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ba2ba6e I crouched on the beam. The bunnycat shivered less than a foot away. "Here . . . " Bunny? Kitty? "Here, cute creature thing . . . Don't be scared." Ilona Andrews
0da0bdd Awesome. I'd terrified the Legatus of the Golden Legion just by showing him my sword. If I waved it around, he'd probably explode. landon sword Ilona Andrews
98932f7 And Raphael will be joining us," Andrea said. "So you get twice the backup. Nobody will be killing you on our watch." So that was what this was all about. I got a cookie after all. "Aww. I had no idea you cared. I'm touched." "You should be." Andrea bit another bacon slice. "I'm willing to abandon the tender embrace of my future mother-in-law for your sake." "About that," Aunt B said. "I'm coming, too." Dear God, the cookie was poisoned." 1.. aunt-b humour kate-daniels poisoned-cookie Ilona Andrews
8095015 Punch any of mine, and I'll break your arm off and beat you to death with it. Ilona Andrews
7aa22b1 I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half." Ilona Andrews
bbe5395 I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea's neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend's windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas. Ilona Andrews
2e8804c What is it you want from me, Hugh?" "Short term, I'd like you to say my name with a please attached to it. I'd like to walk into Jester Park with you on my arm." [...] "Long term, I want to win. And I will win, Kate. You'll put up a good fight, but eventually you'll be sleeping in my bed and fighting with me back to back. We'll be good together. I promise you." "What part of no don't you understand?" "The part where I don't get what I want... Ilona Andrews
b24f71c Your master plan has holes big enough to drive a truck through. Ilona Andrews
b567c20 Some men were handsome. Some were powerful. Curran was...dangerous. Ilona Andrews
13514dd All men are liars. All women are liars, too. Ilona Andrews
b67d94f I had been hugged by a giant, superintelligent, pacifist bear. I could do this. I could do anything. Ilona Andrews
a6ed4af They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make the decision to hurt him and then do it. Ilona Andrews
2fa4728 She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life. Ilona Andrews
6930f6e Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies. last-breath morganville-vampires oliver rachel-caine Rachel Caine
e583c3a As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we di.. Alcoholics Anonymous
9c76683 Fire is His head, the sun and moon His eyes, space His ears, the Vedas His speech, the wind His breath, the universe His heart. From His feet the Earth has originated. Verily, He is the inner self of all beings. Anonymous
d977a0a Dear Hunger Games : Screw you for helping cowards pretend you have to be great with a bow to fight evil. You don't need to be drafted into a monkey-infested jungle to fight evil. You don't need your father's light sabre, or to be bitten by a radioactive spider. You don't need to be stalked by a creepy ancient vampire who is basically a pedophile if you're younger than a redwood. Screw you mainstream media for making it look like moral coura.. mainstream-media media movies philosophy Stefan Molyneux
e367223 From the dear comes grief; From the dear comes fear. If you're freed from the dear You'll have no grief, let alone fear. buddhist fear grief loss v-212 Anonymous
ebf3d55 And swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth; for Allah loveth not any arrogant boaster. Anonymous
29c1203 WHOEVER TALKS ABOUT WHAT DOES NOT CONCERN HIM, OFTEN HEARS WHAT DOES NOT PLEASE HIM! Anonymous
1199f8b Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run. Adolfo Bioy Casares
62fa7a8 A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this. new-year C.J. Cherryh
f8d8525 The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. Victor Hugo
6c74392 But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength. hunchback-of-notre-dame quasimodo victor-hugo Victor Hugo
c61b3d5 by making himself a priest made himself a demon. Victor Hugo
37328c8 where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? life philosophy Victor Hugo
2d5d610 mdm thmW@ - bsbb mn lqnwn wl`rf - hlkun jtm`y ykhlq Sn`y w`l~ mra~ mn lHDr@ wmsm` , Drwban mn ljHym `l~ l'rD , wy`qd fy qD bshry mHtwm mSyran hw lhyun , mdmt mshklt l`Sr lthlth "lHT mn qdr lrjl blfqr , wtHTym krm@ lmr'@ bljw` , wtqzym lTfwl@ bljhl" lmW tuHl b`d , mdm lkhtnq ljtm`y mmknan myzl ... mdm `l~ Zhr hdhh l'rD jhlun wbw's , fn kutban mthl hdh lktb lymkn 'n tkwn Gyra dhti Gn" فيكتور-هيجو Victor Hugo
fcc9e61 He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends. book-quotes books love-of-books love-of-reading reader reading Victor Hugo
a105fb8 Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. 'The Spirit is a garden,' said he Victor Hugo
4209e9e To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment. Victor Hugo
ddf0bf4 Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. The little five-year-old boy, on hearing this hubbub overhead, and chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but .. gavroche horror humor les-mis les-misérables rats victor-hugo Victor Hugo
58adb3d There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself. Leo Tolstoy
f6c79f7 I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life. inspirational-life philosophy Leo Tolstoy
32b6a6f Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child. children father parenting religion Leo Tolstoy
d7467bc Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I. knowledge life philosophy Leo Tolstoy
eff9845 We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read- Mark Twain Leo Tolstoy jane austen CHARLES DICKENS Victor Hugo
5e4e71b This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go. Daniel Wallace
8c664b5 If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowin.. Charlotte Brontë
da2e57b I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities. Charlotte Brontë
94a0341 Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb. pessimism Charlotte Brontë
d918ca2 She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern. reconstruction scarlett-o-hara Margaret Mitchell
b6fa5b0 For love is a celestial harmony Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent, Which join together in sweet sympathy, To work each other's joy and true content, Which they have harbour'd since their first descent Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see And know each other here belov'd to be. love platonic-love religion Edmund Spenser
ea8cf19 But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. inspirational into-the-wild Jon Krakauer
0f6f21c It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.... Jon Krakauer