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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b4a80c9 | This is Waldo Butters, and his geek penis is longer and harder than any of ours put together. | humour | Jim Butcher | |
| 7c967c3 | He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery. | Holly Black | ||
| cf977f3 | There's something easy about the idea that vampirism is some kind of disease- then they can't help it if they attack us, that they commit murders and atrocities, that they can only control themselves sometimes. They're sick; its not their fault. And there's something even easier about the idea of demonic invasion, something forcing our loved ones to do all manner of terrible things. Still not their fault, only now we can destroy them. But t.. | Holly Black | ||
| 311e5fc | If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone." -- | dark life | Holly Black | |
| b32a64c | For a moment, there is silence between us. He takes a step toward me. "The other night--" I cut him off. "I did it for the same reason that you did. To get it out of my system." "And is it?" he asks. "Out of your system?" I look him in the face and lie. "Yes." If he touches me, if he even takes another step toward me, my deceit will be exposed. I don't think I can keep the longing off my face. Instead, to my relief, he gives a thin-lipped n.. | longing sex | Holly Black | |
| b99c19f | Sharpen your heart. | dark elfham faerie fantasy fiction hollow-hall jude prince-cardan young-adult | Holly Black | |
| 45bb34d | I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adversary of him, but maybe I haven't been fighting Cardan at all. Maybe I've been fighting my own shadow. | Holly Black | ||
| 271ab51 | That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting. | Holly Black | ||
| 82f2ba7 | Why am I the way I am?" His tone makes it clear he's proposing something I might suggest he ask, not really wondering about it. "There are no real answers, Jude. Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie." | creulty powerful powerless prince | Holly Black | |
| 783a574 | Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it's a good technique. | Holly Black | ||
| 84f9de2 | The funny thing about good people--people like Daneca--is that they really honestly don't get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she's accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just l.. | Holly Black | ||
| fc5787d | O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!" | inspiration new-day | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 21c03be | In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5,6 | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 86cc599 | You show you care, you die. You show you fear, you die. You show nothing, maybe you live. | fear-of-death fearlessness | Patricia McCormick | |
| fcceca9 | Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love. | falling love madness mental-illness sudden | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 6227517 | painfully curious...about how it feels to fall. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| e223641 | However, I can't be happy. I feel I can't have that experience, I can't assume I will have that experience. I'm free but feeling lonely and disheartened. I hope there's happiness out there; besides the future is approaching and waiting for me. In the future, I will be a part of the world. I will finally live my life. | momiji-sohma natsuki-takaya | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 7df83b5 | Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself. | jesus suicide | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 0732bf6 | she gradually became aware of how dumb the damn show was she was watching and she stared at it, wondering how in the hell they could put anything so absurdly infantile and intellectually and esthetically insulting on television, and she started asking herself over and over how they could do it, what kind of nonsense this is, and she continued to stare and shake her head, more and more of her mind being absorbed by the absurdity she was watc.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 7450cea | There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in the sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| c57eb6d | And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into. | Philip Roth | ||
| ae34ea5 | I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface | Philip Roth | ||
| 39fd656 | Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them--because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight! | Philip Roth | ||
| b57a2d3 | And as Lindbergh's election couldn't have made clearer to me, the unfolding of the unforeseen was everything. Turned wrong way round, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as "History," harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic." | Philip Roth | ||
| a5063ec | Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? / Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du NOUVEAU! (rough translation : Into the abyss -- Heaven or Hell, what difference does it make? / To the depths of the Unknown to find the NEW!) | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| acc76eb | Once you take to the habit of deception, every new lie comes that much easier. Though to me it wasn't so much lies as a matter of judicious editing. We all inevitably present a version of ourselves that is a collection of half-truths and exclusions. The way I saw it, the truth was too complicated, whereas the well-chosen lie would put everyone's mind at ease. | half-truths lies lying public-image | Caroline Kettlewell | |
| 1d63110 | Happiness exists I feel it. I cried for my soul, I cried for the world's soul. The world has a beautiful soul. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| b61d32b | What came is gone forever every time | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 57b74be | What is obscenity? And to whom? | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| f708e25 | Sometime I'll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| f065082 | The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book...and leafed through it...I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones." -- | mental-health psychology | Jon Ronson | |
| 5c7b997 | Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the original! The humbling resemblance can only be respected, not truly adored | beauty inspirational love | Faraaz Kazi | |
| 4ba9b2b | In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.* *This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people. | terry-pratchett the-bursar the-truth | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6c35a1a | Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn't trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5d09921 | We cannae just rush in, ye ken." "Point o' order, Big Man. Ye just rush in. We just rush in." "Aye, Big Yan, point well made. But ye gotta know ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in . It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 279e669 | In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3dd088f | Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fae075b | Now he knew: They were real. Who'd make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d1cd6a5 | It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ee9da4f | Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 56781c3 | She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8cf3f1c | He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless. | libraries theft | Terry Pratchett | |
| 94c8b46 | He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided. | swimming | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8b14404 | Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying. | reality | Terry Pratchett |