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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b9d8c46 | A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy. | trade | George R.R. Martin | |
| 25bceb6 | Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind. | fat humor sight | George R.R. Martin | |
| 21fbcb8 | I'll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine. | hope | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 70ddca0 | Didn't you," he asked, "have me exorcised?" "Me?" My own voice rocketed up about ten octaves. "Me? Jesse, of course not. I would never do that. I mean, you know I would never do something like that. That kid Jack did it. Your girlfriend Maria made him do it. She was trying to get rid of you. She told Jack you were bothering me, and he didn't know any better, so he exorcised you, and then Felix Diego threw me off the porch roof, and Jesse, t.. | mediator meg-cabot | Meg Cabot | |
| 8a9421f | Who-who are you?" Seth asked, hesitantly."Wh-what do you want?" How else was was I supposed to reply? The words were out of my mouth before I could stop them.I mean, I'd only seen the movie like seventeen times. "I'm Luke Skywalker," I said. "I'm here to rescue you." | jess meg-cabot movie-reference | Meg Cabot | |
| 7829c25 | later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. | Jimmy Buffett | ||
| 108a3ab | Deep knowledge is to be aware of disturbance before disturbance, to be aware of danger before danger, to be aware of destruction before destruction, to be aware of calamity before calamity. Strong action is training the body without being burdened by the body, exercising the mind without being used by the mind, working in the world without being affected by the world, carrying out tasks without being obstructed by tasks. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 010e7da | We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| bf0e7ef | He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 50dda62 | Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie! | Warren Ellis | ||
| d5a040e | you're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 6eeeda2 | I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent. | angels trials | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 0793936 | I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light. | love | Emma Forrest | |
| da22d28 | As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. 'If you are buried under a flamboyant tree, ' I said, 'your soul is lifted up when it flowers. Everyone wants that.' She shook her head but she did not move or touch me. | flowers red touch | Jean Rhys | |
| 40029b8 | When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 80d5df4 | The girl with the long brown hair turned around. "Are you her boy friend?" she asked. Summer glanced from Crystal to Nate and back. Then question made her feel a little awkward. After all, she had saved him a seat. No, I'm her fiance," Nate said. We've been promised to each other since birth." Summer added. Our wedding isn't until March." | Brandon Mull | ||
| f13afec | For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 44938b4 | Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished s.. | conversation rumours slander stupid-people stupidity talking | Anne Brontë | |
| 30a0e6d | Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 50eae8e | To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 67e3e9a | There is no bond like having read and liked the same books. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 4f75925 | Silence is the only language god speaks. | Charles Simic | ||
| c08e745 | Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle | Debbie Macomber | ||
| d5914d3 | Valek smiled. "Good. First, send Kade a reply, asking him not to come." He pointed at the unopened letter on the table. I had forgotten about it. Sealed with wax, the message appeared to be secured. Valek shrugged. "I was bored." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 1234b4c | This Path to God Made me such an old sweet beggar. I was starving until one night My love tricked God Himself To fall into my bowl. Now Hafiz is infintely rich, But all I ever want to do Is keep emptying out My emerald-filled Pockets Upon This tear-stained World. | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez | ||
| 9d0a214 | My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it's by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don't be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you've just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 6da2553 | Quiet down! You're supposed to be dead!" snapped a passing Union soldier. "This is a private conversation," Margaret snapped back. "This is a battle," he hissed. "No, honey, this is called pretending. I hate to break it to you, but we're not really in the Civil War. If you'd like to feel a bit more authentic, I'd be happy to stick this bayonet up your ass." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 0e07cdc | Love made you a better person. Made you feel protected and precious and chosen. Chosen such a lovely word! And in loving someone else you became better...noble and generous and beneficent. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 114e16b | We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 0bbbd3c | I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cacbe8d | This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7df9d2c | You know the law, Dresden." "He who kills the cheer springs for beer," chanted the rest of the table." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8d9b95b | Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first." | humor unicorns | Jim Butcher | |
| ad8dfe4 | Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court." "And why is that?" "Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience--only much more convincingly." -- | conscience convincing court lying | Jim Butcher | |
| 112017e | Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 76faf0f | I don't want to make her [Maggie] a target again," I said. Michael sighed patiently. "Harry," he said, as if speaking to a rather slow child,"I'm not sure if you noticed this. But things did not turn out well for the last monster who raised his hand against your child. Or any of his friends. Or associates. Or anyone who worked for him. Or for most of the people he knew." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 535c296 | But... all I said was that I was scared." After what you got to experience? That's smart, kid," I said. "I'm scared, too. Every time something like this happens, it scares me. But being strong doesn't get you through. Being smart does. I've beaten people and things who were stronger than I was, because they didn't use their heads, or because I used what I had better than they did. It isn't about muscle, kiddo, magical or otherwise. It's ab.. | discipline harry-dresden molly-carpenter power | Jim Butcher | |
| 19f5a36 | I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time. | Jim Butcher | ||
| cdee875 | Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3d6ce9d | It is said we learn more from our failures than our successes. | learn success | Holly Black | |
| d76c052 | I don't know," Call said. He was starting to worry that there weren't any good guys. Just people with longer or shorter Evil Overlord lists." | Holly Black | ||
| 9ab5bb3 | Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is. | holly-black jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air | Holly Black | |
| 66b8ea7 | At the end of a criminal's life, it's always the small mistake, the coincidence, the lark. The time we got too comfortable, the time we slipped up, the time someone aimed a little to the left. I've heard Grandad's war stories a thousand times. How they finally got Mo. How Mandy almost got away. How Charlie fell. Birth to grave, we know it'll be us one day. Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. | Holly Black | ||
| d17ffce | Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another. You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you. | Holly Black |