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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e92cdec | Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 1585108 | Shit!" Evelgold added. "What?" Hook asked, alarmed. "I just stepped in some." "That's supposed to bring you luck," Hook said. "Then I'd better dance in the goddam stuff." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 6921354 | You're a bastard," I said. "Uhtred," he began, but could find nothing more to say. "You're a piece of weasel-shit," I said, "you're an earsling." "I'm a king," he said, trying to regain his dignity. "So you're a royal piece of weasel-shit. An earsling on a throne." -- | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| d23c25c | I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 0568046 | Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse." | learning mistakes | Elizabeth Peters | |
| 92852a8 | Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes. | sarcasm sarcastic-humor wife-humor | Elizabeth Peters | |
| 92e31c9 | Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 738b3e3 | So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 500f275 | His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 04577d8 | I shook my head. "I'm good, Nicky helped." Nicky looked at Edward. "She's having one of those what-if-killing-feels-really-good, doesn't-that-make-me-a-bad-person moments." Edward nodded as if that made perfect sense. "Then it feels good. We can't really control what flips our switch; don't judge it, Anita, and just accept it." I wanted to argue, but it would have been beyond stupid to argue with the two sociopaths in my life. "Why do I ha.. | enjoy-the-violence humor killing-feels-good sociopaths violence | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 36a2fd4 | Memphis and I both looked at Olaf, as if he'd spoken in tongues. I think neither of us had expected anything useful from the corpse fondling. Damn. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| b303d2b | I have to clean up first. I'm still all sweaty and stuff from the crime scene." I realized he was wearing a white shirt and I might have dried blood on me. It made me draw back and look at the front of him. "What is wrong, ma petite?" "I may have dried blood and things on me, and you're wearing white." He drew me back into his arms. "I would rather hold you close than worry about my clothes. The shirt will wash, or we can throw it away. I d.. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1029fa6 | the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake... ..." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2ae7eea | Anita can speak for herself," Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play." "And pigs fly," I said. "You don't believe me?" "Not hardly," I said." | jean-claude richard | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| affb8e2 | We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them | Laurell K. Hamilton. | ||
| 6b038df | I'm a Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was suppose to love and forgive to punish forever? if you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante's inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to ba afraid of... | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| ff6f105 | I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 7ea37aa | she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 50632c3 | It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought. | Luke Davies | ||
| 706509a | You love me, but you don't want me," he said with such sadness, I burst into tears. While crying, I had the biggest orgasm of my life as Luke held me tighter than ever and rocked into me and climaxed with me. He wiped at my tears. "I didn't mean to make you cry," he said." | luke | L.D. Davis | |
| 34431f4 | Honest people are a refuge: You know they mean what they say; you know they will not say one thing to your face and another behind your back; you know they will tell you when they think you have failed--and for this reason their praise cannot be mistaken for mere flattery. | Sam Harris | ||
| 646053e | I generally start each day with a cup of coffee or tea--sometimes two. This morning, it was coffee (two). Why not tea? I am in no position to know. I wanted coffee more than I wanted tea today, and I was free to have what I wanted. Did I consciously choose coffee over tea? No. The choice was made for me by events in my brain that I, as the conscious witness of my thoughts and actions, could not inspect or influence. Could I have "changed my.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 5f8fe4f | The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday. | Sam Harris | ||
| bfda08d | If you pay attention to your inner life, you will see that the emergence of choices, efforts, and intentions is a fundamentally mysterious process. | Sam Harris | ||
| 9a01a82 | As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 8d34e3f | When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 59c90df | f l'Hzn lkbyr@, wlGwt lkbyr@, wl'khT lkbyr@ hy `l~ ldwm tqryban ntyj@ bq lmr wHydan fy lHy@ | العزلة القسوة الوحدة | José Saramago | |
| 6aeea33 | llhzym@ wjh Hsn: nh Gyr nhy'y@. wllntSr wjh qbyH: nh dy'man nhy'y. | José Saramago | ||
| b064bb2 | n lSwr lqdym@ tkhd`n kthyran, fhy twhmn b'nn 'Hy fyh, whdh Gyr SHyH, l'n lshkhS ldhy nnZr lyh fyh lm y`d mwjwdan, wlw kn bmqdwrh 'n yrn fln yt`rf `l~ nfsh fyn, wsyqwl mn hdh ldhy ynZr lyW bwjh mHzwn?. | José Saramago | ||
| e8539f1 | Ao contrario do que julga o senso comum, as coisas da vontade nunca sao simples, o que e simples e a indecisao, a incerteza, a irresolucao. | vontade | José Saramago | |
| 210a815 | God will save you. Surely you're forgetting that God saves souls rather than bodies. | soul | José Saramago | |
| a2c27ef | The church has never been asked to explain anything, our specialty, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith, | José Saramago | ||
| 97ee842 | I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see | José Saramago | ||
| 836640c | Casting a ballot is your irrevocable right, and no one will ever deny you that right, but just as you tell children not to play with matches, so we warn whole peoples of the dangers of playing with dynamite. | José Saramago | ||
| 8be3468 | The stars, like dust, encircle me In living mists of light; And all of space I seem to see In one vast burst of sight | space universe | Isaac Asimov | |
| 57f9240 | It is a mistake," he said, "to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort." | hedonism human-nature lost-values needs-and-wants prophetic self-injurious-behaviors social-satire-predictability the-way-the-world-works truth wisdom | Isaac Asimov | |
| d8a8c31 | Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind. | humor sophistication | Isaac Asimov | |
| d5adf39 | It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| a537bce | All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 6a7c5ef | I hate that," I said. "It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger?" | Cory Doctorow | ||
| c4f8a62 | As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life. | Jules Verne | ||
| 9e70034 | It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things. | Jules Verne | ||
| af87920 | To be a tourist is to escape accountability. | Don DeLillo | ||
| e247aaa | Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping. | Don DeLillo |