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| 3e19217 | Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is my witness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!" "Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?" The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me an.. | comedy humor | Julia Quinn | |
| c330a98 | Why do you joke about such things?" she snapped. He let his gaze land rather intently on hers. "When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor. Even if it is of the gallows variety." | humor sarah-pleinsworth | Julia Quinn | |
| cfd6d4a | Then Elizabeth came, bearing a tray of cakes and sweets, and finally Harriet, who carried with her a small sheaf of paper--her current opus, Henry VIII and the Unicorn of Doom . "I'm not certain Frances is going to be appeased by an evil unicorn," Anne told her. Harriet looked up with one arched brow. "She did not specify that it must be a good unicorn." Anne grimaced. "You're going to have a battle on your hands, that's all I'm going to sa.. | dont-even-ask julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 231e7d8 | It's very bad form to spy on one's host," he said, planting his hands on his hips and somehow managing to look both authoritative and relaxed at the same time. "It was an accident," she grumbled. "Oh, I believe you there," he said. "But even if you didn't intend to spy on me, the fact remains that when the opportunity arose, you took it." "Do you blame me?" He grinned. "Not at all. I would have done precisely the same thing." Her mouth fell.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| c5d0aa6 | And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit. | humor skills | Julia Quinn | |
| 335ac91 | That was very rude of me." "Think nothing of it. You've done worse." | Julia Quinn | ||
| ca11ebe | There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell. | Julia Quinn | ||
| de78a5e | She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 27f6bbb | She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 630a8df | Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases. | disease history | Jared Diamond | |
| 84dff39 | Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmental stewards than other peoples or parts of contemporary society] to justify fair treatment of native peoples, we imply that it would be OK to mistreat them if that assumption could be refuted. .. | dispossession environment equality extermination morality native-americans subjugation suppression values | Jared Diamond | |
| 7200006 | Globalization makes it impossible for modern societies to collapse in isolation, as did Easter Island and the Greenland Norse in the past. Any society in turmoil today, no matter how remote ... can cause trouble for prosperous societies on other continents and is also subject to their influence (whether helpful or destabilizing). For the first time in history, we face the risk of a global decline. But we also are the first to enjoy the oppo.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 108ee15 | I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something. | James Frey | ||
| 8491bb7 | This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving. | James Frey | ||
| 115a9a5 | I think about her. I think about the first time I saw her.. I had a book in my hand and I was reading and for some reason I looked up...She didn't see me. She didn't see me, but I saw her. | James Frey | ||
| ec09cdd | The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived. How will you leave it when it is your turn? What can you do? | Jean M. Auel | ||
| 75d9ac1 | You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself or his brother officers, but circulate daylong among his men. Let them see you and see you unafraid. Where there is work to do, turn your hand to it first; the men will follow. Some of you, I see, have erected tents. Strike them at once. We will all sleep as I do, in the open. Keep your men busy. If there is no work, make it up, for when sold.. | officership warrior warrior-ethos | Steven Pressfield | |
| 1bcb0da | Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| f91dd6b | To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| d07aa24 | You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of sma.. | Margaret Weis | ||
| 4448fb5 | Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter! | Margaret Weis | ||
| b768836 | get back, get back! ill turn you into a piglet! ast a bula- no wait. that turns ME into a piglet!! | Margaret Weis | ||
| d807656 | Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not leave it comes tolling over the generations it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor and all your thrashed coasts groan | sophocles tragedy | Anne Carson | |
| 0900c44 | Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman. | Euripides | ||
| 7efc758 | There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience. | science | Euripides | |
| 58b41f5 | I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, "What's the definition of a moderate Arab?" "I don't know." "A guy who ran out of ammunition." | Nelson DeMille | ||
| b1c05b0 | Everyone looked pensive, which is good cover-up for clueless. | Nelson DeMille | ||
| 080732e | Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless. | Jack London | ||
| 7b5932e | Martin heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed behind the laundryman. He was becoming anti-social. Daily he found it a severer strain to be decent with people. Their presence perturbed him, and the effort of conversation irritated him. They made him restless, and no sooner was he in contact with them than he was casting about for excuses to get rid of them. | Jack London | ||
| 41a3f14 | His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him. | Jack London | ||
| fe3d60c | There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil. | Jack London | ||
| b9140de | On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement. | Jack London | ||
| 04b7d3c | Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so. | image love superficiality | Jack London | |
| 37214d2 | Always has woman crouched close to earth like a partridge hen mothering her young; always has my wantonness of roving led me out on the shining ways; and always have my star paths returned me to her, the figure everlasting, the woman, the one woman, for whose arms I had such need that clasped in them I have forgotten the stars. For her I accomplished Odysseys scaled mountains crossed deserts; for her I led the hunt and was forward in battle.. | Jack London | ||
| f9d54c6 | The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| d87d167 | To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological sciences, there is ample evidence that animals -- rats and monkeys, for example -- that are forced into a subordinate status within their social systems adapt their brain chemistry accordingly, becoming 'depressed' in humanlike ways. Their behavior is anxious and withdrawn; the level of serotonin (the neurotransmitter boosted .. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| c7d9e22 | Into each life some rain must fall, Somedays must be dark and sad and dreary. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 22bd67c | You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I'm done; for you don't need much advice of mine after my good man has spoken. I read somewhere that every inch of rope in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so wherever a bit of it is found it is known. That is the text of my little sermon to you. Virtue, which means honour, honesty, courage, and all that makes character, is the red thread that marks a good man .. | virtue | Louisa May Alcott | |
| ca9b97e | men never forgive like women. | louisa-may-alcott men women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 5fe3b59 | The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who trul.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 31e6ec8 | Well, now there is a very excellent, necessary, and womanly accomplishment that my girl should not be without, for it is a help to rich and poor, and the comfort of families depends upon it. This fine talent is neglected nowadays and considered old-fashioned, which is a sad mistake and one that I don't mean to make in bringing up my girl. It should be part of every girl's eductation, and I know of a most accomplished lady who will teach you.. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 3c0b244 | Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole. | louisa-may-alcott men women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| f74a63f | nothing seemed impossible in the beginning... | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 7ff33c3 | Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner." | Alcott Louisa May |