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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1f41a97 | The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them--noticing them--that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 6fb6a2d | What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c9ab83c | There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious. | killing life | Brian Jacques | |
| b4fb1a1 | Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean.... | humor | Brian Jacques | |
| 89aa248 | If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of." "That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em." | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 73748aa | A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 177c98d | My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive. | Waris Dirie | ||
| 621b074 | The fae went down, and before he could retaliate, I went all Van Helsing on his ass. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 394d138 | Stop being a coward and let go of the past. Embrace the future, because they are two very different things. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0e0fbe6 | Yeah,it's kind of a hobby. What's yours? Kicking puppies? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6084727 | Well, aren't you special. Cocky much?" "I'm all kinds of special, but you know that." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 066d017 | I knew I couldn't go back and start a new beginning. I couldn't rewrite the middle. All I could do was change tomorrow, as long as I had one. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 3facf24 | Hunger gnawed at my stomach, but I was afraid someone would be in the kitchen again. So I found myself staring at the front door. Freedom seemed just a doorknob-turn away. When I did open the door, freedom didn't wait -- a half-naked Hayden did. | ember hayden | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 775e966 | What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an unbelievable happily-ever-after that made me love and hate the book at the same time. | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout kyler-quinn sydney-bell | J. Lynn | |
| 1a52356 | Slowly, I reached over and poked his arm. It felt like real flesh, warm and hard. Disappointed, I poked him again. I was expecting something amazing--celestial--by touching him. Instead all I got were weird looks from everyone in the room, including Apollo. "Please stop touching me," Apollo said. I jabbed his arm again. "Sorry. It's just that you're real. I mean, I just thought you guys weren't really around here." "Alex." Aiden sat on the .. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2e437f8 | I think you're drooling a little. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 50203d5 | Aiden grabbed my arm, pulling me right against his chest. The unexpected contact fried my brain. "If I was like every other pure-blood, I would have had you by now, without even thinking about the consequences for you. Every day is a struggle not to be like them." | romance | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 369883f | Do you know how terrible I felt when Marcus came down and found me sitting there like a turd? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5f86e47 | O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've be.. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| d5223e7 | Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 278137e | Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning. | the-zombie-survival-guide | Max Brooks | |
| c0f4a81 | Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. | H.G. Wells | ||
| e178fbe | So now I get the scepter?" Jason asked. Cupid laughed. " | eros heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| df0f67e | It was almost enough to make me turn vegetarian, except for the pesky fact that I loved cheeseburgers. | Rick Riordan | ||
| d489876 | The people who deserved to die took forever to do so. Those who deserved to live always went too soon. | good-and-evil injustice life | Rick Riordan | |
| d06c00e | You've probably met moms like that. You say, "Yeah, I scored a goal in the soccer game last night." And she says, "Oh, that's nice. All fourteen of my children are the captains of their teams, and they make straight A's and can play the violin." And you just want to smack her." | Rick Riordan | ||
| f6353d3 | They have gone missing? No, no, no, no, no, no, no No, et cetera | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2c4fddb | Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse. | frank-zhang rude violent | Rick Riordan | |
| 12b458a | Hello, Hazel Levesque. | leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 5cb9874 | You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense." -Percy" | Rick Riordan | ||
| ffa66b5 | I guess it wasn't everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 263c163 | She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was. | loneliness lonely love | Rick Riordan | |
| f04f298 | The gods need heroes. They always have. | Rick Riordan | ||
| a0bee6c | My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn't transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?] | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8cbf741 | Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin." | frank-zhang humorous percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 39ec8eb | But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned. | Rick Riordan | ||
| a76de4d | Percy: "Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway?" Blackjack: "Why do humans swing their arms as they walk? I dunno, boss. It just feels right." | Rick Riordan | ||
| ed02e3c | He turned to leave, then hesitated. "One more thing." He walked up to me. "I've also been thinking about your declaration of undying love or whatever." "I didn't - it wasn't -" He clamped his hands on the sides of my gooey face and kissed me. I had to wonder: was it possible to dissolve into chocolate on a molecular level and melt into a puddle on the carpet? Because that's how I felt. I'm pretty sure Valhalla had to resurrect me several ti.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 54cde76 | Did they live happily ever after? HAHAHAHAHA. No. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6b4f4ab | Jason's heart lifted when he saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of two-headed men. | jason-grace nido-di-angelo reunion | Rick Riordan | |
| 7f44886 | I don't see that we have much choice," I said, "since we don't have anyone who can grow wings." "I will push you off this mountain," Sam warned. "All right," Blitzen decided, "let's try it. I mean the rune, not pushing Magnus off the mountain." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0a172eb | remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not. | mind | Rodman Philbrick | |
| e41ef2b | We can't choose what we want and don't want and that's the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it's going to kill us. We can't escape who we are. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3912abd | Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown. | Margaret Atwood |