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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6fba61c | That's my girl," she said, her eyes holding a shared pain as she saw my confusion. "Al, where are you going to put her? Not in your room. She'd pull a line through you and kill you when you hog the blankets. I'll take the waif in. I promise I'll bring this one up properly." | demons newt | Kim Harrison | |
| ce6cb88 | I was having coffee with my bodyguard. I didn't expect to be hunting bad guys until later. Leather before sundown is tacky. | rachel-morgan the-hollows | Kim Harrison | |
| 1924ffd | I sniffed, wiping my eyes. "Look at that," I muttered. "The bastard made me cry." Jenks' wings made a cool spot on my neck. "Want me to pixy him?" "No. But now I don't have the chance of a ghost's fart in a windstorm to get that Pandora charm." That's not really what was bothering me, though. It was Trent. Why did I even care what he thought?" -- | Kim Harrison | ||
| 853787b | We are not. We never were; we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| b43d8fb | Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare." -- | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 06a4605 | It seemed like a joke, how much all of these dudes looked alike, like living was so hard it just erased your features, rubbed out anything distinctive. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f14ccac | I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing." | Joan Didion | ||
| c3725a5 | Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization. | Nikola Tesla | ||
| ab4fb3e | The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. | William Golding | ||
| b0fdf05 | I am here; and here is nowhere in particular. | insignificance sense-of-place universality | William Golding | |
| 5bed0b2 | If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway." | William Golding | ||
| d97199d | I left my mark on that man. | Alice Sebold | ||
| b22236a | I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon | Alice Sebold | ||
| 553b4d0 | The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another." | failure hypothesis results science scientific-method | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 4fa4902 | Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| d22c3a5 | It's a curse, you know, to be able to look higher than you're allowed to reach. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 8d9de3f | Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 03885f7 | It's really very simple. If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman she is beautiful, you offer her great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| c26a203 | It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 5f7ef59 | all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. | Billy Collins | ||
| 2f84ced | You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 84627bb | Did he mean me or Jenny Mullendore was a slut?" Joanne wondered. "Because honestly, I don't see how she has the time for slut activities with those two preschoolers of hers. Me, I've got lots of time." | Nora Roberts | ||
| fa8fbc2 | She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 58a9600 | I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 20e5825 | For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data--offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order--creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world." | Dan Brown | ||
| 99cb1c1 | Science and religion were not enemies, but rather allies - two different languages telling the same story, a story of symmetry and balance... heaven and hell, night and day, hot and cold, God and Satan. Both science and religion rejoiced in God's symmetry... the endless contest of ight and dark. | Dan Brown | ||
| be385a6 | Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear? | robert-langdon vatican-city | Dan Brown | |
| f9e8aad | I saw myself dancing alone, always alone, | always always-alone dance dancing seeing sight | V.C. Andrews | |
| ee29a44 | Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 1b4d083 | there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 679509b | While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others. | Rick Warren | ||
| d62922a | The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean -- once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help. | environment escape help isolation preservation society | Jared Diamond | |
| 4d2986a | And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind. | James Frey | ||
| 3877393 | To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. | creativity inspiration sociology writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| b15bcda | The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 8d55568 | It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone. | grief loss | Annie Proulx | |
| dbd0b4f | Depression is one of the unknown modes of being. There are no words for a world without a self, seen with impersonal clarity. All language can register is the slow return to oblivion we call health when imagination automatically recolors the landscape and habit blurs perception and language takes up its routine flourishes. | Anne Carson | ||
| b39c9be | Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world. | snow | Anne Carson | |
| 5a30787 | Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle. | E. Annie Proulx | ||
| 078dac2 | Yo, por ejemplo, me caracterizo por recordar los hechos malos y, asi, casi podria decir que ''todo tiempo pasado fue peor'', si no fuera porque el presente me parece tan horrible como el pasado; recuerdo tantas calamidades, tantos rostros cinicos y crueles, tantas malas acciones, que la memoria es para mi como la temerosa luz que alumbra un sordido museo de la verguenza | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 0c0bdef | Siempre es levemente siniestro volver a los lugares que han sido testigos de un instante de perfeccion | inspiracion nostalgia | Ernesto Sabato | |
| 3faf9b9 | Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well. | Jack London | ||
| c1c79d6 | It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. | little-women louisa-may-alcott talent | Louisa May Alcott | |
| ce2db1e | When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment. | clerks | Charles Dickens |