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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4494666 | Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. | wickedness | John Updike | |
| c7455c1 | Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. | distraction love orhan-pamuk reading snow | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 9555bd3 | Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 19888d8 | The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took | life | Dennis Lehane | |
| e2c3ebb | Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 0739057 | I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away-- | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1df05bc | So you love me," said Petra softly when the kiss ended. I'm a raging mass of hormones thet I'm too young to understand," said Bean. "You're a female of a closely related species. According to all the best primatologists, I really have no choice." That's nice," she said..." | humor love | Orson Scott Card | |
| 15f8335 | We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 12463d1 | Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive." "That's a lie." "No. It's just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 90ad722 | No doubt your sword is indeed a beautiful thing. It is a tribute to whoever forged it in bygone ages. There are very few such swords as this one left in the world, but remember, it is only a sword, Matthias! It contains no secret spell, nor holds within its blade any magical power. This sword is made for only one purpose, to kill. It will only be as good or evil as the one who wields it. I know that you intend to use it only for the good of.. | good right sword wisedom | Brian Jacques | |
| e143f00 | Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really ... Somewhere where it all balances out - don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? - if we could go there, you could see it doesn't. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him. | perspective philosophy world | Robin McKinley | |
| 9e78bca | We start learning the minute we're born, Laura. And if we're wise, we don't stop until the Lord calls us home. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 805bad6 | In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 43469cc | The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them | writing | Douglas Adams | |
| d66cde0 | Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 32967bb | If one starts with the anatomical difference, which even a patriarchal Viennese novelist was able to see was destiny, then one begins to understand why men and women don't get on very well within marriage, or indeed in any exclusive sort of long-range sexual relationship. | Gore Vidal | ||
| a9e6674 | in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| b135fbb | You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone. | Alex Garland | ||
| 9b13efc | Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 250dd62 | Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going t.. | Nora Ephron | ||
| a3b2e2a | Oh bliss, bliss and heaven... Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... I knew such lovely pictures - Alex | Anthony Burgess | ||
| efc2efe | And I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| d6a0740 | And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom. | burgess clockwork-orange inspirational | Anthony Burgess | |
| 7fdd488 | One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 366288e | I'll accept your apology on one condition." He folded his arms across his chest. "Anything?" "You trust me." I cocked my head to the side. "I trust you, Cam." "No, you don't." He walked over to my small table and pulled out a chair. "Have a seat." Sitting down, I tugged the hem of his shirt down as he headed back to the stove, putting the tiny skillet over the burner. "If you trusted me, you wouldn't have reacted the way you did," he simply.. | cam caring j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout sweet wait-for-you | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 85985bf | It wasn't just pretending everything was fine or grasping at normalcy, but grabbing it by the ears and making it my bitch. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 3da004e | What does your bed smell like? Regret and bad taste? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2e98066 | I'd still be nice to you if you were ugly." "Okay." A wicked grin slipped over his full lips. He bent his head down and whispered, "I just wouldn't offer you any cookies." I folded my arms and tried to ignore the close proximity of our faces. "I'm starting to think cookies is a code word for something else." "Maybe it is." He tugged on my bag again as he took a confident step back, forcing me down another step. "And just think about it. If.. | cam cookies hott jennifer-l-armentrout wait-for-you | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 90141ec | My gaze dipped and ran over her legs. legs unbelievable long for someone so short... and those shorts were short. tiny pockets, too. Yeah, i was not going after those keys | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0744c0e | Daemon kissed like he was staking a claim, but he already had me--all of me. My heart. My soul. My whole being. | katy-swartz lux-series opposition | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 3a2c75e | The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged. | hurt moving-on past remember | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 3970b8a | I frowned as my fingers throbbed. "Wait a sec. There's a chance I can't work with fire and you let me do that?""How else am I going to figure out your limitations?" "What the hell!" I pulled my hand free, furious. "That's not cool, Blake. What's next? Trying to stop a moving vehicle by standing in front of it, but whoops, I can't do that and now I'm dead?" | death-jokes funny ssupernatural training ya | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 182ad37 | Dee and Adam were joined at the mouth when I sat down. I glanced at Carissa. She rolled her eyes, but I smiled. My sucky love life aside, I was still on Team Love Rocks.The only thing I honestly couldn't deal with was my mom and Will making out, which I'd gotten an eyeful of yesterday before she left for work. Ew."You going to eat that salad?" Dee asked."It's cute how you stopped kissing for food." I laughed, pushing my tray toward her."Hey.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5b46349 | Good gods, can we stop arguing and just, I don't know, make out? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e9f3f2d | The most beautiful people, ones whose beauty is only rivaled by what is inside of them, are the ones who are quietly unaware of it. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 289ec6a | I love you, Dawson. I love who you are, what you are. And I don't think love recognizes differences. It just is. And we really aren't that different. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| dafd508 | A soft smile curved up her lips, and my gut dropped a little. A smile...I'd never known a smile could have that kind of effect. Could feel like a kick to the chest. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6bc5ed2 | No one is destined for anything. We control our own fates. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c206540 | If I wore any color other than black, tan, or gray, I looked like an asylum escapee. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fd43e62 | I think he was worried about pushing things too far for the time being since I was obviously rocking a first-class ticket to certifiable insanity. | covenant-series jennifer-l-armentrout sentinel | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 491bd3f | And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| f2fe96b | We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z" | Max Brooks | ||
| 18d735a | Bran," I sob. "You have to go." He just smiles. "Bran! You must!" Again the smile. He won't leave. He'll be my faithful friend forever. He'd rather die by my side than skip free without me. I return the smile. "Very well," I sigh and reach out a hand. Bran takes it, expecting only my touch. But what he gets on top of that is the last of my magic. A swift, improvised spell. I reach into his mind and send an image into his thoughts, of the ho.. | bran magic run-fast | Darren Shan | |
| 962634f | No, thats not how it happened... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go. | darren-shan hunters-of-the-dusk larten-crepley mr-crepsley | Darren Shan |