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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 57ab3f0 | The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began to regain the intimacy, the bond of familiarity, they had once shared. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| cf479ce | You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| ed182c5 | The Shadow is what people are hunting throughout the tale. Or else it can dog the hero, refusing to leave him alone. It's a potent force that bewitches as much as it torments. It can lead to hell or heaven. It's the hollow forever inside you, never filled. It's everything in life you can't touch, hold on to, so ephemeral and painful it makes you gasp. You might even glimpse it for a few seconds before it's gone. Yet the image will live with.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| dbee1ab | My films are just stories, but that's all we have, the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. When you talk to the elderly, men and women at the end of their lives, you see that's what's left behind as the body disintegrates. Our stories. Our children will decide whether or not to keep telling them. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 9584f08 | If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for." Banks tells me. "But there was something about her that precluded an ordinary existence. In some ways, I'm not surprised she's dead. A job, husband, kids, a beach house? That wasn't her. I can't explain why, except she was more like a force that whipped through life, defying logic, scaring you, even hurting you because she was ever.. | enigmas human-existence mystery | Marisha Pessl | |
| d68c050 | watching a midforties Wonder Woman stumble backward into Hannah's net stack of Traveler magazines made me wonder if the very idea of Growing Up was a sham, the bus out of town you're so busy waiting for, you don't notice it never actually comes. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 3630dce | All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| d8ac917 | Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| cb19c5e | I was completely out of clean clothes. That meant I could be a slut and sleep naked , or I could be a slob and sleep in what I was wearing. Truth is, I'm not entirely comfortable sleeping naked. I do it from time to time, but I worry that God might be watching or that my mother might find out, and I'm pretty sure they both think nice girls should wear pyjamas to bed. | stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 39a9acd | Stephanie Plum, off-road warrior. Now this was the way it should be, I thought. Taking action. Hauling ass in the woods behind Diesel. Well, okay - truthfully, I wanted to be in of Diesel. I wanted to ride point, lead the charge, be the big kahuna. Unfortunately, Diesel was the one who'd memorized the aerial map. And he was supposedly the one with super senses. 'Big whoop-de-do, super senses,' I said. 'I heard that,' Diesel yelled back .. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| bc60441 | Holy bejeezus," Lula said, eyes bugged out, looking at the building. "This is scaring the crap out of me. This is like where Dracula would live if he didn't have any money and was a crack-head. I bet it's filled with rabid bats and killer snakes and hairy spiders as big as dinner plated." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9ad595f | Yeah, but I want to take a look at your little peashooter. It's kinda cute." "It's a gun," Brenda said. Lula pulled her Glock out of her bag and aimed it at Brenda. "Bitch, this is a gun. It could put a hole in you big enough to drive a truck through." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d63fee8 | The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger said. He handed her a twenty, and she left. What about the cat-feeding theory?" I asked him. Out the window." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ad0371d | I plunked down on the couch beside him. "I don't have any accomplishments of any kind. I'm stupid and boring. I don't have any hobbies. I don't play sports. I don't write poetry. I don't travel to interesting places. I don't even have a good job." "That doesn't make you stupid and boring," Morelli said. "Well, I feel stupid and boring. And I wanted to feel interesting. And somehow, someone told my mother and grandmother that I played the.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 8d7624b | Kate prefers a loaded gun next to her bed." "Is that all?" Jake asked Kate. "Where's your hand grenade?" "I don't have a hand grenade." "What happened to the one I gave you for Christmas?" "I forgot about that," she said. "I guess it's around the apartment somewhere." "You lost a hand grenade in your apartment?" Nick said. "Next time I visit I'll be more careful." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 69b1cca | Cripes, I can't keep up on this political correct shit. I don't even know what to call myself. One minute I'm black. Then I'm African American. Then I'm a person of color. Who the hell makes these rules up, anyhow? | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 00e842b | you see what I'm saying?" Mooner said. "Something else always comes along. You go to jail, you don't have to worry about anything. No rent to pay. No food bill to sweat. Free dental plan. And that's worth something, dude.You don't wnat to stick your nose up at free dental." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 5e9a542 | I got out of the tub and had to squelch a scream when I saw my reflection in the vanity mirror. My hair looked like it had taken 2000 volts and been spray starched | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 0fddf65 | be refreshing." Ranger smiled. "There are times when I seriously consider marrying you, but then I get yet another black mark on my path to enlightenment and forgiveness and I scratch marriage off my bucket list." "Really? You think about marrying me?" "Marrying you might be extreme, but once in a while I think about sharing my closet." "You have a really great closet." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| aba040e | You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| b322f2b | Diesel is back," Ranger said. Yes. How did you know?" I woke uo with a migraine this morning," Ranger said." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| dd99e2f | I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything." | Jayne Ann Krentz | ||
| 2fab77b | The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for personal repentance but only public reforms, has divorced Christ from His Cross; the Bridegroom and Bride have been pulled apart. What God hath joined together, men have torn asunder. As a result, to the left is the Cross; to the right is Christ. Each has awaited new partners who will pick them up in a kind of second and adulterous union. Com.. | the-west the-cross jesus-christ | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 9436ed4 | The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a.. | jesus sinfulness regeneration | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 6687bdf | hnk mkn wHd fHsb yltqy fyh l'ms w lywm, yt`rfn `l~ b`Dhm b`Dan, w yt`nqn, w dhlk lmkn hw lmstqbl | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| e665801 | fy SbH m 'hdw ln khnzyran mn Gyny. j l~ lmnzl fy qfS. fy mntSf lnhr, ftHt bb lqfS. `dt l~ lbyt msan w wjdt 'n lkhnzyr lm yGdr mknh: kn dkhl lqfS, mtkwran z lqDbn, yrtjf khwfan mn lHry@ | Eduardo Hughes Galeano | ||
| 94eeb0c | La muerte, que un par de veces me tomo y me solto, a menudo me llama todavia y yo la mando a la puta madre que la pario. | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| 82cf1d8 | Han pasado los anos, y a la larga he terminado por asumir mi identidad: yo no soy mas que un mendigo de buen futbol. Voy por el mundo sombrero en mano, y en los estadios suplico: una linda jugadita, por amor de Dios. Y cuando el buen futbol ocurre, agradezco el milagro sin que me importe un rabano cual es el club o el pais que me lo ofrece. | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| ca4cd47 | When you press the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on human beings they start," argues my friend and teacher Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN, which advises global businesses on ethics and leadership. "You start to reflect, you start to rethink your assumptions, you start to reimagine what is possible and, most importantly, you start to reconnect with" | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 3e91fbd | Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "If I can be of use." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 16ae179 | It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depth by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| f3b3deb | I didn't understand the war. It was new, and they all said it would be there for a long time, but where it was, exactly, was one of the things I didn't understand. It seemed to be out-of-doors, and that was why we had the blackout curtains, so that we didn't have to look at it at night-or it didn't have to look at us, perhaps. Yet on some nights we sat on the balcony and watched searchlights play across the dark sky, and that had to do with.. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 3f987b1 | He saw nothing except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting narrow curves. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 99e1f0f | She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are. | memories past melancholy oblivion remembering memory | Lois Lowry | |
| 4ab7665 | He called after her as she walked away on the path. "Alys? Why were we dancing?" "Take your mind there again," she called back. "You'll remember!" To herself she murmured, shaking her head with amusement as her eyes twinkled at her own memory. "Only thirteen. But we was barefoot and flower-strewn and foolish with first love." | lois-lowry remembering-loved-ones son | Lois Lowry | |
| 2742e03 | She would die, Claire realized, before she would give up the love she felt for her son. | Lois Lowry | ||
| f58b8fd | It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. | Claire Messud | ||
| 45cd1b9 | Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals." | Zadie Smith | ||
| d528407 | These children spend so much time demanding the status of adulthood from you - even when it isn't in your power to bestow it - and then when the real shit hits the fan, when you need them to be adults, suddenly they're children again. | Zadie Smith | ||
| d1e5447 | This was one of the little ways in which he said sorry. They were meant to add up each day. | sorry | Zadie Smith | |
| 511ebe4 | Writing exists (for me) at the intersection of three precarious, uncertain elements: language, the world, the self. The first is never wholly mine; the second I can only ever know in a partial sense; the third is a malleable and improvised response to the previous two. | Zadie Smith | ||
| 1e4d33d | More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs. | silence eerie | Zadie Smith | |
| 4429112 | I have never felt more ridiculous. If this is what it means to be a woman I am not the slightest bit interested. | Libba Bray | ||
| 567542c | In this man's smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. "Just come with me. We'll take care of you." "No, you won't." Taylor stroked the man's cheek. She reached her arms up to cradle the back of his head and, with the skill of a champion, she broke his neck. Then she dragged him into the bushes, took his gun and walkie-talkie, and kept moving." | Libba Bray |