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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 56fe89e | You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn't matter. The world has been changed nonetheless. | Julian Barnes | ||
| b249364 | The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. | Christopher Priest | ||
| dd5b912 | Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys | barristan daenerys game-of-thrones truth | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5d41290 | A frightened man is a beaten man. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 0fb12cc | And I tell you truly, Daenerys, there is no man in all the world who will ever be half so true to you as me. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3779a81 | I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I something was going to happen. | fall jerusha-abbott | Jean Webster | |
| c444349 | Next he grabs a round yellow thing covered in small bumps. It looks like a strange fruit and I half expect him to squeeze it to produce juice. When it reaches shoulder height the small bumps explode, turning into razor-sharp spikes. I duck and roll in BK's direction to avoid getting impaled. "What the hell?" I shout. "You could have warned me! This is the second time in less than five minutes that you've almost killed me." | john-smith nine | Pittacus Lore | |
| f8148e6 | Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 44bf87e | Pues el delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| a6f8360 | I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote , and I included not only some descriptions of the various deadly dragon species, and a useful Dragonese Dictionary, but also this story of how the book came to be written in the first place. This is the book that you are holding in your hands right now. Perhaps you even borrowed it from a Library? If so, thank Thor that the sinister figure of the Hai.. | books reading writing | Cressida Cowell | |
| 5b5cee6 | The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points; | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 259b244 | The control of a large force is the same principle | Sun Tzu | ||
| c7975f4 | So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." | design kiss simple | Walter Isaacson | |
| 44799e9 | What do the children say? --There's a thing the children say. --What do the children say? --They say: Will you always love me? --Always. --Will you always remember me? --Always. --Will you remember me a year from now? --Yes, I will. --Will you remember me two years from now? --Yes, I will. --Will you remember me five years from now? --Yes, I will. --Knock knock. --Who's there? --You see? | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 6d3e8e3 | It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 7667e96 | So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell him I killed God. I tracked God down like a rabid dog, hacked off his legs with a hedge trimmer, raped him with a corncob, and boiled off his corpse in an acid bath. So he pulls an alternating-current taser on me and tells me that only the Official Serbian Church of Tesla can save my polyphase intrinsic electric fie.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 9b6d305 | Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is--and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity. | Harlan Coben | ||
| b2137d9 | Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something | Harlan Coben | ||
| 60e0617 | I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3de109c | What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 9d29907 | It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 7d04c34 | Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen. | Agatha Christie | ||
| d8a41c2 | You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 191aeb3 | The others went upstairs, a slow unwilling procession. If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners - no possible sliding panels - it was flooded with electric light - everything was new and bright and shining. There was nothing hidden in this house, nothing concealed. It had no.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 4fb5b15 | People who can be very good can be very bad too. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 84d064b | Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons. | books readers reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| 7b2dd80 | Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 10377f4 | I will not negotiate with the undead! | zombies | David Wellington | |
| dacc682 | What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong. | conviction right wrong | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 5914832 | Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words: -- 'Take care. -- If you do not speak -- I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 5e5f98d | There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays. | beauty death dusk fall garden gardens north-and-south outside seasons time winter | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| c597704 | The truth is, Colonel, that there's no divine spark, bless you. There's many a man alive no more value than a dead dog. Believe me, when you've seen them hang each other...Equality? Christ in Heaven. What I'm fighting for is the right to prove I'm a better man than many. Where have you seen this divine spark in operation, Colonel? Where have you noted this magnificent equality? The Great White Joker in the Sky dooms us all to stupidity or p.. | michael-shaara movie-quote the-killer-angels | Michael Shaara | |
| 4386a1c | But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 277c208 | It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 5c59454 | Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry. | love marriage relationships | Timothy Keller | |
| 528031d | Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 9d5f6d8 | Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 669e7bb | Why can't people love one another and still remain free?" Althea demanded suddenly. Amber paused to rub her eyes, then tug thoughtfully at her earring. "One can love that way," she conceded regretfully. "But the price on that kind of love may be the highest of all." She strung her words together as carefully as she strung her beads. "To love another person like that, you have to admit that his life is as important as yours. Harder still, yo.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 50df403 | There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 935d158 | Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| eb14ac5 | Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh. | hope hope-and-despair humanity | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 584f9d8 | A hatchling, that is what you are. A hatchling struggling into the world. I may be younger than you in years, but I am ancient in my thoughts. Do not worry about these things. Find peace in where and what you are. People often know what must be done. All you need to do is show them the way -- that is wisdom. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 045006b | What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying. | christopher-paolini inheritance-cylcle | Christopher Paolini | |
| 0494705 | The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. | living self | Anaïs Nin |