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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 32c0613 | The more one has, the less one desires. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 5d80a38 | He will put you in situations where you absolutely must have a miracle. The reason He does that is because He wants you to know with all certainty that it is Him working in your life. So don't be alarmed if the Spirit leads you into situations that are impossible without a miracle from God. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 8a91e0b | I Don't Even Like Him--How Can I Pray for Him? Have you ever been so mad at your husband that the last thing you wanted to do was pray for him? So have I. It's hard to pray for someone when you're angry or he's hurt you. But that's exactly what God wants us to do. If He asks us to pray for our enemies, how much more should we be praying for the person with whom we have become one and are supposed to love? But how do we get past the unforgiv.. | Stormie Omartian | ||
| 8e8c7e3 | As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity. | humanity people travel | Rick Steves | |
| 6cc84b3 | But love, he said, love was a fragile blossom; love was a delicate crystal; love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond and if he had been born instead of hatched he would know that without being told! | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 5f9f53b | Dave put his head down and ate his eggs. He heard his mother leave the kitchen, humming Old MacDonald all the way down the hall. Standing in the yard now, knuckles aching, he could hear it too. Old MacDonald had a farm. And everything was hunky-dory on it. You farmed and tilled and reaped and sowed and everything was just fucking great. Everyone got along, even the chickens and the cows, and no one needed to talk about anything, because not.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5ede7f9 | Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old days back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 625f58f | This woman was hard-core. Fuck with her at your peril. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 816ba57 | Monsters don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they're the monsters. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 9a0e47d | You couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 8bba2cb | Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 5a6155f | I can't--" Lena repeated. "I can't do it. I can't live without him." Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jared's. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lena--really looked at her straight in the eye. "Good," Sara told her. "Now you know how it feels." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| e5b1410 | Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 92dec83 | a Democrat is a Republican who's been through the criminal justice system. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| a6ddc8c | If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 4e3f163 | he was about as forthcoming as an amnesiac with lockjaw. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 58f0b2e | When I crossed the street, according to my mother, I still had to hold someone's hand. At ten, I would be able to cross streets unhanded. I'd held on to Joseph's many times before, for many years, but holding his was like holding a plant, and the disappointment of fingers that didn't grasp back was so acute that at some point I'd opted to take his forearm instead. For the first few street crossings, that's what I did, but on the corner at O.. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 1429aa6 | Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can't fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can't heat up as well. Cold draft comes in. | heat house metaphor | Aimee Bender | |
| 87cbae6 | You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 244032d | Joseph would reach out to me occasionally, the same way the desert blooms a flower every now and then. You get so used to the subtleties of beige and Brown, and then a sunshine-yellow poppy bursts from the arm of a prickly pear. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 411e6c6 | Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| c269133 | I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease..." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 243789c | I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work. | lost-opportunity princess sleeping-beauty too-hard | Orson Scott Card | |
| 0d1d6cf | And always Ender carried with him a dry white cocoon, looking for a place where the hive-queen could awaken and thrive in peace. He looked a long time. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 7bfe2dc | As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It's like those foolish attempts to control immigration to American based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is "descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there." Willingness is the single most important test." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 7337ff0 | Besides," said Suriyawong. "This was not a rescue operation." "What was it, target practice? Chinese skeet?" "An offer of transportation to an invited guest of the Hegemon," said Suriyawong. "And the loan of a knife." Achilles held up the bloody thing, dangling it from the point. "Yours?" he asked. "Unless you want to clean it," said Suriyawong. Achillese handed it to him. Suriyawong took out his cleaning kit and wiped down the blade, then .. | achilles-de-flandres bean betrayal comeuppance enderverse julian-delphinki just-desserts justice osc own owned payback pwn pwned shadow-saga suriyawong | Orson Scott Card | |
| 3baa317 | Cover your butt. Bernard is watching. | humor | Orson Scott Card | |
| 1cf454b | From all wise men, O Lord, protect us. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8b8aa33 | Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings. | friend human life love | Orson Scott Card | |
| ca886dd | Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home. | hive-queen | Orson Scott Card | |
| 17e75a6 | Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK? | science violence | Orson Scott Card | |
| 9c1ee5f | In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him... | enemy genius hate life love | Orson Scott Card | |
| b852d0a | When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end. | ender enemy genius live war | Orson Scott Card | |
| 98988d7 | He couldn't go into his army's barracks -- he had long since learned that the best commanders stay away unless they have some reason to visit. The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk, and act, and think. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 9e4123c | Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him | ender genius life | Orson Scott Card | |
| c0ab7e8 | As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, " I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school." | genius humor love | Orson Scott Card | |
| 9a6f52c | You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' | literature | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6617b7d | Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or pr.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1bdbb0a | someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up | poetry | Orson Scott Card | |
| 20cdb94 | The child is mine and Petra's. It's especially important to us because it's the first we know of that definitely does not have my condition." "You mean it isn't ugly?" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 93bfc72 | The seer crow was outraged. "Mangiz does not forget an insult, hedgepig." Ambrose smiled cheekily. "Good, then here's a few more for you to remember, you pot-bellied, cross-eyed, feather-bottomed excuse for a duck." | insult redwall | Brian Jacques | |
| 304b91e | Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn. | Robin McKinley | ||
| d25adda | My father... raised me to make up my own mind. The way he did this was by yielding to me when I asked, even when I was foolish. I lived through it; and I know my own mind; and he will do what I ask him. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 36ec401 | She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes. | Robin McKinley |