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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f06f865 | You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty." Levin nodded though.. | criminal-law fear guilt innocence justice justice-system responsibility risk | Michael Connelly | |
| f898105 | She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 88f9d5d | Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?" I said nothing. "What colour's a blackbird?" she said. "Black" "Typical!" | colour drawing nature noticing observation | David Almond | |
| c31664a | It occurred to her that nobody really knew what anybody else was upset about, and that seemed like a terrible thing. | growing-up | Kate DiCamillo | |
| ac10beb | When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 98e3846 | Love!' said the princess. She stamped her foot. 'Why must everyone always speak of love? | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| d3e6734 | The world was beautiful. It surprised me, how beautiful it kept on insisting on being. In spite of all the lies, it was beautiful. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 6108d0d | I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart." - Gloria Dump" | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| befb733 | Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up. | middle-school resilience | Kate DiCamillo | |
| c1cde2e | I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing... How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother's death, Father Quinel's murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own. | Avi | ||
| 930f585 | Queer Ducks flock together. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 2d1e230 | I was just trying to give you the teen-male perspective." "Which is?" "If it moves, screw it." | pescoli teen-male-perspective | Lisa Jackson | |
| 28ef6de | The score is still Q to 12! | Bill Watterson | ||
| 4a32a4d | Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death. | death life peace | Dean Koontz | |
| e76f1e2 | If they hate your race, pardon them. If they hate your religion, enlighten them. If they hate your gender, admonish them. If they hate your class, avoid them. If they hate your politics, debate them. If they hate your culture, question them. If they hate your tribe, confront them. If they hate your ancestry, defy them. If they hate your age, outshine them. If they hate your appearance, disregard them. If they love you for your knowledge, t.. | african-philosopher-quotes african-philosophy-quotes enlightenment-quotes guru-quotes matshona-dhliwayo-quotes philosopher-quotes philosophy-quotations sage-quotes solomonology-quotes | Matshona Dhliwayo | |
| 4efe7c4 | Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. | David Mitchell | ||
| 005337f | Art feasts upon its maker | David Mitchell | ||
| 42d9f91 | Oh, once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back." Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. "We--by whom I mean anyone over sixty--commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our sec.. | life-experience old-age | David Mitchell | |
| 62f53ed | Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most. | war women | David Mitchell | |
| 5638de5 | Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now, | David Mitchell | ||
| 4c100c5 | Dead things show you what you'll be too one day. | David Mitchell | ||
| 247c101 | I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps." | David Mitchell | ||
| 03656a9 | Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 58a2dc1 | you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 0accf6a | He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay." "I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you." | paper-clips pens requisiting | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 0c06385 | Maybe human beings programmed...to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad... | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 378121e | That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood. | heroism manhood sacrifice | Lloyd Alexander | |
| cb8d7fa | Good cannot come from evil. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| be1e150 | What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr" | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 0549bb8 | If one invests some interest in, for example, a tree and begins to form some thoughts about this tree then writes these thoughts down, further examining the meanings that surface, allowing for unconscious associations to take place, writing all this down as well, until the subject of the tree branches off into the subject of the shelf, that person will enjoy immense psychological benefits. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| c3727a7 | There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| c483f3b | My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 097c369 | words need worlds in order to be worlds. worlds though don't need words in order to be worlds. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| da5e20b | I guess I'm hoping the weapons will make me feel better, grant me some kind of fucking control, especially if I sense the dullness inside me get too heavy and thick, warning me that something is again approaching, creeping slowly towards my room, no figment of my imagination either but as tangible as you and I, never ceasing to scratch, waiting, perhaps for a word or an order or some other kind of sign to at last initiate this violent and b.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 814a692 | How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget?' Asked once, when emptiness was the worst. Why ever [would] he want to remember that? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 26ee571 | It is beneficial to consider the origins of "riddle." The Old English raedelse means "opinion, conjure" which is related to the Old English raedon "to interpret" in turn belonging to the same etymological history of "read." "Riddling" is an offshoot of "reading" calling to mind the participatory nature of that act--to interpret--which is all the adult world has left when faced with the unsolvable. "To read" actually comes from the Latin re.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| e9b5631 | Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary. | philosophy truth | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 55cee9e | Both pieces are similar in one way:what one could believe, one doubts. Nicoise because one depends upon the moral sense of the filmmaker, The Navidson Record because one depends upon the moral sense of the world. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 4a1bc5d | Since when did you bring a gun?" Navidson asks, crouching near the door. "Are you kidding me? This place is ." | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| da692ab | At least when you're drunk," Tom adds, quickly wiping the wet from his face. "You've always got the floor for your best friend. Know why?" "It's always there for you," Navidson answers, his own cheeks suddenly flushing with emotion as he helps his weaving brother to the kitchen. "That's right," Tom whispers. "Just like you." | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| bfa1ae3 | You have to let the water run awhile and even though it remains icy, part of you still refuses to believe it won't change, especially if you wait a little longer or open up the valve a little more. So you wait but no matter how many minutes run by, you still see no steam, you still feel no heat. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| cee8a20 | It's too annoying. Too me. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 52e881d | Even up until these final eons of time, we felt we could create anything. We could build ourselves a heaven. But why? We were Heaven already. Only in the very end did we try to build a S.O.U.L. That which would outlast V.E.M., outlast The Verse, outlast death. But it was impossible. Or we were too late. Though still the H.O.L.Y. tried. And built Hell instead. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 7b3400a | Sometimes how you talk is all you got. Even if your talk is wrong. | Mark Z. Danielewski |