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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c827d5f | And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee, I will hire a man, a Russian, probably, to hunt you down and rip all that shiny black hair from your head, then break your skinny arms and legs, and set you on fire, and then put you out with a hammer. And should there be children from your beastly rutting, I shall have the Russian man cut them to tiny pieces and feed them to Madame Jacob's d.. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 894e1fa | Nate had been born and raised in British Columbia, and Canadians hate, above all things, to offend. It was part of the national consciousness. "Be polite" was an unwritten, unspoken rule, but ingrained into the psyche of an entire country. (Of course, as with any rule, there were exceptions: parts of Quebec, where people maintained the "dismissive to the point of confrontation, with subsequent surrender" mind-set of the French; and hockey, .. | humor whales | Christopher Moore | |
| f93a303 | So I'm all, "Owned! Bee-yatch! Dog fucking owned you!" Doing a minor booty dance of ownage, perhaps, in retrospect, a bit prematurely. (I believe hip-hop to be the apprpriate language for taunting, at least until I learn French.)" -- | Christopher Moore | ||
| d32a90a | They were told what they wanted and they believed it. They can only keep their dream alive by being with others like themselves who will mirror their illusions. | Christopher Moore | ||
| fa88ec4 | Blue Horse said to me... wisdom is not a path, it is a tree. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 5e9e2fd | Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind. | Nancy E. Turner | ||
| 96fec84 | If a man can't remember the laws," Ragnar said, "then he's got too many of them." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 8091182 | Only the gods tell him what to do, and you should beware of men who take their orders from the gods. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 7f74a90 | Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| c463a63 | He smiled affably at the burglar, a burly fellow whom he continued to hold with one hand, as easily as if he had been a child. The entire household had been aroused, and a good number of them had joined in, shouting questions and brandishing various deadly instruments. The burglar glared wildly at Emerson, bare to the waist and bulging with muscle - at Gargery and his cudgel - at Selim, fingering a knife even longer than Nefret's - at assor.. | emerson weapons | Elizabeth Peters | |
| 14b24bf | Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang reminded me of the 3-D chessboard on Star Trek, which in turn reminded me that I was a huge nerd. | Diablo Cody | ||
| c2e2ae2 | You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward." He smiled. "I don't lie to you." "Really," I said. The smile became a grin. "Okay, not most of the time, anymore." His face sobered. "I'm not lying now." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0ea2871 | He smiled and extended a hand. "I knew you would do it, ma petite." "You arrogant son of a bitch." I smashed the shotgun butt into his stomach. He doubled over just enough. I hit him in the jaw. . He rocked back. "Get out of my mind!" | jean-claude | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 4f094a6 | No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0b2b749 | What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 28a145b | Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 3dd6133 | you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 6e75df4 | I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: "What's the point?" | Luke Davies | ||
| e6045cc | Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it. | Luke Davies | ||
| e6d58dc | As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being c.. | evolution logic rationale reason | Sam Harris | |
| b5f79e9 | We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress. | thought-provoking | Sam Harris | |
| 0cb0dfa | we are all seeking fulfillment while living at the mercy of changing experience. Whatever we acquire in life gets dispersed. Our bodies age. Our relationships fall away. Even the most intense pleasures last only a few moments. And every morning, we are chased out of bed by our thoughts. | Sam Harris | ||
| 9a9b98d | Our minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others. | Sam Harris | ||
| b21ed54 | We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us. | natural | Sam Harris | |
| 9c0f1a6 | Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know." | pardon-my-french tarzan wit | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 728f40f | Never doubt in the darkness what God has told you in the light. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| d98769a | You feel like quitting, like giving up. You can't understand why the road doesn't get easier, why God doesn't remove the stones and straighten the path. If God did that, you might never get to the top, because the bumps are what you can climb on. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 05695e3 | ndm tHyn lfrS@, ymkn Ht~ llTybyn 'n ytHwlw l~ mtSlbyn wmtjbryn | النفس | José Saramago | |
| 69c666b | The robot had no feelings, only positronic surges that mimicked those feelings. (And perhaps human beings had no feelings, only neuronic surges that were interpreted as feelings.) | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 4dd9024 | There is no Master but the Master," he said, "and QT-1 is his prophet." -- | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 25bcb31 | There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| fbf70f9 | And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors' time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots. | insubordination mayor politics | Isaac Asimov | |
| ef54b02 | the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out." | kindle | Cory Doctorow | |
| 566cfb6 | We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing. | labour-movement occupy-wall-street revolution-movements | Cory Doctorow | |
| ef129f1 | Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want. | math numbers | Jules Verne | |
| 4b70718 | So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. | Jules Verne | ||
| 24f7991 | No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal | Jules Verne | ||
| 3a84763 | All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived. | Jules Verne | ||
| 6ddfee7 | The only private language I know is self-exaggeration. I think I've grown a second self in this room. It's the self-important fool that keeps the writer going. I exaggerate the pain of writing, the pain of solitude, the failure, the rage, the confusion, the helplessness, the fear, the humiliation. The narrower the boundaries of my life, the more I exaggerate myself. If the pain is real, why do I inflate it? Maybe this is the only pleasure I.. | Don DeLillo | ||
| c0de53d | Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 7d3f3c8 | Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said." | Don DeLillo | ||
| dc529c6 | Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e664f14 | World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. | don-delillo | Don DeLillo | |
| e82cec4 | Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protection. | Don DeLillo |