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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 38ec3a6 | His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs. | Richard Bachman | ||
| 2d3523a | Another time, another place. | goodbyes | Richard Bachman | |
| 8b074e1 | sie wurden Christus personlich uberfallen, um ein Pfund Salami zu ergattern. | richard-bachmann stephen-king | Richard Bachman | |
| cd50768 | Pero era evidente que le habia dolido. Le habia dolido antes, de la peor manera, al advertir que el dejaria de existir mientras el universo seguiria girando igual que siempre, intacto e insensible. | Richard Bachman | ||
| 852c559 | If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake. | pessimism | Richard Bachman Stephen King | |
| d8bdd1d | I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| a6b7590 | There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.' I meditate in the bath.The water needs to be very hot, so hot you can barely stand putting your foot in it. Then you lower yourself, inch by inch, till the water's up to .. | bathtub hot-baths tub | Sylvia Plath | |
| bb2acdb | I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up." | married sylvia-plath the-bella-jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| 4c6e2c2 | In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 306647e | My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. | human | Aimee Bender | |
| db89ba9 | Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live." | patience relationships | Orson Scott Card | |
| a47079c | Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty. | disorder order | Orson Scott Card | |
| d35058f | there's me, Gurth, Dotti, Grenn an' about a hunnerd shrews. If'n we wants to lie 'round for a day or two then you'll find yore prob'ly outvoted!" Lord Brocktree's eyes told the otter that he was not about to have his decision overruled. Swinging forth his battle blade, he stuck it quivering into the ground. "Lets's be reasonable about this, friend. Let me explain the rules. One Badger Lord carries two hundred votes and his sword carries ano.. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 853b389 | Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. --Luthe | Robin McKinley | ||
| e754003 | There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 1313bb8 | He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b4a3462 | Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. | Gore Vidal | ||
| baaba2e | We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing. | lonliness relationships solitude | Gore Vidal | |
| 40eb79b | What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave.. | english-literature university work | Margaret Atwood | |
| b6bcc15 | the difference between stupid and ignorant was that ignorant could learn. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ac1c8ee | To go from a familiar thing, however undesirable, into the unknown, is always a matter for apprehension, and I suppose that is why so many people are afraid to die. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| d9b6443 | It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| bf8a020 | You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it. | humor-inspirational | Margaret Atwood | |
| 58e051f | Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| d6970de | Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. Right. Yes. The usual choices. | love | margaret atwood | |
| 5945ee5 | That's right' said the fox. 'To me, you are still just a little boy like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me, either. To you, I am just a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we shall need one another,. To me, you will be unique. And I shall be unique to you. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 9d4a555 | We kissed again. It grew deeper; Alex wrapped his arms around me, drawing me close against him. His back was smooth and warm. I ran my hands over it as we kissed, loving the feel of his skin, and almost went faint as his lips moved briefly to my neck and then found my mouth again. In my entire life, nothing had ever felt as good as Alex kissing me like that. When we finally pulled apart, both our hearts were pounding. I cleared my throat, s.. | L.A. Weatherly | ||
| 051dbc6 | He rounded the table, shrugging out of his zipped hoodie. "You want some of this?" Stuff always got real when the clothes started to come off." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| facd722 | Words could cut just as deep as sharpened claws, and while the skin could heal, the wounds words left behind never faded as quickly. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 64d20e3 | I am your father." He glanced at Seth and smirked. "That's the second Star Wars nod. Keeping track?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 01ec20b | And that kind of love is more important than anything right now, Lexie. It's going to keep you sane. It's always gonna remind you of who you are. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1e967b9 | Something in what Deacon said caused Aiden to string together an atrocity of f-bombs. My brows flew up. Aiden rarely cussed or lost his cool, but boy, he was a grenade whose pin had just been pulled. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7d65967 | It was almost cute, I thought, except I don't do cute. But I wanted to do her. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8155960 | He followed me around the edge of the bed. "I've been told my lips can make a girl forget just about anything. You should try it out." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 564e869 | Sometimes I worry for you, Deacon," he said, his lips curving up on one side. "I ain't who you should be worrying about." Deacon jerked his head at me. "Little Miss 'I Gotta Be A Martyr' over there is the one you should be concerned with." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fe93642 | What? Do rolly-pollys not have basic manners or any personal boundaries? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4d34fc0 | You gave Tink a scarf. Tink is free!" He flew out into the hallway like a little cracked-out fairy, screeching, "Tink is freeeeee!" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d2953b5 | Their eyes met then, and it was like they forgot that anyone else was in the room. It was just them. I understood the kind of connection they had. I had it with Daeomon, but I wondered if we looked as love-struck as they did. "You do," Archer commented softly. Ah, well, that was kind of embarrassing. "Yes, it is," he added." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ae2f7d0 | And I was normally a pretty emotional person. In any given day, I experienced a hundred different things like I was trying ice cream flavors. | covenant-series jennifer-l-armentrout sentinel | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| cf8de9f | Katy. Her name was Katy. Reminded me of Kitty. Kitty cat. Kitten. Look at me, putting all these words together. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| aab5487 | And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted -- nevermore! | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 33f35d7 | THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed w.. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 68df559 | I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever. | Darren Shan | ||
| 88f3046 | When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side." | Darren Shan |