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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f803d06 | My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves. | teaching | David Sedaris | |
| 5e1a9d2 | If nothing else, life in the suburbs promised that you might go from day to day without finding shit in your hair. | David Sedaris | ||
| 7c5be01 | I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven. | David Sedaris | ||
| d49ecd3 | I'd always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn't that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping out their IV. I think it was their fortitude that frightened us. Sick people reminded us not of what we had, but of what we lacked. Everything we said sounded petty and insignificant; our complaints paled in the face of theirs, and without our complaints, there was nothing to say. | David Sedaris | ||
| 6587b76 | Neighbors would pass, and when they honked I'd remember that I was in my Speedo. Then I'd wrap my towel like a skirt around my waist and remind my sisters that this was not girlish but Egyptian, thank you very much. | David Sedaris | ||
| 8b5f1ce | The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important? | reality truth | Hermann Hesse | |
| 0d1e9ca | The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph." | happiness life music philosophy | Hermann Hesse | |
| b2c729a | You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6941d24 | No road will bring us together." "Don't speak like that." "I'm serious. We are not meant to come together, not any more than sun and moon were meant to come together, or sea and land. We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c1f0784 | You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised. | life | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 59aecfa | If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 529cfb9 | Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...] | time time-travel | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 8386d9f | No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world. | names wizard | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a4c3c85 | Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 89a9f7a | We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5434395 | T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. | science-fiction writing | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 4fa2d1d | What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. "It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that's all. That's al.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f01104e | My race is very old," Ketho said. "We have been civilized for a thousand millenia. We have histories of hundreds of those millenia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, with the rest. But have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?" | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 535c89f | Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| cad2813 | I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house? The tale tells how the Lords of Manva hunted & gathered roots & cooked their suppers while they were camped in exile in the foothills of Sul, but it doesn't say what their wives & children were living on in their city left ruined.. | gender housekeeping storytelling | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 2e8299a | At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 242a821 | Rhys pulled back, his thumb stroking my cheek. People were weeping. Keening. But no more screams of terror. No more bloodshed and destruction. My mate murmured, "Feyre Cursebreaker, the Defender of the Rainbow." I slid my arms around his waist and sobbed. And even as his city wailed, the High Lord of the Night Court held me until I could at last face this blood-drenched new world." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 920051f | He didn't back away again as she approached and said with every ember left in her shredded heart, "I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| dc7c147 | But all she could see was the unconditional love in that dying wyvern's eyes as she unbuckled her harness, stood from the saddle, and leapt off Abraxos. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e4eb727 | Rhysand is the most handsome High Lord. Rhysand is the most delightful High Lord. Rhysand is the most cunning High Lord. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0609ae2 | I hadn't realized I was a villain in your narrative," Lucien breathed. "You weren't." Not entirely." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4d61cfc | She flung herself on the male, crashing into him hard enough that anyone else might have gone rocking back into the stone wall. But the male grabbed her to him, his massive arms wrapping around her tightly and lifting her up. | this-is-the-best-thing-ever | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 00923a4 | A heartbeat later, his note said, Try not to moan too loudly when you dream about me. I need my beauty rest. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| cc08413 | made to jump off the stone, but he gripped my chin, the movement too fast to detect. His words were a lethal caress as he said, "Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you?" I knew he could hear my heart as it ratcheted into a thunderous beat. I gave him a hateful little smirk, anyway, yanking my chin out of his touch and leaping off the stone. I might have aimed for his feet. And he might have shifted out of the way just enough to a.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 0de1803 | But no matter what I did, Elentiya, I want you to know that in the darkness of the past ten years, you were one of the bright lights for me. Do not let that light go out | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 2492836 | Mor made no comment--and I knew that if had worn nothing but my undergarments, she would have told me to own every inch of it. I turned to her. "I'd like my sisters to meet you. Maybe not today. But if you ever feel like it ..." She cocked her head. I rubbed the back of my bare neck. "I want them to hear your story. And know that there is a special strength ... " As I spoke I realized I needed to hear it, know it, too. "A special strength i.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7290a2d | And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine. | alone broken consequences depressed fear lonely scared trauma | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 73e9c3e | At least she speaks well," his father said, sipping from his wine. Chaol clenched his free hand so hard his glove groaned. "Better than that other one--the swaggering assassin." Yrene knew. All of it. She knew every scrap of history, knew whose note she carried in her locket. But it didn't ease the blow, not as his father added, "Who, it turned out, is Queen of Terrasen." A mirthless laugh. "What a prize you might have had then, my son, if .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 749bc54 | The power did not belong to the High Lords. Not any longer. It belonged to me--as I belonged to me, as my future was to decide, to forge. Once I discovered and mastered what the others had given me, I could weave them together--into something new, something of every court and none of them. | pg451 | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 5459922 | If Elain's mental gates were those of a sleeping garden, Nesta's...They belonged to an ancient fortress, sharp and brutal. The sort I imagined they once impaled people upon. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4cee1e8 | From today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to Hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I want to be. Forever. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 8674bb0 | Don't be angry, Finnula had said, be smart. | smart | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 17e6271 | She took his hand, and he tried not to shudder in relief, tried not to fall to his knees as she slid the ruby ring onto his finger. It fit him perfectly, the ring no doubt forged for the king lying in this barrow. Silently, Rowan grasped her own hand and eased on the emerald ring. "To whatever end," he whispered. Silver lined her eyes. "To whatever end." A reminder--and a vow, more sacred than the wedding oaths they'd sworn on that ship. To.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4201f87 | I wondered, then, with his hands beneath my breasts and between my legs, what Rhys wouldn't give of himself. Wondered if ... if perhaps the arrogance and swagger ... if they masked a male who perhaps thought he wasn't worth very much at all. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 035069e | And now-now I didn't know where that put me. Knee-deep in trouble seemed like a good place to start. | love mischievous relatable trouble | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 51448b0 | Three stones for the faces of the mother, four bones ... for whatever reason the charlatans came up with that I can't be bothered to remember. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b82fa68 | Aelin of the Wildfire. Aelin Fireheart. Aelin Light-Bringer. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 4e24a85 | Eyllwe," Chaol breathed. "Send word to Eyllwe. Tell them to hold on--tell them to prepare." Perhaps it was the light, perhaps it was the cold, but Aedion could have sworn there were tears in the captain's eyes as he said, "Tell them it's time to fight back." -- | aelin-galathynius chaol-westfall pg494 | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f770a3b | I will not be afraid, she vowed, wrapping the familiar words around her heart. | Sarah J. Maas |