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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 94ce308 | I believe that all the people who stand to profit by a war and who help provoke it should be shot on the first day it starts by accredited representatives of the loyal citizens of their country who will fight it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 9731f78 | The war was a long way away. Maybe there wasn't any war. There was no war here. Then I realized it was over for me. But I did not have the feeling that it was really over. I had the feeling of a boy who thinks of what is happening at a certain hour at the schoolhouse from which he has played truant. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 73b9826 | I thought you weren't going to ever talk about it." "How can I help it?" "You'll lose it if you talk about it." "I just talk around it. You know I feel rather damned good, Jake." "You should." "You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch." "Yes." "It's sort of what we have instead of God." "Some people have God", I said. "Quite a lot." "He never worked very well with me." "Should we have another Martini?" | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 634431b | Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 005e9b7 | The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've had just as good a life as grandfather's though not as long. You've had as good a life as any because of these last days. You do not want to complain when you have been so lucky. I wish there was some way to pass on what I've learned, though. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f04d143 | Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 9bcd0fd | Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake. | Tim Winton | ||
| 23e0c24 | Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers | Tim Winton | ||
| 4f01807 | But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him. | son mother | Mary Balogh | |
| 84d88cd | My life will be what I make it," he told her. "That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot know what the future will bring or how the events of the future will make us feel. We cannot even plan and feel any certainty that our most carefully contrived plans will be put into effect. Could I have predicted what happened to me in the Peninsula? Could you have predicted what happened to you in Cornwall? But those things happened to us nev.. | dream life | Mary Balogh | |
| 45d1f4e | Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at.. | life gray-book white misery | Mary Balogh | |
| 4a598a8 | Why have you done all this for me?" She turned her head to look at him. "Tell me the truth." He shook his head slowly. "I don't think I could have been more terrified of the devil than I was of you," she said, "when it was happening and in my thoughts and nightmares afterward. And when you came home to Willoughby and I realized that the Duke of Ridgeway was you, I thought I would die from the horror of it." His face was expressionless. "I k.. | Mary Balogh | ||
| fc5490c | It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 3d36be7 | Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?" | present past | Mary Balogh | |
| 67a11fd | Tonight he would do anything in the world for her. Tomorrow he would begin to set her free. | freedom love temporary duty | Mary Balogh | |
| cab9223 | Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned. | pain depression | Christopher Pike | |
| 0e3a0a8 | How could I have let you do any of those things when I've never even seen your face? When I don't even know your name?" "That may be true," he said quietly, "but for just a moment there, I would have sworn you knew my heart." | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| e70c852 | Abby_Donovan: I bet you were one of those uber-cool teachers like Mr.Chip, weren't you? MarkBaynard: I was more like Mr.Kotter or that guy from GLEE who looks like the love child of Orlando Bloom & Justin Timberlake. Abby_Donovan: Your female students were probably writing "I love you" on their eyelids and listening to "Don't Stand So Close to Me" on their Walkmans. [...] Abby_Donovan: Goodnight Mr.Schuester MarkBaynard: Goodnight Miss Pill.. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| 73af0ff | I don't want to marry you. I don't want to want you," he added fiercely, taking one measured step toward her, then another. "And I sure as hell don't want to love you. But, God help me, I just can't stop myself." Closing the rest of the distance between them in a single stride, he snatched her up by the shoulders, his burning gaze searching her face as if to sear her features into his memory. "I don't want to marry you because I love you to.. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| 45e5ee0 | A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if the paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his presence. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone. | immortality | Timothy Zahn | |
| 0bf1e87 | My point is that true leaders...understand the possible consequences of their decisions, and are willing to bear that weight. The question is whether that's a step you're willing to take." -Carlist Rieekan" | Timothy Zahn | ||
| e403588 | Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise. | equality sith force fool | Drew Karpyshyn | |
| f7f42ad | Grissom chose to remain completely fair and unbiased: he told every single one of them to go to hell. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| f5daea8 | It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it can show this proverbial hammer how everything looks to a screwdriver--and to a plowshare, and to an earthenware pot. If reality is the sum of our perceptions, to acquire more varying points of view is to acquire, literally, more reality. | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| 14cff02 | There was a time in our very recent history when it was "interesting" to be a Star Wars fan. It was sort of like admitting you masturbate twice a day or that your favorite band was They Might Be Giants. Star Wars was something everyone of a certain age secretly loved but never openly recognized" | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 9683183 | On the third play he dropped back to pass, and it was unadulterated chaos: The pocket was immediately collapsing, people were yelling, everything was happening at the same time, and it felt like he was trying to defuse a pipe bomb while learning to speak Cantonese." "He believed it was his destiny to kill faceless foreigners for complex reasons that were beyond his control, and to deeply question the meaning of those murders, and to kill de.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 91d54ae | I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me. | care abstractions chuck they-re wear when klosterman the i black hat strangers | Chuck Klosterman | |
| a1dd2dd | But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 3df4868 | It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would seel her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker. | pop-culture | Chuck Klosterman | |
| b18a084 | History is a creative process (or as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "a set of lies agreed upon"). The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too." | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| b378188 | What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| d800650 | The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country. | music | Chuck Klosterman | |
| e73ab1a | Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 9df387d | That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong. | Rachel Cohn & David Levithan | ||
| 3246c86 | I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could eve.. | humour cyd-charisse gingerbread leg-injury oscar-the-grouch painkillers pills rachel-cohn sesame-street shrimp medication high drugs | Rachel Cohn | |
| 1a9a80a | Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 03642e2 | It's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. | Rachel Cohn David Leviathan | ||
| 85a1159 | But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest--the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 95269fa | And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you wanted to survive doing the work they did, accurate risk assessment was something you developed early -- and even Qhuinn, who was the object of the protective instinct the Chosen was rocking, wouldn't have dared touch her. | lover-at-last layla qhuinn j-r-ward | J.R. Ward | |
| 8556e7b | Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 870a9a0 | Beth," he whispered. "Come back to me." | black-dagger-brotherhood wrath | J. R. Ward | |
| 31087e5 | Be present. Love her until the end. Never her leave her side until the last breath. That was how he was going to honor her with his heart and his soul, even though he wasn't worthy. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 625485e | Sorry, you're on the ride now, and there's no getting off in the middle. | J.R. Ward | ||
| d2ad5ee | Okay, you shouldn't be able to sit up," Manny muttered. Was he? Oh, hey, check it... And as for the doctor's second dose of surprise? Nice guy, but he was being a dumb-ass human when it came to the feeding thing. With this kind of hunger for that particular female? Tohr was frickin' Superman, capable of bench-pressing a Hummer while he juggled Smart Cars with his free hand." | J.R. Ward |