1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
1398
1399
1400
1401
1402
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ef1df7 | A crown should not sit easy on the head. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 7209c7f | God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 38f1d67 | This is exactly why Patrick and I chose not to have children." he muttered. "So we would never have to have conversations like this. Andy yet...here I am?""If you could answer the question," I said as politely as I could, "that would be great. I really don't want to have a freaky demon baby, and I can't imagine John wants one, either" | Meg Cabot | ||
| ea5e0f5 | We need to talk." "I'm just - Look," I said, as he took a step toward me. "I'm just going to give Cee Cee a call and maybe we'll go to the beach or something, because I really ... I just need a day off."Another step toward me. Now he was right in front of me. | jesse-de-silva susannah-simon the-mediator | Meg Cabot | |
| 2bd6ee1 | Yeah," Chaz says. "You know, when you packed up all your stuff and left his ass high and dry, I thought finally. A woman with some moral fiber. Little did I know that all he'd need to win you back was a big diamond ring and few crocodile tears. I really expected bigger things from you, Lizzie. Tell me something. Are you going to wait until the invitations have actually gone out before you admit to yourself that Luke is that last guy you oug.. | lizzie | Meg Cabot | |
| 27ad6c6 | I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 7a13298 | Hey," Dopey said when I was finished reading. "How come they never mentioned me? I'm the one who found the skeleton." "Oh, yeah," Sleepy said in disgust. "Your role was really crucial. After all, if it wasn't for you, the guy's skull might still have been intact." | mediator meg-cabot | Meg Cabot | |
| 0178029 | Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| eaa08d7 | Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry. | Leonard Koren | ||
| 50dd53e | When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 3166d3d | No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 2b7672b | O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible, and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands. | military-philosophy | Sun Tzu | |
| 5f7e989 | It is the unemotional, reserved, calm, detached warrior who wins, not the hothead seeking vengeance and not the ambitious seeker of fortune. | Sun Tzu | ||
| 57bfe97 | We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength. | transition | Ishmael Beah | |
| 02ebbe8 | And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| fd098f6 | You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either." Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?" | blue-bloods | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 0877f19 | It was time to say good-bye. Jack sent. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| f473ee4 | A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. "Hi," she said. "Hi." "You're really cute." "I don't have any money." She spun and walked away. Ah, romance." | Harlan Coben | ||
| db78f74 | That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace. | peace | Agatha Christie | |
| 2ce69c7 | When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island. | mystery | Agatha Christie | |
| a10b2a5 | You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion. | Agatha Christie | ||
| d21a156 | One never quite allows for the moron in our midst. | Agatha Christie | ||
| e637a77 | I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?" | humor the-looking-glass-wars | Frank Beddor | |
| b976bac | Queen Alyss, my guards have discovered something you should see." Her face had relaxed at the sight of him, but her brow at once contracted, her lips thinned with tension. We've found evidence of suspicious activity in the palace," he said. What sort of activity?" You might want to step this way and see for youself. I apologize in advance for you having to set foot in a gaurdsman's quaters." He led her into his rooms. The boyish portrait of.. | Frank Beddor | ||
| e7f7efc | Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became . One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives ag.. | Elizabeth Enright | ||
| c9ec852 | He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words. | sadness | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 33e32fa | He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| af2a61e | I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| a77d4b9 | Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| ce41ca3 | They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. | Jean Rhys | ||
| de1774c | Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished. | Brandon Mull | ||
| b693a42 | Seth put his ear against the door. "I can't hear anything." "There are probably ten of them patiently waiting on the far side, ready to pounce." Brownies are shrimps. All I'd need are some heavy boots, a pair of shin guards, and a weed whacker." The image made Kendra giggle." | weed-whacker hummor fablehaven | Brandon Mull | |
| 606af6b | What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter." | Brandon Mull | ||
| ec2a325 | I guess Smart Seth is glad, he said reluctantly. But be careful. Idiot Seth is the guy to watch out for. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 2391861 | Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet a.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 8378181 | Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees. | seeing perspective | Louis L'Amour | |
| f53b2bd | The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. | understanding people writing painting sculpture | Louis L'Amour | |
| a5bfdc8 | Because I'm pretty sure we conceived this child the night I ate that pot cookie. I'm eighty-four percent positive our child is going to be born a pot head. It's going to come out with dreadlocks and wearing a Bob Marley onesie. Its first word will probably be 'Whaaaaaazzzzzzzuuuuuup'. It's never, ever going to sleep through the night because it's always going to have the munchies. | Tara Sivec | ||
| c7b61b5 | Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined. | friendship | Robin Hobb | |
| 358b9e5 | Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 24dc64c | There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 94f8404 | Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| b3df741 | The best remedy for what ails me is being with you here under the sun. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 202cb18 | Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true . I know,"--Glaedr" -- | Christopher Paolini |