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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| adc331e | Well, isn't that interesting. (Bubba) I ain't your science experiment, Bubba. I don't want to be interesting and I definitely don't want to be a nubby treat for the zombies. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d6c9e22 | And when it comes to questioning people, I have a lot more finesse than High King Let's Beat The Shit Out Of Them Until They Answer Us. The nonviolent art of interrogating someone is totally lost on Kip. (Syn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 705e8a2 | Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 14e2e1d | He made a sound of disgust in the back of his throat. "Oh thank you so much. That's what every man wants to hear about his name. You might as well call me 'Little Pecker' while you're at it and tell me you would love to have me go shopping with you for feminine hygiene products. Oh and by all means, carry a big, sparkling pink bag with flowers on it and make me hold it." | sarcasm | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 309ef3c | No se puede vivir sin amar | Malcolm Lowry | ||
| 6c3d3b0 | He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy. | Elizabeth George | ||
| 8a02ebc | George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day--another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| b32e0ee | He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do." | fairy sue-bridehead trickster unrequited-love | Thomas Hardy | |
| f3a79fd | Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo. | culture david-marbury-lewis evolve future misattributed past survival | Wade Davis | |
| a3e8e1b | Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see. | christmas | Chris Van Allsburg | |
| 8443934 | Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would.. | Graham Greene | ||
| f1543a8 | Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. | Graham Greene | ||
| ba9177e | All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow. | Graham Greene | ||
| 35f8fff | We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. | life resignation | Graham Greene | |
| ea3c62a | The kitchen] was also messy--delightfully so, thought Jane--and it didn't look as though lots of cooking went on there. There was a laptop computer on the counter with duck stickers on it, the spice cabinet was full of Ben's toy trucks, and Jane couldn't spot a cookbook anywhere. This is the kitchen of a Thinker, she decided, and promised herself that she'd never bother with cooking, either. | home kitchens | Jeanne Birdsall | |
| a90b998 | If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you've broken the news, so that you're forced to be there when someone's life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn't bother them - such people are not to be trusted. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 1dea31c | The Knowing Afterwards, when we have slept, paradise- comaed and woken, we lie a long time looking at each other. I do not know what he sees, but I see eyes of surpassing tenderness and calm, a calm like the dignity of matter. I love the open ocean blue-grey-green of his iris, I love the curve of it against the white, that curve the sight of what has caused me to come, when he's quite still, deep inside me. I have never seen a cu.. | lovers making-love sensuality | Sharon Olds | |
| e5d222c | I gave Paul a withering look but the truth was I was curious as hell. First of all, to find out what Sullivan wanted. And second, to see what a teacher's room looked like. I'd always sort of figured they came out during the day to teach classes and then got stored in shoe boxes under someone's bed until they were needed again. (James) | Maggie Stiefvater | ||
| ff59247 | Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 91b36c1 | So who the hell, exactly, are these guys, the boys and girls in the trenches? You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base. The business, as respected three-star chef Scott Bryan explains it, attracts 'fringe elements', people fo.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 4a2e8ec | You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?"(Elizabeth Ombersley) "No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!" "Augustus," announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, "will be remembe.. | marriage siblings | Georgette Heyer | |
| 09e7a7d | How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 131fe2b | The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 3ffb239 | The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown. | Peter Ackroyd | ||
| 60c9ce6 | Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 234e76f | Okay greasers, you've had it. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| c8ab6ea | O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. | inspirational political sexuality social women | Audre Lorde | |
| 11cef0a | Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!" | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 90c8ad6 | The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 14c1688 | Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought . | Amy Hempel | ||
| 96f111f | The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made? | Amy Hempel | ||
| 10a3964 | I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back. | Amy Hempel | ||
| dc0c42e | Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, concludes, "Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important--all the data indicate--for life success than your IQ or your grades." | Michio Kaku | ||
| 09fd628 | Truly there is no such thing as finality. | Bram Stoker | ||
| f2c1074 | It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. | humanity people resilience | Bram Stoker | |
| d6e9b82 | You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left a.. | marriage | Oscar Wilde | |
| d2f6d80 | Even things that are true can be proved. | truth | Oscar Wilde | |
| efe4e52 | When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 974c93c | A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can have our emotions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing emotions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine. The intellectual and emotional life of ordinary people is a very contemptible affair. Just as they borrow their ideas from a sort of circulating library of thought---the.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 17111e9 | None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark... | Joseph Delaney | ||
| 87160ea | The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality. | reality science | Richard Dawkins | |
| f5213fd | There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 1e816cc | Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 6cce0ed | Yes,' he cried, 'you have killed my love! You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid. My God! how mad I was to love you! What a fool I have been! You are.. | Oscar Wilde |