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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| deebec5 | Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?" "What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you." | history hogwarts | J.K. Rowling | |
| 52f82ba | Well, that was a bit stupid of you," said Ginny angrily, "seeing as you don't know anyone but me who's been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels." Harry remained quite still as the impact of these words hit him. Then he turned on the spot to face her. "I forgot," he said. "Lucky you," said Ginny coolly. "I'm sorry," Harry said, and he meant it." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a5ab5e5 | Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life. | travel | Colleen McCullough | |
| d4e4d5e | And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known t.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 2da484e | That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone. | scars ugly | Nicholas Sparks | |
| a3ee32c | It's not such a bad thing. Change isn't always for the best. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 405aff9 | It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me. | life | Nicholas Sparks | |
| f3a06ab | Todo tuvo perfecto sentido, y al mismo tiempo, nada parecia tener sentido en absoluto. Jamie Sullivan tenia leucemia... Jaime, la dulce Jamie, se estaba muriendo... Mi Jamie... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3b03cb2 | Young Noah: Will you go out with me? Young Allie: What? No. Young Noah: No...? Young Allie: No. Young Noah: Why not? Young Allie: I dunno, because I don't want to. Young Noah: OK, then you leave me no other choice. Young Allie: AHHHH Young Noah: I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping. Young Allie: OK, OK. Fine I'll go out with you Young Noah: No, don't do me any favors... | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 869ed62 | What I do know is that when I was sitting with you that night, I felt like God was telling me that I was doing the right thing. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ed31338 | Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a2694cf | But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking toward the sky, knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| be87911 | And maybe, just maybe, it will. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f847768 | It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 367dfd8 | Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 684cdf6 | I felt my cell phone buzz, and I looked at the screen. Ranger. "Your GPS just went blank," Ranger said when I answered. "The car exploded." There was a beat of silence. "Rafael won the pool," Ranger said. "Are you okay?" "Yes." "I'll send someone." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d2c558c | You deserved to get run over. And besides, I barely tapped you. The only reason you broke your leg was because you panicked and tripped over your own feet." "You're lucky I didn't sue you." "You're lucky I didn't put the car into reverse and back over you three or four times." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 338dafc | Are we fighting?" I asked Morelli. "No. Were discussing." "Are you sure?" "Am I yelling?" Morelli asked. "Is my face purple? Are the cords on my neck standing out? Am I waving my arms around?" "No." "The were not fighting." | stephanie | Janet Evanovich | |
| 97f6c4e | El subdesarrollo no es una etapa del desarrollo. Es su consecuencia. | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| f22952b | Pretending doesn't keep you safe. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 071b6d4 | There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 2952132 | Let me see. What are my other shortcomings? | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 0cf1d1d | I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall." | doctor-watson escape late-visit scrambling sherlock-holmes unconventional | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 75e99f0 | Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 3475613 | The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die." He winks. "But not without one hell of a fight." | dark-and-light | Libba Bray | |
| f4c2b6c | Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed. | change love rebirth | Libba Bray | |
| 986e0c3 | The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength. | Libba Bray | ||
| 45be9d7 | If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 6faeee3 | This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that's on fire. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3afaa09 | A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 63ff096 | It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e71b880 | Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7dd62db | When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1217287 | You have to jump into disaster with both feet. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3468b7d | On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 82ea301 | WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER. | loss | Louise Fitzhugh | |
| d677933 | Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved a.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 4c595ae | The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 46f9e7d | Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 7b08216 | Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things. | love | Nicole Krauss | |
| a2b6be4 | I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count | Laura Dave | ||
| caff2b3 | Mobs have passions, not brains. | mobs passion | Dan Simmons | |
| 72af92a | A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry. | E.L. Konigsburg | ||
| 8371720 | I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts. | E.L. Konigsburg |