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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f86e9af | His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he'd tell me Ivy had it. | kisten rachel-morgan romance supernatural vampire | Kim Harrison | |
| 6af0dec | Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again. | Kim Harrison | ||
| cacbc33 | I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 30f5854 | Can we talk?" "Fuck off." "Good. You're willing to cooperate." | Sandra Brown | ||
| 18979b1 | I just want to live until I can't anymore," she said." | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 2b5023a | I tell you this not as aimless revelation but because I want you to know, as you read me, precisely who I am and where I am and what is on my mind. I want you to understand exactly what you are getting: you are getting a woman who for some time now has felt radically separated from most of the ideas that seem to interest people. You are getting a woman who somewhere along the line misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had in the social c.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 3f64cc4 | Be alone--that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born. --NIKOLA TESLA, FROM HIS DIARY A | Graham Moore | ||
| 4745a0e | The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. | William Golding | ||
| 89dabc1 | All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come. | Alice Sebold | ||
| a143d37 | I watched him as he lined up the ships in bottles on his deck, bringing them over from the shelves where they usually sat. He used an old shirt of my mother's that had been ripped into rags and began dusting the shelves. Under his desk there were empty bottles- rows and rows of them we had collected for our future shipbuilding. In the closet were more ships- the ships he had built with his own father, ships he had built alone, and then thos.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 92dfead | We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"...." | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 4d20a82 | That, precisely, is the deadliness of second-handers. They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They're concerned only with people. They don't ask: 'Is this true?' They ask: 'Is this what others think is true?' Not to judge, but to repeat. Not to do, but to give the impression of doing. Not creation, but show. Not ability, but friendship. Not merit, but pull. What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Thos.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 4b47535 | The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am. | Ayn Rand | ||
| a56a869 | The creator stands on his own judgment. The parasite follows the opinions of others. The creator thinks, the parasite copies. The creator produces, the parasite loots. The creator's concern is the conquest of nature - the parasite's concern is the conquest of men. The creator requires independence, he neither serves nor rules. He deals with men by free exchange and voluntary choice. The parasite seeks power, he wants to bind all men togethe.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| ef4ba55 | It's like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It's still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I'm not sure that will ever change. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 56113c9 | Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 153998b | Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. | writing | John Steinbeck | |
| 052df2c | This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. | inspirational life | John Steinbeck | |
| 4832c6c | He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 25c900e | A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 8b2bd79 | Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money. | John Steinbeck | ||
| e287df6 | I see hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads. Hundreds of them. They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out there. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody never get.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| bae8799 | Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 90e8274 | Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over... | John Steinbeck | ||
| efb526d | It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 868f5bc | When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0ece839 | We're going to get a couple pretty, fluffy inches in the morning for a gorgeous December evening wedding. Go get ready for rehearsal." "I'm afraid of rehearsal. My voice is going to squeak. I think I'm getting a zit right in the middle of my chin. I'm going to trip coming down the aisle. It's okay if Carter trips. People expect it. But -" ... "Carter isn't nervous. "Mac narrowed her eyes in a scowl. "I could hate him for that." "Mackens.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| dd1218a | People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 491820d | Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8cbaa13 | I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give. | love | Nora Roberts | |
| 95464b3 | All of us blossom when we feel loved and wither when we do not feel loved. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 8a3c676 | genius accepts genius unconditionally | Dan Brown | ||
| e33baf8 | Love is from another realm. We cannot manufacture it on demand. Nor can we subdue it when it appears. Love is not our choice to make. | Dan Brown | ||
| 400bc71 | When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions. | Dan Brown | ||
| c704b1a | It is said that in death, all things become clear. | Dan Brown | ||
| 0b8e9d2 | Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous? | Dan Brown | ||
| 32b7fdd | History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths. | Dan Brown | ||
| 83e57db | Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars. | Dan Brown | ||
| 1a9398d | They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 561201c | Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy. | seeds-of-greatness seeds-of-the-mind | Napoleon Hill | |
| 2a2c1c0 | When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time | Rick Warren | ||
| 6fad488 | And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| ebdd624 | I see you. The real you. The you who fillips a coin, hoping to understand how fate works: this choice or that choice, ultimately leaving you no choice at all. The you who smiles and tries to be happy because that's what people want you to be. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 7f5c23a | You count the days and watch the years go by. You tell yourself, and you believe it, that you'd rather just die. You'd rather stare death boldly in the face and say you're ready because whatever is waiting on the other side has to be better than growing old in a six-by-ten cage with no one to talk to. You consider yourself half-dead at best. Please take the other half. You've watched dozens leave and not return, and you accept the fact that.. | John Grisham |