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| e3ec038 | Good, glad you agree," Wrath muttered as he cued George. The dog signaled that they'd come up to a barrier by halting, and Wrath reached out, his palm finding a sheet that was stiff and thick. Dropping his hold on the halter, he used two hands to pull it aside so he didn't tear it from its tethers above. The voices stopped immediately. Except for one that breathed, "Holy . . . shit." All at once there was a clattering, as if tools were bein.. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 22cd8df | Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end--and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn"t take a peek at what you"d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was a.. | crave fallen ward | J.R. Ward | |
| 781ba51 | You have what I call a "male brow." Which is a frown brought on when you're thinking about your male and you either want to boot him in the ass or wrap your arms around him and hold him 'til he can't breathe." | J.R. Ward | ||
| fbdb545 | They don't fit you?" V asked his roommate. "Not the point. No offense, but these are wicked Village People." Butch held his heavy arms out and turned in a circle, his bare chest catching the light. "I mean, come on." "They're for fighting, not fashion." "So are kilts, but you don't see me rocking the tartan." "And thank God for that. You're too bowlegged to pull that shit off." Butch assumed a bored expression. "You can bite me." , V though.. | butch-vishous humor paranormal-romance romance vampire vishous vutch | J.R. Ward | |
| ce71810 | What... are you?" she choked out. "No sunlight. Funky choppers." he inhaled raggedly. "Take a guess." | J.R. Ward | ||
| bab7d1d | This malady which Swann's love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all his habits, with all his actions, with his thoughts, his health, his sleep, his life, even with what he hoped for after his death, was so utterly inseparable from him, that it would have been impossible to eradicate it without almost entirely destroying him; as surgeons say, his love was no longer operable. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 7f6d202 | Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 1b7f002 | I have every useless thing in the world in my house there. The only thing wanting is the necessary thing, a great patch of open sky like this. Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life, little boy," he added, turning to me. "You have a soul in you of rare quality, an artist's nature; never let it starve for lack of what it needs." | Marcel Proust | ||
| 22bf8cc | IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability. But social savvy is . It's a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 3aee883 | The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the pr.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 12f998b | our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| b2651f8 | Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty. | underdogs | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| ff76e91 | I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheels. For a long time, we were parked a few yards beyond without getting out, fully absorbed in the sight of the corpse. The horror and despair at so much bloody flesh, nauseating in part, and in part very beautiful, was fairly equivalent to our us.. | sex | Georges Bataille | |
| 5033d78 | The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic | journey the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| a1097d4 | Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. | john green | ||
| a9c47f1 | So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them. | John Green | ||
| fc40263 | It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four. | John Green | ||
| a48ca9d | In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger. | John Green | ||
| 1d223b8 | You deserve a life. | dftba fault hazel john-green life stars | John Green | |
| bebe6b5 | She was loved deeply, but not widely | tfios | John Green | |
| 95515d6 | All efforts to save me from you will fail, he said | john-green the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| b9c43b8 | The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder. | John Green | ||
| aa8083c | Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest. | John Green | ||
| 10b6387 | I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We're not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we're not different sprouts from the same plant. I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well - but never quite perfectly, you know? | life margo quentin strings | John Green | |
| 8028ea4 | A desert blessing, an ocean curse. | John Green | ||
| 4193697 | You don't know a father's weight until it's lifted. | John Green | ||
| aebebaf | Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets. | growing-up inspirational life metaphor | John Green | |
| fa307db | We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle | john-green miracle turtles-all-the-way-down universe | John Green | |
| 70f3960 | There's an expression in classical music. It goes, 'We went out to the meadow.' It's for those evenings that can only be described in that way: There were no walls, there were no music stands, there weren't even any instruments. There was no ceiling, there was no floor, we all went out to the meadow. It describes a feeling. (Tom Waits quote) pg 208 | John Green | ||
| 03d56c6 | If I die weep at my grave every day until a seedling appears in the dirt, then cry on it to make it grow until it becomes a beautiful tree whose roots surround my body. | John Green | ||
| 90266ea | I missed the future. | John Green | ||
| d5936f1 | Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it resting there. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 3a93c10 | Sometimes, life just sucked. "Bite me," she muttered. "Okay, where?" Deke asked, then went on. "Never mind. I've got some enticing ideas of my own." | Shayla Black | ||
| 24a6539 | She's my sunshine | Lora Leigh | ||
| 3c5e0f7 | Your language, dear," Victoria reproved gently. "A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 8952170 | People never think things that are true are funny. | Melissa Kantor | ||
| 96fcc6e | Gillette--The best a man can get." I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was going to walk on the moon, be a movie star or a rock got or a comedian. I was going to have an amazing life and kids with Helen and die like Chaplin a thousand years from now in my Beverly Hills mansion surrounded by my adoring family, with the grieving wo.. | contemplation love realization rehab | Craig Ferguson | |
| 72b1429 | Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn't do it," Evan declared, sliding under the covers next to me." | emma-thomas evan-mathews reason-to-breathe rebecca-donovan sweet | Rebecca Donovan | |
| dd28819 | Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit--qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected. It is growth along these lines that will make us whole, and will enable the individual to become world to himself. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 4a840e5 | There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may be saved, caught and pinned under glass, hoarded against the winter of forgetfulness. Time has been cheated a little, at least in one's own life, and a personal, trivial immortality of an old self assured. And there is another personal satisfaction: that of the people who like to recount their adventures, the diary-keepers, the story-tellers,.. | feeling journals meaning stories time writing | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 2b8071f | Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. | fairy-tales magic reality science | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 2ea2e7a | For now, with his emerald eyes locked on mine, where I was going didn't seem so scary. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 7935c64 | Scout - oblivious to our jokes at her expense - pushed forward. "I don't understand why you're arguing with me. You know you have no chance." Michael clutched at his chest dramatically. "You're killing me, Scout. Really. There's chest pain - a tightness." He faked a groan." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 84921fd | Oh , I do like you Merit.I like your ...Moxie. | Chloe Neill |