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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 54c7291 | That was the best Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson we've ever had, wasn't it?" said Ron... "He seems like a very good teacher," said Hermoine approvingly. "But I wish I could have had a turn with the boggart -" "What would it have been for you?" said Ron sniggering, "A piece of homework that only got nine out of ten?" | funny hermoine humor ron | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2e31a52 | I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. "At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| aaa7d75 | NEWT: What d'you think I should say to her, if I see her? JACOB: Oh, well, it's best not to plan these things. You know, you just say whatever comes to you in the moment. A beat. They walk. NEWT (reminiscently): She has eyes just like a salamander. JACOB: Don't say that. | newt tina | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2f024c7 | Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human --" "THEN -- I -- DON'T -- WANT -- TO -- BE -- HUMAN!" Harry roared, and he seized one of the delicate silver instruments from the spindle-legged table beside him and flung it across the room. It shattered into a hundred tiny pieces against the wall. Several of the pictures let out yells of anger and fright, and the portrait of Armando Dippet said, "Real.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ce2c3d2 | All their lovers' talk began with the phrase "After the war". After the war, when we're married, shall we live in Italy? There are nice places. My father thinks I wouldn't like it, but I would. As long as I'm with you. After the war, if we have a girl, can we call her Lemoni? After the war, if we've a son, we've got to call him Iannis. After the war, I'll speak to the children in Greek, and you can seak to them in Italian, and that way they.. | war | Louis de Bernières | |
| 9ba5c50 | That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| cebc8d9 | Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 0e9f5de | The law should not be a huge and weighty slab which falls upon a man and squashes him into a uniform shape, for men are not uniform. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 71c44c1 | I said that I wasn't clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn't clever. That was just being observant. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 6f96dd8 | I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. | inspirational self-confidence | Mark Haddon | |
| c686ce9 | At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly. | life | Mark Haddon | |
| 5aa440e | Guilt, in other words, isn't always wasted. It can keep us from making the same mistake twice. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 62bbf8b | In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 39389a5 | She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| b80b6d2 | A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ed52fc9 | I'm different now than I was then. Just like I was different at the end of the trip than I'd been at the beginning. And I'll be different tomorrow than I am today. And what that means is I can never replicate that trip. Even if I went to the same places and met the same people, it wouldn't be the same. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4d71a8f | What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make? | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a2f546c | Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ca8ac0a | That's why they say 'falling in love' and not something like 'floating toward love.' Falling is scary. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3066c80 | Travis nursed his beer silently, looking out over the water. "What are you thinking about?" Laird asked. "It's not important." "What is it?" Travis turned toward him. "Did you ever notice how some colours are used for people's names but others aren't?" "What are you talking about?" "White and Black. Like Mr. White, the guy who owns the tire store. And Mr. Black, our third-grade teacher. Or even Mr. Green from the game Clue. But you never .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0781d9c | There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 2581ebe | In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she realized that she didn't feel anything at all. In a way, she felt as if she weren't really here, as if the whole thing was nothing but a dream. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 8370a9b | And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up...." "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| e60257c | It takes over--fear, I mean. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it takes over, crushing the life out of you. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f0d556d | As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| db5d494 | Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place. | illness love steve summer | Nicholas Sparks | |
| c07e3bb | Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3038cee | You were the best friend I ever had, Allie. I'd still like to be friends, even if you are engaged, and even if it is just for a couple of days. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 124743c | The romantics would call this a love story:the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3d8c706 | Falling in love is the easy part; making that love last amid life's varied challenges is an elusive dream for many. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| a16ec38 | At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me | people-relations travel | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 246d74d | Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold, and it's enough to break your heart. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 84204dd | Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her. Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction." Reverse the direction?" Yes, turn it around." How would you do that?" You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad." B.. | decisions inspirational right wrong | Jeanne DuPrau | |
| 8a8f09c | It's for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 02c64ea | It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 8250f1a | Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 20326c6 | There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, . | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 2631391 | Sometimes people surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they? | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 1ea0dd6 | But it could also be an enslavement, , to keep searching for , keep plunging down, down to the lonely chambers of the sea. . It was a tragic thing to do, like looking for Eden. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| a3a3938 | I can give you a better 'and then'," Ranger said." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| b1d9a4e | life is a jelly donut. You don't really know what it's about till you bite into it. And then, just when you decide it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best t-shirt. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d3e7997 | Hey," Lula said to Ranger's man."You want to watch it? I just had my hair done. I don't need plaster in it. Next time just shoot a hole is this punk-ass loser, will you?" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 3219fdd | Sorry about Bender," Lula said, letting the Trans Am idle at the curb. "Maybe we could tell Vinnie he died. We could say we were all set to bring Bender in, and he died. Bang. Dead as a doorknob." "Better yet, why don't we just go back and kill him," I said. I opened the door to leave, caught my toe in the floor mat, and fell out of the car, face first. I rolled onto my back and stared up at the stars. "I'm fine," I said to Lula. "Maybe I'l.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 18135b7 | Diesel was about to place the cockroach on the casket, and my purse rocked out with "Thriller" again. "Excuse me," I said. And I answered my phone. "I'm beginning to appreciate Hatchet," Wulf said to Diesel. Diesel smiled. "She has her moments. And she makes cupcakes." I disconnected and stuffed my phone into my pocket. "Well?" Diesel asked. "It was Glo. Her broom ran away again." "I would appreciate it if we could get on with this w.. | Janet Evanovich |