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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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.. | universe humour humanity science realism | 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 zero numbers number maths wizard rincewind | 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 | vampire-phantom dark-fey natalya thad dreams-of-a-dark-warrior lore regin-the-radiant valkyrie immortals-after-dark kresley-cole berserker paranormal-romance | 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?" | lothaire declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior lore regin-the-radiant valkyrie immortals-after-dark kresley-cole berserker vampire paranormal-romance | Kresley Cole | |
| 607ab3a | She laughed, and drank more beer. "Take a long trace off a short bridge, vampire." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 175d94a | when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever. ~ Fiona MacCarrick ~ | Kresley Cole | ||
| 4097c18 | And he'd railed at her, his voice booming so loud the bed had seem to shake. She knew he was constantly there, was aware of his movement and comprehended his words, but she couldn't seem to open her heavy eyelids or speak. At night, he would wrap his body around hers, keeping her warm, whispering against her hair, "You enjoy being contrary. Then prove them all wrong and get better." He'd clutched her hip, then balled his fist there." | romance love inspirational ethan-maccarrick maddy sickness | Kresley Cole | |
| b177d07 | dh fqd rjlun rjlan 'w `ynan , fhw y`rf 'nh fqd rijlan 'w `ynan. wlkn dh fqd nfsan - nfsh- flys bmknh 'n y`rf dhlk, l'nh lm y`d mwjwdan hnk ly`rf | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8cb1ffd | Next caller. Betty, you're on the air. What's your question ?" "Hi, Kitty. I just wanted to know, are you going out with that Cormac guy from last month?" My jaw dropped. "What?" "Are you going out with that Cormac guy?" "We are talking about the same Cormac who tried to kill me on the air, yes? the guy who hunts werewolves for a living ?" "Uh-huh." "And you want to know if I'm dating him ? Why on earth do you think that's a good idea?" | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| c10bb31 | No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| a2622a3 | Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath. | skin-deep skin | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 1e573d9 | We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| d9ba5b5 | As Einstein said, 'If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. ' Michael Shermer, In The Science of Good and Evil, calls it a debate stopper. If you agree that, in the absence of God, you would 'commit robbery, rape, and murder', you reveal yourself as an immoral person, 'and we would be well advised to steer a wide course around you'. If, on the other hand, you admit that you w.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 4007e04 | They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times." | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 62cffed | The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves. | repentance hypocrisy | R.C. Sproul | |
| be0426d | t]he child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she . She must start out by believing things too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. | Betty Smith | ||
| 164a7fc | Nothing in this universe occurs by accident. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 7ca1be8 | It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw. | Bono | ||
| 7c6b296 | Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in front. Travel down it at furious speed though the days are mummified in lead. It happens so fast once you get started, there's no anchor from the real world to slow you down, nothing to hold on to. Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall. Whatever your private hell, you'll find millions like it in Misery. This is the .. | sadness | Jeanette Winterson |