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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 24f17d6 | His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope. | William Maxwell | ||
| 7ebe86b | Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3728b99 | You want this?' I raised my gaze, gasping at the dark hunger in his expression. My mind blanked. Want his body? How could I not? He was pure temptation. 'I meant this,' he held up my bag, 'but I could easily be persuaded to share anything else my wife might desire. | evie | Kresley Cole | |
| f4a378e | There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. "I come to you as a man unfinished." | berserker dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| f32bb57 | My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 990183c | Lothaire briefly gazed heavenward. "Chase is clearly a reluctant sharer. Which should incite her curiosity about what's going on in his head. She's a disgustingly self-righteous Valkyrie, filled with the need to fix things, to right wrongs. If anything needed fixing ..." He waved a hand to indicate Declan from head to toe. "As wrong as he can be." | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore lothaire paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie vampire | Kresley Cole | |
| 32a569d | I know that look." Jack shook his head ruefully. "Doan worry; she'll give you your balls back as soon as she's done getting her way." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 6a5e515 | She'd made him watch every Alien movie. Most of the goriest scenes were accompanied by his dialogue: 'Ach, that's no' - that's just no' right.... Bloody hell, this canna be right. | funny kresley-cole | Kresley Cole | |
| f94cb27 | I'm on a man-fast. Why bother with them? the good ones are always taken. Or they're weirdly uminterested in a capricious wild child with continuous legal problems~ Carrow the Incarcerated | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9c97cd3 | Before you were my enemy, you were my best friend. | Kresley Cole | ||
| ace3937 | At least the girls in stories were alive before they died. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| df7d49f | Golden Globe acceptance speech in the style of ): "Four A.M. Having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres, which despite the inconveniences of heat, noise and overcrowding, was not without its pleasures. Thankfully, there were no dogs and no children. The gowns were middling. There was a good deal of shouting and behavior verging on the profligate, however, people were very free with their compliments and I made several new a.. | golden-globes humor jane-austen movies sense-and-sensibility speeches | Emma Thompson | |
| 06f1ab1 | Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right. | David Baldacci | ||
| 8b6356e | This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this..." | work | Betty Smith | |
| 23554a9 | If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive? | Edward Albee | ||
| 74d2eaa | Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 7a77939 | There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won't complain. | death life science | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 2cda8b6 | It's better to think of my life like that-- part miracle, part madness. It's better if I accept that I can't control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d555fa7 | It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 352752d | Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f76846c | If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. | Terry Brooks | ||
| c6a49f7 | With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 3286851 | Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning. | Richard Wright | ||
| c59c435 | My mother's suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours; the restless moving, the futile seeking, the uncertainty, the fear, the dread; the meaningless pain and the endless suffering. Her life set the emotional tone of my life, colored the men and women I was to meet in the future, conditioned my relation to events that had.. | Richard Wright | ||
| 86e3cd4 | Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing t.. | stories | Tim O'Brien | |
| 31342e7 | Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them! | Anne Michaels | ||
| d3529ef | This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| efc240c | The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| ca56cae | But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 45077f3 | I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing. | John Champlin Gardner Jr. | ||
| ae70715 | Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy's garden blossomed. | americans faith famous-quotes-from-classic-books haiku haikus healing history humanity joy multiculturalism multiculturalismo multiculturalità national-history-day patriotism personal-growth philosophy rebith rejuvenation remembering-september-11 spirituality teaching-diversity world-suicide-prevention-day | Aberjhani | |
| 7df3fb8 | This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. | agape-love anguish casualties-of-war child-victims-of-war children-killed-in-war conflict-resolution faith fear grief gun-laws gun-violence hope love nonviolent-conflict-resolution pain peace peace-movement peacemaking police-reform police-shootings russia-and-ukraine-conflict spiritual-love syrian-civil-war tragedy unconditional-love violence war world-suicide-prevention-day | Aberjhani | |
| 1472c02 | With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new. | inspirational-quotes modern-authors music paranormal parapsychology poetry psychology rebirth resurrection souls spirituality | Aberjhani | |
| d6b20aa | To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax. | Richard Preston | ||
| b0639c2 | You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You're a ghost with a beat- | Anderson Laurie Halse | ||
| dae2d17 | I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. The tiny elf dancer became a wooden doll whose strings were jerked by people not paying attention. I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. I wanted to swallow the bitter seeds of forgetfulness. Cassie did, too. We leaned on each other, lost in the dark and wandering in endless circles. She got too tired an went to sleep. Someh.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5cff4f8 | I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death. | war | John Fowles | |
| 9abb717 | Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth. | John Fowles | ||
| 356e60a | There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive. | satisfaction unsatisfaction | John Fowles | |
| 820f1a1 | Sheridan bit back a teary smile at his quip, afraid to believe him, afraid to trust him, and unable to stop herself because she loved him. "Look at me," Stephen said, tipping her chin up again, and this time her glorious eyes looked into his. "I have several reasons for asking you to walk into that chapel, where there is a vicar waiting for us, but guilt is not among them. I also have several things to ask of you before you agree to go in t.. | until-you westmoreland | Judith McNaught | |
| b04a0ac | My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. | knowledge learning self-awareness | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 3863c51 | What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. | Norton Juster | ||
| 3e79f8a | So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible. | Norton Juster | ||
| 83d4e12 | Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?" She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?" | Maureen Johnson |