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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 18b61b2 | I need your help." Royce looked up as if his head weighed a hundred pounds, his eyes red, his face ashen. He waited. "One last job," Hadrian told him, then added, "I promise." "Is it dangerous?" "Very." "Is there a good chance I'll get killed?" "Odds are definitely in favor of that." Royce nodded, looked down at the scarf in his lap, and replied, "Okay." | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| c6f7e01 | Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A want for what was lost, but as with innocence, the soul can never be replaced. Joy, love, and peace flee such a vessel and in their stead blooms a desire for blood and death. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 586a419 | In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction. Time, 'too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip about from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid: Tables can be clocks, faces, flowers. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 4bb34b0 | Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again. | girl-interrupted insanity mental-illness | Susanna Kaysen | |
| 76f4f28 | When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen." | historical inspirational literary women | David McCullough | |
| 7e3e6a3 | Bein Crazy is the least of my worries. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 33cb08f | And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time and we all know time! | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 8807cd0 | There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| eef37b6 | I love you," she sobbed, rubbing her hands over his face, his hair, his chest, making sure he was solid and real. "I love you, and I thought you were dead. I couldn't bear it. I thought I would die too." "I'd walk through fire for you," he rasped, his voice hoarse and broken. "I have walked through fire for you." | lazarus temperance wicked-intensions | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| d168685 | He shuffled along with the hang-dog look of the cosmically fucked. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 1f232ae | Mr. Fresh looked up. "The book says if we don't do our jobs everything could go dark, become like the Underworld. I don't know what the Underworld is like, Mr. Asher, but I've caught some of the road show from there a couple of times, and I'm not interested in finding out. How 'bout you?" "Maybe it's Oakland," Charlie said. "What's Oakland?" "The Underworld." "Oakland is not the Underworld!" "The Tenderloin?" Charlie suggested." | Christopher Moore | ||
| 2c4fa6e | The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room. | humor netherworld | Christopher Moore | |
| 7a25a98 | You must find a place on a woman's body and live there. In the dark, the noise far away, Sam ran his hands over Calliope's body and the world of work and worry seemed to move away. He found two depressions at the bottom of her back where sunlight collected, and he lived there, out of the wind and noise. He grew old there, died and ascended to the Great Spirit, found heaven in her cheek on his chest, the warm wind of her breath across his s.. | Christopher Moore | ||
| ca6c23d | If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery. | neuroscience well-being | Sam Harris | |
| 86861b3 | Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worth of punishment (sodomy, marijuana use, homosexuality, the killing of blastocysts, etc). And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good (withholding funds for family planning in the third world, prosecuting nonviolent drug offend.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 09b4c11 | DAMNATION!' No device of the printer's art, not even capital letters, can indicate the intensity of that shriek of rage. Emerson is known to his Egyptian workers by the admiring sobriquet of Father of Curses. The volume as well as the content of his remarks earned him the title; but this shout was extraordinary even by Emerson's standards, so much so that the cat Bastet, who had become more or less accustomed to him, started violently, and .. | bathtubs cats emerson profanity | Elizabeth Peters | |
| 3847bca | Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts. | sizeism | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| adc8915 | I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good. | despair | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 452e1ed | Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us. | José Saramago | ||
| c0f54e4 | But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. | José Saramago | ||
| 70c365e | that is what we say when we do not wish to play the weakling, we say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands | José Saramago | ||
| 4557303 | Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels. | José Saramago | ||
| 4c9acf7 | lksl mn 'kthr l'shy lmDr@ blSH@. | José Saramago | ||
| 134918b | It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 228a8b7 | A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| fe42904 | Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death. | Don DeLillo | ||
| f3fc38f | I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 71807da | One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be. | Richard Bach | ||
| 538377b | Know that ever about you stands the reality of love, and each moment you have the power to transform your world by what you have learned. | Richard Bach | ||
| cefb3cd | Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference. | masculinity soldiers | Linda Howard | |
| 9540d19 | Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my toys will break. So none of the other kids can use 'em.... Amen. | prayer selfish toys | Shel Silverstein | |
| c6f7cb1 | How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 4a83d38 | He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me." I shivered. "I don't want him," I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 4a6042a | Some nasty bitch of a woman from the coven of moral and ethical standards tried to fry Rache" the pixy said apparently proud of it. "I pixed the Tink-blasted dildo, and Rache's black-arts boyfriend blew her right out the front door. "Bam!" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 464663c | Believe this," he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him." | love vampire | Annette Curtis Klause | |
| e8b0fcb | What could a mortal say to the merciless Fate? I forced myself to my feet. was the traditional end to a prayer. By the will of Fate. " " I whispered defiantly. By will." | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 8f39fe9 | Of course we would all like to "believe" in something, like to assuage our private guilts in public causes, like to lose our tiresome selves; like, perhaps, to transform the white flag of defeat at home into the brave white banner of battle away from home. And of course it is all right to do that; that is how, immemorially, thing have gotten done. But I think it is all right only so long as we do not delude ourselves about what we are doing.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 6d62e74 | Thoughts are real', he said. 'Words are real. Everything human is real, and sometimes we know things before they happen, even if we aren't aware of it. We live in the present, but the future is inside us at every moment. Maybe that's what writing is all about, Sid. Not recording events from the past, but making things happen in the future'. | Paul Auster | ||
| 8aa8918 | For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 21b49ef | Emotions are the curse of logic. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3804c87 | Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0e24200 | When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. | relationships shepherd sport wolf | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 245d114 | A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it." An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true." | individualist | Ayn Rand | |
| 36a6e21 | People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. | happiness happy joy pain relief suffering | Ayn Rand |