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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| abaa0b3 | Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. "Oograah" means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if you can't eat it, it's not worth naming it." | vegetation | Terry Pratchett | |
| af84350 | Don't trust the cannibal just 'cos he's usin' a knife and fork! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 19430b9 | Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 18b854c | There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dc48b72 | Rincewind tried shutting his eyes, but there were no eyelids to his imagination and it was staring widely | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 72abbfb | You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 601ba8f | The city wasa, wasa, wasa wossname. Thing. . Thass what it was. Woman. Roaring, ancient, centuries old. Strung you along, let you fall in thingy, love, with her, then kicked you inna, inna, thingy. Thingy, in your mouth. Tongue. Tonsils. . That's what it, she, did. She wasa...thing, you know, lady dog. Puppy. Hen. . | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 234c804 | He sagged to his knees. He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing cheques that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b425b10 | Nothing-to-see is what most of the universe consists of. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bfdf637 | the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| f382c45 | It was turning out to be one of those days. The sort you got every day. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2479b24 | Crystal Lil, her door propped open, sits in front of the television with a pan in her lap, a brown bag at her feet. She | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 6ea76e9 | The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| d6e13f8 | Consider the whole thing as occupational therapy. Power as cottage industry for the mad. The shepherd is slave to the sheep. A gardener is in thrall to his carrots. Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. You've seen it a thousand times. We create a leader by locating one in the crowd who is standing up. This may well be because there are no chairs or because .. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 5a8b833 | It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 9e42aea | Like colors or a spring tree against that kind of blue sky that pulls your heart out through your eyes. Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| d552891 | If you understand the system you can design appropriate action. | Edward De Bono | ||
| 6eb227b | He and I...we share a bond. Not love, exactly. It goes beyond that. He is mine as surely as sun follows moon across the sky. Mine before ever I knew he existed. Mine until death and beyond. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 99bcf2a | you will know that you are part of the one great magic that binds us all together. Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.... | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 630daa4 | The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 2d405ec | I'm here, Sorcha. I would not believe it at first; it had been so long since he had touched my mind in this way. I'm here. Try to let go, dear one. I know how it hurts. Lean on me; let me take your burden for a while. I could scarcely see him; he was on the far side of the fire, behind the others and half turned away, with his head still in his hands. It seemed as if he had scarcely moved at all. How can you? How can you know? I know. Let m.. | finbar juliet-marillier sorcha | Juliet Marillier | |
| fe9f308 | Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable. | death-and-dying | Juliet Marillier | |
| 52c5883 | If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 7388567 | Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but don't hurt anybody.' Nice little paraphrase of "An it harm none, do as ye will" if I do say so myself." | witchcraft witches | Mercedes Lackey | |
| c2c753c | I do get tired of humans | lawyer | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 11ca30e | I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| c998f13 | We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and beli.. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 902d147 | I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ca2d2d7 | Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with cotton. I would hold it close to my face, so close I couldn't see anything but that blue. It would fill me with a feeling, a feeling I later tried to duplicate with alcohol and finally found again with Clare, a feeling of unity, oblivion, mindlessness in the best sense of the word. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 5ea46f9 | Clare snores, quiet animal snores that feel like bulldozers running through my head. I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey, I'm home. I'm home. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 14973c5 | When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense? | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| c77227d | Love me. Be with me." "That's enough?" "That's plenty." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 1748a94 | I could never regret you. Us | Susan Mallery | ||
| 3ab1f94 | A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the old-wood smell -- the reek of turpentine, oil paint, and varnish. | Donna Tartt | ||
| d4cd5fc | But even that day, there on the porch, with Charles beside me and the smell of wood smoke in the air, it had the quality of a memory; there it was, before my eyes, and yet too beautiful to believe. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 94a0262 | From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart." Only here's what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can't b.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 98d56d5 | And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything. | Richard Matheson | ||
| c041420 | What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross? | vampire | Richard Matheson | |
| 4f61ccd | Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth. | career creativity mad-house work-life-balance writers writing | Richard Matheson | |
| d819dad | People are not punished for their deeds but by them | Richard Matheson | ||
| 89029fa | And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. Abruptly that realization joined with what he saw on their faces -- awe, fear, shrinking horror -- and he knew that they afraid of him. To them he was some terrible scourge they had never seen, a scourge even worse than the disease they had come to live with. He was an invisible spectre who had lef.. | Richard Matheson | ||
| c0d38a5 | Laurence," Granby said at his shoulder, "in the hurry, the ammunition was all laid in its usual place on the left, though we are not carrying the bombs to balance it out; we ought to restow." "Can you have it done before we engage? Oh, good Lord," Laurence said, realizing. "I do not even know the position of the convoy; do you?" Granby shook his head, embarrassed, and Laurence swallowed his pride and shouted, "Berkley, where are we going?" .. | Naomi Novik | ||
| be99540 | I turned back and tried again, and once more I was sure that I was understanding, and all of it made perfect sense - better than perfect sense, even; it had the feeling of truth, of something that I'd always known and just hadn't ever put into words, or of explaining clearly and plainly something I'd never understood. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 2734714 | Oh dear," Laurence said; he felt rather awkward explaining that the main attraction was the abundance of harbor prostitutes and cheap liquor. "Well, a city has a great many people in it, and thus various entertainments provided in close proximity," he tried. "Do you mean such as more books?" Temeraire said." | Naomi Novik |