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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 60da475 | How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?--from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. | happiness sorrow | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 0b61e36 | Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction. | Max Brooks | ||
| 207fe16 | Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products. | Max Brooks | ||
| a50637e | Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being | H.G. Wells | ||
| ed3c31d | With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 4db934c | That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off th.. | H.G. Wells | ||
| e685d61 | To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man--the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become--this. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 52c279e | No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate. | Darren Shan | ||
| ad846ab | but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house | Darren Shan | ||
| 0b6258e | Quick! Head for the ground floor! We have to get out! We will die if we stay! The vampires are here!" "Haven't you got a hug for me, Larten, old buddy?" | Darren Shan | ||
| 00cd44a | My eyes! I'm blind! | Darren Shan | ||
| d5827d6 | It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender... | Darren Shan | ||
| 19baf57 | I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front. | life-lessons regrets unfairness | Rodman Philbrick | |
| 0df2cd9 | It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 5d732f9 | With the news about Andy, it was like someone had thrown an x-ray switch and reversed everything into photographic negative, so that even with the daffodils and the dogwalkers and the traffic cops whistling on the corners, death was all I saw: sidewalks teeming with dead, cadavers pouring off the buses and hurrying home from work, nothing left of any of them in a hundred years except tooth fillings and pacemakers and maybe a few scraps of c.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 29c6c68 | To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No. | sequels writing | John Scalzi | |
| d9656de | The smell of peace is abroad, the air is cold, the skies are brittle, and the leaves have finally fallen. I wear a pony coat with skin like watered silk and muff of lamb. My fingers lie in depths of warmth. I have a jacket of silver sequins and heavy bracelets of rich corals. I wear about my neck a triple thread-like chain of lapis lazulis and pearls. On my face is softness and content like a veil of golden moonlight. And I have never in al.. | Erik Larson | ||
| e4036f3 | Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, "Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off." | Erik Larson | ||
| 16c0101 | I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 729110a | Why do you always have to put you and McNab and sex in my head? It brings pain no blocker can cure. | peabody sex | J.D. Robb | |
| 6624450 | Task complete. Shut it down." the computer responded. "I finished." Jesus, had she really programmed that? "I changed my mind." "Bite me," Eve muttered." | computer | J.D. Robb | |
| b149840 | We're going to get a couple things straight here, Roarke.' 'Your color's back.' Pleased with himself, he rose and nipped a kiss onto the tip of her nose. 'That gray cast to your skin didn't suit you.' Then he grunted as her fist jammed into his stomach. He cleared his throat manfully. 'Your energy level's obviously up, too. Want coffee?' 'I want you to know that if you ever pull a stunt like that again, I'll . . .' She trailed off, narrowed.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| df597bc | I don't worry about traditions overmuch. The fact is, I could change my mind as to whether I want something. For one reason or another, it could lose its appeal. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 458faf9 | A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 1a90da4 | Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door. | Jane Yolen | ||
| 646dd90 | We long only to go home,' " Kirsten said. This was from the first issue, Station Eleven. A face-off between Dr. Eleven and an adversary from the Undersea. " 'We dream of sunlight, we dream of walking on earth.' " -- | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 9d46820 | No one had any idea, it turned out. None of the older Symphony members knew much about science, which was frankly maddening given how much time these people had had to look things up on the Internet before the world ended. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 4f1e1a9 | What the Israelites saw, from high on the ridge, was an intimidating giant. In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness. There is an important lesson in that for battles with all kinds of giants. The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 2be7237 | We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don't. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points, | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f182a40 | I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 7868c4d | I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . . | Fannie Flagg | ||
| a2c005d | I had a choice: Follow my heart or don't break his. I think in the end I broke a bit of both our hearts. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 60b884c | Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 2caf9dc | friendship is something you do. | Nuala O'Faolain | ||
| 47e2a19 | You can't help what you feel, Moira said once, but you can help how you behave. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e22ca28 | Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 29f44de | I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| be80f4c | The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 787cc9c | The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn.. | makeup margaret-atwood the-blind-assassin young-girls youth | Margaret Atwood | |
| 6a2a634 | Here is a book of tongues. Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.) | Gwendolyn MacEwen | ||
| 47aa220 | Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it | Margaret Atwood | ||
| de227ca | I've been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4e0bf2e | Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these thin.. | money value worth | Margaret Atwood | |
| 7a39a47 | You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them. | Margaret Atwood |