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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cf0f378 | And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow. | Jules Verne | ||
| 2e91bc8 | That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 31053a5 | There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d84a8e5 | Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one you love until they disappear abruptly. Then you understand how thinly distanced from their suffering, how sparing of self you often were, only rarely unguarded of heart, working your networks of give-and-take. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3a7c918 | Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians. | civilisation | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 50eb5cd | It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. | Richard Bach | ||
| a2e6e7d | At the moment, he kinda knew how the male praying mantis felt when he was approaching Ms. Mantis, knowing the sex was going to be great but he was going to gethis head bitten off. Ah, well. Some things were worth losing your head. | Linda Howard | ||
| f29d72f | Don't kiss me," she said warningly. "I don't intend to," he replied, smiling a little. "I don't have my whip and chair with me." | kiss | Linda Howard | |
| 5be3281 | Larry's such a liar--- He tells outrageous lies. He says he's ninety-nine years old Instead of only five. He says he lives up on the moon, He says that he once flew. He says he's really six feet four Instead of three feet two. He says he has a billion dollars 'Stead of just a dime. He says he rode a dinosaur Back in some distant time. He says his mother is the moon Who taught him magic spells. He says his father is the wind That rings the m.. | humor poem | Shel Silverstein | |
| dbf4772 | Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges. | algaliarept rachel-morgan trent-kalamack | Kim Harrison | |
| 95cbc62 | Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 4b0e630 | Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her. | into-the-woods jenks paranormal rachel-morgan romance trent-kalamack urban-fantasy | Kim Harrison | |
| a949165 | I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)" | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| e252e57 | I want to chase the butterflies. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 483a863 | The fear is for what is still to be lost. | Joan Didion | ||
| 3bc0264 | What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes. | Paul Auster | ||
| e6e4a3a | It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions. | Paul Auster | ||
| bbb749b | Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up? | William Golding | ||
| 7835895 | These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. | the-lovely-bones | Alice Sebold | |
| 0dc6c79 | There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 1247f29 | Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 0d1b16b | There's this primary America of freeways and jet flights and TV and movie spectaculars, and people caught up in this primary America seem to go through huge portions of their lives without much consciousness of what immediately surrounds them. The media have convinced them that what's right around them is unimportant. And that's why they're lonely. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| ac0c743 | Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 8c9634d | Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. "I" | Ayn Rand | ||
| b675c66 | The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of sp.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| e1595ac | Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. | Jon Stewart | ||
| f60b229 | Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 3bb915c | What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason | Robert Harris | ||
| fc751eb | A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 147cb6e | Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature. | god john-steinbeck nature outcasts society | John Steinbeck | |
| 1d0505c | This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 67b330d | Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and turn it into wisdom. His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy had no warp. He could talk to children, telling them very profound things so that they understood. He lived in a world of wonders, of excitement. He was concupiscent as a rabbit and gentle as hell. Everyone who knew him was indebted to him. And everyone who thought of him thought next, 'I really must do something nice for Doc. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3a6e561 | how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold? | Lois Lowry | ||
| 882beba | There is a fine line between insanity and genius. | Dan Brown | ||
| 1267898 | Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.' 'I understand the concept. It's just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.' 'Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man's starvation, war, sickness . . .' 'Exactly!' Chartrand knew the camerlengo would understand. 'Terrible things happen in this world. Human tragedy seems like proof that God could not possibly be both all-powerful and well-meaning. If He loves us and.. | faith god omnipotence paradox religion | Dan Brown | |
| d4efaaa | lkhwf yqrWb lns mn llh | Dan Brown | ||
| 1ea7800 | The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. | Dan Brown | ||
| a4d9f3e | Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies. | talent | V.C. Andrews | |
| 979bab6 | And why is it all men think everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding the perfect love? | finding-love love romance romantic romantic-notions writing | V.C. Andrews | |
| 3959b12 | for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews" | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 0a9479b | How wonderful to be understood, and never have to explain. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| b52e471 | Unfortunately, we forget the cruel details of the agonizing sacrifice God made on our behalf. Familiarity breeds complacency. Even before his crucifixion, the Son of God was stripped naked, beaten until almost unrecognizable, whipped, scorned and mocked, crowned with thorns, and spit on contemptuously. Abused and ridiculed by heartless men, he was treated worse than an animal. Then, nearly unconscious fromblood loss, he was forced to drag a.. | Rick Warren | ||
| a3daeef | Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. | Rick Warren | ||
| da51975 | He is better than warm fall colors better than beautiful music better than doughnuts and coffee | Lisa Schroeder |