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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0eaf398 | Spirit, who are you?' Andy demanded. Bobby remained silent, his entire body strained, his lips tightly together, his eyes bulging out. He was taking frantic, short breaths through his nose. His face was crimson. Spirit,' said Andy, 'I command you to tell us who you are in Jesus' name!' Don't you mention that name!' the spirit hissed and then cursed. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| ac79572 | Every woman who has come to consciousness can recall an almost endless series of oppressive, violating, insulting, assaulting acts against her Self. Every woman is battered by such assaults - is on a psychic level, a battered woman. | Mary Daly | ||
| 54149f0 | But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day. | endurance life | Dick Francis | |
| 0738238 | We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it. | journeys reading reading-books | Lynne Truss | |
| ec25c05 | punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. | punctuation | Lynne Truss | |
| b76ca2d | No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 29afc62 | He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 96b28fb | To tell the truth, sir, I believe I had rather sit in the shelter for a while. The cabbage seems to have turned my inward parts to water.' Nonsense,' said Stephen, 'it is the most wholesome cabbage I have ever come across in the whole of my career. I hope, Mr. Herapath, that you are not going to join in the silly weak womanish unphilosophical mewling and puling about the cabbage. So it is a little yellow in certain lights, so it is a little.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 3084575 | Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile. | political tired | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 1110829 | Also, why did Mary Poppins even need such a huge bag if it's magically designed to fit everything? Seriously. I'm guessing that Mary asked for a magic pocket and the wizards were like, "What, like a dude? Nah. I don't think so, lady. You'll get a purse." Those guys were motherfuckers." | Jenny Lawson | ||
| 4d77fd2 | I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off | haggling poverty travel | Alex Garland | |
| 98a1d57 | Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time. | Alex Garland | ||
| 8f6a3aa | You only have a certain amount of energy, and when you spread it around, everything gets confused, and the first thing you know, you can't remember which one you've told which story to, and the next thing you know, you're moaning "Oh, Morty, Morty, Morty," when what you mean is "Oh, Sidney, Sidney, Sidney," and the next thing you know, you think you're in love with both of them simply because you've been raised to believe that the only poli.. | Nora Ephron | ||
| e130206 | Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever. | life nadsat redemption reform suicidal-thoughts | Anthony Burgess | |
| 089ff85 | One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. | death-and-dyin | Anthony Burgess | |
| a528748 | To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness. | clockwork-orange government-oppression | Anthony Burgess | |
| e120536 | If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 5a62841 | One must require from each one the duty with each one can perform," said the king. "Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders are reasonable." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 5d0f4f3 | Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 4c9a3ca | One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 4153f3a | I kind of wanted to rub all over him a like a cat or something. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 640cdd0 | Athna, please meet the, uh...Army of Awesome." Apollo arched a brow. "Or whatever they are calling themselves." The goddess of wisdom, strategy, and a whole slew of other things inclined her head. "Nice title." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 008785b | It was perfect. She was perfect. And I was the luckiest guy. | katy-swartz lux-series opposition | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 5a01c96 | Nick stopped at the door. The grin on his face warned trouble. "By the way, loved the bows on your panties." Oh, for fuck's sake. Reece's jaw became so hard I thought it would snap off as he watched Nick saunter out the door." | humor | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| f491c72 | Chad stared at his publicist/babysitter/daughter of Satan. "Jesus, woman, I do not envy the man you end up with." Miss Gore's smile was pure evil. "Neither do I." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 06d50b8 | Pasara lo que pasara, siempre me quedaban los libros. Eran mi valvula de escape, a la que recurria sin dudarlo | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b9d4c83 | Damn girl. Is your daddy a thief?" "What?" I'd never actually met my dad. Maybe he was. All I knew was that he'd been mortal. Hopefully, he'd been nothing like these two ass-hats. Ren flexed his nonexistent muscles, smiling. "Well, then who stole those diamonds and put them in your eyes?" "Wow." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e81d1d7 | I knew then that death could stop a lot of things, but it could never cut the bond of friendship. | friendship life love | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| bca8890 | apapi mou, zoi mou" means my love, my life." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 763d370 | He stared back at me so blatantly I wanted to smack him. "I know. Like I said, that... was never my intention. It was an accident." My mouth dropped open. "Did you slip and fall on my bed? Because I don't understand how you've accidentally ended up there." Red stained the tips of his cheeks. "I check the outside, and then I check the inside just to be sure. Hybrids can get into your house, Katy, as you already know. So could Daedalus if the.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| cf66ae5 | Unless it had been Castiel, because I was totally cool with him rising me up from perdition if that was what happened. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f9415b1 | No no soy nada para ti --Tu eres definitivamente algo... | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1b8412c | Love in my world usually ended up with someone hearing "I smite thee!" as she was cursed to be some lame flower for the rest of her life." | daimon | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| f8a2ced | If losing Sam had taught me anything, it was to seize life-seize everything it had to offer, including the tears, the anger and loss, but most of all, the laughter and the love. To just seize life. Because it was fleeting and it was fickle, and no one, not me or anyone I knew, had another day, let alone another second promised to them. | life-is-short life-lessons truth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 5c74922 | I feel like an epic fail right now. Like I'm the captain of my own personal failboat. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a42c8e8 | Whoa." Cayman threw up his hands. "Simmer down, crouching demon, hidden Warden. He's fine." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 97d41dd | He was male and ripped in all the places I was soft. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 25d8c81 | M: How do you feel about me? R: I think it's pretty obvious. M: Let's just say I need detailed account. R: I can do that for you. M: Okay. R: I never once stopped thinking about you when you were taken away. Four years. All I could hope was that you were in a good place. Never expected you to walk into school. Didn't even allow myself of dream about that. And then you did, and seeing you blew me away. You were just like I remembered, but di.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 25f4fca | Nothing is impossible...when you're me. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a062a1d | What do you want?" he asked, his gaze holding mine. "You," I whispered, cheeks burning. "You have me." His thumb dragged along my lower lip. "You've always had me. Always." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 7d0bd85 | Without even doing it, I'd turned into one of those girls whose life ceases to exist outside of her boyfriend. And I didn't even have a boyfriend. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ae0b4fa | But when Bethany came into class, her dark hair pulled back into a low ponytail, showing off her graceful neck, he may have stopped breathing again. A thousand charming words strung together in his head in a nanosecond, but he averted his eyes to his empty notebook. Notes? Who really took notes in class? Dawson wanted to see if she would talk to him first. God, he was like a teenage girl. He was so screwed. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0eac79b | She stood out like a sunflower in a field of wheat. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2ef4014 | I'll admit that you felt fucking sweet as silk against my fingers when I had my hand between those pretty thighs. | Jennifer L. Armentrout |