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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 61ba540 | I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end. 'In the end'? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends. | Alan Moore | ||
| 6b8c922 | A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? | Alan Moore | ||
| 6b901ef | And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from t.. | Alan Moore | ||
| d5ccc72 | And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, 'What may this be?' And it was answered generally thus, 'It is all that is made.' I marveled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts a.. | god love preservation small | Julian of Norwich | |
| 24c4dfd | When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 0193e88 | It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 80cbc79 | What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness? | Julian Barnes | ||
| 04a966b | That man said he'd take your head too." "Well, as to that," Yoren said, "if he can get it off my shoulders, he's welcome to it." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| bdfe0b4 | Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a751420 | I'm named Bella," the girl told Gendry. "For the battle. I bet I could ring bell, too. You want to?" "No," he said gruffly. "I bet you do." She ran a hand along his arm. "I don't cost nothing to friends of Thoros and the lighting lord." " , I said." Gendry rose abruptly and stalked away from the table out into the night. Bella turn to Arya. "Don't he like girls?" Arya shrugged. "He's just stupid. He likes to polish helmets and beat on swo.. | gendry-waters | George R. R. Martin | |
| 2880208 | Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man." | honor jon-snow mance-rayder night-s-watch strength the-wall wildlings | George R.R. Martin | |
| e2cce2b | In my dreams, I kill him every night,' Robert admitted. 'A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves'. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 43bae08 | I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b038dc9 | As well ask what good is life, what good is death? If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f447273 | Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8f3164c | Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid." "What do you think?" his father asked. Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him." | fear | George R.R. Martin | |
| 675b5ba | You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 83d5e30 | I can't kill someone!" "You hit your brother in the head with a fire extinguisher." "But that was family! And I didn't kill him." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 8429e0a | But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too. | teen-idol thatsaquote | Meg Cabot | |
| f3b1a58 | She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us | letting-go | Chris Manby | |
| c0cc188 | But I can't kill anyone,' said Jonathan, 'you know that Orvar!' 'Not even if it means your life?' asked Orvar. 'No, not even then,' said Jonathan. Orvar couldn't understand this and Mattias hardly could, either. 'If everyone were like you,' said Orvar, 'then evil would rule for all eternity!' But then I said that if everyone were like Jonathan, then there would be no evil. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 79c3b68 | There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| d1ed90e | Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 2aa9ce9 | It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, | Sun Tzu | ||
| d6d987d | Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you. | trust | Ishmael Beah | |
| b70bcd5 | and give me insults, give me economic discrimination, give me the darkened parking lot of a windowless queer bar, give me fleets of bigots and books banned in libraries across america, feed the world with lies about my life and plop a second | Michelle Tea | ||
| 3729477 | Hi. I'm Spider Jerusalem. I smoke. I take drugs. I drink. I wash every six weeks. I masturbate constantly and fling my steaming poison semen down from my window into your hair and food. I'm a rich and respected columnist for a major metropolitan newspaper. I live with two beautiful women in the city's most expensive and select community. Being a bastard works. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 0f587a0 | That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song | six-years | Harlan Coben | |
| 8427d42 | The past is the father of the present. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 66a81d1 | nHn n`rf 'nn nqr' Ht~ `ndm ntkhl~ `n `dm tSdyqn , w`ndm nfqd lqrb~ mn lnS ; nHn n`rf lmdh nqr' Ht~ `ndm l n`rf kyf nqr' ; fy lwqt nfsh nHtfZ fy `qwln bl`lm lZhry llnS wntmsk bf`l lqr@ . nn nqr' l'nn nryd l`thwr `l~ lnhy@ . fqT l'nn nryd mwSl@ lqr@ . nHn nqr' klkshf@ ldhyn ytqfwn lkhT~ nsyn kl m Hwlhm mn 'shy . nqr' shrdy ldhhn mtjwzyn b`D lSfHt . nqr' bHtqr , b`jb , bmll , bnz`j , bHms@ , bHsd wshwq . fy b`D l'Hyn t`tryn frH@ Gmr@ mfjy'@ dw.. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 256a7e9 | On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step | history war | Nadeem Aslam | |
| 3af911b | Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 0d805e1 | Nay, nay!" said the Squire. "It's not so easy to break one's heart. Sometimes I've wished it were. But one has to go on living--'all the appointed days,' as is said in the Bible." | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 3716646 | If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it. | suicide | Emma Forrest | |
| 0ab2730 | Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| d9bfc3e | one of those long, romantic novels, six hundred and fifty pages of small print, translated from French or German or Hungarian or something -- because few of the English ones have the exact feeling I mean. And you read one page of it or even one phrase of it, and then you gobble up all the rest and go about in a dream for weeks afterwards, for months afterwards -- perhaps all your life, who knows? -- surrounded by those six hundred and fifty.. | Jean Rhys | ||
| da85cf8 | Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? | heart love | Robin Hobb | |
| 06074c9 | One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future. | life | Robin Hobb | |
| ccfec73 | People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c4ff72b | Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e14d90a | It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. | fitzchivalry-farseer | Robin Hobb | |
| d1acc7d | Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 1047661 | he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9104efd | Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |