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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 565ddf6 | There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything has ended and nothing else can ever begin. | Robin Hobb | ||
| cf294ce | My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 67d0b70 | It was inside me. The more I sought it, the stronger it grew. It loved me. Loved me even if I couldn't, wouldn't, didn't love myself. Love me even if I hated. It set its tiny teeth in my soul and braced and held so that I couldn't crawl any further. And when I tried, a howl of despair burst from it, searing me, forbidding me to break so sacred trust. It was Smithy. | old-wit smithy | Robin Hobb | |
| 7e78d55 | Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b5e21dc | All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8d57c64 | One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 59c6455 | The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7af9cea | I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 116551c | Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 83a8a57 | I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass them on or recommend them, I'll know that some of what made her goes with them; that some of my mother will live on in those readers, readers who may be inspired to love the way loved and do their own version of what she did in the world. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 26b3d89 | We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4b1c182 | Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men--cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over years they have been socialized to see cooking as their role? I was going to say that perhaps women are born with a cooking gene until I remembered that the majority of famous cooks in the world--who are given the fancy title of "chef"--are men." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5a0e9ca | Don't think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not exclusive. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9b6548b | The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country -- a border culture. Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place create.. | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | ||
| fae89ee | They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 1ff75f4 | I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 4f78742 | I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| cf5facd | We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 71bca76 | Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime. | artists jay rebellion | Anaïs Nin | |
| 7ddcf60 | Yelena?" "Hmm?" "I'd like you to stay with me while we figure out how to unblock your magic. We're stronger together." "All right." He laughed. "I thought I'd have more of a fight." "I'm too tired to argue." "Then I should take advantage of the situation." I cracked one eye open. "And?" "I'd like you to stay with me forever." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 1febc2a | My cheek stung and throbbed. I remained on the floor of the cave. Belen stood between me and Kerrick. "...temper in check. She's a sweet girl," Belen said. "She's a healer, Belen. And no longer a girl. Healing Ryne is all I care about. All you should care about, as well. You know-" "Yes, I know what's at stake." Belen spat the words. "But if you raise your hand to her again, I'll rip your arm from its socket." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| bc2ad01 | Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 7769400 | We should make a list of who doesn't want to kill you, love. It'd be shorter." I'd be offended, but it was actually a good idea." -- | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 3cfa16e | It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design." | chance coincidenc-e fine-tuning id intelligent-design naturalism religious-science-fiction science theism theistic-science-fiction | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| 54bcc7c | If you're an introvert, find your flow by using your gifts. You have the power of persistence, the tenacity to solve complex problems, and the clear-sightedness to avoid pitfalls that trip others up. You enjoy relative freedom from the temptations of superficial prizes like money and status. Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert t.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 5ada9ed | Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| a27c8dc | Instead of answering, I just wrapped my arms around him and kissed him for all I was worth. Because when you meet The One, you just know. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 32fc0c6 | I could fall for you in a heartbeat | Ken Follett | ||
| 498fa76 | There's a saying: 'If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power. | Ken Follett | ||
| c8e8717 | A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully. | Ken Follett | ||
| 398a389 | The sky is fucking with me. It's one of those militantly perfect spring days, the kind that seems to be trying just a little too hard, the kind you want to smack in the face, and the sky is bluer than it has any right to be, really, an obnoxious, overbearing blue that implies that staying home is a crime against humanity. Like I've got anywhere to go. The neighborhood is alive with gardeners mowing lawns and trimming hedges, the mechanized .. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| f78f1bf | I finished the beer and sighed. "Arrogance," I said. "I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| f1bae3b | Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: | Jim Butcher | ||
| fef6cc4 | Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f7a5e0d | You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated. | Jim Butcher | ||
| aed2497 | Bridget blinked once. "Books do not have souls, sir." "Those who write them do," Ferus said. "They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature." He sniffed. "Most untidy, really--but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole." "You believe that the library has a soul," Bridget said carefully. "I do not believe it, young lady," Ferus said rathe.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4dbc380 | Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5d081d9 | Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing -- which is either proof that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn't actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can't decide. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 42dfa5c | Why is it that you've never got the least goddamned clue what's happening inside your own head. Have you ever noticed this trend? Doesn't it bug you sometimes? | Jim Butcher | ||
| b509182 | And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing--and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5d6c6b2 | Stop thinking," he said. I have to think," said val. "You said I was supposed to concentrate." Thinking makes you slow. You need to move as I move. Right now, you're merely following my lead." How can I know where you're going to go before you've gone there? That's stupid." It's no different from knowing where an opponent might move. How do you know where a ball is likely to go on the lacrosse field?" The only things you know about lacrosse.. | Holly Black | ||
| c6d7a34 | Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of on.. | James Hollis | ||
| 21566e1 | It's hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don't even know about. | Holly Black | ||
| bbd0c84 | Vivi is right; it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it. | jude-duarte the-cruel-prince the-folk-of-the-air | Holly Black |