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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc02e10 | Yes, Kat, I really want to get married." "In a towel?" His head tipped back, and he let out a deep laugh. "Maybe I'll put some clothes on." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 34e79e1 | Only a handful of minutes ago, I'd seen the outline of her pass in front of the windows. Sadly, she was completely clothed. | spying | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| c65fd63 | So damn beautiful that it sometimes kills me a little each time I look at you. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0bc8ee5 | You have your arrogance now, like all Luxen. But where will your arrogance be when we absorb your powers?" "In the same place as my foot," Daemon replied, hands balling into fists. The leader looked confused. "You know, as in up your ass." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f94ac8c | Many men wanted to be with her for her beauty and her rank. But she wanted an equal. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 3fa15e1 | The son of a bitch blew up my laptop. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 77e6068 | I spend more time being confused than not," I answered." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 43e767d | Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War. | Max Brooks | ||
| cf3c6b5 | because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were." | Max Brooks | ||
| a4311f2 | That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one. | war | Max Brooks | |
| cf07569 | But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? Will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves? By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kinds of personal detachment from a history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? | Max Brooks | ||
| 0d564b9 | You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler" | Max Brooks | ||
| 354e6b2 | The time traveller proceeded, "any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thicknessa and Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimentions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time." | H.G. Wells | ||
| 02dafac | It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller." -- | the-time-machine the-time-traveller | H.G. Wells | |
| 8161539 | Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. | words literature writing fonts typeface typography power letters | H.G. Wells | |
| 67259c3 | You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires. | H.G. Wells | ||
| c8d6661 | we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 760052d | We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts. | Stephen King | ||
| 116afea | There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live. | hope | H.G. Wells | |
| 54a0097 | But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does. | Darren Shan | ||
| fe22a5b | But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you an orphan. If you choose to take my life as a payment for theirs, you will be within your rights and no vampire will hold it against you. Pass judgment on me, Gavner Purl, and let your hand rise or fall as destiny decides it must." -Larten Crepsley" | larten-crepsely palace-of-the-damned vampires | Darren Shan | |
| bb1359d | So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it. | Darren Shan | ||
| c4a292e | In the beginning Grubbs created the heavens and the earth, and everything was dark. Then Grubbs said, 'Let there be light!'" And there was light. " | Darren Shan | ||
| 8e7e6f1 | I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read. | heroes dreams old-man book hero | Rodman Philbrick | |
| 3d85565 | I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain. | nihilism fire destruction | Rodman Philbrick | |
| a2324bd | I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 8984d7d | Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 5ac7e00 | It is culture that is the bully. | philosophy sociology | Sharon Lee and Steve Miller | |
| 66b50a3 | Captain, the problem is not that I'm paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia. | John Scalzi | ||
| 16a5681 | If you're the best that the Earth has got to offer, it's time we bend over and get a tentacle right up the ass. | John Scalzi | ||
| 100ae02 | I'm a monster. You're a monster. We're fucking inhuman monsters, and we don't see a damned thing wrong with it. | wrong inhuman thing monster fucking | John Scalzi | |
| 1d32b67 | Is it a shark made of ice?" Hanoen asked. "Or a shark that lives in ice?" | John Scalzi | ||
| f674c8c | This brings up yet another, far more important misconception: that being comically generative and having a sense of humor are one and the same thing. The former is among the least important things in the world, while the latter is among the most. One is a handy social tool, the other an integral component of human survival. It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does. | David Rakoff | ||
| d0f24dd | I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect. | Tucker Max | ||
| 6521b31 | We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort--other people's validation, recognition, rewards. So what are we going to do? Not be kind, not work hard, not produce, because there is a chance it wouldn't be reciprocated? C'mon. Think of all the activists who will find that they can only advance their cause so far. The leaders who are assassinated before their work is done. The inventors whose ideas languish "ahead of .. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 86bf3bc | Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. --VIKTOR FRANKL | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 37b7fa2 | In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its confusion. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0d2e5ff | Increasingly at Southern airports, instead of a "good-bye" or "thank-you," cashiers are apt to say, "Have a blessed day." This can make you feel like you've been sprayed against your will with God cologne. "Get it off me!" I always want to scream. "Quick, before I start wearing ties with short-sleeved shirts!" -- | David Sedaris | ||
| 165bce4 | Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead." -- | Erik Larson | ||
| e03b8b7 | How could you beat an enemy you couldn't see? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9603d60 | That," she says, "was never here before." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0d754f8 | My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 8701769 | It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 7bc4d3f | People seem to believe that despair is the same as anguish, but it is not. It's true that despair is surrounded by anguish, but at its core, despair is a silent, blank page. | Elizabeth Kostova |