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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 921d68b | How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice | the-fool | Robin Hobb | |
| b4c050d | If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b66f26f | It's [the word "sorry"] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving." -- | Minette Walters | ||
| 0d0dcd0 | It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 84a604e | If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper. | Charles Simic | ||
| ecaa2af | What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. | mother mothering respect | Barbara Delinsky | |
| b11a160 | Tous les hommes sont semblables par les paroles,ce n'est que les actions qui les decouvrent differents | Molière | ||
| 5e27bbe | There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach. | life love | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 2151296 | In El-harim, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark; Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep." | protection | Christopher Paolini | |
| 2919e85 | There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadi, and a hundred different manners in which to greet those around you, if it's not better to just remain quiet." "With all your customs," Eragon risked saying, "it seems as though you've only made it easier to offend people." A smile flickered across her lips. "Perhaps." | eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| 1f802c3 | If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm | protect war | Christopher Paolini | |
| 0453635 | Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 8ae705a | Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 986137e | I'd better get going or Valek will be wondering where I am." "Yes, by all means go. I noticed you and Valek have become close. Tell him, for me, not to kill anybody, will you?" Sarcasm rendered Rand's voice sharp. I lost control and slammed the oven door shut. It echoed in the quiet kitchen. "At least Valek has the decency to inform me when he's poisoning me," | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| dc18e2e | His words sliced through my heart, cutting it into little pathetic pieces. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4ee0025 | The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. | Susan Cain | ||
| b53e282 | Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. | king monarchy | Thomas Paine | |
| 499c05f | Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| a6f2d3a | I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because when you saw me spitting blood you took my hand; because you wept; because you are the only human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a mad thing to you: I once had a little dog who looked at me with a sad look when I coughed; that is the only creature I ever loved. When he died I cried more than when my mother died. It is true t.. | men pity | Alexandre Dumas-fils | |
| bbef7bb | Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore. | charm childlikeness love | Alexandre Dumas-fils | |
| 0357e75 | Family gatherings were... um, let's see, what's the word I'm looking for?... Hell. They were hell. Being the middle child, I served and referee and confidante, hostess and martyr. Did I feel we should get together once in a while? Sure. Did I want my family all together? Theoretically, yes. In reality, dear God, no. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| d971ff7 | She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic. | beauty uniqueness | Ken Follett | |
| b70e830 | the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with b.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 2835c29 | I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I've made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into...something. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 078a9b9 | Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a96860e | You think this is going to work? This peaceful summit thing?" "Sure," I said. After a second, I added, "Probably." "Probably?" "Maybe," I said. "We're down to maybe now?" I shrugged. "We'll see." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1975c38 | Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6bc43ea | If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things. Drops of ink are shaped into letters, letters form words, words form sentences, and sentences combine to express thought. So it is with the growth of plants that spring from seeds, as well as with walls built from many stones. So .. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a4dd255 | You.... tapped that ass. Presumably it was, phat? | Jim Butcher | ||
| dbe90b3 | You think your power is what shapes the world you walk in. But that is an illusion. Your choices shape your world. You think your power will protect you from the consequences of those choices. But you are wrong. You create your own rewards. There is a Judge. There is Justice in this world. And one day you will receive what you have earned. Choose carefully. | Jim Butcher | ||
| c240044 | For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 23ab38b | I like for things to happen, for stories to unfold. And if I can't find a good enough story, I make one. | Holly Black | ||
| 8277369 | If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up. | Holly Black | ||
| 6358d49 | Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying | lying secrets | Holly Black | |
| 77c38e5 | You're not the way everyone says you are," Kaye said, looking at him so fiercely that he couldn't meet her gaze. "I know you're not." "You know nothing of me," he said. He wanted to punish her for the trust he saw on her face, to raze it from her now so that he would be spared the sight of her when that trust was betrayed. He wanted to tell her he found her impossibly alluring, at least half enchanted, body bruised and scratched, utterly un.. | Holly Black | ||
| 3b9fc62 | You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much. | Holly Black | ||
| 2dcded4 | But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt! And why? Because, he says, I forgot who I was; he says, to teach me that I am only a nigger! After all, and last of all, he comes between me and my wife, and says I shall give her up, and live with another woman. And all this your laws give him power to do, in spite of God or man. Mr. Wilson, look .. | human-rights racism slavery social-justice | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| f1f5632 | Remember, anoretics do eat. We have systems of eating that develop almost unconsciously. By the time we realize we've been running our lives with an iron system of numbers and rules, the system has begun to rule us. They are systems of Safe Foods, foods not imbued, or less imbued, with monsters and devils and dangers. These are usually "pure" foods, less likely to taint the soul with such sins as fat, or sugar, or an excess of calories. Con.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| e9426a9 | and then a murder mystery will occur. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| b9d465a | The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| ec538df | Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0a8d816 | Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0291e64 | Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer'n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter." "How'd you know all that?" "I just trod on 'im." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1323888 | Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!" "Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..." "Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!" "I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny. "No! My mum would take herself!" "What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said. "The fire!" | Terry Pratchett |