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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| beb9c7b | A noble maiden must convey dignity and chastity without appearing to think about either one. Let common-born girls tussle in the hay with their loutish swains. The future of your family's bloodline and your future lord's bloodline should be your greatest concern. Let no man but one of your family embrace you. Let no man but your betrothed kiss any more than your fingertips; let your betrothed kiss you only on fingers, cheek, or forehead, le.. | tamora-pierce tricksters-choice | Tamora Pierce | |
| 1f8975d | That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 7427288 | We build up pretty pictures of men, when we want to be in love. We hate to have them ruined. | men | Tamora Pierce | |
| a506df7 | You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly. "Little *bitch*," he snapped. Sandry looked him over soberly. "If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness," she replied." | strong-heroine vexed | Tamora Pierce | |
| 0138736 | No can always be changed to yes, but it's very hard to change yes to no. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 300042f | There are times in every rider's life when it is necessary to apologize to a horse.... | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 9a88248 | Wouldn't--" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?" -- | Tamora Pierce | ||
| b7edd83 | He liked me to help him when he did things. He explained what I didn't know, warned me when to stand aside, told me to get out of his way because he could do it faster, and thanked me for helping. There were moments when he needed me to rescue him, and he never blamed me for it, or got angry about it. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 2a038de | We each play several roles in life - that doesn't make them all lies. | tamora-pierce traitor-s-trilogy ya-romance ya-spy | Erin Beaty | |
| a6f6840 | More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most. | ecology farming symbiosis | Michael Pollan | |
| f6f15c3 | Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds. | Michael Pollan | ||
| c802c11 | Use the apple test "If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry." -- | Michael Pollan | ||
| 71e8638 | Every day is a chance to start over. Any day can be bad, surely, but any day can be good, can be great, and that promise, that potential, is a beautiful thing indeed. | inspirational | R.A. Salvatore | |
| de98706 | Death turned to leave the room, but stopped when Hex began to write furiously. He went back and looked at the emerging paper. +++ Dear Hogfather, For Hogswatch I Want OH, NO. YOU CAN'T WRITE LETT... Death paused, and then said, YOU CAN, CAN'T YOU. +++ Yes. I Am Entitled +++ Death waited until the pen had stopped, and picked up the paper. BUT YOU ARE A MACHINE. THINGS HAVE NO DESIRES. A DOORKNOB WANTS NOTHING, EVEN THOUGH IT IS A COMPLEX MAC.. | terry pratchett | ||
| b4ada7a | Those who sought her never found her, yet she was known to come to the aid of those in greatest need. And, then again, sometimes she didn't. She was like that. She didn't like the clicking of rosaries, but was attracted to the sound of dice. No man knew what She looked like, although there were many times when a man who was gambling his life on the turn of the cards would pick up the hand he had been dealt and stare Her full in the face. Of.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 803ad82 | Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. | light | Terry Pratchett | |
| a14bcbb | I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c314379 | SEE THE MAN NEXT TO HIM? WITH THE LITTLE MOUSTACHE AND THE GRIN LIKE A LIZARD? Death pointed with his scythe. 'Yes?' HIS COUSIN, THE DUKE OF STO HELIT. NOT THE NICEST OF PEOPLE, said Death. A HANDY MAN WITH A BOTTLE OF POISON. FIFTH IN LINE TO THE THRONE LAST YEAR, NOW SECOND IN LINE. BIT OF A SOCIAL CLIMBER, YOU MIGHT SAY. | mort | Terry Pratchett | |
| bfed242 | It was a little like stealing. It was exactly like stealing. It was, in fact, stealing. But there was no law against it because no one knew the crime existed, so is it really stealing if what's stolen isn't missed? And is it stealing if you're stealing from thieves? Anyway, all property is theft, except mine. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 021009b | In front of the group was a legless man on a small wheeled trolley, who was singing at the top of his voice and banging two saucepans together. His name was Arnold Sideways. Pushing him along was Coffin Henry, whose croaking progress through an entirely different song was punctuated by bouts of off-the-beat coughing. He was accompanied by a perfectly ordinary-looking manin torn, dirty and yet expensive looking clothing, whose pleasant tenor.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5ac3b57 | Many bad things were done under the Evil Empire" she said. "The best we can do now is undo them. Will you assist in this endeavor?" "In every way that I can" said Nutt. "I would like you to teach them civilized behavior," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes, of course, I think, that would be quite possible," he said. "And who would you send to teach the humans?" There was a brief outburst of laughter from Vetinari, who.. | humor orcs | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7bc5778 | The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out. | time | Terry Pratchett | |
| d4200f3 | That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing! | inspiration life | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4c7efb0 | And the new day was a great big fish | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ff381d6 | no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away--until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 07b9733 | Mister Rob Anybody and sundry others?" said one of the figures in a dreadful voice. "There's naebody here o' that name!" shouted Rob Anybody. "We dinna know anythin'!" "We have here a list of criminal and civil charges totaling nineteen thousand, seven hundred and sixty-three separate offenses-" "We wasna there!" yelled Rob Anybody desperately. "Isn't that right, lads?" "-including more than two thousand cases of Making an Affray, Causing a.. | lawyers | Terry Pratchett | |
| 7e61ba4 | Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of your soldiers said he bit a man's nose off." Vimes shrugged. "He's got a very pointed look if I don't use the sugar tongs, I know that." | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6663eff | The children refused to disbelieve in the monsters because, frankly, they knew damn well the things were there. But she'd found that they could, very firmly, also believe in the poker. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8cf681c | Of course, he was in favor of Armageddon in general terms. If anyone had asked him why he'd been spending centuries tinkering in the affairs of mankind he'd have said, "Oh, in order to bring about Armageddon and the triumph of Hell." But it was one thing to work to bring it about, and quite another for it to actually happen. Crowley had always known that he would be around when the world ended, because he was immortal and wouldn't have any .. | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0549c69 | Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4052dcf | And that was fine, except that she didn't have any old friends anymore. Kids back home who'd been friendly were now...respectful, because of the hat. There was a kind of wall, as if she'd grown up and they hadn't. What could they talk about? She'd been to places they couldn't even imagine. Most of them hadn't even been to Twoshirts, which was only half a day away. And this didn't worry them at all. They were going to do the jobs their fathe.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a096b9a | But we don't do things like that!" said Vimes. "You can't go around arresting the Thieves' Guild. I mean, we'd be at it all day!" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7aaa6d1 | It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8a7bef0 | It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad | husband marriage toads wife | Terry Pratchett | |
| 14fcf85 | When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 05a0ccb | There's a kind of magic in masks. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. The one that only comes out in darkness. I bet you could do just what you liked, behind a mask ... ? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8d11271 | Good evening, gentlemen!' said the vampire. 'Please pay attention. I am a | humor vampires | Terry Pratchett | |
| 089908c | It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident and doing it by design. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4cffd29 | All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dd964d0 | Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 49737ff | I am a bundle of suppressed instincts held together with spit and coffee. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e3814ac | And then she woke up and it was all a dream.' It was just about the worst ending you could have to any story. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 4e34b4b | It was a Guild of Assassins, after all. Black was what you wore. The night was black and so were you. And black had such style, and an Assassin without style, everyone agreed, was just a highly paid arrogant thug. | discworld fantasy humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 20ab504 | His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47. | good-omens life | Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett |