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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0591a87 | Nesryn supposed that was why she liked the queen: there were plans so long in the making that for someone who let the world deem her unchecked and brash, Aelin showed a great deal of restraint in keeping it all hidden. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0911d72 | But I promise," she breathed into the soil, "I promise that I will stop him. I promise that I will never forgive, never forget what they did to you. I promise that I will free Eyllwe. I promise that I will see your father's crown restored to his head." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 429346d | She was definitely more covered-up than the courtesans around him. But sometimes there was more allure in not seeing everything. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c979636 | It'd just been a relief to think that for a moment he might have been as lonely as me. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 263903e | I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength..." As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it, know it, too. "A special strength in enduring such dark trials and hardships... And still remaining warm, and kind. Still willing to trust--and reach out." | kindess mor morrigan strength | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f5e7e20 | But Aelin, crowned and glowing, only said, "Walk with me." She gestured to the gates behind her. "All of you." This day did not belong to her alone. Not at all. And when they all balked, Aelin walked forward. Took Yrene Westfall by the hand to guide her to the front. Then Manon Blackbeak. Elide Lochan. Lysandra. Evangeline. Nesryn Faliq. Borte and Hasar and Ansel of Briarcliff. All the women who had fought by her side, or from afar. Who had.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 62a6f8c | You marry the person you love--and none other," he said, and she laughed. "You're mocking me! You're laughing in my face!" "You deserve to be laughed at for such foolish thoughts! I spoke from my soul; you speak only from selfishness." "You're remarkably judgmental." "What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgments?" "What's the point in having a heart if you don't use it to spare others from the harsh judgme.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1b92b0c | For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all: nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined,therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes | mystery transcendence | E.E. Cummings | |
| f6b968e | I HAVE MADE THIS FOR YOU. She reached out and took a damp square of cardboard. Water dripped off the bottom. Somewhere in the middle, a few brown feathers seemed to have been glued on. 'Thank you. Er ... what is it?' ALBERT SAID THERE OUGHT TO BE SNOW ON IT, BUT IT APPEARS TO HAVE MELTED, said Death. IT IS, OF COURSE, A HOGSWATCH CARD. 'Oh ...' THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A ROBIN ON IT AS WELL, BUT I HAD CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTY IN GETTING IT .. | discworld humor pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| f8e75d1 | It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay a visit to their ancestors. It is frequently claimed in American philosophy departments that, in order to be a philosopher, it is not necessary to revisit the history of philosophy. It is like the claim that one can become a painter without having ever seen a single work by Raphael, or a writer without having ever read the c.. | Umberto Eco | ||
| ba547e7 | This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain. | Umberto Eco | ||
| d72bf29 | Beauty is, in some ways, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages, nevertheless a beautiful object must always follow certain rules ... Ugliness is unpredictable and offers an infinite range of possibilities. Beauty is finite. Ugliness is infinite, like God. | Umberto Eco | ||
| bba1c08 | Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all." | semiotics truth | Umberto Eco | |
| c975250 | Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 17b6e2d | I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 9640a83 | But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting t.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 891953b | The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like a person who had fought dragons and lost limbs and crawled through swamps and now, finally, the castle was visible. I could see tiny children waving flags on the balcony; all I had to do was walk across a field to get to them. But all of a sudden I was very, very sleepy. And the children couldn't believe their eyes as I folded down to my knee.. | procrastination | Miranda July | |
| 87c250d | Anyhow," she went on, "so long as my mother forced me to embroider, I insisted on choosing a pattern that interested me. I've never understood why girls are always made to stitch insipid flowers and ribbons." "Well, just to hazard a guess . . ." Colin straightened his edge. "Perhaps that's because sleeping on a bed of flowers and ribbons sounds delightful and romantic. Whereas sharing one's bed with a primeval sea snail sounds disgusting.".. | Tessa Dare | ||
| cb03375 | Well?" "Well, what?" "Damn it, Nathan, tell me what you think." "About what?" "Lady Sara," Colin persisted. "What do you think of her?" "The truth, Colin?" His friend gave a quick nod. Nathan's smile was slow, easy. "She'll fit through the window." | Julie Garwood | ||
| cc5f4c5 | I will insist you be man enough to take it. I won't have you making light of my feelings, or making light of yourself--as if you're not worthy of them. Because you are worthy, Colin. You're a generous, good-hearted person, and you deserve to be loved. Deeply, truly, well, and often." He looked utterly bewildered. Well, what did he expect, after the power he'd given her? He couldn't compare a woman to a torrentially beautiful monsoon, and th.. | love romance | Tessa Dare | |
| 631ece0 | I have to console myself with the hope that I'd seen Isabeau soften, even hesitate, as if she might actually have taken my arm. It was suddenly very easy to picture her in a gown with petticoats and ringlets in her hair and diamonds at her throat. It was just as easy to picture Magda with horns and pitchfork." - Logan, page 95" | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 23d8725 | When Kieran nudged me awake, I tried to punch him. "Lucy--shit!" He ducked, smashing his head on the window. I blinked blearily. "Sorry, Kier. Habbit." He rubbed the back of his head. "Between you and Hunter, it's a wonder I have all of my limbs still intact." I snorted, rubbing my eyes. "You dosed me with Hypnos." "Three months ago. Let it go, Hamilton." I just grinned sleepily. "You have so much to learn." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| a56d972 | The grand illusion of committed love is that we think our partners are ours. In truth, their separateness is unassailable, and their mystery is forever ungraspable. As soon as we can begin to acknowledge this, sustained desire becomes a real possibility. It's remarkable to me how a sudden threat to the status quo (an affair, an infatuation, a prolonged absence, or even a really good fight) can suddenly ignite desire. There's nothing like th.. | Esther Perel | ||
| f4df869 | To the children and the innocent it's all the same. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 9ed917c | He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. | happy insecure insecurity line-of-beauty love sad | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| 167368c | Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each have a spindle, and on to these they are spinning their wool, milk-white, like the moonlight. In fact, it is the moonlight, the moon itself, which is why they don't carry a distaff. They're not Fates, or anything terrible; they don't affect the lives of men; all they have to do is to see that the world gets it.. | story three-girls | Mary Stewart | |
| 5e5bd2c | Nothing?Micheal!You're 'playing'!.IN PUBLIC? 'That's new?' Claire whisperd to shhane 'He hasn't played anywhere but our living room since-Teeth-in-neck mime 'You know Oliver' 'Oh.' | RACHEL CAINE | ||
| 5a8d5e1 | She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies." | claire-danvers morganville-vampires oliver | Rachel Caine | |
| 2c6f6b0 | It is a natural stronghold for them--they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and they'll be just as hard to anticipate and to kill in such close quarters." "Wow," Shane said. "You really know how to drum up team spirit. Did you print up Team Total Fail jerseys, too?" Myrnin gave him an entirely crazy smile. "Would you be surprised if I had?" | Rachel Caine | ||
| a8e9d6d | Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting." | shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 2097ca0 | Well," Claire said, "at least we have tacos. Everything goes better with tacos." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 7f88ce3 | Bouncing in hoppy little circles like a demented Goth bunny. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 962ec88 | No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn...yeah, just another day in the life. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 9831210 | This is the biggest damn iPod I've ever seen,' Claire said, which made him choke on his beer. 'Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.' 'The way you're feeding it, I'm not so sure. You think you picked enough songs? | Rachel Caine | ||
| fd0877a | I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives. And I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing. It's about learning to live with the missing parts. | Michael Finkel | ||
| 1aa99d0 | We may indeed die here, that's true. But we will all die anyway-is there any denying that? When you think of all the possible ways you might go, this is as fine a place as any, isn't it? I mean, to end one's life surrounded by friends, in a comfortable, dry room with plenty to read... that doesn't sound too awful, does it?" "What is the advantage of fear, or the benefit of regret, or the bonus of granting misery a foothold even if death is .. | life-lessons | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| ca3129f | Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay" Why two?" asked Mo hoarsely. "How can you ask for two lives in return for one?" | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 71c136e | Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money? | fiction humor magic | Trudi Canavan | |
| 8656616 | Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality. | William Saroyan | ||
| f997a66 | The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its beat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 3785544 | When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy! | Jack Kerouac | ||
| b90357e | Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain... | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 5fa6834 | I like you," Gary finally said in a low voice. "Thank you? I thought you already did." "No. Like, I like you. Before, I was just pretending. I actually think I almost despised you. But now I don't." "You almost despised me." "Almost." "And now you don't." "Now I don't." "Because...." Gary breathed more on his face, nostrils flaring. Then (finally), "Unicorns are fickle creatures. I don't need a reason to change my mind. It's been done and.. | ryan unicorn | T.J. Klune | |
| d468608 | Often we don't realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past. | Robert B. Cialdini |