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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eebc67f | A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute. | proverbs proverb | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| bd76f8a | Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| b0b501e | Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, .. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 50f9bc9 | Life is compost. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| c96b11c | For it must be very lonely being dead. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 49459d5 | He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us." -- | Irving Stone | ||
| a790848 | Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. T.. | Jim Carroll | ||
| 1b6f31a | No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 0273666 | Mother," Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, "you know I love you dearly--" "Why is it," Violet pondered, "that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?" | Julia Quinn | ||
| aca1ee7 | Milk?" Lady Bridgerton asked. "Thank you," Gareth replied. "No sugar, if you please." "Hyacinth takes hers with three," Gregory said, reaching for a piece of shortbread. "Why," Hyacinth ground out, "would he care?" "Well," Gregory replied, taking a bite and chewing, "he is your special friend." | humor tea siblings | Julia Quinn | |
| 87fc4e9 | You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?" | colin-bridgerton romancing-mister-bridgerton violet-bridgerton julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| a96abe8 | Gareth?" Hyacinth said softly. He turned to her, wondering how long he'd been standing there, pondering his options. "Hyacinth," he said. She looked at him expectantly. "Hyacinth," he said again, this time with a bit more certitude. He smiled, letting his eyes melt into hers. "Hyacinth." "We know her name," came his grandmother's voice. Gareth ignored her and pushed a table aside so that he could drop to one knee. "Hyacinth," he said, relis.. | gareth-st-clair hyacinth-bridgerton it-s-in-his-kiss julia-quinn lady-danbury | Julia Quinn | |
| 34806a1 | We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them. But you cannot kiss an idea... cannot touch it or hold it. Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man. A man.. | life v-for-vendetta ideas | Alan Moore | |
| e29e53a | Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world... | captain-metropolis save-the-world superhero watchmen | Alan Moore | |
| 552de62 | Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the "vox populi" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only .. | Alan Moore | ||
| c93e22c | The superman exists and he's American. | dr-manhatan superman | Alan Moore | |
| 1c456f1 | Her name is . And she has taught me more as a mistress than [Justice] ever did! She has taught me that is meaningless without . is honest. makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike , . | Alan Moore | ||
| e444c97 | Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California. | Alan Moore | ||
| 32371df | In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the C.I.A., from the end of the second world war, to the present day. Covering such things as the heroin smuggling during the Vietnam war, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assasination and other highlights. What I learned during the frankly ho.. | confirmation-bias conspiracy conspiracy-theories conspiracy-thoeorists illuminati males-18-35 mindscape-of-alan-moore new-world-order pitfalls-of-bad-thinking the-truth-is paranoia cia | Alan Moore | |
| e362604 | Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| adcff1d | So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2afc7b4 | It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6296a19 | Now we will begin the dance. Remember, child, this is not the iron dance of Westeros we are learning, the knight's dance, hacking and hammering, no. This is the bravo's dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 107edf7 | A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b48a3d7 | His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted. | lannisters-rocks wildfire | George R.R. Martin | |
| c155d12 | Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 8c5ff2d | And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time | relationships | Meg Cabot | |
| b614bfd | Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 092fbac | After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again. | Eleanor Estes | ||
| 05eaaf3 | Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. | inspirational | Jimmy Buffett | |
| 34706ff | The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. | war strategy | Sun Tzu | |
| 5738d8d | It's always good to be underestimated. | war smarts strentgh-and-weakness power | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| aafd985 | As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East -- he's already confused. The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. ...Basically, 'Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes.' The West thinks of itself as masculine -- big guns, big industry, big money -- so the East is feminine -- weak, delicate, poor...but good at art, and full of inscrutable wisdom -- the feminine mystique. Her mouth says no, but her ey.. | political-philosophy | David Henry Hwang | |
| ba3c140 | Fear, what a strange thing fear was... | Agatha Christie | ||
| e3be232 | Poirot said placidly, "One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this - " he tapped his egg-shaped head - "this, that functions!" | poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| dc106af | For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many. | Frank Beddor | ||
| ee300f3 | She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she'd thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130) | words loneliness interraction speach starvation | Ron Rash | |
| 126610b | yet, even before he left the room, - and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her. And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power, repugnant to her whole previous life.She crept away, and hid from his idea. But it was of no use | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| e28a919 | You know who you belong to, Jack?" "Yeah." "Yourself." He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma." | mother | Emma Donoghue | |
| 6ec8433 | For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. | human-nature stories | Emma Donoghue | |
| db171e7 | But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. | pain sorrow life | Emma Forrest | |
| 2b0e63d | I never lie -- I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies. I have had very good relationships, but the addict in me always fucked them up. I fall in love quickly, it's a high that rivals drugs for a while. I am monogamous, but I always cheated with depression before the relationship fell apart. Addicts need best friends, healthy people need healthy relationships. | relationships depression | Emma Forrest | |
| 1aaf903 | I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you | Jean Rhys | ||
| 3fcdea0 | Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions. | knowledge | Brandon Mull |