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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc2ae96 | There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. | christopher-paolini eragon reading | Christopher Paolini | |
| e83dfee | Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 3ad476a | From the inheritance series book one Eragon. Broom The sands of time cannot be stopped years pass whether we will them or not, but we can remember.......what has been lost may yet live on in memories, that which you will hear is imperfect and fragmented yet treasure it for without you it does not exist. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| aa82aa6 | How do I look to him?" she asked herself. She got up and brought a long mirror towards the window. She stood it on the floor against a chair. Then she sat down in front of it on the rug and, facing it, slowly opened her legs. The sight was enchanting. The skin was flawless, the vulva, roseate and full. She thought it was like the gum plant leaf with its secret milk that the pressure of the finger could bring out, the odorous moisture that c.. | delta-of-venus | Anaïs Nin | |
| 504b560 | If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 13f735c | One noteworthy study suggests that people who suppress negative emotions tend to leak those emotions later in unexpected ways. The psychologist Judith Grob asked people to hide their emotions when she showed them disgusting images. She even had them hold pens in their mouths to prevent them from frowning. She found that this group reported feeling less disgusted by the pictures than did those who'd been allowed to react naturally. Later, ho.. | perception | Susan Cain | |
| adabf45 | It's not that I'm so smart," said Einstein, who was a consummate introvert. "It's that I stay with problems longer." | Susan Cain | ||
| 4bec383 | It's safe to be in love with someone you know you'll never have. Nothing is really risked when you know you can't lose. He was a distraction, an excuse, and a friend. No more, no less. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 818f0d1 | Little things please little minds. | Ken Follett | ||
| e9f4ff4 | It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl. | Ken Follett | ||
| b2f6947 | A problem is something to solve," Phillip says. "If there's no solution, it's not a problem, so stop treating it like one." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 023601f | Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn't hear it in time. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 2bdea87 | My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ca43ddb | Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 39dfb3e | Each creature had something it excelled at, he supposed. Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3116fc9 | I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fa2a7e7 | Stop," Kincaid said in a calm voice. "Unclench." "Unclench what?" Murphy demanded. "Unclench your ass." " me?" "You're going to trip the beam. You need another quarter inch. Relax." "I am relaxed," Murphy growled. "Oh," Kincaid said. "Damn, great ass then." | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| eff6025 | But the Courts aren't places humans are supposed to be, especially the Unseelie Court. Most faeries won't even go there." "We have to go - we have to get Ravus's heart. He's going to die if we don't." "What are we going to do? Go down there and ask for it?" "Pretty much." | Holly Black | ||
| dd7cc99 | Nicasia said that as mortal power grows, land and sea ought to be united. And that they would be, either in the way she hoped or the way I should fear." "Ominous," I say. "It seems I have a singular taste for women who threaten me." | mortal ominous power threaten women | Holly Black | |
| 98b7c6c | He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies. | Holly Black | ||
| 785bff2 | You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat. | Holly Black | ||
| c0b673c | I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a lightning bolt. And I'm sorry, because yeah, I get that you think I'm ridiculous. I get that you think I'm hilarious. I know, I get that you're mocking me. I get how stupid I am, but at least I know. | Holly Black | ||
| ddd9262 | You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don't know who I am at all. And either way I'm not happy. | Holly Black | ||
| c505433 | The Lady or The Tiger,' ... 'My lady, the tiger, | Holly Black | ||
| 804df13 | Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever! | life pain sadness | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| f22f60e | This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 394d614 | All these books are published in Heaven. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 051d9b2 | Not even the human imagination satisfies the endless emptiness of the soul. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| f814137 | There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. | aspire equal goals individual | R.A. Salvatore | |
| b4ff1fa | Supposing there was justice for all, after all? For every unheeded beggar, every harsh word, every neglected duty, every slight... every choice... Because that was the point, wasn't it? You had to choose. You might be right, you might be wrong, but you had to choose, knowing that the rightness or wrongness might never be clear or even that you were deciding between two sorts of wrong, that there was no right anywhere. And always, always, yo.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c6d77fd | I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cbdbe35 | There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 603a0b4 | That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ef0ea7b | Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped. | singing | Terry Pratchett | |
| f413209 | Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?' 'Yes,' said Tiffany. 'Good. Now ... if you trust in yourself ...' 'Yes?' '... and believe in your dreams ...' 'Yes?' '... and follow your star ...' Miss Tick went on. 'Yes?' '... you'll still get beaten by people who spent THEIR time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5a48d70 | Knowledge equals power... The string was important. After a while the Librarian stopped. He concentrated all his powers of librarianship. Power equals energy... People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library. Energy equals matter... He s.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ca82d32 | And give me some coffee. Black as midnight on a moonless night." Harga looked surprised. That wasn't like Vimes. "How black's that, then?" he said. "Oh, pretty damn black, I should think." "Not necessarily." "What?" "You get more stars on a moonless night. Stands to reason. They show up more. It can be quite bright on a moonless night." Vimes sighed. "An overcast moonless night?" he said. Harga looked carefully at his coffee pot. "Cumulus o.. | Terry Pratchett Pratchett | ||
| 84415a3 | Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6ab47e6 | The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time. | philosophy | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9cae4f9 | Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don't seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there's a bridge now. | death ferryman | Terry Pratchett | |
| de9edda | Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. | humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| d1c2069 | Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e1187ff | He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity. " | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d5e7506 | If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone's wallets. | humor thievery | Terry Pratchett |