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| 49e3558 | Such nights are possible, and we survive them. It is a matter of sleeping next to the adored body you no longer have the right or inclination to love. Whether you are the one who casts off, or are the cast of yourself; whether your arms are the recoilers, or the ones that reach wantingly, then pull back, remembering they are no longer wanted. Two bodies that are used to each other's rhythms and sleep sounds, that know the turnings and breat.. | Sylvia Brownrigg | ||
| 7306a74 | I don't want water!" Sarah cries, her face buried against my chest. I can't see what's going on in the rest of the lobby beacuse Sarah's hair is flying up in my face, blocking my view. I want justice!" she wails. Well, we'll get you some of that too." Magda has appeared from out of nowhere. "Maybe there's some in the freezer." | Meg Cabot | ||
| db16b21 | I can't join a gym! I'm depressed, not suicidal! | Meg Cabot | ||
| 5e5cdc5 | I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 2ac3758 | I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 6468d0f | I won't tell you how I managed to break in, since I don't want the authorities figuring out, but let's just say that if you're going to make a gate, make sure it reaches all the way to the ground. | susannah-simon the-mediator | Meg Cabot | |
| 6cd8a37 | I needed another soda. I'd only had six since breakfast. | Meg Cabot | ||
| bb7833b | We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self. | William Gibson | ||
| 58abd0b | Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Dar- winism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. | William Gibson | ||
| 484e0d7 | Why did you save Park's life, was that so good?' 'I don't know if it was such a good thing to do,' said Jonathan. 'But there are things you have to do, otherwise you're not a human being, just a piece of dirt. I've said this to you before.' 'But what if he'd realized who you were?' I said. 'And they had caught you!' 'Well, then they would've caught Lionheart and not a piece of dirt,' said Jonathan. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| 90973dd | She trailed after him, admiring the line of his back. He began climbing the stairs, and she sighed with pleasure. Every bit of him was gorgeous. "Do you mind if I objectify you?" "Please do," he said over his shoulder. "Particularly my knees, as they are oft-neglected." "Maybe if you ever got your pants off, they wouldn't be." "It hardly matters, sweet; once they've come off, the attention isn't likely to center on my absurdly handsome knee.. | beauty humor colin savi vanity | Meljean Brook | |
| 8027085 | All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"). Definition of deception: "The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true. An act, a trick or device entended to deceive somebody". Thus, all war is based in metaphor. All war necessarily perfects itself in poetry. Poetry (since indefinable) is the sense of seduction. Therefore, all war is the storytelling of seduction, and seduction is the nature .. | war poetry seduction | Pola Oloixarac | |
| bc2c3f8 | To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| e247496 | He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| eab275b | They looked for one another when nothing else was happening, the way you pick up a magazine or look in the cupboard for a snack. Not exactly by accident and not exactly on purpose. You could go out in the world and do new things and meet new people, and then you could come home and just sit on the stoop with someone you had never not known, and watch lightning bugs blink on and off. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| 40cf9ce | When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6deadf5 | You're late," she said, tapping her watch. "No, you're just early." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 4abd73c | And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels. | Salvador Plascencia | ||
| ecbd088 | When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate." - Jacob Jankowski, Water For Elephants" | Sara Gruen | ||
| 55aa1c7 | He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter..." | Sara Gruen | ||
| 1965fd7 | You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 74288da | Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 1130fbf | I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be.. | tragedy life truth | Harlan Coben | |
| 85e04bc | A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller) | Agatha Christie | ||
| aeb664d | In everybody's life there are hidden chapters which they hope may never be known. | Agatha Christie | ||
| c7a7706 | There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. | words literature reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| 5d1d7aa | After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 9464f53 | God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life. | thought-provoking | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 93acccf | I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| a06fb96 | He had tenderness in his heart -- 'a soft place,' as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble pa.. | tenderness vulnerability | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 97218fc | She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at first, and now standing behind her father, he had overlooked her in his haste. As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her! | love | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| e76f9d7 | But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words. | words meaning truth | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| ae9aff7 | Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners. | doubt faith inspiration religion | Rob Bell | |
| 841c68a | We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp. | theology | Brian D. McLaren | |
| 673ec40 | If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves. | slavery foreigners patriotism | Michael Shaara | |
| 06855fd | There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 727d25a | There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul int.. | love-loss | Emma Forrest | |
| 21955d4 | Please don't assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection | Brandon Mull | ||
| 0aa94ab | A gunshot rang out, blasting a hole in the door. A crossbow quarrel zinged through the hole and stuck quivering into the opposite wall. Seth heard the rocking horse clattering down the staircase, the twang of bowstrings, and the overlapping beat of several other projectiles thudding against the door. "That was awesome," Seth told Kendra. "You're psychotic," Kendra replied." | hummor psychotic rocking-horse traps brothers | Brandon Mull | |
| a8b28a1 | violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. | violence rights | Louis L'Amour | |
| 0c0ce2c | Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. | money value knowledge | Louis L'Amour | |
| 01d0291 | First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision! | insult cheeky | Gordon Dahlquist | |
| 9294de2 | To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be mis.. | heaven fear death transformation | Anne Brontë | |
| 4588032 | Justice. There's a thing we shall ever thirst after, and ever be parched. No. We content ourselves with law. | Robin Hobb |