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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9c3402b | Experience was the most painful of teachers. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0c5c264 | And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b64c93c | You are always here with me when I do so, at least in my heart, and it is impossible for me to remember a time when you were not a part of me. I do not know who I would have become had you never come back. I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be y.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 92b1f42 | And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4607bcb | Nothing is really lost or can be lost, | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e879fb3 | And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 583a350 | You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a6bc7ce | Dawson, like Tuck, was one of those rare people who could love only once, and if anything, separation had only made his feelings grow stronger. Two days ago, that realization had been disconcerting, but she now understood that, for Dawson, there had been no other choice. Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 14fc834 | They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed though her, making a song, like the songs of Ember, only it was a song of joy. She looked at Doon and saw that he was smiling and crying at the same time, and she realized that she was, too. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 47b01bc | Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre." | fathers masterpiece-theatre | Marisha Pessl | |
| b1e7f94 | suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 79a63b1 | Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out? Do you want to know what is there or live in the dark delusion that this commercial world insists we remain sealed inside like blind caterpillars in an eternal cocoon? Will you curl up with your eyes closed and die? Or c.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 9eb8592 | It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum" | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| a5eea1a | Bullets are creepy." Stephenie" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| b36c8ff | Personally, I'm a lazy kind of guy, and leaving the door open on the mystical saves me work. I don't have to stress my brain trying to explain the unexplainable. It's magic. End of discussion. | supernatural | Janet Evanovich | |
| 5514ba2 | And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 0522fef | Grandma Mazur stood two feet back from my mother. "I gotta get me a pair if those," she said, eyeballing my shorts. "I've still got pretty good legs, you know." She raised her skirt and looked down at her knees. "What do you think? You think I'd look good in them biker things?" Grandma Mazur had knees like doorknobs." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d6ac96b | There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 94676c9 | He doesn't look very smart," Diesel said. "He's not even giving me the finger." "Can monkey's do that?" Hal asked. Carl gave him the finger. "Cool!" Hal said." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d172a3a | Diesel rocked back on his heels and grinned at the monkey. "Carl?" "Eep!" The monkey stood, squinted at Diesel, and gave him the finger. "Looks like you know each other," I said. "Our paths crossed in Trenton," Diesel said. "How did he get here?" "Monkey Rescue," Glo told him. "He was abandoned." "Figures," Diesel said. The monkey gave him the finger again. "Does he do that all the time?" I asked Diesel. "Not all the time." "I got .. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ffcbc3a | My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd probably prefer I bring home someone useful, like a butcher or a car mechanic, but I guess cops are a step up from undertakers. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 4d4abef | All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion. | eucharist jesus mass | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 8000582 | My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child. Why did they send me so far and so lonely, Up where the moors spread and gray rocks are piled? Men are hard-hearted, and kind angels only Watch o'er the steps of a poor orphan child. Ye, distant and soft, the night-breeze is blowing, Clouds there are no.. | Charlotte Bronte | ||
| 0df1dcb | Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 27758c1 | When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not want to see, the openness - the freedom of thought and inquiry - that has made us powerful, the openness that has produced Bill Gates and Sally Ride. They deliberately define it all as decadence... | openness radicals terrorists | Thomas L. Friedman | |
| 592aa3d | Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories. | life memories time | Lois Lowry | |
| 403d6be | You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial." | kira | Lois Lowry | |
| 1c8d9b0 | Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy. | Jack Weatherford | ||
| ac6b9a5 | To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there. | John Banville | ||
| d2a7998 | He traced the genealogy of the feeling. | Zadie Smith | ||
| f49ed32 | Nostalgia is a luxury. | Zadie Smith | ||
| e94f26d | It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants--packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends--that stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing. | Zadie Smith | ||
| c7dda73 | It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 22d212a | The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discussed. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe in it. | Libba Bray | ||
| 8f12fdc | I knew it. You're an alien," said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. "Yes, I'm an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I'm going to steal your boyfriend to prove girls can't really be friends." "I sat back timidly when you torched my house, killed my parents, and ate my dog. But now you're stealing my boyfriend? That's a step too far!" | Libba Bray | ||
| 19e293c | It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' Don't you? If you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No,' I say. 'Only untested' -page 569 | Libba Bray | ||
| 7dff218 | This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him," Miss Ohio said with a contented sigh. "And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship." - "Beauty Queens" -- | Libba Bray | ||
| 68e3bbe | I am not asking you to understand, Papa. I'm asking for you to accept." "Accept what?" "My decision to live my own life as I see fit." It is so quiet that I suddenly wish I could take it back. " | Libba Bray | ||
| 52fd64f | Just once I'd like to meet a fella who isn't a phony. Somebody who doesn't wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys. | Libba Bray | ||
| 46f7b82 | All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day. | Libba Bray | ||
| d02fbb0 | I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry. | hangovers humor | Libba Bray | |
| 2469d41 | I told myself it was the snow--she couldn't possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It's amazing the sorts of things you'll make yourself believe. | Libba Bray | ||
| b0102b8 | All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day. | Libba Bray | ||
| f36adcf | I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That's what I felt that YA did. It wasn't pretentious, and it wasn't hiding its heart. It wanted to be found out... | junot-diaz vulnerability ya young-adult-fiction | Libba Bray |