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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 777744c | Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith) | Vince Flynn | ||
| 6fb2544 | It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn't matter, if no one knew. | Nella Larsen | ||
| 4006907 | Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith," said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, "and a kind of faith more independent, autonomous - more truly strong, as a matter of fact - than the Puritans really sought. Faith, he tells us, is not an exotic bloom to be laboriously maintained by the exclusion of most aspects of the day to day world, nor a useful delusion to be supported by sophistries and half-truths like a ch.. | clarification faith father-christmas god john-milton mosaic pattern-recognition puritans religion samuel-taylor-coleridge | Tim Powers | |
| 2985218 | As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the world within a world, the internet. The things outside of the web were becoming further from me, and everything inside it seemed piercingly relevant. The blogs of strangers had to be read daily, and people nearby who had no web presence were becoming almost cartoonlike, as if they were missing a dimension. It was just happening, like time, like .. | internet life need | Miranda July | |
| e85b740 | Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz? | Miranda July | ||
| e3ef5a9 | Eloise," Penelope said, somewhat breathless from trying to shake off Hyacinth. "Penelope." But Eloise's voice sounded curious. Which did not surprise Penelope; Eloise was no fool, and she was well aware that her brother's normal modes of behavior did not include beatific smiles in her direction. "Eloise," Hyacinth said, for no reason Penelope could deduce. "Hyacinth." Penelope turned to her husband. "Colin." He looked amused. "Penelope. Hya.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| b28c11a | Are you serious about leaving?" I touched my aching face. "Yes.But I don't know how." "I'd go with you," Colin said quietly. "Really?" "You know I would." "If you could do anything, what would you do? Would you go back to Ireland?" "Maybe," he said. "I've no family left there but I miss the green hills. I'd love to show them to you, show you Tara and the Cliffs of Moher.We could live in a thatched cottage and keep sheep." I grinned at him. .. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 383f9b5 | You were at the party on Friday night, weren't you?" I didn't mentioned I'd followed him into the woods. He leaned back in his chair, his legs sprawled out. His boots nudged the bottom ruffle of my skirt. "Aye." Aye? Seriously? Could he be any hotter? Unless he had been looking for his girlfriend at the party. Not hot. "I was supposed to meet my cousin," he elaborated, "but I didn't find her," Hot again." | jo lol rock-guy stolen-away | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 540ff7b | No, no, don't touch your mother just before the baby is born. Now it will be a girl child, because you are one. Run along now. Take your evil eye with you." "Ghias, we must be careful not to teach the girls too much. How will they ever find husbands if they are too learned? The less they know, the less they will want of the outside world." -- | Indu Sundaresan | ||
| 098a980 | Believe this difficult truth. Showing respect in the face of disrespect, love in the face of hate, trust in the face of betrayal, and serenity in the face of turmoil, will teach your children more than all the moral lectures by all the preachers since the dawn of time. | William Martin | ||
| faddddd | Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europeans really noticed this art. Its discovery then had a strong influence on Braque, Matisse, and Picasso -- who subsequently kept African art objects in his studio until his death. Cubism was new only for Europeans, for it was partly inspired by .. | art congo europe | Adam Hochschild | |
| 784da8d | all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| fdfcb8c | Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are. | Julia Glass | ||
| b883bd4 | When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose. | myrnin | Rachel Caine | |
| 9616bd6 | Is it arrogance if one is truly superior? | Rachel Caine | ||
| e69fb66 | Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they'd need to destroy something that precious to feel full. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 1bf39d3 | I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second," I said. "So, you're best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather." "Yeah." "And together, you fight crime?" I couldn't help it. I cracked up." | humor shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 7b8cbd1 | Myrnin: "I think your ghost girl's afraid I'll try to bite her. I believe she may have, you know, ..." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 31fba48 | Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame." | black-dawn flame-throwers michael-glass shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 35eabed | No matter what any of you have done, you haven't all done it. Because it's not right to judge a class of people by the actions of one, or a few. That's not justice. It's prejudice, and I don't like it. Justice means judging each person individually." Jesse's lips slowly curled into a smile, and her eyes warmed as well. "High-minded," she said. "I'm not sure you'll find a lot of people living up to your standard." Claire shrugged. "Doesn't m.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 82d7e27 | Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?" | claire-danvers jeopardy reference | Rachel Caine | |
| 799f2db | Meaning,you do nothing, Claire. That's an order.'" She gave him a cocked mock salute. "Yes, sir, sorry, sir.'" He sighed. "I liked you better when you were this timid little kid. What happened?'" "I started living with you guys.'" "Oh, right." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 7487102 | Shane's dad said, "I should have left you in the damn cage to fry, you ungrateful little bastard. You're no son of mine." "Hallelujah," Shane said softly. Free at last." | the-dead-girls-dance | Rachel Caine | |
| 727bc83 | Myrnin: "I shall name him Bob, Bob the spider" Claire: "You're insane." Myrnin: "Why Claire, I thought that was part of my charm." (something like that)" | Rachel Caine | ||
| e959214 | Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." | funny morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine Black Dawn | |
| 8d9c296 | Nice " Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey." "No you're not." "Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 07cec03 | EVE:so thats the bathroom where shane spends houres doing his hair shane:bite me | Rachel Caine | ||
| f554bdd | shane:do we have a choice michael:dont think so shane:then screw it im getting tired shane yawned lets go get eaten at least then i can get some sleep | Rachel Caine | ||
| 31113b2 | Feminism, as writer Marie Sheer remarked in 1986, "is the radical notion that women are people," a notion not universally accepted but spreading nonetheless." | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| f576f07 | I was asked to talk to a roomful of undergraduates in a university in a beautiful coastal valley. I talked about place, about the way we often talk about love of place, but seldom how places love us back, of what they give us. They give us continuity, something to return to, and offer familiarity that allows some portion of our lives to remain collected and coherent. They give us an expansive scale in which our troubles are set into context.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 6aa4d9b | Go to hell, but keep moving once you get there, come out the other side. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 203fe1a | Inside the word "emergency" is "emerge"; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters." | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| c3a26fb | It's the way some men say, "I'm not the problem" or that they shifted the conversation from actual corpses and victims as well as perpetrators to protecting the comfort level of bystander males. An exasperated woman remarked to me, "What do they want--a cookie for not hitting, raping, or threatening women?" Women are afraid of being raped and murdered all the time and sometimes that's more important to talk about than protecting male comfor.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 0caaa7c | He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living. Knight | Michael Finkel | ||
| 90bf5c2 | Been meddling, have you?" Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. "You must admit they didn't have much in the way of a defense plan," Hadrian said, pausing to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Royce smiled at him. "You just can't help yourself, can you?" | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| aa1c096 | You always think everything is so easy," Royce replied, wiping his eyes. "I'm just a glass-half-full kinda guy. How's your glass looking these days?" "I have no idea. I'm still trying to get over the sheer size of it." | pessimism theft-of-swords | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| 4bb3417 | And if you can't trust an ancient talking tree, what was the point of having one? | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| f6bce29 | The abbot once told me that lying was a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are--or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn't. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 58a9720 | Their jobs were almost too clean for Royce's taste. | royce | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| 20e78a4 | lying was a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are--or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn't. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you. It's like when a man would rather die than be thought of as a coward. His life is not as important to him a.. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 8282428 | The main paused only a moment, then pulled the boy around so he could look the lad in the eye. "There's doing what's right, and there's doing what's safe. Most of the time you do what's safe because doing different will get you dead for no good reason, but there are times when doing what's safe will kill you too. Only it'll be a different kind of death. They dying will be slow, the sort that eats from the inside until breathing becomes a cu.. | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 3d32f21 | It was a different precondition that tipped the balance: the state of contrariety. My ambition was to negate. The world, whether dense or hollow, provoked only my negations. When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep; when I was supposed to speak, I was silent; when a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it. My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world. They didn't matter a wh.. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 146bd90 | philosophy I studied philosophy for four years. But I'd trade everything I learned for this passage... quoted in the Britannica: 'But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, ho.. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| 800a63a | A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling. The books [speak] of love, and it [is] wonderful to listen to them, but they [are] no substitute for love itself. | Cornelia Funke |