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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 63b2009 | Let my office know when you change your mind," he said, then headed for the door, jerking to a stop when Ivy didn't get out of his way. "Let us know when cherry lollypops come out your ass," Jenks said," -- | Kim Harrison | ||
| 5386ca0 | I can't believe I'm saying this, but you're perfect for each other! You irritate people, and he smooths things out. You have good mojo, and he only thinks he does. You're broke, and he's rich. You've got those weird feet of yours, and he's got them cute ears. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 4d79b26 | what red lips you have," he said in her ear. Did she dare say it? "All the better to kiss you with, my dear," she replied. And then their lips met." | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| 68b7fc4 | I'm not asking for anything beyond your company in sleep. Just let me rest with the sound of your heartbeat beside mine. | hawksong kiesha-ra | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | |
| 761fcf4 | I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross) | sandra-brown the-alibi women | Sandra Brown | |
| b862961 | And the longer she holds out, the more you want it, and the more you want it, the blinder you get. There is a direct correlation, you know, between a stiff dick and blind stupidity. | stiff-dick | Sandra Brown | |
| 6cc268f | I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 2fac25c | But I was born bent out of shape. I could picture myself coming out of the womb crooked and wrong. It never takes much for me to lose patience. The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f7fe1ca | We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves. | elves family love magic old-fashioned rare siblings superstition the-70s the-seventies twins unicorn unicorns | Gillian Flynn | |
| a165455 | You both find the exact same things worth remembering. You have the same rhythm. Click. You just know each other. All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing & it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back. That fast. You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It's finally arrived. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f18f21a | My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| ad2e7f8 | Nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach... I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep them. I could stay up all night and make mistakes, and none of it would count. | Joan Didion | ||
| dbdd7e1 | Can you evade the dying of the brightness? Or do you evade only its warning? Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring? | Joan Didion | ||
| 531f769 | But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay. | Joan Didion | ||
| 0099f12 | Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life. Virtually everyone who has ever experienced grief mentions this phenomenon of "waves." | Joan Didion | ||
| ebf604e | nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself. | meaningless void | Joan Didion | |
| 4804c82 | One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane | Nikola Tesla | ||
| 37d7703 | How many women do you think a man could possibly screw in his lifetime?" The vendor handed me my change. "I don't know," I said. "I've stopped counting." "Stopped counting, eh? What did you do, get to ten and decide that was enough before settling down?" He pointed to the gold band on my left hand. "No. I settled down first, then I started fucking." | Whitney Gracia Williams | ||
| fde0f0a | It's simpler to believe in a miracle. | explanations miracles religion | William Golding | |
| d99b56e | Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life. | William Golding | ||
| b1d9cf6 | This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and a shirt. | William Golding | ||
| 0ce9c05 | Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship, adventure and content. | William Golding | ||
| a2aa0f4 | I must say that anyone who passed through those years [of World War II] without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head. | William Golding | ||
| 07ebd45 | He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway | Alice Sebold | ||
| 82559b2 | He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 23cb8d6 | Since then he had taken these photos out too many times to count, but each time he looked into the face of this woman he had felt something growing inside him. It took him a long time to realize what it was. Only recently had his wounded synapses allowed him to name it. He had been falling in love all over again. He didn't understand how two people who were married, who saw each other every day, could forget what each other looked like, bu.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| d00d434 | Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that. | mother | Alice Sebold | |
| cfc758d | I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years. | Alice Sebold | ||
| ca52bcd | You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value. | Ayn Rand | ||
| ecf69d6 | People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 91ddabe | Self-esteem is not a value that, once achieved, is maintained automatically thereafter; like every other human value, including life itself, it can be maintained only by action. Self-esteem, the basic conviction that one is competent to live, can be maintained only so long as one is engaged in a process of growth, only so long as one is committed to the task of increasing one's efficacy. In living entities, nature does not permit stillness:.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 00694b9 | Here's another way. This is most important. Don't allow men to be happy. Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men. So kill their joy in living. Take away from them what they want. Make them think that the mere thought of a personal desire is evil. Bring them to a state where saying 'I want' is no longer a natural right, but a shameful admission. Altruism is of great h.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 503bb65 | No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave ." | right | Ayn Rand | |
| 5f510c7 | All work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. | Ayn Rand | ||
| f547a66 | In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil. | evil love sex trust | Ayn Rand | |
| 778568b | She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart | Ayn Rand | ||
| bc02a3d | What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge--he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evil--he became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread by his labor--he became a productive being. He was sentenced to experie.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 2c25e41 | I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build!":" | Ayn Rand | ||
| c59bda1 | It doesn't say much. Only "Howard Roark, Architect". But it's like those mottoes men carved over the entrance of a castle and died for. It's a challenge in the face of something so vast and so dark, that all the pain on earth - and do you know how much suffering there is on earth? - all the pain comes from that thing y...ou are going to face. I don't know what it is, I don't know why it should be unleashed against you. I know only that it w.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 1074f9a | What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable? | justice kindness | Ayn Rand | |
| 61350ab | Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but i.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| cd87c91 | The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 95bbd97 | She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?" | Ayn Rand | ||
| 69b7311 | But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories--all that they take away with them. What if heaven is just a vast consciousness that the dead return to? And their assignment is to report on the experiences they collected during their time on earth. The hardware store their father owned with the cat asleep on the grass seed, and the friend they used to laug.. | Anne Tyler |