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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e6eda0a | They sometimes forgot what happened if you let a pawn get all the way up the board. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2c892f8 | That was how it worked. No magic at all. But that time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c543160 | He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can read and write start fighting for those who can't, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open. | library reading ricewind writing | Terry Pratchett | |
| f3f50c0 | Mort remembered the woodcut in his grandmother's almanack, between the page on planting times and the phases of the moon section, showing Dethe thee Great Levyller Comes To Alle Menne. He'd stared at it hundreds of times when learning his letters. It wouldn't have been half so impressive if it had been generally known that the flame-breathing horse the specter rode was called Binky. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b5743b0 | Newt had always suspected that people who regularly used the word "community" were using it in a very specific sense that excluded him and everyone he knew." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a51fd8e | In a well-organized world he might have landed on a fire escape, but the fire escapes were unknown in Ankh-Morpork and the flames generally had to leave via the roof. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1d380b5 | Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time. | humor parallel-universe time | Terry Pratchett | |
| d9a2d34 | There were actual people in the world whose idea of heaven would be a chocolate cat. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e8d4839 | Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy," said Granny, glaring at the sky. "But you can't make 'em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin' their heads off as soon as they say 'I do', yes? You can't make happiness..." Granny Weatherwax stared at the distant city. "All you can do," she said, "is make an ending." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a4d9a76 | So, instead, I give tips on how to be a professional boxer. A good diet is essential, of course, as is a daily regime of exercise. Pay attention to your footwork, it will often get you into trouble. Go down to the gym every day - every day of your life that finds you waking up capable of standing. Take every opportunity to watch a good professional fight. In fact watch as many bouts as you can, because you can even learn something from the .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2f509e5 | Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 14261c6 | No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bcf2303 | What's magic, eh? Just wavin' a stick an' sayin' a few wee magical words. An' what's so clever aboot that, eh? But lookin' at things, really lookin' at 'em, and then workin' 'em oout, now, that's a real skill. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fbe0eb9 | Everybody present laughed nervously, except Lord Vetinari, who just laughed. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5060585 | Mistress Weatherwax is the head witch, then, is she?' 'Oh no!' said Miss Level, looking shocked. 'Witches are all equal. We don't have things like head witches. That's quite against the spirit of witchcraft.' 'Oh, I see,' said Tiffany. 'Besides,' Miss Level added, 'Mistress Weatherwax would never allow that sort of thing. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1cc3b03 | I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| f461883 | You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him. | storytelling | Juliet Marillier | |
| b0b106a | This is a--a proposal of marriage?" he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth, something I had never seen before. "I suppose so," I said, blushing again. "And, as you see, I'm doing it properly, on my knees." "This would, however, be a partnership of equals you're offering, I imagine?" "Undoubtedly." (448-49)" | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 3a9e891 | You are the blood in my veins, and the beating of my heart. You are my first waking thought, and my last sigh before sleeping. You are - you are bone of my bone, and breath of my breath. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 9282e42 | Death is final. The felling of trees is final. What we ask of you is simply the recognition of change, Jena. Yours is a world of constant change. You must learn to change, too. You spend a great deal of time worrying about others: trying to put their lives right, trying to shape your world as you believe it should be. You must learn to trust your instincts, or you are doomed to spend your life blinded by duty while beside you a wondrous tre.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 5818286 | There is no place here for softness. Let folk in too close and you offer them up as weapons for your own destruction. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 0360f73 | The worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idealizes or deplores. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| a36d2ad | not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one that put it there. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| dd448c8 | Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday. | teaching | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 31eb684 | Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 6986bdd | I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| f754773 | I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ce82c2d | In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ef122bb | Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. | the-time-traveler-s-wife | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 14513c9 | Sometimes I am glad when Henry's gone, but I am always glad when he come's back | love | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| a127599 | I think experienced makes me sound like an aging hooker. | Susan Mallery | ||
| cde0015 | Pepper spray," he said, lightly touching her back. "Give it a second." "Pepper spray?" "You were a casualty of your own rescue." He pointed and she turned to look at the scene behind her. Over a dozen old ladies were beating the man with their purses and dousing him with pepper spray. Several police officers hovered nearby, as if they couldn't get close enough to help the guy. They didn't look like they were trying very hard. "What kind of .. | Susan Mallery | ||
| b96eaee | How lovely." The old lady sighed. "An office romance. I always wanted an office romance. Of course I never really had a job, which made the situation more challenging. Oh, I worked on an assembly line during World War II, but there weren't very many men around and as my husband was off serving his country, an office romance would have been unpatriotic, don't you think?--Mrs. Ford" | Susan Mallery | ||
| b9c7903 | I didn't want to hurt you," she blurted. "I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you." | Susan Mallery | ||
| c4ceedd | I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother's death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her back. All that blind, infantile hunger to save and be saved, to repeat the past and make it different, had somehow attached itself, ravenously, to her. There was an instability in it, a sickness. I was seeing things that weren't there. I was only one step away f.. | delusion delusional delusional-love frustration grief hope hopeless hunger loner loss misery obsession past reality relationship save sickness stalking unreal unrequited-love waste | Donna Tartt | |
| 464609d | With distaste, Harriet reflected upon how life had beaten down the adults she knew, every single grown-up. Something strangled them as they grew older, made them doubt their own powers-laziness? Habit? Their grip slackened; they stopped fighting and resigned themselves to what happened. "That's Life." That's what they all said. "That's Life, Harriet, that's just how it is, you'll see." | Donna Tartt | ||
| ccec773 | Beauty is terror. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 4a35eab | The group mind was such (private jokes and bemusement, everyone clustered round vacation videos on the iPhone) that it was hard to imagine any of them going to a movie by themselves or eating alone at a bar; sometimes, the affable sense of committee among the men particularly gave me the slight feeling of being interviewed for a job. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3ff4e89 | It wasn't the kind of thing you could ask but still I wanted to know. Did she have nightmares too? Crowd fears? Sweats and panics? Did she ever have the sense of observing herself from afar, as I often did, as if the explosion had knocked my body and my soul into two separate entities that remained about six feet apart from one another? Her gust of laughter had a self-propelling recklessness I knew all too well from wild nights with Boris, .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 2732bd3 | even when I couldn't see it I liked knowing it was there for the depth and solidity it gave things, the reinforcement to infrastructure, an invisible, bedrock rightness that reassured me just as it was reassuring to know that far away, whales swam untroubled in Baltic waters and monks in arcane time zones chanted ceaselessly for the salvation of the world. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 199faf3 | Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes. | attraction beauty idealism love | Donna Tartt | |
| 54d563a | You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events. ("Lover When You're Near Me")" | jaded | Richard Matheson | |
| 51bd5ef | Rich meant that this room with three beds and a table and chairs and a window filled with glass was something to say sorry for. | Naomi Novik | ||
| f109949 | Do none of you ever ?' I asked, baffled. 'And how do keep from getting all over mud?" she said. We both looked down. I was a good two inches deep in mud along all the bottom of today's skirt: bigger around than a wagon-wheel and made of purple velvet and silver lace. 'I don't,' I said glumly." | Naomi Novik |