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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d94787b | I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. | Holly Black | ||
| 841de86 | There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?" | Holly Black | ||
| b9b2cbb | I'd have died without them [books]. Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books. | go-ask-alice | Beatrice Sparks | |
| 2220768 | I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much. | bulimia eating-disorder marya-hornbacher memoir wasted | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 88e82d2 | Shigure: We have just | fruits-basket humor laugh shigure | Natsuki Takaya | |
| c853f55 | Ayame: In fact, perhaps it would be easier if we just discussed me instead. Yuki: What would be the point in that? Ayame: Oh, in that case, I should be prepared to talk about why I chose this lyrical professional overflowing with fantasy! It's because I wanted to create something. Even I, who have a charisma that wafts of noble refinement, have times when I lose confidence! Ans so I had this uncontrollable urge to try making something. Anyt.. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 062af0e | That's why you can't be worried about the world. They'll just do you in anyway. You can't depend on them because sooner or later they'll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 5b22011 | This guy is different. I see him once in a while and we have fun and theres no pressure. We just have a good time. And he still writes for tranks and downers. A couple of weeks ago we flew down to the Virgin Islands for a weekend. It was a ball. Hey, crazy. Sounds great. Yeah. So your folks are still footin the bills, tilting his head toward the rest of the apartment, for the pad and so forth? Yeah. She laughed out loud again, Plus the fift.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| dfda494 | Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 921e865 | Love means knowing when to let go. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 7e6c16f | A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look. | rain sleet snow weather | Edward Gorey | |
| f2c1c31 | EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, STAYS HAPPENED. "What kind of philosophy is that?" THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 060c31c | If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty. | humour | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0d0687e | The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8eaec01 | Cake is not the issue here. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3e70c4f | Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| af04918 | And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as " " anything, that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels, and a too-small stove... and to pain, and terror, and horror and the darkness." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 97a9df9 | The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them. | humour librarian | Terry Pratchett | |
| ae39b71 | I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| cf9f84a | Even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| db8651d | Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 12c2dd2 | The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not...what do they call it...go postal? Treat this as a learning exercise. Find out why the world is not as you thought it was. Assemble the facts, digest the information, consider the implications. THEN go postal. But with precision. | thud vimes | Terry Pratchett | |
| d376bf7 | Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2f2b1c9 | Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e3249e3 | But I think you have a right to know what it is you're not being told. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 576d8c9 | You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds. And what do they call their fr.. | humanity humour realism science universe | Terry Pratchett | |
| 56feb25 | He'd always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn't a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid. | humor interesting-times maths number numbers rincewind wizard zero | Terry Pratchett | |
| c72c1c6 | I wonder, for example, if the twins' piano training had given them the Tomaini brand of dexterity with hand jobs? Could a non-musician learn it? Could I? Children stumble through these most critical acts with no real help from the elders who are so anxious to teach them everything else. We were given rules and taboos for the toilet, the sneeze, the eating of an artichoke. Papa taught us all a particular brush stroke for cleaning our teeth, .. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 4f49e7c | In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| fa58135 | There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 278dcdf | Come out, Neville. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 98e31aa | Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. | Richard Matheson | ||
| d43eebb | He roared at me furiously for ten minutes after he finally managed to put out the sulky and determined fire, calling me a witless muttonheaded spawn of pig farmers-"My father's a wood-cutter," I said- "adOf axe-swinging lummocks!" he snarled." | Naomi Novik | ||
| bd651aa | So the fairy silver brought you a monster of fire for a husband, and me a monster of ice. We should put them in a room together and let them make us both widows. | Naomi Novik | ||
| b875237 | Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it. | Naomi Novik | ||
| da26540 | At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient... only the universe rearranging itself. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 08c1490 | No matter how many scars we carry from what we have gone through and suffered in the past, our intrinsic wholeness is still here: what else contains the scars? None of us has to be a helpless victim of what was done to us or what was not done for us in the past, nor do we have to be helpless in the face of what we may be suffering now. We are also what was present before the scarring--our original wholeness, what was born whole. And we can .. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ee0c252 | After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 3435a64 | If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away. | Mary Karr | ||
| eba4487 | The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with That Which Is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. This wanting and rewanting is an endless cycle for which, turns out, there is already a name: samsara. Samsara is at the heart of the vast human carnival: greed, neurosis, mad ambit.. | George Saunders | ||
| 519ebf4 | A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 479e7ac | Valkyrie, if there was ever a cradle to be robbed ... Gods, just | berserker dark-fey dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore natalya paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant thad valkyrie vampire-phantom | Kresley Cole | |
| aa3f6ea | You could run, and I could stay to fend them off," the vampire offered. "For some reason, I feel amazingly refreshed." He swung an amused look at Declan that made him grind his teeth. "And it seems I'm quite handy against them."-- --Natalya tossed away her busted TEP-C. "So, Lothaire, you're going to fight them out of the blackness of your heart?" | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore lothaire paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie vampire | Kresley Cole | |
| 607ab3a | She laughed, and drank more beer. "Take a long trace off a short bridge, vampire." | Kresley Cole |