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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7d2c363 | It was cauld. For about a minute the grey sky ferociously split and sunlight burst through, pouring ower the city, reflectin off the glitterin granite. The blood pounded in ma heid, makin me want tae be somewhere else. Then it was away and that heavy cloak ay grey was back oan us. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| e41b773 | Estas jodido?", pregunto. "No lo se. Si te soy sincero, sera el sexo lo que mas echare de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ?sabes?" Tommy necesita a la gente mucho mas que la mayoria." | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 68699ab | Planet Ay The Apes hus insinuated hissel intae the company. The thought ay that cunt shaggin wee Maria Anderson is not aesthetically appealing. The thought ay that cunt shaggin anybody isnae aesthetically appealing. If he tries tae talk tae ma Ma, ah'll gless the fucker's primate pus. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 8ac7411 | Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret? Somebody who anticipates the next drink before he's finished with the one in front of him? | Irvine Welsh | ||
| ad72e46 | asea t`u ise, imdenad dag'lili var, ro egreve vxuchav t`valebs da z'ili t`avs mart`mevs. odnav viz'abebi, roc`a vgrz'nob, ro berikac`i gverdit` momicva, mara maleve vdundebi, radganac` gasusuli cevs da axlos mokarebas arc` ki c`dilobs. t`anac` orive ch`ac`mulebi vcevart`. vgrz'nob, ro avadmqop`ur, ugono z'ilshi viz'irebi. vig'viz'eb. azrze ara var, ramden saat`s mez'ina. piri gamshrali mak`vs, saxeze ki uc`nauri sisvelis shegrz'neba macuxeb.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 95de0f4 | Ah don't really know, Tam, ah jist dinnae. It kinday makes things seem mair real tae us. Life's boring and futile. We start aof wi high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we're aw gaunnae die, withoot really findin oot the big answers. We develop aw they long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality ay oor lives in different weys, withoot really extending oor body ay worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. B.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| a6a8360 | it should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| a38786e | The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 3fb5074 | Square go then smart cunt! | Irvine Welsh | ||
| a7ec162 | Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oot, cunt's only went n pished hissel but, eh. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 656c741 | So she's wipin spunk offay her face, gaun aw fuckin panicky, `Whae wis that, wis that ma dad?` `Fuckin durty pervert sneakin up oan cunts like that,` ah goes. So she goes aw that fuckin ice-cauld, frigid, huffey wey, but fuck her, ye need a wee bit ay fuckin romance at Christmas. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 212138a | Women have less direct relationship to anger...When a woman "bites" her tongue to avoid expressing anger, its not at all socialization. A lot of it is brain circuitry. Even if a woman wanted to express her anger right away, often her brain circuits would attempt to hijack this response, to reflect on it first out of fear and anticipation of retaliation. Also, the female brain has a tremendous aversion to conflict, which is set up by fear of.. | Louann Brizendine | ||
| e1cec0e | She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures. | Doris Lessing | ||
| d02d834 | Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands. | Doris Lessing | ||
| 49bf113 | I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You're a normal human being. What right have you to that? | Doris Lessing | ||
| a57bddc | It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely. | Leif Enger | ||
| 39e7501 | I have been loved said Edward to the stars | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 292946f | I honor you! | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 5711d83 | Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." | criminal-law defense evidence guilt innocence justice justice-system reasonable-doubt | Michael Connelly | |
| e0dd612 | Don't go growing a conscience on me," I said. "I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good." | Michael Connelly | ||
| b6f41c9 | She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a lie and a torment." "Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. "Yes, may it curse my soul." "May it save your soul," she said." | Anne Stuart | ||
| 27c59d5 | I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul. | Anne Stuart | ||
| dbe6d88 | If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days," he said, his voice slow and deep and intent. "I would use my mouth on you, until no part of your skin went untouched, and I would make you come, over and over again until you could stand no more, and then I'd let you sleep in my arms until you were rested and then I would start all over again. I would kiss your wounds, I would d.. | romance sex | Anne Stuart | |
| 85e00f0 | Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything | David Almond | ||
| 955c358 | Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse fall in love with a beautiful princess named Pea? The answer is.. Yes. Of course it's ridiculous. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 1bddca6 | Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 234b9c9 | At the thought of being eaten by rats, Despereaux forgot about being brave. He forgot about not being a disappointment. He felt himself heading into another faint. But his mother, who had an excellent sense of dramatic timing, beat him to it; she executed a beautiful, flawless swoon, landing right at Despereaux's feet. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| d0d3969 | There's no point in going on if you feel that way. No point at all. You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next." "I am done with being loved," Edward told her. "I'm done with loving. It's too painful." "Pish," said the old doll. "Where is your courage?" "Somewhere else, I guess," said Edward. "You disappoint me," she said. "You disappoint me greatly. If you have .. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 5172d1f | During the night, while Bull and Lucy slept, Edward, with ever-open eyes, stared up at the constellations. He said their names, and then he said the names of the people who loved him. He started with Abilene, and then went on to Nellie and Lawrence and from there to Bull and Lucy, and then he ended again with Abilene: Abilene, Nellie, Lawrence, Bull, Lucy, Abilene. See? Edward told Pellegrina. I am not like the princess. I know about love. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 00f088d | It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin. | Avi | ||
| b3a6db5 | Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she wanted. Then I ran out and caught my bus. I didn't say I loved her. I guess I did. But asking someone to say they love you--and she always asked--is like buying yourself a birthday present. It's more than likely exactly what you want. But it must make you feel awfully sad to get it." | Avi | ||
| b4b0f2a | Je suis seul au milieu de ces voix joyeuses et raisonnables. Tous ces types passent leur temps a s'expliquer, a reconnaitre avec bonheur qu'ils sont du meme avis. Quelle importance ils attachent, mon Dieu, a penser tous ensemble les memes choses. | choses dieu ensemble nausea nausee opinione penser seul solo voce voix | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| e46da2e | I know all about you," Char announced after we'd taken a few more steps. "You do? How could you?" "Your cook and our cook meet at the market. She talks about you." He looked sideways at me. "Do you know much about me?" | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| a7957e6 | Darling, everyone is beautiful in her own way, and I am a fairy. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 3994d94 | Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said "Eat your peas." Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney's Mom never found out where he'd gone, Cause Barney didn't tell her. There his dad spent his life eating mice and gruel With every bite for fifty years he was sorry he'd been cruel" | calvin-and-hobbes | Bill Watterson | |
| e0de829 | When you meet young people, inspire them. When you meet old people, honor them. When you meet wise people, study them. When you meet foolish people, avoid them. When you meet humble people, treasure them. When you meet arrogant people, ignore them. When you meet gracious people, emulate them. When you meet crude people, disregard them. When you meet brave people, support them. When you meet cowardly people, encourage them. When you meet st.. | african-philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes enlightenment-quotes guru-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotations sage-quotes solomonology-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 6f64d33 | The Happiness Manifesto Pledge not to complain needlessly. Vow not to anger unecessarily. Promise not to crititize unreasonably. Commit to thinking positively. Aspire to speak intelligently. Strive to live enlightenedly. Your happiness is in serenity. Your contentedness is in charity. Your righteousness is in integrity. Your nobility is in humility. | happiness-quotations happiness-quotes inspirational-quotations inspirational-quotes joy-quotes manifesto-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes peace-quote spiritual-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| f27a148 | Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7792f49 | She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5efd4dc | One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner. | David Mitchell | ||
| a9d7c7d | Yet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar. The very oldest islanders say that if you are in the interior mountains on the night when the forest lord counts his trees, he includes you in the number and turns you into a tree. | japan | David Mitchell | |
| 6c50786 | Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day." | David Mitchell | ||
| 5caadb9 | Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me, pluck me now and pluck me hard.' You know you want to." "But God," quotes Eve, putting out feelers for an , clever girl, "expressly forbids us to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge." "Ah yessssss, God ... But God gave us life, did He not? And God gave us desire, did He not? And God gave us taste, did He not? And who else.. | apple god knowledge myth religion serpent snake tree-of-knowledge | David Mitchell | |
| e0aaff6 | We all think we're in control of our own lives, but really they're pre-ghostwritten by forces around us. | David Mitchell |