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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 64785fe | I'm saying there is evil in the world," Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, "and doubt is the weapon that guards against it." | Daniel Abraham | ||
| d562b13 | You tell yourself it would be best for her to die. You tell yourself that if now, at this hour of the night, she died, it would be easier. For you, you probably mean, but you don't finish the sentence. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 27f06b3 | It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matter of more or less time, its not really a question of immortality but of something else that remains unknown. It's as untrue to say it's without beginning or end as to say it begins and ends with the life of the spirit, since it partakes both of the spirit and of the pursuit of the void. | life | Marguerite Duras | |
| 6f5e33a | Hey George, check this out. | Mira Grant | ||
| 7149b63 | John Knox's dying words were, 'Lord, grant true pastors to Thy kirk.' Such was the last prayer of a great man without whom there would have been no America, no Puritans, no Pilgrims, no Scottish covenanters, no Presbyterians, no Patrick Henry, no Samuel Adams, no George Washington. Could it have been so simple? John Knox's agenda was far from political. All he wanted were more pastors and elders. This is our agenda. Lord grant true pastors .. | Kevin Swanson | ||
| 6145350 | No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer. | artist craft | William Goldman | |
| 8ee79fc | Hace una hora, crei que te amaba mas de lo que ninguna mujer ha amado nunca a un hombre, pero media hora mas tarde, supe que lo que habia sentido entonces no era nada comparado con lo que senti despues. Mas al cabo de diez minutos, comprendi que mi amor anterior era un charco comparado con el mar embravecido antes de la tempestad. | William Goldman | ||
| 80ed947 | You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does." | William Goldman | ||
| 23fc6d9 | If there's ever a question about anything, you can always count on me to get it wrong. | William Goldman | ||
| 900a069 | For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next. | William Goldman | ||
| 29ad9df | The infant is ten and he stays, | William Goldman | ||
| 2601618 | live your life its pain its pleasure leave no path untaken | William Goldman | ||
| 1afff43 | Buttercup dried her tears and began to smile. She took a deep breath, heaved a sigh. It was all part of growing up. You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. Chalk it up to experience, old girl, and get on with the morning. | experience growing-pains passion youth | William Goldman | |
| b1ac11e | Hello there," Inigo hollered when he could wait no more. The man in black glanced up and grunted. "I've been watching you." The man in black nodded. "Slow going," Inigo said. "Look, I don't mean to be rude," the man in black said finally, "but I'm rather busy just now, so try not to distract me." "I'm sorry," Inigo said. The man in black grunted again. "I don't suppose you could speed things up," Inigo said. "If you want to speed things up .. | William Goldman | ||
| f11bfd6 | Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound humiliation. Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let their children starve. It is made clear that the poor seek charity as a great and sordid chicanery in which they delight. And.. | media poverty | Mario Puzo | |
| 0ccb7de | A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 7650620 | The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable. | Mario Puzo | ||
| d56f9dd | Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 4c92a0c | Was her whole life going to be like this now, avoiding certain songs or music that reminded her of her mistakes? Billie Holiday made her think of Eric Dalton; Iron & Wine was Jeremiah; and if things didn't work out with Kara, she'd never be able to listen to Bob Dylan again. By the time she reached her twenties, she'd be a huge, lumbering mass of musical baggage. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 8c86e29 | You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy. | crazy funny girl gossip love romance senior you | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 267f450 | Girls were like that, though- they had to know things. They had to plan. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| a8c9a22 | I just like meeting people." "I don't." Tinsley wrinkled her nose. "It upsets my balance. I hate having to constantly reconfigure everyone, who fits where and all that." | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| a21ad85 | It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay. | fall-in-love love poems | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| aad541d | What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? | inspirational life | Jess Walter | |
| 32ca477 | This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy, a great epic poem, Britain, a thick novel, America, a brash motion picture in technicolor... | Jess Walter | ||
| 4f8bd81 | Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is. | wants | Jess Walter | |
| 06233b4 | There are few things more confusing than going to war with parents who are diminishing you, particularly when you are very young. If you fight for your dignity, you risk losing the love you need from them to develop. If you don't fight back, you lose your self-respect | Jeff Brown | ||
| b89d267 | Hatred can be pushed aside, but it will always whisper in your ear. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 2cd81f1 | Darman: I want my HUD back. I want my enhanced view. Fi: But you get to wear face camo instead. Makes you feel wild and dangerous. Sev: I'm wild. And then I get dangerous. Shut up. Fi: Copy that. [exits Sev's comlink channel] Miserable di'kut. Scorch: Don't mind him. He'll be fine once he's killed something. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 2ba8b25 | That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does. | clone-troopers empire karen-traviss star-wars | Karen Traviss | |
| 81bd0b2 | When I thought about my old friends Linus Lucas and Theo, I realized they were not really criminals either. They were like me. We were just acting out the strangest, tragic little roles, pretending to be criminals in order to get by. We gave very convincing performances. | pretending | Heather O'Neill | |
| e8068b7 | We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 0fde8f6 | Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 7875b95 | Lev Beniov:] "The imminence of death did not frighten me as much as it should have. I had been too afraid for too long; I was too exhausted, too hungry, too feel anything with proper intensity. But if my fear had diminished, it was not because my courage had increased. My body was so weak, so spent, that my legs trembled from the effort of standing upright. I could summon no great concern for anything, including the fate of Lev Beniov." | David Benioff | ||
| a20a2ee | If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 3f828f0 | Only those who row the boat make waves | inspirational true wisdom | Christina Dodd | |
| 0c9981b | A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man." ~ Charles Darwin" | inspirational last-love | Ghiselle St. James | |
| dde7fd6 | Whilst Man, however well-behaved, At best is but a monkey shaved! | Charles Darwin | ||
| a8886ef | Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search 's works for numbers and equations. | darwin equations measurement nobel-laureate numbers science | David H. Hubel | |
| a0fc228 | Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty. | short-cuts | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| a843c72 | Let us narrow the arguments down further. In certain respects, the theme of supplementarity is certainly no more than one theme among others. It is in a chain, carried by it. Perhaps one could substitute something else for it. But it happens that this theme describes the chain itself, the being-chain of a textual chain, the structure of substitution, the articulation of desire and of language, the logic of all conceptual oppositions taken o.. | Jacques Derrida | ||
| 7402983 | When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer. | Joe Meno | ||
| 1779135 | It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy. | Joe Meno | ||
| ba40dc5 | After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots. | Neil deGrasse Tyson |