1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f4eb5ce | Sing a song of suspense in which the players die. Four and twenty ravens in an Edgar Allan Pie. When the pie was broken, the ravens couldn't sing. Their throats had been sliced open by Stephen, the new King. The King was in his writing house, stifling a laugh While his queen was in a tizzy of her bloody Lovecraft. | humor poe poem | Jessica McHugh | |
| 738c541 | Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend. | learning | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 93a00d9 | We grew in age - and love - together Roaming the forest, and the wild; My breast her shield in wintry weather - And, when the friendly sunshine smil'd, And she would mark the opening skies, I saw no Heaven - but in her eyes. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 441313e | I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 402fa23 | A thought expressed is a falsehood." In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. Symbolism makes the very style, the very artistic substance of poetry inspired, transparent, illuminated throughout like the delicate walls of an alabaster amphora in which a flame is ignited. Characters can also serve as symbols. Sancho Panza and Faust, Do.. | decadence decadents don-juan don-quixote edgar-allan-poe falstaff faust flaubert goethe hamlet ibsen impressionism maupassant sancho-panza symbolist turgenev | Dmitry Merezhkovsky | |
| e5671bb | Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? | William Shakespeare | ||
| 12e8124 | Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. | Max Brooks | ||
| c195bf7 | Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 5b6e2fe | Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear. | H. G. Wells | ||
| f4409e3 | Because we live in a world under siege," I say. "Life sucks for mages and magicians- taught me that. Bad things happen to those of us who get involved, but if we didn't fight, we'd be in an even worse state. None of it it's your fault, any more than it's the fault of the moon or the stars." Dervish nods slowly, then arches an eyebrow " " "I always get poetic when I'm dealing with self-pitying simpletons." | humor humour | Darren Shan | |
| 4f0aa73 | What a goon, except it really is funny, me trying to sneeze a hot dog through my nose, and we're both laughing like total morons. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| be04f63 | You threw him into space?" "Yup." "And he didn't die?" "We only threw him out a little bit." Marce" | John Scalzi | ||
| 818c009 | There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home. | David Rakoff | ||
| 454455e | Look, I know everything is shitty right now, but if you don't stop acting like such a bitch, someones gonna fuck that pussy on your face. | Tucker Max | ||
| 2cb4f28 | It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.) | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 50ad86b | For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| bb7b6c9 | You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges. Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent. | roarke roarke-humor | J.D. Robb | |
| f818c6d | Don't make threats unless you intend to follow through. | J.D. Robb | ||
| aac7e50 | Pay up." Eve rolled over, rubbed her bare butt, and wondered if she'd have rug burns. Still vibrating from the last orgasm, she closed her eyes again. "Huh?" "Fifty credits." He leaned over, gently kissed the tip of her breast. "You lost, Lieutenant." "I'm naked," she pointed out. "I don't generally keep credits up my -- " "I'm happy to take your IOU." He rose, all graceful, gleaming muscles, and took a memo card from his console. "Here you.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6dd030e | Friends give you a cushion for the fall, even when you think you don't need or want one. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 28e5a7b | Eve woke, violently aroused. It was Roarke's hands on her. She knew their texture, their rhythm. Her heart tripped against her ribs, then bounded into her throat as his mouth covered hers. His was greedy, hot, giving her no choice, really no choice at all but to respond in kind. Even as she fumbled for him, those long, clever fingers pierced her, diving into her so that she bowed up into the frenzy of orgasm. His mouth on her breast, suckin.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 656c37d | You're a fascinating woman, Eve. Here we are, wet, naked, both of us half dead from a very memorable night, and still you watch me with very cool, very suspicious eyes." "You're a suspicious character, Roarke." -- | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| 5ddcf7e | It amazed her how much people wanted to talk at parties. And about nothing in particular. | shy | J.D. Robb | |
| 00cdc35 | I'm programming us a couple of spinach smoothies" "I'll pass. For the rest of my natural life." "Just what you need," he insisted, tapped buttons manually. And came out with two cups of coffee." | feeney | J.D. Robb | |
| c1a1754 | I don't want to hear from Traffic that my husband was hotdogging the skyways in his minichopper." "You won't. I bribe too well." | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| 4e3ed3f | Her brows lifted as his hands got busy on her butt. "I'm on duty, Roarke. Your hands are currently rubbing the ass of a working cop." "That only makes it more exciting." He shifted to nibble her neck. "Want to break a few laws?" | J.D. Robb | ||
| faca2ea | She woke to sunlight and the scent of coffee. The first thing she saw was Roarke, with a mug of coffee in his hand. "how much would you pay for this?" "Name your price." she sat up took it from him, drank gratefully. "this is one of my favorite parts of the marriage deal." She let the caffeine flow through her system. "I mean the sex is pretty good, but the coffee...the Cofee is amazing. And you're all-round handy yourself most of the time.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 02dfb84 | Roarke had to deal with her moods. It was in the marriage rules. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 67e6a6f | First line] "The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous." | murder | J.D. Robb | |
| ca0ce78 | I can't tell you how aroused it makes me when you quote codes, lieutenant. | roarke-humor | J.D. Robb | |
| 4bb9286 | Please, comrade! I just want to chop him up for the stew!' 'And that's another thing! I'm tired of stew! I want to put him in a crust and bake a light fluffy quiche!' 'QUICHE?! What kind of food is THAT for a monster to eat?! | humour quiche stupid-stupid-rat-creatures | Jeff Smith | |
| b647cef | That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do. | humor | Jeff Smith | |
| ca10147 | I was in a fast-food restaurant for the first time in my adult life, an enormous and garish place just around the corner from the music venue. It was mystifyingly, inexplicably busy. I wondered why humans would willingly queue at a counter to request processed food, then carry it to a table which was not even set, and then eat it from the paper? Afterward, despite having paid for it, the customer themselves are responsible for clearing away.. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 2263bd9 | Nine years, and you've never had a day off sick, never used all your annual leave. That's dedication, you know. It's not easy to find these days." "It's not dedication," I said. "I simply have a very robust constitution and no one to go on holiday with." | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 09ca4da | You've got some power," Jakkin said. "One hug--and the lights go out!" | humor lights power | Jane Yolen | |
| 29284c3 | Everything ends. I am not afraid. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| fd1e4a6 | So this is how it ends, she thought, when the call was over, and she was soothed by the banality of it. | the-end | Emily St. John Mandel | |
| 08058f1 | But you see Annie, where there's pain, there's still feeling and where there's feeling, there's hope. | Nicholas Evans | ||
| 6e186cd | Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead. | Nicholas Evans | ||
| 9d95f33 | Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. | Marian Keyes | ||
| 3967d8c | Two and a half years ago I'd learned to stop wanting comfort from the people around me, because they couldn't give it. We were all too scared. I was terrified and so were they. No one could understand what was happening to me, and when they couldn't make me better they felt helpless and guilty and eventually resentful. Yes, they loved me, my head knew that even if my heart couldn't feel it, but there was a small part of them that was angry... | Marian Keyes | ||
| aa84e61 | They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you. | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 37bcf19 | Relationships should be built on trust and truth. | relationship secret trust truth | Sophie Kinsella | |
| d3e8880 | I'm lying. I don't just need someone like you. I need you. | Sophie Kinsella |