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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 306d660 | He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply. | Julia Quinn | ||
| c02b3b9 | When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet. | Julia Quinn | ||
| b198551 | Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. | Alan Moore | ||
| eee39c8 | You can put it another way, of course; you always can. | Julian Barnes | ||
| f5752aa | In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible. | youth | Julian Barnes | |
| 9c542f4 | Sarcasm is irony which has lost its soul | Julian Barnes | ||
| 73d98e9 | Where's my white out?" "Chapter ten is missing!" "Has anyone seen my socks?" Linda spun around. Mistress Yvonne gripped her shoulders. "This is a regular occurrence. No need to get involved." Faint shouts echoed down the hall. "Leprechauns!" -- | leprechauns trouble-in-bookland | Marlene Simonette | |
| d5f5dff | This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you. | a-song-of-ice-and-fire benjen-stark george-r-r-martin jon-snow night-s-watch the-wall | George R.R. Martin | |
| 7bb3365 | A man of the Night's Watch lives his life for the realm. Not for a king, nor a lord, nor the honor of this house or that house, neither for gold nor glory nor a woman's love, but for the realm, and all the people in it. A man of the Night's Watch takes no wife and fathers no sons. Our wife is duty. Our mistress is honor. And you are the only sons we shall ever know. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d356ed3 | He says that it is good luck to rub the head of a dwarf," Haldon said after an exchange with the guard in his own tongue. Tyrion forced himself to smile at the man. "Tell him that it is even better luck to suck on a dwarf's cock." | george-r-r-martin humour tyrion-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| 292ba76 | A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8dea105 | Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d32a59c | Did I offend you?" Lannister said. "Sorry. Dwarfs don't have to be tactful. Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 274d6b8 | Remember, whatever the price...I'll beat it! I like living! Tyrion Lannister | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 74ad5c5 | Some doors are best left closed. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| bb2d4fb | The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way. | inspirational sex | George R.R. Martin | |
| 68cadd5 | Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| fb71209 | The battle fever. He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jamie had told him of it often enough. How time seemed to blur and slow and evenstop, how the past and the future vanished until there was nothing but the instant, how fear fled, and thought fled, and even you body. "You don't feel your wounds then, or the ache in your back from the weight of the armor, or the sweat running down into your eyes. You stop feeling you stop.. | tyrion-lannister war | George R.R. Martin | |
| 8288ff0 | In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home. | malice | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 5bbe1d7 | What if something were to happen? What if something suddenly started throbbing? Then they would notice it was there and they'd think their hearts were going to burst. Then what good would their dykes, bulwarks, power houses, furnaces and pile drivers be to them? It can happen any time, perhaps right now: the omens are present. For example, the father of a family might go out for a walk, and, across the street, he'll see something like a red.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 2dd1400 | I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame. | lame life meg-cabot | Meg Cabot | |
| e726b08 | Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 8863fb4 | French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway. | Meg Cabot | ||
| ecff03a | it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 83c941b | I have nothing against Sean Penn. I don't even mind that he ended up divorcing Madonna. I mean, I still like Shia LaBeouf even though he chose to star in Transformers, which turned out to be a movie about robots from space. That Talk. Which is just as bad as choosing to divorce Madonna, if you ask me | princess | Meg Cabot | |
| 6963d08 | Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?" "That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect." | William Gibson | ||
| a8a6f9d | Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty from non-beauty or ugliness. The beauty of wabi-sabi is in one respect, the condition of coming to terms with what you consider ugly. Wabi-sabi suggests that beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty can spontaneously occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context, or point of view. Beauty is thus an altered .. | Leonard Koren | ||
| 37f7f7c | That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?" | hiccup plans toothless ziggerastica | Cressida Cowell | |
| 4f719ff | Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?" | hate humanity | John Howard Griffin | |
| ed04671 | If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.] | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| c8fb920 | To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains. | Agatha Christie | ||
| fd3e3b7 | Vision without execution is hallucination. .. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo [da Vinci] knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history's consummate innovator. | creative-vision creativity famous-artists famous-minds genius great-geniuses-of-world-history historic-inventors imagination leonardo-da-vinci | Walter Isaacson | |
| 060b940 | A bad boy can be very good for a girl. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| eafc7bc | She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body. | disconnected dissociation the-van-alen-legacy | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 17899db | Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush! | flapper youth-culture | Agatha Christie | |
| 0071b92 | Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together--and they call the result intuition. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 983c933 | Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement" | Agatha Christie | ||
| b4ce03f | fy lqrn lthlth `shr ktb 'Hdhm `l~ Hf@ mjld yDm ltwrykh lknsy@ : " `nd qr@ lktb `lyk 'n t`td `l~ mlHZ@ lm`n~ 'kthr mn lklmt , wltmsk blthmr wlys blqshwr " | Alberto Manguel | ||
| d27e713 | I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read or . One reads a certain edition, a specific copy, recognizable by the roughness or the smoothness of its paper, by its scent, by a slight tear on page 72 and a coffee ring on the right-hand corner of the back cover. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 6bbb7eb | To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death. | Rob Bell | ||
| 427f481 | I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 8fc408c | your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion... Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day? | insight tanu | Brandon Mull | |
| ca3e624 | I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection. | Victoria Holt | ||
| f65a4df | We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love you.. | good-samaritan jesus neighbour | Timothy Keller |