop.. | Scott Adams | ||
| 83293ab | my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 67212bd | Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind. | loud quiet silence stereotype | Toni Morrison | |
| 568379d | The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness. | longing | Tobias Wolff | |
| 96ca480 | Inebriate of Air -- am I -- And Debauchee of Dew -- Reeling -- thro endless summer days -- From Inns of Molten Blue -- | poetry | Emily Dickinson | |
| 770b944 | I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| d37df44 | I am drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness - and even I am not strong enough to deny the routine, the rote, to simplify. No, I go plodding on, afraid that the blank hell in back of my eyes will break through, spewing forth like a dark pestilence; afraid that the disease which eats away the pith of my body with merciless impersonality will break forth in obvious sores and warts, screaming "Traitor, sinner, imposter." | negativism sadness self-doubt | Sylvia Plath | |
| 467f283 | What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul. | children cry motherhood rabbit | Sylvia Plath | |
| 58317c0 | Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 0f193ea | Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 2805149 | She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who'd been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 042778f | If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| ae955a4 | because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 4a47e00 | Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be unco.. | humorous inspirational sister-carlotta | Orson Scott Card | |
| c248da0 | Yes, I am letting my own experience color my answer, which is what experience is for.... | Robin McKinley | ||
| ca6a08a | The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto? | lone-ranger vampires | Robin McKinley | |
| f5d2959 | I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit. | life self-respect | Dick Francis | |
| 5e50bc2 | If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. DOn't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a vida, pack a bag, and it just happens. | Alex Garland | ||
| a6d8d76 | Sometimes I believe that love dies but hope springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that hope dies but love springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that sex plus guilt equals love, and sometimes I believe that sex plus guilt equals good sex. Sometimes I believe that love is as natural as the tides, and sometimes I believe that love is an act of will. Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that.. | love poetic romantic | Nora Ephron | |
| 3eebbc5 | I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not. | Nora Ephron | ||
| b085181 | Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there's no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there's a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don't happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, "Everything happens for a reason," I would like to smack her.)" | old-age | Nora Ephron | |
| ba0f534 | How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| e42e4df | Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| fa4ad95 | Grown ups are certainly very strange. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 27fe298 | if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. | Antoine de Saint Exupéry | ||
| 1b847ad | You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| ba0e001 | You're safe now," Rider said. "I here. You're safe, Mouse. And I know you might not believe it, but I'm going to keep you safe forever." He swallowed and swiped at his lip. "That's a promise." Forever. He's promised he'd be there for me forever. But I was of the mind that there were two types of forever. The good kind. The bad kind. I'd learned early on that the good kind of forever was,well, it was a lie. That kind of forever literal.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| af1f0b9 | Then in one fluid, unbelievably quick motion, he rolled off and stood. Jesus, the guy was part alien, part human, and part ninja. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a0b6c44 | You probably should have thought about that before you Lite-Brited her ass. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7115916 | Listen to me, Ember. I couldn't hurt you. I can't." Hayden settled his eyes on me. They were softer than I'd ever seen. "I love you-- I've loved you since the first time I saw you." | romance | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 752b6e8 | Forever was knowing moments of weakness didn't equate to an eternity of them. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 07b7dc5 | What?" She burrowed closer, tucking her fingers against the collar of my shirt. Throwing my arm around her waist, I took what felt like the first real breath in weeks. "If I had a Mogwai, I'd totally feed it after midnight. That Mohawk gremlin was a badass." | jennifer-l-armentrout lux-series origin | Jennifer l. Armentrout | |
| aeb35a3 | If "fine" were sporting a serial-killer glare, then she'd hate to see what "not fine" was." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f9a29a1 | Lowering my chin, I sighed. What my Seth wanted, I wanted, but... daimons? I rubbed my hands on my bent knees and sighed again - louder, like a petulant child. Aiden's back twisted as he turned his head. "What, Alex?" "Nothing," I mumbled. "There's something." He leaned back, tipping his head against the bar. "You have that tone." I frowned at the wall. "What tone?" "The 'I have something I want to say but I shouldn't' tone" A little bit .. | alex humor | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| eaab255 | Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. | destiny life | Darren Shan | |
| bed20aa | I sucked blood from one of my best friends | Darren Shan | ||
| b249a0f | He's SO goatly. | mellie mellie-the-wind-nymph | Rick Riordan | |
| 1f212b1 | Not that my regularly scheduled life was so great, but it beat getting judged unworthy by twelve bearded guys named Erik. | humour magnus-chase | Rick Riordan | |
| 7cb8ea4 | Get closer," I told Blackjack. "I need to talk to the statue." he muttered, but he flew as close as he could, dodging the flying statue." | olympian | Rick Riordan | |
| 44f2d74 | So,' Nico said, 'since we're going to be spending at least a year seeing each other at camp, I think I should clear the air.' Percy's smile wavered. 'What do you mean? | percy-jackson truth | Rick Riordan |