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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fe9b1e1 | I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want." | Nora Roberts | ||
| b7e0b2e | You put something behind you, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 773b66d | Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything. | words-have-power | Nora Roberts | |
| 6d0971c | The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all. | Nora Roberts | ||
| cb889b9 | Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way? | Nora Roberts | ||
| e9cdf11 | Do you always get away with the outrageous?" "Mostly. Are you always s beautiful in the morning?" "Don't waste your charm." "It's all right, I have more." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 20d47e7 | Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it. | sex | Nora Roberts | |
| 77ddbd9 | It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2984757 | Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a614e6f | It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4106cc5 | Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 06207a9 | It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years. Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life? And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego .. | human spirit life old-houses houses years ego | Nora Roberts | |
| fafabcb | Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8bcb1ae | He turned his head, kissed the top of her head. "I love you." "It sounds lovely in bed, in the dark, when everything's quiet." "Because it's true. And it'll be true in the morning." | Nora Roberts | ||
| da45d36 | Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there? | romance | Nora Roberts | |
| 66630d0 | She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone? | romantic white girl ghost | Nora Roberts | |
| 30e7be9 | I want lots and lots of sex." "You really are the woman of my dreams." "First round, wet shower sex, after we scrape off a few layers of the Alaskan tundra, then a short and satisfying lunch break. Then a second round of make-the-mattress-sing sex." "I feel a tear of gratitude and awe forming in the corner of my eyes. Don't think less of me." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2817429 | He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 7038583 | I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 828d438 | I'm a fool. I expect too much, then I'm angry because nothing ever works out the way I want. When I was young and full of hopes and aspirations, I didn't know I would get hurt so often. I think I'll get tough and won't ache again, then my fragile shell shatters, and again, symbolically, my blood is spilled with the tears I shed. I pull myself back together again, go on, convince myself there is a reason for everything, and at some point in .. | most-relevant-quote-i-ever-read | V.C. Andrews | |
| dea26fc | Tradition was safety; change was danger. | danger tradition safety | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 1712cc3 | The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love? | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| c2972a6 | Happiness was waiting to be chosen. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 620db40 | Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless. She knew she was immortal. | love wisdom soul | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 5d3c3d5 | In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude. | Rick Warren | ||
| 8eb9e98 | The New testament commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, greet each other, serve each other, teach each other, accept each other, honor each other, bear each other's burdens, forgive each other, submit to each other, be devoted each other, and many other mutual tasks. This is biblical membership! | Rick Warren | ||
| 4a813c4 | If anything, he sparked a fire inside of me, making me want to live again. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 5e6e59f | Everything's always changing. Nothing stays the same. Yesterday's gone forever, I've got memories and my name. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 4ab08df | I swear he is there, his arms outstretched, the waterfall beneath him, cascading into the cool blue water below. Go on, Ava. It's going to be great! It's not a dare. Not this time. But it's almost like I'm on that high dive again, scared of what comes next, yet knowing at the same time it will all be okay. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 2b7de93 | I know. You can be fine, and then, out of nowhere, a memory blindsides you. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 38241a8 | The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy. | John Grisham | ||
| e015465 | Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does. | Sarah mlynowski | ||
| 06d8482 | If your ambition is to maximize short-term gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it's better never to really understand those problems. There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 09292ad | Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he'd done something just for the money, and that he'd never do something just for the money ever again. He would never again let the market dictate the direction of his life. | Michael Lewis | ||
| ff144c1 | If you're looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue | Tina Fey | ||
| 1b6dac8 | Few people think more than two or three times a year," Shaw reportedly said. "I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week." | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| afa8047 | Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 0627a0a | The plural of anecdote is not data. | Steven D. Levitt | ||
| 77ebc09 | We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language. | Jared Diamond | ||
| b76f94b | The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas. | war history interaction genocide peoples epidemics | Jared Diamond | |
| e7c2aa5 | In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 6a3a943 | For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or the first time your heart gets broken You can try...but it won't come close to describing what it really was or what it really felt like. | James Frey | ||
| 4e5fd6e | The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value. | James Frey | ||
| 4814f37 | I want to see you tomorrow, but I don't know what this thing with my parents is going to be like. When you go to lunch, sit so you can see into the Men's section. If my back is turned, I can't meet you. If I'm facing you, I can meet you and the number of plates on my tray is the time I'll be here. | james frey |