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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 744201b | He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing. | existential i-am-legend plague post-apocalyptic sci-fi | Richard Matheson | |
| 098cd40 | It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 3262269 | Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York? | Naomi Novik | ||
| 51b9c6a | Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you," he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham. " | humor | Naomi Novik | |
| e3477e6 | From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 88fe4ad | I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever - was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I'll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I'm keeping the last shell for myself. | Charles Stross | ||
| dff137c | I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 0782d90 | What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 5ff38ea | Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate. | hate | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 7056603 | hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 88d4711 | You had two prerequisites." Regin plopped down on a snowbank. "And I do believe I have Russian ex-mil contacts, and I speak the language-" "Oh, come on! I've since learned that you do not by any stretch. You think Dostoyevsky is Russian for 'How 's it hanging?'" She blinked up at Kaderin as she paced by. "Then how do you say it?" "I-don't-know." "Then how do you know it's not Dostoyevsky? No. Really." She blew a bubble with her gum - possib.. | kresley-cole regin | Kresley Cole | |
| 16519c5 | Apparently, he'd killed so many family members that he must have significantly affected the Lore's population. Doing my part for the environment. | Kresley Cole | ||
| c8342b3 | Don't stop kissing me, vampire, or I will kill you. | paranormal-romance | Kresley Cole | |
| 5b50c75 | She'd been born for him. And I was born to find her... | Kresley Cole | ||
| 186627b | For the record," she continued, "it's not my fault I came in here looking like Chesty LaRue. You caught me on laundry day, so I have no undergarments on. Though I will cop to a little extra spring in my step for your benefit." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 3bc10b6 | You'll tell me a story and I'll spare you ? You think I don't see what you're doing ? I've read Arabian Nights." "Call me Scheherazade, baby ! Actually, she's one tricksy bitch. Who, by the way, still owes me twenty gold pieces and a pound of sesame." | Kresley Cole | ||
| b9d3977 | Start being honest with her. Aidan always let her know what he was thinking. And he fairly much treated her like a queen." Lothaire sneered, "That's the worst bloody advice I've ever heard!" Brandr bowed his chest. "And why's that, leech? She cared for Aidan once--she will again." "Precisely. She cared for Aidan," Lothaire said. "I knew of Aidan the Fierce--no mortal could kill that many of the Horde without my hearing about it. And I know .. | Kresley Cole | ||
| e8ff930 | No ale for the girl, Birgit," Aidan said to the woman. "Do we not have milk?" Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk." | berserker dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 31d94e4 | But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not? | science | Oliver Sacks | |
| 95399aa | These men are in prison: that is the Outsider's verdict. They are quite contented in prison--caged animals who have never known freedom; but it is prison all the same. And the Outsider? He is in prison too: nearly every Outsider in this book has told us so in a different language; but he knows it. His desire is to escape. But a prison-break is not an easy matter; you must know all about your prison, otherwise you might spend years in tunnel.. | prison | Colin Wilson | |
| c2b217c | The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 9f0d14e | If you don't delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don't know God. You don't love God. You're out of touch with God. You're asleep to his character. | gospel holiness sin | R.C. Sproul | |
| d833a65 | All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. | change civilization detachment journalism mankind poverty pulitzer-prize war war-reporting | David Baldacci | |
| 74f0301 | I don't know. Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be ... safe. At least she knows she's living. | Betty Smith | ||
| ff6731a | Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 7ad4fc7 | What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable. | passion sex taboo | Jeanette Winterson | |
| a8a9d1f | A tough life needs a tough language--and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers--a language powerful enough to say how it is. | language life literature poetry reading words | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 76f416d | There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a51ea43 | I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 798db83 | A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after. | Joanne Harris | ||
| c56d045 | Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin? | Haven Kimmel | ||
| 2cecc24 | In every long-term relationship are a few pockets of deep and dangerous water into which one can step unaware if not careful. Eventually, somebody drowns or the interested parties post warning signs around these pockets. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| ed499bb | And what was I if not death's ghostwriter? | fiction horror lgbt | Poppy Z. Brite | |
| c7263bf | Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life. | Karen Cushman | ||
| 47e8fa9 | Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| c71359a | But when they kissed goodnight in bed, Therese felt their sudden release, that leap of response in both of them, as if their bodies were of some materials which put together inevitably created desire. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| b5ff9d7 | Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 7a3e9a4 | I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 851d1b9 | The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren's voice... I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else. Even now at times I look back. In this ordinary life without Ren, I think my life with him was like a dream. Especially on a snowy night like this. On a night as cold as this. Someone keep this guy warm for me, please. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 2e5d2aa | When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 49ed128 | Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. | John Gardner | ||
| 6703c6f | Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom's sharp peaks. | dreams faith famous-quotes-from-classic-books haiku haikus healing hope inspirational-quotes metaphysical poem-in-your-pocket-day positive-motivation vision-dream visions wisdom | Aberjhani | |
| 30cdc68 | I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent. | Kathy Acker | ||
| f244143 | Always wear pretty underwear, on account of you just never know. | Jill Conner Browne |