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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d88c869 | I cross myself and close my eyes. Where we go next, we go together. | Sarah Miller | ||
| 8bb3100 | Some folks want their luck buttered. | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 5d12e70 | She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began. | scarlet-pimpernel | Baroness Orczy | |
| 7f56ff1 | Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead. | poets poetry poetry-quotes poet | Federico García Lorca | |
| a61a0c5 | He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form. | Graham Greene | ||
| 9c0a84e | Death was far more certain than God. | Graham Greene | ||
| 648adab | I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil. | humanism religion | Graham Greene | |
| 5259fe8 | every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion. | monologue | Graham Greene | |
| 74eb702 | I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps." | Graham Greene | ||
| e14f2c7 | They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there. | Graham Greene | ||
| 4973afa | Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends. | Graham Greene | ||
| f91a74e | She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past. As for the present - she got through that as quickly as she could, running away from things, running towards things, so that her voice was always a little breathless, her heart pounding at an escape or an expectation. | Graham Greene | ||
| 4b9494e | It's a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn't a truism because most policemen think the word 'empirical' is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be. | police | Ben Aaronovitch | |
| 1501353 | We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| 5b786c6 | He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy. | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| e469b39 | Baby, Andy once said that beauty is a sign of intelligence.' She turns slowly to look at me. 'Who, Victor? Who? Andy who?' She coughs, blowing her nose. 'Andy Kaufman? Andy Griffith? Who in the hell told you this? Andy Rooney?' 'Warhol,' I say softly, hurt. 'Baby... | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| d959c85 | My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that. | elopement | Georgette Heyer | |
| 455d1c3 | I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| c48acc0 | Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. | pregnancy | Ina May Gaskin | |
| 808be32 | That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| bfc8585 | You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things. | Marlo Morgan | ||
| 9a0f6cb | It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| ffdb8f0 | The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim. | writing weird-tales | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| ccd5b94 | Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 9f09c1f | I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses. | god | Craig Clevenger | |
| 60a902f | There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. | time murder | T.S. Eliot | |
| 8950f0a | mr'@ tHml msh`l fy dhkr~ Hbh lmfqwd wzwjh l y`rf . rjl yfqd Tfl 'w zwj@ 'w 'kh . rbm hy GlTth wrbm l . lns tHml mkhsrth Tyl@ Hyth .. fqdn wZyf@ .. Sdq@ .. zwj .. sm`@ . Hy@ shkhS mHbwb . hnk mn ysh`rwn blHsr@ Tyl@ s`t yqZthm whnk mn ysh`rwn bh 'thn lnwm . | Craig Clevenger | ||
| 512bcd8 | kl `ml ytmyz bnwyh wkl ny@ ttmyz b`mlh . lfrq byn lqbwl wlGtSb qd ykwn k's wHd@ 'w klm@ wHd@. | Craig Clevenger | ||
| 3564094 | tDrbyn m`Smy 'mm wkhlf .. blTryq@ lty tmrsynh `ndm t`jzyn `n lnwm , wbrGm hdh l trydyn ly 'n 'nm 'n lakhr . | Craig Clevenger | ||
| 664682b | Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past. | memories lost-love | Craig Clevenger | |
| 8d1067d | I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow. | keeping-moments loving-you sacrificing-the-future | Craig Clevenger | |
| 9786699 | Just as it did when I spoke to you that day from the phone, your face comes into focus more and more as I hold you here beside me. | long-distance-relationship speaking-over-the-phone speaking-to-you missing-someone missing-you | Craig Clevenger | |
| 18f8fa4 | It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it. | Amy Hempel | ||
| b519f97 | Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg likens this multiple universe theory to radio. All around you, there are hundreds of different radio waves being broadcast from distant stations. At any given instant, your office or car or living room is full of these radio waves. However, if you turn on a radio, you can listen to only one frequency at a time; these other frequencies have decohered and are no longer in phase with each other. Each station has .. | Michio Kaku | ||
| dc852be | Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears? | Jim Fergus | ||
| e04a87f | Souls and memories can do strange things during trance. | memories dreams strange | Bram Stoker | |
| 4a404c5 | Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 62030d2 | Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you. | priorities importance suffer | Marta Acosta | |
| e9baf42 | Well, I know better what I don't want. I don't want somebody who's always nagging me to be something I'm not. And I don't want somebody who thinks she knows what's best for me and who maneuvers around trying to get me to do things her way." Kate frowned. "Nobody wants anyone like that. It's like saying, 'I don't want someone who'll poke me in the eye with a sharp stick.' Forget what you don't want. What you want?" | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| b002bcd | And part of being American is respecting all people's right to be whatever they want to be and at the same time respecting your own right to bitch about it, as long as you're educated and can reason your way through your bitching. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 48402ee | The human mind delights in finding pattern--so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it. | Stephen Jay Gould | ||
| ee6454d | I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 52d3b39 | The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 1da6b9a | Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. | Oscar Wilde |