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Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
8060d7c | I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
73ae489 | He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO. | humour spellbinding robots star-wars scifi | Cory Doctorow | |
6ab7ed0 | The earth does not want new continents, but new men. | Jules Verne | ||
ac4c78d | If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime. | Jules Verne | ||
3d540d6 | Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational. | Don DeLillo | ||
8527a5a | I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. | Don DeLillo | ||
50a5bab | The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. | Don DeLillo | ||
211716e | bread makes you fat?? | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
3a11692 | The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. | patter crooks | Dashiell Hammett | |
242be6f | Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts. | Norman Maclean | ||
4403eed | Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heart out So you see, There's really not much left of me. | Shel Silverstein | ||
71be741 | I'm your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I'm an elf, Trent something you're forgotten how to be. You're scared of black magic. I can see fear shimmering under your aura like sweat. I live and breathe black magic. I'm so tainted with it that I will use it without thought, without guilt and without hesitation. | Kim Harrison | ||
55af406 | What was in the trunk?" I asked, and my eyes widened when he opened his coat and let me glimpse a big-ass rifle. "I know these people," he said, his expression going hard. "We handle their insurance." | Kim Harrison | ||
110b04f | My breath slipped from me, almost a groan. Trent Kalamack. The obscenely successful, smiling businessman, ruthless bio- and street-drug lord, elf in hiding, and pain-in-my-ass-extraordinaire Trent Kalamack. Right on schedule. "Why is it you show up only when I need money?" | Kim Harrison | ||
2968563 | I will compensate all your one-inch, two-inch losses because I know how important every inch is to you aged, decrepit men. | Kim Harrison | ||
c1c9332 | Al to Pierce) "You will make sure that nasty demon Ku'Sox doesn't kill her," Al said conversational y. "Understand? You're angry, but you still like her, yes? Want to have wild demon sex with her even if she ruined your attempt to kill me? Keep her alive, and you might get some. Eh? Eh? You'd like that, mmmm?" | Kim Harrison | ||
9abf9b8 | Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination. | Kim Harrison | ||
ca4680c | Trent, is this a date?" He didn't reach for the key still in the ignition. "You never told me how your car got impounded." "Is this a date?" I asked again, more stridently. Silent, he sat there, his hands on the wheel as he stared at the front door and the neon bowling pins flashing on and off. "I want it to be." -- | trent-kalamack rachel-morgan | Kim Harrison | |
3a2ce84 | When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be. | inspirational | Iyanla Vanzant | |
49aec63 | When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
9aec637 | it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists | Christopher Hitchens | ||
a9b28d9 | Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the human species is, biologically, only partly rational. Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder. | evolution | Christopher Hitchens | |
32877c8 | Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scient.. | government | Arthur Koestler | |
4276b92 | Quand j'arrive a la gare de l'Est, j'espere toujours secretement qu'il y aura quelqu'un pour m'attendre. C'est con. J'ai beau savoir que ma mere est encore au boulot a cette heure-la et que Marc est pas du genre a traverser la banlieue pour porter mon sac, j'ai toujours cet espoir debile. [...] Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part... C'est quand meme pas complique. | Anna Gavalda | ||
d724d68 | Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed." | Evelyn Waugh | ||
42156ff | When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God. | Flannery O'Connor | ||
1e42533 | it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
cf13e02 | I, for one, am exhausted. I've been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
c30f815 | We are coming up on the Sumerian apokalypsi-. (Artemis) I don't think they use that word. (Kat) Who cares what word they use? End of the world is end of the world regardless of whatever term you use for it! (Artemis) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
3fb4900 | Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?" She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan." Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?" | nick odd weird zombies strange | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
26110f4 | Now that I think about it, you'd have to be a glutton for punishment to keep coming near me given my acerbic personality where you're concerned. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
4438715 | Anything you need, you tell him and he'll get it for you. If he offends you in any way, let me know and I'll kill him when I get up. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
6a0ba75 | You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to circumvent what was supposed to be - which ultimately was the destruction of the Atlantean pantheon. There was no changing that prophecy. But the way you suffered was completely unnecessary. Had your parents embraced their true destiny, you would have been saved years of torment. Fate will not be denied. We can.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
355ad6f | You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
fca7223 | It's not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
10aa4b5 | There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
cad5b8f | Because people learn from their mistakes, Danger. Pain and failure are a natural part of life. It's kind of like a parent who watches their child fall down while learning to walk. Instead of coddling the child, you set them back on their feet and let them try again. They have to stumble before they can run. (Alexion) Do you really believe that we need to have our hearts ripped out? (Danger) A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too mu.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
a881e41 | How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you're a kid. Act like it. (Geary) (Tory reached out and punched her on the arm.) Ow! What was that for? (Geary) Unexpected and irrational emotional outbursts. Isn't that what teenagers are supposed to do? Oh, and sulk. A lot. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
d6d55e4 | Good Lord, who spread the Daimon fertilizer around? They're cropping up like a bad horror flick. (Tabitha) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
c8df736 | Fuck you. (Dev) Thank you so much for the offer, but while you do have a certain feminine quality in your demeanor and a remarkable head of hair that any woman would envy, you're far too hairy for my tastes. No offense. (Fury) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
6b9f8dd | Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
df25c1a | A silent man is a thinking man. A silent woman is an angry one ... | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
eb4d79f | Now you're thinking like me. A little eye-gouging, some slit nostrils...I could seriously get into that. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
ab4135f | What the hell? We're all screwed up some way. At least you bathe and I don't have to fight you for chicks. In my book, that makes you all right. | Sherrilyn Kenyon |