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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b9c1498 | Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| c5c432b | Morelli smiled. "It could have been Jenny Ragucci. That makes much more sense. I had good luck with sluts." I looked over at him. All in the past," Morelli said. "I'm a cupcake man now." Whoa, dude," Mooner said. "That's so, like, cosmic." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| eb46051 | I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 5c90404 | It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| bf23688 | My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. "We think this guy killed Fred." "Who's Fred?" "My uncle," I told him. "He's married to Mabel." "Ah so you're avenging a murder in the family. This is a good thing." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 2bb526d | In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment. | mystery stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 781ca92 | Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty. | p221 wisdom | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 689d630 | Man is incurably curious. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 2e21db2 | ynbGy 'n tbd' Hqwq lnsn fy lmnzl | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| 1744cb6 | La memoria sabe de mi mas que yo; y ella no pierde lo que merece ser salvado. | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| d8dfc54 | La historia es un profeta con la mirada vuelta hacia atras: por lo que fue, y contra lo que fue, anuncia lo que sera. | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| 586a895 | But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1effa32 | Well...," Jonas had to stop and think it through. "If everything's the same, then there are no choices! I want to wake up in the morning and DECIDE things! A blue tunic, or a red one?" | Lois Lowry | ||
| ec2626d | And you know what, Thin Elderly? Sad parts are important. If I ever get to train a new young dreamgiver, that's one of the things I'll teach: that you must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 47efbf8 | That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 6debb50 | To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 215f15e | Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus. | John Banville | ||
| 21f3cb4 | You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 07a83fc | You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals." "Totally. Well, not like real bisexuals who are just sort of your everyday people, but, like, the kind of bisexuals you see in magazines wearing nothing but body paint and kissing both boys and girls to promote a new single." "Totally, totally hot." | Libba Bray | ||
| 7a6297e | The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute." | murder shoes | Libba Bray | |
| 67922f7 | On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls' sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear. | Libba Bray | ||
| ed35a7b | There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy. | Libba Bray | ||
| b18db84 | DiscomfortWear(tm), shapewear designed to eliminate rills, ripples, and muffin tops. In some cases known to eliminate circulation and breathing. If you're not uncomfortable, it's not DiscomfortWear(tm). | Libba Bray | ||
| cee770f | Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week's time. | the-diviners | Libba Bray | |
| e4e1aa2 | Adina sat up. "It's denigrating and objectifying." "No. It's eye shadow and lipstick and sex and mystery and magic and transformation and fun. And nobody's taking that away from me. You will pry my Petal Power lip gloss out of my cold, dead hands," Shanti insisted." | Libba Bray | ||
| 922c76c | There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they contribute to the society itself? They reap its rewards without experiencing its costs. No. I submit that loyal, hardworking citizens who push aside their own selfish desires for the good of the whole are the backbone of the world. What if we all decided to run off and live freely without thought or care for societ.. | Libba Bray | ||
| c05146f | Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you, God," Petra said." -- | humor humour | Libba Bray | |
| 82e4906 | It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is. | Libba Bray | ||
| 36ec06a | She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams. | Libba Bray | ||
| 07c50c8 | I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff. | Libba Bray | ||
| f528d83 | It was funny how their odd little family of friends had changed him. Made him feel safe. Theta, Memphis, Henry, Jericho, Mabel, Ling, Isaiah, and especially Evie. They'd been there for him. Opened the parts of him he was afraid would be closed off forever. Why had he wasted so much time bottling up his feelings? What did that ever get anybody but dumb fights? He had friends. He had a home in them. And Evie was home, too. | Libba Bray | ||
| 6438bc8 | The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind. | Libba Bray | ||
| cc026e2 | No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives? | Libba Bray | ||
| 5b8bfd1 | In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden. | Libba Bray | ||
| cda5764 | But how did you fight an enemy who never fought fair? Didn't you have to break the rules to win against the Devil? | fairness justice | Libba Bray | |
| ea33051 | It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 413f840 | I will write my way into another life. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 6cb28ba | He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back. | death meditation motherhood spirit | Ann Patchett | |
| 33db2ae | Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it? | Ann Patchett | ||
| 5f5f032 | The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver. | Ann Patchett | ||
| a9bb280 | Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 7aa8d5c | A woman eats to feed her pussy." Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification." | sex | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| b91681c | This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7b91232 | Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you. | Chuck Palahniuk |