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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9d1c38d | That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons. | wolf wolves | George R.R. Martin | |
| 7b53198 | Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 48a3d4a | When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 0e0d7e5 | Surprisingly, Stannis smiled at that. "You're bold enough to be a Stark. Yes, I should have come sooner. If not for my Hand, I might not have come at all. Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1165e83 | I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad? | George R.R. Martin | ||
| adc6e24 | Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c453d6f | It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all. | aemon-targaryen books | George R.R. Martin | |
| 771bb63 | Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves? | kings protect protection queens | George R.R. Martin | |
| ef5b475 | a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed... | hope | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| e610c36 | Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 7b1edeb | even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart. | Meg Cabot | ||
| ee099dd | Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that? | meg-cabot queen-of-babble | Meg Cabot | |
| 6b688f9 | I've never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I've been trapped in a car with one of the worst drivers I've ever seen, run up the Spanish Steps and then down again so I could be on time to wait in line to perjuer myself at the American consulate. And I'd like to continue doing those sorts of thing with you on a regular basis for the foreseeable future. | Meg Cabot | ||
| c030439 | Me: "Ngh" | Meg Cabot | ||
| 23b6158 | That guy back there had a gun," Christopher went on. "Brandon Stark didn't even have a gun, and he managed to kidnap you just by threatening to do mean things to your friends. How do you think you're going to cope with his dad, who's a real gangster?" "Well," I said. Suddenly, I didn't feel quite so encouraged. There were actual tears in my eyes. "That's why this time I'm asking you for help. I know I can't do it alone anymore. I need you, .. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 3fa0d7a | Well, I guess slave-runners aren't really my cup of tea. That is who you married instead, right? A slave-runner. Your father must have been so proud." That wiped the grin right off her face. "You leave my father out of this," she snarled. "Oh, why?" I asked. "Tell me something, is he sore at you? Your dad, I mean. You know, for having Jesse killed? Because I imagine he would be. I mean, basically, thanks to you, the de Silva family line ran.. | mediator meg-cabot suze-simon | Meg Cabot | |
| 1bf0b0e | You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. | William Gibson | ||
| 65276b8 | Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you. | futurism gibson leapfrogging | William Gibson | |
| c1e9bca | The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer." | cinema color films prayer | Jonathan Carroll | |
| 1188530 | she studied his clothes, his top hat. "And you've just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?" "It's much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don't fall in line, you'll leave them to die." | mina-wentworth politics rhys-trahaearn the-iron-duke | Meljean Brook | |
| fba7e9f | Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs. | Elizabeth Moon | ||
| 945a6b1 | for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it's better, it's simpler, and it's at the forefront of technology. That's where Steve likes to be, in both his products and his stores. | kiss | Walter Isaacson | |
| 833c040 | I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they're the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| c5b2988 | How can you be alienated without first having been connected? | Donald Barthelme | ||
| 487940c | I think kindness, out of all virtues, is the best quality to have. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| cc34fca | I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 4a4d29d | Bonds are made to be broken," he said. "Just like rules." | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| d4f094c | Sorrow is humbling. I want my pain to be fabulous. I don't need my pain to be worse than anyone else's; I just want it to be strangely, uniquely mine. Art to someone else's breakdown. -- Thea Hillman, "Dear Kath After" from the anthology " | humility michelle-tea pain sorrow thea-hillman | Clint Catalyst Michelle Tea Thea Hillman | |
| 8edee27 | She was nobody here. It was not just that she had no friends and family; it was rather that she was a ghost in this room, in the streets on the way to work, on the shop floor. Nothing meant anything. The rooms in the house on Friary Street belonged to her, she thought; when she moved in them she was really there. In the town, if she walked to the shop or to the Vocational School, the air, the light, the ground, it was all solid and part of .. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| cc54635 | No, I don't live in heartache. I don't cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And--like it or not--I still think about her every single day. | six-years | Harlan Coben | |
| 01274f2 | So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 6f4cfc2 | It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot) | Agatha Christie | ||
| b439272 | One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late. | knowledge | Agatha Christie | |
| c6ce5b7 | When you read the account of a murder - or, say, a fiction story based on murder - you usually begin with the murder itself. That's all wrong. The murder begins a long time beforehand. A murder is the culmination of a lot of different circumstances, all converging at a given moment at a given point. People are brought into it from different parts of the globe and for unforeseen reasons. [...] The murder itself is the end of the story. It's .. | murder-mystery time | Agatha Christie | |
| a552798 | I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings" | Agatha Christie | ||
| 661243f | Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations. | authors mystery social-life whodunnit | Agatha Christie | |
| 7e49d07 | I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for themselves. Self-pity is the biggest stumbling block in our world today. ~Jessop | Agatha Christie | ||
| 44a42a2 | One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers. | Agatha Christie | ||
| a5c1d97 | I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me. | justice mercy | Agatha Christie | |
| 7b942b1 | Lead, Kindly Light, amidst th'encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead Thou me on! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years! So long Thy power hath .. | John Henry Newman | ||
| fb45d59 | Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden. | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 6ce3326 | Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return. | inspirational | Lindsey Davis | |
| 5b88590 | I do try to say, God's will be done, sir," said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; "but it's harder to be resigned than happy people think." | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| aa55393 | I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit. | Elizabeth Gaskell |