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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| edc6088 | and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 363e9e7 | Don't get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother's responsibility. It's a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope. | Stephen Colbert | ||
| 84c359d | Is it possible for a home to be a person and not a place? Brigette used to be home to me. Maybe St. Clair is my new home. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| df0854c | It's all happening at once, but everything I do seems to be wrong | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 358918e | His name explodes inside of me like cannon fire. | stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 08305dc | There's nothing like being openly stared at by an attractive member of the opposite sex to make me feel as if all of my limbs were in the wrong place. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 2526cd4 | Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he could possibly say: "It's okay. I haven't been on one of these [dates] in a while either." My smile triples in size. Josh grins. "Just give me your hand." "W-what?" "Your hand," he repeats. "Give it to me." I extend my shaking right hand. And - in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true - Joshua Wasserstein laces his fingers through mine. A stagg.. | first-date first-kiss holding-hands kiss love that-feeling | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 487ae0b | Your grandparents are English?" "Grandfather is,but Grandmere is French. And my other grandparents are American,of course." "Wow.You really are a mutt." St. Clair smiles. "I'm told I take after my English grandfather the most, but it's only because of the accent." "I don't know.I think of you as more English than anything else.And you don't just sound like it,you look like it,too." "I do?" He surprised. I smile. "Yeah,it's that...pasty comp.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| b684115 | Hello?" No reply. My shoulders sag. "What's the point of a staircase if no one is here to watch my entrance?" -- | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5f66b22 | Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish. | potential | James Redfield | |
| f590089 | If one can connect and build up enough energy, then coincidental events begin to happen consistently. | James Redfield | ||
| 847fe2c | In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up | souls | James Redfield | |
| 0cf0760 | Love takes chances, and I wanted to take a chance right now. For once in my life, I knew what I wanted. | James Patterson | ||
| d64da6d | Fang looked at the newest bird kid. Dylan was an inch or two taller than he was, and somewhat heavier built, though he still had the long, lean look of a human-avian hybrid-you couldn't make bricks fly. | James Patterson | ||
| 7970b97 | A Poem By Maximum Ride How does one describe freedom, How can one call themselves free, How does one sleep at night knowing all the troubles that lay ahead, If one had a choice to be free or have freedom what does one pick, How does one even begin to describe the choices of being free, Freedom is choice, Freedom is happiness, Freedom is doing what you want, Freedom is to fly. | James Patterson | ||
| d07c3f6 | So this is how "happy" feels, I thought. The energy, the automatic smile. This is what it's like to look forward to the day, to believe there could be good things coming." | James Patterson | ||
| 235210a | If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be willing to give them up forever. | James Patterson | ||
| bb77e01 | you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers! | James Patterson | ||
| 169c01f | A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall. | james james-patterson patterson the-fire whit wisty witch witch-and-wizard wizard | James Patterson | |
| 34b5610 | Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears. | James Patterson and Andrew Gross | ||
| e63f012 | You want me to help you because fair is fair? Life isn't fair Dean. Try help me so I don't rip your spin out and beat | James Patterson | ||
| 5ec95f0 | Well, I don't know. Mostly I just suck up what life throws my way, stomp on it, and then keep going. I don't dwell much on what I am or how I got this way. It just is. I just am. I'm Max, and whatever form I take, it's good enough for me. | James Patterson | ||
| 3771d09 | Not saving you from this storm, mutant," he said. "Saving you for your later fate, we are." His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. "Oh, good. Yoda captured us," Fang whispered." | lol machine mutant robot star-wars yoda | James Patterson | |
| cd159b1 | I think about what I didn't say then, which is this: the stars we see aren't even real stars. We see the light that they gave off millions of years ago but that is only now reaching our eyes. We don't see a star as much as a memory. | James Patterson | ||
| 0cd0793 | I guess that's what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn't. But it is all right. | growing-up love | Beverly Cleary (Author) | |
| 8697974 | I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 41072a9 | I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 05b9339 | l 'stTy` trk lTG@ y`tqdwn bmwfqty wstslmy , ny l 'stTy` 'n smH lhm bst`ml Zhry ky yt`lmw jld lakhryn | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 0e84891 | You are an adventurer!" exclaimed Sylvie. She tore herself away from the window and handed the glasses back to her. "But I suppose that could work. Only, what will happen afterwards?" 'I was planning to worry about afterwards when there is an afterwards," replied Leaf. "And I'm an adventurer. At least not by choice. I've done that once and learned my lesson. No more adventures without knowing what I'm getting into." "They wouldn't be adve.. | Garth Nix | ||
| 97c5284 | I used to think like that at school," Sabriel answered. "Dreaming about the Old Kingdom. Proper Charter Magic. Dead to bind. Princes to be --" "Rescued?" | touchstone | Garth Nix | |
| bfb9cda | part of his mind said. , thought Arthur, fighting down the fear. . | Garth Nix | ||
| 921e87a | DeWarenne men love forever | Brenda Joyce | ||
| 381cba6 | Sadness is what holds our bones in place. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 0bca17d | Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?" | Nancy Farmer | ||
| a0cfff4 | It seems to me,' said Philippa prosaically, 'that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford's protection than without it. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 75150f2 | And if there's no trouble, you'll make it,' offered Will Scott, his eyes bright, his cheeks red. 'No. At the moment,' affirmed Lymond grimly, 'I am having truck with nothing less than total calamity. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 78c8c4d | We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 977a62b | All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began. | mystery trees world | Charles de Lint | |
| bd43bea | Have you ever noticed' I said 'how everyone says they want to be different, but as soon as they meet someone who really is different, they ostracize them? | the-blue-girl | Charles De Lint | |
| 6c8081f | We are wise women," Abuela liked to say. "Not because we are wise, but because we seek wisdom." | wisdom | Charles de Lint | |
| 2138041 | What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's.. | fairytales humorous | Charles de Lint | |
| f20c374 | Americans need to learn from the Wilson era, that there is a connection between racist presidential leadership and like-minded public response. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 40244c1 | Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| a87faab | These memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in the current of grief that is our life now. I can't say that I ever feel what it felt like then, when I was happy. But sometimes something will touch the place where that feeling was, a touch as slight and swift as the brush of a moth's wing in the dark. | Geraldine Brooks |