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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 22cb7cc | Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people." | magic sandry problems lark | Tamora Pierce | |
| ab4411c | I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't. | happy manners rudeness | Tamora Pierce | |
| d50fd24 | Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Da.. | humor prince-kaddar numair threat | Tamora Pierce | |
| 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." | humor healthy 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. | thoughts thinking | 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. | money morality economics 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." -- | tiffany-aching situation | 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 | ||
| 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. | romance sevenwaters sorcha red | 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. | trust sons perception | 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! | towel naked | 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 |