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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d6a9e1e | I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow. | writing | Sara Gruen | |
| 07b70ff | Even though she let these thoughts run as fast as they would, she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this world for ever, that she would never have an ordinary day again in this ordinary place, that the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 2b1e142 | Magic is the cheat codes for the world. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 7e7e400 | I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years..."Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!" | time-passing wars-of-the-roses | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 3d2fec9 | Life has bigger plans for you than you can possibly know. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 3de0afa | Every person has hopes and dreams. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 623577a | Old friend, there are people--young and old--that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way .. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| d18d847 | I came to you tardy and late as I usually do to the better things in my life | Christy Brown | ||
| 1555966 | The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion. | poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| 10cffe3 | Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 10e58bb | He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so - he died." "Because he was stupid?" "It is the sin that is never forgiven and always punished, madame." | Agatha Christie | ||
| fca0038 | I mean, what you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver" | writing-life | Agatha Christie | |
| 8af4a12 | Mademoiselle, I beseech you, do not do what you are doing." "Leave dear Linnet alone, you mean!" "It is deeper than that. Do not open your heart to evil." Her lips fell apart; a look of bewilderment came into her eyes. Poirot went on gravely: "Because--if you do--evil will come...Yes, very surely evil will come...It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out." -- | Agatha Christie | ||
| 4c81bb5 | Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money--or the lack of it. | Agatha Christie | ||
| c7602de | This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 08c83a5 | Because when you're in love, you think you're invincible. It blinds you. And you don't seem to care. | Agatha Christie | ||
| ff5d238 | the truth is never horrible, only interesting. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 5cb915f | No innocent person ever has an alibi. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 6f7452f | Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3579719 | Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport. | humor mystery | Agatha Christie | |
| 0c56481 | Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than blamed. But, M. Poirot, evil is real! It is a fact! I believe in Evil as I believe in Good. It exists! It is powerful! It walks the earth!' He stopped. His breath was coming fast. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked suddenly ap.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| e610f05 | As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 15164ee | I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right. | Agatha Christie | ||
| c4dffc3 | Put that in your mustache and smoke it. | funny humor mrs-oliver poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| cbdb451 | Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. | writers | Alberto Manguel | |
| a841aec | All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required. | romance | Nadeem Aslam | |
| 9c52f99 | All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings. | Nadeem Aslam | ||
| 22743e7 | He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people. | talking-to-oneself | Frank Beddor | |
| 92b0234 | Oi'm always noble, sir; it's in my blood. 'As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why? | you-are-what-you-eat | Elizabeth Haydon | |
| 420b609 | still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| aae5d6f | This is one of the reasons we watch movies, attend recovery groups, read memoirs, and sit around campfires telling stories long after the fire has dwindled down to a few glowing embers. It's written in the Psalms that "deep calls to deep," which is what happens when you get a glimpse of what someone else has gone through or is currently in the throes of and you find yourself inextricably, mysteriously linked with that person because you hav.. | Rob Bell | ||
| 2976dbd | I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking 'Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this stuff? Are the boys the centre of a gigantic global debate on this subject? | women | Caitlin Moran | |
| 5aad7e2 | And - as a woman reconciled in her own body - I feel I can argue with anyone's god about my right to end a pregnancy. My first conception - wanted so badly - ended in miscarriage, three days before my wedding. A kind nurse removed my wedding manicure with nail-polish remover, in order to fit a finger-thermometer for the subsequent D&C operation. I wept as I went in to the operating theatre, and wept as I came out. In that instance, my body .. | women-s-rights | Caitlin Moran | |
| 38da4d0 | The level of matter in the universe has been constant since the Big Bang. In all the aeons we have lost nothing, we have gained nothing - not a speck, not a grain, not a breath. The universe is simply a sealed, twisting kaleidoscope that has reordered itself a trillion trillion trillion times over. | Caitlin Moran | ||
| f80545f | So what do you do when you build yourself up - only to realise you built yourself with the wrong things? | Caitlin Moran | ||
| 69569b0 | I bang my head on a faucet. "Careful." Why do persons only say that after the hurt?" | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 8d1e812 | Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it. | fairy-tales inspirational skin | Emma Donoghue | |
| 41dbdc1 | I say, "Well then I don't know if it was real, and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again." "Absolutely it was real. It was a real, partial picture. Because it ended preemptively, things you would have learned about him in the relationship, you are instead learning in the breakup. You have learned that he has a desperate desire for intimacy and then a desperate desire for the cave. He will get lonely there eventually and come bac.. | heartbreakers love-loss pain | Emma Forrest | |
| 7cbfdea | A room? A nice room? A beautiful room? A beautiful room with bath? Swing high, swing low, swing to and fro...This happened and that happened... And then the days came and I was alone. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 34d3b03 | If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 95783b1 | She (Rachel) pulled away and looked into his eyes. "Don't give up." "There goes my plan." "I'm serious. Even if things look bad, find a way to win. Find it." "You too," Jason urged. "Within reason. Don't try some huge Edomic command and blow yourself to pieces." "There goes my plan." "You stole my line." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 68cffef | So you're a librarian." His eyes shifted back and forth. "I prefer loremaster." | librarians | Brandon Mull | |
| 07d12e1 | Everyone should get to clobber a princess at least once," Jason said." | pain princess | Brandon Mull | |
| 671057f | If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out. | leadership standing-out | Warren G. Bennis |