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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 35908a4 | Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 325bab6 | Riley] slapped his hands to his face and then dropped them as if in surrender. 'I always say the wrong thing around you. Look, can we start over?' Over?" Yes. Over. Wipe the board clean.' But I would have to go back to hating you and not trusting you' I said Oh, well don't do that.' He paused and chewed his lip. 'Does that mean you like and trust me now?' " - Riley and Trella" | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| f12729b | I do know I felt as if my heart had been shredded when I found you in our storeroom, unconscious and bleeding. And leaving you with Vinco in the holding cells was the hardest thing I've ever done." - Riley to Trella" | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 08112a8 | He pulled my arm out to expose my bracelet. "When I carved this, my thoughts were on you, love. Your life is like this snake's coils. No matter how many turns it makes, you'll end up back where you belong. With me." His sapphire eyes held a promise. - Valek" | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ad96ff1 | Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Instead of "How was your day?" try "What did you do in math class today?" Instead of "Do you like your teacher?" ask "What do you like about your teacher?" Or "What do you not like so much?" Let her take her time to answer. Try to avoid asking, in the overly bright voice of parents everywhere, "Did you have fun in school today?!" She'll sense how .. | parenting | Susan Cain | |
| e978c0d | But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think. | democracy extraversion introversion | Susan Cain | |
| 52d33ff | Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities. | Susan Cain | ||
| 7719c55 | We who have been hunted through the rapids of life, torn from our former roots, always driven to the end and obliged to begin again, victims and yet also the willing servants of unknown mysterious powers, we for whom comfort has become an old legend and security, a childish dream, have felt tension from pole to pole of our being, the terror of something always new in every fibre. Every hour of our years was linked to the fate of the world. .. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 06a28b5 | Yeryuzunde hicbir sey insana hiclik kadar baski yapamaz | Stefan Zweig | ||
| d6e3920 | If we're not going to get married, we need to break up. So...shit or get off the pot, honey." "That was beautiful," murmured Father Bruce as he opened a menu." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 71a113c | And so I make a pact with the devil, or in this case, my mommy. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 75356ed | To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color. | Ken Follett | ||
| a1b22cd | You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never shut up about anything in general, but he'd go on and on about various conquests and feats of sexual athleticism and-- "A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I'm not sure what to say. Is he a pres.. | lara-raith ramirez | Jim Butcher | |
| 78d2c7b | Epic sex?" I sputtered. "By what standards, precisely, is sex judged to be epic?" "And tons and tons of mortal simps like you used as pawns." Bob sighed happily, ignoring my question. "There are no words. It was like the Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine." | harry-dresden sex | Jim Butcher | |
| 5ac42fc | Some men fall from grace. Some are pushed. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5d5ef10 | I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone. | fashion fashion-sense | Jim Butcher | |
| 4d49e08 | I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 0a94fa3 | It's like King Arthur, but Lancelot is a butcher and Guinevere is knocked up. | Gordon Andrews | ||
| c0acad0 | She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him. He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben. | Holly Black | ||
| b61e06f | Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their hands bleed. Girls who haul water for witches. Girls who wander through deserts or sleep in ashes or make homes for transformed brothers in the woods. Girls without hands, without eyes, without the power of speech, without any power at all. But then a prince rides up and sees the girl and finds her beautiful. Beaut.. | Holly Black | ||
| ae82988 | You have only seen the least of what I can do. | dark elfham enemies faerie jude mysterious prince-cardan | Holly Black | |
| 0382b66 | The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed. | jude-duarte prince-cardan the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air | Holly Black | |
| feaab42 | Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it. | life stab | Holly Black | |
| 2c605c0 | And yet, I don't regret it now. Having stepped off the edge, what I want to do is fall. | Holly Black | ||
| a88d064 | Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 9afb800 | Sometimes when we're in situations where we feel we're not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 7122e73 | To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 6255b0c | Arisa: "You bastard! Why don't I teach you a lesson!" Kyo: "I'd like to see you try, bitch!" Yuki: "I have a winning hand." Tohru: "I knew you'd be good at this." | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| c28b3fc | Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then! | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 796d674 | Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause. | hero | R.A. Salvatore | |
| cf1cb11 | It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions and looking hard at things. You walked and talked, and in your heart you just hoped like hell that some bugger's nerve'd crack and he'd give himself up. | feet-of-clay pratchett sam-vimes terry-pratchett vimes | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6280a54 | Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn't take you seriously until you'd actually killed them, by which time it didn't really matter anyway. | women | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2a154e1 | Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 438853c | What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day. | wizards | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3586b35 | In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ff46793 | You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap. | slap | Terry Pratchett | |
| 615cac7 | And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 171fe09 | Do you think there's anything to eat in this forest?" "Yes," said the wizard bitterly, "us." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bb881d3 | Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha. 'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 17cb684 | Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it..." | humor lies propaganda war | Terry Pratchett | |
| 428dd57 | If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 58c13d6 | Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 76600ec | The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you. | love | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9251cc0 | Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. | Terry Pratchett |