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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1951a81 | So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of. | noir | Dashiell Hammett | |
| ecc048c | She stared at him dully and said: "I don't like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn't like you." She turned to the outer door." | crooks dames dashiell-hammet men the-thin-man women | Dashiell Hammett | |
| c654490 | A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help. | survive universe volunteer | Norman Maclean | |
| 8b1d715 | If he comes back," she nodded. I thought I saw tears in her eyes but I was mistaken. In all my life, I was never to see her cry. And also he was never to come back. Without interrupting each other, we both said at the same time, "Let's never get out of touch with each other." And we never have, although her death has come between us." | Norman Maclean | ||
| b5cb958 | Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 31ebb30 | I told you, we haven't had sex! It was just a kiss." Like the Viper was just a car, and Mount Everest was just a hill." | Linda Howard | ||
| 3954e60 | He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care. | Linda Howard | ||
| 3141164 | God, I love you," he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. "It took you long enough," she said gently. "What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power." "Meaning?" | Linda Howard | ||
| 6e39cee | But love doesn't always generate hope. Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much love or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water--the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it. | love | Kevin Brockmeier | |
| c1d8a29 | Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn. | Kevin Brockmeier | ||
| 0f6702e | The past is another country, but the Seventies is another planet. | Mark Steyn | ||
| 16f48a1 | We can't find the cat, We don't know where she's at, Oh, where did she go? Does anyone know? Let's ask this walking hat. | poem | Shel Silverstein | |
| 26a8da7 | Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know. | queen-betsy | MaryJanice Davidson | |
| ce054b2 | Touch my things again, whether I'm dead or not, and I'll kick your ass up into your shoulder blades. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| 3e1ed88 | I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| b41d274 | For so long, I've only had one-sided feelings for other people. I've completely forgotten how good it feels to be loved. | Hinako Takanaga | ||
| b16ca4f | He grinned. "That's because pixies are ever-after. We're magic, baby. Just ask Matalina." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 2a25a5f | They weren't idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 780e33f | Piscary killed people, but he didn't have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3f08566 | Kisten, please don't leave me," I begged, and his eyes opened. "I'm cold," he said, fear rising in his blue eyes. I held him tighter. "I'm holding you. It's going to be okay." | white-witch | Kim Harrison | |
| 92b511f | I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him," I said, waving an arm. "I'll sneak in. I'll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!" -- | Kim Harrison | ||
| 9c8464a | I'd given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died--finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 22e8f06 | Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1a0459f | How many mistakes can one life survive? | Kim Harrison | ||
| 89b9923 | Good God," I whispered, sitting on the van's cot and looking at my legs, horrified. They were hairy--not wolf hairy, but an I-couldn't-find-my-razor-the-last-six-months hairy. Utterly grossed out, I took a peek at my armpit, jerking away. Oh, that's just...nasty." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 6487b3d | Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 07db208 | He darted a guilty look toward his dad. "Will you--get me a bottle of spicy?" My eyes jerked to his. "Maybe some barbecue sauce?" I closed my mouth before a bug flew into it. "Sure." I did not believe this. I was pimping ketchup to the son of the FIB's captain." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 109a0d1 | Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it. | Kim Harrison | ||
| a2eb8a1 | Was using "dead-man's-toe" morally okay if the man's relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 63c61b4 | Tell me where you want it," I said. Minias drew back, his purple robes shifting about his ankles. "You're asking me?" "Well, unless you want a big R on your forehead." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 76c8927 | Demon summoning wasn't illegal, but my foot in their gut a couple of times might convince them it was a really bad idea. | Kim Harrison | ||
| b396752 | Get your hand off me," I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. "I'm a professional, not some distraught girlfriend." Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3097ceb | The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 947540c | Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence? | Kim Harrison | ||
| fd727fa | Rachel," came a raspy voice from the upper level, and both Trent and I turned. It was Quen, wrapped in a blanket as if it was a death shroud, the black-haired intern at his side, supporting him. His hair was plastered to his skull with sweat, and I could see him wavering as he stood there. "Don't touch Trenton," he said, his gravelly voice clear in the hush, "or I'm going to have to come down there...and smack you around." | Kim Harrison | ||
| d8ae2ff | because children should have the chance to be loved by those who love them--always and no matter what. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3c9e884 | Soon the cold would force them inside, so they clutched at lost summer. | Annette Curtis Klause | ||
| 15e985f | Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 7e56f19 | Anhamirak, abandon and freedom. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 96d7cdd | People reveal as much by their silence as they do by what they say. | silence-speaks | Sandra Brown | |
| 1a89ac3 | He also knew that whenever he recalled her kissing his cheek with such unqualified trust and acceptance, it was going to ache just a little in the vicinity of his heart. It ached now. | lee-coburn | Sandra Brown | |
| 579e334 | If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper might have used the word , as if a mountain range had opened inside her, but instead it used the word , a light coming on in an empty room. The telephone fell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeating a sunday, dusky. If it had been , we could have cradled her as she grew smaller, wiped her mouth, said good-bye. But it was , how overnight we could be orphaned | dying | Nick Flynn | |
| 28da5cb | It's humbling to become the very thing you once mocked. | cool-girl gone-girl | Gillian Flynn | |
| 9ff5ecb | I take a giant breath, roll my anger up into a red rubber ball, and mentally kick it out into space. | Gillian Flynn |