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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 99ec4a3 | the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil | Robin McKinley | ||
| b29f8b6 | One day" she told them, "when you have retired, you will go to live with a family who will love you for your beauty and nothing more, and if you're very lucky there will be children, and the children will pet you and pet you and pet you. Ossin has a list, I think, of such children; he sends his hunting-staff out during the months they are not needed for that work, to look for them, and add names to the list." The fleethounds stared back at .. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 2f9c92a | She thought, He's afraid I'll make a mess of it. She was sure she had been careful to think that on the safe, private side of the silent border, but Ebon turned on her and said, | Robin McKinley | ||
| 958b818 | I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 128a0e4 | The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear. | life relationships | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 4a96f37 | It is as if we are trapped in a never-ending game, our lives hinging on the roll of a dice or the turn of a card. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 0fc6e70 | Everything from the little house was in the wagon except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 6ec0e53 | J'aime bien les couchers de soleil. Allons voir un coucher de soleil... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| c3d20aa | I am not talking about living dangerously. Such words are meaningless to me. The toreador does not stir me to enthusiasm. It is not danger I love. I know what I love. It is life. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 282f496 | Droit devant soi on ne peut pas aller bien loin... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 40f5f94 | A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair. | doom flight | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 2928433 | Les etoiles sont belles, a cause d'une fleur que l'on ne voit pas... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 7670123 | les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| cee6ab7 | Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time | Dick Francis | ||
| 64e012c | How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch. | Dick Francis | ||
| 1bf3f3b | May I deal with honour May I act with courage May I achieve humility | Dick Francis | ||
| ccffd54 | One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunet, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply." | sunsets | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| d69e33e | l nbSr jyd l blqlb, wlshy lmhm l trh l'`yn | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 183931f | J'y gagne, dit le renard, a cause de la couleur du ble. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 416c522 | Then you shall judge yourself," answered the king. "That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then indeed you are very wise." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 5455f83 | Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other peop.. | technology | Lynne Truss | |
| 950fcb2 | I recently heard of someone studying the ellipsis (or three dots) for a PhD. And, I have to say, I was horrified. The ellipsis is the black hole of the punctuation universe, surely, into which no right-minded person would willingly be sucked, for three years, with no guarantee of a job at the end. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 847653c | Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold." | Lynne Truss | ||
| 7655df3 | l shy, 'bd, fy lwq`, yHl mHl lrfyq lmfqwd. l nstTy` 'n nkhlq qdm~ lrfq. l shy ywzy knz tlk ldhkryt lmshtrk@, wtlk ls`t l`syr@ lty `shnh m`, bm fyh mn lkhlft, wlmSlHt, wnzwt lqlb. mthl tlk lSdqt l tbn~ mn jdyd. whl nrtjy, lw Grsn sndyn@, 'n nstZl 'wrqh b`d 'md qSyr? | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 786b3e6 | Je suis la source de toute vie. Je suis la maree qui entre en vous et vous aime et se retire. Je suis l'amour qui entre en vous et dure pour l'eternite. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| b8bc008 | Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| dd061bf | That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do. | stephen-maturin | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 9e272b2 | You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack." -- | navy peace war | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 909dc30 | Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult. | men | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| c221f21 | lkbr yHbwn l'rqm, fdh Hdththm `n Sdyq `rfth Hdythan 'Gflw mzyh ljwhry@ wlm ys'lwk `n rq@ Swth wl `mW yw'thr mn l'l`b wl `n rGbth fy jm` lfrsht, bl ys'lwnk: fy 'y sn@ hw, wkm `dd khwth, wkm wznh, wkm yrbH 'bwh? fdh `rfw kl hdh `tqdw 'nhm `rfwh. | الفراشات الكبار | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 932e6db | We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 0065d00 | I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system. | confucianism disaster educational-system ethical-system harm humanity islam judaism monotheism useful virulent-god | Gore Vidal | |
| 13c245c | A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to.. | narcissism | Gore Vidal | |
| 66abaa5 | I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author." [As quoted in the | creative-process writers writing | Henning Mankell | |
| 55bfb4e | What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror. | Henning Mankell | ||
| e7d0202 | Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 06c4a16 | Now in my eleven years of conventional life I had learned many things and one of them is what it means to be convicted of rape--I do not mean the man who did it, I mean the woman to whom it was done. Rape is one of the Christian mysteries, it creates a luminous and beautiful tableau in people's minds; and as I listened furtively to what nobody would allow me to hear straight out, I slowly came to understand that I was face to face with one .. | rape victim-blaming | Joanna Russ | |
| 0dff813 | In the end, I always want potatoes. Mashed potatoes. Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin cold slice of butter to every forkful. The problem with mashed potatoes, though, is that they require almost as much hard work as crisp potatoes, and when you're feeling blue the last thing you feel like is hard .. | Nora Ephron | ||
| de7687e | I tilted my head back against his shoulder, wondering how he'd gone from douchebag extraordinaire to this.. this guy who still infuriated me but also constantly surprised and amazed me. To this guy I"d fallen madly in love with." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f11a27d | You're such a stalker, Seth. How long were you standing there?" "I am not a stalker, and I was standing there long enough to realize you have no self-control and you're unstable. I kind of like that about you--mainly because I find it entertaining." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2f12a5b | Then Kyler kissed me, and I stopped thinking about words and languages, because there was nothing beyond how smooth and firm his lips felt against mine. | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 0ba831e | Holy Hottie-McHotters! | meeting seth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| ba797a8 | What are you going to do when you see Beth?" Awe crept across Dawson's features, and he shook his head slowly. "Oh, man, I don't know. Breathe - I'll finally be able to breathe." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8fbaefc | This is you." She pointed at the stick figure with enormous red curly marks and blue eyes. Did my hair really look like that? I ran a hand over my head, feeling a bit like Little Orphan Annie." | Jennifer L. Armentrout |