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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0cf85b3 | The fear of loss... it can destroy you as much as the loss itself. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| fd6d130 | The girl was alluring. Like wildfire, or a summer storm swept off the Gulf of Oro. | celaena wildfire storm summer | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b020753 | Even if she hadn't slaughtered Baba Yellowlegs, Manon would have killed her just for that spell she'd used to freeze her feet. Etching some foul spell with the man's blood. And now she was going to die. Wind-Cleaver pressed against the queen's blade. But Aelin held her ground and hissed, "I'm going to rip you to shreds." | manon-blackbeak | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 9f7f30c | I knew,' it gasped, sensing my shift in thoughts. 'The tracking...I knew of it.' 'Then why come at all?' 'You...were kind. You...fought your fear. You were...kind.' I began crying. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| bba703d | Aelin, leaning against the half-decayed desk that served as the lone piece of furniture in the room, smirked at him. "I saw you from a distance-once." Galan Ashryver's eyes sparked. "I'm going to assume it was during your former profession and thank you for not killing me." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| a5f56d9 | It was the sound of Elide's weeping-that girl of quiet steel and quick-silver wit who had not wept for herself or her sorry life, only faced it with grim determination-that made Manon snap entirely. She killed those guards in the hall. She saw what they had been laughing at: the girl gripped between two other guards, her robe tugged opened to reveal her nakedness, the full extent of that ruined leg- Her grandmother had sold them to these pe.. | manon-blackbeak | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 357fd75 | Rowan was watching Chaol as if he might be dinner. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| ab47458 | You could just marry each other," Yrene said, and Dorian whipped his head to her, incredulous. "It'd make it easier for you both, so you don't need to pretend." Chaol gaped at his wife. Yrene shrugged. "And be a strong alliance for our two kingdoms." Dorian knew his face was red when he turned to Manon, apologies and denials on his lips. But Manon smirked at Yrene, her silver-white hair lifting in the breeze, as if reaching for the united p.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 404c7b4 | A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 42dc143 | There's faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there's faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they're not entirely certain they're in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God's mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence. | religion god intolerance ignorance | R. Scott Bakker | |
| e889b8a | Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| aa046c5 | Then the one called Raltariki is really a demon?" asked Tak. "Yes--and no," said Yama, "If by 'demon' you mean a malefic, supernatural creature, possessed of great powers, life span and the ability to temporarily assume virtually any shape--then the answer is no. This is the generally accepted definition, but it is untrue in one respect." "Oh? And what may that be?" "It is not a supernatural creature." "But it is all those other things?" "Y.. | wisdon supernatural unknown | Roger Zelazny | |
| 8234f60 | Love is a negative form of hatred. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| e292378 | Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. | time pain free-will the-keys-to-december reconciliation maturity melancholy eternity | Roger Zelazny | |
| bf96a30 | Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver." "Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion." | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 59758c7 | Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 696d7b5 | If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr." | farmer-cape mastiff tamora-pierce | Tamora Pierce | |
| 446c70d | For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours. | Michael Pollan | ||
| f25bf37 | Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 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." | social insanity | 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. | universe world pratchett forces | 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?" | terry-pratchett sam-vimes | 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. | trolls rincewind swords | 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." | humor girlfriend | Susan Mallery |