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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| afd268c | The Luggage said nothing, but louder this time. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4cd7856 | And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 15ea23b | Romancin' is verra important, ye ken. Basically it's a way the boy can get close to the girl wi'oot her attackin' him and scratchin' his eyes oot. | romance | Terry Pratchett | |
| c982008 | It pays to advertise," Nanny agreed. "This is Greebo. Between you and me, he's a fiend from hell." "Well, he's a cat," said Mrs. Gogol, generously. "It's only to be expected." -- | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 51aab4f | The fastest way to travel is to be there already. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c329fae | Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he'd never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears. | discworld humour sweets tiffany-aching | Terry Pratchett | |
| d2ad285 | You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 72a3fbf | What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man." | opera punctuation | Terry Pratchett | |
| 17b9330 | the top head would have controlled everything and made his poor little butt-brother miserable. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| b9dfb81 | It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 369364f | There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity. These are frequently artists and performers, adventurers and wide-life devotees. Then there are those who feel their own.. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| e8bd1a4 | What's bred in the bones, when you have bones, comes through. And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 44d71ee | Nothing comes without a price. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| e7f89da | Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| ad4b29e | Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine. | Frank Warren | ||
| 6ea550a | The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in .. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| b360455 | Three things never trust in- The maiden sworn as pure, The vows a king has given, And an ambush that is sure. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 73d9d30 | CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 3d88ecc | Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 478fd1d | I belong where you belong | Susan Mallery | ||
| 45bcb6a | But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician? Is he worse than the manufacturer who set up belated foundations with the money he made by handing bombs an.. | horror norms politics prejudice society vampire | Richard Matheson | |
| 4238997 | The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 328f247 | No one was enchanted beyond saving in the songs. The hero always saved them. There was no ugly moment in a dark cellar where the countess wept and cried out protest while three wizards put the count to death, and then made court politics out of it. | Naomi Novik | ||
| b1c845e | The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, s.. | humourous-situations | Naomi Novik | |
| ad7c490 | And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it. | fight friends | Naomi Novik | |
| 1ea80b4 | She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales. | wales welsh | Susanna Clarke | |
| 1b47d0f | I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 2dd0d97 | Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 9b514b1 | For the world did not change, this violence had always existed and would never be eradicated, men would die under the boot and fists and horror of other men until the end of time, and all human history was a history of violence. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 73220ad | No one makes love like they make a wall or a house. They catch it like a cold. It makes them miserable and then it passes, and pretending otherwise is the road to hell. | Richard Flanagan | ||
| 826d7ea | I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order. | poets | Mary Karr | |
| 459a852 | When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone. | japanese japanese-literature | Ryū Murakami | |
| 4dbb91f | The young people nowadays - men and women, amateurs and pros - generally fall into one of two categories: either they don't know what it is that's most important to them, or they know but don't have the power to go after it. But this girl's different. She knows what's most important to her and she knows how to get it, but she doesn't let on what it is. I'm pretty sure it's not money, or success, or a normal happy life, or a strong man, or s.. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 4010bef | And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil. | ignorance | Ryū Murakami | |
| 27001ef | Somehow: Molly. He heard her in the entryway. Mol, Molly, oh boy. When they were first married they used to fight. Say the most insane things. Afterward, sometimes there would be tears. Tears in bed? And then they would - Molly pressing her hot wet face against his hot wet face. They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each other back, and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of .. | George Saunders | ||
| f5b9a1d | For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die. | love test | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 31480a4 | And is it all about the pay?" "Hence the term mercenary." He chucked her under the chin. "Try to keep up, halfling." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9cbcff0 | She weighed no more than a feather as he lifted her, but he teased her, saying, "You weigh more than you look." "You are weaker than you look," she immediately whispered." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 4153ca7 | Nix: We're not leaving without her. So unless you want permanent houseguests of the destructive sort, just hand her over. | immortals-after-dark kresley-cole nix-the-ever-knowing | Kresley Cole | |
| a0da2dc | We'll play tomorrow. Besides, isn't it time for my cup of dinner?" "I am | lothaire regin vampirellie | Kresley Cole | |
| 433f6ea | Now, after my confession, I felt battered, like one of those dolls that always bounces back up when hit. But here's the thing - those silly dolls get hit all the more for it. | Kresley Cole | ||
| b770dd7 | Very well. What do you do as a mercenary?" "I specialize in usurping thrones. They call me the kingmaker." Bragging now?" | Kresley Cole | ||
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| d258ad8 | All right. I'll bite. Here's what I think, with the caveat that I may be wrong. I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good -- we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing .. | Carrie Vaughn |