1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1366
1367
1368
1369
1370
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5cff7a8 | People don't get what they deserve; they get what they work for. | women | Barbara Delinsky | |
| b912bc0 | You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. | cunning misanthropic masks hypocrisy traitor perception deceit betrayal | Molière | |
| 18a61fa | Malicious men may die, but malice never. | mankind | Molière | |
| 1b6c941 | I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing. | fear tather | Barbara Delinsky | |
| 81975cc | But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called 'participation,' and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious words, hollow words, sometimes meaningless words. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ecb5bc4 | Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster. | love disease | Amos Oz | |
| aa400ef | The cord that tethers ability to success is both loose and elastic. It is easy to see fine qualities in successful books or to see unpublished manuscripts, inexpensive vodkas, or people struggling in any field as somehow lacking. It is easy to believe that ideas that worked were good ideas, that plans that succeeded were well designed, and that ideas and plans that did not were ill conceived. And it is easy to make heroes out of the most su.. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 6884bb7 | Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I? | Christopher Paolini | ||
| f5a26f3 | Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod." | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 83150cd | Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| ea3caf5 | Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 0f663b8 | He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as if he had caressed me for a long time. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| ee38d30 | At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry's language, entering Henry's world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she k.. | idealism poetry imagination | Anaïs Nin | |
| 35d2a77 | on the 11th of every month my friend elizabeth would say, "well we made it through another month. so do we get her back now?" we always giggled, but we really did expect to get her back. its not human to let go of love, even when it's dead. we expected one of these monthly anniversaries to be the Final Goodbye. we figured that we'd said all our goodbyes, and given up all the tears we had to give. we'd passed the test and would get back what.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 455c851 | You're better off fighting hand to hand than wielding a weapon you don't know how to use. A skilled opponent would simply disarm you. Then your troubles would be doubled. Not only would you be under attack, but you'd have to counter your own weapon | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 9e9d9b1 | Ursan flourished the knife, threatening me. "Talk, or I'll start cutting off body parts." "Yours? Or mine?" I kept my voice steady despite my insides twisting into goo. "It's an important distinction." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| a80bafc | Exactly. You can shoulder all the blame and become a martyr. Provided anyone knows what or who you're martyring for. Or you can accept that some things are important enough to fight for and realize there will be sacrifices along the way. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| c1b8e96 | Pretty stupid," I called after his retreating form. "To give up before all possible solutions have been tried." | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| afd3b47 | Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. | immortality hope england king-arthur matter-of-britain resurrection | Thomas Malory | |
| 9f5c503 | How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being. Otherwise, We all remain | Hafez | ||
| bce5d70 | He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| dec313a | Los libros solo se escriben para, por encima del propio aliento, unir a los seres humanos, y asi defendernos frente al inexorable reverso de toda existencia: la fugacidad y el olvido | Stefan Zweig | ||
| f4e8d46 | I've loved you my whole life, Chas, from that first day you took me home after Michelle died. And I'm terrified you'll leave me or you'll stop loving me or even worse, something will happen to you. But I can't be without you anymore." He takes my hands, which are shaking wildly, and swallows. "Today I watched Mike give away the woman he loves. I can't do that, Chas. I thought I could, I thought it would be better if you were with someone el.. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 3dfd65d | The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent | Ken Follett | ||
| 0c12c9b | Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved. | Ken Follett | ||
| f999043 | I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 54e8564 | Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out." | funny harry | Jim Butcher | |
| be9add6 | I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| d942711 | I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 83f114f | They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on . | Jim Butcher | ||
| 017fda5 | Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e221e42 | Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs. | handsome incubus stalking vampire | Jim Butcher | |
| a5b8192 | when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language. .......When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversion, we're having a conversatio.. | men women | Jim Butcher | |
| a21a4d5 | Erlking," I told her. "Big-time bad guy. Wants to eat me." "Why?" she asked. "Well. I met him," I said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| e29eb71 | Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies." "You, may be," Thomas said, sneering. "I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky." "You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you," Molly said tartly." | thomas-raith molly-carpenter harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 771560b | It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f881a07 | It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs. | michael-carpenter harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 2228fc2 | I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd settle for knowing what her voice sounded like." I put a hand on her shoulder. "Trite but true--you don't know what you have until it's gone. People change. The world changes. And sooner or later you lose people you care about. If you don't mind some advice from someone who doesn't know much about families, I can tell you this: Don't take yours f.. | life karrin-murphy harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| a25ec83 | my mortal father used to say, . | wishes horses | Holly Black | |
| 21bab0f | What if the way I am is the way I am? What if, when everything else is different, I'm not? | Holly Black | ||
| ea55442 | It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice. | Holly Black | ||
| d16cacf | She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything. | Holly Black | ||
| b5bb862 | I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result. | Holly Black | ||
| 2038126 | I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them. | Holly Black |