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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| addddc7 | Personally, no matter how tempting it might be, I make it a policy not to surgically bestow near invincibility upon the people who would most like to see me dead. | Jennifer Lynn Barnes | ||
| d1e7fde | Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? | knowledge writing | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 352b707 | Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 103629c | True allegiance is only given willingly. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 3276314 | If you want truth, you should begin by giving it. | sharing trust truth | Lloyd Alexander | |
| deefc68 | You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. In fact these days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. | apathy sadness | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| cd677b1 | He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase. | Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball | ||
| 36d503c | My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 8c0bd79 | I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room. | Jay McInerney | ||
| ba498de | Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for. | Colum McCann | ||
| e38da0c | I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again. | Colum McCann | ||
| 9c4bd3c | That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own. | Colum McCann | ||
| a9a0858 | I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it." | truth | Colum McCann | |
| bd67a6d | Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable. | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| c8b7a5e | Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...? | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| d2041cc | The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings. | equality | Peter Singer | |
| e87377d | If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by--though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed. | sex | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 907b275 | Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 33361dd | Eyes of blue and hair of fire Are the keys to your desire. Angel's voice and will of steel Shall force the dark witch to kneel. Death to bind and bind to break Sun and moon for all our sake. Prince of night, daughter of day, Bound as one the witch they'll slay. Same hour they their first breath drew, On her last, the witch will rue. Join the two named in this verse And see the end of the curse. | Danielle L. Jensen | ||
| e9f70ba | I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man. | Henry Miller | ||
| 92837ca | We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 862463d | n hm mjl ll`T lys hw mjl l'shy lmdy@, bl hw lmjl ldhy ykmn fy l`lm lnsny bSf@ khS@. fmdh y`Ty lnsn llakhr ? nh y`Ty mn nfsh, mn 'thmn m ymlk, nh y`Ty Hyth. wlys hdh y`ny blDrwr@ nh yDHy bHyth llakhr-bl nh y`ny nh y`Tyh mn dhlk lshy lHy fyh, nh y`Tyh mn frHh, mn shGfh, mn fhmh, mn `lmh, mn mrHh, mn Hznh- mn kl lt`byr wltjlyt ldhlk lshy lHy ldhy fyh. whkdh b`Ty'h mn Hyth nm ythry lshkhS lakhr blHy@ wdhlk bt`zyzh lsh`wrh hw blHy@. nh l y`Ty lk.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 548ee86 | Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows 'what he wants,' while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own. | freedom wants will | Erich Fromm | |
| c309c1a | Wenn ich zu einem anderen sagen kann: "Ich liebe dich", muss ich auch sagen konnen: "Ich liebe in dir auch alle anderen, ich liebe durch dich die ganze Welt, ich liebe in dir auch mich selbst." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 45d91cd | Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe- a safe house in a world of danger; the ultimate haven of two solitary, fearful souls. When you were single, this was what everyone who was already married was always telling you. Daniel himself had said it to his unmarried friends. It was, however, a lie. Sex had everything to do with violence, that was true, and marriage was at once a contain.. | love marriage sex | Michael Chabon | |
| 1aa086b | The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. It was descri.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 30a7c05 | Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| eec4e6b | The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 5aa98e4 | Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, 'I do not understand,' it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat 'You do not understand.' And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that .. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 02f1439 | Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory. | red-hair | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 7f225f9 | He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it? | Philip Pullman | ||
| 1a8e856 | The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air. . .and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 645a23b | Religion is, as I say, something universal and something human, and something impossible to eradicate, nor would I want to eradicate it. I am a religious person, although I am not a believer. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 037f8b1 | Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious. | humorous-quotations mystery | Lauren Willig | |
| f16de5c | Never Forget Who You Are Beacause Its Like Forgetingg Water Is Wet,The Sun Is Bright,Snow Is Cold.Its Rudunent. | because bright cold forget forgeting is its like never rudunent snow sun the water wet who you | Andrew Fukuda | |
| de9d4e7 | How is it different?" He rolled his head back, sable hair falling down on his shoulders. "With Rose I knew what to say. I could take a step back and talk to her. I remembered all the crap from the magaznies. It was easy." "And with me, it's hard?" Why? Because she was a swamp girl? And how did the magazines fit into it? William looked away from her. "I don't like it when you're away. If I don't see you, I can't settle down. If I see you tal.. | cerise ilona-andrews pick-up-lines rose the-edge william | Ilona Andrews | |
| 23b0767 | It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering." | cerise ilona-andrews the-edge william | Ilona Andrews | |
| e6093b3 | You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them." I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me." | paranormal-romance romance urban-fantasy | Ilona Andrews | |
| 00a4e8b | Hugh should've brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 85690e9 | On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt. | gift-horse ilona-andrews kate kate-daniels magic-bites ted | Ilona Andrews | |
| 451ebd1 | No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything... | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 719172d | Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 79f9bb1 | You've been here before?" Derek asked, his gaze firmly fixed on Rowena's ass shifting under the shimmering green silk a few steps above us. "Wiggles," I told him. He blinked, then realized I wasn't referring to Rowena's backside." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c8d6be1 | When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer or buffalo have no idea he's near. He finds his prey and then he explodes from his hiding place and grabs it. Even if another, perfectly serviceable animal ends up within his reach, he isn't going to alter his course. He has chosen, and he would rather go hungry than change his mind. | Ilona Andrews |