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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8cb3d7e | Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle. | William Goldman | ||
| 3cc8e05 | But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself while in his jail cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If m.. | the-don the-godfather vendetta | Mario Puzo | |
| 92711c8 | When they come... they come at what you love. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 914ace4 | Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle. | pets | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 91dd130 | To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that's a trophy enough for a guy's ego, huh? | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| ebad9a7 | Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. | Hannah Arendt | ||
| 8c39007 | America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 25b721b | Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains | permanence rest unchanging | Stephen R. Donaldson | |
| 163e7dc | Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey. | Glen Cook | ||
| 817c196 | The sole cause of a man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 833d22b | a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it. | persephone | Edith Hamilton | |
| 3d0f6c6 | Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love. | Hayao Miyazaki | ||
| 9bd4622 | Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 14b0cab | And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her. | Emily Giffin | ||
| a81b916 | Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team. | love | Emily Giffin | |
| 67ac8dd | Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1259501 | I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. | doubt sex women | Irvine Welsh | |
| 886cb2c | Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said. | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | ||
| 3cd0d84 | Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can't know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?...Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine. | David Almond | ||
| b4b686a | There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it. | david-almond evil joy kit-s-wilderness | David Almond | |
| 2c81894 | He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end, where the reader was assured that the knight and the fair maiden lived together happily ever after. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 5222d7f | Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 0a0de58 | Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 199aae5 | If life didn't change, it wouldn't be life, it'd be a photograph. | David Mitchell | ||
| bf9fa7d | Calvin: Somewhere in Communist Russia I'll bet there's a little boy who has never known anything but censorship and oppression. But maybe he's heard of America, and he dreams of living in this land of freedom and opportunity! Someday, I'd like to meet that little boy...and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin's Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid lima beans. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 57ce3ae | The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting. | David Mitchell | ||
| 67095d8 | Do ants get headaches? | David Mitchell | ||
| 303cd49 | Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. | David Mitchell | ||
| 379fce0 | However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 4d4883b | I go where the lizards tell me. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 28cd5cc | He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others." | peace war | Scott Westerfeld | |
| a67c474 | So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 2882921 | Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 215da47 | Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 577bb39 | You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| e1e0bc6 | If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it. | Harry Crews | ||
| cf94334 | A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us. | Connie Willis | ||
| 6e65622 | Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time. | management paperwork | Connie Willis | |
| 1a4bb80 | Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again. | Colum McCann | ||
| 726f75a | My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 6a5a572 | If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you. | Penny Reid | ||
| 1e3562b | The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more. | gladness love sadness | G.K. Chesterton | |
| c535b0a | The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called "Keep to-morrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 5bea5df | there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism. We see a similar reaction in painting and in music. It's a preoccupation suddenly with the surface rather than the depth. So you get, for example, Picasso and Braque making all kinds of experiments with the actual surface of the painting. That becomes the interesting thing, much more interesting than t.. | Philip Pullman |