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| 2582d7b | There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 3675f8a | Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 632d37b | You are beautiful," Tenar said in a different tone. "Listen to me, Therru. Come here. You have scars, ugly scars, because an ugly, evil thing was done to you. People see the scars. But they see you, too, and you aren't the scars. You aren't ugly. You aren't evil. You are Therru, and beautiful. You are Therru who can work, and walk, and run, and dance, beautifully, in a red dress." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7c6ee1f | To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. | imaginative-fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| c3bb29c | We do not look back, Chaol. It helps no one and nothing to look back. We can only go on." There she was, that queen looking out at him, a hint of the ruler she was becoming. And it knocked the breath out of him, because it made him feel so strangely young--when she now seemed so old. "What if we go on," he said, "only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?" Aelin looked northward, as if she c.. | pg521 chaol-westfall | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 9172ab2 | Never get to see that half smile. Never get to hear his laugh, never get to hear him say her name like it meant something special, something more than being Adarlan's Assassin ever could. She didn't want to go out into a world where he didn't exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0ddc9a7 | Aelin had felt it before: a thread in the world, a current running between her and someone else. She'd felt it one night, years ago, and had given a young healer the money to get the hell out of this continent. She'd felt the tug--and had decided to tug back. Here it was again, that tug--toward Manon, whose arms buckled as she collapsed to the stone. Her enemy--her new enemy, who would have killed her and Rowan if given the chance. A monste.. | manon-blackbeak | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 51c782c | It's never made any difference to me when it came to you. I'd still pick you. I'll always pick you. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f546b4a | To listen to what I'd heard - as if I'd already learned everything I needed. | freyre listening knowledge | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 4f87328 | Aelin would likely laughed to see him now. The man who had stumbled out of her room after she'd declared that her cycle had arrived. Now sitting in this fine room, mostly naked and not giving a shit about it. | funny chaol-westfall | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 95dcdc6 | Cassian set me down at last. "What'd you get me for Solstice?" I smacked his arm. "A heaping pile of shut the hell up." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f70f5f0 | She wouldn't mind working with him - but not in the way Roland meant. Her way would include a dagger, a shovel, and an unmarked grave. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9b67b76 | He didn't object as she took up a place at the head of the tub and dumped some of the tonic into his short hair. The sweet, night-filled scent of jasmine floated up, caressing and kissing her. Even Rowan breathed it in as she scrubbed the tonic into his scalp. "I could still probably braid this," she mused. "Very teensy-tiny braids, so - " He growled, but leaned back against the tub, his eyes closed. "You're no better than a house cat," she.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 97fc864 | I will bow to no one and nothing but my crown. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 69b8058 | I said, "Don't you have other things to deal with?" "Of course I do," he said, shrugging. "I have so many things to deal with that I'm sometimes tempted to unleash my power across the world and wipe the board clean. Just to buy me some damned peace." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6d155a0 | She bellowed the last word with such soul-deep hatred that he felt it like a punch to the gut. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 840e4d1 | I lifted a hand toward that darkness, and met with a soft, silky material--his wing, cocooning and warming me. I traced my finger along it, and he shuddered, his arms tightening around me. "Your finger ... is very cold," he gritted out, the words hot on my neck. I tried not to smile, even as I tilted my neck a bit more, hoping the heat of his breath might caress it again. I dragged my finger along his wing, the nail scraping gently against .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 90d6c77 | His eyes blazed with hunger that matched her own, and she kissed him again, tugging him into her bedroom. He let her pull him, not breaking the kiss as he kicked the door shut behind them. And then there was only them, and skin against skin, and when they reached that moment when there was nothing more between them at all, Celaena kissed Chaol deeply and gave him everything she had. | chaol-westfall | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 57eafd5 | My name is Sam Cortland... and I will not be afraid. | the-assassin-s-blade throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6254478 | want you out of Velaris," Feyre breathed, her voice shaking. Nesta tried--tried and failed--not to feel the blow, the sting of the words. Though she didn't know why she was surprised by it. There were no paintings of her in this house, they did not invite her to parties or dinners anymore, they certainly didn't visit-- "And where," Nesta asked, her voice mercifully icy, "am I supposed to go?" Feyre only looked to Cassian. And for once, the .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 3d41c6a | Shivering, Elide rose. He seemed bigger with every step. But that wing remained extended, as if she were the animal in need of calming. As she reached his side, she could hardly breathe as she extended a hand and stroked the curving, scaly hide. It was surprisingly soft, like worn leather. And toasty, as if he were a furnace. Carefully, aware of the head he angled to watch her every move, she sat down against him, her back instantly warmed. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b4f00a4 | Shit. He was in such deep, unending shit. | time throne-of-glass-book-4 throne-of-glass-series throne-of-glass rowan-whitethorn time-passing | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 77a28c1 | I put a hand on my chest, leaning against the wood panels of the stair wall. Rhy's hand covered my own a heartbeat later. "That's what I felt," he said, "when I saw you smile that night we dined along the Sidra." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d32eeae | It might have looked beautiful, had she not known what corruption and filth dwelt within it. And what monstrosity ruled over it all. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| fc57370 | Holy crap! Your story was so long I forgot the beginning! - Ichigo Kurosaki | Tite Kubo | ||
| 7a78be1 | I had a lot of things I wanted to do... I want to be a teacher...I also want to be an astronaut...and also make my own cake shop...I want to go to the sweets bakery and say "I want one of everything", ohhhh I wish I could live life five times over...Then I'd be born in five different places, and I'd stuff myself with different food from around the world...I'd live five different lives with five different occupations...and then, for those fi.. | Tite Kubo | ||
| 07b04fc | I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 3e5f066 | When in doubt," the mage Numair Salmalin had taught the pages, "Shoot the wizard." | wizards | Tamora Pierce | |
| 1386834 | These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins?" | kol twins | tamora pierce | |
| 376f11c | The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat. | marketing food | Michael Pollan | |
| 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.. | terry-pratchett gaspode pratchett wolves werewolves | Terry Pratchett | |
| b0d49c9 | The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. | metaphor humor recollection memory | 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 |