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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1840170 | Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition! | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 8cdd652 | That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 092c32f | Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 8299376 | What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| efb3f15 | Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 38ce46d | Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning predictability, and the need for disruption. We do irrational things, outrageous things. Or else something will come along and intervene, an unimaginable foe. | Carol Shields | ||
| 26381e2 | We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want. | Carol Shields | ||
| 469471e | There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. | William Styron | ||
| eef53ac | Well, we better be quick and not become human popsicles. I'm going to be really upset at you if I freeze to death. (Shahara) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f996578 | Aren't you afraid they'll arrest you? (Shahara) I wasn't a convict, Dagan. I was an illegally purchased slave. My owner has no legal claim on me. And I'm no longer a kid learning my powers. I'm a full-grown man with an ax I want to bury in the forehead of anyone dumb enough to come at me. I defy the bastards to try something now. (Nero) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 902f34e | Time's up. Excellent work. All the rational solutions came from the aspies. Everyone else was incapacitated by emotion. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| cfb8665 | I've sequenced the questions for maximum speed of elimination,' I explained. 'I believe I can eliminate most women in less than forty seconds. Then you can choose the topic of discussion for the remaining time.' 'But then it won't matter,' said Frances. 'I'll have been eliminated.' 'Only as a potential partner. We may still be able to have an interesting discussion.' 'But I'll have been eliminated.' I nodded. 'Do you smoke?' 'Occasiona.. | don-tillman graeme-simsion romance speed-dating the-rosie-project | Graeme Simsion | |
| 00f3320 | I had feared that Rosie would not love me. Instead, it was I who could not love Rosie. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 1e70c63 | I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne" | paige-winterbourne | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 07f39b9 | Was it a camp?" Daniel asked. Sean nodded. "A naturist camp." "Maya will feel right at home", Corey said from his spot on a wooden lawn chair. Daniel sputtered a laugh and Sean tried to hide his. "Naturist, not naturalist," I said. "It means nudist." Corey leaped up and spun. "You mean old, naked butts sat on those chairs?" | humor-funny | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 4220f5b | If you'd rather I didn't stay--" I began. "I invited you." "After sustaining a head injury. Which means you aren't responsible for anything you said last night . . . except for the part where you forgave me for wrecking your car." "You were run off the road." "I still feel bad. It was a nice car." I paused. "I'm also sorry about almost getting you killed." "She says, as an afterthought." "It was a really nice car." | car deceptions gabriel head-injury humor olivia | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 9ce70ec | At the time, it seemed to me that Jeremy was spending a lot of time with a piece of plastic pressed against his ear, talking to himself. Which was fine by me. We all have our eccentricities. Jeremy liked talking to plastic; I liked hunting and eating the rats that ventured into the motel room. Or, at least I like hunting and eating the rats, until Jeremy caught me and promptly kiboshed that hobby. Some of us are less tolerant of eccentric.. | werewolf | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 4b5b198 | I leaned forward and kissed him. His eyes widened, then his lips parted and he kissed me back, mouth warm and firm against mine and that floating feeling washed over me and through me, and it was so amazing that when it ended, I just stayed there, my face so close to his I could feel his breath, see those incredible amber eyes, and that was all I could see, all I wanted to see. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| f536cc2 | Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!" | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 51e40a0 | But what's left on earth that I haven't tried?" Prince Lir demanded. "I have swum four rivers, each in full flood and none less than a mile wide. I have climbed seven mountains never before climbed, slept three nights in the Marsh of the Hanged Men, and walked alive out of that forest where the flowers burn your eyes and the nightingales sing poison. I have ended my betrothal to the princess I had agreed to marry -- and if you don't think t.. | fool hero quest | Peter S. Beagle | |
| c0c9d04 | I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 3238939 | I just learned two things there at that college, Mr. Ford, that was ever of any use to me. One was that I couldn't do any worse than the people that were in the saddle, so maybe I'd better try pulling 'em down and riding myself. The other was a definition I got out of the agronomy book, and I reckon it was even more important than the first. It did more to revise my thinking, if I'd really done any thinking up until that time. Before that I.. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 7c818e3 | Maybe it don't seem to make sense for a fella to be doing things for a reason that he don't know about. But I reckon I've been doing it most of my life. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 9e5a1db | What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 09379cc | I yawned and I stretched. I sure was needing some sleep, but I guess I'm always in need of sleep like I'm always in need of food. Because my labors were mighty ones--ol' Hercules didn't know what hard work was--and what is there to do but eat and sleep? And when you're eatin' and sleepin' you don't have to fret about things you can't do nothing about. And what else is there to do but laugh an' joke...how else can you bear up under the unbea.. | Jim Thompson | ||
| c3a10e8 | Clinton sighed, and gave up. All his life he had given up. He didn't know why it was like that; why a man who wanted nothing but to live honestly and industriously and usefully - who, briefly, asked only the privileges of giving and helping - had had to compromise and surrender at every turn. But that was the way it had been, and that apparently was the way it was to be. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 21dc1db | The land, now, well I'll tell you how I feel about that. It's done a good job, as good as it was able to, anyway, and it's got a right to look tired. It'd be pretty upsetting if it looked any other way. Yes, and the hardness is all right, too. It's been through something pretty hard, and some of that hardness was bound to rub off. And sometimes a frown sets a lot better with you than a smile. Something that's taken a beating, you don't want.. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 615c58e | He might come in useful.' 'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head. | unwanted usefulness | Iain M. Banks | |
| 6221ce5 | I knew that last glimpse of his face would haunt me until I saw him smile again. And right there I vowed that I see him smile, and soon. I would find a way to keep my friend. Edward kept his arm tight around my waist, holding me close. That was the only thing that held the tears inside my eyes. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 0e40aa6 | What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. Ilooked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the truth. "I'm trying to figure out what you are." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 01afdf5 | Aren't you hungry?" he asked, distracted. "No." I didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full - of butterflies." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c2de68e | Jacob caught my arm with a shivering hand. "Please, Bella. I'm begging." His dark eyes were glistening with tears. A lump filled my throat. "Jake, I to--" "You don't, though. You really don't. You could stay here with me. You could stay alive. For Charlie. For me." The engine of Carlisle's Mercedes purred; the rhythm of the thrumming spiked when Alice revved it impatiently. I shook my head, tears spattering from my eyes with the sharp mot.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| f4839d0 | Saving her life was the one acceptable thing I'd done since I met her. The one thing that I was not ashamed of. The one and only thing that made me glad I existed at all. I'd been fighting to keep her alive since the first moment I'd caught her scent. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d454c77 | I was in disbelief that I'd just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d619956 | The kiss began much the same as usual--Edward was as careful as ever, and my heart began to overreact like it always did. And then something seemed to change. Suddenly his lips became much more urgent, his free hand twisted into my hair and held my face securely to his. And though I was clearly beginning to cross his cautious lines, for once he didn't stop me. His body was cold through the thin quilt, but I crushed myself against him eagerl.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 06ea1a0 | Hey Jacob!" I felt an unfamiliar surge of enthusiasm at his smile. I realized that I was pleased to see him. This knowledge surprised me. I smiled back, and something clicked silently into place, like two corresponding puzzle pieces. I'd forgotten how much I really liked Jacob Black." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c1ce7e4 | The wasting of finite resources is everyones business | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 0d420db | I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful. | chapter-1 p-19 twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| e12f5c1 | You can't run with vampires. 'Cuz they're fast." -Bella "Yea? well, we're faster." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 91af727 | Hope your new boots are fast Bella. One little jar isn't going to keep a hungry bear occupied for long." "I only have to be faster than you." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 4a1fc12 | We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee." I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled down a less pleasant path. "Not you too," I complained. "Sorry, love. I hear it in their thoughts all the time, you know. It's rubbing off on me. I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn't giving in." | edward humor | Stephenie Meyer | |
| d205cba | But what if...what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn't even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 6e759c1 | I can't why that would be frustrating at all - just because someone refuses to tell you what they're thinking, even if all the while they're making cryptic little remarks specifically designed to keep you up at night wondering what they could possibly mean...now, why would that be frustrating? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d506b76 | You can't trust a vampire, trust me | Stephenie Meyer |