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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 485d68c | I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| b4c7bad | You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 9595bc6 | At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then" | literary-criticism university | Alison Bechdel | |
| 219ce92 | It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. | homosexuality | Alison Bechdel | |
| 785cf11 | Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls. They sprawled over the sloping arch, each one half way over its neighbour until, held back by the castle ramparts, the innermost of these hovels laid hold on the great walls, .. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 1e2292c | the better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get | Brian Tracy | ||
| 176f6af | My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 1a5605c | I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said. "Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?" "No, I'm just opportunistic." I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5488620 | As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire." | charlaine-harris vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| 775a269 | I've got libraries in my blood. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 5b06517 | Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly | Charlaine Harris | ||
| dbf9556 | Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices. | life mistakes | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 66c4b93 | You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9094055 | Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b859403 | How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| 91f0a4e | Love is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path. | Marianne Williamson | ||
| cad3aae | Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck." | Richard Peck | ||
| 61d3d6a | Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 249b00d | I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline | romance-novels | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 823449c | Evie," he whispered, "you're so warm, so lovely...oh, hell. I've got two months, thirteen days and six hours before I can take you to my bed. Little she-devil. This is going to be the death of me." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| fd514d9 | Yes, but you need to learn your maths." "I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything." | hundred math | Lisa Kleypas | |
| ed239b4 | At first I wasn't all that tempted by him, but then he killed the spider. Which was a huge point in his favor." "Absolutely. I love men who kill bugs." "And then when I was freaking out and couldn't breathe, he was so...gentle." Zoe sighed and colored, remembering. "He was holding me, and talking to me in that voice...you know, sort of low and rough around the edges..." "All the Nolans sound like that," Justine said reflectively. "Like t.. | magic romance love | Lisa Kleypas | |
| d10f20c | Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 0e6d127 | no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love every day for the rest of my life. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| fc73df0 | Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones" | simile texans sugar-daddy | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 5c44b3a | It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. | love soul | Lisa Kleypas | |
| dc55df9 | He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| da8d901 | Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara's answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only san.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 0771aed | Here in St. Cloud's," Dr. Larch wrote, " I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God - we should seize those moments. There won't be may" | John Irving | ||
| ee24cd6 | I think about you more and more, but I don't waste my time - or yours - thinking about who you were before I knew you. | John Irving | ||
| 0f6b1f3 | Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently. | John Irving | ||
| da1d28e | Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action | sports | John Irving | |
| 3e94ea9 | but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. | John Irving | ||
| 1954b28 | I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 95fc348 | I lied. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 4d2cc57 | Because you do not believe?" "Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 0e20e2a | For every victory there is a price. | kushiel-s-dart | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 006c170 | Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you're sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart's a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces all at once?" "Mm-hmm." He finished his ale. "That would be love." -- | love imriel-no-montreve joscelin-verreuil | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 989baf2 | To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it | taint treachery | Jacqueline Carey | |
| a151d25 | Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 87f4951 | Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 68cf767 | It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| fc0ed57 | How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at each childish ailment, and the children clung to their parents with love and adoration; a few years passed, the children grew up, and persons not of their kin were more important to their happiness than father or mother. Indifference displaced the blind and instinctive love of the past. Their m.. | maugham parents | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 05ced26 | But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design. | unhappiness pain suffering life | W. Somerset Maugham |