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| d726131 | if we define Megaphone as it's clear that a significant and ascendant component of that voice has become bottom-dwelling, shrill, incurious, ranting, and agenda-driven. It strives to antagonize us, make us feel anxious, ineffective, and alone; convince us that the world is full of enemies and of people stupider and less agreeable than ourselves; is dedicated to the idea that, outside the sphere of our immediate experience, the world works.. | George Saunders | ||
| 50842e8 | I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart. | Robert Michael Pyle | ||
| f3704ca | But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d9314da | In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 903158e | That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is the heart. It's the heart that keeps us together. There's no place with people like my people, Lin. There's no heart like the Indian heart. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 055bf47 | Always have the strength to live. Love life, and if despair enters your heart, look for me in the evenings when the wind is gentle and the owls sing in the hills, I shall be with you- | Rudolfo A. Anaya | ||
| 50b6a71 | If time and the passage of events are the same, then time moves barely at all. If time and events are not the same, then it is only people who barely move. If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 1230277 | I'm sorry you want him," Matthew began in a careful tone, as if he was trying very hard to say the exact right thing to me. "I feel your heart--it actually aches. I wish it didn't, Evie. You cannot have him." I glared down at him. "Why would you say that?" "You don't want to be Arcana. But you are." He gazed up at me with those soulful eyes. "Jack's not." "So what are you, like, a card purist or something?" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8275cb8 | You think I'd stop with a kiss?" "You assume I'd want you to?" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 2d1f144 | What are you grinning about, wife?" I shrugged, all nonchalant. "I like your truck." "Good. Apparently, it's half yours." -- | Kresley Cole | ||
| 3d76f51 | Well I am young." Just as he felt a flicker of ease, she murmured in a sexy voice, "But, baby, I've been busy." | immortals-after-dark mariketa | Kresley Cole | |
| 747b904 | Should I have held them down and poured boiling water over them until they talked? Really, I'd like your expert advice. "Of course not. You would use boiling oil." | Kresley Cole | ||
| b416fc6 | Psst. Minion. I need these laundered. Very little starch. Don't just stand there gawking or you'll anger my good frenemy General Wroth. We're like this. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 673fc6d | When a deer bounded across the path, I cried, "Oh, look! Admit it, you paid to have that deer run in front of us. Come clean." Sounding furious, he said, "I cued the deer ten minutes ago. What kind of outfit are they running?" I burst out laughing, sinking back against him." | Kresley Cole | ||
| e615ee4 | The best way to get over a man is to get under an Italian. | Kresley Cole | ||
| a9aa5a2 | I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It's a talent of mine." - Lothaire" | Kresley Cole Lothaire | ||
| 0688bbe | Kill the unclean one!" Being called that was really getting old. Like it'd been funny the first two times . . ." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 4a1cf3f | Witches are good for one thing and only one thing. Tinder. Bowen Graeme MacRieve. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8c7d658 | I think the words you're searching for are 'Thank you, oh great and wonderful sorceress.' " He narrowed his eyes. "You saved me from falling now. If only you'd shown me the same consideration when I was a boy." "If only you'd warned my family that yours was coming over for tea and decapitation! What else have you got? I can do this all day!" | Kresley Cole | ||
| aad477e | Seductive Lamia observed, "Under your direction, La Dorada the Queen of Evil has arisen." "Dora and I are like this." Nix spread her arms wide. "Now, I'll be the first to admit she's not without faults. Very grumpy when she wakes up. And with Dora, it's always " | Kresley Cole | ||
| 29cff39 | Naturally, the first time Garreth encountered his mate--the one he'd awaited so long--she'd seen him calling his competitors pussies and playing by dirty rules. He was shirtless, well on his way to being drunk, and filthy with blood and mud. He wasn't even wearing shoes. And it probably appeared as if he'd been about to take part in an orgy. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 70c15c3 | I believe in times of adversity there's a line that is sometimes drawn, a line that separates your old life from your new. You cross the line, you'll never be the same. | fate life | Kresley Cole | |
| 8306e2f | And they just let you enter after their effort?" "What should they have done, Mr MacRieve?" "I know exactly what I would have done." "I know exactly how I would have retaliated." | mariketa | Kresley Cole | |
| 9605162 | All at once Mari understood why people fought losing battles --because if you want something badly enough, you can't do anything else but fight for it. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 375b484 | Horses have powerful legs- but that doesn't mean they're prima ballerinas. Elianna to Mariketa. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 520ba9c | I've wrought my family's destruction. Killed those I loved most, with my very touch. My dark precipice has been reached. I throw back my head and roar as recognition takes hold. I am Death... | death | Kresley Cole | |
| 724e6e3 | With your actions, you train others how to treat you. | Kresley Cole | ||
| d7da62f | Or she could command him to repeatedly stab himself in the dick. Then she'd run away as fast as she could manage--seeing as she would be laughing really hard. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 6545d53 | To both Holly and Cade, Tera said, "Then we part ways here, hopefully with peace still between us." Cade shrugged. "What's a few arrow wounds among friends, yeah?" With a wince, she said, "About those arrows, Cade. They were dipped in poison--" "Poison!" Cade bellowed. "Ah, come on, Tera!" -- | oops | Kresley Cole | |
| 50e9913 | There're three ways to get there from here, each one worse than the last. You can either hold your breath through the plague colonies, slip through Slaverville, or take the mountain route." Something flashed in his expression, something somber, which seemed out of place on his animated face. "That's where the cannibals really like to hole up." "You've seen them?" I asked. "Oh, yeah. And it's, like, totally worse than you can imagine. Their .. | humor | Kresley Cole | |
| 3355369 | A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts. | Robert Crais | ||
| 0328bc4 | The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. | Steve Cavanagh | ||
| 6bb7e3f | tSb lHywnt blmrD, w lkn lnsn fqT ymrD jdhryan animals get diseases, but only man falls radically into sickness. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| a037ce5 | We are all creatures of our upbringings, our cultures, our times. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8b6046f | What is more important for us, at an elemental level, than the control, the owning and operation, of our own physical selves? And yet it is so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8277351 | We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses -- secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -- equally vital, but unrecognised, and unlauded. These senses, unconscious, automatic, had to be discovered. | sixth-sense | Oliver Sacks | |
| b1a035f | Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy. | europe | Mark Mazower | |
| d297973 | Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say. | the-outsider | Colin Wilson | |
| 06564d1 | Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 1557448 | He was just head over ears in love, with a young woman as near as his hand and as remote as a star, and for the moment it was enough to be where she was. | Herman Wouk | ||
| deffa70 | The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece of wisdom that his climate of eternal summer teaches him. It is that, under all the parade of human effort and noise, today is like yesterday, and tomorrow will be like today; that existence is a wheel of recurring patterns from which no one escapes; that all anybody does in this life is live for a while and then die for g.. | existence life tropics west-indies summer modernity | Herman Wouk | |
| 72b57f0 | I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off. | Herman Wouk | ||
| d109e12 | I, personally, no longer take part in the ecstatic public condemnation of people unless they've committed a transgression that has an actual victim, and even then not as much as I probably should. I miss the fun a little. But it feels like when I became a vegetarian. I missed the steak, although not as much as I'd anticipated, but I could no longer ignore the slaughterhouse. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 2727053 | As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don't act like Blofeld--monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If y.. | Jon Ronson |