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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9b91ef7 | Locked in darkness that surrounded me like a coffin, I had nothing to distract me from my memories. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 1628045 | Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise! | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4cc282f | Emotion gives us strength." "At the right time and place." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 79a2436 | He grows on you. Sort of like a barnacle. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| fb5a291 | Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me--they're shy and they live in their heads. They're almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone where they can control an invention's design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don't believe anything really revolutionary has been invented by committee. If you're that rare engineer who's an invento.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 5acccc1 | Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. | trust introverts | Susan Cain | |
| 820ecef | Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people are like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. | Susan Cain | ||
| 0923bf2 | Who could be happy in a world of podiums and microphones? | Susan Cain | ||
| 80c5087 | Introverts feel "just right" with less stimulation, as when they sip wine with a close friend, solve a crossword puzzle, or read a book. Extroverts enjoy the extra bang that comes from activities like meeting new people, skiing slippery slopes, and cranking up the stereo." | Susan Cain | ||
| c21f1cd | if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all. | Susan Cain | ||
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| fd294cc | He was so slim, his heart was visible | Hafez | ||
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| a92b9a0 | I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 45e48fe | It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 2a33e60 | Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind. | Raymond Khoury | ||
| 8b95d63 | porque la vida sin ternura no vale nada. | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| 47cd224 | Then she smiled, just a flash, and something moved in Liam's chest. Something warm, and something he hadn't felt in a long time. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 047ec77 | Don't be nice to me," she whispered, though she didn't move away. "I might cry if you are." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 637ba6f | His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper. | Ken Follett | ||
| 4ae022f | Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world? | Ken Follett | ||
| 53fcb92 | He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally. | Ken Follett | ||
| 21ac1d4 | When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere. | Ken Follett | ||
| e1e2fa6 | top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Asshole Axiom: I think I am; therefor I'm not one. | humor jonathan-tropper | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 5e1c80e | We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation responds with more words that they don't understand either. We are gathered together on a Saturday morning to speak gibberish to each other, and you would think, in these godless times, that the experience would be empty, but somehow it isn't. The five of us, huddled together shoulder to shoulder over the bima, read the words aloud slowly, and t.. | death religion | Jonathan Tropper | |
| dd70d3e | You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| a615f36 | here's the thing. I don't think you're in love with her, not all the way. If you were, I think you would seem more certain about it. More jazzed. You wouldn't hug me the way we hug, and say the things you say to me. You definitely wouldn't have kissed me the other day the way you did. I'm not saying you're in love with me. I'm just saying that whatever this thing is you feel toward me, this thing we're both too scared to mention, I don't th.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| d151430 | And ice-cream cones,' she says. 'What is it with you and ice-cream cones?' He licks around the edge of his cone as he considers the question. 'I guess no one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| f9ebf7e | Self-esteem is earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world--when you show such courage and tenacity--you will genuinely impress yourself. And most important, you will treat yourself accordingly and not settle for less from others--at least, not for long. | Laura C. Schlessinger | ||
| 63eb3b6 | Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity. | Laura Schlessinger | ||
| 683bd37 | I took a big dose of Tylenol the original, since I didn't have my Tylenol 3 or its lesser-known, short-lived cousin, Tylenol Two: The Pain Strikes Back. | jim butcher | ||
| eb51645 | Empty knight, Harry! Morgan? Morgan? What's wrong with your head?" Thomas shrugged. "I don't think he did it." Morgan wouldn't cross the street to piss on you if you were on fire!" Thomas growled, "He's finally getting his comeuppance. Why should you lift a finger?" | morgan thomas turn-coat | Jim Butcher | |
| f209ff4 | This is scary." "And we're doing it anyway," I said. "That makes us brave, right?" "If we get away with it," I said. "If we don't, it just makes us stupid." | Jim Butcher | ||
| f3635b8 | I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 07e0d80 | My wallet was getting even more anorexic than usual. At this rate I wouldn't be able to afford to protect mankind from the perils of black magic. Hells bells, that would be really embarrassing. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e15b4db | I sidestepped the vampire's rush, and drove my half of the former blasting rod down at its back, Buffy-like. Maybe it works better on television. | vampires harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| fad1518 | No matter where you go, there you are. [- Uriel to Harry Dresden] | uriel | Jim Butcher | |
| 687e656 | One does not simply walk into Mordor--except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.) | lotr mordor lord-of-the-rings | Jim Butcher | |
| 7d5abdc | What's with that?" Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. "Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?" | jurassic-park waldo-butters | Jim Butcher | |
| 9c927bb | He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naivete and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 65efbe2 | I... briefly wondered why I kept running into repeat uses of various locations around town. This wasn't the first time I'd dealt with the bad guys choosing to reuse a location different bad guys had used before them. Maybe there was a Villainous Time-share Association. Maybe my life was actually a basic-cable television show, and they couldn't afford to spend money on new sets all the time. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6cca598 | Sir," said the guard from behind me. "I'd appreciate it if you left your club here." I paused and looked over my shoulder, He had a gun. His hand wasn't exactly resting on it, but he'd tucked his thumb into his belt about half an inch away. "It isn't a club," I said calmly. "It's a walking stick." "Six feet long." "It's traditional Ozark folk art." "With dents and nicks all over it." I thought about it for a second. "I'm insecure?" "Get a b.. | humourous | Jim Butcher | |
| 9aade11 | Rip her dress off!" Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am. "That's what I'm talking about!" Bob hollered, as more pages turned." | Jim Butcher | ||
| ab46933 | You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt. | Jim Butcher |