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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d9f7f8d | he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 3b983c9 | One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman." | humor love music music-lover walkman | Rob Sheffield | |
| c52ff83 | I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn't make verbal threats were the most dangerous. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 7d8584d | You should know what happens when you play with fire, Cahill. Eventually, you'll get burned. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4c94dae | No hope, is worse than fear. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 38558ec | Did she just-" "Yes." "But I don't-" "Yes you do. We both stink." "Well, I'm not-" "Yes. You are." He huffed. "You wont let-" "No. No complaining. Let's go." I grabbed a clean shirt and pants from my saddlebags. "Well, she could have handled it better," he grumped. "No. She couldn't." He settled into a sulky silence as we visited the bathhouse." | opal | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 123fe42 | And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked! | vengeance wicked | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 3b68fb4 | We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are. | parents-and-children | Kathryn Harrison | |
| 096a2a1 | And it's deadly to us. We can inspire lust, but it's just a shadow. An illusion. Love is a dangerous force." He shook his head. "Love killed the dinosaurs, man." I'm pretty sure a meteor killed the dinosaurs, Thomas." He shrugged. "There's a theory making the rounds now that when the meteor hit it only killed off the big stuff. That there were plenty of smaller reptiles running around, about the same size as all the mammals at the time. T.. | love thomas-raith | Jim Butcher | |
| 4104c9e | Pansy," Murphy sneered. Thomas leered at her. "You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant." | karrin-murphy thomas-raith | Jim Butcher | |
| fea9307 | Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful--but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8b0d96e | Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There's a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you into action, power, motion. There's heavy, leaden fear that comes in ingots, piling up in your belly during the empty hours between midnight and morning, when everything is dark, every problem grows larger, and every wound and illness grows worse. And there is coppery fear, drawn tight as the strings of a .. | harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 9ce5fc5 | We're always disappointed when we find out someone else has human limits, the same as we do. It's stupid for us to feel that way, and we really ought to know better, but that doesn't seem to slow us down. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6dee7d4 | When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they are in fact enjoying a free trip somewhere, time off work, and the opportunity to flirt with strangers, drink, and otherwise indulge themselves. The first major difference between a business con.. | harry-dresden work | Jim Butcher | |
| 9876c32 | Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place. | dresden-files | Jim Butcher | |
| 1e304cc | You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. Shame." Sanya to Dresden" | Jim Butcher | ||
| a380c32 | One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight. | sigrun-gard | Jim Butcher | |
| 216e71c | All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9b2fffe | I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts. | hearts knights woodsmen | Holly Black | |
| c4d3a44 | When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 673ff33 | American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success. | Philip Roth | ||
| 7b67c0e | I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 3617f54 | But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e3d1908 | Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8847d2e | I? KILL? said Death, obviously offended. CERTAINLY NOT. PEOPLE GET KILLED, BUT THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS. I JUST TAKE OVER FROM THEN ON. AFTER ALL, IT'D BE A BLOODY STUPID WORLD IF PEOPLE GOT KILLED WITHOUT DYING, WOULDN'T IT? | humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4e9efcb | a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative. | humorous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 5a3d08d | This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier , but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .) | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b230f98 | One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6c20f9b | Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f8918da | How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 60a3f54 | Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of 'democracy' with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away. | government vote | Terry Pratchett | |
| 659460d | I'd just like to say," he said, "if we don't get out of this, that...I'll have known, deep down inside, that there was a spark of goodness in you." "That's right," said Crowley bitterly. "Make my day." Aziraphale held out his hand. "Nice knowing you," he said. Crowley took it. "Here's to the next time," he said. "And...Aziraphale?" "Yes." "Just remember I'll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to be worth li.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8927284 | The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed. | granny-weatherwax virtue wickedness | Terry Pratchett | |
| f78d4b9 | I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 27598f3 | It's an inconvenience, true enough, and I don't like it at all, but I know that you do it for everyone, Mister Death. Is there any other way?' NO, THERE ISN'T, I'M AFRAID. WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME. BUT YOUR CANDLE, MISTRESS WEATHERWAX, WILL FLICKER FOR SOME TIME BEFORE IT GOES OUT - A LITTLE REWARD FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, s.. | discworld | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4f09b44 | She folded her arms and then shouted, "Right you thieving scunners! How dare you steal Miss Treason's funeral meats!" "Oh, waily, waily, it's the foldin' o' the arms, the foooldin' o' the aaaarmss!" cried Daft Wullie, dropping to the ground and trying to cover himself with leaves. Around him Feegles started to wail and cower and Big Yan began to bang his head on the rear wall of the dairy." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 34a8659 | You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 0254b05 | The cure might be worse than the problem | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 4ed0995 | Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 3f64a39 | Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry!" | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ec1df87 | she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she could really hear, she understood structure and she could analyze exactly what it was about a piece of music that had to be rendered just so...she was a very emotional person, Annette. She brought that out in other people. After she died I don't think I ever really felt anything again. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| e789ef4 | As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks - it seemed more than I could bear to see her go. Francis was around the corner, buying her a book to read on the train. 'I don't want you to leave,' I said. 'I don't want to, either.' 'Then don't.' 'I have to.' We stood looking at each other. It was raining. She looked at me with her rain-colored eyes. Camilla, I love you,' I said.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| d10dcf0 | To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole; but ever since the painting had vanished from under me I'd felt drowned and extinguished by vastness--not just the predictable vastness of time, and space, but the impassable distances between people even when they were within arm's reach of each other, and with a swell of vertigo I.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| c029c3e | I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time, like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever: hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears. | Donna Tartt |