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| c28ea72 | I need you to scry for Lousha," he said. "You told me once that you could." "Yeah, I can get you in her vicinity." Garreth had taken Lucia's scent into him and could find her from miles away. "That'll work." Witches could come in handy, he supposed. "But I don't do gratis." Garreth bluidy hated witches! "Charge me what you will! Just give me the fucking coordinates." In the background, he heard Bowen say, "Mari, never let it be said that I.. | humor mari | Kresley Cole | |
| 924f3a2 | Jackson asked, "Where'd the water come from in your house?" "A pipe." Then he explained to Jackson, "Water travels in pipes." | evie flooding funny jack jackson kresley-cole matthew poison-princess water | Kresley Cole | |
| 40bbed0 | I grinned at him. 'Jealous?' He grinned right back. 'That's a trick question. If I say yes you'll accuse me of being paranoid and unreasonable, and if I say no you'll make some defensive crack about how I don't think you're worth getting jealous over.' This is what I got for hooking up with a lawyer. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| e029e52 | Man is not a 'fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant'. He changed drastically when he developed 'divided consciousness' to cope with complexities of civilisation, and has been changing steadily ever since. His greatest problem, the problem that has caused most of his agonies and miseries, has been his attempt to compensate for the narrowing of cinsciousness and the entrapment in the left-brain ego. His favorite method .. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 4768623 | The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wro.. | Herman Wouk | ||
| df056ce | She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 136ece5 | Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 6ef5750 | When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 1d6a210 | Many of us shrink from judicial execution of even the most horrible human criminals, while we cheerfully countenance the shooting without trial of fairly mild animal pests. Indeed we kill members of other harmless species as a means of recreation and amusement. A human foetus, with no more human feeling than an amoeba, enjoys a reverence and legal protection far in excess of those granted to an adult chimpanzee. Yet the chimp feels and thin.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 5708fd5 | Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You l.. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 816971b | They wouldn't have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you're on a battleground, you don't have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothing's broken, nothing's wrong. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 7385125 | Climb every mountain , Ford Every stream Follow every rainbow ,'Till you find your dream | dreams finding-love rainbow | Stephanie Laurens | |
| d3dab47 | It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello. | train | David Baldacci | |
| caad565 | Then I've been drunk, too," admitted Francie. "On beer?" "No. Last spring, in McCarren's Park, I saw a tulip for the first time in my life." | Betty Smith | ||
| a839fc0 | When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. That is, you are telling them what they are supposed to know, what you want them to understand is true. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 450db90 | It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look. | inspirational writing | Jeanette Winterson | |
| a36741a | The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c1f1e8d | We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 71626db | We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 522c3c3 | I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| fd158e2 | In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d1b691f | Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light... | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| e21a4a8 | And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives. | relationships | Jeanette Winterson | |
| b73d7ea | Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness. | health madness | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 0bbea1a | As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of hair, and a tendency to slouch, she had neither Mae's sweet nature nor sweet face. Her eyes were rather beautiful, but few people ever noticed this, and it was widely believed Maddy was ugly, a troublemaker, too clever for her own good, too stubborn - or too slack - to change. Of course, folk agreed that it was no.. | hypocrisy labeling prejudice scapegoating superiority | Joanne Harris | |
| 78b640e | Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself. | pain | Joanne Harris | |
| ad55ff4 | Clever folk aren't popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don't fit in. | Joanne M. Harris | ||
| cd9ea11 | There were a few compensations to having corporeal Aspect. Food (jam tarts were my favourites); drink (mostly wine and mead); setting things on fire; sex (although I was still extremely confused by all the taboos surrounding this - no animals, no siblings, no men, no married women, no demons - frankly, it was amazing to me that anyone had sex at all, with so many rules against it). | Joanne Harris | ||
| 357fe01 | Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 9052dce | Most problems can be solved through cake. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 4b217ac | And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.... | Günter Grass | ||
| 791c780 | I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expression. | Gary Chapman | ||
| 5371b93 | There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help. | Sue Grafton | ||
| 60067f1 | Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love? | Rick Moody | ||
| 7b240dc | One thing I've learned over the years is how easy it is for some people to say horrible things about me when I'm not around, but how hard it is for them to look me in the eye and say it to my face. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 88cf5a0 | Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. | Richard Wright | ||
| 9e7d31e | I have these secret pangs of shame about being single, like I wasn't good enough to get a husband. Rita reminded me of something I'd told her once, about the five rules of the world as arrived at by this Catholic priest named Tom Weston. The first rule, he says, is that you must not have anything wrong with you or anything different. The second one is that if you do have something wrong with you, you must get over it as soon as possible. Th.. | revolution rules-of-life | Anne Lamott | |
| 90c25db | I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| e47ee17 | An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived." | Louis Sachar | ||
| 1d9ae0f | What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? | creation mind nightp patricia-highsmith shadow sound strangers strangers-on-a-train thoughts train trickster | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 864e6ba | The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light....It's a mistake to think it's the small things we control and not the large, it's the other way around! We can't stop the small accident, the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident - or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large .. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 55bb351 | quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| f0b3da1 | As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could they suffer? And yet, somehow, it seemed to take more imagination for humans to identify with animal suffering than it did to conceive of space flight or cloning or nuclear fusion. Yes, she was a fanatic in the eyes of most of the country. . .Mostly, however, she just lacked patience for people who wou.. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| b15b28f | After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopened it. | Ron Chernow |