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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 91a2c80 | Sunflowers and seashells and logarithmic spirals (said Kerewin); sweep of galaxies and the singing curve of the universe (said Kerewin); the oscilating wave thrumming in the nothingness of every atom's heart (said Kerewin); did you think I could build a square house? So the round shell house holds them all in its spiralling embrace. Noise and riot, peace and quiet, all is music in this sphere. | Keri Hulme | ||
| 528d838 | The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks. | life parenthood | John Updike | |
| cb3931e | The moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing a mote of sunlight. | John Cheever | ||
| ce048fb | If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 475a2c5 | To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real? | reading reality novel | Orhan Pamuk | |
| a183575 | The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| f6d740d | But now, my dear, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| e80efdd | Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them. | relationships | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 9bc3dc3 | And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs." | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 0a5e7bb | Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 538a77b | Let your love flow out on all living things. | William Styron | ||
| 6adac06 | I had now reached that phase of the disorder where all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity; my brain, in thrall to its outlaw hormones, had become less an organ of thought than an instrument registering, minute by minute, varying degrees of its own suffering. | William Styron | ||
| 0038261 | the important thing is not to point a finger at flaws but to attempt to correct them! | Bebe Moore Campbell | ||
| ae77bce | the shame is in not improving when you have the opportunity! | Bebe Moore Campbell | ||
| 579a822 | I have never heard of the Wife Project. But I'm about to. In detail.' 'Of course,' I said. 'But we should time-share it with pizza-consumption and beer-drinking.' 'Of course,' said Rosie | Graeme Simsion | ||
| ef5a802 | I am able to hug Rosie. This was the issue that caused me the most fear after she agreed to live with me. I generally find body contact unpleasant, but sex is an obvious exception. Sex solved the body contact problem. We are now also able to hug without having sex, which is obviously convenient at times. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 367c768 | I have heard the word 'stunning' used to describe women, but this was the first time I had actually been stunned by one. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| de138ff | I haven't really noticed," I told the most beautiful woman in the world." | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 927362a | It is generally accepted that people enjoy surprises: hence the traditions associated with Christmas, birthdays, and anniversaries. In my experience, most of the pleasure accrues to the giver. The victim is frequently under pressure to feign, at short notice, a positive response to an unwanted object or unscheduled event. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 7c6c064 | Let's just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting menages a trios... and menages a quartre, and menages a ... whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 3dedec0 | I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| c0b9222 | I spend four years chasing the guy of my dreams, finally get him, and now I have to compete with a gorgeous, twenty-year-old supernatural sex fiend. ~Jaime Vegas | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| adb0845 | She hasn't been on a date in six months,' Derek rumbled behind us. 'No offense, but as long as you aren't related to her, you're fair game. Hell, even-' Tori spun on him. 'I didn't know. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| aa6c26a | Tell me when you want to pick it up again." "Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight." "I'll do that. Lunch?" | humour love elena | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 318ed9b | Dah-lin. | sexy | Kelley Armstrong | |
| b33b01e | Canada?" Ash said. "You didn't say it was in Canada. "I said Ontario." (Maya) "I thought you meant Ontario, California." "Seriously?" Tori said,rolling her eyes. "A helicopter to California? You may be hot,but your sister clearly inherited all the brains in the family." "Did she call me hot?" Ash whispered to me, looking more annoyed than he ever did when someone called him a jerk. "She hasn't been on a date in six months", Derek rumbled be.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 0202b66 | so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 8a1964e | The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony. | humour | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 0436f07 | While his three eldest sons spent their adult lives toiling to improve the family fortunes, who had Benicio named as his heir? The illegitimate youngest son who had devoted adult life to destroying the family business, or at least buggering it up real good. Does this make sense to anyone besides Benicio? Of course not. Either the man is a mastermind of family manipulation or just plain fucked in the head. I don't use that word much, but i.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 5a3e360 | His voice sounded the same, now so familiar that I could follow the beat in my head, predicting each change of tone, each note of accentuation. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| e48c6dc | No life is easy. It's just a different kind of hard. | rayne | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 0ed7c01 | Is that a no?" I said. "No. I mean.." He struggled for the smile again. "I'm just waiting for the punch line. Something about making it date so I need to pay. Or you expecting flowers. Or.." He trailed off. "There isn't a punch line," I said. I rose onto my knees and inched over, in front of him. Then I stopped about a foot away. "No punch line, Daniel," I said. "I'm asking if you'll go out with me." He didn't answer. Just reched out, his .. | moment | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 341da4e | Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts... | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| b0ee35a | From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms. | time worms wanting unhappy unicorn forest restless restlessness leaving peace unicorns | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 9545411 | Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. | poets | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 3190738 | We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back --most of them-- and the rich take from us because they could wipe us out in a day. | robin-hood last-unicorn outlaws peter-s-beagle | Peter S. Beagle | |
| 6558725 | There are people,' he said, 'who give, and there are people who take. There are people who create, people who destroy, and people who don't do anything and drive the other two kinds crazy. It's born in you, whether you give or take, and that's the way you are. Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it. We'd much rather be eagles, or swans, or even one of those moronic robins, but we're ravens and ther.. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| eb3e5e9 | I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better. | coward lazy | Peter S. Beagle | |
| cad752e | He had to hate them, to move the smothering shroud of hatred from himself to them. He closed the door of his room behind him, and almost snatched the drink from under the bed. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 599f4c7 | ethicalities aside, | Jim Thompson | ||
| ea8da9f | Once one survives the trough that comes with the understanding that people are going to go on being stupid and cruel to each other no matter what, probably for ever - if one survives; many people choose suicide at this point instead - then one starts to take the attitude, Oh well, never mind. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| e7529e5 | A flock of butterflies riots in my stomach and steals my breath. | love | Stephenie Meyer | |
| d5a6811 | I couldn't get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| dc54721 | It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London. | Stephenie Meyer |