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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5295ed3 | If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages. | dresden fire | Jim Butcher | |
| c831434 | Demonreach only wants Harry to see what's going on." "Why doesn't it just marry him?" Thomas muttered under his breath. "It sort of did," I said. "My brother the... geosexual?" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3f70935 | As I pulled into the parking lot, I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination, theft of arcane power, and the balance of power in the realms of the supernatural had taken place in a Wal-Mart Super Center. But then again, maybe they had. Hell, for all I knew, the Mole Men used the changing rooms as a place to discuss plans for world domination with the Psychic Jellyfish from Planet X and.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1e754bb | The venom," she [Susan] said quietly. "They call it their Kiss." "I guess I can't blame them. It sounds a lot more romantic than 'narcotic drool." | Jim Butcher | ||
| b7d7a1c | Call and Tamara screamed. The car swerved, Call's hands heedless on the wheel. That made Tamara scream even harder. All the screams woke Jasper and Aaron, who added their voices to the screaming. Havoc started to bark. Throughout all the commotion, Master Rufus just floated in the center of the car, looking annoyed and - translucent. | Holly Black | ||
| 0ef2444 | You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet. | books dark gavriel holly-black literature paranormal paranormal-romance romance tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown vampires ya | Holly Black | |
| cd75d0c | There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth. | lies lying | Holly Black | |
| 42da48b | You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it. | betrayal family guilt guilty love rue | Holly Black | |
| 275b616 | They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magical people. | Holly Black | ||
| 6d6e007 | I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse | Holly Black | ||
| 310cb13 | Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide?" Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. "Could you guys try to lay low?" | Holly Black | ||
| 3ed97e7 | What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach. | Holly Black | ||
| 8b39ced | So it's not as bad as it looks?" Call ventured. "Oh, no," she told him. "It's just as bad as it looks. But I'm very, very good at my job." | Holly Black | ||
| de1c943 | You don't know what you are. | Holly Black | ||
| 91e7a2c | As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing. | Holly Black | ||
| bd3513e | she wanted him to feel like she did, like he'd done something forbidden, wanted to give him something he'd like and really wasn't supposed to have, something that would feel wrong, something he wanted. "Kiss me again," she whispered, reaching up, her fingers sliding through his hair. She almost didn't know herself as she moved against him. He bent helplessly toward her. She bit her tongue. Bit it hard, the pain chasing through her nerve end.. | Holly Black | ||
| c2b9ac8 | Moments before she planted a massive kiss right on his mouth. Call's eyes went wide. Hers were closed as she leaned into him. They stood like that for a moment. Call was aware that people were staring at them -- Tamara looking shocked, and Aaron, standing near her, started to laugh. Call was pretty sure Aaron was laughing at the fact that Call, having no idea where to put his hands, was waving his arms around like a squid underwater. | Holly Black | ||
| 59eb9f5 | I try not to be too conscious of his long fingers tracing over the paper, of the sick thrill I get when he looks at me. | Holly Black | ||
| 3437fb5 | I step out of my second life the same way I stepped out of my first, holding too few things and with great uncertainty about what will happen next. | Holly Black | ||
| 5d82d61 | I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 7f3f38d | My mother always pouted that it was actually her paintings and not her charm, her beauty or her sass that made him fall in love with her. He'd always insisted that it was definitely her sass. I knew the truth. He fell for all those things, and when she died, it was like someone had extinguished the sun, and he had nothing left to orbit. | family grief | Tammara Webber | |
| 4ff852c | Somebody always wants more. | Tammara Webber | ||
| a41d566 | He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache. | Tammara Webber | ||
| ca55970 | I've been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time - that you're where you're supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you'd be better off somewhere else? If you'd have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you'd have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you're here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! W.. | funny life love love-story | Tammara Webber | |
| 1f37dbe | We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down-- locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don't hinder running. Erin's suggestion of "Avoid assholes" was popular." | girl-power humorous self-defense | Tammara Webber | |
| 3495603 | At 1 A.M. I'd pull on my coat, my boots. Walk down the stairway, out the door, down the long driveway to the road. Sometimes, I'd go to the stoned boy's house. We'd sit and watch TV. We'd have sex, sometimes. I remember only that the bedroom had two windows through which blue light spilled, and it smelled sticky sweet. His guitar leaned against the wall. Sometimes, I'd just walk. Down roads and up roads, through hills, through the neighborh.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 85d6689 | I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 9424276 | Momiji Sohma: Are you sure? Shigure said it hurt really bad. Hatori Sohma: Yes, well, I did that on purpose. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| c685570 | People aren't born social. Sure it comes easier to some people but most people, like you, need to work at it. Some more than others. You're just inexperienced. | life-lessons | Natsuki Takaya | |
| b74df39 | Yes, he could walk forever. He could so easily continue to walk and all thoughts of death would fall away, absorbed by the silent snow. [...] And then he heard it, very faintly at first, but distinct just the same. He heard the snow falling gently through the air, each flake sounded distinctly different, yet just as each fell unhindered by another, so their sound did not clash or interfere with each other, but blended into a snow song that .. | enlightenment joy timelessness | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| e8713b5 | This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure- Faith in a Loving God. | love overcoming-addiction | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| d757e73 | Marion and Alice were all for not using and so all went to sleep that night with a grim resolve. They got up about noon, smoked a joint with their coffee, feeling good about the fact that they werent giving any thought to not using, and sat around for a while, watched a little television, talked about maybe eating something, but not really feeling like it, then sort of moped around thinking and talking about the various things that should b.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 0533c29 | He looked down at the street, and the unbroken whiteness, and watched his foot touch the snow and listened to the slight crunching sound as he stepped forward. He looked back at his footprints. They were fascinating. He had been the only one to walk along this street today. There wasn't even the mark of a dog or squirrel, or the scratch of a bird. He continued through the soft, silent snow, a feeling of peace starting to flow through him, h.. | snow solitude | Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| e0a106e | A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! | infant insecurity jewish manhood self-doubt | Philip Roth | |
| 0b5ccc5 | Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof cell, summoning people out of words and then proposing that these word people are closer to the real thing than the real people that we mangle with our ignorance every day? The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 034b6d2 | For a moment, Jason could only stand there in the hallway with his nose pressed up against the cold wood of her door. After a few seconds, he knocked politely. Taylor whipped open the door, unamused. Jason grinned at her. "I just gotta ask: Where did you get the whole 'all the cute girls run around naked' thing?" "I defend sexual harassment cases, Mr. Andrews," she replied coolly. "I've seen and heard things even you haven't thought of." .. | Julie James | ||
| 12852b8 | With wine, poetry, or virtue | Charles Pierre Baudelaire | ||
| 193ea25 | de satan ou de dieu, qu'importe! ange ou sirene, qu'importe, si tu rends -- fee aux yeux de velours, rythme, parfum, lueur, o mon unique reine! -- l'univers moins hideux et les instants moins lourds? | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 3f03332 | I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 78d5ff5 | My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly. | Karen Russell (Author) | ||
| ff752a8 | I have just discovered that I have no feelings, just thoughts, borrowed thoughts taken from someone I admire because he seems to have feelings. | feelings jack-kerouac thoughts | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 85eb4f0 | who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup, and followed the brilliant Spaniard to converse about America and Eternity, a hopeless task, and so took ship to Africa | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 5024b26 | What Patriot wrote that shit? | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| d6c60d5 | that blue flame burnning? Industry! | the-flats | Allen Ginsberg |