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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 54c1fd3 | Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn't Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0f0c4c1 | Like it or not," he said, "you're still his daughter. Run from it, spit on it, that's your choice. Those of the blood can insult the blood. Nobody else. I won't allow it." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| eaa0fb6 | Curran lunged at a silver Bentley. The hood went flying. He thrust his hand into the car. Metal screamed, and Curran jerked a twisted clump out of the hood and smashed it into the nearest car like a club. "Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes," Saiman said. "And now he's demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first mel.. | kate-daniels saiman | Ilona Andrews | |
| b56e2ad | Should I bring my own chains this time? Or do you have bigger plans, and this is some sort of freaky murder foreplay"--why did the word foreplay just come out of my mouth?--"and I'll end up cut up into small pieces inside some freezer at the end? I can just spray myself with mace and shoot myself in the head now and save you the trouble." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0494d78 | Die." Why me? "We don't do requests. Try Iowa. I hear they're more accommodating." Hey, Dad, I found a lovely present for this coming Father's Day. Enjoy. The insect pointed a leg at me. "Die." Curran's eyes went gold. His clothes tore, falling in shreds to the street, as the massive meld of human and lion spilled out. "Let's see you try that shit on me." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0a12b0a | If he insults you, I'll cut his head off and you can drink his blood. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5168229 | Bleed him and I'll skewer you like a stuck pig," I said through clenched teeth. "No, you will try. You'll wave your sword around and talk a lot of shit and then back off at the last minute. And then I'll snap your neck and his." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c0f53b2 | Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds, but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| dcdd3e5 | What is this?" "It's a wedding invitation," Julie said. "I didn't order any." Julie grinned at me. "Roman." Ugh. That's right. I waved the envelope at her. "It has flowers on it." "Did you want gore, swords, and severed heads?" she asked." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| ec9f612 | Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears." Saiman" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 39b8fb0 | Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. He had the two wards of the fucking Marshal of the fucking Southern Provinces in a stolen car. An entire continent away from where the two of them were supposed to be. In the Broken. Where they had beat up some Broken children. Well, if those children weren't broken before, they were surely broken now. Fate, that broody, vicious, fickle bitch. | jack kaldar | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7d6901d | Mahon's wife stared down at us. Her hands went to her hips. "Which one of you idiots wants to explain to me what the hell is going on?" With great effort I raised my arm and pointed in Mahon's general direction. "Him." | fight | Ilona Andrews | |
| 948fd4e | You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?" "Oh, Gods." Ignata blinked. "You think something could be wrong down there?" All of them looked at William, who chose this precise moment to slide the wet shirt back on his back, which required him to flex, raising his arms. "That would be a shame," Cerise murmured." | cerise ignata ilona-andrews the-edge william | Ilona Andrews | |
| 9cf089e | It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?" She had no idea. "I'm more of a kick the door open and cut everyone inside to ribbons kind of wolf." | cerise ilona-andrews the-edge william wolf | Ilona Andrews | |
| 25973dd | I believe I've met your grandfather, the Bloody Butcher of Odar." "That's correct." "I remember now. A delightful man, wonderfully dry sense of humor." Arland blinked. "My grandfather has been called many names in his lifetime. Delightful was not one of them. He remembers you also. You tried to poison him." Caldenia waved her fingers. "I've tried to poison everyone at one time or another. Don't take it personally." -- | caldenia | Ilona Andrews | |
| ca070e3 | I squinted at her. "You're an adult." "You're an adult too." "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice." Mom leaned back and laughed." | funny relatable | Ilona Andrews | |
| cc3b1d9 | How do yo feel about her doing this?" That had to be Mahon. That low-pitched growl could only come from him. "We let each other be who we are," Curran said. "I don't have to like all of the things she has to do. I love her." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| d450c07 | Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile." Nevada: "You are not assimilating me!" | sexual-innuendos urban-fantasy | Ilona Andrews | |
| d90dc72 | they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. | ilona-andrews magic-bleeds | Ilona Andrews | |
| 17fa31b | Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat's last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2. | maths sex | Tom Stoppard | |
| 2c20254 | It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God. | knowledge uselessness | Tom Stoppard | |
| b98549c | Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. | death eternity experience life | Tom Stoppard | |
| b641508 | It could have been--it didn't have to be .... It could have been--a bird out of season, dropping bright-feathered on my shoulder.... It could have been a tongueless dwarf standing by the road to point the way.... I was . But it's this, is it? No enigma, no dignity, nothing classical, portentous, only this--a comic pornographer and a rabble of prostitutes.... | Tom Stoppard | ||
| da2d638 | Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along with his dashing teacher, of course. They get married and name thier firstborn after the aforementioned dashing teacher. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| e65baa7 | Perhaps we can win, he thought. But there will be no happy ending | holly-short the-last-guardian | Eoin Colfer | |
| 682e865 | So, let's make a deal: If you do not voice all the withering comments about the weight or uselessness of this jacket that are no doubt swirling in that big brain of yours, then I will not mention the super-laser episode again. Agreed?" This jacket is really cutting into my shoulders, thought Artemis. And it's so heavy that I could not outrun a slug. But he said, "Agreed." | butler humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 473d4af | Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad tidings, lavish your alphabets, proclaim human rights, sing your Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear off green branches from the oak trees. Make thought a whirlwind. This multitude can be sublimated. Let us learn to avail ourselves of this vast conflagration of principles and virtues, .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a791552 | Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything. | les-amis les-amis-d-abc | Victor Hugo | |
| d68b766 | So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-p.. | labor | Victor Hugo | |
| 0c97ac4 | When the heart is dry the eye is dry. | philosophy tears | Victor Hugo | |
| 059f06e | Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1a70b05 | For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3451466 | They had supper and went away, and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being. With this consciousness, and with physical pain besides the terror, he must go to bed, often to lie awake the greater part of the night. Next morning he had to get up again, dress, go to the law cour.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| d41a2b5 | I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b811fc8 | Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b79fa8a | He is not apprehended by reason, but by life. | life reason | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 9b73acc | It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong! | dying life questions-in-life | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 0e690a0 | Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devo.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7819014 | Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 7714007 | What overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted by prudence. Perhaps God prefers the abstinent to those who whore around with some denomination he despises. Perhaps he reserves special rewards for those who deny themselves the comfort of belief. Perhaps the intellectual ascetic will win al.. | friedrich-nietzsche homer immanuel-kant kant mathematician nietzsche pascal pascal-s-wager philosophy speculation | Walter Kaufmann | |
| c611d7a | I hate that mouse | Daniel Keyes | ||
| b0a70f9 | I passed your floor on the way up, and now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again. | Daniel Keyes | ||
| dd2a68f | YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign. | Adam Rex | ||
| cafa37d | That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar. | Charlotte Brontë |