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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c6a44f6 | She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart. | hope | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| f4895cf | Upon my word," thought Mrs. Fisher, "the way one pretty face can turn a delightful man into an idiot is past all patience." | pretty-face | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| 1254afb | What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily." (Quoted from by Elizabeth von Arnim)" | family-relationships family-saga shell-seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher | |
| 5ba119a | the most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour. | Alan Moore | ||
| fbf9b7f | I'm not exactly sure what happened. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!" ~ JOKER" -- | Alan Moore | ||
| 41006e9 | bdn zndh w mrdh, t`dd jzy ykhsny drnd. z lHZ skhtry, tfwt mHswsy ndrnd. zndgy w mrg, dw mfhwm ntz`y Gyrqbl ndzh gyry nd. chr byd mn ngrn (mrdn khsy) bshm? | Alan Moore | ||
| 131e22a | Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself. | Alan Moore | ||
| fad6f39 | Nothing Alan Moore writes can be blah-blah-blahed," Park said solemnly. Eleanor shrugged and bit her lip. "I'm beginning to think you shouldn't have started reading comics with a book that completely deconstructs the last fifty years of the genre," he said. "All I'm hearing is blah, blah, blah, genre." | Rainbow Rowell | ||
| e7a2a2a | People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them. | truth strange memory stories | Alan Moore | |
| a000ae2 | There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes. | Alan Moore | ||
| e996dc3 | Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar. | reading flaubert-s-parrot julian-barnes book-quotes | Julian Barnes | |
| 8dd6e80 | how time first grounds us and then confounds us....give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 61ab3eb | The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the unicorn? We animals would have been happier with that, instead of a big hint in the sky about God's magnanimity every time it stopped raining. | Julian Barnes | ||
| c42cc47 | Strange how, when you are young, you owe no duty to the future; but when you are old, you owe a duty to the past. To the one thing you can't change. | Julian Barnes | ||
| df4e603 | I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68] | Julian Barnes | ||
| 6167108 | Tertullian said of Christian belief that it was true because it was impossible. Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary. | religion | Julian Barnes | |
| 43ed922 | In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone call, the telegram--were marked "For Emergency Use Only." So my parents waved me off into the unknown, and their news bulletins about me would have been restricted to "Yes, he's arrived safely,"and "Last time we heard he was in Oregon," and "We expect him back in a fe.. | travel postcards technology | Julian Barnes | |
| 28b5781 | Love was by its very nature disruptive, cataclysmic; and if it was not, then it was not love. | Julian Barnes | ||
| fb72a6f | But if being on the level didn't shield you from pain, maybe it was better to be up in the clouds. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 7eff416 | But cockteasing is also a metaphor: she is someone who will manipulate your inner self while holding hers back from you. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 426cbca | But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book. | life | Julian Barnes | |
| 8b7c853 | If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue? | Julian Barnes | ||
| f0620ce | I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 187fd1a | It amazes me, Saint, that you can own so few redeemable qualities and still be so likable. | Suzanne Enoch | ||
| 5bfab1b | I don't think there'll be a next time, my lady." Saint smiled. "But thank you for the offer." Her eyebrows lifted in surprise. "You're welcome. My, my, manners. Where have you been--church?" | Suzanne Enoch | ||
| e9878fc | The Red Keep shelters two sorts of people, Lord Eddard, Varys said. Those who are loyal to the realm, and those who are loyal only to themselves. | varys | George R.R. Martin | |
| 8f9c631 | If truth be told, I ofttimes wonder how Stannis ever got that ugly daughter of his. He goes to his marriage bed like a man marching to a battlefield, with a firm look in his eyes and a determination to do his duty. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6e285f6 | Jay wondered how they'd feel the morning they all woke up and realized that somehow Camelot had turned into Mordor. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ae15cc4 | A bastard had to learn to notice things, to read the truth that people hid behind their eyes. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f490eb0 | No," said Bran. "I haven't. And if I have it doesn't matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time." | stories | George R.R. Martin | |
| 80c56d0 | Ned closed his eyes and opened them; it made no difference. He slept and woke and slept again. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 36be44e | What were you doing to that cat, boy?" Myrcella asked again, sternly. To her brother she said, "He's a ragged boy, isn't he? Look at him." She giggled. "A ragged dirty smelly boy," Tommen agreed. They don't know me, Arya realized. They don't even know I'm a girl. Small wonder; she was barefoot and dirty, her hair tangled from the long run through the castle, clad in a jerkin ripped by cat claws and brown roughspun pants hacked off above her.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| e821cbb | The bad part is you freeze your balls off, but since you're not allowed to breed anyway, I don't suppose that matters. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a8e98eb | Poison is a coward's weapon'' the king complained. Ned had heard enough. ''You send hired knives to kill a fourteen-year-old girl and still quibble about honor? | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b244ad8 | When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 245b660 | Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go. | humour truth humourous hilarious | George R.R. Martin | |
| 2731ca1 | I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d757287 | Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| cd25eeb | It is night in your Seven Kingdoms now,' the red woman went on, 'but soon the sun will rise again. The war continues, Davos Seaworth, and some will soon learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze. The old maester looked at Stannis and saw only a man. You see a king. You are both wrong. He is the Lord's chosen, the warrior of fire. I have seen him leading the fight against the dark, I have seen it in the flames. The.. | daenerys melisandre prophecy | George R.R. Martin | |
| c6c4be2 | The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since last I wept. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 829a23c | Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He's been taken by the Starks and we've lost Riverrun and now her stupid brother is calling himself a king. The dwarf smiled crookedly. "All sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days." | lannister tyrion witty | George R.R. Martin | |
| 3f35b04 | There are no happy endings. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b84f6d5 | What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| f553f53 | Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale," Ser Arlan had once told him, "it may be a year before you see another." | George R.R. Martin |