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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e1ebb83 | But cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea. | reasons | John Updike | |
| f633089 | Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works. | John Updike | ||
| 7e079b0 | lmwt lys nhy@ kl shy , whdh mw'kd , wlknh mw'lm l~ HdW l ymkn tSwWrh , wtHmWl hdh l'lm Gyr lmHdwd S`b l~ HdW 'n jzan mn `qly yr~ mkhrjh lwHyd nsyn hdh l'mr wlndf` bqw@ nHw nwm hny' . | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 23e635e | qbl fkhr mykhrdm khh gh dw nfr bh hm hmyshh rst bgn ,y`ny `yn Hqyqt rw bgn,byd khyly bhm Smymy bshn wly lan dydm khh ngr byd bry HfZ Smymyt, b`Dy jh drwG hm bgy | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| addd24b | Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness | suffering | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 95a1231 | I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick i.. | falsehood social-weapons truth | Sherwood Smith | |
| e9344e2 | When things are good in your life, take the time to build and fortify your relationship with the Lord. Never become complacent about your relationship with Him, because there's always room to grow DEEPER! | lord love power prayer relationship | Stormie Omartian | |
| 28d197b | It is a father's job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| ecff904 | Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop. | human-body | Joe Haldeman | |
| a132a80 | Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3a23b5f | She died in a fire. I miss her like you... If I was underwater, I wouldn't miss oxygen that much. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 1e362b9 | Do you honestly think Lenin is any different from J.P. Morgan? That you, if you were given absolute power, would behave any differently? Do you know the primary difference between men and gods?...Gods don't think they can become men. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 837cd0b | We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart. | meaningful | Aimee Bender | |
| 165fd96 | How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another. | Jane Yolen | ||
| ea96fd4 | Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 0f34d44 | Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical questions, a bit of humor, or a sign that you are losing confidence in me?" "I have no confidence in you, Ram," said the expendable. "Well, thanks." "You're welcome." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 46624a4 | But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it. | reputation | Orson Scott Card | |
| 37d958d | Earthborn animals do this thing, inside their brains--a sort of firing-off of synapses, controlled insanity. While they're asleep. The part of their brain that records sight or sound, it's firing off every hour or two while they sleep; even when all the sights and sounds are complete random nonsense, their brains just keep on trying to assemble it into something sensible. They try to make stories out of it. It's complete random nonsense wit.. | inspirational | Orson Scott Card | |
| 8dfe653 | A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b042aa3 | Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d942965 | A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war. | society | Orson Scott Card | |
| d5cf8c0 | For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire. | admire student teacher teachers-and-learners teaching | Orson Scott Card | |
| 44e77fb | Everything we do means something, Ender realized. Them laughing. Me not laughing. He toyed with the idea of trying to be like the other boys. But he couldn't think of any jokes, and none of theirs seemed funny. Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn't find such a place in himself. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b3e2f27 | Tis a far cry from home for a poor lonely thing, O'er the deeps and wild waters of seas, Where you can't hear your dear mother's voice softly sing Like a breeze gently stirring the trees. Come home, little one, wander back here someday, I'll watch for you, each evening and morn, Through all the long season 'til I'm old and grey As the frost on the hedges at dawn. There's a lantern that shines in my window at night, I have long kept it burni.. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 6629a08 | He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace! | Brian Jacques | ||
| bbbc674 | Each of us is born to follow a star, be it bright and shining or dark and fated. Sometimes the path of these stars will cross, bringing love or hatred. However, if you look up at the skies on a clear night, out of all the countless lights that twinkle and shine, there will come one. That star will be seen in a blaze, burning a path of light across the roof of the earth, a great comet. | fate redwall stars | Brian Jacques | |
| 876e360 | Why do you tell me... so much?" Luthe considered her. "I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know--" He stopped.... "Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you." | Robin McKinley | ||
| 0dd9a0e | He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 7420b7a | Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself. | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| 4b16996 | Ma!" she cried. "There is a Santa Claus, isn't there?" "Of course there's a Santa Claus," said Ma. "The older you are, the more you know about Santa Claus," she said. "You are so big now, you know he can't be just one man, don't you? You know he is everywhere on Christmas Eve. He is in the Big Woods, and in Indian Territory, and far away in York State, and here. He comes down all the chimneys at the same time. You know that, don't you?" "Y.. | santa-claus | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| 11875f7 | Mr Babbington,' he said, suddenly stopping in his up and down. 'Take your hands out of your pockets. When did you last write home?' Mr Babbington was at an age when almost any question evokes a guilty response, and this was, in fact, a valid accusation. He reddened, and said, 'I don't know, sir.' 'Think, sir, think,' said Jack, his good-tempered face clouding unexpectedly...'Never, mind. Write a handsome letter. Two pages at least. And send.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 0416aa0 | As Jack began to climb the stairs, Fiona looked up at her new home. Five stories of stately mansion rose above her head. Heavy molding around the large windows and doors bespoke a quality and craftsmanship that was obvious even in the dim night. "Good God! It's massive!" Jack paused with his foot on the last step. "I do wish you'd keep those comments until we are in bed, love. I would appreciate them all the more there." | sexual-innuendos | Karen Hawkins | |
| bb3b648 | I commend you on your skepticism, but even the skeptical mind must be prepared to accept the unacceptable when there is no alternative. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 057ef8a | It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ac57607 | Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. | usa | Gore Vidal | |
| 2b539a5 | For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 71b6a02 | Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I'll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. I'm sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scared.... But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, G.. | Waris Dirie | ||
| 62e0faa | We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time. | Henning Mankell | ||
| fe160df | Every secret we confide in another person can be a burden to them | Henning Mankell | ||
| b658a69 | My idea of a perfect day is a frozen custard at Shake Shack and a walk in the park. (Followed by a Lactaid.) My idea of a perfect night is a good play and dinner at Orso. (But no garlic, or I won't be able to sleep.) The other day I found a bakery that bakes my favorite childhood cake, and it was everything I remembered: it made my week. | Nora Ephron | ||
| f0e40fd | In these days of physical fitness, hair dye, and plastic surgery, you can live much of your life without feeling or even looking old. But then one day, your knee goes, or your shoulder, or your back, or your hip. Your hot flashes come to an end; things droop. Spots appear. Your cleavage looks like a peach pit. If your elbows faced forward, you would kill yourself. You're two inches shorter than you used to be. You're ten pounds fatter and y.. | Nora Ephron | ||
| 6ca3870 | You think I look like a teletubby? | Ben Elton | ||
| e42a1af | He aqui mi secreto. Es muy simple: no se ve bien sino con el corazon. Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 8cc6c2e | lrshdwn yHbwn l'rqm. wHyn tHdthhm `n Sdyq jdyd, fhm l ys'lwnk qTW `n l'mwr ljwhryW@. l yqwlwn lk 'bdan "kyf hy rnW@ Swth? m hy 'l`bh lmfDWl@? hl yjm` lfrsht?" bl ys'lwnk: "km `mrh? km `dd khwth? m wznh? km dkhl 'byh? w`ndh fqT yZnwn 'nhm `rfwh" | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |