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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 92f9511 | You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them. | Edward De Bono | ||
| 88fc92c | The girl is not yours, or mine, or anyone's. But for now, she travels under my protection, and let him who lays a hand on her answer to me. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 47c3b72 | Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| db5c2ea | You thought you'd never give up your vocation, a voice whispered inside me. You thought you'd never even consider it. But you've met the one man who could change your mind. He is your perfect complement. He is Cathal to your Clodagh; he is Bran to your Liadan. No wonder you conjured up those images. No wonder they make you weep. | seer-of-sevenwaters | Juliet Marillier | |
| 6014120 | It seemed to me it would be better to die standing up to a tyrant than to survive as a tool of his will. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| dec2d10 | Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| e7667d1 | Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| f512039 | Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving .. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| f8c33fc | The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 3c0ec02 | If you would rise, do so alone. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 50515e6 | Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| a0ae0ab | Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff. | appreciation architecture chicago good-stuff value | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| a302e0c | Do you worry sometimes that all the really great stuff has already happened? | time | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| c8d7a6a | Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| d8a6312 | Being in love is...anxious," he said. "Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is...you're naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all...I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her" | inspiration life love love-quotes naked truth | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 7a6f65e | My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not glowing. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 519e960 | Love is always enough. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 9c7852b | Life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 0715b66 | Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it. | love scary | Susan Mallery | |
| 2395043 | All her grace was in her vagueness. Her voice was soft, her manner languid, her features blurred and dreamy. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3f4161e | Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner. | Tartt Donna | ||
| e2865b0 | The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanish.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| ed17ca7 | You have an unusual equipment for fate, exercise with care!' | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6f8a4a9 | To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! | Donna Tartt | ||
| 573424d | That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 2bb8a51 | But one mustn't underestimate the primal appeal--to lose one's self, lose it utterly. And in losing it be born to the principle of continuous life, outside the prison of mortality and time. | donna-tartt lose-yourself primal the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| 1077fdd | For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 0249da9 | I am an alcoholic. I'm the first to admit that. I can't drink at all. One drink is too many and a thousand's not enough. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 87c37d5 | What you want is to live and be happy in the world is a woman (or man) who has her (his) own life and lets you have yours | Donna Tartt | ||
| dca1a15 | We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he never afraid | i-m-dying theo | Donna Tartt | |
| 2ef29de | By happy contrast, Hobie's whole day revolved around dinner. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 25c39d4 | Five minutes before Julian arrived, they might be slouched in the living room -- curtains drawn, dinner simmering on chafing dishes in the kitchen, everyone tugging at collars and dull-eyed with fatigue -- but the instant the doorbell rang their spines would straighten, conversation would snap to life, the very wrinkles would fall from their clothes. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 78b3205 | Everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, deep in the night, when we were winging on the jungle gym and showers of sparks were flying out of our mouths, I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. | laughter light tripping | Donna Tartt | |
| e9e648f | Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad? All he does is drink blood. | Richard Matheson | ||
| dddc32a | Those who've marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren't forced to witness that marring. If they were, they'd become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves. | eternity | Richard Matheson | |
| 8220670 | We were of the valley. Born in the valley, of families planted too deep to leave even when they knew their daughter might be taken; raised in the valley, drinking of whatever power also fed the Wood. | Naomi Novik | ||
| fd40a7c | He held his hand out to me across the table. It was harder to take it this time, to make that deliberate choice, without the useful distraction of desperation. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 0522126 | There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 5cedf39 | Awareness is not the same as thinking. It is a complementary form of intelligence, a way of knowing that is at least as wonderful and as powerful, if not more so, than thinking. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| a63b19f | It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| f8b3fdb | Everyone knows that when advancing into danger, the soprano goes first. They are your infantry, while the altos and tenors are your cavalry, and the bass your artillery. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9ea8e9d | I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all--steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence--to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through. | Mary Karr | ||
| 4e8dd3d | Mislim da je ljudima koji vole horore samo dosadno u zivotu. Zude za podsticajma, a kada se stvarno jeziv film zavrsi, ponovo si uveren da si ziv i da svet jos uvek postoji kao i pre, i oni imaju potrebu da se u to iznova uveravaju. To je pravi razlog zasto postoje horor filmovi - oni sluze kao prigusivaci soka - i ako nestanu, to ce znaciti da gubimo jedan od nekoliko nacina na koje se nosimo sa anksioznoscu koju nasa masta proizvodi. Klad.. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| c1013f7 | I wasn't sure I knew any longer what was right and what was wrong. It was a very precarious feeling, but it hinted at a sense of liberation like I'd never experienced. Liberation from the countless little hassles of everyday life. It was as if the border between 'me' and 'not me' was dissolving, leaving me in a sort of slush. I was going somewhere I'd never been before. | Ryū Murakami |