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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 20f30ba | I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3b59868 | If your words're true, they're armed. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6575e5f | True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance | David Mitchell | ||
| aceb436 | why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most | David Mitchell | ||
| 1eb5bc7 | Love is a blurring of pronouns. Love is subject and object. The difference between its presence and its absence is the difference between life and death. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5ed1f34 | Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching. | David Mitchell | ||
| f6bbe2b | She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9d750a9 | Contrary to popular wisdom, bullies are rarely cowards. Bullies come in various shapes and sizes. Observe yours. Gather intelligence. Shunning one hopeless battle is not an act of cowardice. Hankering for security or popularity makes you weak and vulnerable. Which is worse: Scorn earned by informers? Misery endured by victims? The brutal May have been molded by a brutality you cannot exceed. Let guile be your ally. Respect earned by i.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5ffad95 | Time needs time to be measurable. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3bb4701 | We had run out of infinity. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3349b6a | Nummy-time!"--Cal" | peeps scott-westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| ef902e8 | You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it? | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 796f2a4 | Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 058aa34 | Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly." | ugly | Scott Westerfeld | |
| feb7e76 | Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship." -Deryn Sharp" | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 6e98b76 | Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| a4969db | And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness?" Alek glared at the man. "We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is idiotic." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| e5d03e0 | Alek: "Am I that obvious?" Deryn: "No. Im just dead clever." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 11c2e33 | Count the deed, not the thought. | deeds intention intentions | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 74633e9 | Who but lovers dream alike? | love lovers | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 9e3dbad | Not only had Navidson carried Karen out of that house, he had picked her up a hundred times over the course of eleven years and carried her fear, her torment, and her distance. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| c8130e7 | Some people reflect light Some deflect it You by some miracle Seem to collect it | light love miracle | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 511d681 | Maybe it hadn't entered my head at all. Maybe it had just brushed past me, like someone easing by in a dark room, the face lost in shadow, my thoughts lost in another conversation, though something in her movement or perfume is disturbingly familiar, though how familiar is impossible to tell because by the time I realize she's someone I should know she's already gone, deep into the din, beyond the bar, taking with her any chance of recognit.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| f13c42d | Do you really think the munificence of the multiverse comes translatable for your little mind? Have you ever thought to consider all that you miss whenever you're shown what is suited to your seeing? | multiverse narcons | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 031b029 | All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology. [Johnny Truant] | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 7eefc2e | Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 2e6b500 | In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match by the neck and after locating the friction strip sparks to life a final ball of light. First, he reads a few lines by match light and then as the heat bites his fingertips he applies the flame to the page. Here then is one end: a final act of reading, a final a.. | consumption reading | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 3f91c3f | Also remember, love inhabits more than just the heart and mind. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 62464a5 | my point being, what if my attacks are enterly unrelated attributable in fact to something entirely else, perhaps for instance just warning shocks brought on by my own crumbling biology, tiny flakes of unknown chemical origin already burning holes through the fabric of my mind, dismantling memories, undoing even the strongest powers of imagination and reason? how then do you fly from that path? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| b2c1d56 | Wake & Bake. More like Wash & Bake. Half a bowl of cereal and a shot of bourbon later, I'm there, my friendly haze having finally arrived. I'm ready for work. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 571d908 | Remember you future counselors and bringers of relief: there will never be a cure for life's problems because so many of tomorrow's problems will be new. Good words, like good work and good thinking, help, even if good words are a lot like highway paint. They can keep plenty of heavy things moving at 70 MPH from going the wrong way. But that doesn't mean life won't cross over if it has to. Learn to avoid the collisions. Find other direction.. | inspirational-quotes sandra-dee-taylor | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| e9006de | Noli me tangere, noli me legere, | isolation latin loneliness loss pain self-reliance solitude | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 6776001 | Love's love in her blackest season. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 37c7116 | He is a stem, a husk, barren and thin, withered by sun, erased by wind, emptied by seasons of dullness, marked by seconds of duty, scarred by regret only the faintest of lines dare to write out, which no one, not even him, can interpret anymore. People have told him a crow will reveal more than anything his face has to share. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 5c88c7b | They are wildflowers. They would not want a name. | wildflowers | Silas House & Neela Vaswani | |
| 90b2c64 | Men to whom God is dead worship one another. | Harry Crews | ||
| 978b89e | I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes and ponds, the jell and slime of life shimmering in gravid expectation. Everywhere I looked, life sprang from something not life, insects unfolded from sacs on the surface of still waters and were instantly on prowl for their dinner, everything that came into being knew at once what to do and did it, unastonished that it.. | life vitality | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 8e3e887 | I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child's ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatev.. | father | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 7b364c5 | And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go. | E L Doctorow | ||
| 7f35be0 | I am an anachronism. People realize this and resent it. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 6c7923d | I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| c635933 | None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does. | Connie Willis | ||
| de97001 | That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick. | movies | Connie Willis | |
| 7ca3267 | She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view - the point of view of the creature who experiences them. You think she meant that the only shoes we can ever wear are our own. Meg can't imagine what it's like for you to be you, she can only imagine herself being you | Jay McInerney |