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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ab0babc | Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow--for the better--working to deserve each other, was the key. | Penny Reid | ||
| d65de0f | It means my brain finds you more interesting than all the really interesting trivial facts I could be contemplating or researching at present. | Penny Reid | ||
| cf5c422 | The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| c791641 | Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die." -- | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 093856f | What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime. | vindication | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 83245ec | Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud. | best-friends friends friendship martin-amis | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 0e16e3a | I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into.. | medicine | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 1d93e90 | Stop that Stuart," Patty said as Stuart struggled with the suitcases, which were too heavy for him, she thought. (Almost everything was way too heavy for Stuart.)" Just put those down. Besides," Patty said, "where will you go? You don't have anyplace to go." But Stuart took her hand and held it for a moment against his closed eyes, and despite the many occasions when Patty had wanted him to go, and the several occasions when she had tried t.. | Deborah Eisenberg | ||
| 8422832 | Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
| 12f7959 | A word of wisdom to you, akribos, you need to learn to accept gifts. (Catera) There's no such thing as a gift. If I were to take that from you, sooner or later you would ask a favor from me in return. Nothing in life is ever truly given without expectation. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d44edea | May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc) You'd better be glad I'm flattered by that. Otherwise I'd gut you. (Zarek) Ditto. (Jericho) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 72f5eed | Now you know I'm a reporter, so you might as well answer my question truthfully, or I'll just keep asking it until you lose your mind. (Susan) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5d3199d | This is the Malachai? (Jericho) In all his pain in the ass glory. (Acheron) Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f29df3d | How do you know about Boy George? (Jesse) I was in hell, Jesse. What do you think they used to torture me with? Bad pop songs. (Xypher) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4dddf2d | You don't know about Travis Fimmel? Oh, sister, you are deprived. He the finest man alive. (Simi) You lust for men? (Xirena) Well, I certainly don't lust for women. (Simi) No, I mean you lust for humans? (Xirena) Well, don't you? (Simi) Ew! What have you don't to her? You have corrupted a good demon! (Xirena) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7f2566a | Then he will be called Acheron for the River of Woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey shall be dark, long and enduring. He will be able to give life and to take it. He will walk through his life alone and abandoned - ever seeking kindness and ever finding cruelty. May the gods have mercy on you, little one. No one else ever will. (Oracle) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4c78099 | And you haven't been betrayed yet, Nick. You don't know what that's like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8801dfa | Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f138b26 | Guards! Take the bastard out and beat him! (Styxx) Tell me something, brother. What angers you most about me? The fact I share your face or the fact I know exactly what your best friend wants to do to you...and how often? Good to see you again, Lord Dorus, especially clothed. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 127520a | We're not the damned, folks, we're the categorically fucked." -Urian" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5203b8f | If it makes you feel better, I'm not happy with the way all this went down any more than you are. But sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4da17f1 | So, you got QVC? (Simi) Afraid not, sweetie. (Astrid) You got Soap Net? (Zarek shook his head.) You got any TV? (Simi) Sorry. (Zarek) Are you kidding? You boring people. A demon needs her cable. Akri done tricked me. He didn't tell me I'd have to go without cable. (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 67289c0 | Does your manager know that you talk to your customers like this? (Blaine) If you'd like to talk to my mother, who owns this bar, my overindulgent brother, who manages it, or my father, who delights in kicking everyone's ass around, about your treatment by me, just let me know and I'll be more than happy to go get one of them for you. I know they'd just love to waste their time dealing with you. They're real understanding that way. (Aimee) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 04bd39e | You love her. (Shanus) I barely know her. (Wulf) Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f599679 | Not to mention, it'd be worth guarding her just for the eye candy alone - sheez, can you imagine being around that day in and day out. Wonder if she sleeps naked...Bet she showers that way. Every day even. Think about it. I'll even bet she's naked underneath her clothes. (Syn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 663a820 | As the old saying goes, when seconds count the police are just minutes away. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| fb66f0c | Family isn't about the blood you share. It's about the people willing to bleed for you." ---Maris - Born of Fury" | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a79260b | Cop a squat, animals and folks. I don't want to be here any more than the rest of you so make it fast and get out of my hair. Let's quickly run down the bullshit pedagogy. Hear ye...Who the hell wrote this crap?...Welcome to the Omegrion Chamber. Here we gather, one rep from each branch of the two patrias. We come in peace (he paused to snort derisively) to make peace. I'm your mediator, Savitar, and if you don't know that by now, you need .. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 81630ab | There are thousands of them to fight. Even going after the Dimme in there is suicide. (Sin) Who wants to live forever? (Kat) For the record, I do. (Kish) Then why do you irritate me so often? (Sin) Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species? (Kish) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 37980a3 | I don't know who has it, but apparently other people have been playing it which is why we have zombies cropping up all over the place. (Madaug) Yeah, two and three at a time, 'cause God forbid kids should do what we did back in the old days and play in a room by ourselves. What kind of geeks are they raising nowadays? Geeks with friends who play video games together. Whoever heard of such? It's the end of days, I'm telling you all. (Bubba) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2a8f37c | Tell him to leave me alone, Astrid. Else I'll have to barbecue him and make akri angry at me. I don't want to make akri angry. (Simi) Simi? Is that you? (Astrid) Yes. C'est moi. The little demon with hornays. (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f6297c5 | You're the one who unleashed him. (Savitar) Yeah, well, let's move on from the blame game. I was having suicidal thoughts and it seemed like a good idea at the time. In retrospect, not so much. (Stryker) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b422ef7 | Relax, she's not really converting. (Acheron) Look at her! She's not exactly baking cookies! (Xypher) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e15d175 | The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear. | life-lessons | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| e7634d8 | Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.' (Syn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 10a4dbf | Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 84f1527 | You are an arrogant bastard. (Thanatos) No, not an arrogant bastard. I'm nothing but a piece of shit who touched a star. Now I'm the son of a bitch who's going to put you out of your misery. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ca95187 | Even if he doesn't eat, he knows the cookies. I'll bet his mother stuffed him full as a kid. (Tory) Not really. My mom wasn't the Betty Crocker kind. (Acheron) (Not unless it involved napalm or plagues.) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 91b032c | All the kids from daycare are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no you can't go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep. | sleep | Adam Mansbach | |
| 10b017b | They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 5be224d | To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two. | Graham Greene | ||
| ebc8796 | So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work. | Graham Greene | ||
| 88a07eb | I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn't move to plead his cause. | Graham Greene | ||
| de72a37 | I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all. | love | Graham Greene |