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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b21589 | There is a correspondence between the microcosm and the macrocosm! The stars are alive, child! Did you know that? Everything out there is alive, and there are grand purpose abroad! The universe is full of , you know. Everything happens for a purpose. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 106595f | Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b9bae0b | The last time Assistant Principal Parker called, a girl in the school's locker room had accused Julie of being a whore during the two years she'd spent on the street. My kid took exception to that and decided to communicate that by applying a chair to the offending party's head. I'd told her to go for the gut next time- it left less evidence. | parenting | Ilona Andrews | |
| 92a3f15 | What's so funny?" "Your panties have a bow," he said. I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top -not mine- and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white bow. Would it have killed me to check what I was wearing before I pulled the blanket down? "What's wrong with bows?" "Nothing." He was grinning now. "I expected barbed wire. Or one of those steel chains." Wiseass. "I'm secure enough in myself to wear .. | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 97949b9 | I unbuckled my seat belt. "Are you going to jump onto his car?" Julie asked. "I can get closer." "What are you, out of your mind? No, I'm not jumping on his car. That only works in movies." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5fb8216 | He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to "kirrrl youraaalll for this!" | magic-strikes | Ilona Andrews | |
| ed03e40 | One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it. | live life on-the-edge ilona-andrews she girl lost | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8bf4dc4 | Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage. | magic-bites kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 0250353 | The last time we met, he tortured me," Ascanio said. He what? Could this get any worse? "You're still alive," Hugh said. "Clearly my heart wasn't in it." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5000ae2 | Say 'pop.' " "Pop?" "That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass. If you stick it back up there again, there is nothing I can do about it. This is the only lecture you'll ever get from me." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c8ba9b5 | First, it's used." "Now look here," Teddy Jo growled. "It's not a Cadillac. It's a body freezer. The value doesn't drop because you drive it off the lot." "I don't know what sort of bodies you stuck in there, Teddy. You might have put a leucrocuta in there. Those things stink." "It's not like the dead gonna care. They can't smell shit, and they themselves ain't gonna get to smelling any better." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 14d7fae | It's not an abomination. It's a bunnycat. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c5aa807 | Oh, so it was a lifesaving kiss." "Well, if you want to put it that way..." "Do me a favor: next time you think my life needs saving, just let me die. I'd really prefer it." He laughed. She shook her head. "I'm going to the front with the boys. Don't follow me. You and your paramedic kisses need time to cool off." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 15fa4d8 | Andrea, in less than twelve hours, Atlanta will be full of demons. They will kill, feed, and release more demons. What emergency is more important than this one? She hesitated. "I'm not supposed to disclose this. There's a man. His name is Roland..." I almost punched the wall. "What is he doing that's so damn crucial? What, is he building another tower? It will fall like all his other ones. Or did his eye finally grow back and he decided to.. | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 54f512c | The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous yellow talons, still and silent like a gargoyle in full sunlight. I took a swig from the bottle and set it so I could still see the creatures reflection. Nude and hairless, it didn't carry a single ounce of fat on its lean frame. Its skin stretched so tight over the cords of muscle, it threate.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cec126c | Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk, confuse a herd of cows with an enemy regiment, and slaughter the lot, screaming like lunatics until the entire army panics. | erra magic-bleeds ilona-andrews | Ilona Andrews | |
| e38894a | Il ya toute une vie dans une heure d'amour. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 61330e3 | Mais Paris est un veritable ocean. Jetez-y la sonde, vous n'en connaitrez jamais la profondeur. Parcourez-le, decrivez-le : quelque soin que vous mettiez a le parcourir, a le decrire ; quelques nombreux et interesses que soient les explorateurs de cette mer, il s'y rencontrera toujours un lieu vierge, un antre inconnu, des fleurs, des perles, des monstres, quelque chose d'inoui, oublie par les plongeurs litteraires. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| a7f6852 | A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them." | silence feelings fear suppress discomfort crying parents protectiveness | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| c48a8ca | We fought over the bill when it came. By fought I mean: I insisted loudly on paying half and he responded with beleaguered silence. Instead of discussing it or attempting to engage in my one-sided conversation, he wordlessly put his credit card in the holder; he kept it carefully out of my reach as I continued to list all the reasons we should split the check, not the least of which was that we'd agreed earlier that this was not a date, the.. | Penny Reid | ||
| 983512d | When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 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 | transcendence mystery | 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 .. | humor pratchett discworld | 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." | truth semiotics | 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.. | romance love | 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 love insecure line-of-beauty insecurity 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 |