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| 26d6093 | But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7cbf05f | In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better. | love | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4103755 | Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| eaaa469 | On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. | discworld gods | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2634724 | He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2dab0a3 | But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 122c120 | I HAVE WATCHED YOUR PROGRESS WITH INTEREST, ESMERELDA WEATHERWAX, said the voice in the dark. He was firm, but oh so polite. But now there was a question in his voice. PRAY TELL ME, WHY WERE YOU CONTENT TO LIVE IN THIS TINY LITTLE COUNTRY WHEN, AS YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING AND ANYBODY IN THE WORLD? "I don't know about the world, not much; but in my part of the world I could make little miracles for ordinary people," Granny repl.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dc261f5 | Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might. | fear hope | Terry Pratchett | |
| 220bd77 | Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do." | logic stupid-questions | Terry Pratchett | |
| 82c001e | I'VE NEVER BEEN VERY SURE ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT, said Bill Door. I AM NOT SURE THERE IS SUCH A THING AS RIGHT. OR WRONG. JUST PLACES TO STAND. | wrong | Terry Pratchett | |
| 63e1b80 | The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships or being patronized rigid by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it. So they long ago pl.. | dolphins hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy humor pratchett pyramids | Terry Pratchett | |
| ec5252c | You don't think in depression that you've put on a grey veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| a18df4b | To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon. It is astonishing how often such mutuality had been realized - how frequently parents who had supposed that they couldn't care for an exceptional child discover that they can. The parental predisposition to love prev.. | love parenting | Andrew Solomon | |
| 22d1c76 | yet isn't it always the inappropriate thing, the thing that doesn't quite work, that's oddly the dearest? | Donna Tartt | ||
| fa5c89f | It's a terrible thing, what we did," said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it." "Well, of course, I do too," said Henry matter-of-factly. "But not bad enough to want to go to jail for it." Francis snorted and poured himself another shot of whiskey and drank it straight off. "No," he said. "Not that bad." | Donna Tartt | ||
| e4f972e | The problem (as I'd learned, repeatedly) was that thirty-six hours in, with your body in full revolt, and the remainder of your un-opiated life stretching out bleakly ahead of you like a prison corridor, you needed some fairly compelling reason to keep moving forward into darkness, rather than falling straight back into the gorgeous feather mattress you'd so foolishly abandoned. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 086aec5 | People die, sure," my mother was saying. "But it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle." | Donna Tartt | ||
| cdf66e3 | If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn. | Donna Tartt | ||
| bde31cf | Never do what you can't undo. | Donna Tartt | ||
| e9e30db | I accepted all this counsel politely, with a glassy smile and a glaring sense of unreality. Many adults seemed to interpret this numbness as a positive sign; I remember particularly Mr. Beeman (an overly clipped Brit in a dumb tweed motoring cap, whom despite his solicitude I had come to hate, irrationally, as an agent of my mother's death) complimenting me on my maturity and informing me that I seemed to be "coping awfully well." And maybe.. | mourning | Donna Tartt | |
| 76e4b4a | If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think, 'oh, I love this picture because it's universal.' 'I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.' That's not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It's a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes, you. ... You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7122716 | Somehow the present had shrunk into a smaller and much less interesting place. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6ee23c1 | There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity. | Richard Matheson | ||
| f8e3849 | How long did it take for a past to die? | Richard Matheson | ||
| 134a6e4 | He wasn't a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 81455f6 | For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. | inspiration inspirational inspirational-life life-and-death life-and-living life-lessons meditation-experience mind-body-spirit mind-control mind-power mindfulness mindfulness-practice quotes-i-love quotes-on-life quotes-that-make-sense quotes-to-define-my-life quotes-to-live-by | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| da7013d | Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry. | management truisms truth | Charles Stross | |
| 5b7a89b | Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. | humor religion | Charles Stross | |
| f821592 | The Indians are the Italians of Asia", Didier pronounced with a sage and mischievous grin. "It can be said, certainly, with equal justice, that the Italians are the Indians of Europe, but you do understand me, I think. There is so much Italian in the Indians, and so much Indians in the Italians. They are both people of the Madonna - they demand a goddess, even if the religion does not provide one. Every man in both countries is a singer whe.. | italians love pyaar | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 2af1760 | There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| fcd7931 | Damn, that werewolf melts my butter," Mari sighed. "He's so miserable," she added delightedly." | Kresley Cole | ||
| e364dce | Dear puss, Is this all you've got? Why don't you strap on your big girl panties and come face me yourself? Unless you fear that the Nixanator will spank Omort's wittle bottom. By the way, you've taken one of the most respected leaders in our army. We're going to want him back. Especially since Sabine can't break him. | kresley-cole nix | Kresley Cole | |
| 6b1495c | I woan you go back to that boy--not until you give me one ." A sweet kiss. Then he reached forward, unlacing the ribbon from my hair. "What are you doing?" I murmured. "Souvenir." He put it in his pocket, and for some reason that struck me as the sexiest thing I'd ever seen." | chemistry evie heated jack jackson kresley-cole poison-princess ribbon sexy souvenir | Kresley Cole | |
| 1f0c716 | He found her not even a block away from the house, sitting on a curb. As he approached, he saw her wiping her face with her forearm. Sabine was...crying? "What are you doing out here, cwena?" Over the past week, Rydstrom had been pleased when she'd worried about him, and gratified when she'd felt the sting of jealousy. Was he a terrible man to hope she was crying about him? She glared at him with her bottom lip quivering, allowing him to se.. | kresley-cole love love-it | Kresley Cole | |
| d5446b5 | So, Cormac, have you ever dealt with a PMSing werewolf?' No.' Well, it's a real bitch... | kitty pmsing werewolf | Carrie Vaughn | |
| ee7eee9 | I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor" | life | Tilly Bagshawe | |
| 864f216 | Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder. | fantasy horse ruby strength-through-adversity womanhood | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 1562098 | As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn't matter, I knew that to her it did. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| c1fc5ac | In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got. | truth | Betty Smith | |
| fa0fff6 | We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4e24b78 | This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 0d28193 | A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 332a7ca | I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one? | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 882279e | Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child. | innocence suffering | Piers Anthony |