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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b054094 | We live in a world where the strongest win, and the strongest must expect to be disliked. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 6c76d9a | Calix meus inebrians. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| c973155 | I had the arrogant confidence of a man born to battle. I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, son of another Uhtred, and we had not held Bebbanburg and its lands by whimpering at altars. We are warriors. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| f050dce | I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall of the gods, but quite another to take a helpless man's life... | death revenge war | Bernard Cornwell | |
| d40d164 | He sang the song of the sword, keening as he fed his blade, and Rollo, standing thigh-deep in the creek, ax swinging in murderous blows, blocked the enemy's escape. The Frisians, transported from confidence to bowel-loosening fear, began to drop their weapons." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 2ea32db | How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul? | soul | A.M. Homes | |
| 7d06a34 | Emerson abandoned irony for blunt and passionate speech. 'This war has been a monumental blunder from the start! Britain is not solely responsible, but by God, gentlemen, she must share the blame, and she will pay a heavy price: the best of her young men, future scholars and scientists and statesmen, and ordinary, decent men who might have led ordinary, decent lives. And how will it end, when you tire of your game of soldiers? A few boundar.. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 0c55f23 | The only people who are not in awe of Emerson's powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. 'Proceed, my dear,' I said apologetically. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 9f5f111 | Men are so easy to manipulate, poor things. | men | Elizabeth Peters | |
| 923f4b7 | my nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| d2882dd | His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 970d93e | Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| e00307c | I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation! | lia-emerson | Elizabeth Peters | |
| a8b7feb | Falling in love is easy, you see; any idiot can do it. It's falling out of love that's hard. | Claudia Carroll | ||
| d22fc57 | Juno: Honest to blog? | Diablo Cody | ||
| 9a28f9b | Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 70eaf87 | I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4f01d7d | I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2b78807 | If you are not careful, their beauty will become both heaven and hell, you will betray every oath, abandon every loyalty, give up your heart, your mind, your body, and your immortal soul to have them near you but one more night. Then one cold night, a hundred years after the passion is spent, and nothing but ashes remain, you look up and see someone gazing at you, and you know that look, you've seen it before. A hundred years later and some.. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1d432e6 | I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| b493b3c | I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| e398c08 | I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 72277db | He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f05c12a | People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die. The person you were moments ago dies... Gone. Everything solid, everything real, is gone. It doesn't come back. The world is forever fractured, so that you walk on the c.. | loss truth | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| e6bb9de | Revenge was always the easy part; the hard part was living with it afterward. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 7757407 | My purse, like all purses, seems to have a traveling black hole in it. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 203801c | I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn't. "I've got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect it to be a monster. No one ever calls me in if it's just a stabbing, or a hit-and-run. I don't spend a lot of time trying to come up with nice, normal explanations. It means I get to ignore a lot of theories." -- | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4765bac | Remember the three rules of vampire hunting. One: Never, ever look them in the eyes. Two: Never, ever give up your cross. Three: Aim for the head and heart. Even with silver ammo, it won't be a killing blow anywhere else." I felt like a kindergarten teacher sending her kiddies off to a hostile playground. "Don't panic if you get bitten. The bite can be cleansed. As long as they don't mesmerize you with their eyes, you can still fight." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 73dc58e | Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| c59f934 | You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0405721 | Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 03492b3 | Edward: I don't know whether to put my fingers in my ears and go la-la-la or find more of your guards so we can take bets. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4d24d59 | I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 6d0ca65 | It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f656c59 | More sex. We must have more sex. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f2c1c53 | Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 97ab123 | It's that you're not outraged that someone's trying to kill you. Your just accept it, almost like it's normal. It isn't normal" "Assassins aren't normal, even for me, Richard" I said. "Just vampires, zombies, and werewolves" he said. I smiled. "Yeah." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 09f4713 | Was it possible to feel love with an empty mind? For if the mind was empty, then it was empty of love too. | Luke Davies | ||
| 5b84039 | Love of my life. Love. Of. My. Life. A retrospectively absurd concept since the most I can say is that he was the love of a particular period of my life, and that it is the random vagaries of life itself, and never love, that define time limits. Meaning, to be in love and wish for its immortality is energy unwisely spent. The idea that we have any choice in the matter is the great illusion. | Luke Davies | ||
| 74178d2 | Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin. | Sam Harris | ||
| 9f350ba | we do our friends no favors by pretending not to notice flaws in their work, especially when those who are not their friends are bound to notice these same flaws. | Sam Harris | ||
| 9365ffa | Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us is itself central to this mystery and ground for any experience we may wish to call "spiritual." No myth needs to be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need be.. | Sam Harris | ||
| a662e32 | Over one million people died in the orgy of religious killing that attended the partitioning of India and Pakistan. The two countries have since fought three official wars, suffered a continuous bloodletting at their shared border, and are now poised to exterminate one another with nuclear weapons simply because they disagree about "facts" that are every bit as fanciful as the names of Santa's reindeer. And their discourse is such that they.. | Sam Harris | ||
| f9c2b76 | Because most religions offer no valid mechanism by which their core beliefs can be tested and revised, each new generation of believers is condemned to inherit the superstitions and tribal hatreds of its predecessors. | Sam Harris |