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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b1f52e | Max." Fang let go of my hand. "Right now, it's really all about--us." He swooped down to the right in a big semicircle, ending facing me. Slowly we climbed upward, until we were almost vertical, flying straight up to the sun. While carefully synchronizing our wings--they almost touched--Fang leaned in, gently put one hand behind my neck, and kissed me. It was just about as close to heaven as I'll ever get, I guess. I closed my eyes, lost .. | couple dolphin flying friendship happiness heaven i-approve-too kiss kissing love otp shipping smile sun trust wings | James Patterson | |
| 34dddaf | why can't you just get out of here and leave me alone?"i bellowed. "i can't!" dylan shouted back,his face twisted with an anger i'd never seen from him. "you can,"i said through gritted teeth."just point your wings that way and flap!" | James Patterson | ||
| 9cfe5f0 | I'd been told that he had been created-literally created-just for me,as my "perfect other half." Let me tell you-if Dylan was my perfect other half, then i needed to give my first half a seriouis look-see." | James Patterson | ||
| c9a7f8f | Thank you for inviting me here today " I said my voice sounding nothing like me. "I'm here to testify about things I've seen and experienced myself. I'm here because the human race has become more powerful than ever. We've gone to the moon. Our crops resist diseases and pests. We can stop and restart a human heart. And we've harvested vast amounts of energy for everything from night-lights to enormous super-jets. We've even created new kind.. | James Patterson | ||
| 281822a | Okay, so, flying," I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. "Flying is ... great. It feels great when you're doing it. It's fun. Pure freedom. There's nothing better." Dylan smiled, a slow, easy smile that seemed to light up his whole face. "So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof." | funny humor lol smile smooth smooth-max wings | James Patterson | |
| e80b991 | I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do. | James Patterson | ||
| ec17cbb | There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 749263f | You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. | Maya Angelou | ||
| ed00ebe | One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . . | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 181cd09 | It's always better to be doing. | lirael mogget sameth | Garth Nix | |
| fe296cf | I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 8d2804a | Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| c9db305 | Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1270e46 | People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more. Mythology embodied the world's dreams, helped to make sense of the great human problems. Just as the dreams of individuals exist to give subconscious support to their conscious lives, so do myths serve as society's dreams. They uncover the dark, hidden places where mysteries dwell and can turn to nightmare if left u.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 362cbdf | There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 1f4f56c | Time had ceased to feel linear. She looked up through the crisscrossing branches, thick with buds, into the night sky. The stars tugged at her gaze, trying to pull her up among them, or she was pulling them down to her. She was on the verge of some great discovery, she realized, but she had no idea what it was, what it related to, whether it even had anything to do with her at all. Was she a participant, or an observer? Did the world center.. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 0107d60 | She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 023979d | As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors. | books | Miguel Serrano | |
| 452c7d8 | a person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| edc2c27 | Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 09939f0 | Banality is sometimes striking. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 7cb8f6d | I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life. | princess-bride revenge | William Goldman | |
| 60740ea | Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face. "By S. Morgenstern. Great Florinese writer. The Princess Bride. He too came to America. S. Morgenstern. Dead now in New York. The English is his own. He spoke eight tongues." Here my father put down the book and held up all his fingers. "Eight. Once in Florin City..." | William Goldman | ||
| 492af73 | Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 53d2616 | You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle" | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 2550ea1 | Tristan's Mom: What are these? Tristan: Your granddaughters. Tristan's Dad: Don't worry honey, you don't look old enough to be a mother let alone a grandmother. Tristan's Mom: Again with the flattery, thank you dear. Where did they come from? Tristan: Camie gave birth last night. Jeff: I didn't know she was pregnant. Tristan: She wasn't. It was a miracle. Tristan's Mom: Do they have names? Tristan: Phineas and Ferb. Jeff: From the cartoon? .. | Jenn Cooksey | ||
| 4698ae3 | The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility--of being unable to undo what one has done--is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself. | plurality promise | Hannah Arendt | |
| 3cb3898 | I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 1b1caaa | Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don't mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| a597fcf | If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you'll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 05b19e2 | We wondered, sometimes, when your conscience and his would part company, and over what." Dr. Finch smiled. "Well, we know now. I'm just thankful I was around when the ructions started. Atticus couldn't talk to you the way I'm talking--" "Why not, sir?" "You wouldn't have listened to him. You couldn't have listened. Our gods are remote from us, Jean Louise. They must never descend to human level." | Harper Lee | ||
| 21b6a4d | Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street. | Harper Lee | ||
| d3a6a1d | I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me. | ministry | Watchman Nee | |
| 04fd0f2 | It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption. | humility | Ellis Peters | |
| 76c08b0 | Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed. | praise self-esteem self-loathing | Hanif Kureishi | |
| b51861e | What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves | Alain de Botton | ||
| a1b00b5 | Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver. | desire goals hopes life respite | Alain de Botton | |
| 859abae | It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts wh.. | achievements concentration electronics information reality thinking | Alain de Botton | |
| a929c13 | She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| 8838b91 | Much-Afraid, don't ever allow yourself to begin trying to picture what it will be like. Believe me, when you get to the place which you dread you will find that they are as different as possible from what you have imagined, just as was the case when you were actually ascending the precipice. I must warn you that I see your enemies lurking among the trees ahead, and if you ever let Craven Fear begin painting a picture on the screen of your i.. | Hannah Hurnard | ||
| aa21f93 | I know what I have to say. I think of Hillary's advice, how she has been telling me to say something all along. But I am not doing this for her. This is for me. I formulate the sentences, words that have been ringing in my head all summer. "I want to be with you, Dex" I say steadily. "Cancel the wedding. Be with me." There it is. After two months of waiting, a lifetime of passivity, everything is on the line. I feel relieved and liberated a.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 32fcff1 | We are in love and meant to be together. | Emily Giffin | ||
| b6b63d1 | Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different. Maybe it was because I no longer had a boyfriend or fiance. I suddenly recognized that there was safety in having someone, as well as a lack of pressure to shine. Ironically, this had cultivated a certain free-spiritedness that had, in turn, allowed me to be the life of the party and hoard the affection of addi.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 1e66641 | Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc... | William Blake |