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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dc9e860 | Having a fling with you doesn't appeal to me. You're handsome, but you're too inexperienced to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn't make you a good rider; it just proves that you can't recognize a good one or don't know how to keep her. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f062d8d | The problem with being an alpha is that you can never make the first move. Makes you feel like you're taking advantage of your position. You have to wait until the other person decides they want in." Jim set the basket on the coffee table and crouched by me. "And sometimes it seems like that person likes you, and you try to test the waters, so you try to tell her how you feel, that she matters and that you want to be with her and you're con.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 586215b | Attosecond?" Gaston asked. "I'm guessing it's a very, very small fraction of a second," I said. "One quintillionth of a second," George said, without raising his head from his reader. Jack pondered him. "Have you started memorizing random crap again to amuse yourself?" "No, I'm connected to the wireless," George said. "I googled it." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 332f135 | Is it going to hurt?" "You bet." Sergeant Major had a lousy bedside manner." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9d51bda | HENRY: Leave me out of it. They don't count. Maybe Brodie got a raw deal, maybe he didn't. I don't know. It doesn't count. He's a lout with language. I can't help somebody who thinks, or thinks he thinks, that editing a newspaper is censorship, or that throwing bricks is a demonstration while building tower blocks is social violence, or that unpalatable statement is provocation while disrupting the speaker is the exercise of free speech...W.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 7a2710f | I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 4a992d0 | Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered .. | the-tempest tom-stoppard | Tom Stoppard | |
| 2a1b292 | There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said - no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time. | reincarnation | Tom Stoppard | |
| 040b1ea | No espero nada. Esto no es horrible. Despues de resolverlo, he ganado tranquilidad. Pero esa mujer me ha dado una esperanza. Debo temer las esperanzas. Tal vez toda esa higiene de no esperar sea un poco ridicula. No esperar de la vida, para no arriesgarla; darse por muerto, para no morir. Ya no estoy muerto: estoy enamorado. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 819bdc4 | An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician (it is said) were holidaying in Scotland. Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field. "How interesting," observed the astronomer, "all Scottish sheep are black!" To which the physicist responded, "No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!" The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, "In Scotland there exists at least one field, con.. | Simon Singh | ||
| cc2a6b7 | Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 89b168f | It looks like you've found an intellectual equal, Mulch," said Holly. "It's a pity he isn't a girl; then you could marry him." Mulch imitated shock. "Romance outside your species. Now THAT's disgusting. What kind of weirdo would kiss someone when they weren't even part of the same species?" -- | holly-short mulch-diggums | Eoin Colfer | |
| f7005aa | To destroy abuses is not enough; habits must be changed. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ad5c323 | The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f6955d1 | The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life's morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved? | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2237c53 | She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a509134 | Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?" | Victor Hugo | ||
| ba463f9 | Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 483dff7 | I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7ff554f | Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness | ignorance responsibillity sin | Victor Hugo | |
| a81c91b | One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.) | power | Victor Hugo | |
| 6578f42 | Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. | Victor Hugo | ||
| feeb322 | There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 8fa45e0 | Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms. | Victor Hugo | ||
| c264dec | Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a finger -- that would suffice for my eternity! | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1b23f1d | What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5204ea4 | The cruel of heart have their own black happiness. | victor hugo | ||
| 7c6a5bb | I encountered in the street a penniless young man who was in love. His hat was old and his jacket worn, with holes at the elbows; water soaked through his shoes, but starlight flooded through his soul. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ed5ee35 | There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b8ec7da | Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence. | les-misérables politics victor-hugo | Victor Hugo | |
| 32d5af9 | Books are cold but sure friends. | reading | Victor Hugo | |
| 12dd939 | Books are cold but safe friends. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 95bbf0e | In a vast space left free between the crowd and the fire, a young girl was dancing. Whether this young girl was a human being, a fairy, or an angel, is what Gringoire, sceptical philosopher and ironical poet that he was, could not decide at the first moment, so fascinated was he by this dazzling vision. | hunchback-of-notre-dame | Victor Hugo | |
| c302d8f | Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? Wars could only be defined by their aims. There were no 'foreign' or 'civil' wars, only wars that were just or unjust. Until the great universal concord could be arrived at, warfare, at least when it was the battle between the urgent future and the dragging past, might be unavoidable. How could such a wa.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6c3f450 | to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand army, to conquer the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what greater thing is there?' 'To be free', said Combeferre. | hugo les-misérables | Victor Hugo | |
| b1083e7 | I'm not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example. | grantaire useless | Victor Hugo | |
| bda8f8e | In short, between men and women you want..." "Equality." "Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures." "I said equality. I didn't say identity." | Victor Hugo | ||
| ec88f9d | Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3699da2 | The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2e87ed4 | Where there is law there is injustice | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a5965e2 | Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the realization of his longing gave him only one grain of the mountain of bliss he had anticipated. That realization showed him the eternal error men make by imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes. When first he united his life with hers and donned civilian clothes, he felt the de.. | novel realistic-fiction russian-literature society-novel | Leo Tolstoy | |
| b7c8479 | Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? | hate world | Leo Tolstoy | |
| baa44f7 | I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not know. Love remains, but not the old love; its place remains, but it all wasted away and has lost all strength and substance; recollections are still left, and gratitude; but... | loss love regret | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 3aed18e | Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unhappy families are all unhappy in different ways. Of course he's got it totally wrong, completely ass-backward. Happiness is infinite in its variety, and happy people, happy families, can find their joy in so many different ways.... And all the unhappy families are all pretty much the same. All types of misery are identical at the core... | Elizabeth Wurtzel |