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| 90fb6ec | Remember last fall, when you needed to be reckless, and I told you to use me? Well, now, it's time to be fearless. I can't promise that you won't be hurt again, because life can suck. And, sometimes it hurts like hell. I'm asking you now to have faith in one thing, for now: the fact that when we're alone, I'm just Reid, and you're just Dori, and we're going to love each other for the rest of our lives. | Tammara Webber | ||
| f297dca | You know those afternoons," he asks, drawing a shaking breath, "where you're just going along, doing fine, and then afternoon comes and it feels like you've just got the wind knocked out of you and everything is wrong?" He sighs and slowly pushes himself so he's sitting upright. His shoulders are slumped. "That's all," he says. "It's just one of those afternoons." We are silent for a minute. Then he lies back down on the couch. I should say.. | hornbacher madness | Marya Hornbacher | |
| f5a7a50 | He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!! | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 1356129 | That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration | Philip Roth | ||
| 702bcfc | Religion is the opiate of the people! | Philip Roth | ||
| 79ddd38 | I can lie about my name, I can lie about my school, but how am I going to lie about this fucking nose? "You seem like a very nice person Mr. Porte-Noir, but why do you go around covering the middle of your face like that?" Because suddenly it has taken off, the middle of my face! Because gone is the button of my childhood years, that pretty little thing that people used to look at in my carriage, and lo and behold, the middle of my face has.. | jew | Philip Roth | |
| ee8f15f | Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over. | Philip Roth | ||
| d9561bb | Now, I'm very vulnerable to female beauty, as you know. Everybody's defenseless against something, and that's it for me. I see it and it blinds me to everything else. | Philip Roth | ||
| b2a21f6 | It's so heartbreaking, violence, when it's in a house-like seeing the clothes in a tree after an explosion. You may be prepared to see death but not the clothes in the tree. | Philip Roth | ||
| d369727 | And how long will the American people stand for this treachery perpetrated by their elected president? How long will Americans remain asleep while their cherished Constitution is torn to shreds | Philip Roth | ||
| 408fa18 | Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed." | Philip Roth | ||
| 0aa0f51 | Je ne suis pas le Styx pour t'embrasser neuf fois. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| fe1b286 | Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8.. | Æschylus alessandro-volta benjamin-franklin beranger bible bonaventura-cavalieri bonaventura-francesco-cavalieri books burns cavalieri chemistry china copernicus descartes discoveries egypt euclid experiments fiction franklin fulton galileo galileo-galilei galvani goethe gottfried-leibniz gottfried-von-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-von-leibniz greece hydrostatics india inspiration intelligence inventions isaac-newton james-watt johann-von-goethe johann-wolfgang-von-goethe johannes-kepler kepler laws-of-motion leibniz libraries light luigi-aloisio-galvani luigi-galvani math mathematics morse newton nicolaus-copernicus optics pentateuch pierre-jean-de-béranger pioneers pneumatics poets progress rene-descartes richard-trevithick robert-burns robert-fulton rome samuel-finley-breese-morse samuel-morse schiller science shakespeare songs the-bible theory-of-gravity theory-of-universal-gravitation tragedy trevethick volta watt william-shakespeare writer | Robert G. Ingersoll | |
| a3e1905 | A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. "What bird are you calling?" I asked finally, when I couldn't stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. "You." | Karen Russell | ||
| beea0ec | She doesn't know how to answer the man's question about why she snuck into the conch. She just feels like there's something she needs to protect. Some larval understanding, something cocooned inside her, that seems to get unspun and exploded with each passing year... | Karen Russell | ||
| 44b0831 | There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction. | karen-russell | Karen Russell | |
| e24f0e1 | I once read somewhere that, in any relationship, the one who cares the least is the one with all the power. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 79382d8 | Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it. | Tony Parsons | ||
| 0c14b43 | Regweld is really a fine wizard," he continued, patting the shoulder again. "And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!" | fantasy frog horse humor icewind-dale r-a-salvatore wizards | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 6a8d991 | To learn how to use a sword, one must first master when to use a sword. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| c00cb87 | emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy. It is to know the past and to use such relevant history as a template for expectations. It is, most of all, to force reason ahead of instinct, to refuse to demonize that which you hate, and to, most of all, accept your own fallibility. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 14c99c1 | I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d9405bf | but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table where people could see them. | pratchett terry-pratchett the-city-watch the-truth william-de-worde | Terry Pratchett | |
| b161581 | There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there's always something before. It's always a case of Now Read On. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6ba68f2 | Usually he didn't bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e10efb4 | Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his axe out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf axe. One side was a pickaxe, for the extraction of interesting minerals, and the other side was a war axe, because the people who owned the land with the valuable minerals in it can be so unreasonable sometimes. | humourous | Terry Pratchett | |
| dac5ed5 | Where do you think they've gone?' he said. 'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted. 'The dragons. You know. Errol and his wi - female.' 'Oh, somewhere isolated and rocky, I should imagine,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Favourite country for dragons.' 'But it - she's a magical animal,' said Vimes. 'What'll happen when the magic goes away?' Lady Ramkin gave him a shy smile. 'Most people seem to manage,' she said. She reached across the table.. | ramkin sybil vimes | Terry Pratchett | |
| cdf305c | What's Ephebe like?" said Ptraci. "I've never been there. Apparently it's ruled by a Tyrant." "I hope we don't meet him, then" Teppic shook his head. "It's not like that," he said. "They have a new Tyrant every five years and they do something to him first." He hesitated. "I think they ee-lect him." "Is that something like they do to tomcats and bulls and things?" "Er." "You know. To make them stop fighting and be more peaceful." Teppic win.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ffc4f65 | He was trying to conjure up a succubus." It should be impossible to leer when all you've got is a beak, but the parrot managed it. "That's a female demon what comes in the night and makes mad passionate wossn-" "I've heard of them," said Rincewind. "Bloody dangerous things." The parrot put its head on one side. "It never worked. All he ever got was a neuralger." | discworld humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 583a0fe | A screaming vampire is always the centre of attention. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0cf3098 | You Bastard was thinking: there seems to be some growing dimensional instability here, swinging from zero to nearly forty-five degrees by the look of it. How interesting. I wonder what's causing it? Let V equal 3. Let Tau equal Chi/4. cudcudcud Let Kappa/y be an Evil-Smelling-Bugger* (* Renowned as the greatest camel mathematician of all time, who invented a math of eight-dimensional space while lying down with his nostrils closed in a viol.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b85220b | The captain glared at him. The sergeant put on the poker face that has been handed down from NCO to NCO ever since one protoamphibian told another, lower-ranking protoamphibian to muster a squad of newts and Take That Beach. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 700082a | William groaned. It was Vimes. Worse, he was smiling, in a humourless predatory way. "Ah, Mr de Worde," he said, stepping inside. "There are several thousand dogs stampeding through the city at the moment. This is an interesting fact, isn't it?" He leaned against the wall and produced a cigar. "Well, I say dogs," he said, striking a match on Goodmountain's helmet. "Mostly dogs, perhaps I should say. Some cats. More cats now, in fact, 'cos, .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 24f8537 | I comma square bracket recruit's name square bracket comma... | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2f62029 | they wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to find a rhyme for "daffodil." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e1d5481 | The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b1b6fd7 | The R is the wrong way roond and you left the A and a Y out of Anybody,' said Jeannie, because it is a wife's job to stop her husband actually exploding with pride. 'Ach, wumman, I didna' ken which way the fat man wuz walkin',' said Rob, airly waving a hand. 'Ye canna trust the fat man. That's the kind of thing us nat'ral writin' folk knows about. One day he might walk this way, next day he might walk that way. | writing | Terry Pratchett | |
| 87b106e | Astfgl peered around through the swirling gas clouds. At least he was in the right place. The whole point about the end of the universe was that you couldn't go past it accidentally. The last few embers winked out. Time and space collided silently, and collapsed. Astfgl coughed. It can get so very lonely, when you're twenty million light-years from home. "Anyone there?" he said. YES. The voice was right by his ear. Even demon kings can shiv.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ca431b8 | REMIND ME AGAIN, he said, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE. | sarcasm | Terry Pratchett | |
| fb58198 | We (people) only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about. | humor lords-and-ladies parody terry-pratchett | Terry Pratchett | |
| c940d6e | What's this here," he said suspiciously, "about us got to give you faggots?" Oh, we have to have them," said Newt, "We burn them." Say what?" | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 45ee0d7 | Cheese runners shouted at it, tried to grab it, and flailed at it with sticks, but the piratical cheese scythed onward, reaching the bottom just ahead of the terrible carnage of men and cheeses as they piled up. Then it rolled back to the top and sat there demurely while still gently vibrating. At the bottom of the slope, fights were breaking out among the cheese jockeys who were still capable of punching somebody, and since everybody was w.. | horace-the-blue-cheese | Terry Pratchett | |
| 82697e3 | Inspirations sleet through the universe continuously. Their destination, as if they cared, is the right mind in the right place at the right time. They hit the right neuron, there's a chain reaction, and a little while later someone is blinking furiously in the TV lights and wondering how the hell he came up with the idea of pre-sliced bread in the first place. Leonard of Quirm knew about inspirations. One of his earliest inventions was an .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9e5523b | The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded. | Terry Pratchett |