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| 5d732f9 | With the news about Andy, it was like someone had thrown an x-ray switch and reversed everything into photographic negative, so that even with the daffodils and the dogwalkers and the traffic cops whistling on the corners, death was all I saw: sidewalks teeming with dead, cadavers pouring off the buses and hurrying home from work, nothing left of any of them in a hundred years except tooth fillings and pacemakers and maybe a few scraps of c.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 29c6c68 | To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No. | sequels writing | John Scalzi | |
| d9656de | The smell of peace is abroad, the air is cold, the skies are brittle, and the leaves have finally fallen. I wear a pony coat with skin like watered silk and muff of lamb. My fingers lie in depths of warmth. I have a jacket of silver sequins and heavy bracelets of rich corals. I wear about my neck a triple thread-like chain of lapis lazulis and pearls. On my face is softness and content like a veil of golden moonlight. And I have never in al.. | Erik Larson | ||
| e4036f3 | Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, "Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off." | Erik Larson | ||
| 16c0101 | I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 729110a | Why do you always have to put you and McNab and sex in my head? It brings pain no blocker can cure. | peabody sex | J.D. Robb | |
| 6624450 | Task complete. Shut it down." the computer responded. "I finished." Jesus, had she really programmed that? "I changed my mind." "Bite me," Eve muttered." | computer | J.D. Robb | |
| b149840 | We're going to get a couple things straight here, Roarke.' 'Your color's back.' Pleased with himself, he rose and nipped a kiss onto the tip of her nose. 'That gray cast to your skin didn't suit you.' Then he grunted as her fist jammed into his stomach. He cleared his throat manfully. 'Your energy level's obviously up, too. Want coffee?' 'I want you to know that if you ever pull a stunt like that again, I'll . . .' She trailed off, narrowed.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| df597bc | I don't worry about traditions overmuch. The fact is, I could change my mind as to whether I want something. For one reason or another, it could lose its appeal. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 458faf9 | A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 1a90da4 | Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door. | Jane Yolen | ||
| 646dd90 | We long only to go home,' " Kirsten said. This was from the first issue, Station Eleven. A face-off between Dr. Eleven and an adversary from the Undersea. " 'We dream of sunlight, we dream of walking on earth.' " -- | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 9d46820 | No one had any idea, it turned out. None of the older Symphony members knew much about science, which was frankly maddening given how much time these people had had to look things up on the Internet before the world ended. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 4f1e1a9 | What the Israelites saw, from high on the ridge, was an intimidating giant. In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness. There is an important lesson in that for battles with all kinds of giants. The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| 2be7237 | We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don't. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points, | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| f182a40 | I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 7868c4d | I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . . | Fannie Flagg | ||
| a2c005d | I had a choice: Follow my heart or don't break his. I think in the end I broke a bit of both our hearts. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 60b884c | Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 2caf9dc | friendship is something you do. | Nuala O'Faolain | ||
| 47e2a19 | You can't help what you feel, Moira said once, but you can help how you behave. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e22ca28 | Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 29f44de | I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise? | Margaret Atwood | ||
| be80f4c | The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 787cc9c | The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn.. | makeup margaret-atwood the-blind-assassin young-girls youth | Margaret Atwood | |
| 6a2a634 | Here is a book of tongues. Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.) | Gwendolyn MacEwen | ||
| 47aa220 | Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it | Margaret Atwood | ||
| de227ca | I've been prepared for almost anything; except absence, except silence. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 4e0bf2e | Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these thin.. | money value worth | Margaret Atwood | |
| 7a39a47 | You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 45061e5 | They didn't realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn't sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began. | philosophy sense-of-self world | Margaret Atwood | |
| 70c318d | By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I am - would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them. Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your ba.. | death dreams life philosophy sf | Margaret Atwood | |
| 972a897 | They had been pathetically eager to have the wedding in the family church. Their reaction though, as far as she could estimate the reactions of people who were now so remote from her, was less elated glee than a quiet, rather smug satisfaction, as though their fears about the effects of her university education, never stated but aways apparent, had been calmed at last. They had probably been worried she would turn into a high-school teacher.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 5060a0a | Even sex was no longer what it had once been, though he was still as addicted to it as ever. He felt jerked around by his own dick, as if the rest of him was merely an inconsequential knob that happened to be attached to one end of it. Maybe the thing would be happier if left to roam around on its own. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 6324184 | it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did not ascribe any intentions to these men. They were like the weather, they didn't have a mind. They merely drenched you or struck you like lightning and moved on, mindless as blizzards. Or they were like rocks, a line of sharp slippery rocks with jagged edges. You could walk with care along between the rocks, picking your steps, and if you slipped you'd fall and cut yourself, but it .. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 418eb55 | I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood. | women | Margaret Atwood | |
| 175556c | La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales seran sus escritos. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| f74a43c | It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight. | Jenny Nimmo | ||
| f9c0d53 | Oh, wise young judge. | Dodie Smith | ||
| 924c5d1 | A mist is rolling over the fields. Why is a summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? | sadness | Dodie Smith | |
| 29c2446 | I've missed you Noah." "I've missed you, too, little bro. I'm so proud of you." | Katie McGarry | ||
| 360269f | Noah's experienced reputation walked down the hallway before he did. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 36a83bc | The weight of the world isn't on you, you know? | Katie McGarry | ||
| a0a53d0 | You are going to get me in so much trouble." "Damn straight." Noah caressed my cheek before heading to his seat in the back." | Katie McGarry |