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| 6577b9a | You're hard to talk to," Zayne said after a moment. Offended, I glared at him. "No, I'm not." "Okay, let me rephrase that. You're argumentative." "No, I'm not." Zayne stared at me, as if me arguing with him just then was proof enough of what he claimed. It sort of proof of what he claimed, and that irritated me." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a5a71a5 | It's not that I think you're weaker, I know you are." He eyed me over his glass of milk. " I'm not trying to be obnoxious by saying that. You are weaker than us." "Maybe physically but not mentally or .. morally." I countered. "Morally?" He sounded confused. "Yeah, like, I'm not going to tell the world about you guys to get money. And if I was captured by an Arum, I wouldn't bring them back to you all." "Wouldn't you?" Offended, I leaned ba.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 400b0e5 | Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often under-estimated. They could heal. They could destroy. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 784b63c | I was his power-up--the ace up his sleeve. I was the beginning and he was the end. And together, we were everything. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 79ceff8 | And if he poked me in the back with a pen one more freaking time, I was going to throw him in front of an Arum. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e2c3938 | Kat- Pronuncio mi nombre como si fuera una especie de oracion, y luego me dio un beso en la piel detras de la oreja-. Rompi todas las reglas de mi clase por sanarte y mantenerte conmigo. Me case contigo y queme toda una ciudad para mantenerte a salvo. He matado por ti. ?Crees que iba a olvidar lo que significas para mi? ?Que nada en este mundo; en cualquier mundo; seria mas fuerte que mi amor por ti? | paranormal-romance | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 6d8be20 | You burn bright, to me at least, and I know you could handle it, but the last thing I want is your light to be tainted by something so dark. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 268a0cf | Why are you being so difficult? Just give me my phone and you'll never have to see me again." ... "But what if I want to see you again?" I swallowed as my eyes narrowed. "But I don't want to see your face ever again." The almost teasing smile began to fade. "Well, that's rude." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4761cea | I didn't need to tell her that I loved her. The words were meaningless because they were spoken so much. Actions were always louder, always more potent. I showed her. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0549dc8 | The Boss will release the four horsemen." I swallowed hard. "I guess you're not talking about the Kentucky Derby kind of horsemen?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 95d3c76 | From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time. | William Peter Blatty | ||
| a52c3bc | there really is no such thing as 'the future', singular. There are only multiple, unforeseeable futures, which will never lose their capacity to take us by surprise. | Niall Ferguson | ||
| b9962e7 | Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed. | the-zombie-survival-guide | Max Brooks | |
| 8b66508 | So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miser.. | prophesy dystopia science-fiction | H.G. Wells | |
| 2539cb2 | Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. | time the-war-of-the-worlds space science-fiction | H.G. Wells | |
| a5f2b5f | If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butterflies, strange flowers and a thousand interesting things. But happily the collector prevents all that, either killing with his own hands or, by buying extravagantly, procuring people of the lower classes to kill such eccentricities as appear. ... Eccentricity, in fact, is immorality--think over it again if you do not think so now--just as ec.. | butterflies flowers england | H.G. Wells | |
| 18013f6 | I was a battleground of fear and curiosity. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 827ab36 | We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 757197b | It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war. | madness war reason | H.G. Wells | |
| 7b6be3b | Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men? | H.G. Wells | ||
| f13ae85 | I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine? | Darren Shan | ||
| a3b808b | Jangan biarkan kebencian menguasai hidupmu. Kematianku tidak perlu dibalaskan. Hiduplah sebagai vampir yang bebas, bukan sebagai makhluk putus asa gila dan terobsesi untuk membalas dendam. | Darren Shan | ||
| 4530a51 | A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible! | world p334 the-thin-executioner views | Darren Shan | |
| 47c01ce | Monster tidak terlahir keji begitu saja. Mereka tumbuh, berkembang, menjadi monster. | Darren Shan | ||
| 7d4f412 | Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities. | Darren Shan | ||
| 06f8cc7 | small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door. | Donna Tartt | ||
| a6dafa1 | Many BrainPal users find it useful to give their BrainPal a name other than BrainPal. Would you like to name your BrainPal at this time? "Yes," I said. Please speak the name you would like to give your BrainPal. "Asshole," I said. You have selected "Asshole," the BrainPal wrote, and to its credit it spelled the word correctly. Be aware that many recruits have selected this name for their BrainPal. Would you like to chose a different name? ".. | John Scalzi | ||
| 5d5932c | For all we know, this"--he scrolled up on the phone screen to find a label--"this Wikipedia information database here is compiled by complete idiots." | John Scalzi | ||
| c734c96 | You'll notice that the Intrepid's inertial dampeners don't work as well in crisis situations, Dahl remembered Jenkins telling them. The ship could do hairpin turns and loop-de-loops any other time and you'd never notice. But whenever there's a dramatic event, there goes your footing. | John Scalzi | ||
| d7f4cf6 | I hadn't realized how supremely shit-housed I was until we stumbled into our room at the Embassy Suites. You ever been so drunk you forgot that you have to shit until the last minute? Well I was at that stage. I nearly had my pants completely off when SlingBlade snaked past me and got into the toilet first. Fine, I go get out of my bar clothes and change into a t-shirt and pink Gap boxers to sleep in. I wait patiently for about three minute.. | Tucker Max | ||
| 344a330 | It's a temptation that exists for everyone--for talk and hype to replace action. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 1174eb0 | In France the most often used word is "connerie," which means "bullshit," and in America it's hands-down "awesome," which has replaced "incredible," "good," and even "just OK." Pretty much everything that isn't terrible is awesome in America now." | language | David Sedaris | |
| b282c3f | In Germany, Dodd had noticed, no one ever abused a dog, and as a consequence dogs were never fearful around men and were always plump and obviously well tended. "Only horses seem to be equally happy, never children or the youth," he wrote. ... He called it "horse happiness" and had noticed the same phenomenon in Nuremburg and Dresden. In part, he knew this happiness was fostered by German law, which forbade cruelty to animals and punished v.. | Erik Larson | ||
| 56c5a5d | No one could bear the idea of the White City lying empty and desolate. A Cosmopolitan writer said, "Better to have it vanish suddenly, in a blaze of glory, than fall into gradual disrepair and dilapidation. There is no more melancholy spectacle than a festal hall, the morning after the banquet, when the guests have departed and the lights are extinguished." | Erik Larson | ||
| 7405b18 | Her mouth was cut, her left eye already beginning to swell. There was raw color along her cheekbone. He managed to take a full, almost easy breath. "You're going to have a hell of a bruise." "I've had them before." The medication was seeping in, turning pain into a mist. She only smiled when he stripped her to the waist and began checking for other injuries. "You've got great hands. I love when you touch me. Nobody ever touched me like tha.. | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| dacf773 | i got lucky | J.D. Robb | ||
| ff65005 | I thought this vintage would suit you. What it lacks in subtlety . . ." He turned back, offering her a glass. "It makes up for in sensuality." He tapped his glass against hers so the crystal sang, then watched as she sipped. God, what a face, he thought. All those angles and expressions, all that emotion and control. Just now she was fighting off showing both surprise and pleasure as the taste of the wine settled on her tongue. He was looki.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 699a312 | You're aunt's just--what is it--down the hall. You know damn well this place isn't soundproofed." "You'll just have to be quiet." He gave her ribs a deliberate tickle that made her jump and yelp. "Or not." "Didn't I bang you already today, twice this morning?" "Darling Eve, you're a pathetic romantic." | sex pathetic-romantic | J.D. Robb | |
| e8d83d8 | For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away. He could do that to her, and for her, she realized. He could open little pockets of peace. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 879fdab | In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy. | reporters | J.D. Robb | |
| bd60aaf | Tag Feeney," Eve ordered when she was behind the wheel. "Have him run like crimes in and around London." "It would be my honor, Mrs. Lieutenant Dallas Roarke." At Eve's burning look, Peabody only grinned. "Sorry. I just had to do it once. I'm over it." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 21212c6 | I like ass-watching." Peabody settled herself in comfortably."When I see one bigger than mine, it makes me feel good. When I see one smaller, it helps me resist eating a whole bunch of cookies. It's a productive hobby, my ass-watching" | peabody | J.D. Robb | |
| e4cf378 | You will be expected to obey orders, or this appointment can and will be terminated. Again, at the discretion of the primary. We run this by the book." "I've always wondered. How many pages are in that book of yours?" "And smart mouthing to the primary can result in disciplinary action." "Darling. You know how that excites me." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 8c40fb4 | Might have to go to London," she murmured. "Huh. Wouldn't it be a kick in the head if I really did have to be out of the country hunting a criminal mastermind when Mavis goes into labor?" "I, my ass. That goes to we or I'll hurt you" | roarke | J.D. Robb |