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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c8206d8 | And then I'm thinking - is it so impossible to imagine or believe? - that a man and a woman can find happiness together for a little while, which afterall, is all that we have. All anyone has. | James Patterson | ||
| b4b0786 | Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick. | men success | James Patterson | |
| 4a83e84 | Purple is such a twisted, complex color - it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too - fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat. | James Patterson | ||
| 708f9cd | He knew that people were staring at him. He looked different. Even different from other Erasers. He wasn't as --seamless. He didn't look as human as the rest of them did when they weren't morphed. He kind of looked morphy all the time. He hadn't seen his plain real face in --a long time. "I know who you are." Ari almost jumped --he hadn't noticed the boy slide onto the bench next to him. He frowned down at the small, open face. "What?" he g.. | kid meeting sad superhero werewolf wish wolverine | James Patterson | |
| 0256590 | Love never dies. | sam-s-letters-to-jennifer | James Patterson | |
| a6895c4 | A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 9daea34 | The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it. | jeffrey jeffrey-archer | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 38aeff3 | Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
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| 41fb42f | lma 'jw` bynm lkhyr dfq? lma 'Zl bhyman jhlan bynm lm`rf@ fy kl mkn? lqd bd' lsh`b ythwr shyy'an fshyy'an | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 1a70010 | It's hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God's will. It's hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you're not supposed to have emptiness. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 38e8ee8 | Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 2fb2efc | Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word. | conversing | Miriam Toews | |
| 4a2806a | The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facia.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 96a6e07 | The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it. | Nancy Farmer | ||
| a1e8b97 | Philippa, enviously, wished she could do the same, and then decided she would rather be interesting and sensitive. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| d54711a | My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 93a136c | Once, long ago, Francis Crawford had reduced her to terror and, the episode over, she had suffered to find that for Kate, apparently, no reason suggested itself against making that same Francis Crawford her friend. He was not Philippa's friend. She had made that clear, and, to be fair, he had respected it. He had even, when you thought of it, curtailed his visits to Kate, although Kate's studied lack of comment on this served only to make P.. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| b9ccf0c | There is a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid. - Tywin Lannister | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c303ec7 | Why?" he asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said." | knighthood vows | George R.R. Martin | |
| 051b8b1 | She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 688436b | It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture. | Charles de Lint | ||
| b9bb51d | She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in. | Charles de Lint | ||
| fb3d02b | Paulo Freire of Brazil puts it this way: "It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically." | James W. Loewen | ||
| 344a82a | It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it. | pain youth | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 2d42b40 | You see, King, we have a legend - I used to believe that it was all fairy-tale rubbish and empty smoke. It is a legend about how such things as war and death and despair were common in our country at one time. These terrible words, which we have long since stopped using in our language, can be read in collections of our old tales, and they sound awful to us and even a little ridiculous. Today I've learned that these tales are all true... Bu.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| a7d88f1 | I shall always remember how the peacocks' tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks... | mermaids peacock visions | Hermann Hesse | |
| 620fa3e | Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. | fear | Geraldine Brooks | |
| 3e57491 | What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow." | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| b6fab28 | The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and their leather boots, nibbling burnt cakes and praising Diamond's mind, and all the while their eyes said other things. their eyes said. Then: 'You are flowers,' their mouths said, 'You are jewels, you are golden dreams.' Their eyes said: | lies love the-lion-and-the-lark | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| fe77787 | I decided to become a policeman to speak for the dead. They have no one else, you see. Somewhere there's always proof of what happened, some piece of evidence that will obtain a conviction. It's important for the guilty to be brought to justice, I think. Without justice, there's chaos. | Charles Todd | ||
| d895d46 | If Mr. Fantastic and Professor X had a baby, there would be tons of questions, but also it would be Abraham Lincoln. | x-men | Daniel O'Brien | |
| bb57062 | This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 415311d | Hello," he said. "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." | William Goldman | ||
| 3e03138 | There are things that can harm a lot more than physically. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 93c77c6 | Everything you do in life use percentage as your god. | risks | Mario Puzo | |
| c6e317e | If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet | london | Jess Walter | |
| 0936057 | You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 4941220 | Everything written by any woman was written by all women, because they all benefited from it. If one woman was a genius, it was proof that it was possible for the rest of them. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 3eba0df | it smelled like jail...sore knees and loose assholes. | David Benioff | ||
| 6a73745 | In the silence of her nonanswer, I considered the possibility that I was a very boring person. Who else but a boring person would utter such meaningless trifles? If a brilliant pig, the prodigy of the barnyard, spent his entire life learning Russian, and on finally becoming proficient the first words he heard were my own, he would wonder why he had wasted his best years when he could have been lolling in the mud, eating slop with the other .. | David Benioff | ||
| 88dd9f2 | Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and decay prevail. Both are temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature: -- no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of.. | Charles Darwin | ||
| 3cf5ea1 | As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so that we need feel no surprise at the inhabitants of any one country, although on the ordinary view supposed to have been specially created and adapted for that country, being beaten and supplanted by the naturalised productions from another land. | darwin evolution | Charles Darwin | |
| 5617adb | When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, nearly in the same way as when we look at any great mechanical invention as the summing up of the labour, the experience, .. | natural-history physicalism | Charles Darwin |