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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f96156 | He could think in . Such people need watching. Preferably from a safe distance. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c8312a0 | Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum." -- | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fce8722 | Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges. | learning weaponry wolves | Terry Pratchett | |
| cd88a94 | It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6b45164 | Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you. | inspirational meaningful | Terry Pratchett | |
| 244b3ee | People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0573163 | And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important. | tiffany-aching | Terry Pratchett | |
| b16052a | There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| aa93302 | Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 976e75a | Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 1b1149a | Very few people meet their soulmates at age six. So you gotta pass the time somehow. And Ingrid was very - patient. Overly patient. Willing to put up with odd behavior, in the hope that someday I would shape up and marry her martyred ass. And when somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense? | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| d742c62 | My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 3031322 | You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions. | jess motivational | Susan Mallery | |
| c419273 | I'd unboxed so much china from funeral sales and broken-up households that there was something almost unspeakably sad about the pristine, gleaming displays, with their tacit assurance that shiny new tableware promised an equally shiny and tragedy-free future. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 403de34 | If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don't think, 'oh I love this painting because it's universal' 'I love this painting because it speaks to mankind'. That's not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It's a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes, you. An individual heart shock. . . .A really great painting is fluid enought to work its way into the mind and hea.. | painting | Donna Tartt | |
| 1aa45fd | with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7d0709c | White Sky. Trees fading at the skyline, the mountains gone. My hands dangled from the cuffs of my jacket as if they weren't my own. I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew -the outline of a single tree standing in for a grove, lamp-posts and chimneys floating up out of context before the surrounding canvas .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7f5a4f4 | Hard to put things right. You don't often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 52fa2ef | Matters progressed. | Donna Tartt | ||
| b8595ae | And, increasingly, I find myself fixing on that refusal to pull back. Because I don't care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here's the truth: life is catastrophe. The basic fact of existence--of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do--is catastrophe. Forget all this ridiculous 'O.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| fa5a97c | but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's. | comic-sans | Charles Stross | |
| 4330b15 | Not long, not long my father said Not long shall you be ours The Raven King knows all too well Which are the fairest flowers. The priest was all too worldly Though he prayed and rang his bell The Raven King three candles lit The priest said it was well Her arms were all too feeble Though she claimed to love me so The Raven King stretched out his hand She sighed and let me go The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles .. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| a2a8ab5 | It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 69e95fd | It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality." | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 9dd5e24 | In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires." "Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o'clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on t.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| b217792 | Whenever you have a sorcerer betwixt your thighs, your powers tend to disappear | Kresley Cole | ||
| 5489809 | Myst hasn't returned yet, But you know that, or else you'd both be naked and fornicating on the front lawn" "The night's young. Give us time, and it was a field a mile away." A Valkyrie and Nikolai Wroth pg 322" | myst wroth | Kresley Cole | |
| 164d020 | Cannibals need love too. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 29b907b | Furie had once asked her, "Why would you ever send a man to do a woman's job?" Confused, Myst had answered, "Because I can." | Kresley Cole | ||
| e653e79 | She remember her granny telling her, 'Men are like coal boilers, Ellie. If you find a man you reckon to keep, you got to feed his belly every day, make him burn for you, then release some steam purty regular, or you ain't ever gonna get him to work. | Kresley Cole | ||
| f3f5872 | Sabine gave a Scoff. " I could be virtuous, if I wanted to be." In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't know the meaning of virtue!" "Of course I do - it means your thong must be white." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0f054ea | He stalked up behind her to clench her hips, and she stilled. In a breathy voice, she asked, "You're going to make love to me again, aren't you?" In answer,he lifted her onto the counter, tore off her shift, then pressed her naked body back into the blooms." | romance sex | Kresley Cole | |
| 6af7af0 | Vampire females are as good as extinct." Thad was aghast. "No females?" Natalya patted his shoulder. "You can date other species, Tiger. Don't you worry. I've already thought of some ladies to relieve you of your big V. One's a nymph--" "Over my dead body," Regin said. "Two-bit hookers, every one of them." Thad scratched his head. "Mr. Lothaire said every male needed a purring nymph or two chained to the foot of his bed. As pets." Natalya g.. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9145b30 | Look it Gollum, if you spring me, I'll help you find your Precious.--Regin | kresley cole | ||
| 7415530 | Tell me, if I take you to my room and put you in my bed, what do you think would happen?" "I can draw you a diagram. Hint: I'm slot B, and you're tab A." -- | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 8685c59 | It's B.Y.O.S. Bring Your Own Sacrifice. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 06b7712 | nix: "Do it, or the pictures go live!" Witch shakes her fist at the sky, crying, "Damn you, Valkyrie! Damn you and your digital ways!" | Kresley Cole | ||
| bc64194 | I think when you are born an angel should say to you, hopefully kindly and not in that fake voice of an airline attendant: Here you go on this long, long dream. Don't even try to wake up. Just let it go until it is over. You will learn many things. Just relax and observe because there just is pain and that's it mostly and you aren't going to be able to escape no matter what. Eventually it will all be over anyway. Good Luck. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 0650123 | Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when you've split yourself open. And when they see you, guts shining, brain pulsing, heart right there exposed in a rhythm that beats need need, need need, need need, pianos do not run. And so she plays. | piano pianos | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 6d9cf3e | Found, I told myself. Try to get found. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 04a9369 | For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership. | sin | R.C. Sproul | |
| f7e209b | There are only two ways that God's justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God's presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made. | justice salvation | R.C. Sproul | |
| b9aa8f2 | Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tenderness in her, so much of wanting to give of herself to whoever needed what she had, whether it was her money, her time, the clothes off her back, her pity, her understanding, her friendship or her companionship and love. She was mother to everything that came her way. She loved men, yes. She loved women too, and old people and especially children.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 5daa78f | You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word. | Jeanette Winterson |