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| 115bd1e | He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Like a fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's always unwise to shoot the man you'.. | romance | Anne Stuart | |
| e3534af | The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| bd32c10 | But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself." | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| b729a71 | I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster. | reading | Avi Steinberg | |
| 4d8c5a2 | So often, I felt like my hands and heart knew something I did not, and I surrendered the art to them. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 1ced394 | What we believe affects our choices, our actions, and subsequently, our lives. The Greeks believed in thier gods, and this belief affected everything else. History is written according to what men believe, whether or not it's true. As the writer of your own history, what you believe influences the paths you take. Do you believe in something that may be a myth? I'm not talking about religious beliefs, per se. I'm talking about things you've .. | amy-harmon wilson blue | Amy Harmon | |
| 1f8187b | I think I will keep you, | Amy Harmon | ||
| cf75034 | They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are. | Ann-Marie MacDonald | ||
| c435e1f | But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9e1959b | So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners? | wisdom loser winner postmodern improvement learning-from-mistakes perspective postmodernism | David Mitchell | |
| afbda68 | Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?" | truth school | David Mitchell | |
| d3e1c2e | One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9576712 | Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 4d874c3 | Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window." | weapons | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 4a004bb | It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with sorrow, with cruelty and treachery, with those who would destroy all around them.' 'Yet, enter it you must,' Gwydion answered, 'for it is a destiny laid on each of us. True, you have seen these things. But there are equal parts of love and joy. | sorrow joy love treachery cruelty manhood | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 9c4cd90 | Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 92eee61 | What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unourned, well, you get the drift. | everyday-life taken-for-granted forgotten | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| acb86ed | Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was "So?" The boat's gone. "So?" Your mate's dead. "So?" Hey at least you're alive. "So?" An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me." | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| ef0d0a4 | There is a tiger in my room,' said Frances. 'Did he bite you?' said Father. 'No,' said Frances. 'Did he scratch you?' said Mother. 'No,' said Frances. 'Then he is a friendly tiger,' said Father. 'He will not hurt you. Go back to sleep. | humor children-s-literature tigers stalling | Russell Hoban | |
| f6526e4 | We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| fd047dc | I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books. | Connie Willis | ||
| ce65c8e | Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it's still impossible to land exactly where we took off. | Colum McCann | ||
| ba0f9ed | Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past. | Colum McCann | ||
| 5b8d879 | When she grabbed for the door handle, I said, quietly, "Harper, I will love you for the rest of my life." -- | Molly McAdams | ||
| a01d66a | You dont have to live forever just live. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 35dd54d | Stop being so greedy, and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion pages for the latest styles. Nations like ours are drowing in poverty, but your people don't even hear our cries for help. You shut your ears to the voices of those who try to tell you these things. You label them .. | progression | John Perkins | |
| 715b59c | There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word . It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more tha.. | meaning | Erich Fromm | |
| 9d3a5a5 | Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of them experiences himself from the center of his existence. Only in this "central experience" is human reality, only here is aliveness, only here is the basis for love. Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conf.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 9c57222 | How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live the profits plan Everybody sing- Every day create your History, Every path you take you're leaving your legacy | music song michael-jackson | Michael Jackson | |
| 4791c1b | In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man; but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. It does much more than that, it tells us the truth about its readers; and, oddly enough, it tells us this all the more the more cynical and immoral b.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 84854b5 | There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 870f7ec | But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 694b1e9 | All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind. | meeting-people incarnation friendliness hospitality humility | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 9903c8e | St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, 'I have understood every page I ever read'. | pride | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 060d6f6 | So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activities," she said, fighting off anxiety. "Was it another lie?" "Depends on how you look at it. It's not exactly a lie, and if you come with me to the Weird, you'll find that rumors of my 'creativity' when it comes to bed games with the opposite sex do exist. I started them myself and managed them very carefully. The trick with rumors is to feed th.. | on-the-edge ilona-andrews rose rumors | Ilona Andrews | |
| ac2fcbf | Did the Order return your sense of humor as part of the severance package? | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 285c1a7 | Derek, if a boy wanted to take away a girl's power by having sex with her, what would you think about it?" "I'd break something. His leg. Maybe his arm." He squeezed the wire tighter. "Probably wouldn't kill him unless he wanted to make an issue of it." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0cef261 | But then I didn't run from my challenges. I met them straight on and bashed my head against them, until it left me hurt, bloody, and dazed. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 159f3ed | Grigorii spared a single glance in his brother's direction. If looks were daggers, that one would've sliced straight through the volhv's heart. "Here it comes. 'My oldest son . . .'" "Is a doctor," Evdokia finished in a singsong voice. "And my daughter is an attorney." Vasiliy raised his chin. "Jealousy is bad for you. Poisons the heart." "Aha!" Evdokia slapped the table. "How about your youngest, the musician? How is he doing?" "Yes, what .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 31fe508 | Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c44b708 | That's a well-thought out layout," Caldenia said. "But why pink marble?" She waved at the ceiling. "Pink marble, white ceiling, golden accents... With the electric lighting it will turn into this ghastly orange." "I had one chance to impress the Arbiter and I had to improvise." Caldenia arched one eyebrow. "I saw it in a movie once," I explained. "It was easy to visualize." "Was it a movie for adults?" "It had a talking candelabra who was f.. | sweep-in-peace | Ilona Andrews | |
| 432574a | You are not special. You don't get to not show up. You don't get to avoid difficult decisions. You get to climb into the muck with the rest of us. So, you want to be in charge, fine. Reach deep down, find a backbone, and handle your own shit. Otherwise, step down and make way for someone who would actually matter. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f8a93f3 | Kate?" I have a superior reaction time. That was why although I shot out of my chair, jumped onto my desk, and attempted to stab the intruder into my office in the throat, I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea's neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend's windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas. Andrea stared at the black blade of the throwing dagger. "That was great,.. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8ba128b | I'm Mr.Ripped. I live in the gym. My teeth have biceps and my biceps have teeth. I chew up weights and shit out lead bricks | Ilona Andrews |