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fef2726 Then you're dead, too, sweet little sister.' Oh, yes,' said Valentine. 'They'll believe that. "I didn't know it would kill Andrew. And when he was dead, I didn't know it will kill Valentine too." Orson Scott Card
f08b18e there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world. Orson Scott Card
2e92fbe Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. ender poke Orson Scott Card
d14dec9 So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. good-people human-nature hypocrisy pretending roles the-truth Orson Scott Card
0a08503 Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice." I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire." Orson Scott Card
d8c3006 Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you thanks Robin McKinley
f8e3df1 The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters gardening Thomas Jefferson
6526f8f This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called watches? Where, heu, heu, is the connection?' Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of course. Patrick O'Brian
d14ea35 You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget. Henning Mankell
0c3d900 I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself. the-coma Alex Garland
bd29b0c You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be. Nora Ephron
d972137 It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van. Anthony Burgess
be37841 I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. she perfumed my planet and lit up my life. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
e0760c0 Well, wrap me up and call me a Christmas baby. Hunter with a female - a female. Jennifer L. Armentrout
4496554 I ran over a squirrel once." Blinking open my eyes, I drew back as far as she'd let me. "What?" "I ran over a squirrel the second time I ever drove a car," she repeated. "I also hit a deer. And when I was seventeen, I clipped a cat. Before I left for college, I backed into a dog." "Gods," I muttered." killing seth Jennifer L. Armentrout
0fbdd5c Dr. Roth: Daemon: Jennifer L. Armentrout
d890718 What?" She flushed the prettiest shade of pink. "You didn't bring me any undies. And honestly, I'm not wearing anyone else's." My hands slid up her calves. "I have absolutely no problem with that. Whatsoever. Like, ever. And ever. Forever. You get me?" Jennifer L. Armentrout
69b8c5b There's a McDonald's down the street. We'll get you a Happy Meal. Maybe that'll make you happier. Jennifer L. Armentrout
9edb9a0 Well, aren't you just a special snowflake," Daemon murmured. "That I am." Archer's lips quirked into a half grin." Jennifer L. Armentrout
5ce4c24 I love you Kat, Always Have. Always Will. katy-and-daemon katy-swartz Jennifer L. Armentrout
9b4e530 Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" -- Merely this, and nothing more" Edgar Allan Poe
87c522e I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: - I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, Edgar Allan Poe
a8de54c There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. H.G. Wells
4ad7e19 By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. H.G. Wells
90ce716 Oh, my dear! I'm afraid you've mistaken me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you're so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s. audrey-hepburn funny lol percy-jackson rhea-silvia Rick Riordan
2f1e0d8 For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest WHAT IF. Rick Riordan
5276f61 Let me get this straight. Your table ran away because you polished it with Windex? Rick Riordan
de4d489 My mother made a squeaking sound that might of been either "yes" or "help". Poseidon took it as a yes and came in. Paul was looking back and forth between us, trying to read our expressions. Finally he stepped forward. "Hi, I'm Paul Blofis." Poseidon raised an eyebrow and then shook his hand. "Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish. I am Poseidon." "Poseidon? That's an.. Rick Riordan
e5c607e When in doubt, start from the top. -Jason Grace Rick Riordan
0624f00 My dear children!" Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack. "Ow!" Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye. "Nellie!" Amy said. "Sorry," Nellie muttered. "I thought he was one of the bad guys." bad-guys nellie-gomez the39clues Rick Riordan
b7e6f49 Staying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done. Rick Riordan
97377a9 Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right. Rick Riordan
d9c77f2 Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real -- brutally honest, inescapably dependable. Rick Riordan
5dfe268 Jason looked like her was trying to figure out an equation. "Let me get this straight. Your table ran away ... because you polished him with windex." -- heroes-of-olympus jason-grace leo-valdez piper-mclean rick-riordan Rick Riordan
0b823ab Plus, humor is a good way to hide the pain. - Leo Rick Riordan
95a9ef0 I have some extra costumes-" "No!" Ephialtes snapped, and for once Percy was in agreement." Rick Riordan
409c736 You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends. Rick Riordan
8b6c07e I started to dream, which was weird not only because I was dead, but because I never dream. People have tried to argue with me about that. They say everybody dreams and I just don't remember mine. But, I'm telling you, I always slept like the dead. Until I dead. Then I dreamed like a normal person. Rick Riordan
e6d08e4 If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no! Rick Riordan
171b1f4 We all do, kid. People have destructive impulses. Some of us want to see the world in ruins just for the fun of it... even if we're ruined along with it. Rick Riordan
44274d5 He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. Rick Riordan
4865325 Ah, but I'm wise ," Athena said. "Wise enough to make you do it instead." Rick Riordan
648d6a8 I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean... I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I-I don't..." denial-of-feelings Rick Riordan
96ca188 I didn't know baboons could drive recreational vehicles, but Khufu did okay. When I woke up around dawn, he was navigating through the early morning rush hour in Houston, baring his fangs and barking a lot, and none of the other drivers seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary. Rick Riordan