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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7bb3f7d | Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail. | James Patterson | ||
| 572c6e3 | There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut. | funny life lol nuts | James Patterson | |
| b235700 | Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre. | James Patterson | ||
| fece692 | That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I need to help you because fair is fair? Try, 'I need you to help me so I won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' I might respond to that. Maybe. | James Patterson | ||
| e555708 | i play a mean harmonica | James Patterson | ||
| ca80d25 | If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| f9f70b8 | One morning as I was leaving, the director said I didn't have to leave the set anymore. What happened? Why did they change their ways of treating me? I came to the realization that it was because I had a mother. My mother spoke highly of me, and to me. But more important, whether they met her or simply heard about her, she was there with me. She had my back, supported me. This is the role of the mother, and in that visit I really saw clearl.. | mothers-and-daughters | Maya Angelou | |
| eb33143 | You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling do.. | Maya Angelou | ||
| efb107a | Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. | Maya Angelou | ||
| a3e2a11 | All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this role - grateful for the frisson of importance that comes with receiving important information. In recent years, however, I have noticed that my gratification is becoming diluted by a certain weary indignation. They tell me because they regard me as safe. All of them, they make their disclosures to me in the same spirit that they .. | loneliness secrecy trust | Zoë Heller | |
| 0ccb67e | Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love. | responsibility | Garth Nix | |
| 4a3ed4c | But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build with that, gentlemen. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 0de7791 | No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie. | humanity inferiority lies | Nancy Farmer | |
| ab4b4f9 | The air smelled of paper and dust and years. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 698ac70 | You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 57d868e | He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed. | jrr-tolkien the-two-towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| ac58736 | I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this," | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 6d8cbce | When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 8bf01d3 | Muy pronto en mi vida fue demasiado tarde. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| b1b03de | She wondered why she had never thought her country beautiful. | Harper Lee | ||
| c35bb6a | Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said." | William Goldman | ||
| c7b2499 | Ahora bien, tambien debo decir, por enesima vez, que la vida no es justa. Solo es mas justa que la muerte. Eso es todo. | William Goldman | ||
| b0d2c96 | Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman | Ann Brashares | ||
| d9e9e50 | You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said." | William Goldman | ||
| 4075a83 | La diferencia entre el sistema comunista y el capitalista es que, aunque los dos nos den una patada en el culo, en el comunista te la dan y tienes que aplaudir, y en el capitalista te la dan y uno puede gritar. | Reinaldo Arenas | ||
| eae72fe | Sometimes a b.f.f makes you go W.T.F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives . | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| b23138e | Don't fucking make judgments about something you know nothing about. | judgmental judgments | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 6785c58 | Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn't toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying it will ring; who doesn't lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else? | Jess Walter | ||
| d3c5961 | Let the dead bury the dead. | Harper Lee | ||
| 0e33010 | The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| f52cc96 | That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and s.. | history inspirational jewish jews pessimism russia russian story world-war-ii ww2 | David Benioff | |
| 7b62504 | If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 0bdd6ec | dygr mydy bh pyd shdn nyst.dnbl mn nkhrd! bgdhr fqT fsnhwr hmnj khh hstym w hr khh hstym bmnym. tw khwdt bsh w mn hm khwdm.mrwz w mrwz w mrwz. w bgdhr ayndh bh frd `tmd khnd. bgdhr strhh mrqb m bshnd. bgdhr dr mdrhy khwdmn Hrkht khnym, w mTmy'n bshym khh rwzy dr ayndh bh hm brmykhwrnd. bgdhr tjdyd dydrmn nh ykh yftn w pyd shdn, khh tSdf shyryn srnwshtmn bshd! bz hm dwstt drm w dwstt drm w dwstt drm! | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| ba95a3b | Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said." | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| d40ef1c | Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you know pretty much where you stood, but you could never trust a vowel. | grammar maniac syllable vowels | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 0671e9e | We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek. Because we will be action and education focused, and forgo validation and status, our ambition will not be grandiose but iterative--one foot in front of the other, learning and growing and putting in the time. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| dd3d796 | It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. --PHILIPPE DE CLERMONT, OFTEN ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES DARWIN | Deborah Harkness | ||
| 7e6c16d | So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 17adea2 | There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 08d2e82 | Good grief, baby, people don't agree with the Klan, but they certainly don't try to prevent them from puttin' on sheets and making fools of themselves in public. | Harper Lee | ||
| 092d8b4 | She went to him. "Atticus," she said. "I'm--" "You may be sorry, but I'm proud of you." She looked up and saw her father beaming at her. "What?" "I said I'm proud of you." "I don't understand you. I don't understand men at all and I never will." "Well, I certainly hoped a daughter of mine'd hold her ground for what she thinks is right--stand up to me first of all." | Harper Lee | ||
| e52886d | Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. | Harper Lee | ||
| 565bf50 | Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide. | Charles J. Shields | ||
| 2b10a2e | Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright." | Joe Meno |