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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ef0e49b | This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. | fantasy-books jared-wheat fantasy-fiction | 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 | ||
| 458e2c0 | I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 3ed558f | You were challenged beyond the bounds of what could be done, and found a path to make it true. | Naomi Novik | ||
| ae773cc | Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface... | charles stross | ||
| a72a512 | It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager. | tribute paraphrased | Charles Stross | |
| 55f2dec | Some time later there was a knock at his door. He was surprised to find it was now evening and the room was quite dark. The knock sounded again. The landlord was at the door. The landlord began to talk, but Strange could not understand him. This was because the man had a pineapple in his mouth. How he had managed to cram the whole thing in there, Strange could not imagine. Green, spiky leaves emerged slowly out of his mouth and then were su.. | humor pineapple | Susanna Clarke | |
| 00bcd5f | The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams. | simile screams | Susanna Clarke | |
| 7eaba24 | He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It would take him a lifetime to appreciate what an achievement that was. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| e9d49fd | And you snap out of it. Or are snapped out of it. Never again will you lay a hand against yourself, not as long as there are plums to eat and somebody--anybody--who gives enough of a damn to haul them to you. So long as you bear the least nibblet of love for any other creature in this dark world, though in love portions are never stingy. There are no smidgens on pinches, only rolling abundance. That's how you acquire the resolution for surv.. | Mary Karr | ||
| 9db86ad | The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water. | Mary Karr | ||
| d998b68 | Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off. | poetry | Mary Karr | |
| adad215 | No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived. | Alistair MacLeod | ||
| d7e8036 | It seemed like a mistake. And mistakes ought to be rectified, only this one couldn't be. Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. I had to find an explanation other than the real one, which was that we were no more immune to misfortune than anybody else, and the idea that kept recurring to me...was that I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and co.. | William Maxwell | ||
| 3e4653f | And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 5d712c6 | Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d87c5bb | They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6b65de8 | Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images. | Alan Lightman | ||
| e8fe8f5 | Wait!" Conrad said. "Did someone... one of my enemies set this fire?" Nix turned back with a grin. "Unless you'd pissed off some wirring-hungry nutrias, then I'm going with no." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 551f5eb | Your time's running out, Valkyrie." Fegley gave another wallop before he squeaked off. Regin narrowed her eyes, watching him till he was out of sight. "One day I'm going to make that little piggy cry all the way home." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 6fa28d0 | What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim? | paranormal-romance-series | Kresley Cole | |
| 4456bd3 | Laissez les bon temps roulez. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 7bdca4b | You are unnerving the hell out of me, Valkyrie." "oh" she frowned, petting her bat fitfully " I must have misread the future for the past." she shrugged. "It happens." | nix-the-ever-knowing | Kresley Cole | |
| 7184637 | She looked as if she were a vampire about to check the time--with a sundial. | Kresley Cole | ||
| f961d14 | The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 54509b0 | But who was more tragic, or who was more damned--the man who knew it, or the man who did not? | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8db6499 | Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and the fearful...Now the belief in God may turn out at the last trump to be a mistake. Meantime, let us be quite clear, it is not merely the comfort of the simple--though it is that too, much to its glory--it is a formidable intellectual position with which most of the first-class minds of the human race, century in.. | faith | Herman Wouk |