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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b7070c8 | Maximus] put his head down and said in a conspiratorial whisper, "Tell Temeraire that Lily and I have not forgotten our promise; we will not let them hang you at all." Laurence stared up at the immense Regal Copper. All his crew looked deeply distressed, as well they might, the outlaw remark being perfectly audible several clearings over." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 6e50306 | Because my demon told me to" isn't a generally accepted reason," | excuses | Naomi Novik | |
| 596f8f4 | Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will. | Naomi Novik | ||
| a155d19 | It's not seemly for a girl," my grandmother tried, but my grandfather snorted. "Gold doesn't know the hand that holds it," he said, and frowned at me, but in a pleased way." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 87ecc77 | One very important domain of our lives and experience that we tend to miss, ignore, abuse, or lose control of as a result of being in the automatic pilot mode is our own body. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 86bfbbe | That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to 'Oh fuck.' | Charles Stross | ||
| e91b59f | Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card. | consumerism cult-of-jobs d-d d20 geek humour roleplaying-games rpg saving saving-throw shiny | Charles Stross | |
| 12b9ba0 | Well, surely, you will agree that a great improvement could be made simply by cutting down those trees that crowd about the house so much and darken every room? They grow just as they please - just where the acorn or seed fell, I suppose." "What?" asked Strange, whose eyes had wandered back to his book during the latter part of the conversation. "The trees," said Henry. "Which trees?" "Those," said Henry, pointing out of the window to a who.. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| 81c61eb | He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to the consternation of passers-by. He talked to himself and the expression on his face changed constantly. Within the space of a single moment he looked surprized, insulted, resolute, and angry--emotions which were presumably the consequences of the energetic conversation he was holding with the ideal people inside his head. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| ed1bbce | you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| a3716c2 | The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge. | Rick Bass | ||
| 3e173fe | No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, yo.. | Mary Karr | ||
| 43154d7 | Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life. | Mary Karr | ||
| 6d252f1 | Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another? | suicide | Ryū Murakami | |
| bb58d09 | Malevolence is born of negative feelings like lonliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife; an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| fa12ab4 | People always talk about the health benefits of Japanese food,' he said, 'but I'm fascinated by other aspects of the Japanese dining experience. Like the whole system of serving food at a counter like this, with the customers all facing the same direction, instead of each other. It's strange when you think about it. At a sushi bar, for example, everyone's facing the itamae-san, and you discuss the things you're eating - what type of squid t.. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 10a09d2 | I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don't you think? | life love parenthood parenting | George Saunders | |
| 3405d97 | And there was nothing left for me to do, but go. Though the things of the world were strong with me still. Such as, for example: a gaggle of children trudging through a side-blown December flurry; a friendly match-share beneath some collision-tilted streetlight; a frozen clock, bird-visited within its high tower; cold water from a tin jug; toweling off one's clinging shirt post-June rain. Pearls, rags, buttons, rug-tuft, beer-froth. Some.. | George Saunders | ||
| 8335022 | He was like the bed at a party on which they pile the coats. | George Saunders | ||
| d0edf6a | I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 949694b | Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ef428e9 | Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d27b40a | The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5f0a028 | We are collections of things that we find and experience and value and keep inside ourselves, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, and that collection of things is what we finally become. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 14ea326 | Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d013de5 | The sun was good. The men of the llano were men of the sun. The men of the farms along the river were men of the moon. But we were all children of the white sun. | bless good llano me men moon rudolfo sun ultima | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| 0207569 | Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant... | past reality | Alan Lightman | |
| 22654aa | We fail; we learn. Unless we fail to learn. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 591060d | He believed dark feys didn't get a mate, but she mentally waved that away because men often believed stupid shit. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 5f0eeac | You once told me I was so good at this game because it's all I'll ever have.' The sadness in his voice had drawn me up short. 'Your words were true, though I didn't wish them to be. Not then. Or now.' I'd heard Aric enraged, playful, fierce, in pain, and in lust. I'd never heard this soft sadness before. | evie | Kresley Cole | |
| a74de45 | Is your blouse Azzedine Alaia?' 'No, you could say it's VERY authentic vintage.' Lachlain didn't care what it was; she'd never wear that damned unfinished shirt in public again. | kresley-cole lachlain-macrieve | Kresley Cole | |
| 7cce706 | La Dorada skulked into view. She was half-mummified, but sodden. Gooey. Regin let out a low whistle. "The Mummy Returns meets Dingoes Ate My Face." | Kresley Cole | ||
| f6f1020 | When she'd gotten her period at thirteen, he'd given her a copy of The Care and Keeping of You. He'd been red-faced, gruffly saying, "Here. I'm sure you'll put all this together." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0ef0d38 | He'd given her the mother of all hangovers - a run-in with the wrath of grapes. | funny kresley-cole | Kresley Cole | |
| 1b3a1e0 | It's a sweet setup, I'll admit. For all that the maids STILL show up each day with jumbo crucifixes, jumpy movements, and red eyes from crying over the short straw that drew them vampire duty.' Yesterday, she'd just stopped herself from raising her clenched hands above her head and chasing one of them around the room groaning, 'I vant to suck your blood. | kresley-cole vampire vampires | Kresley Cole | |
| 07cb6e8 | Chase:"I don't have the time or patience for games. Now, tell me, why do you ... glow?" Regin:"I touched a radioactive alien cock once." | Kresley Cole | ||
| d788707 | When Matthew merely stared at him, Jackson reached into the weapon box and pulled out a sheathed machete, handing it to the boy. Matthew laughed and dropped it. | evie funny jackson matthew poison-princess weapons | Kresley Cole | |
| ed91eb8 | Goody Two-shoes Evie Greene got herself pickled, for true. If I'd known you were such a juvenile delinquent, I might've asked for a new history " "Juvenile delinquent? Hmm. Aren't your initials J.D.? If the shoe fits..." | bantering clever evie jack jackson kresley-cole poison-princess sparring | Kresley Cole | |
| ad7b603 | I groaned. "All the time. I thought I was going crazy." "Duude," he said in agreement. "And before the Flash, all kinds of freaky shit was happening to me. I started speaking this wierd Language. And stuff started transforming- but only in front of me. I saw my cat walking on the ceiling, saw lava coming out of a faucet. The worst? I was doing this girl, and suddenly she looked like my gym teacher!" | funny | Kresley Cole | |
| a83a17e | Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me." | Robert Crais | ||
| ccf9b5a | Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understandin.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 41aabb9 | One must drop all presuppositions and dogmas and rules - for there only lead to stalemate or disaster; one must cease to regard all patients as replicas, and honor each one with individual reactions and propensities; and, in this way, with the patient as one's equal, one's co-explorer, not one's puppet, one may find therapeutic ways which are better than other ways, tactics which can be modified as occasion requires. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 80bbf6a | I have to remember, too, that sex is one of those areas--like religion and politics--where otherwise decent and rational people may have intense, irrational feelings. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 887efe5 | I'd killed my self-defense instructor. Shit. I ran to where he lay and stumbled to a crouch at his side, touching his shoulder. "Craig?" His eyelids fluttered. A few panicked heartbeats later, he opened them. Then he grinned. "Yeah, that's what I'm talking about! You gotta learn to people." He was breathing hard. He had to gasp the words out. I'd probably knocked the wind out of him. "Now, never do that to me again." -Kitty and her self d.. | Carrie Vaughn |