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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| df3ccb1 | I kind of was beginning to feel like I was being underutilized [as Teen Ambassador to the UN]. I mean, there were a lot more important issues out there for teens that I could have been bringing international attention to than what kids see out their windows. I mean, instead of sitting in the White House press office for three hours after school every Wednesday, or attending International Festival of the Child concerts, I could have been out.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 94119e5 | Guys don't like it when you get too heavy, I've noticed. They especially don't like it when you try to talk too much about the future. They're like little woodland animals. Everything's well and good when you're just doling out the nuts and everything's cool. But the minute you bring out the net to try to catch them - even if it's for their own good, like to help them escape a forest fire - all hell breaks loose. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 57b0dc9 | His gaze on mine was completely steady and unblinking, and there was an upward curl at the corners of his mouth . . . he was smiling like he was actually enjoying this. But I couldn't help feeling as if, behind those blue eyes, there was a different Christopher - the old Christopher - begging me to call him on his asinine behavior. To say, I'm asking for your help now. Will you help us? Will you help me? Only I didn't. Because I was too ang.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| a56f2fa | Rule #5 Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good. | Meg Cabot | ||
| bb1f56f | It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 7d9d47a | Of course I didn't think I'd heard him correctly. Why would he have told me something so important now, so casually, in the middle of a Before I could stop myself, I blurted out the first thing I thought. "Just " The look he gave me was shattering. Given everything I knew about him, though, I'd him to have killed a man. It was the fact that his having taken a single life had resulted in his banishment to the Underworld for all eternity .. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 67f13c4 | Well," I said, trying to keep my tone light as I walked over to put my arms around his neck, though I had to stand on my toes to do so. "That wasn't so bad, was it? You told me something about yourself that I didn't know before-that you didn't, er, care for your family, except for your mother. But that didn't make me hate you...it made me love you a bit more, because now I know we have even more in common." He stared down at him, a wary loo.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| ae07b1f | everyone's too busy having a good time to care about anyone else." "This sucks," Alex said sullenly. "If someone murders you and you get revived and come back to wreak vengeance on your killers, they could at least have the decency to notice you." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 8fcb17b | Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake. | susannah-simon suze-simon the-mediator | Meg Cabot | |
| 6c13792 | I was too emotional to say anything. I was experiencing many "feels" as the kids on Tumblr--my computer-savvy friend CeeCee has told me about it--often say." | Meg Cabot | ||
| f2ae2cf | Yes, I'm sorry you won't be coming with us," Chloe said to Alex. "But please don't worry. I'm certain The Lord has another plan for you." She glanced at me. "For both of you." "Oh, I can assure you,"said a new, deeply masculine voice from behind me. I turned to see John sitting, tall and dark and disapproving, on the back of his horse, Alastor. "He does." "Chloe wasn't talking about you," I said to John, leaning my elbows against the rough.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 2be2382 | They say it's always darkest until right before the dawn. I've worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 18699cc | But I'm living proof you don't have to spend a lot in order to look great. | Meg Cabot | ||
| acabdf8 | And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 23daa94 | You know it gets me hot when you're mad. What are you wearing right now under your stethoscope?' 'You're not funny.' 'Oh, come on. I'm a little funny. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 98647d3 | I can command the Royal Genovian Air Force," Grandmere supposedly replied. "As well as the Royal Genovian Navy. But the one thing in the world I have no control over, Helen, is your womb. Now come along." | Meg Cabot | ||
| fe0aaee | And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped with their velocity. His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sounds of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine spines. The spines split, bisected, split again, exponential growth under the dome of the .. | future matrix science science-fiction | William Gibson | |
| 618ed20 | INTO HER DARKNESS, a churning synaesthesia, where her pain was the taste of old iron, scent of melon, wings of a moth brushing her cheek. She was unconscious, and he was barred from her dreams. | William Gibson | ||
| 3a5a21e | Sometimes dreams trick you into believing they're real. And then there are other times when, completely out of the blue, life suddenly becomes surreal that you wonder if perhaps you're dreaming after all. | Jill Mansell | ||
| 2c6aae1 | A good friend is someone you can count on. No matter what. | Elise Broach | ||
| 76e03ba | strach nie jest jak choroba zakazna, nie przychodzi skads, ale sam go tworzysz. glownie przez milosc. im bardziej cos kochasz, tym bardziej dreczy cie mysl, ze moglbys to stracic. wtedy strach jest zawsze gdzies tuz obok. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| dce7a3b | BUYING A PAIR OF shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 9389c13 | Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things." | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 96e1634 | In Austria after VE Day) Sergeant Mercier...dressed in a full German officer's uniform, topped off with a monocle for his right eye. Someone got the bright idea to march him over to the company orderly room and turn him in at rifle point to Captain Speirs. Someone got word to Speirs before Mercier showed up. When troopers brought Mercier up to Speirs's desk, prodding him with bayonets, Speirs did not look up. One of the troopers snapped .. | bob speirs | Stephen E. Ambrose | |
| 5cc1c4b | Fear dims even the sunlight. | John Howard Griffin | ||
| 4b30345 | You'll see. I have a collection of fine waistcoats and a handsome face." He stepped back to let her take in the full effect of both and her smile spread to the edge of a laugh." | Meljean Brook | ||
| 76d4f2d | I'm beginning to think that you aren't with child. You've simply become fat after reading too many recipes. | Meljean Brook | ||
| db0065b | The first opportunity he got, Rhys was going to shag her blind. | Meljean Brook | ||
| ba03ec3 | Breathe, Newberry. If you faint in the Blacksmith's laboratory, only the stars above know what might be grafted to your body when you wake up. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 977526c | You came." His gaze held hers. "And I knew that you are not useful to me, Ash. Not anymore. Except as a reason to get up in the morning --" "You don't sleep anymore," she reminded him, smiling. "Except as a reason to keep breathing --" "You don't need air." He narrowed his eyes at her. "I'm still new at this Guardian thing. So just shut up, and let me tell you that I love you." | Meljean Brook | ||
| 365a3de | And it made me nervous, because I'm the kind of person who should be kept away from romance, the way certain people should be kept away from guns or sharp knives. | Ken Foster | ||
| 8bfd3eb | I learned that you are not free until you stop others from making you feel worthless. Because if you do not, you will eventually accept that you are worthless. | Ishmael Beah | ||
| d0b1a27 | My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed. | military traumatic-experiences warfare | Ishmael Beah | |
| 0c8e62d | I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak. | silence solitude | Ishmael Beah | |
| 44bb0f9 | I took out my grenade and put my fingers inside the pin. 'Do you boys want this to be your last meal, or do you want to answer his question? | no-fear nonfiction threat | Ishmael Beah | |
| 79a6653 | Well, and keep in mind where those Masonic Mysteries came from in the first place. (Check out Ishmael Reed. He knows more about it than you'll ever find here.) | ishmael-reed masonic-mysteries | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 7892578 | He was tall, one of the tallest men she had ever seen. Dressed in jeans, boots and a cotton shirt. Thick black hair grew rakishly long, falling over the collar of his shirt. Intense brown eyes, almost the color of amber, surveyed the diner slowly before coming back to her. Electricity sizzled in the air then, as though invisible currents connected them, forcing her to recognize him on a primitive level. Not that she wouldn't take notice any.. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 5dee3b0 | His lips covered hers as he laid the gauze on her leg. Fiery pain shot through her flesh as his lips swallowed her cry, then replaced it with such amazing sensation she wanted to whimper in return. He licked her lips. He didn't steal her kiss. He didn't take it. He cajoled it from her. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 1f583c1 | She shuddered, convulsing beneath the whiplash of his tongue as the world dissolved around her. "Now." He moved before the last violent pulses stilled. He came over her body, catching his weight on his elbows, staring down at her with savage intensity as the bulbous head of his c#ck nudged against the sensitive opening of her pussy. "Now," he whispered again. "I make you my woman, Elizabeth. Now." | Lora Leigh | ||
| 92968b0 | Girls aside, the other thing I found in the last few years of being at school, was a quiet, but strong Christian faith - and this touched me profoundly, setting up a relationship or faith that has followed me ever since. I am so grateful for this. It has provided me with a real anchor to my life and has been the secret strength to so many great adventures since. But it came to me very simply one day at school, aged only sixteen. As a young .. | faith religion | Bear Grylls | |
| c9b2ef9 | Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 5bb718a | When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 62da636 | One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him." | cannibalism innovation | Walter Isaacson | |
| 90f8f04 | Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. --ALBERT EINSTEIN, IN A LETTER TO HIS SON EDUARD, FEBRUARY 5, 19301 | Walter Isaacson |