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| a7c4295 | The worl is ful of things waiting to happen. Thats the meat and boan of it right there. You myt think you can jus go here and there doing nothing. Happening nothing. You cant tho you bleeding cant. You put your self on any road and some thing wil show its self to you. Wanting to happen. Waiting to happen. You myt say, 'I dont want to know.' But 1ce its showt its self to you you wil know wont you. You cant not know no mor. There it is and wo.. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 54acb6b | Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 50510e2 | I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns." | humor | John Kennedy Toole | |
| dbd4aab | A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. In the shadow under the green .. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 4a158b4 | I'm not studying the heroes who lead navies--and armies--and win wars. I'm studying ordinary people who you wouldn't expect to be heroic, but who, when there's a crisis, show extraordinary bravery and self-sacrifice. Like Jenna Geidel, who gave her life vaccinating people during the Pandemic. And the fishermen and retired boat owners and weekend sailors who rescued the British Army from Dunkirk. And Wells Crowther, the twenty-four-year-old .. | Connie Willis | ||
| 9d4c113 | And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings--the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them as public mood dictates. | words | Simon Winchester | |
| d3ecfb4 | You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure. | Jay McInerney | ||
| b3b86b6 | What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday. The comfort he got from the hard, cold truth--the filth, the war, the poverty--was that life could be capable of small beauties. He wasn't interested in a honey-soaked heaven. To him that was a dressing room for hell. Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the pre.. | Colum McCann | ||
| 223fa57 | She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea. | Colum McCann | ||
| 1444cc6 | I forgive you, but no more lies." "None." She leaned away and propped herself up on an elbow. "I'm serious, Kash. Not even the forgiving lies to save me from getting my feelings hurt. If I ask you if my butt looks big, you can't lie." "Woman, you barely even have an ass. That was the worst example you could have used." | Molly McAdams | ||
| 6119196 | Lesbian?" Payton turned around and saw J.D. standing there. Maybe it was the wine. Maybe she was basking in the glow of their successful pitch to Gibson's. Maybe it was her promise to Laney to be the "New Payton," or maybe it was a combination of all those things. But Payton actually found herself smiling at J.D. It's just an excuse, the lesbian thing," she said." -- | practice-makes-perfect | Julie James | |
| 6ce8d2b | You know, sometimes you look at me with longing... ... even though I'm here with you. | Craig Thompson | ||
| afd931a | It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| a8729d2 | The way I see it," Miles went on, "it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of your own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world." | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| b0a37c3 | Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. Thats the way it's suppose to be. That's the way it is. If we didn't move it out ourself, it would stay here forever, trying to get loose, but stuck. That's what us Tucks are, Winnie. We ain't par.. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| e39c3f2 | Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and material, soothing the sadness of our condition and the embarrassments of real life, killing time in entertaining fashion, and where there's nothing to be achieved, occupying the place of what is vicious, better, at any rate, than vice. | hegel | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| d416cf1 | Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God. | religion | Reza Aslan | |
| 71f01d0 | Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess. A daughter belongs to her father, a wife to her husband. A woman's own desires present obstacles for men and are best ignored. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| cfcee2f | If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I? Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 684857d | A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale," who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence--briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing--cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society." -- | Erich Fromm | ||
| fb595af | Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. HORACE WALPOLE | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 63d6570 | I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance. | food hollandaise inspirational | Michael Ruhlman | |
| 1441b62 | Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need | say-say-say | Michael Jackson | |
| 2c85040 | When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and.. | public-opinion sociology trends | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 09c7079 | People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. | sanity | G.K. Chesterton | |
| ecdde3d | What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost." | gabriel-syme lamppost professor-de-worms scientific-detachment | G.K. Chesterton | |
| fef613b | Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller. It is a common error, I think, among the Radical idealists of my own party and period to suggest t.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 482df2a | We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair." -- | Philip Pullman | ||
| be68c17 | Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 88f185d | Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years shown a shred of compassion for sympathy or kindness without calculating how it would return to your advantage. You have tortured and killed without regret or hesitation; you have betrayed and intrigued and gloried in your treachery. You are a cess-pit of moral filth. | marisa-coulter metatron | Philip Pullman | |
| 52b70cd | Well," said Mary, "love is ferocious, too." | love | Philip Pullman | |
| 8bd80b6 | Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza. | companionship writing | Nicholas Tucker | |
| 9fd5ad3 | It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 47079e2 | She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f014942 | Like a primitive savage, who sets out to tame the wilderness armed with nothing but a knife and his indomitable will, I will persevere. I will wrestle victory from the greedy jaws of defeat. I shall rise like a bird of prey upon the current of the wind, my talons raised for the kill, and I shall strike true." Oh wow. I hope the inn filmed that." | sweep-in-peace | Ilona Andrews | |
| 2bad086 | I think of you a lot. Do you think of me, Andrea? Don't lie to me." "Yes!" I snarled, my face burning. "Yes, I do! All the time. I can't get you out of my head. I wish I could!" He hugged me so hard, my bones nearly crunched. "You've made yourself into a new person and so have I. We deserve a fucking chance. I want you and you want me. Why aren't we together? I'll deal with your hang-ups if you'll deal with mine, but if you're still too sca.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 87ccb7c | The only way to make sure that the Hand didn't get to you would have been to kill your brother. I could've done it, but I didn't. I just gave him some drugs." "You gave an addict in rehab drugs, and you want credit for it?" "Of course it sounds bad when you put it that way." | audrey fate-s-edge funny ilona-andrews kaldar the-edge | Ilona Andrews | |
| a0ea7d9 | Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to? | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 06dfc55 | Are you going to help me or just make fun of me?" "Can't I do both?" | kate-daniels snarky | Ilona Andrews | |
| 32bc65d | Maybe you should make me a list of people I can kill and ways in which they're allowed to die," he said. "You are not funny." "I'm very funny. Just ask Peaches." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 737f2a5 | You could buy a car for fifty thousand dollars. A really nice car." Ascanio's eyes lit up. "A Hummer. You could buy a converted Hummer." "You don't need a Hummer." I said. "Chicks dig the Hummer." "You don`t need any chicks either." He gave me an injured look. "I have needs." "I have needs too and right now I need you to concentrate on tracking down Jamar`s collection. Get to it." - Andrea & Ascanio" | ascanio gunmetal-magic ilona-andrews | Ilona Andrews | |
| a9a5bc7 | You're a survivor. Voron put you on the edge of that cliff again and again until he conditioned you to claw onto life. You'll do whatever you have to do to survive, and I'm your only chance of getting out. At first you'll balk, but with every passing hour my offer will look better and better. You'll convince yourself that dying will accomplish nothing and you should at least go out with a bang. You'll tell yourself that you're accepting my .. | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 02a9b4c | I took the jacket off, changed my T-shirt for a dark gray tank top, slipped on the tangle of the back sheath, and put the jacket on again. Thugs are us. Great. Just add a super-tight ponytail and loads of mascara, and I'd be ripe to play a supervillain's evil mistress. Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e37b0ac | His beard was nonexistent, except for a carefully trimmed goatee that met his mustache on both sides of his mouth. The overall effect was decidedly villainous. He needed a black horse and a barbarian horde to lead. That or a crew of cutthroats, a ship with blood-red sails, and some knucklehead heroine to lust after. "Look, I've had a bad day. How about you just walk away from my Jeep?" The volhv smiled wider, flashing even white teeth. If.. | kate-daniels kate-humor roman | Ilona Andrews |