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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9f06a52 | Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 078418c | We're all so damned fragile. | fragility human-frailties | Jim Butcher | |
| f4a07b5 | Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation!" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 72f06b1 | Go back," he said. "Can't. Stand aside?" "Can't." "So it's like that?" I said. Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. "Yeah." And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 27d1c43 | It was a well-known fact that humans became more addled than usual when running in herds. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 884f7b6 | Thomas barked out a laugh. "There are of us against the Red King and his thirteen most powerful nobles, and it's going well?" Mouse sneezed. "Eight," Thomas corrected himself. He rolled his eyes and said, "And the psycho death faerie makes it nine." "It is like movie," Sanya said, nodding. "Dibs on Legolas." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 08145f4 | I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts." "I thought it might be a nice change of pace for you. All that knocking down of doors and burning down of buildings must get tiring." "I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall." | Jim Butcher | ||
| d5c5b75 | She bowed her head and said, "Lord of hosts, please stand with us against this darkness." The quiet, bedrock-deep energy of true faith brushed against me. Murphy echoed the gesture and the amen. Thomas and I tried to look theologically invisible." | invisible | Jim Butcher | |
| ecebbbb | Bloody hell," he gasped. "Harry. There's a *knife* in my leg. When did *that* happen?" "In the duel," I told him. "Don't you remember?" "I thought you'd stepped on me and sprained my ankle," Ramirez replied. Then he blinked again. "Bloody hell. There's a *knife* in my guts." He peered at them. "And they match." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 366db40 | You don't have to make fun of it." "Actually I do," I said. "I make fun of almost everything." | sarcasm snark teasing | Jim Butcher | |
| 55fc74a | I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words--and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard .. | humor men-and-women | Jim Butcher | |
| 3e17fdc | ya gotta be one of the good guys...'cause there's too many of the bad." -- | Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon | ||
| ff03a02 | Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it. | death heart inspirational love my-idol prince-valiant valiant | Holly Black | |
| ff0ed95 | I'm not very good at explaining things," she said. "But I think you have beautiful eyes. I love the gold in them. I love that they're different from my eyes- I see mine all the time and I'm bored with them." | Holly Black | ||
| 58486a6 | I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said." | Holly Black | ||
| d60f338 | Our promises don't matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie. | Holly Black | ||
| 03735c9 | You could still be lying," says the Roach. He turns to Cardan. "Try her." "Your pardon?" Cardan says, drawing himself up, and the Roach seems to suddenly remember to whom he's speaking in such an offhanded way. "Don't be such a prickly rose, Your Majesty," the Roach says with a shrug and a grin. "I'm not giving you an order. I'm suggesting that if you tried to glamour Jude, we could find out the truth." Cardan sighs and walks toward me. I k.. | glamour lying | Holly Black | |
| e6d3a1a | And you want more holes because you think pain will distract you from all the annoying celebrating? Or because stabbing me will make you feel better?" "Something like that." She smiled enigmatically, went into the bathroom, and came out with a wad of cotton balls and a safety pin." | Holly Black | ||
| 2a5b53b | It occurs to me that maybe desire isn't something overindulging helps. Maybe it is not unlike mithridatism; maybe I took a killing dose when I should have been poisoning myself slowly, one kiss at a time. | Holly Black | ||
| c429ff5 | I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises me, but I don't think I'm so okay with it after all. Somewhere along the line I made a dark bargain with the universe without ever really being aware of it--a bargain that if I was allowed to see her, even if we never spoke, then I could live with that. And now a week without her has swallowed up all of my rational thin.. | Holly Black | ||
| 900f8e0 | The inside is packed with people. Lots of them crowding the bar, passing drinks back for people to carry to tables. A bunch of guys are pouring shots of vodka. "To Zacharov!" one toasts. "To open hearts and open bars!" calls another. "And open legs," says Anton." | Holly Black | ||
| bbf36ee | More and more I feel like the boy who cut off his nose to spite his face. | Holly Black | ||
| d1fed04 | You in trouble?" Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he's thinking about how to get out of here if I am." | Holly Black | ||
| 274cd11 | Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother's house, the video game big boss who could be hunted without guilt, the monster that tempted you into its bed, the powerful eternal beast one might become. The beautiful dead, la belle mort. | Holly Black | ||
| 9fc1eab | Startled, he loosed his grasp and she pulled free. He clutched her arm, but she spun around and pressed her mouth to his. His lips were rough, chapped. She felt the sting of fangs against her bottom lip. He made a sharp sound in the back of his throat and closed his eyes. Mouth opening under hers. The smell of him- of cold, damp stone- made her head swim. One kiss slid into another and it was perfect, was exactly right, was real. | Holly Black | ||
| 4a087b3 | Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself? | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 7af8bf3 | Your scars are battle wounds, but you don't see them that way. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 20be69a | She shuddered. "What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then." -- | gross kissing laugh-out-loud | Tammara Webber | |
| e095a20 | Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating-- something that shattered your self-confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to pieces or shoved it out of sight for years-- I don't care how you got here. Every day you are stronger. Every day you are healing. Every day that you survive, you are telling that event, that person, that illness, that memory: YOU DO NOT DEFINE ME.. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 1484467 | I do, absolutely, want to kiss you right now. Badly. | Tammara Webber | ||
| a3fda60 | There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when you wake up and the world has been blanketed by snow overnight, and not a single footstep or tire track has spoiled the untouched perfection of it. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 4602520 | She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 06786dc | She'd conjured love in the heart of a man whose soul had been frozen for years, anesthetized by too much pain and guilt to bear. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 7927c8c | You're so beautiful. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 16e16c5 | I thought about texting Lucas, but what would i say? That i'd tossed and turned all night, thinking of his hands on me? | Tammara Webber | ||
| 8dfdf62 | I don't want to get old. I have this very silly fear, dear friend, that one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 366285e | Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 3c38494 | If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd g.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 9713e6b | The night I shaved it off altogether, a Staff named Mark, whose take-no-prisoners approach I respected and feared, pulled me aside, looked me hard in the face, and said, Marya, your hair. I said, Yeah, so? crossing my arms in front of me. He said, It's harsh. I said, Yeah, well. He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my ar.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 2609f84 | I don't remember when I stopped noticing--stopped noticing every mirror, every window, every scale, every fast-food restaurant, every diet ad, every horrifying model. And I don't remember when I stopped counting, or when I stopped caring what size my pants were, or when I started ordering what I wanted to eat and not what seemed "safe," or when I could sit comfortably reading a book in my kitchen without noticing I was in my kitchen until I.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 08e11bb | Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun. | kyo-sohma tohru-honda | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 6722eab | Lotti contro la tua superficialita, la tua faciloneria, per cercare di accostarti alla gente senza aspettative illusorie, senza un carico eccessivo di pregiudizi, di speranze o di arroganza, nel modo meno simile a quello di un carro armato, senza cannoni, mitragliatrici e corazze d'acciaio spesse quindici centimetri; offri alla gente il tuo volto piu bonario, camminando in punta di piedi invece di sconvolgere il terreno con i cingoli, e l'a.. | Philip Roth | ||
| d7eb05e | a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn't as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were t.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 6dc9d4d | Who are the new people when you do meet them? They're the same old people in masks. There's nothing new about them at all. They're people. | Philip Roth |