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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 632ea8e | Art is the conversation between lovers. Art offers an opening for the heart. True art makes the divine silence in the soul Break into applause. Art is, at last, the knowledge of Where we are standing - Where we are standing In this Wonderland When we rip off all our clothes And this blind man's patch, veil, That got tied across our brow. Art is the conversation between lovers. True art awakes the | hafez hafiz | Hāfez | |
| ec313ae | The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 1117845 | The more modest and impractical the kitchen, the more likely one will be invited to stay for a meal. Show me a fancy house with a top-of-the-line gourmet kitchen, and I'll show you a family that eats out a lot. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| f1a6f5c | you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy | Raymond Khoury | ||
| d584f34 | She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim. | Marilyn French | ||
| ccfbc4f | bry khshtn khh Htm lzm nyst nsn hft tyr bwkh jwnz r brdrd w tq tq, shlykh khnd! mn bh yn Trz khshtn m`tqd nystm. nsn my twnd khsy r dr qlbsh bkhshd. gr nsn z dwst dshtn khsy dst brdrd, w r dr qlb khwd khshth st. sr akhr hm khh w khwdsh rwzy khwhd mrd | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| 696af59 | Hard work should be rewarded by good food. | reward work | Ken Follett | |
| 3eb04f0 | You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think. | Ken Follett | ||
| 092330a | I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't y.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 77e5084 | You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you're not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don't know anything about them at all. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 6680198 | I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 0680f92 | Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference." | success | Jim Butcher | |
| cc9cdde | Everything I told him was technically true, more or less, and I got the job done," Jack said stubbornly. "Look, sir, if I were perfect, I wouldn't be working here in the first place. Now, would I?" And then he hung up. On speakerphone. On a freaking archangel. I couldn't help it. I let out a rolling belly laugh. "I just got suckered into doing this by...Stars and stones, you didn't even know that he...Big bad angel boy, and you get the wool.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| ee389d1 | Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to ove.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4cfc152 | I'm lost. I know every step I took to get here, and I'm still lost. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a5eb24a | There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6b46eba | Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing." | dresden-files | Jim Butcher | |
| 90937e1 | Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do," I muttered." | fight funny humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 4edf69d | Cerberus," I said promptly. "But everyone knows that." "Do you know what it means?" I opened my mouth and closed it again. I shook my head. "It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.'" I blinked. "You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And . . . you named your dog Spot?" "Who's a good dog?" Hades said, scratching the third head behind the ears, and making the beast's mouth drop open in a doggy grin. "S.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 9315e1c | My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do. | harry-dresden karrin-murphy | Jim Butcher | |
| d113aa3 | You sure you want to cross me?" In that moment she's her father's daughter." | Holly Black | ||
| d408f86 | Manie sans delire - insanity without delusion. | insanity | Holly Black | |
| f9fd604 | A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die." | dog helping | Holly Black | |
| bea0422 | Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid." | Holly Black | ||
| ea991ca | Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row." | Holly Black | ||
| 5d41731 | This is never going to be over," I shout. "Someone will always be after me. There's always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you." | Holly Black | ||
| 6d4f10b | I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me. | Holly Black | ||
| 0dbb1ab | The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended. | Holly Black | ||
| 017e509 | You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game." | Holly Black | ||
| cf7c722 | I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion. | Holly Black | ||
| f84901a | You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people." | Holly Black | ||
| 10d906b | In Faerie, there are no fish sticks, no ketchup, no television. | Holly Black | ||
| 6d845bc | Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities. | Holly Black | ||
| 4f2b369 | You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. | Holly Black | ||
| 60c8fcd | I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone. | destruction | Holly Black | |
| 66dcb31 | I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| f47be16 | Your ability to withstand pain is your claim to fame. It is ascetic, holy. It is self-control. It is masochism, and masochism pleasurable to many, but we don't like to think about that. We don't like to think that a person could have a twisted autoerotic life going on, be both a top and a bottom, and experience both at once: the pleasure of beating the hell out of a body shackled at the wrists, and the pleasure of being the body and knowing.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| e42a116 | OH KYO KUN! Isn't it said that eating pink noodles turns you into a horny pervert?! | kyo noodles pervert pink shigure | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 73d5415 | Hatori: "That being said, Yuki... when did you become a woman?" Yuki: "How dare you say that after you've seen me naked so many times..." | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| a104a38 | I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 8de1f92 | Usually the space was dotted with people getting high, getting higher, or wondering why they werent high yet. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 15d4ff6 | Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer. | poison toxins | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 391e52a | In the winter everyones hate was bare if you looked. She saw hate in the icicles that hung from her window; she saw it in the dirty slush on the streets; she heard it in the hail that scratched her window and bit her face; she could see it in the lowered heads hurrying to warm homes ... | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| f38381c | an event of such prodigious proportions and importance that it infused her with a new will to live and materialized a dream that brightened her days and soothed her lonely nights. | Hubert Selby Jr. |