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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 25122d8 | He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble." | jonathan | Scott Westerfeld | |
| dc60534 | In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| eb2619d | Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her. | war | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 85b2891 | My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| e0a77ee | Also remember, love inhabits more than just the heart and mind. If need be it can take shelter in a big toe. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| a3f11a2 | Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? | future miss | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 974bb4f | He loved more than anything to fly. His sole conflict was with gravity. | flying | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| b7d6c06 | My flying kick nicks his nose. A warning. Worse if I weren't succumbing to squeal. What a heel. I'm too multiple to feel. A fork ahead. I take both. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| ba67416 | Ever see yourself doing something in the past and no matter how many times you remember it you still want to scream stop, somehow redirect the action, reorder the present? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 7f981e3 | Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love? | love inspirational reflective | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| de49246 | Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts. | death-and-dying war | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| d9e210a | In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over. | new-york-city | Silas House | |
| 73fc6ee | Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had. | Silas House | ||
| fbcd4e2 | You get a tattoo like this and a 'do like this, and wear a shirt where the tattoo shows, and you walk into a room of people and feel the animosity, the disapproval, the how-dare-you. You can feel it coming off them like heat off a stove. And the thing I want to ask them is, how have I deserved this, what have I done that so offends you? I have not asked you to cut your hair this way. I have not asked you what you thought of it, or to approv.. | hairstyle mohawk tattoos tattoo | Harry Crews | |
| e8a337d | I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. .. | Harry Crews | ||
| f3df73b | Rider to your mate be true Follow heart in deed and do All the best your strength can find So you will rest in heart and mind | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 498772d | O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to go. | pause thoughtlessness foot-in-mouth speaking | Russell Hoban | |
| 7dc6f2e | If you were different from anybody in town, you had to get out. That's why everybody was so much alike. The way they talked, what they did, what they liked, what they hated. If somebody got to hate something and he was the right person, everybody had to hate it too, or people began to hate the ones who didn't hate it. They used to tell us in school to think for yourself, but you couldn't do that in the town. You had to think what your fathe.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 7431ed7 | Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 52b186d | And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before. | kissing love | Victoria Alexander | |
| bc9e61e | It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind. | romance effingtons | Victoria Alexander | |
| fc2b0a3 | I was flying out to Connecticut for the express purpose of breaking up with my boyfriend and I bought this set of three paperbacks to read on the plane and by the time I got to New Haven I was so worried about Frodo and Sam that I said to my boyfriend, "It's awful. They're trying to sneak into Mordor and the Ringwraiths are after them and I don't trust Gollum and ..." and I completely forgot to break up with him. And, as of yesterday, we've.. | Connie Willis | ||
| b7655a7 | Books are an amazing thing. Anyone who thinks of them as an escape from reality or as something you should get your nose out of and go outside and play, or as merely a distraction or an amusement or a waste of time is - dead wrong. Books are the most important the most powerful | reading | Connie Willis | |
| c18a70e | When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us. | Colum McCann | ||
| e34bd97 | Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity. | Dan Savage | ||
| c6e58ed | And that's my comfort -- that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was REAL and not merely a dream? | Craig Thompson | ||
| 192682f | Bird's mother-in-law sat quite still, the world's most forlorn ventriloquist. | Kenzaburō Ōe | ||
| c6581f2 | To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it? | pragmatism | Shūsaku Endō | |
| 5ee4574 | The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| e40453a | By Nature man is not what he ought to be; only through a transforming process does he arrive at truth. | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | ||
| c811ffa | The plucked and dressed bodies of the chickens will then be sold to millions of families who will gnaw on their bones without pausing for an instant to think that they are eating the dead body of a once living creature, or to ask what was done to that creature in order to enable them to buy and eat its body. | Peter Singer | ||
| 50fe5d1 | Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be. | Laurence Yep | ||
| 62a03ba | You never know what to expect on encountering royalty. I've seen 'em stark naked except for wings of peacock feathers (Empress of China), giggling drunk in the embrace of a wrestler (Maharani of the Punjab), voluptuously wrapped in wet silk (Queen of Madagascar), wafting to and fro on a swing (Rani of Jhansi), and tramping along looking like an out-of-work charwoman (our own gracious monarch). | royalty | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 3eafebf | I should have known better, of course. Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| b559581 | One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be "responsive to their patrons." This means having dozens of copies of and Danielle Steele, and a consequent shortage of shelf space, to cope with which librarians have taken to purging books that haven't been checked out lately." | Connie Willis | ||
| d9a392f | Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day | Danielle Steel | ||
| dc02ea0 | I'm not the enemy, they are. I hear them. You're not good enough so no one could ever love you. Come here," he said, pulling her into his arms and looking into her huge blue eyes that were the same color as his own. "I love you. You are lovable. They're idiots. And I love everything about you, just the way you are. Now that's my message to you. It's not theirs. It's mine. You are the most lovable woman I've ever known." As he said it, he ki.. | danielle-steel | Danielle Steel | |
| e40aa34 | I love you and I will until the end of time.And just as she said the words, two bright stars drifted past them overhead and disappeared into the night sky together... | love-story love lovequote lovequotes | Danielle Steel | |
| 7671370 | But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 472ffff | I want to go home.' The moment the smell hit her, the words came into her head. She didn't know exactly what home it was she wanted to go to, certainly not the one she'd just left. But why didn't she want to go back there? And where did she want to go? She felt lost. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 315491c | If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at lines and go down in flames. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 0f90f28 | Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| ddddbdb | Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction. | Esmeralda Santiago | ||
| 7955c4a | John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no REASON to suffer, and that satisfies him. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |