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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 68f6a75 | That's arrogance, Harry. " he said, gently. "On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. And do you know why it's there?" "No?" I asked. He smiled again. "Because you have set a higher standard for yourself. You think that, because you have more power than others, you have to do more with it." "To whom much is given, much is required," I said, without looking up. He barked out a short laugh. "For someone who repeatedly tells me he.. | damned monsters redemption | Jim Butcher | |
| d985cbb | Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a2772f1 | Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable. | harry-dresden life | Jim Butcher | |
| aa6e15e | He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3557fce | So in addition to a feisty new Black Court partner in the war dance between the Council and the Vampire Courts, I also got angry lust bunny movies stars, deadly curses, and a thoroughly embarrassing job as my investigative cover. Oh, and bean curd pizza, which is just wrong. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3d4ac11 | Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 42d1d84 | Then her mouth is sliding against mine. Her lips open, soft and yielding. Our teeth click together, and she tastes like every dark thought I've ever had. | Holly Black | ||
| b7ad4a5 | We may not die from age, but we grow weary with it. | heir kingdom prince throne | Holly Black | |
| 5e09694 | Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?" Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment. "No" I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. "Tell me." | jude | Holly Black | |
| eef3cb2 | You said that you thought Queen Orlagh was waiting for an advantage to declare war. Instead, I think she is trying a new ruler--one she hopes she can trick or replace with another indebted to her. She thinks me young and feckless and means to take my measure." "So what?" I ask. "Our choice is to endure her games, no matter how deadly, or engage in a war we cannot win?" Cardan shakes his head and drinks another cup of tea. "We show her that .. | game replace right trick war young | Holly Black | |
| 03d1570 | Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom | dangerous dark enemies faerie fiction jude prince-cardan young-adult | Holly Black | |
| 1628bb1 | People like Aaron act all nice until suddenly they explode and banish some annoying geezer into the void. | Holly Black | ||
| b349aac | His song began to change. It grew softer, sweeter, like the morning after a long cry, when your head still hurt but your heart was no longer broken. | Holly Black | ||
| 18332ca | Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books. | readers reading | Holly Black | |
| c90de43 | For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything. | Holly Black | ||
| 8c91248 | Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic. | faeries faery fairyland fay the-night-market | Holly Black | |
| 5e24c7c | You can't!" Aaron said. "Didn't you hear anything I just told you? You could die! " Well, don't kill me," Call said. "How about our goal is not to die. Both of us. Not dying. Together." | Holly Black | ||
| 7673f11 | It was the first time that ever George had sat down on equal terms at any white man's table; and he sat down, at first, with some constraint, and awkwardness; but they all exhaled and went off like fog, in the genial morning rays of this simple overflowing kindness. This indeed, was a home, - home, -a word that George had never yet known a meaning for; and a belief in God, and trust in His providence, began to encircle his heart, as, with a.. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 652a97e | No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative. | Tammara Webber | ||
| fbf2033 | My last coherent thought, as Lucas took his time kissing and touching every part of me he could reach and my body arched into his, was: oh... so this is what all the fuss is about. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 6d74351 | We get pissed off when someone tells us what to do, but we don't know what to do unless some fat bastard tell us. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 90213b1 | Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 372bd24 | After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 24a32e0 | KYO, YOU DUMMKOPF!!" ~ Momiji Sohma" | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 3deef29 | If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| ba486b3 | Like if youre beautiful you dont feel pain or have dreams or know the despair of loneliness. Why should you be unhappy, youre so beautiful? My God they drive me nuts, like all I am is a beautiful body and nothing else. Not once, never, have they ever tried to love the real me, to love me for what I am, to love me for my mind. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| fb36c72 | Its hopeless. Thats why you cant be worried about the world. Theyll just do you in anyway. You cant depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disappear and leave you there alone. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 585ed52 | It makes tomorrow alright. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 4456c35 | I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. | Philip Roth | ||
| cd2245d | Dad, youre so far off the mark I can't even...Lincoln hasn't pressured me at all!" I grabbed my bag and heaved it onto my back. "WE'RE JUST FRIENDS! He's not even interested in me like that - and thanks to you," I shook my head at him in utter disbelief, "he never will now." | james-eden jessica-shirvington lincoln-wood the-violet-eden-chapters violet-eden | Jessica Shirvington | |
| c42fce6 | Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 9468d74 | Be Drunken, Always. That is the point; nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weigh you down and crush you to the earth, be drunken continually. | inspirational | Charles Baudelaire | |
| 5bcf785 | Somehow however just knowing that I could fully expect unhappiness to return - if not predictably then nevertheless reliably - was strangely liberating. The point was that even chaos had a structure a beginning and eventually an end. It was possible to live through it. I'd been doing as much for twenty years. | self-injury | Caroline Kettlewell | |
| d0d152d | If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead. | writing | Lori Lansens | |
| f731423 | Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 6f73d19 | I broadcast thru Time | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 97409f5 | Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| c0c72de | The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! | poetry | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 244cdf1 | The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 85cd44d | Are we entirely ready, sir?" said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means "We are not entirely ready, sir." "We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tacticus, 'let us take history by the scrotum.' Of course, he was not a very honourable fighter." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 40b81fc | It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| c00c956 | To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd turned things into stories, you could change the stories. | seasons stories words | Terry Pratchett | |
| a77283a | And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it. It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate. | pollution religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| f784a88 | A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it. | Terry Pratchett |