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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 51fef0e | The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy. | ender learning mentor strategy war | Orson Scott Card | |
| 4891838 | No man is an island... | Nick Hornby | ||
| d8c4b50 | It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself | Nick Hornby | ||
| 253343e | If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney. | luthe sarcasm | Robin McKinley | |
| a77bdaf | It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.) | Robin McKinley | ||
| d4cebf5 | Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| fd6acd8 | No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 363ab9c | Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 5734df7 | Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. | unrequited-love wallowing | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 62bbde5 | I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. I speak only for myself, mind - it is my own truth alone - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have - for what they are - are for men as individuals; my loya.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 830c53c | Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night." | old-woman-nora scotland | Karen Hawkins | |
| e20accb | It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 2b24d9c | The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small | Gore Vidal | ||
| 2a4f972 | That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. | good-and-evil laws violence | Anthony Burgess | |
| 85891d2 | I am everyone's friend,'I said.'Except to my enemies. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| e4941f0 | You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 565480d | If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| b790b4e | Y cuando te hayas consolado (uno siempre termina por consolarse) te alegraras de haberme conocido | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 73e27e2 | I bit back a gag. "Gods, your breath is kicking." I pulled the blade free, revolted by the sucking sound. "For real." Cocking its head to the side, it blinked. "Kicking?" "Yeah." Spinning around, I planted my left foot and kicked out, catching the fury in the stomach. It flew back, smacking into the tree. "See? Kicking." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 970cdf3 | Crap on a cracker, this was bad. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e588213 | Cookie?" he offered, holding up a cookie full of chocolate chips. Upset tummy or not, there was no way I could refuse that. "Sure." His lips tipped to one side and he leaned towards me, his mouth inches from mine. "Come and get it." Come and get...? Daemon placed half the cookie between those full, totally kissable lips. Oh, holy alien babies everywhere... My mouth dropped open. Several of the girls at the table made sounds that had me won.. | daemon | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 6177779 | He was done talking. Aiden came off the wall so fast the water reacted in a frenzy of bubbling. He--we--were in a frenzy. His arms crushed me to him, his mouth demanding, saying those three little words over and over again without speaking them. Aiden lifted me up, one hand burying deep in my hair, the other pressing into my lower back, fitting us together. He turned and my back was against the edge and he was everywhere all at once, steali.. | alex jasmine-pool love underworld | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 9fcf6cc | He raised his hand and extended his middle finger. "Does this count as pushing it, Bob?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| bc8508c | Normal girls didn't want their boobs mauled either, and I wholly believed if they could've landed a fist like I could, they would have. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ba3f306 | I don't know how to make you better. I wish I did, but please stay with me. I need you, and I can't lose you. Not now. Not ever. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 09a31c5 | When I held you in my arms and you stared up at me, only a few minutes old, I knew the purest brand of love. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b7843ae | riding the crazy train into Insanity Land, | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a551f4a | You're standing by yourself talking about tits?" Kyler asked from behind me. I gave a little shriek and spun around. "God..." A sexy half-grin appeared. "I need to keep a better eye on you, if that's what you talk about when you're alone." | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 745ab73 | As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. | reason | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 2eec1ee | In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 3af820c | There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero. | nothing | Max Brooks | |
| 92bbe5b | The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying | girls lord-loss | Darren Shan | |
| cc280a6 | Mini-Hedge would stomp around on Buford's top, randomly saying things like "CUT THAT OUT!" "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" and the ever-popular "PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 4f4cd43 | Normally my sister, Sadie, or some of our other initiates from Brooklyn House would've come with me. But they were all at the First Nome, in Egypt, for a weeklong training session on controlling cheese demons(yes, they're a real thing; believe me, you don't want to know) | cheese-demons first-nome humor sadie-kane | Rick Riordan | |
| 2c46a5c | Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun! | Rick Riordan | ||
| c421594 | I'll distract them," Carter said. "You search. The Trophy room is through there." "Carter!" But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 88aedbc | And I could always set Coach Hedge on fire," Leo volunteered. "Then he can be fire." The thought of a blazing satyr screaming, "Die, scumbag!" as he attacked Gaea was almost enough to make Piper laugh-- almost." -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 406469d | He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving -- that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 97c4555 | Get up seaweed brain | Rick Riordan | ||
| 7b874bf | Hades," Kronos growled. "I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegiance." "I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glanced at me with distaste. "As much as I dislike certainupstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. I would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on--it is that you were a TERRIBLE father." | hades kronos | Rick Riordan | |
| 9a31b62 | All we can do, child, is follow our destiny. | Rick Riordan | ||
| b58e5f1 | Hello George. Hey Martha (Percy) Did you bring us a rat? (George) George, stop it!He's busy! (Martha) Too busy for rats? That's just sad. (George) | Rick Riordan | ||
| 31f972a | The Romans always wanted bread and circuses-food and entertainement! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!" Someething dropped from the ceiling and landed at Percy's feet: a loaf of sandwich bread in a white plastic wrapper with red and yellow dots. | humour percy-jackson wonder-bread | rick riordan the mark of athena | |
| fa39392 | Eating next to a twenty-foot-long crocodile took some getting used to, but Philip was well trained. He only ate bacon, stray waterfowl, and the occasional invading monster. | Rick Riordan |