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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9d69b3f | any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people. | Vince Flynn | ||
| b4dc59a | I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 5f933ee | Instructions for Dad. I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I got lonely? I promise not to scare you. I want to be buried in my butterfly dress, my lilac bra and knicker set and my black zip boots (all still in the suitcase that I packed for Sicily). I also want to wear the bracelet Adam gave me. Don't put make-up on me. It looks stupid .. | dad family feelings love now-is-good tessa-scott | Jenny Downham | |
| 6f056a8 | We don't have intercourse anymore. I'm not complaining, it's my own fault. I lie there beside him and try to send signals to my vagina, but it's like trying to get cable channels on a Tv that doesn't have cable. My mind requests sex, but my vagina is just waiting for the next time it has to pee. It thinks its whole job in life is to pee. | Miranda July | ||
| ace8a8e | And your people tried to kill my best friend, so you'll forgive me if I'm not overly keen on learning the secret handshake." She shook her head sadly. "You should be going on dates and hanging out at the mall. Not wearing stakes on your belt." I shrugged one shoulder. "The mall sucks." | lucy | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 485e86a | The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 60561d4 | A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it | Hesiod | ||
| 1124280 | Beginnings are always ripe with possibilities, for they hold the promise of completion. Through love we imagine a new way of being. You see me as I've never seen myself. You airbrush my imperfections, and I like what you see. With you, and through you, I will become that which I long to be. I will become whole. Being chosen by the one you chose is one of the glories of falling in love. It generates a feeling of intense personal importance. .. | Esther Perel | ||
| a65d6ee | But in the man and his presidency Dowd had seen the tragic flaw. In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, crying "Fake News," the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president: "You're a fucking liar." -- | Bob Woodward | ||
| 53643c5 | Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually..." Shane said. "Shut up" Claire said." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 33deddf | He smiled, and it made his dimples come out. "I think I'm more Batman," he said. "You know, what with all the bats and nighttime activities. And Batman is much cooler." "Geek." His smile widened. "You say the nicest things. Haven't you heard? Geeks run the world now." -BLACK DAWN" | Rachel Caine | ||
| cae8784 | Amelie had on black pants, a black zip-up hoodie, andrunning shoes. So wrong. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 1918555 | You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever. | claire humor morganville shane weapons | Rachel Caine | |
| 94b7e8d | There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences. | Rachel Caine | ||
| ec4a4c1 | This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy." "I would like to think better of us," Claire said, "but yeah. You're right." | election monica morganville sleazy | Rachel Caine | |
| b8d258d | Right. That's the end of the line for you tonight. You're going home, I'm seeing you safe inside, and I'm going home to hide in a closet until this blows over. I suggest you do the same. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 2b2a9c0 | Booyah, I will summon the ninja. Oh, and take a lunch break while we burgle." "You're going, too?" "Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?" "No, I was just thinking you're a little, uh, recognizable, maybe?" Eve batted her thick eyelashes. "Why, thank you, sweetie. That's the nicest insult I've had today, not counting the jock who said he'd date me but he had a restraining order out for necrophelia." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 2a17601 | Getting two-inch silver chain chokers around the neck of a guy, especially Shane, proved to be more of a problem. Shane held the jewelry at arm's length, dangling it like a dead rat. "No way in hell am I caught dead or alive wearing that." | Rachel Caine | ||
| f294ad7 | You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. " Good question. Morbid, isn't it?" "What?" "Dreaming about dead peolpe. Creepy. You ever see a therapist about that?" "I'm not -" Even in dreams, I couldn't win an argument. Even when he was dead." -- | firestorm joanne jonathan | Rachel Caine | |
| de6ab55 | Bite me, Dracula. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 8205b49 | She looked creepy/adorable. | Rachel Caine | ||
| eac8a40 | Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people. | Eugène Ionesco | ||
| e57988c | The people thrown into other cultures go through something of the anguish of the butterfly, whose body must disintegrate and reform more than once in its life cycle. In her novel "Regeneration," Pat Barker writes of a doctor who "knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half cater.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 70b9772 | I don't know how these couples do it, spend hours each night tucking their kids in, reading them books about misguided kittens or seals who wear uniforms, and then reread them if the child so orders. In my house, our parents put us to bed with two simple words: "Shut up." That was always the last thing we heard before our lights were turned off. Our artwork did not hang on the refrigerator or anywhere near it, because our parents recognized.. | David Sedaris | ||
| 2ee3542 | It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment. | David Sedaris | ||
| c140c18 | He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples." He nice, the Jesus." | religion | David Sedaris | |
| 164485c | You look concerned." "Just that if you've started another war, I'd like a heads-up is all." "The level of confidence you have in my diplomatic skills is overwhelming." "What diplomatic skills?" | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 4ec0c37 | It's not that we don't trust you," Royce said as Hadrian prepared the bow. "It's just that we've learned over the years that honor among nobles is usually inversely proportionate to their rank. As a result, we prefer to rely on more concrete methods for motivations--such as self-preservation. You already know we don't want you dead, but if you have ever been riding full tilt and had a horse buckle under you, you understand that death is alw.. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 8340068 | I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings." | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| 829cb93 | The neurons that do expire are the ones that made imitation possible. When you are capable of skillful imitation, the sweep of choices before you is too large; but when your brain loses its spare capacity, and along with it some agility, some joy in winging it, and the ambition to do things that don't suit it, then you finally have to settle down to do well the few things that your brain really can do well--the rest no longer seems pressing.. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 25fc03e | The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon. | Paul Theroux | ||
| f38c8f6 | You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back | gone home travel | Paul Theroux | |
| 0373b66 | The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 000d0db | The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a girl and we necked all the way to Indianapolis. She was nearsighted. When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter. She bought my meals; my sandwiches were all gone. In exchange I told her long stories. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| aa94083 | Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 44d3143 | Tu as tout a apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifference, la patience, le silence. Tu dois te deshabituer de tout: d'aller a la rencontre de ceux que si longtemps tu as cotoyes, de prendre tes repas, tes cafes a la place que chaque jour d'autres ont retenue pour toi, ont parfois defendue pour toi, de trainer dans la complicite fade des amities qui n'en finissent pas de se survivre, dans la rancoeur opportuniste et l.. | learning solitude | Georges Perec | |
| 209a4fa | But responsibility hardens the heart. It must. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 3e5f7e4 | Our eyes met like a car crash, colliding and breaking away. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 2543d2b | Please let it be known that from this day forward my working title for the business is now 'Queen of the Fuck Palace! | T.J. Klune | ||
| a0ed198 | I don't have time for all the relations and courting and wooing bullshit," I said. "I'm a wizard. I have quests." "Uh, you're an apprentice," Gary said. "And you're sent on errands." | sam | T.J. Klune | |
| f6aafad | You okay, Sam?" "Ha-ha, why wouldn't I be? Everything is peachy! I'm okay. I'm better than okay." "Okay. I only ask because you haven't stopped staring at me for the last four hours." "You lie with all your lies!" | sam | T.J. Klune | |
| ab88786 | Just because I don't deserve her doesn't mean I won't fight to keep her. | love | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 3f464fd | Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!" | you-suck | Christopher Moore | |
| 3b917f7 | It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted. 'Oh, yeah, you guys are the Mae Wests of the nerd world.' We're action nerds,' Nate said. 'Adventure nerds. Nerds of romance. | Christopher Moore |