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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 11602d8 | Because the reward is worth the risk. | Susan Mallery | ||
| f67003e | It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars. | descriptive donna-tartt early-morning stars the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| ddb2905 | A goodbye at the gate," said Hobie. He seemed to be talking partly to himself. "That's what he would have wanted. The parting glimpse, the death haiku - he wouldn't have liked to leave without stopping to speak to someone along the way. 'A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms on the way to death." | Donna Tartt | ||
| ad25693 | No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 8fbc6e1 | Now when I die, I shall only be dead. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 4ae4e1d | Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well--as though they'd been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all--while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed wi.. | life | Richard Matheson | |
| a7b025c | What perfectly sensible advice. It sat in my stomach, an indigestible lump. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1c1018d | He'd also agreed to be betrothed to the Archduke of Varsha's daughter, a girl of nine who had evidently impressed him a great deal by being able to spit across a garden plot. I was a little dubious about this as a foundation for marriage, but I suppose it wasn't much worse than marrying her because her father might have stirred up rebellion, otherwise. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 315f1df | To allow ourselves to be truly in touch with where we already are, no matter where that is, we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in its fullness, to hold it in awareness and thereby come to know and understand it better. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 557a73f | See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging. | peace zen | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| aa70e0b | But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it. | magicians novelists | Susanna Clarke | |
| 464d73b | Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 38a7242 | Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to. | William Maxwell | ||
| 50b7501 | Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, " I told him. "You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all I have learned from you." | friendship relationships william-maxwell | Cornelia Maude Spelman | |
| 93996f9 | I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave. | William Maxwell | ||
| 9e55ac6 | The feeling that the world was at my feet and the feeling that I alone was cut off from the world, the sense of power and the anxiety, had both stayed with me ever since that evening at the pond. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 8ab98b0 | You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body. | death suicide | Ryū Murakami | |
| 3f38815 | The song was the late Ishihara Yujiro's "Rusty Knife," and Sakaguchi's singing was so bad that it gave the lyric a strange new pathos and poignancy. Listening to his version, Suzuki Midori was reminded that no one ever said it would be easy to go on living in this world; Takeuchi Midori pondered the noble truth that nobody's life consists exclusively of happy times; Henmi Midori vowed to remember that it's best to keep an open heart and for.. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 39cd218 | Los ninos luchaban con desesperacion por amar a sus padres. De hecho, antes que odiar a un padre, elegian odiarse a si mismos. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 9db5dea | She stepped towards the door beneath the sign, then stopped and looked back at him. 'You'll be right here, right?' 'I promise.' 'And you'll stay with me tonight, won't you?' 'Of course. I won't leave you.' I've got to snuff her as soon as possible and get this over with, Kawashima thought as he watched her enter the building. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 61a850b | In Japan, even when you're alone, you're never really that lonely. But the loneliness you feel living among people with differently coloured skin and eyes, whose language you don't even speak very well - that sort of loneliness is something you feel down to the marrow of your bones. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 7192bb1 | A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 79f1002 | She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief. | page-184 | George Saunders | |
| 260cb8d | I think that if there is a hell it's just a place where you're left all alone, with nobody around you. Man, when you're alone you don't have to burn, just being by yourself for all of time would be the worst punishment the Old Man could give you | Rudolfo Anaya | ||
| d173805 | Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile...But this happy sensation wears off. After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived. | gratitude privilege | Alan Lightman | |
| cab7f7a | In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives. | Alan Lightman | ||
| c309c40 | While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. | time | Alan Lightman | |
| 2263a49 | Nix was so beautiful yet so damaged." - Uilleam MacRieve ~" | Kresley Cole | ||
| b713a8f | Old as carbon," Nix agreed. "And so powerful I'm working on my demigoddess badges." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 240d722 | When drops from the canopy kissed her face, he drew his wings over his head, creating a shelter. "I've always room for you too." | Kresley Cole | ||
| c9b9067 | Tell me, Lothaire, I want to know. Convince me why I should love you." "Because any other female would!" | funny humour paranormal-romance romance | Kresley Cole | |
| 125fc40 | Unexpected Elizabeth wasn't falling into his arms as he'd anticipated, even after he had acted heroic and been valiantly injured. Perhaps he lost her. | humour paranormal-romance romance | Kresley Cole | |
| d413ce7 | Jackson snorted. And Selena play-slapped his chest, like he was her mischievous boyfriend. At that, the inital I'd felt transformed into | bitch cut evie jackson jealousy kresely-cole poison-princess selena | Kresley Cole | |
| 251db8c | Regin: "I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do." | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 3c71665 | The Empress doesn't get collared, or caged, or tortured. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 288b839 | Once I faced a female with diamond skin," Nix said breathlessly. "I was transfixed - even as she was choking the life out of me." "Really?" " No, I saw that character on X men. I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses." "Except your insanity," Lucia pointed out. sigh. "Well played, Archer. then carry on..." | nix-the-ever-knowing | Kresley Cole | |
| 6e43989 | I spent the morning as the ceiling in the warlocks' tent. Found out that the hobbies of Those Best Forgotten include long walks on the beach and sacrificing nymphs on altars. I mean, who'd want to hurt a nymph? That's like kicking a rainbow in the nuts. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 588f48a | MacRieve, you're on my cloak. Let up -. Give it back!" "It was slowing you - and therefore me - down." "If you had gone first - " "I dinna. If you want it, why no' use magick to take it from me?" "You really do not want me to do that." "You really must no' want your cloak back. Come then, witchling, just take it from me." "Keep the cloak. It'll be worth money one day." "Doona fret, witch. You're no' so unbecoming from my angle. Bit scrawny .. | Kresley Cole | ||
| c87bf7b | She stretched, pulling out her earbuds, which apparently in Lykae was code for 'Interogate me,' because the questions, they came a-calling. | kresley-cole lykae | Kresley Cole | |
| 743ae19 | Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations. | hallucinations music musical-hallucinations neuroscience psychology science | Oliver Sacks | |
| 9006de7 | Damn stupid vampires and their stupid sense of stupid superiority- | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 5814fe6 | lfn mra@ yr~ fyh lmr wjhh hw. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 374d7c0 | Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 7445224 | That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end." | Jon Ronson |