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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cb9ecf3 | I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 56b8e0f | You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 9791265 | The truth may be better than lies... But it doesn't always set you free. | Harlan Coben | ||
| ad13103 | They say possesions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 66d14d5 | Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school." | high-school humor mickey shelter | Harlan Coben | |
| 40b5f0c | Doctors kept stressing that mental disease was the same as physical disease. Telling someone who was clinically depressed, for example, to shake it off and get out of the house was tantamount to telling a man with two broken legs to sprint across the room. That was all well and good in theory, but in practice, the stigma continued. Maybe, to be more charitable, it was because you could hide a mental disease. | mental-illness | Harlan Coben | |
| 63e3c9c | So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell." Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely." | Harlan Coben | ||
| 8f62cc6 | At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| ffa267a | There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot | hercule-poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| 6137560 | There is nothing so terrible as to live in an atmosphere of suspicion - to see eyes watching you and the love in them changing to fear - nothing so terrible as to suspect those near and dear to you - It is poisonous - a miasma. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 18d135c | I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves," said Joanna. "It arouses all my worst instincts." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 47150e8 | I find most of the human race extraordinarily repulsive. They probably reciprocate this feeling. | human-race sad-cypress | Agatha Christie | |
| b853227 | Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3b68091 | Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule, | Agatha Christie | ||
| 7f7ee1e | Alas," murmured Poirot to his mustaches, "that one can only eat three times a day ..." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 200ab09 | Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie? | women | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| d620aec | A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts. | library | Alberto Manguel | |
| 18bded4 | All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone. | reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| c94950f | There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| 381cf70 | Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny." | frank glass humor incognito looking milliners queendom redd scholar seeing tan tyranny wars weird | Frank Beddor | |
| 3e6b4ff | For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!" | dead glass imperial looking man odd random redd seeing service useless viciousness vollrath wars wonderland | Frank Beddor | |
| 77b5375 | Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty te.. | Frank Beddor | ||
| 9a2670d | Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?" Alyss shook her head. How could she know? "Alyssians." Bibwit spelled it out. Her heart gave a little jump. Alyssians? No, they ask too much of me. "I don't think I'm ready for all of this," she said." | Frank Beddor | ||
| 148784d | It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268) | comfort food good-times | Ron Rash | |
| 33fddfc | Margaret's attention was thus called to her host; his whole manner as master of the house, and entertainer of his friends, was so straightforward, yet simple and modest, as to be thoroughly dignified. Margaret thought she had never seen him to so much advantage. When he had come to their house, there had been always something, either of over-eagerness or of that kind of vexed annoyance which seemed ready to pre-suppose that he was unjustly .. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| f912ea1 | Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better. | love | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 4a06aa1 | I see you are in a dilemma, and one of a peculiar and difficult nature. Two paths lie before you; you conscientiously wish to choose the right one, even though it be the most steep, straight, and rugged; but you do not know which is the right one; you cannot decide whether duty and religion command you to go out into the cold and friendless world, and there to earn your living by governess drudgery, or whether they enjoin your continued sta.. | Charlotte Bronte | ||
| fb25905 | I'm the worst kind of criminal." "And what kind is that?" "The kind that got caught." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 309a128 | There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 194ef1a | When statistics come in saying that only 29 percent of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42 percent of British women - I used to think, What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of 'liberation for women' is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? 'Vogue' by Madonna? Jeans? Did all that good shit GET ON YOUR NERVES? Or were you just D.. | humour | Caitlin Moran | |
| 1a64182 | Quite like old times,' the room says. | Jean Rhys | ||
| c1c1c75 | The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first? | Jean Rhys | ||
| 82396cf | Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe. | goddess liar love lover mistress worship | Jean Rhys | |
| ba441b5 | You look tired," Rachel told Jason. "I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time." "Can't you?" Ferrin asked, joining them at the little cascade. "I always imagined that you could sleep rolling down a mountainside in a barrel." "I probably could today," Jason conceded." | humor mull rebellion seeds sleep | Brandon Mull | |
| ebdc020 | Jason and Ferrin turned. Aram, face shiny with sweat, pulled a small pair of pants over his skinny legs. His shrunken hands trembled. Ferrin struggled not to smile. He was unsuccessful. Ferrin's involuntary grin forced Jason to bite his lip to keep from laughing. Ferrin noticed and began to shake, eyes watering. Aram hastily pulled on a shirt. Then he folded his arms, glaring grumpily up at the others. "Go ahead, let it out, have a good lau.. | brandon humor mull rebellion seeds | Brandon Mull | |
| 06f23ad | After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take? | Brandon Mull | ||
| 3628903 | He's stubborn," Tux warned in a singsong tone. | demon fablehaven humor keys mull prison | Brandon Mull | |
| aa2dbfe | Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374 | Brandon Mull | ||
| 7405568 | When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it? | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 192fef3 | To encounter a fine book | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| d4cd5ee | poems are small moments of enlightenment | poet poetry poetry-life poetry-quotes writing writing-craft | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 868d79d | These problems have been here so long that the only way I've been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively. | coping panic | Mark Bowden | |
| cc8cd35 | To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd. | crowd | Louis L'Amour | |
| e73383a | there is always a but in this imperfect world! | Anne Brontë |