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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 656dde5 | Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 3e32bf0 | You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next. | prayer | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| eec4790 | Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 5f1d622 | The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred. | equality feminism beauty body-image sexual-violence cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging | Naomi Wolf | |
| 78ff3f7 | Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time. | handwriting | Francine Prose | |
| 37a83bb | But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move. | Richard Peck | ||
| 7bc50a7 | The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 9af5f74 | I love you. I love you desperately, violently, tenderly, completely. I want you in ways that I know you would find shocking... ...I want to talk with you forever. I remember every word you've ever said to me. If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you. You would say it's too soo.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| f6e3248 | Some things are better when it's raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this." "Lying in bed with me?" | matthew-swift scandal-in-spring lisa-kleypas wallflowers | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 1559a6d | Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 21c035e | No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes. | marriage patterns | Lisa Kleypas | |
| ec6f13b | Some folks are happier not being saved. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 4b5d370 | As Marcus considered various ways to open the subject of Daisy, Swift surprised him with a blunt statement. "My lord, there is something I would like to discuss with you." Marcus adopted a pleasantly encouraging expression. "Very well." "It turns out that Miss Bowman and I have reached an...understanding. After considering the logical advantages on both sides, I have made a sensible and pragmatic decision that we should--" "How long have yo.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 67fcdd7 | What did he mean, 'insatiable lust'?" She hastened to explain. "Well, 'insatiable' means unable to satisfy-" "I know that," he said in a biting tone. "Why did he say that about you?" Sara rolled her eyes and shrugged. "It was nothing. I merely tried to kiss him once the way you kissed me..." Her voice faded as she realized that her parents were watching the pair of them in dumbfounded silence. Isaac was the fist to speak, a smile twitching .. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 17fda3f | Rhys absorbed that with chagrin. "No one has ever accused me of being a romantic," he said ruefully. "If you were, how would you propose?" He thought for a moment. "I would begin by teaching you a Welsh word. There's no equivalent in English." she repeated, trying to pronounce it with a tapped R, as he had. "Aye. It's a longing for something that was lost, or never existed. You feel it for a person or a place, or a time in your life...it.. | love rhys-winterborne proposal hiraeth | Lisa Kleypas | |
| e5cd282 | That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. "Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he's a living cliche. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 49259cb | I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime's worth of things. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 16e0e84 | Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 1808a38 | If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin. | prudishness | John Irving | |
| 226571e | Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading. | John Irving | ||
| a317380 | As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper - or in a hurry. | John Irving | ||
| d4409e3 | She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations. | John Irving | ||
| 51bb25e | But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character? | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 3dc828d | The magus said thoughtfully, "That lying little monster complained about everything: the food, the horses, the blankets, the company. He even found fault with the stories I told by the fire but I cannot recall that he ever once complained about the climbing." "So many things are obvious in retrospect, aren't they?" I said." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 4ef78af | They're going to leave me. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry prickly grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you are halfway to Methana. Where ever Methana might be. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| dbca0c3 | If the king could make a throne seem like a stool fit for a printer's apprentice, the queen could make a rumpled bedspread into a throne. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| ecb7984 | Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?' enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over. 'One long difficult word is the same as a whole sentence full of short easy ones, Sophie,' says Sugar. 'It saves time and paper.' Seeing that the child is unconvinced, she adds, 'If books were written in such a way that every person, no matter how young, could understand everything in them, they would be enormously long books. Would you w.. | Michel Faber | ||
| ffef385 | Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| a9a809c | We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength. | change | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 5ed3eb0 | Tragedy alters everything. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 64ed22b | Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes. | Irving Stone | ||
| b2b8741 | There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having. | Gene Wolfe | ||
| 6f90459 | Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be. | Gene Wolfe | ||
| dae51dc | In our every cell, furled at the nucleus, there is a ribbon two yards long and just ten atoms wide. Over a hundred million miles of DNA in very human individual, enough to wrap five million times around our world and make the Midgard serpent blush for shame, make even the Ourobouros worm swallow hard in disbelief. This snake-god, nucleotide, twice twisted, scaled in adenine and cytosine, in thymine and in guanine, is a one-man show, will be.. | Alan Moore | ||
| 6929cbf | Remember the botched brothel-visit in L'Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. | happiness life memory pleasure | Julian Barnes | |
| 949ffc5 | I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.' He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. 'I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 85f9417 | I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8695ea8 | I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter. Winter is almost upon us, boy. And winter is death. I would sooner my men die fighting for the Ned's little girl than alone and hungry in the snow, weeping tears that free.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| de71b8e | The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6067087 | Do you believe in ghosts, Maester?" [Jaime] asked Qyburn. The man's face grew strange. "Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair. Yet I knew a woman had been there, only a moment before. The cushion was dented where she'd sat, the cloth was still warm, and her scent lingered in the air. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?" | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 140da15 | Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys) | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 75e823e | If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| e3f2963 | The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear. | war fantasy grimdark game-of-thrones middle-ages | George R.R. Martin | |
| 4551b95 | Kings are falling like leaves this autumn. | George R.R. Martin |