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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c6d3b6 | Stare at him," said Ghost. "They won't bite you if you keep staring at them." Steve backed away. "They bite?" Not really. They hiss at you, mostly. The only time geese are ever dangerous is when you happen to be standing on the edge of a cliff. I heard about a guy that almost got killed that way." By geese?" Yeah, there was a whole flock of them coming after him. All hissing and cackling and stabbing at his ankles with their big ol' beaks. .. | supernatural vampires | Poppy Z. Brite | |
| 1276685 | He wasn't much for erasing anyway. Sometimes your mistakes showed you the really interesting connections between your brain, your hand, and your heart, the ones you might otherwise never know were there. They were important even if you had no idea what they meant. Like now, for instance. Coming back here might be the biggest mistake he'd ever made. But it might also be the most important thing he'd ever done. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 411fd5a | Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 0883dab | A chiropractor is a doctor who performs adjustments on the spine," Rickey told the class before bending Gary backward and "adjusting" him, ripping off the false arm and spraying red hair dye all over the classroom. Gary howled in "pain" and collapsed dramatically on the threadbare school carpet, his legs flailing a bit before hitting the floor with a terrible, final-sounding . That was the first time they were sent to the principal's offi.. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| f5b8165 | I press my hands against my chest, wishing I could somehow be even closer to him. I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 4eefde2 | When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you. | Anne Lamott | ||
| fafa7ab | Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for. | Tim Powers | ||
| 3fa479a | I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 8da54e4 | Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." | Louis Sachar | ||
| 5e89cd4 | In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing. | Louis Sachar | ||
| 48fc46e | He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn't that worth something? He existed. Not many people in the world knew how to, even if they had the money. It really didn't take money, masses of mo.. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| b7faf57 | Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. | Anne Michaels | ||
| bfb414f | When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims. | crisis victims | Gregory Maguire | |
| 956d9f3 | If you don't fight for him, you lose! Fight for him! ~Nana Osaki | love | Ai Yazawa | |
| 7d1b63e | There is no limit to desire but desire's needs. | John Champlin Gardner Jr. | ||
| dc53499 | Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. | dreams faith inspiration inspirational metaphysics mystical-poetry mystical-powers positive-motivation power spirituality | Aberjhani | |
| 3338317 | It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world. | control destruction labels life names nomenclature | Kathy Acker | |
| f96d317 | Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive. | language suicide words writing | Kathy Acker | |
| 54d898c | Eurydice sits alone on a red bed. She has flaming red hair, so flaming that you can't see anything else of her, much less anything else around her. She takes up too much space. Also she's mad. Which has nothing to do with anything. She lives in her own world because she makes the whole world hers. | eurydice mad red | Kathy Acker | |
| 71568e4 | Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me." | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 62e0702 | Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 647fac2 | Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli. | humor | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 29e95a1 | I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| fe91fb8 | Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 15516cc | The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| f214dc3 | There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being. | being self-acceptance | John Fowles | |
| 8b2655a | I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. | collector fight fowles john resentment selfishness shame weapons | John Fowles | |
| 1e41cbf | Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch. | Pat Conroy | ||
| fe35a9c | These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexe.. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 5ac646d | Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. | relationships technology | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 889b7ea | I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune. | smile | Henry David Thoreau | |
| d81636a | I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships. | funny humor humour lambs slaughter twilight | Maureen Johnson | |
| 780f6ff | Of course I worry too much," Nate said. "But I'm usually right. The people who worry are always right. That's how that works." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| f958560 | Say me aye," he whispered against her mouth. "Say me aye." How could she say anything else?" | Lynn Kurland | ||
| d4b97ff | Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 2d07771 | Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good.. | pushing-the-limits | Chinua Achebe | |
| 73e3745 | I have met only a very few people - and most of these were not Americans - who had any real desire to be free. Freedom is hard to bear. It can be objected that I am speaking of political freedom in spiritual terms, but the political institutions of any nation are always menaced and are ultimately controlled by the spiritual state of that nation. We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has there.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 5cbdbe5 | It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is a commonplace. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal power: that one must never, in one's own life, accept the.. | James Baldwin | ||
| f16c454 | love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now. | love | James Baldwin | |
| a0071aa | Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 888ad7a | War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8882dde | I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I -- as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again -- it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| be4f24c | But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?" | anne-shirley dimples fiction l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 2f6803d | There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them. | L.M. Montgomery |