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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d7c47f2 | What do you like to do?" She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. "Needlework." "Very restful, isn't it?" "Well," said Arya, "not the way I do it." | George R. R. Martin | ||
| c371f90 | It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautifu.. | jean-paul nausea reflection sartre ugly | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 8e30167 | Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes i.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 55ba92b | You and me?" I let out a stunned bark of laughter. "There is no you and me." "That's what you think," Chaz says, tugging on his coat. "And I'll be damned if I'm going to wait around until you figure out that isn't true." "Fine," I say "I'm not asking you to, am I?" "No." Chaz is smiling... but not like he's happy. "But you would if you had the slightest idea what was good for you." And with that, he yanks open the door and storms through it.. | lizzie love | Meg Cabot | |
| d7ff34d | I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said." | mediator meg-cabot | Meg Cabot | |
| d3fa6c6 | Kill her for me," she said in that whiny little-girl voice. Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told me he was only too happy to oblige his lady love. "Oh, what?" I said. I wasn't even scared. I didn't care anymore. The numbness in my heart had pretty much taken over my whole body. "You always do what she tells you? You know, we have a word for that now. It's called being whipped." | mediator meg-cabot | Meg Cabot | |
| 19e388a | It's a book, jackass. | Lane Smith | ||
| c0a8dd8 | Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed? | Jill Mansell | ||
| cbacef1 | Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 4dc2d6f | If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 5dd5061 | You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| d9529cf | They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable. | irrational love | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| ccea467 | It's said a friend is a person who walks in when everyone else walks out. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 7cf9000 | we grow fearless when we do the things we fear | fearless | Robin S. Sharma | |
| 99770e7 | I don't regret the things I've done. I regret the things I didn't do when I had the chance. | Harlan Coben | ||
| a115e2a | No sign, so far, of anything sinister--but I live in hope. | Agatha Christie | ||
| defe946 | The body--the cage--is everything of the most respectable--but through the bars, the wild animal looks out. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 4abf551 | One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. | Agatha Christie | ||
| a534405 | Two people rarely see the same thing. | Agatha Christie | ||
| cdd9695 | Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. | books reading titles | Alberto Manguel | |
| 35b967c | Darkness promotes speech. | darkness speech | Alberto Manguel | |
| 21332a2 | And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan. | circumstances contingency glass humor looking plan redd seeing wars weird | Frank Beddor | |
| ed116d0 | The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth - not a different truth: the same truth - only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-crea.. | history history-of-the-united-states | Shelby Foote | |
| c99f4aa | It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy. | love misfortunes proof | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 5ff2e86 | Now, in Mr. Thornton's face the straight brows fell over the clear deep-set earnest eyes, which, without being unpleasantly sharp, seemed intent enough to penetrate into the very heart and core of what he was looking at. The lines in the face were few but firm, as if they were carved in marble, and lay principally about the lips, which were slightly compressed over a set of teeth so faultless and beautiful as to give the effect of sudden su.. | mr-thornton | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 29ece90 | Think about some of the words that are used in these kinds of discussions, one of the most common being the phrase "open-minded." Often the person with spiritual convictions is seen as close-minded and others are seen as open-minded. What is fascinating to me is that at the center of the Christian faith is the assumption that this life isn't all there is. That there is more to life than the material. That existence is not limited to what we.. | Rob Bell | ||
| 16429d1 | I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 25b8ec7 | Me and Ma have a deal, we're going to try everything one time so we know what we like. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| c61c8c5 | A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 837e37e | What's the dog called?"Jason asked. "Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh." "No, I meant his entire name." | Brandon Mull | ||
| c1a697a | Wasn't that awesome?" Seth asked. Warren cocked his head, his expression mildly embarrassed. "I'm sorry, Kendra--it was pretty cool." "All boys belong in insane asylums," Kendra said." | cool hummor insane-asylum | Brandon Mull | |
| 0a80fc2 | I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate. | writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| c0dbda8 | Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more. | historical-fiction history reading | Louis L'Amour | |
| 6c769fa | I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 6467a02 | One does not need the size of a dragon to have the soul of a dragon. | Robin Hobb | ||
| cc76733 | An attachment grew up. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelationships to explain, because it is the vaguest, the most impalpable. It has all the good points of love, and none of its drawbacks. No jealousy, no quarrels, no greed to possess, no fear of losing possession, no hatred (which is very much a part of love), no surge of passion and no hangover afterward. It never reaches the heights, and it never .. | attachment attachments love relationship | Cornell Woolrich | |
| 1b9f3d4 | How can we resist exploitation if we don't have the tools to understand exploitation? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e52bfac | There is no more exciting sport than flying, for if you lose, you die. | saphira saphira-and-eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| 5e342a2 | Learn to see what you are looking at. | understanding | Christopher Paolini | |
| cc107f1 | Let's drop rocks on them! | Christopher Paolini | ||
| ba39984 | I like to live always at the beginnings of life, not at their end. We all lose some of our faith under the oppression of mad leaders, insane history, pathologic cruelties of daily life. I am by nature always beginning and believing and so I find your company more fruitful than that of, say, Edmund Wilson, who asserts his opinions, beliefs, and knowledge as the ultimate verity. Older people fall into rigid patterns. Curiosity, risk, explorat.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 9403314 | Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress my hairdresser, my make-up, it will work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 58bc663 | During the nuit blanche I think: Henry, my love, I can love you better now that you cannot hurt me. I can love you more gaily. More loosely. I can endure space and distance and betrayals. Only the best, the best and the strongest. Henry, my love, the wanderer, the artist, the faithless one who has loved me so well. Believe me, nothing has changed in me toward you except my courage. I cannot walk with one love ever. My head is strong, my hea.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| f3b2937 | Here we go. Kerrick was as subtle as a thunderstorm. | Maria V. Snyder |