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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c8757a6 | Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it. | drug power | Nancy Farmer | |
| 0bebfdb | If you can repress for a moment your spinster-like longing to meddle in my affairs,' said Lymond cuttingly, from the door, 'I am waiting to go. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b9f2385 | Talk to me, Richard. It isn't difficult. Move the teeth and agitate the tongue. Tell me news of the family. Am I superseded yet? Oh, Richard, a blush! | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| cf931c7 | He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure--if he survives the experience. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 6122648 | I am not blind, nor deaf. I know you all believe me weak, frightened, feeble. Your father knew me better. Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him. I was the grass. Pleasant, complaisant, sweet-smelling, swaying with every breeze. Who fears to walk upon the grass? But it is the grass that hides the viper from his enemies and shelters him until he strikes. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| dd5f11a | It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 908bf4c | The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn" | inspirational spirit | Charles de Lint | |
| e64bea3 | Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line of constant progress. Including ideas would make history contingent: things could go either way, and have on occasion. The 'right' people, armed with the 'right' ideas, have not always won. When they didn't, the authors would be in the embarrassing position of having to disapprove of an outcome .. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 5e281f9 | For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two pol.. | philosophy soul spirituality truth | Hermann Hesse | |
| 7b51ad6 | Even the wolf has two, and more than two, souls in his wolf's breast, and he who desires to be a wolf falls into the same forgetfulness as the man who sings: "If I could be a child once more!" He who sentimentally sings of blessed childhood is thinking of the return to nature and innocence and the origin of things, and has quite forgotten that these blessed children are beset with conflict and complexities and capable of all suffering. Ther.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 596d643 | Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 41cfbb7 | Some say it is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. That is a defeatist attitude. I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell." - General Agamemnon " | Brian Herbert | ||
| 52f2141 | Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways. | Daniel Abraham | ||
| 503a7fe | A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure? | Marguerite Duras | ||
| f753c21 | I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| ff4a238 | I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea. | writing | Marguerite Duras | |
| 3a13e07 | You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been. | the-lover | Marguerite Duras | |
| 7dd36f2 | I didn't feel evil. I felt nervous, scared, nothing more. | Scott B. Smith | ||
| cd18eb8 | Get used to disappointment. | William Goldman | ||
| a6724d7 | That's all you need? Easy. I love you.Okay? Want it louder?I love you. Spell it out schould I l-o-v-e y-o-u. Want it backwards You love I. | William Goldman | ||
| dc92f41 | Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going | Mario Puzo | ||
| 36ddce1 | don't act like I didn't for you. | gossip-girl sad | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| ec1f5a1 | Scorch: "I think Sev might have an anger problem." Sev: "I think you have an intelligence problem." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 2a2a851 | We have an understanding. I don't laugh at his skirt, and he doesn't rip my head off." -Fi Skirata" | Karen Traviss | ||
| 7fc1307 | Xavier wasn't put on the earth to witness the bad htings like Jules and I were. He had been put here to notice lovely things, things that God had created and no one had any complaints about. Leaves turning red in the autumn. How when the tide goes out, the shells are left on the shore. I was put here - Jules and I were both put here - to see sadder things. We had to stand in the rain and explain why the world was a lovely place. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| e74bcab | All children are really orphans. At heart, a child has nothing to do with its parents, its background, its last name, its gender, its family trade. It is a brand-new person, and it is born with the only legacy that all individuals inherit when they open their eyes in this world: the inalienable right to be free. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 51d339a | This life came so close to never happening.. | David Benioff | ||
| 53dfeee | This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't. | David Benioff | ||
| 0718307 | It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin; but how this bears on slavery, I cannot see; as well might the use of the thumb-screw be defended in one land, by showing that men in another land suffered from some dreadful disease. Those who look tenderly at the slave owner, and wit.. | race | Charles Darwin | |
| 71194de | But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the t.. | conclusion-before-evidence darwinism evolution fossil-record fossils intermediate-forms macro-evolution macroevolution missing-links paleontology | Charles Darwin | |
| 7223c6a | Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 9977bf2 | I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of b.. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 7015535 | m yHzW fy qlby `nd lnzlq hw 'ny `lm ny knt qdran `l~ lSmwd | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 8a0c4fb | there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| c06e11a | Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)" | liberty philosophy | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 2c0755e | You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.. | host humans life | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 4ff1a26 | Earth's Moon is about 1/ 400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/ 400th as far from us, making the Sun and the Moon the same size on the sky--a coincidence not shared by any other planet-moon combination in the solar system, allowing for uniquely photogenic total solar eclipses. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| e86e526 | One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man. | dogma heresy labels orthodoxy religion sainthood stigma | Ellis Peters | |
| e0cd312 | For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. | Albert Ellis | ||
| a4c9994 | Too many people are unaware that it is not outer events or circumstances that will create happiness; rather, it is our perception of events and of ourselves that will create, or uncreate, positive emotions. | Albert Ellis | ||
| 0704834 | Kohaku aren't you afraid to die? No. Truly, there is neither fear nor hesitation in your eyes. | Rumiko Takahashi | ||
| 7b0b19c | Where do you get dreams like this? | fantasy imagination | Stephen R. Donaldson | |
| 408d154 | For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 8645f3b | Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you. | Hanif Kureishi |