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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9c26c18 | Yapacak, duyacak, gorecek hicbir sey yoktu, her yerde ve surekli hiclikle cevriliydi insan, boyuttan ve zamandan tumuyle yoksun, boslukta. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 85f2405 | I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow." | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 9ef3119 | Je sentis inconsciemment que tu menes une double vie, une vie dont une face claire est franchement tournee vers le monde, tandis que l'autre, plongee dans l'ombre, n'est connue que de toi seul. Cette profonde dualite, le secret de ton existence | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 30ecf63 | Once more my pity had been stronger than my will. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 0c9cff7 | I leaned closer and gave her the look I usually save for rampaging demons and those survey people at malls. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e211abf | The bible is foreign to me, but its concepts are not. My father always said that hatred is a waste and never an option. He learned this growing up in Ahwaz, Iran, in a Muslim household. I have tried my best to pass the same message to my children, born and raised in the United States. Ultimately, it doesn't matter where we learn that lesson. It's just important that we do. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| eb83ab1 | Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 17c8880 | In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. | mediocrity politics | Eric Ambler | |
| 5a85040 | S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter. | Marilyn French | ||
| 16f1b83 | The breakdown of the neighborhoods also meant the end of what was essentially an extended family....With the breakdown of the extended family, too much pressure was put on the single family. Mom had no one to stay with Granny, who couldn't be depended on to set the house on fire while Mom was off grocery shopping. The people in the neighborhood weren't there to keep an idle eye out for the fourteen-year-old kid who was the local idiot, and .. | Marilyn French | ||
| 96fc393 | In a great gasp, puts her head in her hands again and cries as if her throat were a cave, as if the howling winds came from her belly, she cries like a storm that will never end. | Marilyn French | ||
| 3415afc | You want to go to the movies tomorrow night?" he asked, and Posey was so shocked she actually choked. "What?" she managed. "The movies? Tomorrow?" "Um...I, uh...um...what movie?" He narrowed his eyes just a little, and Posey's nether parts gave a long, happy squeeze. Get his clothes off, those parts advised. We're lonely." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 7d0dfdf | I stand up, trying to shake myself mentally. Get over him, Maggie, I instruct myself. I need to stop. I really do. I want to. I'm going to. I sound like a drug addict. Perhaps there's a twelve-step program for me. Priest Lovers Anonymous. | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 1637027 | Nick," I murmured, "should I ever head into the cellar armed only with a ladle after the police have just warned me that a psychotic killer is on the loose, please slap me." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| e6dfad7 | So you can't marry Harry, Mom! Not if you still love Daddy!" I sound like a ten-year-old, but I can't help it. Buttercup comes over to me and puts her head on my lap. "Love gets used up, Chastity," Mom says gently, reaching up to smooth my hair. "If it's not returned, it gets used up." | Kristan Higgins | ||
| 6face65 | Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn't wave it until you're about to put it to the test. | ken-follett world-without-end | Ken Follett | |
| e4f9a9c | The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized. | war | Ken Follett | |
| db409ee | If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. | Ken Follett | ||
| da8264c | Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them. | Ken Follett | ||
| 2bbbaaf | Marvelous, isn't it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they're fucking dead. | humor war ww1 | Ken Follett | |
| ee6349b | The small boys came early to the hanging. | Ken Follett | ||
| 47f515b | You don't give up on democracy every time you lose a vote", Ethel said crisply." | winter-of-the-world | Ken Follett | |
| 5fea01a | His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too. | Ken Follett | ||
| fa96eea | He was seething inside with a new emotion. Nothing seemed very important anymore except the Princess. He was single-minded about her. He was enchanted. He was possessed. He was in love. | Ken Follett | ||
| 675c0e5 | How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted. | lifes-work old-age | Ken Follett | |
| 37a15ae | He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, and he had missed that comforting feeling, | Ken Follett | ||
| ed7b611 | When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in | self-respect sin | Ken Follett | |
| 028a7b0 | Mam kissed Ethel and said: "I'm glad to see you settled at last, anyway," That word ANYWAY carried a lot of baggage, Ethel thought. It meant: "Congratulations, even though you're a fallen woman, and you've got an illegitmate child whose father no one knows, and you're marrying a Jew, and living in London, which is the same as Sodom and Gomorrah." But Ethel accepted Mam's qualified blessing and vowed never to say such things to her own child.. | Ken Follett | ||
| b5baa60 | The trouble with being inspired to perform the impossible was that the inspiration gave you no clues to the practical means. | Ken Follett | ||
| 9bd1f9e | He was right here and nowhere to be found. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 4c4ca97 | It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| a0514fb | You could fill an airlift to Africa with all the food generated by one dead Jew. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| b5c5583 | T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| a1ee703 | It's hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it's hard to believe that it didn't give up years ago. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| de6d2e1 | Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed--although he doesn't know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you're simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| daf5880 | Like life is short," he said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever be said." -- | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6b154b6 | I kicked the door open, staff held ready to fight, and shouted, "And I'm all outta bubble gum!" | Jim Butcher | ||
| ea15eff | That...that bitch. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b2ed893 | You're one hell of a woman, Molly," I said. "Thank you." | molly-carpenter | Jim Butcher | |
| 3fa2d7d | There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7c794a7 | Dammit. What kind of weapons are they toting?" "Uh, teeth. Mostly teeth, Harry." I glared at him. "Not the dogs." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 4de6d7b | Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly. | dresden-files | Jim Butcher | |
| 6357ce4 | If you weren't getting pretty close to crazy right now, would you be talking to yourself right now? | Jim Butcher | ||
| 32eb753 | Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. | Jim Butcher |