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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9508dfa | The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear. | humor | Christopher Moore | |
| 8323ec4 | Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word. | Christopher Moore | ||
| f93ae39 | We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again. | Christopher Moore | ||
| bfa0092 | Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after. | happily-ever-after love | Arthur Phillips | |
| 680cb80 | The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin. | christian-behavior | John F. MacArthur Jr. | |
| 6fd5474 | he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 8e4b288 | Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake. | love mistakes | Elizabeth Peters | |
| 09f575e | Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2d75c82 | Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight. | lust | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| d3a88ac | What had my scary thought been? That Olaf was sincere. In some crazy,pathological way, he like-liked me. As in boyfriend-liked me. Not just for fucking or slaughter, but maybe, just maybe, he actually wanted to date me like one human being to another. He seemed to have no clue how to interact with a woman in a way that wasn't terrifying, but he was trying. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, he was trying. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 727a0fc | It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| dd94a72 | Knock your bad self out. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4380af6 | Money doesn't spend in hell, Wilkes. The devil deals in a different coin. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 45c8b61 | Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism. Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by th.. | Sam Harris | ||
| bb0d68f | The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 9ed4cad | There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that's all! | Jules Verne | ||
| c535f7f | How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement? | Don DeLillo | ||
| 42c6fb1 | For most people, there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 9ed2d8b | Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| def1371 | Talent is everything. If you've got talent, nothing else matters. You can screw up your personal life something terrible. So what. If you've got talent, it's there in reserve. Anybody who has talent they know they have it and that's it. It's what makes you what you are. It tells you you're you. Talent is everything; sanity is nothing. I'm convinced of it. I think I had something once. I showed promise, didn't I? But I was too sane. I couldn.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 3e16aa2 | Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory. | Don DeLillo | ||
| a6e28ae | All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 9afa52d | Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we're throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives. | Richard Bach | ||
| 5620318 | Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere" | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| cc75aff | The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered | wry | Dashiell Hammett | |
| 806cdc0 | And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction. | cymoril destiny elric-of-melnibone eternal-champion lies yyrkoon | Michael Moorcock | |
| 75f5cd7 | I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me. | nature-writing | Norman Maclean | |
| 6d350ee | REQUIRED TO TAKE A COMBINATION OF GINKGO AND VIAGRA, SO YOU CAN REMEMBER WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING. | Linda Howard | ||
| e9f805b | If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway. | change don-t my on | Shel Silverstein | |
| df3492b | Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for the idignity you suffered and offer you the head of our enemy as--" "Put that thing down," I said impatiently. "I can't talk to you when you're shaking his head like a damned maraca." | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| efae58a | Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder. | Michelle Sagara West | ||
| 87386ce | We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this," he said, gesturing at the room. "I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 63ea61e | Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard." - Al to Rachel" | Kim Harrison | ||
| ed7c2ab | Okay, you drive," she said. "I'll sit with m head hanging out of the window like a golden retriever." | ivy kim-harrison pale-demon | Kim Harrison | |
| e654fc8 | Jenks squinted at me, and when Trent nodded, the pixy gestured sourly to Bis to get on with it. A four inch man ruled us all. | Kim Harrison | ||
| a27b6df | Rache! Glad you're... Tink loves a duck!" he said, wings clattering. "It stinks of sex in here. God, woman. I leave you alone for one night, and you're humping the ghost." - Jenks to Rachel" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 8718c3b | Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked. | christ christianity heaven hell jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock meeting-jesus philosophy shock spirituality theology | peter kreeft | |
| 369bd6c | The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 6bb9d02 | You do realize, that if you actually dated her, saw her on a regular basis, lived with her, that she would find some fault with you, right? That she would find some things about you that drove her crazy. That she'd make demands of you that you wouldn't like. That she'd get angry at you? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 2ab7051 | She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone. | black-heart evil gone grief grieving heartless malicious nothing release sadist sadistic self-obsessed self-obsession stoic unimportant | Gillian Flynn | |
| b084eea | I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire. Cooking. All those souffles, all that creme caramel, all those daubes and albondigas and gumbos. Clean sheets, stacks of clean towels, hurricane lamps for storms, enough water and food to see us through whatever geological event came our way. were the words that came to mind then. These fragments mattered t.. | everyday-life meaning routine sacred | Joan Didion | |
| 0670892 | Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young. | Paul Auster | ||
| da1108a | I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go on writing the book. It was like living in a padded cell, but of all the lives I could have lived at that moment, it was the only one that made sense to me. I wasn't capable of being in the world, and I knew that if I tried to go back into it before I was ready, I would be crushed. | writing-process | Paul Auster | |
| 6c3b7ba | At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has suffered in silence for so long, this good woman who refuse to believe she's good, for only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves. | Paul Auster |