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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a5c12a7 | The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 4703d49 | Her shining tresses, divided in two parts, encircle the harmonious contour of her white and delicate cheeks, brilliant in their glow and freshness. Her ebony brows have the form and charm of the bow of Kama, the god of love, and beneath her long silken lashes the purest reflections and a celestial light swim, as in the sacred lakes of Himalaya, in the black pupils of her great clear eyes. Her teeth, fine, equal, and white, glitter between h.. | ucaf-uddaul | Jules Verne | |
| 34203d9 | why something and not nothing? why music and not noise? | don-delillo | Don DeLillo | |
| f03f4a2 | In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2c6c69d | Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes. There must always be believers. Fools, idiots, those who hear voices, those who speak in tongues. We are your lunatics. We surrender our lives to make your nonbelief possible. You are sure that you are right but you don't want everyone to think as you do. Ther.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 1f82916 | Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8586f23 | In the subways, in many of the streets, in corners of the park at night, contact could be dangerous. Contact was not a word or a touch but the air that flashed between strangers. | Don DeLillo | ||
| ae20227 | If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 405fcf0 | It's like we've been flung back in time," he said. "Here we are in the Stone Age, knowing all these great things after centuries of progress but what can we do to make life easier for the Stone Agers? Can we make a refrigerator? Can we even explain how it works? What is electricity? What is light? We experience these things every day of our lives but what good does it do if we find ourselves hurled back in time and we can't even tell people.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 74aa30f | The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. | life speech words writing | Don DeLillo | |
| cffd712 | The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 0900475 | Stephen... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive? | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 3346b23 | And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best. | reminiscing thinking | Bryan Lee O'Malley | |
| 19f7805 | What else is belief but direction? | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| b246b9a | Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be. | relationships self | Mohsin Hamid | |
| b92fbad | The end of the world can be cozy at times. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 9637aca | It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| c23f571 | It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals. | morality | Mohsin Hamid | |
| eeb14d2 | You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it? | Richard Bach | ||
| bb6a608 | Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead. | fascination life | Richard Bach | |
| 86c4a19 | Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. | Richard Bach | ||
| 781d0a2 | Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one." | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 22a8dd3 |
Sabes por que se llama sindrome premenstrual? --No te atreveras --amenazo ella--. Solo las mujeres pueden hacer chistes de eso. --Porque la expresion < |
Linda Howard | ||
| 6c98896 | You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core. | humor joking questions wit | Kevin Brockmeier | |
| 5972abc | Piss on my daisies, we have to save the demons! | kim-harrison rachel-morgan | Kim Harrison | |
| 1cd3387 | I think she suspects something, though. We've had cherry pie for dessert five nights in a row." His voice drawled, and my smile deepened." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 550f7a2 | Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 74b38eb | If it was up to me, I'd choose the hard path with the easy ending, not the easy path with the hard end. | trent-kalamack | Kim Harrison | |
| d55c921 | You should be dead," he said, his voice full of wonder. "How is it that you're still alive?" Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip on me, trying to get my fingers between him and my wrist. "I work hard at it." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 71690d1 | Damn it all to Disneyland! Where's crap for brains? | Kim Harrison | ||
| 2070c52 | I pushed him away, catching Lee's awe that I was not only standing with a demon outside a circle, but that Al was treating me like an equal. Or maybe a favorite pet, I amended as Al caught me when I started to tilt. | Kim Harrison | ||
| baabd0f | I held my bag open and he dropped Jenks inside. "Hey!" the pixy protested, and then, "Tink's little pink dildo, Rache? Haven't you gotten rid of those condoms yet? They got a shelf life, you know." | jenks rachel-morgan | Kim Harrison | |
| 37cd52a | If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that." | Kim Harrison | ||
| fec2ee0 | We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find." "Don't hold your breath," she said. He stepped toward her casually, amusement flickering around his lips. She tensed, her eyes checking for a way to run. "Or..." His hand lashed out, grabbed her, and whipped her into his arms, where he held her tight. "We can take it fast and rough." | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| 47ccbda | Fate has a twisted sense of humor. | humor ironic | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | |
| 5eb406c | The good stuff in me I got from my mom. I can joke, I can laugh, I can tease, I can celebrate and support and praise - I can operate in sunlight, basically - but I can't deal with angry or tearful women. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ecf6ae4 | I'm just tired of people judging me because I fit into a certain mold. | judging mold prejudice stereotypes | Gillian Flynn | |
| 6e45537 | Love should require both partners to be very best at all times. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4a52b9c | Should I remove my soul before I come inside? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e767685 | Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kid grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground. | child family | Gillian Flynn | |
| 2fa96d7 | I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper pastel pastorals, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The latter was particularly strange, since I'd known little about Mrs. Roosevelt, except that she was good, which at the time I suppose was enough. Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of W.. | revenge | Gillian Flynn | |
| b938fd3 | I'm not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 665a32d | Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow queen. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 7733b32 | Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet. | blame disagreements judgmental | Gillian Flynn |