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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aa0d464 | You should never relax your hold." Then he flipped me off his shoulder. I hit the mat with a loud grunt. "Aw, did you just fall?" "No." I rolled onto my back, wincing. "I attacked the floor." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c49210a | His lips parted. "Couldn't fool you for that long, I guess." I squeezed my eyes shut, but a tear wiggled its way free, gliding down my cheek. "Don't cry." He caught the tear with his finger as he pressed his forehead against mine. "Please. I hate when you cry because of me." "I'm sorry. I don't want to be all weepy." I wiped at my cheeks, feeling foolish. "It's just that...I never did know." Aiden clasped the sides of my face, pressing a ge.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| adc127f | My past was a part of me and it molded who I was today, but it was not the sum of who I was to become. It did not control me. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2976948 | Huh. Perhaps I was a bit too much of a dick the first two times I talked to her. Good thing she didn't know I briefly considered burning her house down. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f567881 | You want to know what Im going to do? Daemons entire body tensed under my hand. You know where your head and ass are? Well, they're about to become well acquainted with each other | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fdc421f | Hey kitten, I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6c24856 | I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| cda1256 | Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!) | wisdom | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 5c4e717 | I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not. | insanity sanity short-story | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| ec958ef | show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay. | Max Brooks | ||
| 1cbbd1e | please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna." | Darren Shan | ||
| c83ba56 | The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. | Darren Shan | ||
| a19c1d8 | Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write." | Darren Shan | ||
| 4c88bcb | I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears. | hopelessness tears | David Rakoff | |
| cc1e663 | then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you... | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 0b11c1a | At least this time, with this murder, she knew he had an alibi. At the time Cicely Towers was having her throat slashed, Roarke had been fucking the hell out of the investigating officer. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 409c758 | Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 45dfc35 | I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen." "Oh! My desk. I could've sat at my desk. I could've sat at your desk." "No." "It's a vid set." "Even then, no." -- | J.D. Robb | ||
| 5a0aa25 | The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold. | eve-dallas | J.D. Robb | |
| efb2051 | He loved you so much that when you died, he might as well have died with you. | derrick kiaran | Elizabeth May | |
| cdbc994 | One day, you'll tell people the story of the faery king and the human girl. And how he watched from afar as she lived out twenty thousand human days. And if she listened closely during winter, when the wind was cold and the nights were longest, she could hear him whisper that he cherished her so much he was willing to give her the world. | kiaran | Elizabeth May | |
| 3b305d0 | I repent nothing. A line remembered from the fog of the Internet. I am heartless, she thinks, but she knows even through her guilt that this isn't true. She knows there are traps everywhere that can make her cry, she knows the way she dies a little every time someone asks her for change and she doesn't give it to them means that she's too soft for this world or perhaps just for this city, she feels so small here. There are tears in her eyes.. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| d00d167 | I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot. | humor | Marian Keyes | |
| 80d1a61 | smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 82b3762 | It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| c5d0191 | I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 3b957ae | I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 833d8c8 | If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for. | Nuala O'Faolain | ||
| 949a6d9 | Life is warped. I'm just in sync. | honesty life survival | Margaret Atwood | |
| a074255 | It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| a7df47a | Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy? | fight-or-flight-response | Margaret Atwood | |
| c84607a | I try to congure, to raise my own spirits, from wherever they are. I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won't stay still for me, they move, there's a smile and it's gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper's burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. But.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 625289d | The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others. | journalists media newspapers | Margaret Atwood | |
| b47a2c8 | Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the dead care? | pain | margaret atwood | |
| c50b5f3 | Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for." | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 91d5404 | Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 016e226 | Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. | feminism | Margaret Atwood | |
| 93df9a6 | It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whisper from the past. Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 04cc23c | Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 7784f20 | I really saw clearly, and for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and cuddles and even mollycoddles a child, but because in an interesting and maybe an eerie and unworldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 00eb374 | Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever. | Dodie Smith | ||
| e481418 | I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray. | Dodie Smith | ||
| 2fafb04 | I don't like the thoughts running through your head. I plan on staying here until you look me in the eye and tell me you 're mine. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 2746832 | Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another. | Matthew Pearl |