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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 03d73a4 | She stepped toward Anna. "I can get you a night with an accomplished male whore or a virginal schoolboy." Coral's eyes widened and seemed to flame. "Famous libertines or ragpickers off the street. One very special man or ten complete strangers. Dark men, red men, yellow men, men you've only dreamed of in the black of night, lonely in your bed, snug under your covers. Whatever you long for. Whatever you desire. Whatever you crave. You have .. | coral seductive | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 77b5d77 | A smile flickered across Coral's face. "Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets--raspberry trifle is my own despair--it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?" "Lord Swartingham is not a raspberry trifle." "No, more of a dark chocolate mousse, I should think," Coral murmured. "And," Anna continued as if she hadn't heard the interruption, "I don't need .. | elizabeth-hoyt raven-prince | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 5ea9e36 | He looked up. "Is it time already?" She nodded. He rose and waited as she gathered her things. The dog followed them out the door, but then he bounded down the stairs to the drive. The animal sniffed intently at something on the ground and then rolled, happily rubbing his head and neck in whatever it was. Lord Swartingham sighed. "I'll have one of the stable boys wash him before he enters the Abbey again." "Mmm," Anna murmured thoughtful.. | edward elizabeth-hoyt raven-prince | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 4a0b00c | Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 958189b | Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. "I love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can't you say it, Hero?" | relationships tormented | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 0974fd2 | All empires become arrogant. It is their nature. | politics-observation | Edward Rutherfurd | |
| 4d8f8dd | she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil. | Christopher Moore | ||
| daeed62 | She's so obnoxious. Like a whole Saturday night drunk tank full of obnoxious packed into one little body." Detective Cavuto" | Christopher Moore | ||
| b15ea8f | She had a lot of nerve signing her note "Love." [...] But she sign it that way: "Love." What did that mean? Did she mean it, or was it habit? She probably signed all of her letters with "Love." Maybe not." | christopher-moore | Christopher Moore | |
| 96aa867 | In another Christmas story, Dale Pearson, evil developer, self-absorbed woman hater, and seemingly unredeemable curmudgeon, might be visited in the night by a series of ghosts who, by showing him bleak visions of Christmas future, past, and present, would bring about in him a change to generosity, kindness, and a general warmth toward his fellow man. But this is not that kind of Christmas story, so here, in not too many pages, someone is go.. | christmas humor murder | Christopher Moore | |
| e8dc429 | As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education. | education moore violence | Christopher Moore | |
| 07bf556 | I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck. | hurt love pain self-mutilation | Christopher Moore | |
| 2e5c5fb | Moi?", said I, in perfect fucking French." | Christopher Moore | ||
| 43a91a9 | I can't say 'why me,' Brady. That's one of the big no-can-do's. Because if I do that now that bad stuff has happened to me, why didn't I say it about all the amazing stuff that happened to me before? | Mike Lupica | ||
| 9e02bda | Because in the end, we aren't punished for our sins as much as we are punished by our sins. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 5ab42bf | Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud, but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times .. | alcohol anxiety art balance be-okay chest coffee crying drinking ed fine flowers focus grateful gratitude happiness hope hopeful hopeless hurt inspiration joy lovely lovers madness mental-health music new-day okay panic panic-attack panic-attacks park recovery sad sadness self-destruction self-harm sing singing sky smoking songs sound spring starving tears walking well-being wellness | Charlotte Eriksson | |
| 01c8f2d | Bravery is measured by how hard you try, not by whether you actually succeed. | Nancy Straight | ||
| 63195d0 | How much of our earth has been wet by blood because of jealousy! And at the end of life, what does it all matter? We grow old and the young look at us and can never see that once we made a kingdom ring for love. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| c24ae70 | He had always thought there was an answer to all life's mysteries in the stars, yet whenever he stared at them the answer slipped out of his grasp... But he had to think now, and he stared at the smoke-dimmed stars in the hope that they would help him, but all they did was go on shining. | confusion stars | Bernard Cornwell | |
| 48712aa | Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech. | Norah Vincent | ||
| 3ddfbc6 | It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more. | mars-venus | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 4970510 | on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out. | focus pax-templi | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| cad5958 | Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you'll just let it happen. (Marianne) | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 3b970a1 | I thought we were the good guys," he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it's evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| bc6c4e6 | My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| a31e526 | If I let you get killed, the other bodyguards will make fun of me. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| d571297 | I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all." "Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| aa9537a | There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 126e46f | I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake | romance romantic-gestures | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| c92be84 | I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything. | Luke Davies | ||
| afd1912 | We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose. | Sam Harris | ||
| 3e05ac6 | The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science. | Sam Harris | ||
| 75e5c9d | The problem is that moderates of all faiths are committed to reinterpreting, or ignoring outright, the most dangerous and absurd parts of their scripture--and this commitment is precisely what makes them moderates. But it also requires some degree of intellectual dishonesty, because moderates can't acknowledge that their moderation comes from outside the faith. The doors leading out of the prison of scriptural literalism simply do not open .. | Sam Harris | ||
| 02d58e1 | Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality. | Sam Harris | ||
| 2c6a344 | An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists. | Sam Harris | ||
| e625607 | There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to be in touch with reality, to remove doubt, etc. Alternately one might say that motivation is an aspect of cognition itself. Nevertheless, motives like wanting to find the truth, not wanting to be mistaken, etc., tend to align with epistemic goals in a way that many other commitments do not. As we have begun to see, all reasoning.. | emotion morality motivation religion | Sam Harris | |
| 8ede382 | If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil. | Sam Harris | ||
| f5ab5ff | Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| fb6204b | Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 06e2c18 | lwjwd llTrq lqSyr@ 'w lmbshr@ . | José Saramago | ||
| 553d60d | lSwt hw bSr mn l ystTy` lrw'y@ | José Saramago | ||
| 01a0071 | Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer, | José Saramago | ||
| 5c83a5a | in order to invent heaven and hell a man would need to know nothing except the human body | José Saramago | ||
| f3c355f | Fear can cause blindness, said the girl with dark glasses, Never a truer word, that could not be truer, we were already blind the moment we turned blind, fear struck us blind, fear will keep us blind | José Saramago |