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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6d851ff | They dismissed me as a peasant, I dismissed them as shallow, and we were all happy like that. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e9be974 | The door swung open and Kate walked in. Her jeans and T-shirt were splattered with blood and she was carrying a severed vampire head. The T-shirt has a smiley face on it. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f85f52a | Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 40a9e04 | What is the connection between you and our handsome host? Aunt B asked. Blackberries taste much worse when they try to come back up your throat. "Uhhh..." "Uhhh is not an answer," Keira informed me. Andre must not have told her about Hugh, and I had no desire to explain who my dad was. "We never met but we were trained by the same person. Now he works for a very powerful man who will kill me if he finds me." "Why?" Keira asked. "It's a fami.. | hugh-d-ambray keira forbidden-fruit kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 783f127 | You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite." | cerise ilona-andrews the-edge william odds | Ilona Andrews | |
| 2b70071 | And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| fcca09b | And so, pointing fingers become pointing guns, because nobody listens to fingers. | Jeff Shaara | ||
| 3783dc8 | For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more. | St. Augustine of Hippo | ||
| f92e066 | No one expects an eighty-five-year-old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George. | Penny Reid | ||
| fb1d16f | I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans. | trapped sad | Karen Hesse | |
| a054241 | In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary. | motivational-inspirational motivational-speaker | John C. Maxwell | |
| ed3b793 | the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| e6a5e79 | You'll come back To me . . . It's written in the stars, you see, you'll come back. You'll come back, it's a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you. | Umberto Eco | ||
| f1f9f71 | There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one. | Umberto Eco | ||
| a3263ca | A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. | seduction curiosity knowledge vice | Umberto Eco | |
| 527104c | It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else's house. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 9d0d4c8 | Why would you want to go up there, when people are dying to get down here? | puns | Tim Burton | |
| 08db566 | In the recurring dream everything has already fallen down, and I'm underneath. I'm crawling, sometimes for days, under the rubble. And as I crawl I realize that this one was the Big One. It was the earthquake that shook the whole world, and every single thing was destroyed. But this isn't the scary part. That part always comes right before I wake up. I am crawling and then suddenly I remember: the earthquake happened years ago. This pain, t.. | life | Miranda July | |
| 68267fd | Where's Quinn?' "He went around the other side." Connor replied. Stealth mode." A war whoop and a mocking laugh belied that comment. Hunter sighed. 'He's across the street, being a lunatic, you mean.' "That's stealth mode for him." | funny stealth-mode hunter quinn lunatic | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 67dacac | I tried not to look as if I was hiding a handsome young lad under the mattress. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| e78f8e1 | It's weird, isn't it?" "What is?" "Treaties and all that. It's like we woke up one morning and we weren't supposed to be enemies anymore. It'll take some getting used to." "True," I said. "I think it's really cool though." "Unfortunately, not everyone agrees." I thought of my grandfather and what he would do if he could see me now. "I know. But it's worth protecting." "Yes," he said, and something about the way he was looking at me made me .. | quinn | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| ba21c20 | It's hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy. | Esther Perel | ||
| 4bf9347 | Everyone should cultivate a secret garden. | Esther Perel | ||
| 68e5b46 | It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one. | Mary Stewart | ||
| b09cdc4 | Shane padded back to the couch and flopped, sucking on his own can of soda. Eve shot him an exasperated look. "Yeah, man, thanks for bringing me one, too." The raccoon eye make-up exaggerated her eye roll. "Dork." "Didn't know if you wanted zombie dirt sprinkled on it or anything. If you're eating this week." | Rachel Caine | ||
| e79dec6 | Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you." "Bob the spider?" "He looks at you like a mother, you know. I'm surprised at your lack of work ethic. Think of the example you set for--" | Rachel Caine | ||
| e491125 | Stop being so..." "Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? "I'm going with arrogant." | shane-collings morganville-vampires | rachel caine | |
| 3eeeca2 | I - talked to her. She understands. She won't do anything stupid." He didn't look at Claire when he said that, and she wondered what kind of talking that might have been. Her mother had always said, when in doubt, ask. "Was it the kind of talk where you gave her something to live for? Like maybe, um, you?" "Did I - what the hell are you talking about?" "I just thought maybe you and her-" "Claire, Jesus!" Michael said. She'd actually made hi.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 83d590d | Ysandre has destroyed more lives than you can begin to imagine, starting with her own.'' Myrnin's eyes were dark and very, very serious. ''If she wants Shane, let her have him. She'll be done with him soon enough. Amelie won't allow her to kill him.'' ''I think she wants other things,'' Claire said. ''Ah. Sexual, then. Or some version of it. Ysandre has always been a bit--odd.'' ''How do I stop her?'' Myrnin slowly shook his head. ''I'm sor.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| cca6ccf | Well," Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen?" They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook." | naomi morganville-vampires vampire | Rachel Caine | |
| 790798c | Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you." | morganville | Rachel Caine | |
| 0913af8 | At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. | subjugation modern-society | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 6dddf56 | Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn't an absence but the presence of something else, a kind of humming silence in which solitude seems as natural to your species as to any other, words strange rocks you may or may not turn over. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| fd1d514 | Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use...time spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space -- for wilderness and public space -- must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 7e0151b | Reading these stories, it's tempting to think that the arts to be learned are those of tracking, hunting, navigating, skills of survival and escape. Even in the everyday world of the present, an anxiety to survive manifests itself in cars and clothes for far more rugged occasions than those at hand, as though to express some sense of the toughness of things and of readiness to face them. But the real difficulties, the real arts of survival,.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 391698a | there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring. | David Sedaris | ||
| b5947f7 | When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity." | love infinity jazz | David Sedaris | |
| 2c9e6f0 | The tale of someone's life begins before they are born. | Michael Wood | ||
| 8c74a3f | I am officially Jewish, but I'm Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| 2237c39 | But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| b748b5a | The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls. | light darkness prey | Cornelia Funke | |
| 5518f7a | Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 0d9aa26 | Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 4270b24 | And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings'll unfold like Paris but never seeing how sickening it will be because of the primordial innocence of health and stillnes in the wilds- So I tell myself "Be Wise." | Jack Kerouac |