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| ec7c867 | It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands. To have fallen into any one of the fads from Gnosticism to Christian Science would indeed have been obvious and tame. But to have avoided them all has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth reeling but erect. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9e29257 | Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 2cbd0ca | Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 2e6d77d | We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men; my heart goes out to them. They accept the essential ideal of man; they merely seek it wrongly. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. But philosophers dislike property as property; they wish to destroy the.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 0153f94 | No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| 226613a | The children will come to no harm." "Except for the older ones. Like that poor kid down there." "Mr. Scoresby, that is the way this world works. And if you want to put an end to cruelty and injustice, you must take me farther on. I have a job to do." "Seems to me--" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed." | help | Philip Pullman | |
| db90c7b | Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 1af0798 | When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness. | Andrew Vachss | ||
| 1a45adb | She's your Herald," Derek said. "That's your color. Blue for humanity." My what? He made a big show of moving a few feet to the side. I looked at him. "In case your head explodes," he said helpfully." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| da9d423 | He hit her with his best smile. Her eyes widened. She took a deep breath. 'Oh no, not that seductive face. I'm overcome with the need to take off these awful clothes. What is happening? I do not understand. Oooh. Ahhh.' She touched her wrist to her forehead. 'Somebody help me. I'm being drenched with my own fluids.' Evil woman. 'See now, you shouldn't have done that,' Kaldar said. She gave him an innocent look. 'You've made yourself into.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1195f07 | Just stay close to us. If we get in trouble, we'll kill everything. | cerise fate-s-edge funny ilona-andrews the-edge violent | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4f59125 | Hello, Consort,'' Mauro boomed. He got to his feet, spread his arms, and curtsied. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1648bb2 | I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist." "What's the difference?" "The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscien.. | death gods philosophy roman | Ilona Andrews | |
| e4d0937 | Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it. | kate-daniels magic-bites | Ilona Andrews | |
| 3ec400b | What's with the cute shoelace on your head?" "What this?" He flicked the end of the cord with his finger. "Yeah. Rambo called, he wants his bandana back." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6d6058e | The woman stared at the ruined body. Blood dripped from her arm. A fine spray of red covered her face --must've been cast off when she slammed down the cans. She wiped her face with her left forearm and kicked the stalker's corpse with her sneakered foot. "Don't mess with Texas." | kickass texas | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4e8a7e2 | She put her hands over her face. Ah crap. What do I do now? Do I say something, do I not say something? I kept talking, keeping my voice as light as I could manage. Her shoulders shook slightly. She was crying. Fuck me. I sat there, not sure what to do with myself. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 5c58a1c | The first magic wave kicked the world in the face. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e247a41 | He isn't so much flirting," Cerise murmured. "Either he doesn't like me or he doesn't know how." "Of course he likes you. You're lovely. He probably just doesn't get it. Some men have to be hit over the head with it. Her aunt rolled her eyes. "I thought I'd have to draw your uncle Jean a giant sign. That or kidnap him and have my evil way with him, until he got the message." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 37fa1e6 | Yes, bad. Look at Daddy ripping the bad man to pieces. Go Daddy! | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 889dd60 | Andrea stared at me. "You're not taking me seriously!" "That's probably because you're not excited enough," Derek said. "You should clench your fists like they do in the movies, shake them, and yell, 'This is bigger than any of us! It goes all the way to the top!" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b3bc722 | Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9019309 | Look under the passenger seat in a black plastic bin. There should be a book." Raphael hopped out, dug under the seat, and pulled out a dog-eared copy of The Almanac of Mystical Creatures. "Got it," I said into the phone. "Page seventy-six." Raphael flipped the book open and held it up. On the left page a lithograph showed a three-headed dog with a serpent for a tail. The caption under the picture said CERBERUS. "Is that your dog?" Kat.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2dde0e3 | He would have sex the way other men made war. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| dc43d99 | Enter my lair, said the dragon. I have shiny treasure for you to play with, I'll keep you warm and safe, and if it suits my purpose, I'll chain you to the floor and kill your client by throwing quarters at him with my magic. Been there, done that. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 246f632 | I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 83bd6e4 | He killed a man," Mom said. "He was framed," Grandma Frida said. "You don't even know the story," Mom said. Grandma shrugged. "Framed. A man that pretty can't be a murderer." Mother stared at her. "Penelope, I'm seventy-two years old. You let me enjoy my fantasy." "Go Grandma." Arabella pumped her fist in the air." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 083a666 | I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh-what's funny to one person isn't funny to another. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5c64221 | What are you planning?" I asked, as we turned toward the grand ballroom. "Just a small demonstration for the public good," he said. "I am so sorry." "You're apologizing in advance." "Yes." Never a good sign." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 520d3f3 | Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me--I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you. | genitals intercourse sex temptation vagina | Tom Stoppard | |
| 8f8b5c3 | I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| afbe29a | Your opinions are your symptoms. | tom-stoppard | Tom Stoppard | |
| a5fd0f8 | He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1fb729f | A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man... | Victor Hugo | ||
| ced26a1 | Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men | musical revolution | Victor Hugo | |
| 4cd0c75 | Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8463e7d | Reality in strong doses frightens. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d9b7bbf | It so happens that this is particular love was precisely the sort best suited to the state of her soul. It was a sort of remote worship, a mute contemplation, a deification by an unknown votary. It was the apprehension of adolescence by adolescence, her dreams becoming romance ad remain in dream, the wished-for phantom realized at last and made flash, but still without name or wrong or fault, or need, or defect; in a word, a lover distant a.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 51e108d | Don't you recognize me?' 'No.' 'Eponine.' Marius bent hastily forward and saw that it was indeed that unhappy girl, clad in a man's clothes. 'How do you come to be here? What are you doing?' 'I'm dying,' she said. There are words and happenings which arouse even souls in the depths of despair. Marius cried, as though starting out of sleep: 'You're wounded! I'll carry you into the tavern. They'll dress your wound. Is it very bad? How am I to.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 609d2f9 | In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement .. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 2460907 | I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world. | world | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 5e20001 | My life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it! | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 75472ef | What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else. | convincing | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 9e1c5ab | The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true | death leo-tolstoy life | Leo Tolstoy |