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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8e01fc8 | And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6a5491a | I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. | writing-craft | Ray Bradbury | |
| 4818f80 | All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 577123e | The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind. | god | Timothy B. Tyson | |
| 1893c2b | Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable? | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 930dace | Why you can't trust women. Even young girls. Can't know what the fuck they are thinking, can't know what they are feeling, can't know how they will surprise you except to know it won't be a surprise you will like. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 4b39196 | There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 1a59e94 | Ah, you fight like a sissy demon. (Takeshi) Sissy demon? Have you ever met a sissy demon? (Savitar) I killed three this morning. (Takeshi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 0195941 | Elena?" "Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising." | elena lovelife nick | Kelley Armstrong | |
| ca319b4 | One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 8f81791 | Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| a2bfded | You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in it this minute, today, the way people believe in 1685 -- all you have to do is see his face, his voice when he says the word... and than you know that anyone who can imagine Hell has the power to make it real for other people. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 59da1c0 | The truth is not always useful, not always good. It's like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 78b1bb7 | If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me! | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 49efb8c | no two writers go about things in exactly the same way (intro) | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 0663fa7 | Option three: Edward loved me. The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brillant or perfect than me he might me, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine. Was that what I'd been trying to tell myself? "Oh!" "Bella?" "Oh. Okay. I see." "Your epithany?" he asked, his voice uneven and.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| aace649 | Honestly, Edward." I felt a thrill go through me as I said his name, and I hated it. "I can't keep up with you. I thought you didn't want to be my friend." "I said it would be better if we weren't friends, not that I didn't want to be." "Oh, thanks, now that's all cleared up." Heavy sarcasm. I realized I had stopped walking again. We were under the shelter of the cafeteria roof now, so I could more easily look at his face. Which certainly d.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 055c1fd | I didn't realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. 'I do,' I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. 'I do,' he vowed. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 2e3828a | I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you. | rosalie twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 553f009 | I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5c8d88c | I didn't drop my arms when his anguish quieted; I was in no hurry to let him go. It seemed as though my body had been starving for this from the beginning, but I'd never understood before now what would feed the hunger. The mysterious bond of mother and child--so strong on this planet--was not a mystery to me any longer. There was no bond greater than one that required your life for another's. I'd understood this truth before; what I had no.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 217c333 | He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8243603 | There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 614b789 | The face is the soul of the body. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| 1a9f4e4 | The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| a6d2599 | If you don't know where your're going, you should know where you came from. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| caaf9f3 | All life long, the same questions, the same answers. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| df3ccd8 | When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line. | forest logic malone-dies molloy page-94 part-1 part-i sly the-unnamable wit | Samuel Beckett | |
| bdc7b5e | I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 236152f | As I got older, I got craftier and less obvious, but I've always put a lot of energy and effort into people liking me. That's why I've never understood the compliment "effortless." People love to say: "She just walked into the party, charming people with her effortless beauty." I don't understand that at all. What's so wrong with effort, anyway? It means you care. What about the girl who "walked into the party, her determination to please a.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 58c11d8 | An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. | writing | Ruth Ozeki | |
| cded63f | There are lots of superheroes with different superpowers, and some of them are big and flashy, like super strength and super speed, and molecular restructuring, and force fields. But these abilities are really not so different from the superpower stuff that old Jiko could do, like moving superslow, or reading people's minds, or appearing in doorways, or making people feel okay about themselves by just being there. | grandma japan love superheroes superpowers | Ruth Ozeki | |
| 2e95f08 | Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power. - Jim Morrison | Demi Lovato | ||
| 6963793 | The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected. | Jim Morrison | ||
| 284cc0a | At this stage of the game, I don't have the time for patience and tolerance. Ten years ago, even five years ago, I would have listened to people ask their questions, explained to them, mollified them. No more. That time is past. Now, as Norman Mailer said in Naked and the Dead, 'I hate everything which is not in myself.' If it doesn't have a direct bearing on what I'm advocating, if it doesn't augment or stimulate my life and thinking, I do.. | apocalypse-culture existentialism isolation naked-and-the-dead norman-mailer satanism | Anton Szandor LaVey | |
| 24678bf | NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSE To be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wife who washes the socks and the children, and returns phone calls and library books and types. In other words, the reason there are so many more Men Geniuses than Women Geniuses is not Genius. It is because Hemingway never joined the P.T.A. And Arthur Rubinstein ignored Halloween. Do you think Portnoy's creator sits through children's theater matinees--on Saturdays? Or tha.. | muse talent women women-the-arts | Rochelle Distelheim | |
| ff3fe51 | You need to decide whether you're willing to risk being hurt, plain and simple. You can go for it and have a wonderful relationship. Or you might go for it and crash and burn brilliantly. It's up to you if you want to take that risk, up to you if it's worth it or not. | risk | Erin McCarthy | |
| 6c49d52 | After all, we're currently living in a Bizarro society where teenagers are technology-obsessed, where the biggest sellers in every bookstores are fantasy novels about a boy wizard, and the blockbuster hit movies are all full of hobbits and elves or 1960s spandex superheroes. You don't have to go to a Star Trek convention to find geeks anymore. Today, almost everyone is an obsessive, well-informed aficionado of something. Pick your cult: the.. | Ken Jennings | ||
| b3538af | And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given me this idea- and you do poorly, what then? It's over; you're wiped out. All those prophecies you heard in the dark have come true, and people can see the real you, see what a schmendrick you are, what a fraud. | Anne Lamott | ||
| e79228e | And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen. | Anne Lamott | ||
| ca80ba2 | After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. | Anne Lamott | ||
| c82193b | Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table. | heaven | Anne Lamott | |
| b245703 | Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people across from you on subways or in airport lounges, there but not there. Your eyes keep going back to them, for lack of anything more interesting to look at, and then you feel bad for staring. | Mary Roach | ||
| f234459 | We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others. | Amy Tan |