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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 39851dd | Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one? | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| fc5fc71 | It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 1c4dbd7 | Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 0ad6dc4 | Crying is part of the adventure | bravery cry | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 95222bc | I turned, letting her catch me. And I caught her too, wrapping my arms around her so tight that the space between us became space around us, space above us, but not space inside us. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 829246d | I didn't know if his art was helping. But Moses's pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death. But Moses's pictures dripped with life and reminded us of our loss. | death ironic raw talent truth | Amy Harmon | |
| 7743cc9 | You don't need wings to fly, she chirped. What do you need, Daughter? I asked softly. She looked up at me, her big, black eyes alight with knowledge, and she smiled. Words. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 28ea877 | You can't see a song. You feel a song, you hear a song, you move to it. Just like I can't see you, but I feel you, and I move toward you. When you're with me, I feel like I glimpse a David nobody else knows is there. It's the Song of David, and nobody else can hear it but me. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 439a768 | I have no pride left, Ambrose! Bailey said. No pride. But it was my pride or my life. I had to choose. So do you. You can have your pride and sit here and make cupcakes and get old and fat and nobody will give a damn after a while. Or you can trade that pride in for a little humility and take your life back. | Amy Harmon | ||
| 0429205 | If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me? | Amy Harmon | ||
| 830e10c | MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water? | Bill Watterson | ||
| 86905c0 | W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| a7ca4ce | A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living. | David Mitchell | ||
| f01f7f6 | Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. | David Mitchell | ||
| 1ab1c53 | implores the Ghost of Future Regret. | David Mitchell | ||
| 29c35f1 | Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat." | David Mitchell | ||
| 70356e4 | How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans. | David Mitchell | ||
| e25670e | Good moods're as fragile as eggs...Bad moods're as fragile as bricks. | David Mitchell | ||
| 636a855 | When you've lived in a cage, you can't bear not to run, even if what you're running towards is an illusion. | Robert C. O'Brien | ||
| 613d0ee | Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| ec2e16d | She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| befebe5 | Real life doesn't have many happy endings. Why shouldn't books make up the difference? | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 4b54d3a | If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| da790d7 | The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!" Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?" "Don't try to be clever, young man." She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down!" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 1414cc6 | Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 4564fb7 | Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hit you with that." She pointed to where the darkling had flung Flabbergasted Supernumerary Mathematician, its tip blackened by ichor and fire. "So, go ahead." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 5e7016a | Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more... whoa. What the hell happened to my car? -Melissa | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| eb4c62c | No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper! | eilonwy pride prydain taren | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 8e38c91 | Our lips just trespassed on those inner labyrinths hidden deep within our ears, filled them with the private music of wicked words, hers in many languages, mine in the off color of my own tongue, until as our tones shifted, and our consonants spun and squealed, rattled faster, hesitated, raced harder, syllables soon melting with groans, or moans finding purchase in new words, or old words, or made-up words, until we gathered up our heat and.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| c160b50 | Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.) | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| e5cfc6b | Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 1cb9a4d | And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt. | Colum McCann | ||
| 61e4810 | The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't it, like, two in the morning back there?" "It's called jet lag," Ian informed him. "I'm still on London time. I don't suppose you savages have any tea in this mausoleum." "There's a diet Snapple in the fridge." Ian shuddered. "I thought not." | Gordon Korman | ||
| e0a4568 | It's that time of the month again... As we head into those dog days of July, Mike would like to thank those who helped him get the toys he needs to enjoy his summer. Thanks to you, he bought a new bass boat, which we don't need; a condo in Florida, where we don't spend any time; and a $2,000 set of golf clubs...which he had been using as an alibi to cover the fact that he has been remorselessly banging his secretary, Beebee, for the last .. | Molly Harper | ||
| c8b6c35 | I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting - something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world. It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| d3cd069 | If you have to do it, you can do it. | James M. Cain | ||
| 8a36cc7 | A Persian, a Turk, an Arab, and a Greek were traveling to a distant land when they began arguing over how to spend the single coin they possessed among themselves. All four craved food, but the Persian wanted to spend the coin on angur; the Turk, on uzum; the Arab, on inab; and the Greek, on stafil. The argument became heated as each man insisted on having what he desired. A linguist passing by overheard their quarrel. "Give the coin to me,.. | Reza Aslan | ||
| bdf64a5 | And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her. | Danielle Steel | ||
| f17d7a3 | It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different... | Danielle Steel | ||
| d2c27e6 | I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want. | Michael Jackson | ||
| 448961c | Planet Earth, gentle and blue | Michael Jackson | ||
| 279f0fe | He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican. | pelican | G. K. Chesterton | |
| 5370126 | There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 4fee7f0 | Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are the people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it is a matter of emotion, not logic. You see angry people aren't interested in justice, they just want an excuse to vent their rage. | Ilona Andrews |