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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 18ccf90 | Sometimes it seemed to me a cruelty that so much was unresolved between us; at other times, a blessing that a hope of reunion lingered. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0a8bbfb | Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should do, like wash my hair, or not wear yellow. But (...) I like him. He mocks me, but from him, it seems a kindness. He makes me feel, well, important. That he could choose me to talk to. | fool | Robin Hobb | |
| 170159e | That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3036a5b | Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 02dc5d8 | The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. | Charles Simic | ||
| 34996a9 | Confidence could be applied like makeup. I knew that for fact. | relationships women makeup-and-beauty | Barbara Delinsky | |
| 3db0218 | Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d684d6d | As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, "I was waiting for her to ask 'Was it the one with two eyes or the one with two legs?' Why didn't she just ask 'Was it the black girl or the white girl?'" Ginika laughed. "Because this is America. You're supposed to pretend that you don't notice certain things." | pretense race | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| b6449f0 | There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b67deb9 | Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 181fa56 | If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise | inspirational-life inspirational-quotes | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| bace1b7 | It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar | Christopher Paolini | ||
| f551eac | reading is awsome | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 97fac47 | Do not feel bad because of it. It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishment. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| b81c02e | There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 15182f7 | We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| e7f1e74 | When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| ba23804 | Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 137a9fa | Knowledge, whatever the form, could be as effective as a weapon. | maria-v-snyder poison-study | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 2faf189 | Living with your decision must be hard. Nothing I or anyone can say will give you any peace. You must reconcile your actions in your heart. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 5a12cf7 | Extroverts are better than introverts at handling information overload. Introverts' reflectiveness uses up a lot of cognitive capacity, according to Joseph Newman. On any given task, he says, ''if we have 100 percent cognitive capacity, an introvert may have only 75 percent on task and 25 percent off task, whereas an extrovert may have 90 percent on task.'' This is because most tasks are goal-directed. Extroverts appear to allocate most of .. | Susan Cain | ||
| f79eea5 | When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion. | Susan Cain | ||
| 40778ca | you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ea10441 | Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep. | sleep child children childhood | Stefan Zweig | |
| 2108229 | Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 82598d5 | My mouth went dry, my heart clattered. "Nick, don't leave. Don't go," I said unevenly. "Look, it's not that I'm not, you know... it's just that this is all really new and sudden, and it's hard--" "It's not hard for me!" he barked, causing both the cabbie and me to jump. "Harper, I've loved you all my adult life, but you just can't believe that, and nothing I do will change your mind. You want a guarantee, you want a fucking crystal ball to .. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 324f827 | A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| b13e8b7 | Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4cf8722 | Lacuna peered at my shirt. "Aer-O-Smith. Arrowsmith. Does the shirt belong to your weapon dealer?" "No." "Then why do you wear the shirt of someone else's weapon dealer?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| b1fb55d | Michael smiled at me a little. "You're a good man, Harry. But you're making the same mistake Nicodemus always has--and the same one Karrin did." "What mistake?" "You all think the critical word in the phrase 'Sword of Faith' is 'sword." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5c70311 | A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. "Get more away. I've been fighting this computer all day long. I swear, if you blow out my hard drive again, I'm taking it out of your ass." "Why would your hard drive be in my ass?" I said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| fb74c3c | Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry." "Oh. Well. I've got to believe that the world is worth saving anyway." | reality-tv saving-the-world | Jim Butcher | |
| d551bcc | There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 2c2e15b | My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 38e134b | You need to know where to go," Sanya said. "Yes." "And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance." "Yes," I said. The big man frowned for a moment. Then he said, "There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6c5c989 | Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.- -"And?" And it makes you vulnerable." | pain sensitive vulnerable monsters | Jim Butcher | |
| e2b73de | Dresden. Am I interrupting something?" "Well, I was going to settle down with a porn video and a bottle of baby oil, but I really don't have enough for two." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 886699c | Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d8f6d7b | I mean it," I said. "You're in danger." "Relax, Harry. I'm not letting anyone lick me, and I'm not looking anyone in the eyes. It's kind of like visiting New York." | new-york-city | Jim Butcher | |
| 92706ea | You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task," Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. "Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to." | Holly Black | ||
| faffc71 | I thought I was playing the game of pissing off people who hated me already and eating the consequences. | Holly Black | ||
| 7309e0d | Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag's carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst. | Holly Black | ||
| 8c1656c | When we turn,is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released? | Holly Black | ||
| 0c1a7d0 | Sometimes," Sam says, "I can't tell when you're lying." "I never lie," I lie." | Holly Black |