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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fda2bfd | Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed. | Jean Rhys | ||
| dc6cd5e | I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 09261cf | Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete. | Jean Rhys | ||
| e4c6321 | You don't know how to respond," Ferrin said. "I'll make it easy for you. The safest course of action for your young rebellion would be to toss me off the tallest cliff you can find. I have played a perilous game for years--trading secrets, telling lies, finding leverage, earning trust only to betray it. I got away with an eccentric lifestyle among Maldor's elite by hiding much of what I learned and proving myself too valuable to kill. It wa.. | rebellion seeds brandon mull | Brandon Mull | |
| 0da061c | The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 1e09334 | There's a joke people tell in the Soviet Union: Mitterrand, Bush and Gorbachev have a meeting with God. Mitterrand says, 'My country faces many difficult problems-- lagging exports, Muslim minorities, European unification. How long will it be before France's problems are solved?' God says, 'Fifteen years.' Mitterrand begins to cry. 'I'm an old man,' says Mitterrand. 'I'll be dead by then. I'll never see France's problems solved.' Then Bush .. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 5837d40 | Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say "I've got cancer" and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy? And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes." | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| fde01e4 | You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times. | living life enjoyment | Natalie Goldberg | |
| c718db9 | After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men? | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 9bd5bb8 | When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 4db76d0 | What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| dbf4e16 | Careful with that ego, you could knock somebody over." Atticus" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a6a61ef | Sometimes I forget what I look like and I do something out of character, such as sing shepherd tunes in Aramaic while I'm waiting in line at Starbucks, but the nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 213a1f5 | Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0d9941e | What I'd truly been avoiding was love, the strongest binding there is, and the pain that scrapes at your insides when the bond is forcefully broken. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f697b25 | I just starred at him like he was trying to sell me the Sham-wow and the Slapchop for only $19.99 | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 393c9a5 | Do Angels have assholes?" Atticus O'Sullivan - Hexed" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| cc02abe | And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life | nature | Kevin Hearne | |
| a33a34c | Douglas Adams was right: There is nothing so massively useful in the universe as a towel. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 82eb3d5 | we banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile had never heard of Ronnie James Dio. My shock at this news was such that I almost completely missed the fact that we were traveling on Bifrost, the rainbow bridge to Asgard. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| d0069d8 | Saint Lassie smiles upon me! It's Coyote, with a bag of goodies. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 02930ef | Look like barbie, Smoke like marley. | Bob Marley | ||
| 22ebd71 | We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death. | minds godlike transcend | Russell Shorto | |
| 8fd4a93 | My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we can obtain and seek no sympathy from any living creature, and which yet we cannot, or will not wholly crush, we often naturally seek relief in poetry--and often find it, too--whether in the effusions of other.. | prayer sorrow poetry | Anne Brontë | |
| ac59269 | It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended. | intentions susceptibility trouble | Anne Brontë | |
| 798aa10 | And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 1b4451e | I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.' 'If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether. | love wife matrimony husband expectations | Anne Brontë | |
| 3ce56f6 | we shouldn't always have what we want: it spoils the best of us, doesn't it? | spoiled spoiling | Anne Brontë | |
| b25fff7 | Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitut.. | stereotypes men women sinner weakness sin | Anne Brontë | |
| f407d66 | Drink up your false courage and move forward. It's the only direction a man can move in. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b9c3139 | Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4c06bc7 | Instead, we must focus on our hopes. If we cannot anchor ourselves in a belief that we will succeed, we have already been defeated. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 98fccae | The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a2f47ec | Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b7f1e1f | Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9fa3c3f | All cats talk however they want. To whomever they want. But only a rude human speaks out of turn. Be quiet. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5524c6a | You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely. | excuse expect fail hard intervene intervention talk perfect mistake lesson failure expectations | Robin Hobb | |
| 4466e03 | You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much has befallen you both. And what you loved, what both of you truly loved, was not each other. It was the time of your life. It was the spring of your years, and life running strong in you, and war on your doorstep and your strong, perfect bodies. Lo.. | letting-go love kettle fitzchivalry-farseer | Robin Hobb | |
| b949655 | Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are." | truth useless regret | Robin Hobb | |
| f79e97a | Having something explained to you does not always solve it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7a02c63 | Only my pain is more silent than my anger. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a6048c0 | everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep all on. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 80c0153 | For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it. | fly wings trouble | E. Nesbit | |
| 8a7f23c | Oh, if I could choose," said Mabel, "of course I'd marry a brigand, and live in his mountain fastness, and be kind to his captives and help them to escape and-" "You'll be a real treasure to your husband." said Gerald." | E. Nesbit |