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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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? | magic fiction humor | 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 | ||
| 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.. | silence scandalous-desires mickey | 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.. | spirituality mindfulness experience | 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.. | science humor inspirational | 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.. | philosophers soothsayers eternal-champion elric-of-melnibone imperfection paradox opposites peace | 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 |