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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 072a2f3 | beer is an excellent argument that there is a God, and that furthermore, He wants us to be happy. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 89ebb5b | It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated." | laugh-at-yourself | Jim Butcher | |
| d085f93 | He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls. | dark gavriel insane mad monstrous paranormal paranormal-romance sci-fi tana tana-bach teen the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya | Holly Black | |
| 4b03631 | She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't. | Holly Black | ||
| de525f0 | Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. | Holly Black | ||
| 20071e3 | It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall." | Holly Black | ||
| fe72bd7 | I want to tell you so many lies | Holly Black | ||
| 333e952 | Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke. | Holly Black | ||
| 0a89ce5 | How will I know when I've learned it, since I don't know it now?" he asks. The question sounds like a riddle. "Come back when returning feels like a hard choice instead of an easy one," I answer finally." | Holly Black | ||
| 5e98a1e | Crazy isn't always what they say it is. It's not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dim.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 2a50cd5 | Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack." -- | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| a7a85e5 | No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 7f6e76d | The bodies went back in the doors and bars and the heads in the windows. The cops drove away and Freddy and the guys went back into the Greeks and the street was quiet, just the sound of a tug and an occasional car; and even the blood couldn't be seen from a few feet away. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 17ebded | Because we don't know, do we? Everyone knows... How what happens the way it does? What underlies the anarchy of the train of events, the uncertainties, the mishaps, the disunity, the shocking irregularities that define human affairs? Nobody knows. 'Everyone knows' is the invocation of the cliche and the beginning of the banalization of experience, and it's the solemnity and the sense of authority that people have in voicing the cliche that'.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 4f947b9 | The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 3cc6476 | The universe is mad, slightly mad. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 5c4d43b | The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| d6670f5 | Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.) Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 460d1f3 | Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| d6af648 | For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cd719ad | It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. | humour life | Terry Pratchett | |
| cdfbcf3 | The boldest of the three moved suddenly, grabbed Angua and pulled her upright. "We walk out of here unharmed or the girl gets it, all right?" he snarled. Someone sniggered. "I hope you're not going to kill anyone," said Carrot. "That's up to us!" "Sorry, was I talking to you?" said Carrot." | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| df2047d | The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn't belong to her, one that wasn't in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn't belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn't know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 457fdae | Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cb0046c | They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b731da7 | These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| df5c8c3 | The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1fc4089 | But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats. | rats stories | Terry Pratchett | |
| a7443c4 | This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here." | insanity social | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0cb90e8 | You'd better tell me what you know, toad," said Tiffany. "Miss Tick isn't here. I am." "Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "There. Happy now? That's what Miss Tick thinks. But it's happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back." "Why?" "There's no one to stop them." There was silence for a moment. "There's me," said Tiffany." | inspirational monsters | Terry Pratchett | |
| bc28255 | Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your ene.. | religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8b242c8 | The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 77bea6f | The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness. | forces pratchett universe world | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6078b08 | AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON!" which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this." -- | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e89bcc1 | I assure you I will not kill you," said Inigo. "I know that," said Vimes. "But will you try?" | sam-vimes terry-pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| 678e6bc | Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 233b1cb | If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes. | funny-but-true | Terry Pratchett | |
| f40da75 | Rincewind] drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll. | rincewind swords trolls | Terry Pratchett | |
| f500eda | For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was t.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1f6da9c | Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls. | sam-vimes | Terry Pratchett | |
| f642f27 | I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| eb9d69a | Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0f408f1 | To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king." | girlfriend humor | Susan Mallery | |
| 33abf09 | Me she was watching for: me. And the heart-shock of believing, for only a moment, that you might just have what could never be yours. | Donna Tartt |