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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 037e821 | People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money. | Christopher Bram | ||
| cdeb219 | When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels. After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky. | monsters responsibilities | David Eagleman | |
| bf1c5fd | Will you calm down for a minute, you psycho chicken, and tell me what the hell is going on? | Sarah Mayberry | ||
| ce7f56d | When one had once suffered a great hurt, there was always a weakness afterward, a vulnerability where there had been wholeness and strength before - and innocence. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 3bc5fe1 | No time is really wasted unless one never learns the lessons that it offers. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 0f095c1 | I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 6f87319 | It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people at different times and under different circumstances and influences. And always growing, always creating themselves anew. How impossible it was to know another human being. How impossible to know even oneself. | different grow | Mary Balogh | |
| 695cd22 | He offered his arm and she took it. And the world was the same place. And forever different. | Mary Balogh | ||
| f913622 | How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 79a85e7 | We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow. | Mary Balogh | ||
| b622c42 | There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason? | reason | Mary Balogh | |
| dd8a692 | The trouble with running away is that you must always take yourself with you. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 4f47b8c | I do not admire greatness that has no substance. | substances | Mary Balogh | |
| d89c1af | And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love. | marry | Mary Balogh | |
| 7a84b28 | Don't be afraid, be terrified | humor | Christopher Pike | |
| 0dcdc78 | We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's t.. | esoterica healing spirituality | Christopher Pike | |
| 80f1103 | Before, you were only a dream. Now you're a dream come true | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| 71128a3 | His lips nuzzled her ear. "Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die," he whispered." | conquest gelina lady teresa-medeiros | Teresa Medeiros | |
| c1e809c | Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 461e373 | I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 965851d | It is said that one should keep one's allies within view, and one's enemies within reach. A valid statement. One must be able to read an ally's strengths, so as to determine how to best use them. One must similarly be able to read his enemy's weaknesses, so as to determine how to best defeat him. But what of friends? | star-wars thrawn | Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Thrawn | |
| c04a9b1 | Those who ask for mercy," he answered coldly, "are too weak to deserve it." | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 994ad0e | The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) | Rutger Bregman | ||
| c407397 | So this is how liberty dies," she was saying to herself. "With cheering, and applause." | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| 9451be3 | There's one kind of writing that's always easy: Picking out something obviously stupid and reiterating how stupid it obviously is. This is the lowest form of criticism, easily accomplished by anyone. And for most of my life, I have tried to avoid this. In fact, I've spend an inordinate amount of time searching for the underrated value in ostensibly stupid things. I understand Turtle's motivation and I would have watched Medelin in the theat.. | writing | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 000e878 | First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 05edcba | I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come." | future humor soccer sports | Chuck Klosterman | |
| d79500d | Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode. | Rachel Cohn & David Levithan | ||
| d8dfd71 | Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too? | ya | Rachel Cohn | |
| 9d9a88e | Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| ad9be9f | It's hard to show you that I tried unless you end up succeeding. | truth-of-life trying | Rachel Cohn David Levithan | |
| 8aadbff | How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed...connection? | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 01c1dcf | The first person I think of when I wake up in the morning, the last person I hope for when I fall asleep at night. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 3aefab0 | Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it." - Dash" | distance long-distance-relationships love | Rachel Cohn | |
| 3fd55da | I mean, they're only the best punk band out there right now, named for the fucking apathy of a xenophobic fucking nation oblivious to the fucking terror its leaders wreak on the rest of the world because they're too busy worrying if their cat might be stuck up a tree or something. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 6dd20e7 | Falling in love is sudden, easy, and fun. It's like a child going down a playground slide. Falling out of love is slow, difficult, and painful. It's like watching a child die of cancer. ~ Ben Davis, Sr. | falling-in-love falling-out-of-love love | Jayden Hunter | |
| 2348aac | And Stormgren hoped that when Karellen was free to walk once more on Earth, he would one day come to these northern forests, and stand beside the grave of the first man to be his friend. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| c0730b2 | The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. "You are a fighter." ""Yes. Always. And sometimes I'm a whole army." | J.R. Ward | ||
| b39dc0b | Fuuuuuuck......No'One.... | no-one tohr | J.R. Ward | |
| 8414f01 | Humans: Nature's remedy for an otherwise good time. | J.R. Ward | ||
| a2a4961 | Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds back. I hope...I believe it is because he wishes to mate me properly first, in ceremony." | J.R. Ward | ||
| ecda002 | Rhage's stare narrowed, but he refused to look at the angel. "Isn't there a Saved by the Bell marathon you have to go watch?" "Don't hate on Zack. He's like your little fucking brother, beauty queen." Lassiter wandered over, the gold he had on creating an aura around his blond-and-black head and his long body--or maybe the glow actually was an aura." -- | J.R. Ward | ||
| 574e663 | Well, too bad, boys--life wasn't an epi of Doctor Who. And you know what? | J.R. Ward | ||
| 62412f2 | The mind...the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone. | J.R. Ward |