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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c75c6ba | Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves." | slavery | Brandon Mull | |
| 9a3f25d | Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive. | Brandon Mull | ||
| e18ba41 | Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| a21de51 | One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. | words literature reading | Anne Brontë | |
| 5901959 | Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind? | time | Robin Hobb | |
| 6016f19 | Wait for you? Not likely. I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way. | nighteyes | Robin Hobb | |
| 92ed5f8 | Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 85bd190 | Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sadly, women have learned to be ashamed and apologetic about pursuits that are seen as traditionally female, such as fashion and makeup. But our society does not expect men to feel ashamed of pursuits considered generally male - sports cars, certain professional sports. In the same way, men's grooming is never suspect in the way women's grooming.. | feminism women makeup misogyny femininity | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 559b050 | If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was 'women should not wear short skirts because they can get cancer if they do.' Instead the reason is not about women, but about men. Women must be 'covered up' to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men. | motherhood parenting | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 8c7a069 | Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper. | warrior knowledge | Christopher Paolini | |
| a9b7df1 | So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. | inspirational martyr brom christopher-paolini eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| d158211 | Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| d040348 | Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 3e46e6d | Henry's recollections of the past, in contrast to Proust, are done while in movement. He may remember his first wife while making love to a whore, or he may remember his very first love while walking the streets, traveling to see a friend; and life does not stop while he remembers. Analysis in movement. No static vivisection. Henry's daily and continuous flow of life, his sexual activity, his talks with everyone, his cafe life, his conversa.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 3629606 | We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts. | thoughts life truth self reflection acts severe judgement | Anaïs Nin | |
| c5c94b0 | The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 7496c21 | Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 2cbc384 | You haven't loved yet," he said. "You've only been trying to love; beginning to love. Trust alone is not love, illusion is not love, desire alone is not love. All these were paths leading you out of yourself, it is true, and so you thought they led to another, but you never reached the other. You were only on the way." | path | Anaïs Nin | |
| 421bc95 | Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse's, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal i.. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 9dab3f7 | I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to think any more. I can't think when I am with you. You are like me, wishing for a perfect moment, but nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way. Neither one of us can say just the right thing. We are overwhelmed. Let us be overwhelmed. It is so lovely, so lovely. I love you June." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| fa686c7 | The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| a62b983 | It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 2991089 | Suppressing his relief, Valek asked, "Can you please tell this Lieutenant who he has arrested?" "Can do," Janco said with a smile. "Lieutenant Darren, let me be the first to congratulate you on capturing the elusive and legendary Kelav. He's been wanted in Ixia for years on multiple counts of espionage." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| b96d83c | you have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told. | Thomas King | ||
| de4e252 | You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've lost everything-" Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself carry on. "When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose." | Ken Follett | ||
| b7d42f8 | The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go. | decisions | Jim Butcher | |
| f8b23b2 | I grunted. "She's not a delicate princess," I said. "She's a warrior. Warriors have enemies. Sometimes warriors get hurt." I felt my jaws clench. "And then their friends even things up." | skin-game harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 579c6ea | Parkour," I panted. "Bitch." | Jim Butcher | ||
| fed2c5c | If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 955fb8b | He's being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven," Thomas said. "I figured he couldn't jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before we start asking questions." "That's an awful thing to do to one of the Little Folk, man," I said. "I'm planning to start making a pie in front of him." "Nice." "Thank you." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 428ba8b | Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. | change fire dresden-files | Jim Butcher | |
| 000b033 | I slammed the water off hard enough to make it clack, got out of the shower, dried, and started getting dressed in a fresh set of secondhand clothes. "Why do you wear those?" asked Lacuna. I jumped, stumbled, and shouted half of a word to a spell, but since I was only halfway done putting on my underwear, I mostly just fell on my naked ass. "Gah!" I said. "Don't do that!" My miniature captive came to the edge of the dresser and peered dow.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| aa995cb | The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground. | good-times shindig harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 65ab45b | She's going to do nothing but try to trick information out of me that I shouldn't be giving her, Mac," I said. "Ungh," Mac agreed. "Why did I say yes?" Mac shrugged. "She's pretty," I said. "Smart. Sexy." "Ungh." "Any red-blooded man would have done the same thing." "Hngh," Mac snorted. "Well. Maybe not you." Mac smiled a bit, mollified. "Still. It's going to make trouble for me. I must be crazy to go for someone like that." I picked up my .. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b8e9d48 | Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't going to let it ruin my concentration. So I scooped it up with the corner of the phone book and popped it into the middle drawer of my desk. Out of sight, out of mind. So I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d3151aa | I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 483bd2e | Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head. | humor dresdenish | Jim Butcher | |
| 77749e0 | Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong? | Holly Black | ||
| f243ed0 | Great. Lookout. I'm a lookout. Another thing to put on my college applications. What do I do if I see someone?" Val looked back. "I'm not sure, actually." | Holly Black | ||
| 5a4395c | I heard you've been having some problems with your girlfriend." Headmistress Northcutt says. "No," I say. "Not at all." Audrey broke up with me after the winter holiday, exhausted by my moodiness. It's impossible to have problems with a girlfriend who's no longer mine." | white-cat holly-black | Holly Black | |
| f613112 | It's shocking," he says, as though he's giving me some great compliment. "I know humans can lie, but to watch you do it is incredible. Do it again." | the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air | Holly Black | |
| 7a8c596 | Boys never believe I can beat them, she told me back then. But I always win in the end. | Holly Black | ||
| f1096c3 | It's funny how you get under his skin." At first, I'm not sure I heard him right. I almost ask whom he's talking about, because I can't quite believe he's admitting that high and mighty Cardan is affected by anything. "Like a splinter?" I say. "Of iron. No one else bothers him quite the way that you do." | Holly Black | ||
| 9c14c2f | You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to . | Holly Black |