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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7348c85 | I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but I could hear it beckoning to me, like a mermaid on a rock." -- Michelle Tea, "Paris: A Lie" | anthology clint-catalyst editors experimental first-person-narrative lgbt-literature michelle-tea queer | Clint Catalyst and MIchelle Tea | |
| b684a94 | Wait a minute. You expect me to stay overnight in a house with four single men? Sean grinned. We're perfect gentlemen, Kim. Everyone knows that. Don't let us worry you. I'm not worried about my reputation, I'm worried about the state of the bathrooms. | liam-morrisey | Jennifer Ashley | |
| 2911772 | You are very cross tonight, Hart. Perhaps the lady disappointed you." Hart stared at her over the glass he'd started to raise. "What lady?" "The one whose perfume you positively reak of." His brows went up."You mean the Countess von Hohenstahlen? She's eighty-two and drenches herself in scents that would make a tart blush. "Oh." | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| b04c1a2 | if you want witnesses then I am one and I can tell you now, when you say that he redeemed the world, I will say that it was not worth it. It was not worth it. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 4b261e0 | But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone. | Sara Gruen | ||
| cff3a95 | The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. The Roanokes are rich like pharoahs and crazier'n a snake-fucking baby. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 808ae97 | You know what this is? - Nope - It's a bowel disruptor. And you are just full of shit. | Warren Ellis | ||
| ce4dbfa | Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it, | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 9ba8a91 | I repeat, 'I am strong, able and calm. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 078c6a3 | Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 76b0b87 | A mistake is only a mistake if you make it twice. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| f91ec18 | Companies that are made up of clusters of leaders will actually accelerate their growth by speeding up their rate of innovation as their competition pulls back, build better teams by investing in people while their rivals shrink training budgets, and pick up top talent as their industry peers lay people off. And so fast companies get that unsettling times are actually gifts for them and periods to get so far ahead of the competition that th.. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| b630825 | If you want to experience love, then you have to be ready for pain. One doesn't come without the other. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't have to worry about losing you. If you want laughter, expect tears. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 8a38f79 | There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 134c7eb | I'm paraphrasing, but basically Sherlock warned that you should never theorize before you have the facts because then you twist the facts to suit the theory instead of twisting the theory to suit the facts. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 72a506a | An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 72e0f73 | There should have been a dark whisper in the wind. Or maybe a deep chill in the bone. Something. An ethereal song only Elizabeth or I could hear. A tightness in the air. Some textbook premonition. There are misfortunes we almost expect in life--what happened to my parents, for example--and then there are other dark moments, moments of sudden violence that alter everything. There was my life before the tragedy. There is my life now. The two .. | Harlan Coben | ||
| 8dae86d | He truly believed that no one could love him, and no matter who you are, that hurts. It made you insecure. It made you want to hide and build fences | love | Harlan Coben | |
| edf8c1a | This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good. | John D. MacDonald | ||
| c902781 | Men--' said Miss Williams, and stopped. As a rich property owner says 'Bolsheviks'--as an earnest Communist says 'Capitalists!'--as a good housewife says 'Blackbeetles'--so did Miss Williams say 'Men! | Agatha Christie | ||
| 12452a3 | n l'Tfl mkhlwqt SGyr@ Gryb@, dh t`rDw lkhwf rhyb fnhm l ytHdthwn `nh, w l sym dh knw l yfhmwn mSdr r`bhm. nhm ydfnwn khwfhm byn jwrHhm, w rbm bd 'nhm nswh w lkn dhkrh tbq~ hnk fy '`mq nfwshm. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 869e4cf | These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble. | humour poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| 3d7b09e | So you think that the coco- mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco- contained strychnine?" "Of course! That salt on the tray, what else could it have been?" "It might have been salt." replied Poirot placidly." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 28f730d | It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly." -- | Agatha Christie | ||
| a765f02 | You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence? | humor | Agatha Christie | |
| 2239cb4 | Was bad language used?" asked Colonel Melchett. "It depends on what you call bad language." "Could you understand it?" I asked. "Of course I could understand it." "Then it couldn't have been bad language," I said. Mrs. Price Ridley looked at me suspiciously. "A refined lady," I explained, "is naturally unacquainted with bad language." | lady | Agatha Christie | |
| d1919d8 | A sound of laughter was heard-they turned sharply. Vera Claythorne was standing in the yard. She cried out in a high shrill voice, shaken with wild bursts of laughter: "Do they keep bees on this island? Tell me that. Where do we go for honey? Ha! ha!" They stared at her uncomprehendingly. It was as though the sane well-balanced girl had gone mad right before their eyes. She went on in that high unnatural voice: "Don't stare like that! As .. | mad vera | Agatha Christie | |
| 551297c | You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth." | Agatha Christie | ||
| 03885e6 | lns fy lGlb yqtlwn mn yHbwn 'kthr mn qtlhm mn ykrhwn , l'n ldhyn tHbhm hm wHdhm ldhyn ystTy`wn 'n yj`lw Hytk l tTq | حب كره الناس قتل | Agatha Christie | |
| 19f9c37 | And then?" "And then," said Poirot. "We will talk! Je vous assure, Hastings - there is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality w.. | Agatha Christie | ||
| a78678f | Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence. | Agatha Christie | ||
| c19a5de | The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning. | Agatha Christie | ||
| b24232a | Oh! Do not excite yourself. Shall I say that he interested me because he was trying to grow a mustache and as yet the result is poor." Poirot stroked his own magnificent mustache tenderly. "It is an art," he murmured, "the growing of the mustache! I have sympathy for all who attempt it." | poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| 421c1a6 | Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?' 'What?' 'A sport!' 'And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy. | romance | Agatha Christie | |
| 1099f2b | I have learned to save myself useless emotion. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 34ee9bf | What alchemy there was in human beings. | Agatha Christie | ||
| fd65459 | One always has hope for human nature | human-nature | Agatha Christie | |
| 012e9d5 | Yang logis belum tentu yang benar. Untuk memahami ini cukup baca Agatha Christie. | logis | Goenawan Mohamad | |
| affb9e5 | The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 410c1d2 | Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 36d367c | When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so. | hope life reality | Agatha Christie | |
| 1300eb4 | The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread. Dr Gerard was wiser. He knew that no race, no country and no individual could be described as free. But he also knew that there were different degrees of bondage. | Agatha Christie | ||
| ff2890c | Tea's a thing that need never be finished. | Agatha Christie | ||
| e890ed7 | In fact-Dr. Sheppard! | Agatha Christie |