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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc209d8 | Butch clapped V on the thigh, then stood up, as if he knew exactly what V was thinking. "Listen, I don't want you to feel bad. It's my animal magnetism. I'm irresistible." "Smart-ass." -- | black-dagger-brotherhood butch butch-vishous j-r-ward lover-unbound vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| f7897db | There was no reply. So Z glanced over again - just as a tear slide down Phury's cheek. "Ah...fuck," Z muttered. "Yeah. Pretty much." Another tear rolled out of Phury's eye. "God...damn. I'm leaking." "Okay, brace yourself." Phury scrubbed his face with his palms. "Why?" "Because... I think I'm going to try to hug you." | family love | J.R. Ward | |
| 79854a5 | You are just as beautiful as the first time I saw you ... You stopped my heart then - just froze it in my chest. And you stop it now. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 9a7dd80 | There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 23b57ec | He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| b378a75 | If we both believe that we have nothing to learn from the other, is it not obvious that we will both be wrong? | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| ab27954 | For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the pool of individuals who had the necessary qualifications. It had taken the human race several thousand years to realize that there were some jobs that should never be given to the people who volunteered for them, especially if they showed too much enthusiasm. As one shrewed political commentator had remarked:.. | politics | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 18b9c16 | Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one. | Stephen M.R. Covey | ||
| aed8ad5 | Cultures of honor tend to take root in highlands and other marginally fertile areas, such as Sicily or the mountainous Basque regions of Spain. If you live on some rocky mountainside, the explanation goes, you can't farm. You probably raise goats or sheep, and the kind of culture that grows up around being a herdsman is very different from the culture that grows up around growing crops. The survival of a farmer depends on the cooperation of.. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 02d4195 | Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. | first-impressions passion | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 9c499e0 | A painless lesson is one without any meaning, one who does not sacrifice anything cannot achieve anything. | sacrifice | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| 784a393 | Okay, I'm gonna do something slightly illegal now, so you just look the other way for a second. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 9c55544 | La poesia no es un conocimiento de si, y menos aun la experiencia de un lejano posible (de lo que anteriormente no existia) sino la simple evocacion con palabras de posibilidades inaccesibles. | experiencia palabras poesía | Georges Bataille | |
| 716f1a2 | Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth. | Georges Bataille | ||
| faddf6e | And, writing to you, I know that I cannot speak to you, but there is no way of preventing myself from speaking. I am going abroad, as far away as possible, but everywhere I go I shall be in the same delirium, the same whether far from you or near, for the pleasure in me depends on no one, it emanates from me alone, from the imbalance in me which perpetually frays my nerves. You can see it for yourself, you aren't the cause of it, I can do w.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 16cdb28 | We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity. | companionship | Georges Bataille | |
| 93899e7 | When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 981258c | Human life, distinct from juridical existence, existing as it does on a globe isolated in celestial space, from night to day and from one country to another--human life cannot in any way be limited to the closed systems assigned to it by reasonable conceptions. The immense travail of recklessness, discharge, and upheaval that constitutes life could be expressed by stating that life starts with the deficit of these systems; at least what it .. | Georges Bataille | ||
| b8b9333 | Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law -without which the law would have no end -independently of the necessity to create order. Literature cannot assume the task of regulating collective necessity. It should not conclude that 'what I have said commits us to a fundamental respect for the laws of the city' or, like Christianity, that 'what I have said (the tragedy of the Gospel) shows us the path of Good' (which is real.. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 6622636 | I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said. | John Green | ||
| deb1f0e | yh zmny myrsh khh hmh m mrdym. hmh mwn. yh zmny myrsh khh hych bny bshry bqy nmwndh khh Hty ydsh byd khsy wjwd khrjy dshth y gwnh y bshr Sl khry khrdh. khsy nmy mwnh khh rsTw y khly'wptr rw bh yd byrh, chh brsh bh tw. hmh y khrhyy khh khrdym w hmh chyzhyy khh nwshtym w skhtym, fkhr h w khshfytmwn hmh frmwsh myshn. hychy bqy nmy mwnh. shyd wn mwq` zwd brsh y shydm mylywn h sl Twl bkhshh, m Hty gh z mrg khwrshyd hm njt pyd khnym, nmytwnym bry.. | John Green | ||
| 6d2f6bd | I don't know whether it was the general anxiety of being on a date (albeit one with my would-be date sitting five people away from me) or the specific anxiety of having the Beast stare in my direction, but for some reason, I took off running after Takumi. I thought we were in the clear as we began to round the corner of the bleachers, but then I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a cylindrical orange object getting bigger and bigger, like a .. | John Green | ||
| 4402e77 | Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." | John Green | ||
| d0065dc | I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined. | John Green | ||
| 7546c68 | Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's like to be dying, and (b) not have died. | come dying houten like only person peter seem understand van | John Green | |
| cae3682 | Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to. | John Green | ||
| 979f2a6 | Yeah, people keep saying my other senses will improve to compensate, but CLEARLY NOT YET. Hi, Support Group Hazel. Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could. | John Green | ||
| a390c97 | The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by Rene Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then beneath it wrote in cursive Ceci n'est pas une pipe. ("This is not a pipe.") "I just don't get that shirt," Mom said. "Peter Van Houten will get it, trust me. There are like seven thousand Magritte references in An Imperial Affliction." "But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. "It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representa.. | John Green | ||
| 8c363eb | La ciudad era papel, pero los recuerdos no | John Green | ||
| f6fdfa4 | Wow," I said. "Are you making this up?" "Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like 'our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity'?" | John Green | ||
| 181e5f4 | weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. | John Green | ||
| 54fbabf | But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing .. | John Green | ||
| 09036d1 | Some infinites are longer than other infinites | john-green tfios the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| 239e7e0 | I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least. | John Green | ||
| 188018f | Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren. | hazel-grace john-gree tfios | John Green | |
| ba7eae5 | and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water. | friendship grief love | John Green | |
| 7310297 | Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain. | John Green | ||
| ad0f8fc | It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting. We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know? | John Green | ||
| 7577e91 | If taking a pill makes you different, like, if it changes the way-down you . . . that's just a screwed up idea, you know? Who's deciding what me means--me or the employees of the factory that make Lexapro? | John Green | ||
| 46cf2d5 | I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32) | john-green margo paper-towns unfair | John Green | |
| 9d8b05b | French. Feel. Finger. Fuck. | breasts kiss make-love make-out sex | John Green | |
| c4b351a | And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right." | wise | John Green | |
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| c3438a1 | So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful." | John Green |