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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e1db447 | What it love, you ask. Dear child, love is like the light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime. You must experience the first in order to appreciate the second. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 452bbd5 | Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| f451711 | I don't mind. I like being alone. | rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | |
| ccf5655 | Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowed, and a shiny line of snot trickles from her nose to the top of her lip. | beautiful elder | Beth Revis | |
| 46dd51c | This ship is built on secrets; it runs on secrets", he says, tiny droplets of spittle flying from his mouth to my face. "And if you keep asking about them, you'll see how far I'm willing to go to keep mine." ~ Eldest" | Beth Revis | ||
| ba90ddf | We're the ones who arent normal. People are supposed to be like that: obedient, calm, working together. It's us-who can't focus, who can't work together, who can't do the Feeder or Shipper jobs-we're the ones who aren't normal. We're the ones who have to take the mental meds just so we don't go loons. | Beth Revis | ||
| 5d7372a | Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly." | David Eddings | ||
| ec39057 | Dost thou question my word, Sir Knight?" Madorallen returned in an ominously quiet voice. "And wilt thou then come down and put thy doubt to the test? Or is it perhaps that thou wouldst prefer to cringe doglike behind thy parapet and yap at thy betters?" "Oh, that was good," Barak said admiringly." -- | David Eddings | ||
| 42f2a20 | Oh, well," Silk said wryly, "we might as well get it out into the open, I suppose. Gentlemen," he said, "I'm sure you all remember the Margravine Liselle, my fiancee." "Your ?" Barak exclaimed in amazement. "We all have to settle down sometime." Silk shrugged. They all gathered around to congratulate him. Velvet, however, did not look pleased. "Was something the matter, dear?" Silk asked her, all innocence. "Don't you think you've forgotte.. | David Eddings | ||
| 1b2e2f9 | There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are! | sorcery | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| e6622cd | Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology... we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. | freedom ideology language | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 91ddf5d | How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing. | death life the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 8791b7d | I can promise you that the world is a factory. The sun stirs it, the humans rule it. And I remain. I carry them away.- spoken by death | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0c3bb27 | She rubbed her eyes, and after a long study of his face, she spoke "Is it really you?" Is it from your cheek, she thought, that I took the seed? The man nodded. His heart wobbled and he held tighter to the branches. It is." | the-word-shaker | Markus Zusak | |
| 04d4983 | Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain. (p. 85) | love-for-words reading the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 32d92f1 | If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 64f7a69 | madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged." -- | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 448c02b | They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say. | novel the-voyage-out virginia-woolf woolf | Virginia Woolf | |
| 22badb2 | There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 29d212c | for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places; | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 9b85f04 | For pleasure has no relish unless we share it. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| fd38eeb | Nancy waded out to her own rocks and searched her own pools and let that couple look after themselves. She crouched low down and touched the smooth rubber-like sea anemones, who were stuck like lumps of jelly to the side of the rock. Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, l.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 8b898ca | And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's.. | the-waves | Virginia Woolf | |
| 530d143 | I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, | fate love sorrow | Dante Alighieri | |
| 7bcf361 | If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. | purpose responsibility | Dante Alighieri | |
| c3b8b27 | Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing. | poetry | Dante Alighieri | |
| fe21818 | Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 7c41649 | Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial. | justice life | David Gemmell | |
| b4821dc | Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own. | Beatrix Potter | ||
| f0a2f0f | It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'. | Beatrix Potter | ||
| 7733ac6 | They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 73c1bf6 | Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die. | death life | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| f0c1515 | The flower replied: You fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, and not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossoming. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| f8630fd | Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 06f05ff | I'm not happy about any of this," said Thor. "I'm going to kill somebody soon, just to relieve the tension. You'll see." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8d3f8e8 | To say that Richard Mayhew was not very good at heights would be perfectly accurate, but would fail to give the full picture; it would be like describing the planet Jupiter as bigger than a duck. Richard hated clifftops, and high buildings; somewhere not far inside of him was the fear - the start, utter, silently screaming terror - that if he got too close to the edge, then something would take over, and he would find himself walking to the.. | vertigo | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0b0dd36 | Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8d28c3f | There were things Thor did when something went wrong. The first thing he did was ask himself if what had happened was Loki's fault. Thor pondered. He did not believe that even Loki would have dared to steal his hammer. So he did the next thing he did when something went wrong, and he went to ask Loki for advice. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8de9d97 | MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you, THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and outcome are so rarely coincident. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 86c2e70 | Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. | notoriety obscurity | Neil Gaiman | |
| 44b0911 | I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| a19c29e | Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d07bebe | Fat Charlie blew his nose. "I never knew I had a brother," he said. "I did," said Spider. "I always meant to look you up, but I got distracted. You know how it is." "Not really." "Things came up." "What kind of things?" "Things. They came up. That's what things do. They come up. I can't be expected to keep track of them all." "Well, give me a f'rinstance." Spider drank more wine. "Okay. The last time I decided that you and I should meet, I,.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b30aba7 | Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life. | hierarchy | Lorrie Moore |