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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f8d2351 | Gaily, if you can't demonstrate the ability to keep her alive, then I will take over her care and get you a dog instead." - Newt" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3423670 | But I knew Nick. He was too ugly to die. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 69cdf2d | No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in." - Matalina to Jenks" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 803a6f9 | People die, Rachel," Ceri said, her cheeks flushing. "Not if I can help it," I snapped. "And not of a broken heart. If you could, I'd be dead already." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 334a3e7 | I may be a pawn, but I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and I can move like a queen. Don't piss me off. | inspirational rachel | Kim Harrison | |
| 0c83708 | It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn't going to work for him. 'Course, that might be my fault...since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me. | Kim Harrison | ||
| a22bac1 | And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1fa76a5 | How could someone with a bloody rag around their arm look that confident? Because he could sing someone to death? | Kim Harrison | ||
| c0ce738 | You pompous little bitch!" the infuriated Were shouted, red-faced and with his thugs backing him. "What are you doing here?" Mrs. Sarong pushed past the men who had put themselves in front of her. "Arranging your removal," she said, her voice sharp and her eyes glaring. Removal? As if he were an overgrown tree clogging the sewer line? The short businessman seemed to choke on his own breath, becoming choleric. Mouth gaping to look like one.. | Kim Harrison | ||
| e6ac719 | Rachel, you take her," my mother said, clearly uncomfortable. "She might like you." "No. Mom, no!" I protested, but it was my mother we were talking about, and it was either take the baby or have her hit the floor." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 0e8cd61 | Her smile turned wicked. "And I'm not a silly girl to be blinded by a tidy posterior and expansive landholdings." Tidy posterior and expansive landholdings? Was that the Dark Ages equivalent of a tight ass and a lot of money?" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 10ff258 | Head lowered, Al looked at his bare hands, folded in his lap. "I knew you could, otherwise I wouldn't have let you get into that position. But now everyone else knows it, too. I wasn't expecting how vulnerable you would be, and word gets around. It is too easy for..." He hesitated. "You're so damn helpless...," he tried again, his words cutting off once more. "How am I supposed to keep them off you now that they know?" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1817a2b | that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun | Kim Harrison | ||
| 6272cca | With a little cry, I slid my hand behind his neck and pulled him to me for a real kiss. The assembled people cheered, and I closed my eyes as the sound of pixy wings wreathed us. Give up? Leave? echoed in my thoughts as his lips met mine, holding both a promise and a desire. Never, I answered myself as we parted and, hands still connected, turned to those who meant most to us and were welcomed in between the pixy dust and the blue butterfli.. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1f5fb3d | Student food." His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. "Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta." | student | Kim Harrison | |
| cdd1766 | Ivy shook her head with a look of disgust. "So you got caught. Big freaking deal. They knew who Rachel was, and you don't see her whining over it." Actually, I had thrown my tantrum on the way home, which might have accounted for the odd noise Francis's car was making when I left it in the mall parking lot in the shade of a tree. Jenks darted to hover three inches before Ivy's nose. His wings were red in anger. "You have a gardener trap you.. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3a0fcd3 | We all have the right to be different, don't we? | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| 52a440c | By the time I found sleep that night, back in the Hawk's Keep, my throat was tight with too many tears unshed, screams unuttered and prayers whose words I could never seem to find. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 35b8574 | She'll forgive me for defending myself as soon as she...gets back. And you had better hope that she is back by the next time those pretty black eyes open, because otherwise, I am going to have to get creative, and you probably aren't going to enjoy that, So shut your mouth, shut your eyes, and go to sleep, or I swear to Heaven, Hell, and all the worlds between, I will give you good reason to scream. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 4df00f1 | He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon. | sandra-brown | Sandra Brown | |
| 1b63c21 | Coburn)"Honor." Gasping, she lowered her arm from over her eyes and looked into his face. "Put your hands on me. Pretend this means something." With a whimper, she wrapped her arms around him and clutched his back, then slid her hands down over his ass and drew him even deeper into her. He groaned, buried his face in the hollow of her neck, and rocked his body against hers. An orgasm burst through her at the same time he came. She pretended.. | Sandra Brown | ||
| 37a7316 | I'm fast becoming the one who leaves things behind, | Nick Flynn | ||
| 5b5f39d | inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside. | Nick Flynn | ||
| 9495507 | I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f95879e | I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues. | Joan Didion | ||
| 6a57e41 | I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. | inspirational talent truth writing | Joan Didion | |
| db7a26f | Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they seemingly may be, no one can under such circumstances be normal. Their disturbed circulation makes them cold, their distress makes them unstrung, sleepless. | Joan Didion | ||
| bd56a20 | All I knew was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was. | Joan Didion | ||
| 7d5ad16 | I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see. | Joan Didion | ||
| de1ba6d | Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99 | bureaucrats conservative corruption government plato policy politics politics-of-the-united-states process | Philip K. Howard | |
| 2430676 | When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 710063a | Inside the room it was dark now, the florescent light behind my father flickering so slightly it lit only the most obvious masses in the room. My sister was in a chair pulled up alongside the bed, her head resting on the side of it with her hand extended out to touch my father. My father, deep under, was lying on his back. My mother could not know that I was there with them, that here were the four of us, so changed now from the days when s.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 88a8068 | Just that winter she had found herself saying to a young woman who worked with her at the tasting bar on Saturdays that between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. 'That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger,' she'd pleaded. The girl looked at her blankly. But for my mother what mattered was that as she spoke, she had suddenly identified herself as the weaker one. This revelatio.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 47d9c74 | My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I ever had on Earth. I wish I could say that in that moment in the kitchen she decided to quit drinking, but I now saw that drinking was a part of what made her who she was. If the worst of what she left on Earth was a legacy of inebriated support, it was a good legacy in my book. ~Susie's grandmother, Lynn pgs 315-316 | Alice Sebold | ||
| 479c62f | It was then that I slipped in the darkness, unable to know if I could be seen. I made myself small in the darkness, unable to know if I could be seen. I had left for hours every day for eight and a half years as I had left my mother or Ruth and Ray, my brother and sister, and certainly Mr. Harvey, but he, I now saw had never left me. His devotion to me had made me know again and again that I had been beloved. In the warm light of my father'.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| e4a25d8 | When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to strone, heart to stone. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 0dfe7a9 | It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes. | Sharyn McCrumb | ||
| 9cf1ac6 | Thank God for you, Caro. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| d9c377f | Why didn't you come back?" he sobbed. "I waited and waited for you, like I said I would, but you never came back! Why? Why didn't you come back? I love you I love you I love you." | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| c1ebc29 | It didn't matter what I wore, or how much sleep I'd had or not had, he always looked at me as if his world began and ended with me. | Jane Harvey-Berrick | ||
| 2a36d55 | Dad?" "What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. "What should I be when I grow up?" The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest," I finally say." | honesty | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| da62742 | To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 86d5357 | He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 166a6a2 | But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach. | possibility | Ayn Rand |