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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a7aca7f | This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They find his awfulness transfixing. He's like a lousy 1970's disaster movie that they can't bring themselves to turn off, even though it is making their life worse every minute they leave it on. | Emma Forrest | ||
| abd668a | It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and he.. | love-loss pain | Emma Forrest | |
| e64074a | You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did. "Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela, "and no one gets out of it alive. There is only love." -- | love | Emma Forrest | |
| 43d7a12 | When I was out on the battlements it was cool and I could hardly hear them. I sat there quietly. I don't know how long I sat. Then I turned round and saw the sky. It was red and all my life was in it. | red | Jean Rhys | |
| 3e076ed | The only time she felt excited or happy was when she had had a drink because then anything might happen. That feeling of insecurity became exciting. | Lilian Pizzichini | ||
| e95f496 | It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known. It was almost like being born again. The colours were different, the smells different, the feeling things gave you right down inside yourself was different. Not just the difference between heat, cold; light, darkness; purple, grey. But a difference in the way I was frightened and the way I was happy. | Jean Rhys | ||
| b3b92c8 | The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 5d545fd | You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And you know that there is no past, no future, there is only this blackness, changing faintly, slowly, but always the same. | future past | Jean Rhys | |
| 9ae0dac | She spent the foggy day in endless, aimless walking, for it seemed to her that if she moved quickly enough she would escape the fear that hunted her. It was a vague and shadowy fear of something cruel and stupid that had caught her and would never let her go. She had always known that it was there - hidden under the more of less pleasant surface of things. Always. Ever since she was a child. You could argue about hunger or cold or lonelines.. | fear hunger loneliness terror walking | Jean Rhys | |
| a965bd1 | Unhappily children do hurt flies | Jean Rhys | ||
| 08a4d29 | It was a beautiful place - wild, untouched, above all untouched, with an alien, disturbing, secret loveliness. And it kept its secret. I'd fins myself thinking, 'What I see is nothing - I want what it - that is not nothing'. | Jean Rhys | ||
| e0c3357 | If you have to travel," Coulter said, "I can't think of a better way than the Translocator." "I know, I'm getting spoiled," Warren replied. "I'm not sure I'll be able to do airports ever again." Tanu nodded. "No customs, no checked bags, no tiny seats for ten hours at a time." "What are you griping about?" Warren said. "You hibernate like a grizzly on those long flights." "I sleep to escape the torture," Tanu maintained." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 4837f0b | Evil likes darkness." "Why is that?" Seth asked. Grandma thought about the question a moment before answering. "Because evil likes to hide." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 1a4ea1b | I, Galloran, master of this castle, rightful heir to the throne at Trensicourt, dub thee Lord Jason of Caberton, herby transmitting all rights and priveleges befitting a nobleman of rank and title." Jason arose, moved by the simple ceremony despite the Blind King's ruined castle, raspy voice, and tarnished crown. "What about me?" Rachel asked testily. "You can be my cook," Jason said, unable to resist." | Brandon Mull | ||
| e06e665 | Vannessa wasn't wrong. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 25e57d5 | Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam. The first, that he fell, is too simple. The fourth, fear, we have tried and found useless. The fifth, nothing happened, is dull. The choice is between: he jumped or was pushed. And the difference between these is only an issue of whe.. | demons murder suicide | Robert Bringhurst | |
| 2f03ff5 | Everyone with any sense and experience in life would rather take his fellows one by one than in a crowd. Crowds are noisy, unreasonable and impatient. They can trample you easier than a single person can. And a crowd will never buy you lunch. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 484c49b | If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 0bb3d23 | No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| c2c933c | It's important to understand that in the Third World most driving is done with the horn, or "Egyptian Brake Pedal," as it is known. There is a precise and complicated etiquette of horn use. Honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times." | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 7eb09cf | You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 1d5c7d0 | Do you recall telling Dr. Phillips during your appointment on February second of last year that you needed to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases because--let me make sure I get this correct here . . ." Taylor read out loud from her file, "Because, quote, 'your weasel-dick husband slept with a skanky whore stripper and the cheating bastard didn't use a rubber'?" Ms. Campbell shot up in her chair. "She actually wrote that down?" .. | Julie James | ||
| 6252fe7 | Basically, if you want to become a good writer, you need to do three things. Read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. And don't think too much. Just enter the heat of words and sounds and colored sensations and keep your pen moving across the page. If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. | inspirational reading writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| e17e777 | Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fas as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them that they have been training. The one that lives every second at a time. That sits down and sees their life again and goes over it. Looks at the texture and details. | natalie-goldberg writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 7ba4f50 | If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| e802ed6 | The crowd began to murmur, but then a firm voice stilled it. Giovanni Auditore was speaking.'It is you who is the traitor, Uberto. You, one of my closest associates and friends, in whom I entrusted my life! And I am a fool. I did not see that you are one of them!' Here he raised his voice to a great cry of anguish and of rage.'You may take our lives today, but mark this - we will have yours in return!' -Giovanni Auditore, Before his executi.. | giovanni-auditore uberto | Oliver Bowden | |
| 9e752f0 | Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an' she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like as not, they ain't! | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 22c5d6a | People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was. | youth | Louis L'Amour | |
| 7ea24a1 | You can make laws against weapons but they will be observed only by those who don't intend to use them anyway. The lawless can always smuggle or steal or even make a gun. By refusing to wear a gun you allow the criminal to operate with impunity. | guns | Louis L'Amour | |
| b56366d | Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember. | memory | Louis L'Amour | |
| b1f3f05 | Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer. | history isolation message study | Louis L'Amour | |
| 8b32c78 | A journey is time suspended. | time | Louis L'Amour | |
| a91c04b | This Indian wife you have... - Had. She's dead. - I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up an unhappy memory. - I can't remember anything unhappy about Destarte. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 733d8f7 | There can be no living together without understanding, and understanding means compromise. Compromise is not a dirty word, it is the cornerstone of civilization, just as politics is the art of making civilization work. Men do not and cannot and hopefully will never think alike, hence each must yield a little in order to avoid war, to avoid bickering. Men and women meet together and adjust their differences, this is compromise. He who stands.. | politics | Louis L'Amour | |
| a92fad5 | No, she knows you're here. She can see through the camouflage. But I think she's hiding something from me, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Never mind. Just listen. Once she drinks the tea, she will try ot surprise me with something. She is waiting for the contrast to be fully in effect before she says anything. I knew I never should have let you watch The Wizard of Oz. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 53bb5fa | I know that when ye think o' love you're supposed to think o' kissy faces and scented soap and hummin' happy songs together, but there's another vital part to it that people rarely admit to themselves: We want somebody to rescue us from other people. From talking to them, I mean, or from the burden of giving a damn about what they say. We don't want to be polite and stifle our farts, now, do we? We want to let 'em rip and we want to be with.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0adc380 | I dislike guilt." the Morrigan said." it is regret and recrimination and despair over that which cannot be changed. It is like eating ashes for breakfast. It is the whip that clerics use on the laity, making the sheep slaves to whatever moral code the shepherds espouse. it is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity. I cannot think of a more poisonous emotion!" ... "Why do you bother to feel it?" Atticus: .. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 94ffe9a | Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots of geologists on different projects like this, and they're all tiny sunburned men with fetishes for geodes. They wear floppy hats and carry baggies for soil samples around with them. ... And geologists don't make rocks disappear like you did the other night. They keep them and build little shrines to them. | geologist geologists geology science scientists | Kevin Hearne | |
| 30470e2 | Thunder gods don't hide." The Russian shrugged. "I am not like Thor. I have Russian depth of character. And I like to help people, not hurt them. Usually I help with vodka. You want some?" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| fe343ae | So this means you're spoiling me right?" Can't Help it. You're the best hound ever. Oberon's tail thumped a few times and his mouth partially opened, seeming to smile at me." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 165f31e | I gladly shucked off my wet, muddy jeans and put on the new pair. I noticed she hadn't bought me any underwear; Granuaile either didn't think of it or she did think of it and decided that I should go commando. I tore open the package of undershirts and gingerly pulled a black one over my head before tucking it into my jeans. Though I was now dressed in similar fashion to Coyote, I figured he could keep the cowboy hat and I'd rock the tattoo.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0944562 | Opinions differ on the question of whether a golden age is something you can experience while it's happening or whether it only comes into focus on reflection...no matter how grand and prosperous and momentous the time in which you are living may be, its grandeur is inevitably stained by the incessant drabness of the present. | dutch-history holland netherlands | Russell Shorto | |
| e81ff4c | Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . . | Carol Shields | ||
| 51d8d4f | A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain. | Carol Shields |