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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ecbb3a0 | The greatest thing about having power is the mere having of power. Use the latter well, and you'll never have to use the former. Morgana, Queen of the Sorceri | Kresley Cole | ||
| 10b093e | Regin the Radiant and Emmaline Troy: 'Alrighty then, have it your way- you're on your own... Now, if you come across a leech, no offense, remember your training.' 'None taken. And would that be the sword training where you fly past my defenses and swat me on the ass, chirping, 'Dead!'? Another swat. 'Dead!'? Yeah, I'll get right on that.' 'No, that would be the training where you sprint like hell whenever you hear that I'm looking for you t.. | kresley-cole romance | Kresley Cole | |
| f84fd28 | Take it out, then. | Kresley Cole | ||
| c739fa5 | Her heart sank. That's why he found her attractive- because he'd been so long without. He'd probably find a perfumed rock appealing at this point. | kresley-cole | Kresley Cole | |
| d2e8c36 | Some of the males rose from the table then, making noise about a rugby rematch. MacRieve tensed, but didn't join them. When a couple of the men said things in Gaelic, their tones taunting, she asked, "Are they trash-talking you?" "Oh, aye. According to them, I'm the veriest pussy. Already mate-whipped." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 300f0f9 | Or maybe I was learning that nothing was black and white. | Kresley Cole | ||
| b47322b | ymknn 'n nr~ bshwl@ fy lakhryn m l nhtm 'w njrw' `l~ rw'yth fy 'nfsn | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9a1b6de | Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily. | grasping ideas lies understanding | Oliver Sacks | |
| b9b35ef | It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings. | Colin Wilson | ||
| e0f38b7 | I dreamed of being a part of the stories--even terrifying one, even horror stories--because at least the girls in stories were alive before they died. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| cfe9bdb | It seems impossible that you can love one person so much, no matter what happens, no matter what they do. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 4a227fc | She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the same as the graffiti scrawled outside by taggers who were arrested or killed for it, went to parties in hotel rooms where white-skinned, lingerie-clad rock stars had been staying the night their husbands shot themselves in the head, listened to music in nightclubs where stunning boyish actors.. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 3a7302e | I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 50dd1b0 | Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| b25152b | If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 237f9e1 | In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible. | bible defending devil reading | R.C. Sproul Jr. | |
| 3311e92 | When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace | R.C. Sproul | ||
| cef4edb | The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods." | sovereignty-of-god | R.C. Sproul | |
| d41d3b6 | She searched his face. "Why did you do this -- go to all this trouble, indulge in what I'm sure will prove a shockingly hideous expense? He returned he gaze steadily "You like music." It was that simple -- he let her read the truth in his eyes. Then she shivered. He reached for the shawl she'd left over her chair and held it up. She hesitated, then turned so he could drape it over her shoulders. Releasing the fine silk, he closed his hands .. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 8ced7cc | I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right. | Betty Smith | ||
| 1e0bec9 | Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story. | gertrude-stein information natural | Gertrude Stein | |
| 0ec7cc8 | And the world goes on regardless of joy or despair or one woman's fortune or one man's loss. And we can't know the lives of others. And we can't know our own lives beyond the details we can manage. And the things that change us forever happen without us knowing they would happen. And the moment that looks like the rest is the one where hearts are broken or healed. And time that runs so steady and sure runs wild outside the clocks. It takes .. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3904570 | What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence? | Joanne Harris | ||
| 0ec1ee7 | Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 6512bcf | It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away." | home love | Joanne Harris | |
| f76c3a9 | Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki | funny humor humour loki | Joanne Harris | |
| dbfb531 | if I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us... | Günter Grass | ||
| 05c0738 | Sometimes you have to fight fire with a blowtorch | Diane Mott Davidson | ||
| d2de767 | What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else? | Sue Grafton | ||
| 3fe52f6 | If you're unhappy, change something. | Sue Grafton | ||
| f4f4c38 | My mistakes burn me up inside. But as one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, says, while our mistakes make us want to cry, the world doesn't need more of that. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 8bd1d9d | What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question... | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 5b719d9 | Fathers should make you feel safe. | Karen Cushman | ||
| cd0b9ea | He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit. | relationship self | Richard Wright | |
| 68387b7 | Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly. | poverty | Richard Wright | |
| bbe9c71 | There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others! | Anne Frank | ||
| 1015b6e | Once someone's dead you can't make them undead. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 95d1d28 | When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 5392f4a | But in a story, which is a type of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| d7bef69 | It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 5135070 | precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 9e6d8ca | The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 1603316 | And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 666fb3f | This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table. | Patricia Highsmith |