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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9902ca3 | The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| fe0ac11 | At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will. | on-the-road sal-paradise stars | Jack Kerouac | |
| 7c4854f | I feel impossibly sad and like I'll die, what can we do? | sadness | Jack Kerouac | |
| 4b158f3 | The road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go - right? | Jack Kerouac | ||
| cd212b6 | To make the sea your own, to watch over it, to brood your very soul into it, to accept it and love it as though only it mattered and existed. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 0f6ca2a | I realize I'm just a silly stranger goofing with other strangers for no reason far away from anything that ever mattered to me what that was--Always an ephemeral "visitor" to the Coast nevery really involved with anyone's lives there because I'm always ready to fly back across the country but not to any life of my own on the other end either, just a traveling stranger like Old Bull Balloon... (p. 178)" | interpersonal-relationships roaming | Jack Kerouac | |
| 5cc1afc | Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 52830ae | God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 469406f | Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the spirit of the Mountain was thinking; and looked up and saw jackpines in the moon, and saw ghosts of old miners, and wondered about it. In the whole eastern dark wall of the Divide this night there was silence and the whisper of the wind, except in the ravine where we roared; and on the other side of the Divide was the great western slope, and the big plateau that went to Steamboat Spri.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 5c8c37e | it's all the same to me as long as it can be exciting and goes around the world. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 2aa6c5b | I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 68815f3 | Why did God make all this all so decayable and dieable and harmable and wants to make me realize and scream? | religion | Jack Kerouac | |
| 4e4a4fa | Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much. | life past understanding | Jack Kerouac | |
| 6c62cf6 | You will never stop seeing yourself. You can do nothing, you cannot escape yourself, you cannot escape your own gaze, you never will be able to: even if you were to fall into a sleep so deep that no shock, no shout, no burning pain could rouse you, there would still be this eye, your eye, that will never close, that will never sleep. You see yourself, you see yourself seeing yourself, you watch yourself watching yourself. Even if you were t.. | Georges Perec | ||
| 927bc19 | The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about artistic technique. | Raymond Queneau | ||
| aeec8a6 | That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything. | William Gaddis | ||
| 25ba464 | There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world... | William Gaddis | ||
| 575ac24 | Men, at any rate, never fulfilled expectations. They might, upon acquaintance, turn out more entertaining than they appeared; but almost always taking up with a man was like reading a book you had read when you had forgotten that you had read it. You had not been for ten minutes in any sort of intimacy with any man before you had said: "But I've read all this before..." You knew the opening, you were already bored by the middle, and, especi.. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 735a4ec | He sighs and bows his head, burying his face in his hands. I touch his hair. His ears. Bear may be my rock, but Dom is the force that moves me. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 3aa6d7e | How he closed down like before. How he gave himself over to the wolf. How he didn't speak for months and months. And yet, the moment he comes home, the moment he sees you again, he finds his voice like he'd never lost it at all. | T.J. Klune | ||
| d435f09 | I've raised you to be honest and kind. I've raised you to be brave and strong. If you become the man I think you'll be, then you and me will always be eye to eye. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 07940d0 | Losing him hurts more than anything I've ever felt before. But losing you? Ox, if anything happened to you, it would kill me. There is no point for me if you're not here. So no. You're not going. You're going to stay here because I love you more than anything in this goddamn world and I don't fucking care if you're pissed. I don't care if you hate me because of it. As long as I know you're safe, then that's all that matters. That's why, you.. | T.J. Klune | ||
| ab52921 | We went into the Dark Woods and I almost had to get gay fairy married again and now I feel really bad and Ryan got bad-touched by trees and Fairy King Dimitri was cryptic and annoying and apparently has a size kink. | ryan sam | T.J. Klune | |
| f8ecd28 | You have pajamas with a dead Palestinian leader's face on them." "I am aware," Gus said, trying not to fidget as Casey essentially stared at his crotch. "They're my Yasser Arapants." Casey choked. Gus waited. "Oh my fucking god," Casey mumbled to himself. "You're like... just... like, this ." | T.J. Klune | ||
| c61e800 | All things being equal, you root for your own sex, your own culture, your own locality...and what you want to prove is that you are better than the other person. Whomever you root for represents you; and when he wins, you win."88" | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 420d553 | The idea of potential loss plays a large role in human decision making. In fact, people seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 0990069 | Now I'll just have to do without." She raised her eyebrows. "I'm sorry?" Then Maximus did something very strange: he went on one knee before her. "This isn't right at all," he said, continuing to glare as if he found it all her fault. She sat up. "What are you doing?" "Artemis Greaves, will you do me the honor of --" "Are you insane?" she demanded. "What of your father? Your conviction that you must marry for the dukedom?" "My father is dea.. | love marriage-proposal proposal | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 813321d | Humph." She peered down suspiciously as he parted the leaves to reveal the choke. "That doesn't look very tasty." "That's because it isn't," he said. "Pay heed: the artichoke is a shy vegetable. She covers herself in spine-tipped leaves that must be carefully peeled away, and underneath shields her treasure with a barricade o' soft needles. They must be tenderly, but firmly, scraped aside. Ye must be bold, for if yer not, she'll never revea.. | scandalous-desires silence | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 7028c74 | She swallowed and licked her lips. "It's rather good." He laughed breathlessly. Have care, part of his brain whispered. This way only leads to pain. But his c*ck was pressing hard against the placket of his breeches and he wanted to take her hand and draw her away to his rooms and keep her there until she learned to scream in pleasure. Until she screamed his name and no other." | mickey scandalous-desires | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 5304786 | And if he presses, tell him it's a female matter. That stops any question. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| 7c2792c | She gasped again and opened blue eyes lit with erotic mischief. "Are you trying to steal the reins from me?" Even with his penis buried deep within her, even moments from climax, he arched an eyebrow. "You have them only by my permission." | isabel thief-of-shadows winter | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| cff68c5 | I'm not letting you go after this." He raised his head. "Marry me, Phoebe, please. Damn the courtship. Damn your brother. Damn the . I can't...I can't when you're not with me. I love you with all my cynical heart. Be my wife and teach me to laugh and let me buy you beer and ride with me on the beaches of Cornwall. Be my love and my wife forevermore." (Captain James Trevellion)" -- | proposal romance | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 1a24dd6 | Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow. | life | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 8274b81 | She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. "And I love him more for it. Do you hear me? He was a good man when he went away to the Colonies. He came back an extraordinary man. So many think that bravery is a single act of valor in a field of battle--no forethought, no contemplation of the consequences. An act over in a second or a minute or two at most. What my brother has done, is doing now, is to live with his.. | elizabeth-hoyt helen σοφία to-beguile-a-beast | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 457dcaf | Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield's outraged eyes. "We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister's hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I'll give up either her or our babe, you have not do.. | griffinlordsexy notorious-pleasures | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 377248c | In order to hold off the Forces of Darkness, you will need a number two pencil and a calendar, preferably one without pictures of kitties on it. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 26dfe8c | He always had a problem with the purity of others. Never his own. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 2bf0b9d | This Roberto. He no like the light. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 0006b51 | Fine, as the tailor said to the broke and naked knight, suit yourself. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 7e6efa5 | There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin. | Christopher Moore | ||
| d64fcfe | Latin, Greek, and English, plus a smattering of Italian and fucking French." "Fucking French, you say? Well . . ." "Oui," said I, in perfect fucking French." | Christopher Moore | ||
| bfadd79 | How could you deal with a creature as devious as woman. | Christopher Moore | ||
| c624c20 | One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 65a5534 | Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear." | fool | Christopher Moore |