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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 993d56e | You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| fb6a376 | Come, my handsome vampire. I have a few things I must do to prepare you. Then I'll put you somewhere safe to await your bride. Oh--I know!" She clapped excitedly. "You can stay inside my piggy bank! And I'll create a drama-tastic jungle intro to your lady! How about Romancing the Stone meets Apocalypto?" | Mimi Jean Pamfiloff | ||
| 7cd8ec9 | every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it. | Meg Cabot | ||
| b8a94d2 | Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. "It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed." | Meg Cabot | ||
| aa328f7 | anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming | Meg Cabot | ||
| 9b0e239 | Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel. | Meg Cabot | ||
| fc28749 | Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. | William Gibson | ||
| c9fbaa0 | A nation," he heard himself say, "consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation." | William Gibson | ||
| 5f0d9b5 | Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. | cigarettes | William Gibson | |
| 3f0a3e4 | You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency." "Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency." | William Gibson | ||
| cd54264 | Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other. | war prepared to-die-for | Stephen E. Ambrose | |
| 09dda4c | Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 0378878 | To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 0bba78e | The general who does not advance to seek glory, or does not withdraw to avoid punishment, but cares for only the people's security and promotes the people's interests, is the nation's treasure. | Sun Tzu | ||
| b9b3f3a | It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. | writing | Eric Hobsbawm | |
| c20fc72 | Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)" | music ipod | Walter Isaacson | |
| 3c4901c | Bugger this. I want a better world. | Warren Ellis | ||
| a7750d9 | yk 'n tndm `l~ mDyk , bl t`ml m`h mn mnTlq kwnh m`lman lk | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 1fd6e80 | For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate--you lose your grip on what's important, you know? | Harlan Coben | ||
| 5a5e240 | It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth." | revenge care life love | Harlan Coben | |
| d4c4d1a | Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean." "Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so." "Why?" "Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle." "'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Le.. | trust love train poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| 9adc207 | Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased. I heard what you said just now to my friend Hastings. 'A nice bright girl with no men friends.' You said that in mockery of the newspapers. And it is very true--when a young girl is dead, that is the kind of thing that is said. She was bright. She was happy. She was sweet-tempered. She had not a care in the world. She had no undesirable acquaintan.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 46895ba | Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. | Agatha Christie | ||
| f3d6950 | Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 8ce7d9e | It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. | library books banning book-burning censorship | Alberto Manguel | |
| b9b59ff | We're family," Alyss said. Redd snorted. "Is that supposed to mean something?" Family," Alyss said again, trying to convince herself more than Redd. Don't talk to me about family! were never disowned by your parents!" I'd rather have been disowned by them then see them murdered." | Frank Beddor | ||
| cd9d6f9 | I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run." --Alyss" | Frank Beddor | ||
| a6c1a3f | What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old bar.. | pain loss sadness life love | Ron Rash | |
| 1e7c2c0 | You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick. | life mistakes | Ron Rash | |
| 3f225a1 | But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 657b092 | In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumbl.. | literature men people women humor property rural-society village-life ownership | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 5efd5af | But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 1a3eb20 | On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen. | heroic prayer strength wisdom individual-will noble | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 57bb0db | For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind - a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 0d8b59f | Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here. Speak to your workmen as if they were human beings. Speak to them kindly. Don't let the soldiers come in and cut down poor-creatures who are driven mad. I see one there who is. If you have any courage or noble quality in you, go out and speak.. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| f4c81d2 | When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I'm in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn't real at all. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 0a449b5 | You're like Marilyn Monroe,' Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous "Thank You". Interrupting, he adds, 'You're all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because you're sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say "Hey! This toy is broken!" and toss you aside without feeling bad." | Emma Forrest | ||
| b889bef | Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. | melancholy tenderness | Jean Rhys | |
| 941cfdd | The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with fairies?" "I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 6aa8e03 | Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin. | writing love | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 0c496bc | After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| d6d0e2a | He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes be.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 1812056 | Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you. | past | Robin Hobb | |
| ac53f8d | Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. | Mario Vargas Llosa |