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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 70c8968 | I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| d579dbd | If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home. | edward eyes soul | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 58032e9 | I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 054df10 | Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f4ae5d4 | You're making this really hard for me," he said quietly, holding my face in his hands. "So maybe you should give in." "I don't want you to think that's all I want from you." "What else do you want from me?" "Everything," he whispered and brushed his lips against mine." | luke | L.D. Davis | |
| d43824d | This is not (as you have charged) to paint religion with a broad brush. I am very quick to distinguish gradations of bad ideas; some clearly have no consequences at all (or at least not yet); some put civilization itself in peril. The problem with dogmatism, however, is that one can never quite predict how terrible its costs will be. To use one of my favorite examples, consider the Christian dogma that human life begins at the moment of con.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 6dab296 | I still live. | edgar rice burroughs | ||
| 504b362 | Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 8692cb1 | Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty? | superstition | Isaac Asimov | |
| 6b2281f | The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (+-75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 8a54c31 | Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions--not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers? | truth | Isaac Asimov | |
| d0d40d4 | For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem. | magnifico praise | Isaac Asimov | |
| e7fdcfa | It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it. | Jules Verne | ||
| 09c5635 | Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 9d9f87b | Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently. | Don DeLillo | ||
| adbaf8f | Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 907a1b1 | I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 0ee6156 | we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| e8d39ec | Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide. | nostalgia | Mohsin Hamid | |
| a72f234 | You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 267127c | How weightless words are when nothing will do. | words | Philip Levine | |
| a698d50 | If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it. | inspirational mindfulness | Richard Bach | |
| 00635ff | It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling. | love universe | Norman Maclean | |
| 4048dc0 | As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful." | Norman Maclean | ||
| a0023f6 | I, an old man, have written this fire report. Among other things, it was important to me, as an exercise for old age, to enlarge my knowledge and spirit so I could accompany young men whose lives I might have lived on their way to death. I have climbed where they climbed, and in my time I have fought fire and inquired into its nature. In addition, I have lived to get a better understanding of myself and those close to me, many of them now d.. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 6f2d4e5 | Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it." Jaine recited her number and listened to the spewing noise as Shelley Cheez-Whizzed it on her countertop." | Linda Howard | ||
| b7f9fe3 | I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you..." "You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself." | relationships self-confidence | Shel Silverstein | |
| 4fc4ddb | I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 9a3119d | Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus? | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 56eecfe | It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note. | Michelle Sagara | ||
| 9a261d2 | I didn't mean now," he protested. "I'm not going to raise the child. I'm having enough trouble with Rachel." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 12488ae | Puppy presents on the rug. This sucked. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1fec3be | Bye, Skimmer. Thanks for breakfast." "You're welcome." Translation: Choke on it, bitch. " | Kim Harrison | ||
| 700a8cd | I hate it when she tabs a line," Ivy whispered to Kisten in the corner. "You ever see anything freakier than that?" "You should see the face she makes when she--" "Shut up, Kist!" I exclaimed, my eyes flashing open to find him grinning at me." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7b5ecb1 | We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she'd risk her free will for one night of fun."..." | Kim Harrison | ||
| c460a8f | I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself. I don't know why women find that so hard. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 45b32bd | The midwest is full of these types of people. The nice enoughs but with a soul made of plastic. Easy to mold, easy to wipe down. The woman's entire music collection is formed from Pottery Barn compilations. Her books shelves are stocked with coffee table crap The Irish in America, Mizzou Football - A History in Pictures, We Remember 911, something dumb with kittens. I knew I needed a pliant friend for my plan, someone I could load up with a.. | superficiality | Gillian Flynn | |
| 932fd34 | But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 74d39d9 | The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. | writing | Joan Didion | |
| 7ba28a6 | All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom windows, because I had some idea that the gold light would make me feel better, but I did not bother to weight the curtains correctly and all that summer the long panels of transparent golden silk would blow out the windows and get tangled and drenched in afternoon thunderstorms. That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 59fc9f3 | I tend to think that everything counts. In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose. | Paul Auster | ||
| a880802 | As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. | Paul Auster | ||
| 46a7c84 | You're a dreamer, boy," he said. "Your mind is on the moon, and from the looks of things, it's never going to be anywhere else. You have no ambitions, you don't give a damn about money, and you're too much of a philosopher to have any feeling for art. What am I going to do with you? You need someone to look after you, to make sure you have food in your belly and a bit of cash in your pocket. Once I'm gone, you'll be right back where you sta.. | dreamer life moon | Paul Auster | |
| 89e6ed6 | Not to me," I said. Kafka wrote his first story in one night. Stendhal wrote The Charterhouse of Parma in forty-nine days. Melville wrote Moby- Dick in sixteen months. Flaubert spent five years on Madame Bovary. Musil worked for eighteen years on The Man Without Qualities and died before he could finish. Do we care about any of that now?" | Paul Auster |