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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 049f89b | Husband?" Averill's voice was growing shrill with worry as she asked, "Have you swooned?" I'm a warrior, wife. Warriors do no' swoon," Kade growled, forcing away the faintness trying to lay claim to him. Oh," she said, sounding doubtful. "It's just that your eyes were closed." I was resting them," he snapped. I see," she murmured, and for some reason that irritated the hell out of him." | Lynsay Sands | ||
| a6a7ae9 | No existe ningun recuerdo por intenso que sea que no se apague... | Juan Rulfo | ||
| 9906fe7 | You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. There.. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| fbdc270 | I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 9b4f53d | Eric appeared to be counting my eyelashes. I tried to keep my gaze on my hands, to indicate modesty. I felt power tweaks kind of flow over me and had an uneasy feeling Eric was trying to influence me. I risked a quick peek, and sure enough he was looking at me expectantly. Was I supposed to pull off my dress? Bark like a dog? Kick Bill in the shins? Shit. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 04f31f1 | This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 013a720 | Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice. He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said, "Sorry," and backed away. I took a step after him. I screamed, "I HAVE NOTHING!" And then I said, in a perfectly calm voice, "See, I never had anything to start with." | true-blood | Charlaine Harris | |
| 258d240 | From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant. | love potential present-moment | Marianne Williamson | |
| 441fc98 | Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 9775c3e | When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar---who hands him the paper every morning. | aging beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery pornography self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 4a4b7f1 | Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| 727bbf4 | With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it's essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciated fact that language is the medium we use in much the same way a composer uses notes, the way a painter uses paint. I realize it may seem obvious, but it's surprising how easily we lose sight of .. | Francine Prose | ||
| a99ae30 | The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized. | Richard Peck | ||
| c8c46af | The truth is, you can never really know a man until you've loaned him money. And you can never know a woman until you've slept in her bed. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 2eb331b | I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 42a62b6 | You would be purely ornamental," Evie replied, giggling. "Ah, well, I suppose there's some value in that. God help me if I should ever lose my looks." "I wouldn't mind." He gave her a quizzical smile. "What?" "If..." Evie paused, suddenly embarrassed. "If anything happened to your looks...if you became...less handsome. Your appearance wouldn't matter to me. I would still..." She paused and finished hesitantly, "...want you as my husband.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 0de752b | And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 4075bd8 | Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 033b587 | In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. | John Irving | ||
| 1a75c47 | The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| b9fcd55 | That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That'll teach me to go hide in a temple. | message whining | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| e299a97 | Love child!" What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 7ccc10f | I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 64e00aa | Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.] | Irving Stone | ||
| f1873a0 | She'd ceased spying upon him, that was true, but the damage was done. Every time he sat at his desk, he could feel her eyes upon him, even though he knew very well she'd shut her curtains tight. But clearly, reality had very little to do with the matter, because all he had to do, it seemed, was glance at her window, and he lost an entire hour's work. It happened thus: He looked at the window, because it was there, and he couldn't very well .. | funny obsession spying | Julia Quinn | |
| c6430bf | Did you wonder?" he whispered. "Did you leave me and wonder what I hadn't told you?" He leaned in, just so she'd feel his lips move whisper-light against her ear. "Did you want to know what I did when I was wicked? Do you want me to tell you?" he murmured. He felt her jerk slightly in surprise, and he chuckled. "Not about them, Francesca. You. Only you." -Michael Stirling" | Julia Quinn | ||
| 01e9a27 | Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. | Julia Quinn | ||
| ad325fd | Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist. | Alan Moore | ||
| 190e0de | Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. | Alan Moore | ||
| 9be86a3 | Women do not forget. Women do not forgive. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 749ef15 | I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 53422cb | Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 60b07bd | I tell you this--Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 62378a2 | A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3a594a6 | Mother, I want to see him fly! | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 71832db | She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your heart. It certainly broke mine. Lowborn, half-starved, unwashed... Yet lovely. They'd torn the rags she was wearing half off her back, so I wrapped her in my cloak while Jaime chase the men into the woods. By the time he came trotting back, I'd gotten a name out of her, and a story. She was a crofter's child, orphaned when her father died of fe.. | a-song-of-ice-and-fire tyrion-lannister winter-is-coming | George R.R. Martin | |
| 26d25a2 | Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit... | meg-cabot murder profit revenge | Meg Cabot | |
| 86b85cd | That's the problem with your generation, Amelia. You all want happy endings." I was so stunned I think my eye stopped twitching momentarily. "We don't, actually," I said. "We want endings that leave us with a sense of hope, possibly because the world we're living in seems to be falling apart right now." | Meg Cabot | ||
| dace7b6 | Cal: "Yesterday I was stuck in a car with you for eight hours." Bastard. I didn't even sing along with the radio. Much. Me: "Yeah. And?" Cal: "Something happened." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 0d912f7 | Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done | Meg Cabot | ||
| fb15454 | I like seals. | Meg Cabot | ||
| d00051a | You know," I said, holding my ground. "I gotta tell you. The goatee thing? Yeah, way over. And you know a little jewelry really does go a long way. Just something you might want to consider. I'm actually glad you stopped by, because I have a couple things I've been meaning to say to you. Number one, about your wife? Yeah, she's a skank. And number two, you know that whole thing where you killed Jesse and then buried his remains out back the.. | mediator meg-cabot | Meg Cabot | |
| 0ea12c6 | I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can. | politeness | Astrid Lindgren | |
| 73367cc | No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow. | Astrid Lindgren |