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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c6c63e9 | She drew in a shuddering breath. "I love you." And let it out. "God." The emotion that swept through him was like a summer storm, quick, violent, then clean. Swamped with it, he rested his brow on hers. "You didn't choke on it." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 4e7b42e | Have McNab take the edge if you need one. Can he handle bad cop?" "He does it really well during personal role-playing games when I'm the reluctant witness." | eve-dallas peabody | J.D. Robb | |
| cdf4560 | The simple and most complex answer is love. | J. D. Robb | ||
| 41e726f | She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9f0c67f | Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it... | Jeff Smith | ||
| 7c542bf | She may have your heart, but that's not the reason I love her," I say. "It's not just a physical connection. It's something deeper. You may be my Blood Mate, but she's my Soul Mate. That's just as powerful." | Elizabeth Richards | ||
| f11df76 | His heart still hammered away but he was strangely relieved. "Stop saying that, Sarah. You have nothing to be sorry about. This is my fault and intend on fixing it. But I won't let you back out now, sweetheart. I can't. It may not be too late for you but there's no turning back for me." ~Angel~ Forever Mine" | moreno-brothers | Elizabeth Reyes | |
| 6c45d91 | Kiaran and I have little connection beyond our names. We battle, bleed and hunt together almost every night. He teaches me how to slaughter in the most effective, brutal ways possible. But I've never told Kiaran why I hunt, and he has never told me why he kills his own kind. This is our ritual, our dance. The only one that matters. | Elizabeth May | ||
| 7208957 | If I'm ever unsure as to the correct course of action, I'll think, "What would a ferret do?" or, "How would a salamander respond to this situation?" Invariably, I find the right answer." | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 67e6b75 | Forever is the most dizzying word in the English language. The idea of staying in one place forever was like standing at the border of a foreign country, peering over the fence and trying to imagine what life might be like on the other side, and life on the other side was frankly unimaginable. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 642f4cd | It was in America that horses first roamed. A million years before the birth of man, they grazed the vast plains of wiry grass and crossed to other continents over bridges of rock soon severed by retreating ice. They first knew man as the hunted knows the hunter, for long before he saw them as a means to killing other beasts, man killed them for their meat. Paintings on the walls of caves showed how. Lions and bears would turn and fight and.. | Nicholas Evans | ||
| 4816d17 | nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room. | death death-of-a-loved-one dying | Fannie Flagg | |
| 63e7931 | Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 19863d8 | Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| a8adb14 | This is the trouble with meeting people in real life: They don't come with profiles attached. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 91e7a83 | I've confromted enough assholes in my time. They never realize they're assholes. Not once. Whatever you say. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 2b8315b | Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know? | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 850d1fd | Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 7a8e5e4 | Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby." | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 450ecb7 | So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I'll be able to live in it. Really, it's an investment. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 688e19d | If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 512aa40 | All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 3d953ea | But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge. | tragedy | Margaret Atwood | |
| 82f0cd9 | I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that's how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| ba8df8e | the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time. | John O'Donohue | ||
| eddfe56 | If you're scared, tell me. If you need to cry and scream, then do it. And you sure as hell don't walk away from us because you think it would be better for me. Here's the reality, Echo: I want to be your side. If you want to go the mall stark naked so you can show the world your scars, then let me hold your hand. If you want to see your mom, then tell me that, too. I may not always understand, but damn, baby, I'll try. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 95d0ade | You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me." Incredulous, she said, "That's it? 'Don't argue with me' is your explanation as to why I shouldn't argue with you?" | Julie Garwood | ||
| b292821 | For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him. | Julie Garwood | ||
| c22ee87 | Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes. | luck wisdom | Robert Jordan | |
| 3f358e2 | It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid. | stupidity | Robert Jordan | |
| edd1340 | p.s. In case you don't know what "Do what needs to be done" means, it means that I want you to go bloody slaughter as many of the Sharan channelers as you can. I'll bet you a full Tar Valon mark-it's only been shaved on the sides a little-that you can't kill twenty.-MC missive from Mat to Galad" -- | Robert Jordan | ||
| c334243 | God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| b0d0ca1 | I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive. | survive | Christine Feehan | |
| 504b678 | I find myself wondering how many other memories are hidden from me in the recesses of my own brain; indeed my own brain will seem to be the last great terra incognita, and I will be filled with wonder at the prospect of some day discovering new worlds there. Imagine the lost continent of Atlantis and all the submerged islands of childhood right there waiting to be found. The inner space we have never adequately explored. The worlds within w.. | Erica Jong | ||
| 8f7fc4f | Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. | religions systems | Erica Jong | |
| 2027563 | Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt. | relationships women | Caitlin Moran | |
| 703b98d | The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 2fd169f | The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is. | C.G. Jung | ||
| 474e624 | The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination- an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what constitutes happiness and fulfilment. To gain this philosophical space, it is necessary to concede some physical space for survival of those who may look like the kee.. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 2acec2b | Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply. 'Women bear the brunt of poverty. What choices does a woman have in life, especially in times of misery? She can marry or live with a man. She can bear children and bring them up, and be abused by her man. Have you read Buchi Emecheta of Nigeria, Joys of Motherhood? Tsitsi Dangarembga of Zimbabwe, say, Nervous Cond.. | arundhati-roy buchi-emecheta feminism gender-equality indian-literature meena-alexander miriama-ba novels poverty suffering susie-tharu tsitsi-dangarembga women women-s-fiction women-writers | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | |
| 6ecb4bb | Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time. | Jonathan Lethem | ||
| 1426f87 | And now such a warm commotion, such busy love. | Alice Munro | ||
| 9fa683e | He remembered the pride-filled glow that had swamped Gyoko's face and he wondered again at the bewildering gullibility of people. How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces and they were on their knees slitting.. | James Clavell | ||
| 2a17f39 | If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you. | Curtis Sittenfeld |