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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b55b4c7 | I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do--like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 871df97 | I heard Amos yell, "For Brooklyn!" It was an odd battle cry." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2b30876 | Death is sometimes kinder than Love. | Rick Riordan | ||
| eecdff8 | I'm coming back for you Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear on the river Styx." | leo-valdez promise raft styx | Rick Riordan | |
| 51cc040 | Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up! | greek humor mythology public-service-announcement safety | Rick Riordan | |
| 9234a7f | You wrote this right?" he said. "It tells how to defeat Set." Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages. "Oh, dear. I hate reading my old work. Look at this sentence. I'd never write it that way now." He patted his lab coat pockets. "Red pen--does anyone have one?" Isis chafed against my willpower, insisting that we blast some sense into Thoth. One fireball, she pleaded. Just one enormous magical fireball? I couldn't say I was tempted, but I kept he.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1042e21 | Being turned into a lizard can really mess up your day. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 4533264 | shouldn't he pick on more interesting heroes, like the children of Thor? At least their dad had a movie franchise. Frey didn't even have his own cats. He had to borrow his sister's. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2d4d7ee | Caves of blue. Strike the hue. Westward, burning. Pages turning. Indiana. Ripe banana. Happiness approaches. Serpents and roaches. There once was a god named Apollo Who plunged in a cave blue and hollow Upon a three-seater The bronze fire-eater Was forced death and madness to swallow | calypso confusing festus festus-the-dragon leo-valdez limerick prophecy rachel-elizabeth-dare the-sun trials-of-apollo | Rick Riordan | |
| cfcdcad | Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o--Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 989897c | Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 001360f | What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked. She looked nervously down at the papers in her hand even though I knew for a fact she had memorized every word. "When I was eleven I thought I knew the answer to that question. That was when the recruiters came to see me. They showed me brochures and told me they were impressed by my test scores and asked if I was ready to be challenged. And I said yes. Because that was what a Gallagher Girl was to me t.. | Ally Carter | ||
| 609269f | That's a lot of vegetables. "It is, yes, and if you eat them like a good girl..." He lifted the silver lid on another plate, revealed a small pizza, with pepperoni arranged into a smiley face. She tried to give him a stony stare, but the laugh won out. "You think you're cute, don't you, pal?" "Adorable." "In this case, you can have adorable. Ow!" She managed the stony stare when he slapped her hand away from the pizza. "Vegetables first." | roarke roarke-humor | J.D. Robb | |
| 30632cc | You tell Roarke you were tagging me for this? Or is he going to get riled up so I have to kick his ass again?" "Oh, is that what you were doing when you had to be carried out of the room unconscious?" "I like to remember it that I was just getting my second wind." -- | roarke second-wind webster | J.D. Robb | |
| cc04d80 | Pull yourself together, Detective. You're embarrassing yourself, and more imprtant, you're embarrassing me." "They're going to do it outside. In public." "So the fuck what?" "Public," Peabody said, head still between her knees. "You're being honored by this department and this city for having the integrity, the courage, and the skill to take out a blight on this department and this city. Dirty, murdering, greedy, treacherous cops are sittin.. | eve-dallas mcnab peabody roarke speech | J.D. Robb | |
| 3b56709 | What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 9bf6584 | There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| e2a185d | I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper's come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don't know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement. | love metaphor | Sophie Kinsella | |
| e2dddb9 | If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3d5db40 | The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them. | bears environment nature wildlife | Margaret Atwood | |
| 9c31079 | This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 5195bb1 | I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in m.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 36fb952 | The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 00cf664 | without intelligence, there can be no humour. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 3c5ed88 | What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 9385df5 | I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did. | Dodie Smith | ||
| 44b1f44 | I trust you." And please, please don't use that against me." | Katie McGarry | ||
| 1a77319 | Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example. | Julie Garwood | ||
| 29a2b25 | She was given a man's name." The stable master nearly jumped out of his tunic. He hadn't heard Alec Kincaid's approach. He turned around and came face to shoulders with the giant warrior. " 'Twas her mama's way of giving her a place in this family. Baron Jamison weren't the man who fathered Jamie. He claimed her for his own, though. I'll give him that much kindness. Did you get a good look at her, then?" he added in a rush. Alec nodded. "Yo.. | lairds-fiance-s the-bride | Julie Garwood | |
| e489141 | He held her gaze steady while he summarized her promises. "She will honor me, protect me, obey me only when she believes I'm being reasonable--but I shouldn't hold out hope that that day will ever come--try to love me before she's an old woman, and I'd better get it straight in my mind that she will respect me until or unless I do something to prove I'm not worthy, and God save me then. Have I left anything out, Brenna?" | Julie Garwood | ||
| 68a5dbd | The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don! | tarmon-gai-don | Robert Jordan | |
| 8edeb53 | My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else can I express the words from the depths. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 2878e52 | Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| b2677ed | Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 0deddc5 | They had always fitted together like pieces of an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) puzzle- the smoke of her into the solidness of him, the solitariness of her into the gathering of him, the strangeness of her into the straightforwardness of him, the insouciance of her into the restraint of him. The quietness of her into the quietness of him. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| ceaea5d | When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, | death loss my-sisters-keeper star submergence | D. H. Lawrence | |
| 88fe942 | She could just distinguish his features, as he slept the perfect sleep. In this darkness, she seemed to see him so distinctly. But he was far off, in another world. Ah, she could shriek with torment, he was so far off, and perfected, in another world. She seemed to look at him as at a pebble far away under clear dark water. And here was she, left with all the anguish of consciousness, whilst he was sunk deep into the other element of mindle.. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| b631c44 | He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened." | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| c0f1841 | The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth | D. H. Lawrence | ||
| 124f82d | It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another. | unhappiness | Alice Munro | |
| a63f5c1 | the desire to wring out a few more drips of happiness almost always destroyed the happiness you were so lucky to have, and so foolish never to acknowledge. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b919f06 | They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8f75830 | We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a5f4a12 | Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?" -- | Denis Johnson |