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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 644533b | it's not about where you come from. It's about who you are | T.J. Klune | ||
| 800e9e8 | Or not," I said as I ground my teeth. "I like to masticate by myself." "And you're so good at it," Gary said. "The up and down motions of your... jaw. And then, upon completion, you swallow. Right, Sam? You swallow, don't you?" "Of course I do," I said, confused. What the hell were we talking about now? "I always swallow when I finish. What am I supposed to do? Spit it back out?" | T.J. Klune | ||
| 98daea5 | I'm sorry I made an oath. I did it because I thought it was the right thing to do. And I'm sorry that I can't break it. But you have to believe me that it's always been you. I promise. I promise." His voice cracked and my hands shook. "I promise, because when I look upon these stars, there is nothing I wish for more than you." | T.J. Klune | ||
| 62b3ded | persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 57d1489 | I'll never look at you in any way but complete admiration." He stroked her hair soothingly. "You will never be a millstone about my neck. Rather you're the sunshine that brightens my day." He swallowed. "Don't you see? You brought me into the daylight. You've embraced parts of me that I was never able to let see light. Don't make me retreat again into the night. (Winter Makepeace)" | thief-of-shadows winter | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 7f09c29 | So does nobody care about Ireland?" "Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James." He nodded thoughtfully. "The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a damn about her. That is her tragedy." | england ireland war | Edward Rutherfurd | |
| ce48d68 | The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis. | humor jazz miles-davis | Christopher Moore | |
| 6e96820 | Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening. | religion spirituality | Christopher Moore | |
| 99a3117 | Wet towel under the door,' said Barry. 'It's what you do when you're smoking weed in a hotel and you don't want everyone calling security. You're always supposed to have a towel. I read about it in a guide for hitchhiking through the galaxy. | humor | Christopher Moore | |
| f600f97 | You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort! | P.D. Eastman & Roy McKee | ||
| 13df62b | There is such joy in chaos. Stow all the world's evils behind a door and tell men that they must never, ever, open the door, and it will be opened because there is pure joy in destruction. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 7a2a623 | Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself. | A.M. Homes | ||
| 5186f41 | Love is mysterious and rad, like Steve Perry from Journey | humor love | Diablo Cody | |
| d31fd94 | A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 022e2b8 | I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 2e73750 | Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead?" Magnus asked. "Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night?" I asked. Magnus smiled. "Wrong kind of fairie." | magnus | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| ba4eadb | I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| da3e647 | There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| c06d27e | One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure. | skin-trade | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| cd44c84 | Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself." "Why?" I said. "If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0ae5b7a | I smiled at him, as Doyle squeezed my hand and I squeezed back. "Some people are addicted to falling in love, Doctor. Some people love that rush of new emotions, and when that first rush of new love is spent, they move on to the next, thinking the love wasn't real. What I felt in her, and potentially in you, is the love of years. Love that knows that that first rush of freshness isn't the real thing. It's the tip of the iceberg." | meredith-gentry | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 9021300 | My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a gun usually looks like reaching for a gun. No one seemed to notice though. Goody for our side. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4eec5cf | You awful hard to kill, Anita.' 'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 18ee706 | We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. -Edward | edward vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| d2c9deb | In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. | fiction supernatural urban-fantasy vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| de1e98e | How can we be "free" as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware?" | Sam Harris | ||
| 21e0bdc | lshy lmhm hw 'l nfqd Htrmn l'nfsn . | José Saramago | ||
| 34594a1 | people sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don't know how to fix themselves. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 3ba1567 | The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| b143448 | Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men." | Jules Verne | ||
| 8995db4 | The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress. | Don DeLillo | ||
| c4ab145 | We need time to lose interest in things. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2f661d8 | Death always before dishonor. (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9b9f7e5 | Adron! Don't you hurt him. (Kiara) I'm not going to hurt him, Mom. I'm going to kill him. (Young Adron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 61dad85 | Are we just going to stand here taking pot shots at each other? Or can we focus our collective ADD on getting us off this shit hole? (Devyn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 3a831ea | Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon | humor | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| cc2d6bc | It's settled, then," Grace said. She turned back to Nick. "Take the Jag to the car wash and for heaven's sake clean the McDonald's Happy Meal boxes out of it." "Hey," Nick said, his face offended. "That's a low blow. Those boxes are collectibles." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 51a3970 | You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. | Richard Bach | ||
| a07605d | Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one. | Richard Bach | ||
| f57e106 | life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 9248573 | His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free. | Linda Howard | ||
| aa09fca | Oh, Jesus," he said, wheezing with the effort it took to control himself. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. "You little innocent. I'm fluent in French, but it isn't my first language." It was plain by the mortified expression in those green eyes that she didn't understand, so he explained. "Baby , if I can still think clearly enough to speak French, then I'm not totally involved in what I'm doing. It may sound pretty , but it doe.. | Linda Howard | ||
| 1109dec | I'm going to go," he said. "All right." He didn't move. Then: "I don't want to." "Do it anyway." He chuckled. "You're a hard woman, Faith Devlin." "Hardy." "I didn't know him. He isn't real to me. Did you love him?" "Yes." But not the way I love you. Never like that." | Linda Howard | ||
| 096b5e2 | I keep meeting all the right people At all the wrong times. | Shel Silverstein |