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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bdccd1c | Yes, I suppose so," answered Anna, as though wondering at the boldness of his question; but the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire as she said it." | love vronsky | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 7f20118 | He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b792c6e | Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| fcd0315 | When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it? | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 91881df | ltnbh ldy'm, l`ml, lSr`, lHrmn bsht~ 'nw`h, hdhh klh shrwT Drwry@ lyjwz l'Hd 'n ytjr' Ht~ `l~ lHlm blkhrwj mnh wlw llHZ@ wHd@. `lyn ky n`ysh bshrf 'n tnmzq, 'n nskhT `l~ 'nfsn, 'n nqtl, 'n nnkhd`, 'n nbd' wnhml, thm 'n n`yd wnbd' mn jdyd, w'n nHrm 'nfsn dwman, lTm'nyn@ dn@ fy lrwH. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| b8b69c5 | A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 0f4d2f1 | most men do not try] to recognize the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 1d5614e | Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life | marriage truth | Leo Tolstoy | |
| b67dc4d | Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 208b338 | We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). | irrational | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 1ed93fe | How strange, extraordinary, and joyful it was to her to think that her son - the little son, whose tiny limbs had faintly stirred within her twenty years ago, for whose sake she had so often quarreled with the count, who would spoil him, the little son, who had first learnt to say grusha, and then had learnt to say baba - that that son was now in a foreign land, in strange surroundings, a manly warrior, alone without help or guidance, doing.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e2c2d53 | If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life. | morality motivation | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 6075c1b | What has happened to me? Why am I so alone in the world? | Daniel Keyes | ||
| b2c8389 | Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone. | flowers-for-algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| 70df737 | It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they? | love-story romance truthful | Julia Quinn | |
| a036784 | Shake, Newton. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9620162 | And she never knew that he laid awake the whole time, his lips at her temple, his hand against her hair. Whispering her name. Whispering other words as well. | michael-stirling unrequited-love | Julia Quinn | |
| 9f97be6 | There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them. | Julia Quinn | ||
| dc26c2c | Daniel chuckled. Whoever that poor girl was, he hoped his family was paying her well. And then, finally, she lifted her fingers from the keys as Daisy began her painful violin solo. He watched her exhale, stretching her fingers, and then . . . She looked up. Time stopped. It simply stopped. It was the most maudlin and cliched way of describing it, but those few seconds when her face was lifted toward his . . . they stretched and pulled, mel.. | anne julia-quinn daniel | Julia Quinn | |
| a12d3dc | What about me?" Frances asked. "The butler," Harriet replied without even a second of hesitation. Frances's mouth immediately opened to protest. "No, no," Harriet said. "It's the best role, I promise. You get to do everything." "Except be a unicorn," Daniel murmured. Frances tilted her head to the side with a resigned expression. "The next play," Harriet finally gave in. "I shall find a way to include a unicorn in the one I'm working on rig.. | don-t-even-ask julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| e59f847 | Is your head bothering you?" Louisa asked. But she wasn't paying much attention. Frederick, her ridiculously fat basset hounds, had spotted a fellow canine in the distance and was yanking on the lead. "Frederick!" she yelped, tripping on a step or two before she found her footing. Frederick stopped, althought it wasn't clear if it was due to Louisa's hold on the lead or outright exhaustion. He let out a hugh sigh, and frankly, Annabel was s.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 291c7e7 | Why didn't you just let me run home?" she asked. "I wanted you here," he said simply. "But why?" she persisted. He shrugged. "I don't know.Punishment, perhaps, for spying on me." "I wasn't-" Sophie's denial was automatic, but she cut herself off halfway through, because of course she'd been spying on him. "Smart girl," he murmured. She scowled at him. She would have liked to have said something utterly droll and witty, but she had a feeling.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 3b78922 | You do realize, Kilmartin,' Colin said, his voice so soft it was almost chilling, 'that there is no reason you can't marry her. None at all. Except, of course,' he added, almost as an afterthought, 'the reasons you manufacture for yourself. | Julia Quinn | ||
| f35036c | He looked down at the first entry. 2 MARCH1810 Today I fell in love. A tear welled up in his eye. "Me too, my love. Me too." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 33df72d | Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade. | julia-quinn titles | Julia Quinn | |
| 5d7c653 | I have to go out," she said, her words oddly curt and abrupt. "There"s something I need to do." "At half eight in the morning?" "I"ll be back soon," she said, hurrying toward the door. "Don"t go anywhere." "Well, damn," he tried to joke, "there go my plans to visit the King." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9925044 | People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life. | truisim | Julia Quinn | |
| 58e50f1 | The girl doesn't need a violin," he added. "She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again." | Julia Quinn | ||
| c1d5107 | You don't have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one." -Henrietta Barrett, (Minx, Splendid Trilogy book #3)" | romance | Julia Quinn | |
| cf51828 | I think your eyes might be the exact same color as mine," she said wonderingly. "What fine gray-eyed babies we shall have," he said, before he thought the better of it." -- | bevelstoke sebastian-grey ten-things-i-love-about-you julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| 6de6e2b | He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them. | Julia Quinn | ||
| e40a93d | George leaned to the right so that he could see her from behind his brother. "Shall I strangle him or will you?" She rewarded him with a devious smile. "Oh, it must be a joint endeavor, don't you think?" "So that you may share the blame?" Andrew quipped. "So that we may share the joy," Billie corrected. "You wound me." "Happily, I assure you." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 8322799 | Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer. | Susan Vreeland | ||
| 81e3a5e | Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me? | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| af8f2e5 | When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imagination's boundless and trackless waste, into the safe fold of common sense. | heart jane-eyre | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 4492d6e | I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my w.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 37bd38d | I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good. | intelligence wisdom resolution | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 14f1e63 | Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind's eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it - and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never en.. | imagination restlessness | Charlotte Brontë | |
| c17103e | Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today." | love | Charlotte Brontë | |
| abdfb83 | It agitates me that the skyline there is forever our limit, I long for the power of unlimited vision...If I could behold all I imagine. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 7e36625 | I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 8413019 | I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter. | love | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 344a9d6 | Jane: "St John dresses well. He is a handsome man: tall, fair, with blue eyes and a Grecian profile." Rochester:(Aside) "Damn him!" (To me) "Did you like him, Jane?" | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| e04d5e8 | The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak. | voice | Charlotte Brontë |