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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| 2918ec9 | Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 57337f0 | All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 30cbbc7 | My goal is to stay safely in between self-analysis and self-destruction. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| f9b43b4 | I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. | life | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 40de964 | from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| afdd45f | He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all. | sad | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 3075467 | I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this series include Shoplifting, Beating People Up, Picking Locks, Climbing Trees, Driving, Housebreaking, Dumpster Diving, and How to Use Oddball Things like Venetian Blinds and Garbage Can Lids as Weapons. On the other hand, I'm corrupting my poor innocent little self. I sigh. Somebody's got to do i.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 9500101 | I feel that I an everything to her. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ac859cd | I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation. | Naomi Novik | ||
| e657a8a | This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal. | work education life growing-up high-school childhood | Ryū Murakami | |
| b96592a | There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| a9bab8b | I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier had even given me a name for it - assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks you from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and then strike suddenly on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis. But on that day, ... al.. | grief | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 32142cf | It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ee2175a | And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete, | Victor Villaseñor | ||
| b2e6a0f | But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know? | time past einstein-s-dreams | Alan Lightman | |
| fdec4ef | Trust me." This being had saved her life, had even taken bullets for her, and yet there was something so markedly untrustworthy about him.... He flashed her a rakish grin with barely noticeable fangs. "Though if you're the praying type, now might be a choice time." -- | Kresley Cole | ||
| 7326d22 | Nothing good ever came easy." (Garreth)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| fdd66a1 | First of all, I'm not narcissistic."..."I know Narkissos of Thespiae--while we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other way around"-- Lothaire" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8784eac | I was with the boy that monsters should fear. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0f415e2 | The witches ignored her, turning up the stereo. She cringed when yet another Bieber song pumped away. Great, she'd been captured by fucking Beliebers. They planned to sell her at auction? When "Beauty and a Beat" played for the fifth time, Chloe decided she was ready for the block." | Kresley Cole | ||
| f9bc7dc | Lachlain: 'And you must be the soothsayer - ' Nix: 'I prefer predeterminationally abled, thank you.' Her hand shot out, ripping a button from his shirt, so fast it was a blur. She'd taken the one closest to his heart, and for a moment her face turned very cold. She'd made a point - she could have gone for his heart. Then she opened her hand and gasped in surprise. 'A button!' She smiled delightedly. 'You can never have enough of these!' Lac.. | nix-the-everkn regin-the-radiant | Kresley Cole | |
| 5e4824e | By all the gods, I desire you, but you must know that you have my love. It's given, sieva. Wholly entrusted to you. Have a care with it. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 2f3584c | He'd told her that the phrase deal with the Devil came from him; Ellie felt like she was on the verge of selling her soul. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 3183a76 | The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace-- | music grace | Oliver Sacks | |
| 4a624d6 | One must go to Dostoievsky who experienced on occasion ecstatic epileptic auras to which he attached momentous significance, to find an adequate historical parallel. "There are moments, and it is only a matter of five or six seconds, when you feel the presence of the eternal harmony ... a terrible thing is the frightful clearness with which it manifests itself and the rapture with which it fills you. If this state were to last more than fi.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| d4e2124 | You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 0759f01 | n lrwy@ 'wlan wqbl kl shy' lys lGrD mnh tqdym lmt`@ llqry' fHsb, bl nh wsyl@ ts`d lktb `l~ hDm tjrbth. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 16bab7e | Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. | cosmic-ordering cosmic sovereignty-of-god treason jack-goldenberg authority | R.C. Sproul | |
| 6c06469 | If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God's sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled. | sovereignty-of-god | R.C. Sproul | |
| a7efae6 | Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books. | Betty Smith | ||
| 1bb87be | I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. | grammar-humor | Gertrude Stein | |
| ea39f17 | Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives. | Kate Mosse | ||
| ab3eedb | Author Neale Donald Walsch says, "So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself." | Oprah Winfrey | ||
| d4ea6e2 | Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 24f4637 | Memory loss is one way of coping with damage. | memory-loss memory | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 57a0cd4 | I know you," said Maddy. "You're -" "What's a name?" Loki grinned. "Wear it like a coat; turn it, burn it, throw it aside, and borrow another. One-Eye knows; you should ask him." "But Loki died," she said, shaking her head. "He died on the field at Ragnarok." "Not quite." He pulled a face. "You know there's rather a lot the Oracle didn't foretell, and old tales have a habit of getting twisted." "But in any case, that was centuries ago," Mad.. | names loki ragnarok | Joanne Harris | |
| 4779021 | The real magic - the magic we'd lived with all our lives, my mother's magic of charms and cantrips, of salt by the door and a red silk sachet to placate the little gods - had turned sour on us that summer, somehow, like a spider that turns from good luck to bad at the stroke of midnight, spinning its web to catch our dreams. And for every little spell of charm, for every card dealt and every rune cast and every sign scratched against a door.. | Joanne Harris | ||
| a85c828 | The wind always brings us back to the same wall | Joanne Harris | ||
| b739b27 | What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp. | Haven Kimmel | ||
| d951cfd | O great and mighty Master Li, pray impart to me the Secret of Wisdom!" he bawled. "Take a large bowl," I said. "Fill it with equal measures of fact, fantasy, history, mythology, science, superstition, logic, and lunacy. Darken the mixture with bitter tears, brighten it with howls of laughter, toss in three thousand years of civilization, bellow -- which means 'dry cup' -- and drink to the dregs." Procopius stared at me. "And I will be wis.. | Barry Hughart |