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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a603f75 | What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force? | Jules Verne | ||
| 693c0d0 | I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread. | Jules Verne | ||
| 65deed5 | When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken. | Jules Verne | ||
| 3fcbed0 | Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. | idolatry technology | Jules Verne | |
| 0a2d205 | The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 998d007 | He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight." | Don DeLillo | ||
| 8e04aa4 | I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change. | Don DeLillo | ||
| aa24371 | May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan. | Don DeLillo | ||
| b70e17a | I'm just confused. Everything's confusing. Everything beautiful is far away, or maybe everything far away is beautiful. It's like how the grass is greener on the other side. Grass just looks nicer from the other side, you know? Grass where you're standing looks like dirt with hair. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 86c11af | Kim: "What, a coffee? Hollie, I have some bad news. I hate you, okay?" Hollie: "You hate everyone, Kim." Kim: "You're one of everyone." | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 60c6f51 | Perhaps they had decided they did not have it in them to do what would have needed to be done, to corral and bloody and where necessary slaughter the migrants, and had determined that some other way would have to be found. Perhaps they had grasped that the doors could not be closed, and new doors would continue to open, and they had understood that the denial of coexistence would have required one party to cease to exist, and the extinguish.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| ff54614 | Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic. | Richard Bach | ||
| 9bb55be | Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings." | Miriam Toews | ||
| bd69950 | My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. | freedom home plane separation | Richard Bach | |
| 5b1f95a | For this was the other thing that Elric knew: that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance. | elric resistance tyranny | Michael Moorcock | |
| b563378 | She had always been beautiful in his eyes, and admirable, too. He had worshipped her, in some ways, for her courage in adversity, for her resistance to the ways of his own world. But that had been bravery under siege and now, it seemed, she single-handedly gave siege to the same society which, a few months before, had threatened to engulf and destroy her identity. There was a determination in her bearing, a lightness, an air of confidence, .. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 71bb12c | FIRST YOU PILLAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. | Linda Howard | ||
| 336397b | Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you. | Mark Steyn | ||
| d40d185 | In a world of apples and kisses and shoes He wasted his wishes on wishing. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 29752f1 | I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly. "Bring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?" | funny-and-random | MaryJanice Davidson | |
| ba79764 | If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore. | Michelle Sagara | ||
| c7008c9 | Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not. | kaylin | Michelle Sagara West | |
| cb98e7c | Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers" | Daniel Clowes | ||
| ed6c9d6 | Yeah, the elf looks good in the sun," Jenks smart-mouthed, the pixy currently sitting on the bottom of my hooped earrings and out of the moderate wind. "When you going to put us all out of your misery and boink him?" | jenks rachel-morgan trent-kalamack | Kim Harrison | |
| 78b76e9 | Don't stereotype, Jenks. HAPA is an equal-opportunity hate group," I said." -- | Kim Harrison | ||
| 6f90e1b | My office is trashed," he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. "Why are you smiling? My fish are dead." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3c49785 | I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 058319e | The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I cannot," it said softly. "For all I am and all I have been, you are human. You are loved for your inventiveness, both good and bad. I can kill, but you can create. You can even create...an end," it said wistfully. "That's something I will never be able to do. Accept this. Create." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 8bfab49 | The quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet. Can I make you a cake?" Big Al to Pierce, then Rachel." | Kim Harrison | ||
| ea14582 | You can trust me to keep my word. I always keep my word, promises or threats. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 05dc340 | I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered. | kim-harrison | Kim Harrison | |
| ff5b4af | His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for her, as ridiculous as that sounds, and he might be tempted to take matters into his hands. | jonathan quen rachen-morgan romance the-hollows trent-kalamack urban-fantasy | Kim Harrison | |
| 633646e | She smiled with the warmth of a penguin. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 570e130 | The F word turns me on, she whispered. The F word? Food He threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn`t tinged with bitterness and cynicism. | humor laughter sandra-brown | Sandra Brown | |
| 6e3d889 | Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word." | christ christianity god jesus jesus-christ jesus-shock philosophy pontius-pilate theology truth | Peter Kreeft | |
| c9a7a3d | Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul. | god soul | Peter Kreeft | |
| a3d30ef | Just as Amy took the credit for making me my best self, I had to take the blame for bringing the madness to bloom in Amy. There were a million men who would have loved, honored, and obeyed Amy and considered themselves lucky to do so. Confident, self-assured, real men who wouldn't have forced her to pretend to be anything but her own perfect, rigid, demanding, brilliant, creative, fascinating, rapacious, megalomaniac self. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 30019ff | I knew you could do it, I knew you could, Libby," she mumbled into my hair, warm and smoky. "Do what?" "Try just a little harder." -- | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 079b5da | I know, I know, I'm being a girl. | girl girl-problems over-thinking stereotypes thoughts women | Gillian Flynn | |
| 92295b4 | Isn't a smile a girl's best weapon? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 2e39232 | Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes. | Joan Didion | ||
| 3e5305f | Dolphins, I learned from J. Worden of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study at Massachusetts General Hospital, had been observed refusing to eat after the death of a mate. Geese had been observed reacting to such a death by flying and calling, searching until they themselves became disoriented and lost. | Joan Didion | ||
| aedcec1 | He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it. | Paul Auster | ||
| c042873 | Words were no longer simply words, but a curious codes of silence, a way of speaking that continually moved around the thing that was being said. As long as we avoided the real subject, the spell would not broken. We both slipped naturally into this kind of banter, and it became all the more powerful because neither of us abandoned the character. We knew what we were doing, but at the same time we pretended not to. Thus my courtship of Soph.. | Paul Auster |