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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 24bd1c6 | There is no spoon. I am completely spoonless over here. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5f604c9 | I'm never really comfortable at parties. Maybe I'm just not the partying type. ...I think it's because I'm never sure what to do with myself. I mean, there're drinks, but I don't like being drunk.... There's music, but I never really learned to dance to anything that involved an electric guitar. There are people to talk to...but once you put all the stupid things I do aside, I'm really not that interesting. I like reading, staying home, goi.. | parties shyness | Jim Butcher | |
| 0e60923 | The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold. But in my corner of the country, I'm trying to nail things down. I don't want to live in Victor's jungle, even if it did eventually devour him. I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things ar.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 895ccee | Well, I never been to much school, you understand, but it seems to me that you're assuming something you shouldn't assume... that God sees the world like you do; one thing at a time, from just one spot. Seems to me that he's supposed to be everywhere, know everything. ...Think about that; he knows what you're feeling, how you're hurting. Feels my pain, your pain like it was his own. Hell son, the question isn't how God could care about just.. | god | Jim Butcher | |
| 52d0168 | I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 320caae | I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn't feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn't like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6c3f429 | Did you shout 'Parkour'?" Michael asked. "Well, sure," I said. "That was kinda Parkour-like." Michael fought to keep a smile off his face. "Harry," he said, "I'm almost certain one does not 'Parkour.' I believe one is supposed to simply Parkour." "Do I criticize your Latin battle cries? No, never once." | humor-quotes urban-fantasy-series | Jim Butcher | |
| f2475bd | Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans who allowed the television to raise their children. People were looking for something - I think they just didn't know what. And even though they were once again starting to open their eyes to the world of magic and the arcane that had been with them all the while, they sti.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d55443c | This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. | lies life truth | Holly Black | |
| ff912af | There's people who do things and people who never do--who say they will someday, but they just don't. I want to go on a quest. I've always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I'm not backing down from it. I'm not going home until it's complete. | Holly Black | ||
| 86ffb48 | Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get. | Holly Black | ||
| 5c80229 | Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear. | jude-duarte the-cruel-prince | Holly Black | |
| 6b9f627 | It turns out that having kissed someone, the possibility of kissing hangs over everything, no matter how terrible an idea it was the first time. | Holly Black | ||
| 00d6045 | It's sweet. All this trouble for a kitty. | Holly Black | ||
| deadc5f | What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia." | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 469d105 | Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes! | past suddenly | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| fd6e516 | high spirits and overflowing joy making the absence of love known. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 73ebc8b | Why did you start to write? I left at 15.. I started to write becase I was taken off a ship from Germany when I was 18. They said I wouldn't live for 6 months. I'd been given up for dead many times and I just didn't want to waste my life. I had what I now realize was a spiritual experience. I realized that I would die, and that just before I would die, two things would happen. number one, I would regret my entire life. and number two, I wou.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 15a3fcc | and he just sat back and stared at the tube, almost interested in what was happening, trying to find the ability to believe in that lie so he could believe the one within. | television | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 2dcfbc9 | However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 62fb20c | what was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that made them who they were and, drained of themselves, turn into the sort of people they would once have felt sorry for. it was as though while their lives were rich and full they were secretly sick of themselves and couldn't wait to dispose of their sanity and their health and all sense of proportion so as to get down to tha.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 4159589 | Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. | Philip Roth | ||
| 4cf087c | Il etait tard; ainsi qu'une medaille neuve La pleine lune s'etalait, Et la solennite de la nuit, comme un fleuve Sur Paris dormant ruisselait. | night paris poetry | Charles Baudelaire | |
| 4b67e0d | Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world... | mystical women | Brian Froud | |
| d022d33 | People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter. | science | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0e35c62 | That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9f930fc | The forest of Skund was indeed enchanted, which was nothing unusual on the Disc, and was also the only forest in the whole universe to be called -- in the local language -- Your Finger You Fool, which was the literal meaning of the word Skund. The reason for this is regrettably all too common. When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 972e514 | I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?' | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5a67088 | I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest." | healthy humor medicine | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0f2363f | Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| feecb80 | Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 83f2655 | Vimes felt his hand begin to move of its own accord-- And stopped. Red rage froze. There was The Beast, all around him. And that's all it was. A beast. Useful, but still a beast. You could hold it on a chain, and make it dance, and juggle balls. It didn't think. It was What you were, what were, was not The Beast. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5ca62c3 | His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7296421 | Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you. | thinking thoughts | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3f879b1 | Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2c0e7b8 | I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!' 'No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 874c008 | Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 89a3166 | He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday. | tanning | Terry Pratchett | |
| 5c05ec8 | NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. | economics money morality society | Terry Pratchett | |
| 897fa2f | Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 276e049 | Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do." -- | situation tiffany-aching | Terry Pratchett | |
| 88f4714 | We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't you?" "Why?" "It saves time." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1ac8d96 | People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5085a0c | Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn't just about you. | Terry Pratchett |