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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| feb62a9 | Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag," he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan empire." | humorous ryke-meadows | Krista Ritchie | |
| ec6bf09 | I know I've married the right person when words turn you on as much as they do me." I read deeper into that, as I should. Translation: I could only ever be with you, Rose. " | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 87189a7 | Three years later and drowning in lies, we're suddenly prepared to lose everything for the chance at something real. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 2d53065 | Because I think she loves you more than she loves sex. And you love her more than you love alcohol, but you two just haven't let yourselves believe it yet. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| d3232bd | Don't flash those green doe eyes at me." "They don't melt your heart of stone?" I banter. "Stone can't fucking melt ... it just grows hot." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| b026372 | She could, at this stage of things, recognize signals like that, as the epileptic is said to--an odor, color, pure piercing grace note announcing his seizure. Afterward it is only this signal, really dross, this secular announcement, and never what is revealed during the attack, that he remembers. Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories of clues, announc.. | revelation | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 1b253ac | We need a place," she said, "just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in the whole world about it." ... She lowered her voice almost to a whisper. "It might be a whole secret country," she continued, "and you and I would be the rulers of it." | Katherine Paterson | ||
| d4aefa3 | Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| c24ac49 | And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm. | halo-effect | Patrick Süskind | |
| 01c8ee4 | We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born... | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6ea5bad | A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 71071b2 | In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them. | women | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 405d148 | That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 55fad2a | I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c9e37ed | The bitch is dead now. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 27ca725 | Most officially "poor" Americans today have things that middle-class Americans of an earlier time could only dream about--including color TV, videocassette recorders, microwave ovens, and their own cars. Moreover, half of all poor households have air-conditioning. Leftist redistribution of income could never accomplish that, because there are simply not enough rich people for their wealth to have such a dramatic effect on the living standar.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 339dd4d | I think we're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional. We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy. | politics | Thomas Sowell | |
| 0e7d53c | If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind. | sleep unkindness | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| 1e0f1b5 | Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is no that of a man who is taken unprepared, .. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 8ff908e | If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love death - not morbidly, but because He explains. He shows me the emptiness of Money. Death and Money are the eternal foes. Not Death and Life. . . . Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. Behin.. | life love | E.M. Forster | |
| 5c48a50 | Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 53197de | That, to me, is the quintessential experience of living in the United States: constantly worrying whether or not the country is about to fall apart. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| ea71e29 | Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath. | humor | Sarah Vowell | |
| 421934b | Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. "Natalie's diary has better security than this." He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide." | Gordon Korman | ||
| c915d09 | Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling" | Gordon Korman | ||
| 32e5aec | She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them. | life inspirational strong pride | Isabel Allende | |
| 9e2b760 | There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It's the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that's why they get noticed. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 84c2d31 | They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 042d79c | Come out, come out, little Harry!" she called in her mock-baby voice, which echoed off the polished wooden floors. "What did you come after me for, then? I thought you were here to avenge my dear cousin!" "I am!" shouted Harry, and a score of ghostly Harrys seemed to chorus all around the room. "Aaaaaah... did you him, little baby Potter?" Hatred rose in Harry such as he had never known before. He flung himself out from behind the fou.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c24d425 | We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 53790ce | Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 029a0e5 | SNAPE: "Did no one teach you to knock, boy?" Scorpius looks up at Snape, slightly breathless, slightly unsure, slightly exultant. SCORPIUS: "Severus Snape. This is an honor." | scorpius scorpius-malfoy severus-snape snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2f87401 | Brains like that, you could be a Death Eater, son. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| a3e02dc | Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair ... | J. K. Rowling | ||
| 6cbd89b | For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway. | magic st-mungo-s tonks | J.K. Rowling | |
| bec0852 | Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb. | harry-potter uncle-vernon awesome j-k-rowling dumbledore power | J.K. Rowling | |
| 43dcd1f | ALBUS enters and walks up one staircase. SCORPIUS enters and walks up another. The staircases meet. The two boys look at each other. Lost and hopeful - all at once. And then ALBUS looks away and the moment is broken - and with it, possibly, the friendship. And now the staircases part - the two look at each other - one full of guilt - the other full of pain - both full of unhappiness. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 10efdce | You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? | J.K. Rowling | ||
| fc2859d | Neville will play Quidditch for England before Hagrid lets Dumbledore down. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 01c87c9 | Scorpius trots up to his dad. Draco: We can hug too if you like... Scorpius looks at his dad, unsure for a moment. And then they sort of half hug in a very awkward way. Draco smiles. | scorpius-malfoy | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9739943 | Giggling should be made illegal. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 56048b4 | But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| a389215 | Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 59c1bec | Noah: Would you just stay with me? Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fightin' Noah: Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing. Allie: So what? Noah: So it's not .. | Nicholas Sparks |