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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f6802cb | One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right. | dreams | George R.R. Martin | |
| 3cb1b21 | Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9ad274d | old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time. | friends home stories visiting | George R.R. Martin | |
| 1629b16 | A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die. | lords | George R.R. Martin | |
| 73b7e0b | Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was. | interests passions | George R.R. Martin | |
| 33f0246 | You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why." | honor | George R.R. Martin | |
| 03550ff | En malas manos, una moneda es tan peligrosa como una espada. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a48b44a | He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulder. "Summon Bronn, and then tun down to the stables and have two horses saddled." (Tyrion). The squire's eyes were cloudy with sleep. "Horses". (squire) "Those big brown animals that love apples, I'm sure you've seen them. Four legs and a tail. But Bronn first." (Tyrion)" | george humor tyrion-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| e316b7d | all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt. | murder poison | George R.R. Martin | |
| 8f99204 | You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion" -- | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 83ee74b | Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f1f6fa2 | Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little. | sleep tiredness | George R.R. Martin | |
| fad3fea | The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 55c70a4 | I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once. | catelyn emptiness empty grief longing sour woman | George R.R. Martin | |
| 7ecab18 | A real panic took hold of me. I didn't know where I was going. I ran along the docks, turned into the deserted streets in the Beauvoisis district; the houses watched my flight with their mournful eyes. I repeated with anguish: Where shall I go? where shall I go? Anything can happen. Sometimes, my heart pounding, I made a sudden right about turn: what was happening behind my back? Maybe it would start behind me and when I would turn around, .. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 11385c8 | The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. | crime economics | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| 1a0747a | I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| e00f1d5 | It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves. | saving | Meg Cabot | |
| 9a5880f | It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious. | sarcasm self | Meg Cabot | |
| d97027d | Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overact or anything, but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 825b588 | Well!" the woman cried, offended. "See if I ever come to visit Genovia!" "No one wants you there," Lars informed her" | Meg Cabot | ||
| 3d440d8 | Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear.... | humor | Meg Cabot | |
| 474b534 | To die would be an awfully big adventure. But it's not true. Life is the real adventure. Having the hurricane inside you is the true adventure. And then I think not of Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I, but of Mel Gibson as William Wallace. Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives. | Steven Rowley | ||
| 9313158 | If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. | novel | Donna VanLiere | |
| 6d989f0 | Eternal Father, faithful friend, Be quick to answer those we send In brotherhood and urgent trust, On hidden missions dangerous, O hear us when we cry to Thee, For SEALs in air, on land, and sea. | Marcus Luttrell(Authur)Patrick Robinson(contributor) | ||
| 787844d | If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 011e0a2 | That night for the first time in my life I realized that it is the physical presence of people and their spirits that gives a town life. With the absence of so many people, the town became scary., the night darker, and the silence unbearably agitating. Normally, the crickets and the birds sang in the evening before the sun went down. But this time they didn't, and the darkness set in very fast. The mood wasn't in the sky; the air was stiff,.. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| d9b95f7 | His gaze grew wistful, and he looked so young. 'I don't want to put things off, even though we haven't been together a really long time. I don't want to wait--you never know what can...Look. I adore you, and I want a home. Again. With you. | rusty-nailed wallbanger | Alice Clayton | |
| 50acdd6 | I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love. | humor me-and-miss-mandible short-story wives | Donald Barthelme | |
| 2230813 | never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| cc29724 | On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on." | Walter Isaacson | ||
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español spanish steve-jobs | Walter Isaacson | |
| dfeb033 | the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read. | happy-camping happy-playgrounds sir-roger | Donald Barthelme | |
| e979962 | The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| bf01d5e | Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room. | Lynne Rae Perkins | ||
| 866c085 | If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| ebe0863 | Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| a0095f7 | One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 8350691 | Goodness works in mysterious ways. Even in the deepest dark, you'll find a light to shine your way through. | evil goodness light shine-your-light | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 39fd4a9 | It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 31de394 | Was he hungry? He'd had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot out of him. Did they serve lunch in Hell? Should he have packed a snack? Why was he suddenly thinking about food? | oliver | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| af9ac8d | You made a sacrifice. And heaven rewarded you. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 445a1ef | Never around when you needed them, heroes. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| e9205dc | Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey! | humor | Sara Gruen |