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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d67b8af | When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up. | humor life youth | Julian Barnes | |
| 9effad8 | But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person | Julian Barnes | ||
| aa96209 | But time...how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. | Julian Barnes | ||
| acebf2a | Next to not living with those one loves, the worst torture is living with those one doesn't love. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 6ab2416 | Life always refused simplicity. | simplicity | Julian Barnes | |
| a90a88b | Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. | literature reading words | Julian Barnes | |
| e6919fc | And by that time he had made the most terrifying discovery of his life, one which probably cast a shadow over all his subsequent relationships: the realization that most love, even the most ardent and the most sincere, can, given the correct assault, curdle into a mixture of pity and anger. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 496cfaf | For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware of it, you cannot begin to understand what life is about; unless you know and feel that the days of wine and roses are limited, that the wine will madeirize and the roses turn brown in their stinking water before all are thrown out for ever- including the jug- there is no context to such pleasures and interests as come your way on the road to the gra.. | Julian Barnes | ||
| dde6a97 | Because the night you asked me, the small scar of the quarter moon had healed - the moon was whole again; because life seemed so short; because life stretched out before me like the halls of a nightmare; because I knew exactly what I wanted; because I knew exactly nothing; because I shed my childhood with my clothes - they both had years of wear in them; because your eyes were darker than my father's; because my father said I could do bette.. | future love marriage | Linda Pastan | |
| 9e7be1c | A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword | hedge-knight pride | George R.R. Martin | |
| 21bf88a | Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote. | totalitarianism | George R.R. Martin | |
| b081d83 | A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes. | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 33fdeb0 | No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul. | george-r-r-martin quote | George R.R. Martin | |
| 2b2b374 | Sometimes there is truth in dreams. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 537cf9e | spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3e92ad3 | The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows. | male | George R.R. Martin | |
| fec4329 | These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 8e35a26 | Desmond ushered the man inside. He was stooped and ugly, with an unkempt beard and unwashed clothes, yet Father greeted him pleasantly and asked his name. "Yoren, as it please m'lord. My pardons for the hour." He bowed to Arya. "And this must be your son. He has your look." "I'm a girl," Arya said, exasperated. If the old man was down from the Wall, he must have come by way of Winterfell. "Do you know my brothers?" she asked excitedly. "Rob.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 4b9bd34 | Cuando se juega al juego de tronos solo se puede ganar o morir. No hay puntos intermedios. Cersei Lannister | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 0d7a00c | He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him... and fear him. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 357b0aa | Remember who you are, Daenerys, ... The dragons know. Do you? - Quaithe | George R.R. Martin | ||
| e16f14e | I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible. | food game-of-thrones tyrion-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| 3163e50 | Why does a bear shit in the woods? he demanded. Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man like Littlefinger. You ought to know that, you of all people. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b0f868a | I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool." "You might, if you were not a eunuch." "Is that the way of it? A man may have wits, or a bit of meat between his legs, but not both?" Varys tittered. "Perhaps I should be grateful I was cut, then." The Spider was right." | varys | George R.R. Martin | |
| 178b0da | Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails. | sail sea ship storm strong winds | George R.R. Martin | |
| 0a2c0f4 | Oh yes, it hurts at times to be alone among the stars. But it hurts a lot more to be alone at a party. A lot more. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 810ac5b | Your wolves have more wit than your maester," the wildling woman said. "They know truths the grey man has forgotten." The way she said it made him shiver, and when he asked what the comet meant, she answered, "Blood and fire, boy, and nothing sweet." | asoiaf bran-stark comet fire-and-blood george-r-r-martin osha | George R.R. Martin | |
| 57268c9 | The sea is colder than a maiden and crueler than a whore. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 5bc7c0b | When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I couldn't... or so the maester said. But what if he lied? What do you mean? Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap. There is the window. Leap. What do you want? The world. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2f5dd5c | I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b9444a7 | Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3764bd2 | Stories wait, my little lord, and when you come back to them, why, there they are, | George R.R. Martin | ||
| fe6b392 | She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear,... | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 01a1fb1 | I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 284b3c0 | His lips look like two worms fucking. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3629b84 | What if the wolves come?" - Lommy Greenhands "Yield." - Arya Stark" | yield | George R.R. Martin | |
| 814b600 | That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 5c16b00 | The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done. My son is home. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 96c4665 | They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 5616fb4 | Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken. | Jean Craighead George | ||
| 83bea7b | Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such thing as vampires. They're made-up. We writers made them up. I'm sorry we did such a good job that we made the whole world paranoid, but it's true. They're fictional. Blame Bram Stoker. He started it. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 46d8b17 | I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you? | Meg Cabot | ||
| 514cd0d | Because friends like that are more precious than all the tiaras in the world | Meg Cabot | ||
| aad2128 | I'm completely demanding an autopsy on my grandmother's brain when she's dead so I can see what I'm in for as I age. | Meg Cabot |