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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 723073f | But I'm just telling you right now. The lucky ones are the ones who don't come back. You hear me? | Amy Harmon | ||
| f32f4dc | Do you stand naked in front of the mirror and flex every night? I mean, really, at least go into the adult film industry. At least it won't go completely to waste. | Amy Harmon | ||
| a780c2b | Those are my five greats for Georgia today. Those were my five greats yesterday and they will be tomorrow and the next day, until your kisses get old. Then I'll have to think of something else. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 4a2ad1a | News flash, Fern Taylor!" Ambrose barked, slamming his hand against the dashboard, making Fern jump. "Everything has changed! You are beautiful, I am hideous, you don't need me anymore, but I sure as hell need you!" "You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love," Fern snapped. "I didn't just l-love you because you were beautiful!" She'd said the L word, right out loud, though she'd tripped over it." | Amy Harmon | ||
| 6f4db6e | My brain might be cracked, but it's not just my brain. The sky is cracked too, and I can sometimes see what's on the other side. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 30ad77b | I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever.... | bonnie clyde contemporary favorite favorite-books forever infinity letgo lines love mustread one pain quotes romance stay | Amy Harmon | |
| d203170 | Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being "cool." Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be "cool." Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?" | genuineness hip image | Bill Watterson | |
| c3f6b0f | The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin) | Bill Watterson | ||
| b4623c4 | and there, in the background, the sky's sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words 'I am' dissolved into blue peace. He said it. 'The ocean. | David Mitchell | ||
| 629ba37 | Here's the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief. | love spared truth | David Mitchell | |
| d7b7cec | The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low. | mind | David Mitchell | |
| 47f583e | Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction | David Mitchell | ||
| 60c7881 | Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Thi.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7c63dd8 | Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8749343 | The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me. | David Mitchell | ||
| c87693b | How do you smuggle daydreams into reality? | David Mitchell | ||
| c155eba | You are the evil scientist of your desires. - Ignacio Rivera | sexuality | Tristan Taormino | |
| d692344 | But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything." | enthusiasm humor | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 9ff65dd | What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d34d391 | Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 7a974b1 | Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not. | humor | Lloyd Alexander | |
| bd6d892 | He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking..." | hope | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 12480d5 | she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns her head. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 92d8f41 | Perhaps in the margins of darkness, I could create a son who is not missing; who lives beyond even my own imagination and invention; whose lusts, stupidities, and strengths carry him farther than even he or I can anticipate; who sees the world for what it is; and consequently bears the burden of everyone's tomorrow with unprecedented wisdom and honor because he is one of the very few who has successfully interrogated his own nature. His shi.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| dbb92a8 | Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with. | families family | Silas House | |
| d8ca4ed | I learn more from books than from people | William Sleator | ||
| fc3be32 | There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them. | Connie Willis | ||
| 5a923de | But if she'd come then, she would never have properly appreciated it. She'd have seen the happy crowds and the Union Jacks and the bonfires, but she'd have no idea of what it meant to see the lights on after years of navigating in the dark, what it meant to look up at an approaching plane without fear, to hear church bells after years of air-raid sirens. She'd have had no idea of the years of rationing and shabby clothes and fear which lay .. | Connie Willis | ||
| 5c94a06 | There is always room for at least two truths. | Colum McCann | ||
| 17db2f0 | Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair. | race | Jonathan Kozol | |
| ee973c0 | Whoa, got it bad for your cousin's girl already, huh? You gonna try to get with that?" I eyed Cassi in Ty's arms and shook my head as I brought my beer up to take another long drink. "Nope." Yes, yes, I am." | Molly McAdams | ||
| f643ebd | The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives. | Arthur Nersesian | ||
| c3ff11d | An idyllic childhood is probably illusion. | Martha Grimes | ||
| 3ef42f4 | 'aHyanan ytb`u swa lHaZ 'fDalu HaZ fy l`lm" .." | Danielle Steel | ||
| 303a5e8 | I'm still afraid of being totally honest. I'm more afraid of this than dying. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| a4a92c1 | I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet. | Henry Miller | ||
| e547368 | Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 62132ec | Freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death. | Erich Fromm | ||
| a1e2a3b | I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums." | lunatic | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 35c8f2f | Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. | thrift waste | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 7fb76e2 | Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even if you only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature a name of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a.. | evolution | G.K. Chesterton | |
| ba4470c | It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| af5af88 | We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight. | Isaac Bashevis Singer | ||
| 4cefc6f | It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief. | growing-up souls | Philip Pullman |