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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8a71a48 | Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself." | Holly Black | ||
| c024a40 | As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach. KILL THE CHILD | callum-hunt kill magisterium the-iron-trial | Holly Black | |
| 07f6659 | The complete bottom has fallen out of my life. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 2bf7c75 | I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 78b005b | Ritsu: Please, Onii-san, please write with takoyaki power! Mitsuru: Yes, sensei! With ikyayaki or takoyaki or whatever it takes! Write quickly, without hesitation! Ah... Um... W-what is takoyaki power? Ritsu: Well, that is--! When Shigure-niisan eats takoyaki, he transforms into a great warrior... Shigure: No I don't. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 856a7ab | Time seemed stationary, yet the painful pressure of time was constantly felt. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 51b75ca | It was a nice night. A pleasant evening. There seemed to be stars somewhere and it was easy to avoid stepping in the garbage and dog shit on the streets. A truly beautiful night. Tony | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| eac799a | Harry grinned as the others laughed and took time out to take a poke on his cigarette, then rubbed the tip of his nose with the back of his hand. I should have you all locked up for interferin with religious freedom. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 7afc721 | The ability to yield, to bend, to give way, to accommodate, he said, was sometimes a source of strength in men as well as in wood, so long as it was helmed by inner resolve and by principle. | Daniel James Brown | ||
| 97881fb | who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 5dbe71b | Who'll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who'll look into my hooded eye Who'll lie down under my darkened thigh? | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| d1fa182 | It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 924697f | These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a9ed273 | We can't just drop everything, sir!" "Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?" | tyrant vetinari | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0199ba4 | I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2499c89 | This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8a9b4d1 | Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ... | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a18d149 | Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello and Good-Bye, Mr. Brain Cell. | drinks | Terry Pratchett | |
| 817ab65 | Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ef4e375 | Wolves hate werewolves.' 'What? That can't be right! When she's wolf-shaped she's just like a wolf!' 'So? When she's human-shaped she's just like a human. And what's that got to do with anything? Humans don't like werewolves. Wolves don't like werewolves. People don't like wolves that can think like people, an' people don't like people who can act like wolves. Which just goes to show that people are the same everywhere.' said Gaspode. He as.. | gaspode pratchett terry-pratchett werewolves wolves | Terry Pratchett | |
| b0d49c9 | The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. | humor memory metaphor recollection | Terry Pratchett | |
| 65b0335 | I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4b7a1a2 | There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5cc7473 | Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success. | humor milton-keynes | Terry Pratchett | |
| d6fd7ae | You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ef0e49b | This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. | fantasy-books fantasy-fiction jared-wheat | Terry Pratchett | |
| c278c06 | Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can reco.. | plays | Terry Pratchett | |
| ff787df | What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5657074 | They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9f4f1b7 | The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 93f8b39 | It was amazing how many people spent their whole lives in places where they never intended to stay. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7b473b8 | Now ," snapped the Dean, "we've searched for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?" | library | Terry Pratchett | |
| ce95bb7 | Oh, always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people. -Nanny Ogg | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 19d28ca | People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| df1a1ca | Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1e0dcb5 | It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| dca3c02 | Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. Therefore, he understood, there is, in truth, no Past, only a memory of the Past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The p.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4d6c8eb | Then there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward normalcy. They suffer to exactly that degree that they are unable to appear normal to others, or to convince themselves that their aberration does not exist. These are true freaks, who appear, almost always, conventional and dull. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 9261ebf | You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 3543ed4 | As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 485f80b | I look at him, look at the book, remember, this book, this moment, the first book I ever loved | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ed6ea89 | The engagement ring is an emerald, and the dim light from the window is refracted green and white in it. The rings are silver, and they need cleaning. They need wearing, and I know just the girl to wear them. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 982b04c | It's hard being left behind...It's hard to be the one who stays...Why is love intensified by absence? | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 02fa363 | You amaze me," he said. "You think nothing exists if you can't see it." | Donna Tartt |