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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 62c3f0b | There's a goose asleep in the rain! | Roger Hargreaves | ||
| bdf3ec3 | We are all only mortal," said the Master, even more slowly. "We do only what we can do. All the Elemental priests have certain teachings in common: one of them is that everyone, every human, every bird, badger and salamander, every blade of grass and every acorn, is doing the best it can. This is the priests' definition of mortality: the circumstance of doing what one can is that of doing one's best. Only the immortals have the luxury of fu.. | Robin McKinley | ||
| db76869 | Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 35057ca | but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other." | humor naps | Robin McKinley | |
| 69aa5df | It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne. 'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.' 'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c9f84d4 | I'm not ancient, darling. I'm only fifty. And when it comes to sex a woman of fifty can often outlast a man half her age. | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| de22d78 | I am a knight of Solamnia. I am the hand of Paladine, of Kiri-Jolith and of Habbakuk on this world. You are on Krynn. You are mine, Queen of Darkness. | Richard A. Knaak | ||
| 4a77a3b | Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't. | life survival | Dick Francis | |
| 7db7abd | I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying "Giant Kid's Playground", and then wonder why everyone says away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid.)" | Lynne Truss | ||
| 269b491 | So what happened to the comma in this process? Well, between the 16th century and the present day, it became a kind of scary grammatical sheepdog. As we shall shortly see, the comma has so many jobs as a 'separator' (punctuation marks are traditionally either 'separators' or 'terminators') that it tears about on the hillside of language, endlessly organising words into sensible groups and making them stay put: sorting and dividing; circling.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| e11505e | No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often aggressively instructed to 'get a life' by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 55626d6 | I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| f99e8cb | Valuable and ingenious he might be, thought Jack, fixing him with his glass, but false he was too, and perjured. He had voluntarily sworn to have no truck with vampires, and here, attached to his bosom, spread over it and enfolded by one arm, was a greenish hairy thing, like a mat - a loathsome great vampire of the most poisonous kind, no doubt. 'I should never have believed it of him: his sacred oath in the morning watch and now he stuffs .. | humour | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 72bd317 | Jack, you have debauched my sloth. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 152632e | He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 0142aa1 | Could he be naked beneath his breeches? They seemed molded to him, outlining the powerful lines of his thighs and the swell just above-- Oh, God. She closed her eyes. She'd been looking at his--Not only was it rude, but it had sent an amazing tingle through her, almost as if she'd touched it. "Fiona, if you ever look at me like that again, I will not be held responsible for what I do." Jack was so close that she could feel his breath on her.. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 9543bf3 | If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?' the king demanded. 'The general, or myself? | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 9d3b76b | So se ve bem com o coracao. O essencial e invisivel aos olhos. | razão sentimento visão | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| cbbda71 | I need to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies. Apparently they're very beautiful. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 07cb1ab | This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment. | religious-nuts republic separation-of-church-and-state unconstitutional | Gore Vidal | |
| 6c80276 | Eventually all things are known. And few matter. | politics privacy | Gore Vidal | |
| f4b276e | With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere on earth but at home. A curious condition of a republic based roughly on | consumerism democrats education false-reality freedom government political-parties power public-schools republicans | Gore Vidal | |
| 82cd82a | My flower is ephemeral," the little prince said to himself, "and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left her on my planet, all alone!" That was his first moment of regret. But he took courage once more." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| f9097c5 | For I perceived that man's estate is as a citadel: he may throw down the walls to gain what he calls freedom, but then nothing of him remains save a dismantled fortress, open to the stars. And then begins the anguish of not-being. Far better for him were it to achieve his truth in the homely smell of blazing vine shoots, or of the sheep he has to shear. Truth strikes deep, like a well. A gaze that wanders loses sight of God. And that wise m.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| fd2c1dc | People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden...yet they don't find what they are looking for. | love rose-garden | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 38f1aaf | C'est comme pour la fleur. Si tu aimes une fleur qui se trouve dans une etoile, c'est doux, la nuit, de regarder le ciel. Toutes les etoiles sont fleuries. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| d4c9d51 | Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 07734ed | Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 77233cb | Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought | punk-rock punks | Henning Mankell | |
| 8ecec0b | Bit by bit, nevertheless, it comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this one garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true mourning, which, though it may not be rending, is yet a little bitter. For nothing, in truth, can replace that companion. Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels .. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 7a39132 | What moves me so deeply, about this little prince who is sleeping here, is his loyalty to a flower -- the image of a rose that shines through his whole being like the flame of a lamp, even when he is asleep..." And I felt him to be more fragile still. I felt the need of protecting him, as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind..." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| fc8dd11 | Lo que mas embellece el desierto -dijo el principito- es el pozo que oculta en algun sitio... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 17153fa | I biked over to my dad's flat and emotionally blackmailed him into lending me enough cash to leave the country. On that trip I learnt something very inmortant. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment i boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed. | Alex Garland | ||
| ee13bb7 | The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party. | pop-culture press | Nora Ephron | |
| 1c2f403 | You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy. | Nora Ephron | ||
| c27ce13 | security is not having things; it's handling things. | Susan Jeffers | ||
| 10f0dfa | Speak up for me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on by the treachery of others. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 6f4e3d6 | It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 266e36c | her insan sevdigi seyi oldurur. Ceza ogesi budur belki de. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| dd3e6ad | I don't know how to make it better." Neither did I. and maybe... maybe wouldn't get better. Rider had said nothing last forever, but some things, some scars, ran Too Deep to ever fade away" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| bdb7fab | Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Mom and Dad will be so proud that she brought home an alien. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 906273d | It sucked - sucked worse than people who pirated books, sucked more than waiting a year for the next book in a beloved series, and sucked more than a brutal cliffhanger ending. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 02af80f | Sigh. Books. I missed them | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 9785597 | Screw practice. Our relationship is more important than a damn practice. | Jennifer L. Armentrout |