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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5d02003 | I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. | despair sad | Holly Black | |
| a8b64f1 | They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody! | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 716a790 | I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated. | physical-change | Beatrice Sparks | |
| 0b8adbe | There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused to sit up. There was a time when the lies rolled off my tongue with ease, when it was far more important to me to self-destruct than to admit I had a problem, let alone allow anyone to help. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 74a8485 | OY! Stop playing around and lets cook already!" *smack* J-just now, that made a really loud noise.." Do you wanna hear it again?" N-no, you'll just hit me again!" Kyo and Tohru" | cook fruits funny hit humor kyo kyou loud noise smack tohru | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 2286f00 | I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| d44e265 | Time has to pass. But sometimes its so goddamn long. Sometimes it just seems to drag and drag and weigh a ton. And hang on you like a monkey. Like its going to suck the blood out of you. Or squeeze your guts out. And sometimes it flies. And is gone somewhere, somehow, before you know it was even here. As if time is only here to make you miserable. That's the only reason for time. To squeeze you. Crush you. To tie you up in knots and make yo.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 53a0e1e | The enemy ate away at their will so they could not resist, their bodies not only craving, but needing the very poison that ground them into that pitiable state of being; the mind diseased and crippled by the enemy it was obsessed with and the obsession and terrible physical need corrupting the soul until the actions were less than those of an animal, less than those of a wounded animal, less than those of anything and everything they did no.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 8e785fb | They came close. Oh they came close. Was all set to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. But there was a computer glitch. Isnt that something? A stupid glitch and I had to wait a few days and then I saw the errors of my ways, saw so clearly that I was killing the wrong person. Its not me that needs killing, its them. Funny how things can change in the wink of an eye. | killing suicide | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 8d19fe3 | He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| da5b408 | he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 2b5177f | We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 828ee9d | I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 835dcaa | He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir. Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile. - Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciate. Otherwise you'd go quite mad. Otherwise you'd think you're standing on a feather-thin bridge over the vaults of Hell. Otherwise existence would be a dark agony and the only hope would be that there is no life after death. I quite understan.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bfbb1ee | There was no universe, anywhere, where a Sam Vimes would give in on this, because if he did then he wouldn't be Sam Vimes anymore. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8e0b4b4 | It was a nice day. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b25fa60 | Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters is that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself. | stories | Terry Pratchett | |
| fb2187c | Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2ae2141 | But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d8e0692 | YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said. That's what being alive is all about. | humor life | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8b06905 | The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8efbb45 | I'm your worst nightmare!' said Teatime cheerfully. The man shuddered. 'You mean ... the one with the giant cabbage and the sort of whirring knife thing?' 'Sorry?' Teatime looked momentarily nonplussed. 'Then you're the one where I'm falling, only instead of the ground underneath it's all --' 'No. In fact I'm --' The guard sagged. 'Awww, the one where there's all this kind of, you know, mud and then everything goes blue --' 'No, I'm --'.. | humor pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1348fc1 | Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ace5cca | Vimes died. The sun dropped out of the sky, giant lizards took over the world, and the stars exploded and went out and all hope vanished and gurgled into the sinktrap of oblivion. And gas filled the firmament and combusted and behold! There was a new heaven - or possibly not. And Disc and Io and and possibly verily life crawled out of the sea - or possibly didn't because it had been made by the gods, and lizards turned to less scaly lizards.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a31a392 | When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4976a9d | When all else failed, she tried being reasonable. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a50bb24 | Quick, someone's coming! Look real! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 952c760 | Hilta laughed like someone who had thought hard about Life and had seen the joke. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 001a15a | God does not play games with His loyal servants", said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whoopee", said Crowley." | Terry Pratchett Neil Gaiman | ||
| 73ee9a5 | That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone? | geology humor imagination perspicacity science tiffany-aching witches | Terry Pratchett | |
| f4e7b95 | Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, very hard. "Er...aren't you supposed to do that sort of thing by magic, dear?" said her mother, who'd never really got the hang of what witchcraft was all about. "No, Mum, I'm supposed not to," said Tiffany, still scrubbing. "But can't you just wave your hand and make all the dirt fly away, then?" "The trouble is getting the magic to unde.. | magic real-life | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7bd591b | Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4a3dd83 | He took his hands off the oars and pulled in the mooring rope. If I make a couple of loops, he thought, I can strap the axe on to my back. He had a mental picture of what could happen to a man who plunged into the cauldron below a waterfall with a sharp piece of metal attached to his body. GOOD MORNING. Vimes blinked. A tall dark robed figure was now sitting in the boat. 'Are you Death?' IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? PEOPLE ALWAYS NOTICE THE S.. | uncertainty | Terry Pratchett | |
| c01fe2c | Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods. | god illusion theology | Terry Pratchett | |
| 24110be | They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, as the darkness. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f51c14f | Smaller-than-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 408f233 | There is a plain under a dim sky. It is covered with gentle rolling curves that might remind you of something else if you saw it from a long way away, and if you did see it from a long way away you'd be very glad that you were, in fact, a long way away. Three gray figures floated just above it. Exactly what they were can't be described in normal language. Some people might call them cherubs, although there was nothing rosy-cheeked about the.. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3d009bb | It's interesting that when these individuals choose-and it is their choice always-to endure voluntary amputations for their own personal benefit, society professes itself shocked and disapproving. Yet this same society respects the concept that any individual should risk total annihilation in war, subject to the judgement of any superior officer at all and for purposes ranging from a promotion for the lieutenant to higher profits for the bu.. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 9eea646 | Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. You've seen it a thousand times. We create a leader by locating one in the crowd who is standing up. This may well be because there are no chairs or because his knees are fused by arthritis. It doesn't matter. We designate this victim as a 'stand-up guy' by the simple expedient of sitting down around him." ARTURISM:" | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 9fdf216 | The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, "Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall." -- | Katherine Dunn | ||
| f7815fd | You must have wished a million times to be normal." "No." "No?" "I've wished I had two heads. Or that I was invisible. I've wished for a fish's tail instead of legs. I've wished to be more special." "Not normal?" "Never." | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 3642eff | We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving. | Edward De Bono | ||
| 222e58e | I know how it feels, dear one. As if your heart were torn in two. I feel your pain." I took a deep breath. Another. "Finbar?" "I know how it feels. As if you will never be whole again." I reached inside my dress, where I wore two cords about my neck. One held my wedding ring; the other the amulet that had once been my mother's. I left the one, and took off the other. "This is yours. Take it back. Take it back, it was to you she gave it." I .. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| f1fae63 | I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface. | Juliet Marillier |