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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6727739 | Don't | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4533770 | Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe." -- | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 59d99c8 | If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 14235f3 | You needed at least three witches for a coven. Two witches was just an argument. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 66abbf3 | Nothing's louder than the end of a song that's always been there. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 21f92ee | No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didn't own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops. | comedy discworld fantasy | Terry Pratchett | |
| ffd53b9 | Everything is a test. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4c2768f | Character assassination. What a wonderful idea. Ordinary assassination only works once, but this one works every day. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 37d84f8 | Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*. * Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survi.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 38bee3e | Every organization needs at least one person who knows what's going on, and why it's happening, and who's doing it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2b66a3d | Welcome to the world," he said wearily. "You get used to it after a while." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 837220a | It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines. | weather | Terry Pratchett | |
| adefd6f | A young man of godlilke proportions* was standing in the doorway. * The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously. | thud | Terry Pratchett | |
| bad2b3c | It's a bad case o' the thinkin' he's caught, missus. When a man starts messin' wi' the readin' and the writin' then he'll come doon with a dose o' the thinkin' soon enough. I'll fetch some o' the lads and we'll hold his heid under water until he stops doin' it, 'tis the only cure. It can kill a man, the thinkin'. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a25ab6e | ALWAYS REMEMBER that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 317ec68 | Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin. Any horse that was grinning was planning something. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5d83917 | A witch sees through things and around things. A witch sees farther than most, a witch sees things from the other side. A witch knows where she is, who she is and when she is ... | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3eb88d0 | And then there was the headless horseman!" said Tiffany. "He had no head!" "Well, that is the major job qualification," said the toad." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8f5305d | The was written by a Klatchian necromancer known to the world as Achmed the Mad, although he preferred to be called Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches. It is said that the book was written in one day after Achmed drank too much of the strange thick Klatchian coffee which doesn't just sober you up, but takes you through sobriety and , so that you glimpse the real universe beyond the clouds of warm self-delusion that sapient life usuall.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7dd10a0 | Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students. | humor students university | Terry Pratchett | |
| 232bcb6 | Plants on the disc, while including the categories known commonly as annuals, which were sown this year to come up later this year, biennials, sown this year to grow next year, and perennials, sown this year to grow until further notice, also included a few rare re-annuals which, because of an unusual four-dimensional twist in their genes, could be planted this year to come up last year. The vul nut vine was particularly exceptional in that.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f6302bb | Dear daughter, I won't try to call my feeling for Arty love. Call it focus. My focus on Art was an ailment, noncommunicable, and, even to me all these years later, incomprehensible. Now I despise myself. But even so I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthq.. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 79ce0a8 | Mama, Elli bol'she net. Ifi izmenilas'. Vse izmenilos'. Eto varen'e iz ezheviki, gotovka obedov na vsiu sem'iu, kotoraia davno uzhe ne sobiraetsia za odnim stolom, torty na dni rozhdeniia Arti... Zachem eto, mama? Perestan' pritvoriat'sia. Sem'i bol'she net. Ona udarila menia lozhkoi. Sil'no, s razmakhu - priamo po ukhu. Fioletovo-chernyi sok zabryzgal ves' stol. Mama v uzhase ustavilas' na menia. Ia tozhe ustavilas' na nee, otkryv rot. Pot.. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 3d62c64 | And me all the while having to pee--coughing into the mike when my throat was tired and raw--eyes stinging and lips and chin crumpling in grief at his anger. The sweet tinkle of Electra on the bass and Iphy on the treble with Mama's voice counting, "One and two and ..." as the twins had their piano lesson inside the trailer. The gurgle and hum of the pumps that filtered my brother Arty's "Aqua Boy" tank. And the dim round moon of baby Fortu.. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| b65dd14 | Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can als.. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 8cf8316 | How proud I am, dancing in the air full of eyes rubbing at me uncovered, unable to look away because of what I am. Those poor hop toads behind me are silent. I've conquered them. They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. (20) | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 931603c | We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 0328d1f | I almost forgot," said Red. His voice sounded very strange, as if from a long, long distance. He reached into his pocket. "I have something for you." He put it into my hand. A round, shiny, perfect apple, green as new grass with a faint blush of rosy pink. And now his eyes had changed so that I saw what lay there, hidden deep, so deep only the bravest or most foolhardy would seek to find it. He has always understood me better, without words.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 24d9633 | More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 0aeb6a1 | I cannot say what it was that made me take that one step forward. Maybe it was the hesitation in his voice. I knew what it cost him to let himself speak thus. Maybe it was the memory of how he had looked as he slept. I just knew, overwhelmingly, that if I did not touch him I would shatter in pieces. , cried the wind. . I shut my eyes and moved toward him, and my arms went around his waist, and I rested my head against his chest and let my.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| d1eda52 | That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| be4eed5 | Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| f0aac5b | Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 2b5035f | I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else. | difficulty illness struggle | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 4394c56 | I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt" | Susan Mallery | ||
| ed9b019 | Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pinin.. | love | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 8608979 | A man could get used to anything if he had to. | Richard Matheson | ||
| f2f408f | If you stop trying to make yourself more than you are, out of fear that you are less than you are, whoever you really are will be a lot lighter and happier and easier to live with, too. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 923dacf | Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love. | Lan Samantha Chang | ||
| e1502ca | People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 859670e | In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy. | heat sense-of-self temperature weather | Ryū Murakami | |
| 8b51fdf | Adama was loyal--not to me, mind you. He was a believer, but it wasn't me he believed in. He believed in something that was part of the very air we breathed in the late sixties, and he was loyal to that something. It wouldn't be easy to explain what that something was. Whatever it was, though, it made us free. It saved us from being bound to a single set of values. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 1e9510f | Every time he studied this instrument, with its slender, gleaming steel rod that tapered down to such needle-like sharpness, he wondered why it was necessary to have things like this in the world. If it were truly only for chopping ice, you'd think a completely different design might do. The people who produce and sell things like this don't understand, he thought. They don't realize that some of us break out in a cold sweat at just a glimp.. | horror japanese-literature psychological | Ryū Murakami | |
| 0a5ff4b | It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts. | Gregory David Roberts |