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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f833a9c | I bet you could catch bullets," she said, and threw the stick away. "How do you do that?" "By not being human," he said. "That's why you could never trick a bear. We see tricks and deceit as plain as arms and legs. We can see in a way humans have forgotten. But you know about this; you can understand the symbol reader." | iorek lyra trick | Philip Pullman | |
| e822025 | We all show false faces to the world, and a good thing too, for a hundred reasons. We should be consistent with our friends and lovers, so as not to be unkind. But if in your heart you are not kind, it's better to be false, to act kindly even if you don't feel it, because the deed is important and not the reason for it. That kind of falsity is the triumph of our civilization. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 13db13e | Everything about this is embarrassing" she said. "D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing." | good scientits | Philip Pullman | |
| 9111a40 | Turning to Turnip, Miss Dempsey said, 'Do you think?'. 'As little as I can,' Turnip replied honestly. | humor funny-quotes | Lauren Willig | |
| 953b571 | It is a truth universally acknowledged that time moves differently for men. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 37580be | For me, reading was adventure,but most of all, reading was escape- | Andrew E. Kaufman | ||
| d83892c | The editor will be an extension of your hand; the keys will sing as they slice their way through text and thought. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 34ba32f | They never fought about anything important. They never stole from each other, they never tried to sabotage each other's relationships, and if anyone dared to look at one of them the wrong way, the other one would be the first to charge to her sister's defense.But if one of them took the other's hairbrush and didn't clean it, it was World War III. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5e2cd0b | Arabella ran out of blackboard space, crouched, and began dividing on the floor. "This is what we get for teaching them Common Core," one of the arbiters said. "There is nothing wrong with Common Core," someone else said. Arabella" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2ff8051 | Also, your father." My eyes snapped open. "What about my father?" Roman blinked. "That was a bona fide snarl." Ascanio nodded, his eyes wide. "Yes, she gets scary sometimes. She's very difficult to work for." "I can imagine." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a78d4ed | On the seventh of May, Cerise Mar, Erian Mar, and Mikita Mar traveled to the aforementioned manor house and found Lagar Sheerile, Peva Sheerile, Arig Sheerile, and several men in their employ on the premises. Cerise Mar voiced a polite and a nonviolent request that they get the hell off our land, which was refused. | quarrel trial | Ilona Andrews | |
| dba8080 | What the hell is this?" Desandra asked. "This is Cuddles. She's a mammoth donkey." Derek grinned, leaning on the fence. "Do you have any self-respect left?" "Nope." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a58d3dd | The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bo.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 357987f | I slammed that door shut. Fix this mess first. Guilt, regret, and moaning later. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 84d1cfd | Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can't shoot." Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail? "I can shoot just fine." I just missed eighty percent of the time." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0dc4695 | True strength isn't in killing--or ignoring--your opponent, it's in having the will to shield those who need your protection. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 58257ea | Some things were constant in the universe. Two and two didn't always equal four, but every water-based species at some point had heated water and thrown some plants into it. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b59a6df | He gave me a feral grin. "Like what you see, dove?" "Nope." I hadn't had sex in eighteen months. Pardon me while I struggle with my hormone overload." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2a94fbf | Behind him Kaldar nudged Urow's youngest son. "Bet you he lasts at least thirty seconds." "Um..." Gaston looked at him. "No he won't." "Bet me something." "I don't have anything." Kaldar grimaced. "Pick up that rock." Gaston swiped the rock off the ground. "Now you have a rock. I bet this five bucks against your rock." Gaston grinned. "Deal." | gaston betting kaldar ilona-andrews the-edge william | Ilona Andrews | |
| d5a2dfd | Landon slid back into the driver's seat and pointed at my saber. "Put it away." ""Say the magic word." "Please," Landon squeezed out. I slid the blade back into the sheath and petted it. "It's okay, Sarrat. If he insults you, I'll cut his head off and you can drink his blood." -- | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4338ab3 | So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?' 'Exactly.' I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork. | kate-daniels werewolf urban-fantasy | Ilona Andrews | |
| 6a013cb | The vampire gagged. The muscles of its neck constricted, widened, constricted again, and it disgorged a six-inch-long metal cylinder onto my desk. The bloodsucker grasped it, twisted the cylinder's halves apart, and retrieved a roll of papers. "Photographs," Ghastek said, handing me a couple of sheets from the roll. "That's disgusting." "He is thirty years old," Ghastek said. "All his internal organs, with the exception of the heart, atroph.. | kate-daniels vampire | Ilona Andrews | |
| ab18b9a | Rage is a powerful thing. People get upset over many things. Frustrating jobs, small paychecks, bad hours. People want things; people feel humiliated by others who have the things they want; people feel deprived and powerless. All this gives fuel to rage. The anger builds and builds and if there is no outlet for it, pretty soon it transforms the person. They walk around like a loaded gun, ready to go off if only they could find the right ta.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 086f748 | Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity had touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim had sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a69c56f | I'm in a Disney movie. - Augustine | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d8f489d | The next time I went anywhere with Mad Rogan, I'd bring one of those bandoliers action stars wore when they routed terrorists from jungles. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b2fead5 | No. Besides, if you can't trust an ice giant driving a creeper van with a dead body inside, who can you trust? | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d28485c | First, it took both of us to kill that thing, and if it reinvents itself again, it will take both of us again. I'm not leaving you alone with it. Second, if you try to physically carry me to the car, I will resist and bleed more. Third, you can possibly stuff me in the car against my will, but you can't make me drive." He snarled. "Argh! Why don't you ever do anything I ask you to?" "Because you don't ask. You tell me." We glared at each ot.. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| e727547 | Grandma pointed her fork at me. "Just watch. Fate will throw you two together. One day you'll just run right into him and boom! True love." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cda031b | You don't do subtle. Your subtle is pulling a kick so you don't kill a man with it, just break his bones. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3b81161 | Sometimes I jump on the table and kick people in the face, but I'm always civil about it. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7cc3bbe | Every time you see a problem and walk away from it, you set a new standard. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5faac91 | Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair . . . Wait a damn minute. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 969abb9 | One time I was dying in a cage inside a palace that was flying over a magic jungle. And some idiot went in there, chased the palace down, fought his way through hundreds of rakshasas, and rescued me." "I remember," he said. "That's when I realized you loved me," I said. "I was in the cage and I heard you roar." | romance love | Ilona Andrews | |
| 3d7937e | Doolittle nodded to one of his assistants. The short, slight woman approached Roman's cot. "We're going to put you in your own private room." "Is this a code for killing me?" Roman asked. "Because I won't be easy to take down." Roman the Volhv)))" | ilona-andrews roman | Ilona Andrews | |
| ba11609 | Me Kate. You Tarzan?" "No." Curran bared his teeth at me. "In the first book, he grabs a lion by the tail and pulls it. Never gonna happen. First, an adult male lion weights five hundred pounds. Second, you grab my tail, I'll turn around and take your face off." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 503033e | If you decide to join up with me, I want it to be because you're making a rational choice, not because you've been pushed by passion or despair. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 1bca137 | Le bonheur est la poesie des femmes. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 4eaeb28 | Behind every fortune lies a great crime. --HONORE DE BALZAC | Kevin Kwan | ||
| ac80662 | How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer. | manipulation life-philosophy | Honoré de Balzac | |
| cf6d8a9 | for she was invaded by a kind of love which every girl has gone through --the love of the unknown, love in its vaguest form, | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 7af8cbe | Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be...herpes. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| f835510 | But did he go to heaven?" Katherine persisted. "That's between him and God, not him and history," JB said. Alex started, jerking so spastically that he kicked the basketball and would have sent it spinning out into the street if Chip hadn't caught it. Amazingly, Chip still seemed to have a swordsman's quick reflexes. "YOU believe in God?" Alex asked JB incredulously. "But you know how to travel through time. You're a scientist." He hesitat.. | religion science religion-and-science | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| a3922ce | The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy. | Margaret Peterson Haddix |