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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4168f7b | It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 877654c | a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there. | Aimee Bender | ||
| ee4e203 | I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q... | Aimee Bender | ||
| 75cb58f | How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 6b6b0ed | If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out. | humor orson | Orson Scott Card | |
| 83bc9f8 | I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!" | regret | Orson Scott Card | |
| c9a4a71 | Sometimes good people have to do terrible things. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b960bdb | It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart. | family science-fiction | Orson Scott Card | |
| a16120e | You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| c129527 | A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone. | truth | Orson Scott Card | |
| 470b780 | Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely. | human-natureight judge | Orson Scott Card | |
| bd0e4cd | From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| a113f01 | You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| dc06c7c | I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!" | insult redwall | Brian Jacques | |
| e044c44 | Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not k.. | kneel redwall | Brian Jacques | |
| ab16991 | And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 060ae23 | With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 63f3ec2 | No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors. | free | L.M. Montgomery | |
| d36b116 | She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life. | love | Barbara Taylor Bradford | |
| 30124d6 | The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one's peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 33da0c1 | My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG, which is infamous, or MY COUNTRY IS ALWAYS RIGHT, which is imbecile. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 155c313 | Go and see whether the Doctor is about,' said Jack, 'and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.' Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 6b584f8 | Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. | change character jealousy nature transformation | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 500d879 | Even the best of us are thrown off some- times. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| a7ccb3f | I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| f9502e9 | He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| e7d7012 | I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. | john-watson pistol-practice sherlock-holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 4b81246 | Never offend an enemy in a small way. | Gore Vidal | ||
| bdf6b94 | There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear. | Alex Garland | ||
| 442f631 | As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It's sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It'.. | war war-fiction world-war | Anthony Burgess | |
| 2c28354 | Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it. | violence | Anthony Burgess | |
| 5760961 | I wanted music very bad this evening, that singing devotchka in the Korova having perhaps started me off. I wanted like a big feast of it before getting my passport stamped, my brothers, at sleep's frontier and the stripy shest lifted to let me through. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| c38c377 | A Clockwork Orange is too didactic to be artistic. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his job to show. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 23fed70 | Go on, do me in, you bastard cowards, I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one.' I told Dim to lay off a bit then, because it used to interest me sometimes to slooshy what some of these starry decreps had to say about life and the world. I said: 'Oh. And what's stinking about it? | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 6b171af | What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment. | dreams | Anthony Burgess | |
| 8531bd3 | And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the other cheek. | biblical-reference violence | Anthony Burgess | |
| 2bfb8ff | Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 48f30f9 | The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded. | freedom-of-choice | Anthony Burgess | |
| 262920a | I kept pushing the old noga through the floorboards near, and the Durango 95 ate up the road like spaghetti. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| d37b50b | Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up. | understanding | Anthony Burgess | |
| 2453397 | It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 48ae9e6 | Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously creative. | Anthony Burgess | ||
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| b8f878d | Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war. | happiness | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |