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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35cb32c | For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. | reason | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| d9bdd78 | I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 16daf30 | Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 546b61d | For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 335ba61 | I'm sure that inside your heart you're trying with all your might to find it on your own... the reason you were born. Because really, there might not be anyone who was born with a reason. I think... that everyone... everyone might have to find one on their own. A reason for being born, a reason that it's okay to be alive, a reason to exist. I think everyone might have to find it themselves... and decide it for themselves... The reason you'r.. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| aee5dad | Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express in thought that which is most ineffable, and in form the vaguest and most fleeting contours; listening that it may translate them to the subtle confidences of the neuropath, to the avowals of aging and depraved passion, and to the singular hallucinations of the fixed idea verg.. | decadents | Theophile Gautier | |
| 9ef8e91 | Well how many troubles should equal a legitimate reason for self-mutilation? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? And how monumental must these troubles be? There's probably no critical mass beyond which cutting yourself would ever seem to most people like a reasonable choice. I cut because it did look that way to me. I cut because something had to give. I cut because the alternatives were worse. | Caroline Kettlewell | ||
| b191874 | I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious, corrosive lapping of a whispering sea of uneasiness. | Caroline Kettlewell | ||
| 80fbe70 | It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again. | letting-go starting-over | Tony Parsons | |
| c1a5611 | A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 70f6a21 | Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength. Stealing our will, for what are we without empathy? What manner of joy might we find in our live if we cannot understand the joys and pains of those around us, if we cannot share in a greater community. | r.a. salvatore | ||
| 0762b4e | Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 85153ed | NO. YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 285c26d | Life in this world," he said, "is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For all we see of the true nature of existence is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth, from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we as troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and say, hum.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| abf946b | Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist. | nuace | Terry Pratchett | |
| 5154a4e | Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fe0f6ca | You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day." For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, "You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!" but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, sett.. | good-manners | Terry Pratchett | |
| d2c7377 | First Sight means you can see what really is there, and Second Thoughts mean thinking about what you are thinking. And in Tiffany's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts although these...sometimes led her to walk into doors. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 182f675 | Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3bf3910 | Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned i.. | discworld sybil-vimes wife woman women | Terry Pratchett | |
| 25f0ac5 | Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 51a02b3 | Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. | literature pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| 5641a0a | But this didn't like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music. | music | Terry Pratchett | |
| 030850b | You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'. | discworld morality-without-religion the-individual | Terry Pratchett | |
| acf9865 | I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after league of us, flaming swords, all that, well, what I'm trying to say is who has time to go round picking people out and popping them up in the air to sneer at the people dying of radiation sickness on the parched and burning earth below them? If.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ae693d3 | The second mouse gets the cheese! | mouse proverb retort | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8f84e71 | Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| cc3e2e5 | She went on because there was no going back. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| b061f5f | Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion--it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble. | relationships unrequited-love | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 54f2d36 | Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 9fac301 | How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| bc58809 | We had not spoken about the incident in my room several nights before and, in the drowsy silence of the car, I felt the need to make things plain. "You know, Francis," I said. "What?" It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. "You know," I said, "I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that--" "Isn't that interesting," he said coolly. "I'm really not attracted to you, either." "But--" | the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| 0eb59db | He laughed. "What's to say? Great paintings--people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they're reproduced endlessly on coffee mugs and mouse pads and anything-you-like. And, I count myself in the following, you can have a lifetime of perfectly sincere museum-going where you traipse around enjoying everything and then go out and have some lunch. But--" crossing back to the table to sit again "--if a painting really works down in your heart.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 44808ae | how strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3413891 | The center of my earth is you | Donna Tartt | ||
| 67a36b1 | Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1233730 | It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if I were waiting for trains that never came. And, like one of those ghosts who are said to linger around depots late at night, asking passersby for the timetable of the Midnight Express that derailed twenty years before, I wandered from light to light until that dreaded hour when all the doors closed and, step.. | time winter | Donna Tartt | |
| 84ce66b | Side by side they were very much alike, in similarity less of lineament than of manner and bearing, a correspondence of gestures which bounced and echoed between them so that a blink seemed to reverberate, moments later, in a twitch of the other's eyelid. | Donna Tartt | ||
| a13d912 | If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do. | Donna Tartt | ||
| cf6ba58 | There's no kindness in offering false hope. | Naomi Novik | ||
| a861a44 | All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part. | Naomi Novik | ||
| f5976d2 | Mr Norrell determined to establish himself in London with all possible haste. "You must get a house, Childermass," he said. "Get me a house that says to those that visit it that magic is a respectable profession - no less than Law and a great deal more so than Medicine." Childermass inquired drily if Mr Norrell wished him to seek out architecture expressive of the proposition that magic was as respectable as the Church? Mr Norrell (who knew.. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 45326db | You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 18a7781 | There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there. | Mary Karr |