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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc54636 | There is only one god, death and there is only one thing you say to him, not today. -Syrio Forell | syrio-forell | George R.R. Martin | |
| d618198 | You lie. Worse, you lie poorly. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 91c37ba | Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 260e180 | Sometimes they are heroes. Sometimes they are villains. More often they are something in between, grey characters ... and grey has long been my favorite color. It is so much more interesting than black or white. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| bf65597 | I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices. | varys | George R.R. Martin | |
| bb3a67f | And the crow once called the raven black. | crow raven | George R.R. Martin | |
| fe89dce | There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| e6c4100 | Littlefinger: A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues of her all along the walls of Dragonstone. Tyrion: My lord, those are gargoyles. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1b74e33 | Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently. | humour marriage men weddings | George R.R. Martin | |
| e936558 | When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a10ee76 | The gods heard my prayer, she thought. She felt so numb and dreamy. My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel. | asos got grrm sansa-stark | George R.R. Martin | |
| e2eec70 | You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench. | jaime-lannister love romance | George R.R. Martin | |
| 1804782 | Do as they bid you...but in your heart, remember who and what you are. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 189863e | If I look back I am lost | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 246074e | The world is full of horrors, Tommen. You can fight them, or laugh at them, or look without seeing... | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 10f492e | Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. | greed wealth | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| 2b756fe | One half of the trouble in the assemblies is the people's murmuring over the conditions they are in. The Bible teaches us not to murmur. If you reach that standard, you will never murmur anymore. You will be above murmuring. You will be in the place where God is absolutely the exchanger of thought, the exchanger of actions, and the exchanger of your inward purity. He will be purifying you all the time and lifting you higher, and you will kn.. | Smith Wigglesworth | ||
| b6c50db | But I had loved him. A part of me still did. Maybe more than a part of me, because I'm a complete moron. | Meg Cabot | ||
| d4c1c30 | Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish | Meg Cabot | ||
| 3567ae1 | Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his board (revealing, as he did so, the fact that beneath his baggy swim trunks--so weighted down with water that they had sunk somewhat dangerously low on his hips--lurked what appeared to be an exceptionally well-formed gluteus maximus) | Meg Cabot | ||
| 5ad1ea2 | Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 04d385a | Do one thing every day that frightens you," Princess Mia advised her audience. "And never think that you can't make a difference. Even if you're only sixteen, and everyone is telling you that you're just a silly teenage girl--don't let them push you away. Remember one other thing Eleanor Roosevelt said: 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.' You are capable of great things--never let anyone try to tell you that just becau.. | life | Meg Cabot | |
| afcedac | The great hall was shimmering in light, sun streaming from the open windows, and ablaze with colour, the walls decorated with embroidered hangings in rich shades of gold and crimson. New rushes had been strewn about, fragrant with lavender, sweet woodruff, and balm... the air was... perfumed with honeysuckle and violet, their seductive scents luring in from the gardens butterflies as blue as the summer sky. | light perfume scent | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| a95b70d | Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another. | William Gibson | ||
| c5a824e | Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm. | William Gibson | ||
| fc24c82 | But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about. | Elise Broach | ||
| a803664 | Look around you. Watch how people function and interact with one another. You'll see this is going on everywhere all the time. People devour each other in the name of love, or family or country. But that's an excuse; they're just hungry and want to be fed. Read their faces, the newspapers, read what it says on their T-shirts! 'I think you're mistaking me for someone who gives a shit.' 'My parents went to London but all they brought me back .. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| c1f0f51 | But when does something's destiny finally come to fruition? Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seeds sprout? When everything turns into compost? | Leonard Koren | ||
| e47fe4c | Do my questions annoy you?" He glanced at her, his surprise evident. "No. I'm far too vain to object; I am my favorite topic." | Meljean Brook | ||
| 51bee4e | ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn't sure when or where it was going to end. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| 8fd1e0b | Yes, Elizabeth." Dash kept his voice low, but let it rumble with his arousal. "I lived for you and Cassie. But while I fought to live I dreamed, and it was this I dreamed of." | Lora Leigh | ||
| d260ca8 | She wasn't looking her best; her hair was coming down, for she had shed hairpins as she'd run, and her face lacked powder and lipstick. She looked hot and tired and surprisingly happy. He thought that he had never seen anyone quite as beautiful, so absolutely necessary to his happiness. It wasn't the first time he had fallen in love, but he knew that this was the last. | Betty Neels | ||
| 3fdaf86 | Above all, Leonardo's relentless curiosity and experimentation should remind us of the importance of instilling, in both ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it--to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 70915c7 | The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b0a5f9c | Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him- the user interface for the original Macintosh, the design of the iPod and iPhone, getting music companies into the iTunes Store-he was relentless. But if he did not want to deal with something - a legal annoyance, a business issue, his cancer diagnosis, a family tug- he w.. | focus intensity | Walter Isaacson | |
| f6441dd | Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now. History will place him in the pantheon right next to Edison and Ford. More than anyone else of this time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most cr.. | steve-jobs | Walter Isaacson | |
| ec11b4c | I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 6db796d | if you didn't voice your opinion, [Steve Jobs] would mow you down," said Cook. "He takes contrary positions to create more discussion, because it may lead to a better result. So if you don't feel comfortable disagreeing, then you'll never survive." | Walter Isaacson | ||
| aa4daaf | The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently. | Donald Barthelme | ||
| a35cb10 | flHss lmt'jj blshGf hw 'qw~ wqwd l'Hlmk , | life | Robin S. Sharma | |
| e7c1af0 | Looking for Narnia? You're in the wrong universe | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 89b9843 | Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 02e1386 | You may be able to call up an entire encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain with no heart and no reasoning | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| b620ccf | Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe. | Melissa de la Cruz |