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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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. | book dreams hero heroes old-man | 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. | destruction fire nihilism | 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. | fucking inhuman monster thing wrong | 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 | ||
| 1bcaf31 | Mm-hmm. You know, lip dye isn't a crime in this state. You ought to try it." "I've been kind of busy." "You're always kind of busy. You're not using the eye gel I gave you. You can't find a minute twice a day for eye gel? You want bags and wrinkles? You got the finest piece of man-candy on and off planet, and you want him looking at your face with bags and wrinkles? What are you going to do when he dumps you for a woman who takes time to ma.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 55fe1fd | It's so difficult for two shy people to manage. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 5090c1b | She thought she'd get out clean, but the foyer monitor blinked on as she reached for her jacket. "Going somewhere, Lieutenant?" "Jesus, Roarke, why not just knock me over the head with a blunt instrument. Keeping tabs on me?" "As often as possible. Wear your coat if you're going out. That jacket isn't warm enough for this weather." "I'm just going into Central for a couple of hours." "Wear the coat," he repeated, "and the gloves in the pock.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 4e9cf29 | He'd walked into her life, and everything had changed. He'd found her; she'd found him--and all those dark places inside both of them had gotten a little smaller, a little brighter. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 94d67e3 | Darling Eve!" The Irish was a bit more ripe in the voice, and no, the eyes not as stunningly blue. But Julian Cross hit the gorgeous mark, and moved well. In fact he moved straight to Eve, yanked her into a quick, hard kiss, with a hint of tongue. "Hey!" "I couldn't help it." The not-quite-blue-enough eyes twinkled at her. "I feel like we're close." "Think that again and they'll have to write a fat lip into your next scene." She caught Roar.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| ab812ab | I know love, and what it does to you, for you. I know that it can bloom out of friendship, or that friendship can open out of love. Both are precious. And when you have both, there's little that can't be done. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 14ad365 | Oh shit, oh shit, stupid shower present!" Now she did pull her hair as she made the dash to her office. Roarke sat in her visitor's chair, comfortably involved with his PPC. He glanced up, let loose a regretful sigh. "You changed. And I didn't have any time to ogle you in uniform." "I have to go shopping!" Staring at her, Roarke pressed his fingertips to his temple. "I'm sorry, I believe I must have had a small stroke. What did you .. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 26ccce8 | I wasn't going to have dessert, but it was right there, all gooey and sweet. It's like sex. I mean, when it's right there, what are you supposed to do? I wasn't going to have that either--sex--with my parents bunking in the office, but, well, it was right there." "I'll tolerate the gooey and sweet, Peabody, but I'm not thinking about you having sex with McNab, especially in the same sentence as 'my parents.'" "I think they had sex, too." Ev.. | eve-dallas peabody sex | J.D. Robb | |
| e433f8f | The music room's in the next wing. We can have coffee and brandy there." "I doubt we'd share the same taste in music, Roarke." "You might be surprised," he murmured, "at what we share." He touched her cheek again, this time sliding his hand around until it cupped the back of her neck. "At what we will share." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6710a2f | Peabody, with me." She waited until they were back in her office. "Don't hover over McNab like that." "Sir?" "You hover over him, you're going to make him think you're worried." "I am worried. The twenty-four-" "Worry all you want, dump on me if you need to. But don't let him see it. He's starting to fray, and he's trying hard not to show it. You try just as hard not to show it. If you need to vent, go out there on the kitchen terrace. Scre.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| e378788 | Neither of them knew what it was to be family, to have family, to make a family. They knew cruelty, abuse, abandonment. She wondered if that was why they had come together. They both understood what it was to have nothing, to know fear and hunger and despair- and both had remade themselves. | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| 059980e | Are you okay?" "I don't know. I have to think about it." Her head was still spinning. "We're on the lawn," she said slowly. "Our clothes are torn. I'm pretty sure I have the imprint of your fingers dented into my butt." "I did my best," he murmured. She snickered first, then chuckled, then broke into fits of giddy, hiccupping laughter. "Jesus, Roarke, Jesus Christ, look at us." "In a minute. I think I'm still partially blind." | J.D. Robb | ||
| c7c8d01 | Then we'd better stop her." Coating the hammering fear with calming ice, Roarke worked precisely. "I'm not losing my wife today. I need more shagging light here." | J.D. Robb | ||
| b4bae04 | Love, Eve thought, came in all colors, shapes, and sizes. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 459d83a | He's a fine young man, and one who loves you without restrictions. Finding a mate, a true one, is a rare and precious thing." And the heart of the heart, she thought. Yes, he'd found that, too. "I don't even know how it happened, but even when he pisses me off, I'm grateful every day it did." "The best possible description for a good marriage." | J.D. Robb |