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| 878ecad | As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split. | writing reviewers critics literary-criticism | kurt Vonnegut | |
| 5e651a2 | The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Merm.. | warrior little-mermaid mermen percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 9c009f9 | Leo lowered his screwdriver. He looked at the ceiling and shook his head like, What am I gonna do with this guy? "I try very hard to be annoying," Leo said. "Don't insult my ability to annoy. And how am I supposed to resent you if you go apologizing? I'm a lowly mechanic. You're like the prince of the sky, son of the Lord of the Universe. I'm supposed to resent you." "Lord of the Universe?" (Jason) "Sure, you're all-bam! Lightning man. A.. | humor resentment apologies jason-grace leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 63339c4 | Thalia's shoulders relaxed. "I owe you one." "Two." "One and a half," Thalia said. She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn't yelling at me." | Rick Riordan | ||
| ed28367 | She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. | sea water faery ocean | Holly Black | |
| 706667c | Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run. | inspirational right-and-wrong honor | Wendelin Van Draanen | |
| b7c71f9 | The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. | war | Joseph Heller | |
| 4ad772d | A slow, wry smile teased Daemon's lips. "Simmer down, Kitten, before I have to get you a ball of yarn to play with." Annoyance flared deep inside me. "Don't start with me, jerk-face." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1167819 | I didn't eat all of it." "Oh, so it ate itself?" Dee shrieked so loudly I thought I heard the rafters in the ceiling shake. "Did the spoon ate it? Oh wait, I know. The carton ate it." "Actually, I think the freezer ate it." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d95a43e | Love loves to love love. | James Joyce | ||
| ae9bc97 | There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always. | remembrance | Isabel Allende | |
| 34b9209 | Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something. | something someone | Enid Blyton | |
| bc75e2e | Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 26fd653 | We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. | science thought-provoking | Carl Sagan | |
| 1e4ae79 | Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead." "I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face. "And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record." Simon, Clary, and Jace, pg. 115" | jace-wayland simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7fa85bd | But you'll be killed!" "I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice." Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c0b92d3 | Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people. | being-positive inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking optimism life inspirational authentic-living | Roy T. Bennett | |
| 5a5fdf2 | He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. | inspirational | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| c9b4726 | Nothing will work unless you do. | inspirational | Maya Angelou | |
| 59f2c93 | All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive. | madness survival | Yann Martel | |
| cda667e | That which yields is not always weak. | flexibility | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 9ceb60e | Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. | faith inspirational assurance aspiration | Rabindranath Tagore | |
| 176a7e9 | We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm. | inspirational | Winston S. Churchill | |
| f6e1e3a | loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. | Milan Kundera | ||
| c166171 | Two rights don't equal a left. | Roald Dahl | ||
| b45077b | Find good in what the world says is evil. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5eb338e | It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible. | libba-bray | Libba Bray | |
| ed574fd | At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 44e1152 | People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| f8fe7b5 | So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or h.. | sex making-love sensuality respect touch pleasure | Hermann Hesse | |
| a314845 | I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin. | David Levithan | ||
| cae6e4c | Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after a major success on the battlefield-and we haven't had any major battles-or we hold a ballot on the evening of June 24, at the Feast of Fortuna. That's in five days." Percy frowned. "You have a feast for tuna?" -- | reyna son-of-neptune rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 0f8f2cb | What you stay focused on will grow. | stay-focused leadership inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational grow leader leaders focus | Roy T. Bennett | |
| ce8222b | Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people. | goodness leadership inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational leader | Roy T. Bennett | |
| bb3ed4d | But you'll be killed!" "I'll be fine. Besides, we've got no choice." Annabeth glared at me like she was going to punch me. And then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me." -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 84c09bc | Life and love go on... | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 565517f | Character -- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life -- is the source from which self-respect springs. | responsibility life self-respect | Joan Didion | |
| 9a96817 | One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. | life | Jane Austen | |
| 7f7035a | He locked you up because he knew--the bastard knew what a treasure you are. That you are worth more than land or gold or jewels. He knew, and wanted to keep you all to himself." The words hit me, even as they soothed some jagged piece in my soul. "He did--does love me, Rhysand." "The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be a poison." And then he was gone." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7dbbd52 | if you get married they think you're finished | Charles Bukowski | ||
| e5afdad | Did we have sex?" he asked directly. For about two minutes, this might actually be fun. "Eric," I said, "we had sex in every position I could imagine, and some I couldn't. We had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. You told me it was the best you'd ever had." (At the time he couldn't recall all the sex he'd ever had. But he'd paid me a compliment.) "Too bad you can't remember it," I concluded with a modest smile. Eric lo.. | sookie-stackhouse vampire | Charlaine Harris | |
| aef99ea | Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. | relationships depression morality happiness depression-humor the-key-to-happiness oscar-wilde marriage-advice sins self-pity narcissism self-improvement pride vice self-help sin | Stephen Fry | |
| e7dc2f9 | Anais, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. [...] This is a little drunken, Anais. I am saying to myself "here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere." I remember your saying - "you could fool me, I wouldn't know it." When I walk along the bo.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 8cade31 | Anais, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. [...] This is a little drunken, Anais. I am saying to myself "here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere." I remember your saying - "you could fool me, I wouldn't know it." When I walk along the bo.. | Henry Miller |