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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 73abb08 | we all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 7141d22 | There, there, sweetin'," he murmured into her hair. "He loved me, he truly did," she gasped. "I know he did," Michael said. "And I loved him." "Mm-hmm." She raised her head, glaring angrily. "You don't even believe in love. Why are you agreeing with me?" He laughed. "Because"--he leaned down and licked at the tears on her cheeks, his lips brushing softly against her sensitive skin as he spoke, "ye've bewitched and bespelled me, my sweet Sil.. | mickey scandalous-desires silence | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 12bdaee | I think I'm what they call a never-was. | Christopher Moore | ||
| e58a453 | Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me? | Christopher Moore | ||
| ca900e4 | If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. The key -- and this is very relevant in our case -- is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 1fd862f | Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream... | Diablo Cody | ||
| d92fc7f | I walked towards her. Jean-Claude grabbed my arm. "Do not harm her, Anita. She is under our protection." "I swear to you that I will not lay a finger on her tonight. I just want to tell her something." He released my arm, slowly, like he wasn't sure it was a good idea. I stepped next to Monica, until our bodies almost touched. I whispered into her face, "If anything happens to Catherine, I will see you dead." She smirked at me, confident in.. | thread tough-lady | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 7e30ba3 | Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 978ce9c | Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job. | laurell-k-hamilton vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 1699a04 | I don't do doomed. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 80722b2 | Just what I needed--a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 46943ad | People go away and they don't come back. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| d34d41f | There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion--a passion for discerning what is subjectively real in every moment. It is a mode of cognition that is, above all, undistracted, accepting, and (ultimately) nonconceptual. Being mindful is not a matter of thinking more clearly about experience; it is the act of experiencing more clearly, including the arising of thoughts themselves. M.. | experience mindfulness spirituality | Sam Harris | |
| 294cb94 | Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 2ac4a7f | Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love. | José Saramago | ||
| b2064be | That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead. | death life | José Saramago | |
| daf48da | Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency. | olivaw robots sci-fi | Isaac Asimov | |
| 6f8fbbc | And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer--by demonstration--would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by ste.. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| d384a6c | we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one. | Jules Verne | ||
| 26b845a | Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way. | Jules Verne | ||
| 125f2c9 | sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances."_Eric Packer" | don-delillo | Don DeLillo | |
| 100f471 | Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my fiction I think this search sometimes turns out to be a cruel delusion. No optimism, no pessimism. No homesickness for lost values or for the way fiction used to be written. Everybody seems to know everything. Subjects surface and are totally exhausted in a matter of days or weeks, totally played.. | humor inspirational science | Don DeLillo | |
| 7b1aae1 | Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love.... | Richard Bach | ||
| 0cd8c93 | Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. | Richard Bach | ||
| 2037acd | Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again | Richard Bach | ||
| 2b33477 | My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 1f710f3 | Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without sol.. | elric-of-melnibone eternal-champion imperfection opposites paradox peace philosophers soothsayers | Michael Moorcock | |
| 19cb55b | As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 659b2aa | Birds are flyin' south for winter. Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north, Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin', Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth. He says, "It's not that I like ice Or freezin' winds and snowy ground. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 113b0bf | Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 9809c02 | He snarled at me. "This isn't over yet, Betsy." "Excellent," I said. "I would also have accepted 'You haven't seen the last of me' and 'You'll regret this'." | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| bfef350 | Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio! | Daniel Clowes | ||
| 4d97885 | Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 8e95946 | I thought of Al in his dream, looking nothing like this, more like an elegant bat. Broken? Perhaps, but I had put his butterfly back together with my blood. "I never liked the movie Titanic," I said, and he grunted, his gaze sharpening on me. "They both could have gotten on that damn door." | rachel-morgan | Kim Harrison | |
| 6164dcc | Double damn. I was a harlot. I was a freaking vampire hussy. | Kim Harrison | ||
| fd623d7 | Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again." | rachel-morgan | Kim Harrison | |
| 7978ae5 | She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 52e692e | And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I'd found out long ago that I couldn't stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable. | Kim Harrison | ||
| c57e356 | Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as her hands explored his chest, his shoulders, his face. "I want to lay my kill at your feet," he said, more growl than words, and held her tight by her hair as he marked her neck with his teeth. She writhed against him. She wanted to bite him, she wanted to rip the flesh from his back, but most terrible of all, she .. | love | Annette Curtis Klause | |
| 9a7b564 | The death of a parent, he wrote, "despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections." | Joan Didion | ||
| cd134a1 | I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O'Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O'Keeffe 'Sky Above Clouds' canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a w.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 54227de | prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day fo.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 53885c0 | We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different. | freedom future | Lois Lowry | |
| f674177 | For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms "success" and "failure" had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one's place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the .. | Paul Auster |