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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 47bba4a | Bir seyler kiriliyordu, bir seyler kirildi. Kendini-nasil demeli?-dayanikli hissetmiyorsun artik: Sana bugune kadar guc veren-oyle saniyordun, oyle saniyorsun-,yuregini isitan sey, varolus duygun,neredeyse onemli oldugun duygusu, dunyaya baglanma,dunyada kalma duygusu eksikligini hissettirmeye basliyor. | Georges Perec | ||
| 865790f | She was too compelling to look at directly. Bright like the sun, bright and terrible. Only one other being could look upon her, and that was Death. And so...they became lovers." He said the word like a caress, like velvet again, and my face began to heat. "Together they forged great and hellish things," Jesse murmured. "Lightning and waterfalls that churned into clouds off the tip of the world. Chasms so winding deep that daylight never tra.. | Shana Abe | ||
| b4fc2d6 | How good to see you, Miss Jones." That debonair tone, the friendly press of his hand upon mine. It was such a contrast to our final moments in the cottage that I couldn't help but smirk. "Thank you for having me," I replied, loudly enough for the duke to hear. "But I haven't," said Armand under his breath. "So far." I tugged back my hand. "Ever the gentleman, aren't you?" "I try. Come aboard, waif. Come and experience a gentleman's world." | Shana Abe | ||
| 8a1903d | I would have done anything. Don't you know that?" "No." | Shana Abe | ||
| 18b1de2 | My dowry is thirty-five. A year." His brows climbed. "You're joking." "I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you're at a profit." "How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head." | Shana Abe | ||
| 63d9663 | You'd better marry her before she reaches eighteen and the spell wears off," I said. "Spell?" "Yes. The one that's hiding her fangs and pincers from plain sight." "I don't find them especially hidden," he said mildly. "Then perhaps you're a pair." His brows lifted. "Now, that's the cruelest thing you've said so far." Mrs. Fredericks cleared off, and Chloe took her place before the piano. A beam of sunlight was just beginning its slide into .. | Shana Abe | ||
| 10097fc | That's what it is, this arrogance, in this flamenco music this same arrogance of suffering, listen. The strength of it's what's so overpowering, the self-sufficiency that's so delicate and tender without an instant of sentimentality. With infinite pity, but refusing pity. It's a precision of suffering, he went on, abruptly working his hand in the air as though to shape it there, --the tremendous tension of violence all enclosed in a framewo.. | William Gaddis | ||
| 195a14f | You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes the others so uncomfortable. He haunts them at their golf. | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| 5363a7d | That's all right! That's all right!' But for a minute or two it wasn't really. All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities - even merely with the velvet. He added: 'Your mother works you very hard. | woman-s-strength | Ford Madox Ford | |
| 099f9b7 | Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves? | Ford Madox Ford | ||
| ead59f4 | He was a successful general because he knew men. He knew that all men will go to hell over three things: alcohol, money . . . and sex. This fellow apparently hadn't. Better for him if he had! | tietjens | Ford Madox Ford | |
| aa6d870 | He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you. | tietjens | Ford Madox Ford | |
| c9aa620 | What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his! | tietjens valentine-wannop | Ford Madox Ford | |
| e130e2d | We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know enough to keep quiet, get eaten. | Greg Bear | ||
| 138ae1e | JUST so you know, I don't have a gargantuan penis. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 409bbd9 | But he came, when I was at my darkest. I prayed him down from the sky, and he came in a flash of blue fire that lit up the heavens. I know he came by his own choice, but he came because I called him. He came when I could no longer take the weight of the world on my own. He came when I needed him the most. He came and saved me from myself, saved me from the waters that rose up to my chest and over my head. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 544c0cc | I was reading on the computer that you have to keep your man interested, so it's always good to make sure he knows others are." I frown at him. "Angels are not allowed to go on the Internet." He winces. "Probably a good idea. That place has so much porn." I don't want to know. Okay, I do... ...Cal kisses me gently before walking out of our room. "Sure thing," he calls over his shoulder. "I did learn some things on the Intenet that I wan.. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 655748b | Gary snorted. When he did, little pink and purple sparkles shot out his nose. Being a unicorn is awesome like that. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 1db7e4d | He put his finger guns away. He should not be allowed to carry weapons of mass humiliation. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 40b09f8 | How would it feel to live a full life and have no one remember it, to have no one remember the extraordinary things you accomplished, even if it was just waking up every day and finding the courage to get out of bed? | forgotten | T.J. Klune | |
| 9e7b4f2 | There's too many other people in the world who want nothing more than to kick you when you're down. Don't you dare do that job for them. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 9193b82 | is Whitney? Is that your dealer?" "Whitney Houston," Mom said. "You know, dear. She was that singer who sang that song you like that Helena performed." "'Hit Me Baby, One More Time?" "That's Britney, dear." "'Dirty?" "That was Christina." "Umbrella?" "And that was Rihanna. Larry, you're embarrassing yourself. You have a gay son, for God's sake. How can you not know your divas?" Mom sounded affronted. "Paul? Paul! If you can hear me, don't l.. | T.J. Klune | ||
| dab6349 | Gary's eyes narrowed. "I'm pretty sure I don't like you." "My world is crumbling," Ryan said. I might have laughed. Because sass." | ryan sam | T.J. Klune | |
| 2f39177 | I squawked attractively. Okay. That was a lie. There is no way to squawk attractively. It was rather unattractive. Arms flailing, legs kicking. It was just awful. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 9165496 | Way gay," I reassured him. "Like, super gay. I fart and rainbows come out." Oh, crap." | T.J. Klune | ||
| 468e1d3 | Because I can tell. He looks like your type too." "Is he hot?" "I wouldn't fuck him," Jase confided. "Well, at least we know he doesn't have boobs, then." | T.J. Klune | ||
| 5a1efef | 'There's a seagull eating our food,' he told me, and it was the most romantic thing I'd ever heard. | romance | T.J. Klune | |
| 880e84e | Gustavo Tiberius speaking." "It's so weird you do that, man," Casey said, sounding amused. "Every time I call." "It's polite," Gus said. "Just because you kids these days don't have proper phone etiquette." "Oh boy, there's the Grumpy Gus I know. You miss me?" Gus was well aware the others could hear the conversation loud and clear. He was also aware he had a reputation to maintain. "Hadn't really thought about it." "Really." "Yes." .. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 6743f0e | The unicorn stared at him. Then, "Gary." "Your name is Gary," Sam said. "Yes." "Ah. That's... not very unicorn-like." Gary scowled. "And what is unicorn-like?" Sam shrugged. "I don't know. Like Princess Moon Cloud or Ethereal Tear or Star Shine." | sam | T.J. Klune | |
| 3fc8430 | Joe sang the loudest of all. He said, you belong to me. | T.J. Klune | ||
| a7e5fe3 | Are they speaking in code?" Mom asked Dad, trying to be quiet but failing miserably. "I don't know," Dad said. "I don't speak wizard." "Neither do I. I feel like we've failed as parents." "Nah," Dad said easily. "Look at him. He's adorable and knows how to put on his own pants. We did good." | T.J. Klune | ||
| c7c071e | I was only sixteen when I'd found out the truth, still young and naive enough to believe in impossible things. She wasn't sixteen. She was in her twenties. Which meant she was cynical. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 8770b1a | I realized that I love him pure and simple. It's not a matter of logic or function. It's a matter of my heart. | T.J. Klune | ||
| f574be9 | 'God help me, yes. I don't want anything more than you. I want nothing less than you.' | love m-m-romance | T.J. Klune | |
| 6c3ccc8 | How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless? | Janny Wurts | ||
| fb7c380 | It was not possible to think except with one's brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his inner processes. | impartiality the-other | Stanisław Lem | |
| cfe0237 | Everyone knows that dragons don't exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly unconcerned with what does exist. Indeed, the banality of existence has been so amply demonstrated, there is no need for us to discuss it any further here. The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distin.. | existence non-existence philosophy science | Stanisław Lem | |
| 8885f76 | One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'. | Stanisław Lem | ||
| 72336d2 | There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 7df7734 | In general, when we are unsure of ourselves, when the situation is unclear or ambiguous, when uncertainty reigns, we are most likely to look to and accept the actions of others as correct. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 8023abd | Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 1909f23 | our typical reaction to scarcity hinders our ability to think. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 679de4a | Since 95 percent of the people are imitators and only 5 percent initiators, people are persuaded more by the actions of others than by any proof we can offer. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| c5df91c | In a best-selling book, 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (reprinted nine times by 1935), a pair of consumer-advocate authors complained that American citizens had become test animals for chemical industries that were indifferent to their customers' well-being. The government, they added bitterly, was complicit. | Deborah Blum |