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| 4c78bdf | There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity. These are frequently artists and performers, adventurers and wide-life devotees. Then there are those who feel their own .. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 28aa8ee | He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| d816d26 | He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had ever seen him give, a smile that curved and softened the tight mouth, and warmed the ice-cool eyes; a smile that brought the blood to my face and made my heart turn over. | red romance sevenwaters sorcha | Juliet Marillier | |
| ec901dc | I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable. | medication-side-effects | Andrew Solomon | |
| 87d45e6 | Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| b9f8612 | Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 866960f | The compelling thing about making art--or making anything, I suppose--is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid , a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a wa.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| bb0d18b | Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead? | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 6be4d49 | And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch. For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time -- so too has love. Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality. It exists; and it keeps on existing. And I add my own love to the history of peopl.. | love | Donna Tartt | |
| a4bd5a1 | My mother had enough magic to give me three blessings before she died," I said, and he instinctively bent in to hear it. "The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third--that fools should recognize neither." Irina" | Naomi Novik | ||
| 79d87f6 | Those the walkers carried into the Wood were less lucky. We didn't know what happened to them, but they came back out sometimes, corrupted in the worst way: smiling and cheerful, unharmed. They seemed almost themselves to anyone who didn't know them well, and you might spend half a day talking with one of them and never realize anything was wrong, until you found yourself taking up a knife and cutting off your own hand, putting out your own.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 4b3f04c | Two lords and an archduke had asked her to marry them, and so, she wrote to me in outrage, had Solya. | kasia | Naomi Novik | |
| 0b2c307 | Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says Happy Birthday and a candle stuck down in it, what is it? Is there icing on it? he'd said. Dad had done that thing of squinting his eyes when an answer was not quite there yet. | perception sons trust | George Saunders | |
| 1b8ceb7 | The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ede825f | You said you'd give me half an hour!' 'And you said you'd satisfy me whenever I wanted it. I want it now.' He removed is jacket. 'Drop the towel.' 'I-I never agreed to be naked! | naked towel | Kresley Cole | |
| 984d90c | This is a formal affair. Kali is wearing twelve skulls." Nix's eyes went wide. "I should've vajazzled!" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 74554e6 | You doona want to kill me, which is a good sign. Maybe this is your way of flirting?" (Garreth)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| d3c4a63 | Crazy like a fox. | Kresley Cole | ||
| bda287f | You smell like honeysuckle. You likin' ole Jack now?" "I never stopped liking you. Even when you were warding me away with the power of Catholicism." | jackson | Kresley Cole | |
| e2852c1 | Similar situation ? Like the one where you put me in fear for my life, then let go of that damned vine to heartlessly build my fear ? MacRieve, I hope I enthralled you. Then you can rot wanting me to be yours. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 514eab3 | This twilight, Lothaire was holding court. He sat upon his gilded throne, decorated with gold-dipped skulls. His design. If he'd had a queen, her throne would have been similar. Of course, her skulls would be daintier. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0be5fb6 | Trehan &Lothaire "My Bride poisoned me so that I would lose a match against the demon male she loves." Lothaire hiked his shoulders. "So?" "Did you not hear me? She dumped toxins into a goblet of blood, then handed it to me, urging me to drink" "Who doesn't have petty spats during courtship? So fucking what?" "So she doesn't fucking want me!" Lothaire roared back, "She doesn't get a godsdamned say in the matter!" "Trehan's brows drew toge.. | lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| b72930f | Call her Betty Fucking Crocker, because the cake was so going to be worth the bake. | sebastian | Kresley Cole | |
| b18fa73 | I GOT BOURBON-FACED ON SHIT STREET! | bourbon kresley-cole poison-princess shirts | Kresley Cole | |
| 9aaabc3 | People want you to be ordinary. | Robert Crais | ||
| b40b6d9 | The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 2ee10a5 | It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 07917c7 | You are my Marilyn. You are my lake full of fishes. You are my sky set, my 'Hollywood in Miniature,' my pink Cadillac, my highway, my martini, the stage for my heart to rock and roll on, the screen where my movies light up. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 5d485ee | The next night I went back to the sea dressed in 1950s silk travel scarves - Paris with the Eiffel tower and ladies in hats and pink poodles, Venice with bronze horses and gondoliers, New York in celestial blue and silver. I brought candles and lit the candles, all the candles, in a circle around the lifeguard stand and put a tape in my boom box. I came down the ramp with the sea lapping at my feet and the air like a scarf of warm silk and .. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| f4d5435 | Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget. | Betty Smith | ||
| ae3ceb3 | The world is a zoo | Edward Albee | ||
| abcaf0c | Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 1229602 | Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one. | fiction horror lgbt | Poppy Z. Brite | |
| 8fdd8da | Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure. | Sue Grafton | ||
| b078565 | Smile. It gives your face something to do. | Sue Grafton | ||
| d8b3202 | If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 66bdbd0 | I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| fba3385 | Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens? | environmentalism geology nature | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 75e274f | Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head on one side, a story on the other. Someone you loved and what happened. That's all there is when you dig in your pockets. The most significant thing is someone else's face. What else is embossed on your hands but her? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| b6b09fa | You'll get over it...' It's the cliches that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to greive over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f7b93c9 | You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 0fba56e | Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves. God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate. | loki words | Joanne Harris | |
| 9210866 | Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and .. | harry-potter lessons morals | John Granger | |
| 3abfd33 | But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me. | fiction horror lgbt | Poppy Z. Brite |