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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0e58f98 | I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile. | family honor life loyalty mafia mob mobster pride protection | Holly Black | |
| 82d3568 | Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?" | beautiful books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya | Holly Black | |
| ceccb87 | I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did. | books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya | Holly Black | |
| ebad8f4 | I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's. | Holly Black | ||
| 8cbfe61 | It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of." | Holly Black | ||
| ee93eba | She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me. | Holly Black | ||
| 38cb27a | I've stripped my life down," he told me. "I don't need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here." He shot himself in the head with his fingers. "People don't understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they'll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there's nothing but me and the sky. A million billion s.. | Holly Black | ||
| ff0f231 | Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love." | Holly Black | ||
| 38416a9 | For I know that Death is a guest divine, Who shall drink my blood as I drink this wine. --William Winter | Holly Black | ||
| f29d24d | It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything." | Holly Black | ||
| ba57e7f | That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did. | faded-memory holly-black memory monstrous paranormal-romance scars tana-bach tana-s-mother the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown | Holly Black | |
| 007f59a | Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea. | Holly Black | ||
| db6832d | Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts. | conspiracies hidden lies secrets sharing-secrets truth | Holly Black | |
| 1e8ad3a | Every day that I don't beg Cardan for forgiveness over a feud he started is a day I win. He can humiliate me, but every time he does and I don't back down, he makes himself less powerful. After all, he's throwing everything he's got at someone as weak as I am and it's not working. He's going to take himself down. | Holly Black | ||
| 9ae4157 | If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, - a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul, - if ever you have so loved, that all cold prudence, all selfish worldly considerations have gone down like drift-wood before a river flooded with new rain from heaven, so that you even forgot yourself, and were ready to cast your whole being into the chasm of existence, as an offering before the feet of another, and all fo.. | love lovers | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 745d35f | When you tell me to be good, it makes me want to be good,' I say, hearing the undisguised desire in my voice. I run my fingers through the hair at her temples, taking her face between my palms, and she doesn't move. 'It also makes me want to be very, very bad. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 1c79617 | Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 258c978 | But girls willing to share your bed don't equal girls willing to put up with your random crap moods, listen to your exhaustive legal opinions, or support your life's goals the way someone who loves you would. | jacqueline | Tammara Webber | |
| 441f1d7 | He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 6b5dba3 | Uncle Joe used to spend a fair amount of time in the loony bin. My family wasn't bothered by his regular trips to and from 'the facility'--they'd shrug and say, , and they'd put him in the car and take him in. One day Uncle Frank...was driving Uncle Joe to the crazy place. When they got there, Joe asked Frank to drop him off at the door while Frank went and parked the car. Frank didn't think much of it, and dropped him off. Joe went inside.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 2b35ff2 | I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a pair in the dressing room, afraid they will now, as then, get stuck at my hips and there I will stand, absurd, staring at the excess of hips that should, if I were a good person, be ,,slim"." | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 8865291 | The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead. | dead | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 84326d6 | There was a time I stopped talking, just like you. My reasons were a little bit different, but... I think the feelings of being ashamed of myself and hating myself... are the same. Here it says "to like yourself." What does that mean? Good things---how are you supposed to find them? I only know things that I hate about myself. Because that's all I know: I hate myself. Even if your force yourself to find good things... it feels so It doesn.. | self-esteem | Natsuki Takaya | |
| c9d48d3 | You see, you have feelings. You can appreciate the inner me. Like right now I feel a closeness between us that Ive never felt with anyone before ... anyone. Yeah, I know what you mean. Thats how I feel. I don't know if I can put it into words, but-- Thats just it, it doesnt need words. Thats the whole point. Like whats the use of all those words when the feelings arent behind them. Theyre just words. Like I can look at a painting and tell i.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 56c79f8 | I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off - the sticky evidence is everywhere! | Philip Roth | ||
| ce9c757 | Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it. | Philip Roth | ||
| 9ab453f | Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long. | patience time | Charles Baudelaire | |
| b9a3d00 | and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| b0d2363 | From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him one little pet. He is my household's guardian soul; He judges, he presides, inspires All matters in his royal realm; Might he be fairy? or a god? When my eyes, to this cat I love Drawn as by a magnet's force, Turn tamely back upon that appeal, And when I look within myself, I notice with astonishment The fire.. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 4bca41e | No, I don't have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don't know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret. | Karen Russell | ||
| 485ce2a | I can build a hyperphase jump gate, I'm sure I could have figured sex out. Insert Tab M into Slot F. Repeat until done. | Wen Spencer | ||
| abd2d93 | Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening. | Tony Parsons | ||
| e03c72b | Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point? | ghost-king god heaven morality r-a-salvatore religion | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 1db4b27 | Never seem to have a Death Star lying around when you need one." -Han Solo" | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| fb7b8b8 | Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me. | mind | Terry Pratchett | |
| a17706c | It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| eabe906 | Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked the box marked Not Applicable. It might help to think of the universe as a rubber sheet, or perhaps not. | physics space time topology | Terry Pratchett | |
| e2d0042 | Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.] | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 620e22d | The brain works fast when it thinks it's about to be cut in half. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 01e0444 | There's no educating a smart boy. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fe5e422 | Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 66e2c25 | There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins. | marching | Terry Pratchett | |
| e5ff5ec | Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. | reality | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6ade785 | SEE! I HAVE TIME. AT LAST, I HAVE TIME Albert backed away nervously. 'And now that you have it, what are you going to do with it?' he said. Death mounted his horse. I AM GOING TO SPEND IT. | Terry Pratchett |