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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c13dde2 | It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious. | book-1 chapter-1 gandalf lord-of-the-rings precious ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6b2e99d | Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9d43944 | Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took" | tolkien two-towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 17a37a3 | He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can. | sci-fi | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 399e386 | was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ffbdc54 | I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0458501 | Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a3de0f5 | Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 37c6a53 | The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me. | Bill Bryson | ||
| c21656d | You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| c5f3121 | Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 9171718 | That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone. | Jeffery Deaver | ||
| 368d52e | Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. | Herman Melville | ||
| 70679e0 | He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. | old-age | Ray Bradbury | |
| 0292ea8 | I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer? | fight-for live-for religion sun | Ray Bradbury | |
| 6cfd9ee | How like a mirror, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? People were more often - he searched for a simile, found one in his work - torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought? | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 722b0df | Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| 4e1d0be | n qlb lmr'@ l ytGyr m` lzmn wl ytHwl m` lfSwl, qlb lmr'@ ynz` Twylan wlknh l ymwt, qlb lmr'@ yshbh lbry@ lty ytkhdhh lnsn sH@ lHrwbh wmdhbHh, fhw yqtl` 'shjrh wyHrq '`shbh wylTkh Skhwrh bldm wyGrs trbth bl`Zm wljmjm, wlknh tbq~ hdy'@ skn@ mTmy'n@ wyZl yh lrby` rby`an wlkhryf khryfan l~ nhy@ ldhwr | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| ff2915e | b`d dhlk qnTt. wlys byn `nSr lnfs `nSr 'mr mn lqnwT. lys fy lHy@ shy 'S`b mn 'n yqwl lmr lnfsh "lqd Gulbt." | Khalil Gibran | ||
| 9d95904 | If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late. | Clayton M. Christensen | ||
| b3cb3bc | Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing. | madness | Penelope Fitzgerald | |
| cda2b8a | not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| f32ec46 | He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 38f716a | A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? | hurt irony | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 661eb6c | This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair. | William Styron | ||
| 01828e5 | He didn't want the respect of people who weren't worth wiping his nose on--people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of his worn-out shoes. The only respect he wanted was from himself and the people who really mattered in his life. The people who really loved and cared about him. | respect | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 91c3f5c | We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying--every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| cdd7b3b | I know and I'm sorry. (Epithymia) So am I. I'm sorry I ever trusted you with the one thing you knew I loved above all others. You ungrateful bitch! I hope your actions haunt you into eternity. (Apollymi) (Apollymi blasted her sister to death.) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b1353cd | My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| e22dd01 | I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again? | world | Peter S. Beagle | |
| ade6065 | The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms. | hotel night noir ominous phone | Jim Thompson | |
| f8e0026 | a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers. | life problems | Jim Thompson | |
| 7ca7409 | You've got no time at all, but it seems like you've got forever. You've got nothing to do, but it seems like you've got everything. You make coffee and smoke a few cigarettes; and the hands of the clock have gone crazy on you. They haven't moved hardly, they've hardly budged out of the place you last saw them, but they've measured off a half? two-thirds? of your life. You've got forever, but that's no time at all. | Jim Thompson | ||
| d30f4c5 | If we all had what we wanted to eat... We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. | Jim Thompson | ||
| c7e2036 | Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses." " , eh?" Well, if this ain't cynicism, what is?" Erens snorted. "Yes, excuses," he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. "I strongly suspect.. | belief erens excuses instinct justifications | Iain M. Banks | |
| e2bfa3c | I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 92bc416 | Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar's obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn't cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus." | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 30f918d | There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with a man?' Another shake. 'I thought so,' Yay said. 'You're strange, Gurgeh.' She drained her glass. | homosexuality queer same-sex transgender | Iain M. Banks | |
| f37cbc9 | My arms broke free from my control. My left hand reached for his face, his hair, to wind my fingers in it. My right hand was faster, was not mine. Melanie's fist punched his jaw, knocked his face away from mine with a blunt, low sound. Flesh against flesh, hard and angry. The force of it was not enough to move him far, but he scrambled away from me the instant our lips were no longer connected, gaping with horrorstruck eyes at my horrors.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 2f0a97d | Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make Doc pull me out today. Or I'll tell Jared. Just imagine what he would do. I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my tears. Remeber? He said no guarantees about what he would or wouldn't do to keep you here. I though of those buring kisses in the hall...thought of other kisses and other nights in her memory. My face warmed as I blushed. .. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5e97d6d | I walked towards my fate with my destiny standing solidly by my side | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 1688bb4 | Ia segalanya yang kau inginkan, sekaligus segalanya yang tidak bisa kau miliki... | soulmate | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 7e9a737 | Odd as this might sound, I suppose I'm glad you're here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen] | rivalry | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 99a34dc | Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan" -- | Stephenie Meyer |