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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d62e8e4 | jmy` lmshkl tdwr Hwl lml. Hlm yTrq 'Hdhm hdhh lbwb@ ykwn `ndh mshkl@ mly@. 'tmn~ mn kl qlby 'n 'ftH mr@ lbwb@ l'jd nsn `ndh shy akhr Gyr mshkl@ lml 'w 'jd shkhS yHml hdy@ SGyr@ | Patrick Süskind | ||
| ddf221b | Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 2071428 | Kabul had become a city of ghosts for me. A city of harelipped ghosts. America was different. America was a river, roaring along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e42da85 | Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| f1fd1e2 | A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 66f44ab | Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it. | hope | Ian Fleming | |
| 464903e | It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| edec512 | Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 203304a | He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection." | relationships | E.M. Forster | |
| 9856340 | That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary." | Sarah Vowell | ||
| a4fb1dc | Dan was suspicious. "How did he find out where we were staying?" Amy frowned. "I think that's the message inside the message. He wants us to know that he has a long reach-that's he's rich and powerful." "Like we'll see his giant mansion and assume he works at Burger King," scoffed Dan." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 2cc589e | Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was disgusted. "We had a common ancestor, like, five hundred years ago. Besides, if they think we're together, we only have to come up with one story, and I can do all the talking." "Hey, I got an early acceptance to Notre Dame," Hamilton said defensively. "I can talk." "Of course you can," Amy soothed. "It's what you say .. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 1f863d9 | ybdw 'nn jmy`an jy'n nbHth `n shy w wjdn shyy'an akhr .. | Isabel Allende | ||
| a06f56f | It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire. | Yann Martel | ||
| b08961c | There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 07721cd | OH NO YOU DON'T, LADDIE!" Harry spun around. Professor Moody was limping down the marble staircase. His wand was out and it was pointing right at a pure white ferret, which was shivering on the stone-flagged floor, exactly where Malfoy had been standing." | ferret | J.K. Rowling | |
| a50bd09 | In March several of the Mandrakes threw a loud and raucous party in greenhouse three. This made Professor Sprout very happy. "The moment they start trying to move into each other's pots, we'll know they're fully mature," she told Harry." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a417a81 | Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter's really putting it through its paces now, see it turn -- Chang's Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt's precision-balance is really noticeable in these long --" "JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 526f76b | Even the weather seemed to be celebrating; as June approached, the days became cloudless and sultry, and all anybody felt like doing was strolling onto the grounds and flopping down on the grass with several pints of iced pumpkin juice, perhaps playing a casual game of Gobstones or watching the giant squid propel itself dreamily across the surface of the lake. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 1f84f34 | Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle born?' and then, 'Bad posture, skinny ankles.'" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron. "Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she's just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f66c664 | La vigilia di Natale, Harry ando a letto pregustando le leccornie e i divertimenti dell'indomani, ma senza aspettarsi nessun regalo. Ma al suo risveglio, il mattino seguente di buon'ora, la prima cosa che vide ai piedi del suo letto fu un un mucchio di pacchetti. "Buon natale" gli fece Ron ancora assonnato, mentre Harry si buttava giu dal letto e si infilava la vestaglia. "Anche a te" gli rispose "Ma... Hai visto che roba? Ho ricevuto dei r.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a8042cc | Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck?" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0469006 | Some of the books the Ministry's confiscated -- Dad's told me -- there was one that burned your eyes out. And everyone who read spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could ! You just had to wander around with your nose in it, trying to do everything one-handed. And --" "All right, I've got the point," said Harry." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 29862dd | Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f4d9435 | The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley's favorite things -- fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers -- and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called "rabbit food." | dudley-dursley food uncle-vernon | J.K. Rowling | |
| 02ed548 | why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. | time | Mark Haddon | |
| f16277d | I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then yo.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 6b954a2 | In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4f4c849 | Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1264373 | A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. | marriage | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 43c45f7 | Because that was the night I knew I loved you. That I'd really and truly fallen in love. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| bf3b556 | I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 77d230a | Ronnie:" I guess I'm okay with that.But it's not going to be easy for you. They don't have a lot of fishing or mudding around here. Will:" I figured." Ronnie" And not a lot of beach volleyball,either. Especially in January." Will" I guess I'll have to make some sacrifices." Ronnie."Maybe if you're lucky, we can find you some other ways to occupy Your time." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a8aebd4 | Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| e84f388 | As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 29f414c | I don't believe this," Morelli yelled. "I don't fucking believe this. What do you do, sit in bed at night and think about ways to fuck up my life?" | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| ffe2569 | Stephanie] That's not the point. I can't just let monkeys loose in Trenton. [Lula] Why not? There's all kinds of crazy shit loose in Trenton. | new-jersey | Janet Evanovich | |
| eb49324 | You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire. Do you really think so?' Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.' | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a63cc3b | I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur" -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 76cfb66 | Ranger cradled my face in his hands, using his thumbs to wipe the tears from my eyes. "The ceremony is over. Can you make it back to the car?" I nodded. "I'm okay now. Am I red and blotchy from crying?" "Yes," Ranger said, brushing a kiss across my forehead. "I love you anyway." "There's all kinds of love," I said. Ranger took me by the hand and led me back to the SUV. "This is the kind that doesn't call for a ring. But a condom might come .. | lust | Janet Evanovich | |
| 94891f9 | When I was a little girl I wanted to be a reindeer-the flying kind. I spent a couple years galloping around looking for lichen and fantasizing about boy reindeer. Then one day I saw Peter Pan and my reindeer phase was over. I didn't understand the allure of not growing up, because every little girl got boobs and go steady. I did understand that a flying Peter Pan was better than a flying reindeer. Mary Lou had seen Peter Pan too, but Mary L.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 7e9a2f0 | His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| cca9f72 | People aren't poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they're poor. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 83c4544 | And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared. | Zadie Smith |