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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 37f5d3c | Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 20b164f | You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding. | brad-thor fiction scot-harvath thriller | Brad Thor | |
| 87023c3 | Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5591aa3 | Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. Th.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| e592989 | The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| a3fcfcf | Worse than madness. Sanity. | sanity | William Golding | |
| 8c2d1b7 | There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| d8b23fd | Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 2f4a725 | Live steady. Don't fuck around. Give anything weird a wide berth--including people. It's not worth it. I learned this the hard way, through brutal overindulgence. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 9112c57 | So gorgeous was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd, waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. In scarlet and blue and green and purple, three by three the sovereigns rode through the palace gates, with plumed helmets, gold braid, crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun. After them came five heirs apparent, fo.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| feb5e13 | Toi ne s'zhaliavashe, che ne post'pi v kolezh. Kolezh't e za khora, koito ne znaiat, che sa umni. | Richard Bachman | ||
| 40d4219 | McVries opened his eyes and smiled again. The next instant He was gone. | Richard Bachman | ||
| af63ff5 | You were starting to sound a little like a Stephen King novel for a while there, | Richard Bachman | ||
| 819ae11 | Es gibt einen Ort in uns, wo es praktisch die ganze Zeit regnet, die Schatten immer lang und der Wald voller Ungeheuer ist. | richard-bachmann stephen-king | Richard Bachman | |
| e0e727c | Getting old is like driving through snow that just gets deeper and deeper. When you finally get in over your hubcaps, you just spin and spin. That's life. There are no plows to come and dig you out. Your ship isn't going to come in, girl. There are no boats for nobody. You're never going to win a contest. There's no camera following you and people watching you struggle. This is it. All of it. Everything. | Richard Bachman | ||
| c7d98e2 | Sometimes the gods give you a break. | Richard Bachman Stephen King | ||
| 44abb10 | God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 1fc324c | Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 9b6553b | If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem. | comic humor john-updike | John Updike | |
| 81fd9a6 | hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him. | John Updike | ||
| e85e877 | Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time. " | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 3bd0214 | Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness. | depression memories pain | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 0ccbb09 | Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave. | identity immigration religion | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 2e82217 | Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me." | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 7e3b0d0 | I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable! | Robert Ludlum | ||
| a81fb6a | Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d0ab16b | The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone. They never seem to grasp the idea that males and females are separate species with completely different needs and desires, forced to come together only to reproduce Of course you feel that way. Your mates are nothing but mindless drones, extensions of yourself, without their own identity. .. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8e7b7f5 | Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1ac5a9f | I didn't want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad. | Robin McKinley | ||
| a558936 | A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things. | simplicity taste | Barbara Taylor Bradford | |
| 7b9a933 | The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west." | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 60a0fc9 | It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein... Aprodite, Apollo, Hermes, and Zeus were all real, and had one Loric parent | four i lore | Pittacus Lore | |
| d286aa0 | This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or 's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally. { } | despotism french-revolution history jefferson jesuits napoleon napoleon-bonaparte thomas-jefferson | John Adams | |
| 802ad9e | If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave." | humour | Lynne Truss | |
| 4ba7f3a | looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes-- | humor wombat | Patrick O'Brian | |
| d7e191d | Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 3e7a019 | Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trap.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 2f3b768 | Sometimes words weren't enough-- they couldn't cover the feeling. This was one of those times. So I closed the distance and kissed her, putting everything I felt for her, every promise I made her, into that one kiss. | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| abe14e8 | seriosly, how good a kisser is daemon? because i imagine he jsut makes you-" "lesa!" "what? a girls gotta know these kind of things." i bit my lip, flushing. "come on, its sharing and caring time." "he...he kisses like he's dying of thirst, and im water." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1a59d95 | Luc's never betrayed you, has he?" When I shook my head, Archer grimaced. "And I would never betray Luc. Even I'm a bit scared of that little shit." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fcc205d | What is that?" I asked, pointing at the ceiling. Part of me didn't expect Aiden to answer, but he did. "It's Phoebe's symbol." "Phoebe? Obviously you don't mean a Charmed one." He snorted." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1bfd6e0 | I didn't need your permission," I spat back. Ren smirked. "Honey, I know what you need and you're going to get it." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5da6f55 | Nancy tsked softly, and I added her to my Going to Die Painfully list. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| cb9c63a | Shower first. Epic b****-out session second, sincere apology third, and then sleep. | Jennifer L. Armentrout |