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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1010f0f | It's me, love," he said softly. "Everything's all right." Daisy managed to whisper through dry lips. "If you're a ghost...I hope you haunt me forever." Matthew sat on the floor and reached for her cold hands. "Would a ghost use the door?" he asked gently, bringing her fingers to his scratched, battered face." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 5e8661a | Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream." -Westcliff" | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| fd652d9 | Be happy, honey. No one deserves it more. But don't forget... I'm keeping one little piece of your heart for myself. And if you ever want it back.. .you know where to find it. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 0eb5588 | I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding." "To save your reputation?" Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| c3616c4 | Sebastian, who had begun to laugh, seemed struck by that last comment. "Ahhh," he said softly. "That explains it." He was silent for a moment, lost in some distant, pleasurable memory. "Dangerous creatures, wallflowers. Approach them with the utmost caution. They sit quietly in corners, appearing abandoned and forlorn, when in truth they're sirens who lure men to their downfall. You won't even notice the moment she steals the heart right ou.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| caa56b6 | I've never heard that the sexual act requires any particular intelligence. From what I've observed, many stupid people are easily able to produce children. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 81fe663 | Friends are the support bras of life. | humor | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 852d111 | I was ripe ten years ago. Now I'm merely preserved, and before long I'll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits." -Amanda to Jack" | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| d28fd44 | LAST NITE I HAD A DREAM. NOW I KNOW FOUR THINGS. I KNOW THAT MY VOICE DOESN'T CHANGE - BUT I STILL DON'T KNOW WHY. I KNOW THAT I AM GOD'S INSTRUMENT. I KNOW WHEN I'M GOING TO DIE - AND NOW A DREAM HAS SHOWN ME HOW I'M GOING TO DIE. I'M GOING TO BE A HERO! I TRUST THAT GOD WILL HELP ME, BECAUSE WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO LOOKS VERY HARD. | John Irving | ||
| 398caf8 | I wouldn't destroy an entire house to destroy one man. But I would destroy a man to destroy a house. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 82224a4 | Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| cfbaa6b | As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone? | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 9284efc | In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 4da2258 | The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her." "Her secretary of the archives," murmured the magus. "Hmm?" asked the queen. "Secretary of the archives, Relius. Master of spies is so-" "Accurate?" "Overtly direct," said the magus. Eddis laughed." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 5f47563 | Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy. | Michel Faber | ||
| 88fec0e | You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel. | Peter Carey | ||
| 1588715 | To my surprise, Joscelin rose. 'Phedre-' He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. 'Phedre yields with a willow's grace,' he said softly. 'And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning. | love joscelin-verreuil | Jacqueline Carey | |
| ac0abfb | Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. | artists inspiration imagination art-and-life soul | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| e7d9ee5 | When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 6b68995 | My job is not to sell the books - my father does that - but to them. Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking. Though they're not old enough to be valuable for their age alone, nor improtant enough to be sought after by collectors, my charges are dear to me, even as often as not, they are as dull on the inside as on the outside. No matter how banal the contents,.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 8c34ca1 | There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 27c29b7 | You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 8b2fd70 | it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 89c14b6 | The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here. | relationship spirituality god life | Marcus J. Borg | |
| 5f2824f | Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better. | christianity | Marcus J. Borg | |
| b7a6d4b | One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply. | Gene Wolfe | ||
| aff24f5 | Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn't marry an idiot. | friends humor love | Julia Quinn | |
| bc17819 | He didn't know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn't be at all difficult to love her. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 0e9c609 | Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely. | Alan Moore | ||
| 6f59edb | They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still. | Alan Moore | ||
| 7a49984 | By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. | Alan Moore | ||
| 5283594 | Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk. | Julian Barnes | ||
| da86da7 | Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it. | Julian Barnes | ||
| c18d7f6 | May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 29f4236 | Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery. | Julian Barnes | ||
| f5071d6 | Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. | words time literature history reading books | Julian Barnes | |
| 7948c81 | Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication? | Julian Barnes | ||
| 59c220b | He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 7074bfc | A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 728f409 | Just as if I was one of those true knights you love so well, yes. What do you think a knight is for, girl? You think it's all taking favours from ladies and looking fine in gold plate? Knights are for killing...I killed my first man at twelve. I've lost count of how many I've killed since then. High lords with old names, fat rich men dressed in velvet, knights puffed up like bladders with their honours, yes, and women and children too - the.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2a7ee0e | In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces... Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| de0412d | Si le cortas la lengua a un hombre, no demuestras que estuviera mintiendo: demuestras que no quieres que el mundo oiga lo que pueda decir. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a092cf2 | Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend." - Arya" -- | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b2da587 | The choice is yours, brother. Live a thrall or die a king. Do you dare to fly? Unless you take the leap, you'll never know." - Euron Greyjoy" | euron-greyjoy | George R.R. Martin |