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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8daab21 | Because there was a limit to just how much you could lie to yourself. | William Goldman | ||
| 092d356 | What happens is just this: Queen Bella packs most of her wardrobe (11 pages) and travels to Guilder (2 pages). In Guilder she unpacks (5 pages), then tenders the invitation to Princess Noreena (1 page). Princess Noreena accepts (1 page). Then Princess Noreena packs all her clothes and hats (23 pages) and, together, the Princess and the Queen travel back to Florin for the annual celebration of the founding of Florin City (1 page). They reach.. | William Goldman | ||
| 7ba0f7b | Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. | pain | William Goldman | |
| 2275c46 | The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever. | humorous prince-humperdinck wedding | William Goldman | |
| 281bab4 | My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth." | Mario Puzo | ||
| 594d1a0 | I believe in friendship and I'm willing to show my friendship first. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 9408ba8 | There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 45fe3be | A man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous! | Mario Puzo | ||
| 04088da | if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important." | Mario Puzo | ||
| 7f2879d | the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk. | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 6691465 | Fuck you," Tinsley shot back, but it was one of those friendly fuck-yous that you can only say to people you love." | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 25bb5ee | Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. These are first-person memories--I memories. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief. | Jess Walter | ||
| f51d2d2 | She saw death as just another wedding she wasn't invited to. | Jess Walter | ||
| 040058f | And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned. | desires intentions life-lessons | Jess Walter | |
| d9072fa | And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow. | Jess Walter | ||
| 67fdb49 | To pitch here is to live. People pitch their kids into good schools, pitch offers on houses they can't afford, and when they're caught in the arms of the wrong person, pitch unlikely explanations. Hospitals pitch birthing centers, daycares pitch love, high schools pitch success . . . car dealerships pitch luxury, counselors self-esteem, masseuses happy endings, cemeteries eternal rest . . . It's endless, the pitching--endless, exhilarating,.. | Jess Walter | ||
| 75046c9 | With one gaze into her eyes, all words fell away. And it didn't matter at all. In this place of hearticulation, there was no need for words. This love spoke a language all its own, a grammarless lexicon of longing and union. Who needs syllables when you can hear each other's souls? | Jeff Brown | ||
| 21049e4 | The Unavailable Available Pattern." It's where you convince yourself (and others) that you are available for relationship, but you always find a way to stop short. That stopping short can manifest in many ways: choosing unavailable people, looking for excuses to run, focusing on a lover's imperfections rather than their appealing qualities, getting lost in the excitement of ecstatic possibility until the first glimpse of real vulnerability .. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 52e55e3 | Every miracle's got a mundane explanation. [...] and you can choose - you can look at the wonderous surface or you can look at the crud beneath. I want to see the wondrous, believe me. I just know it isn't going to be there when I've finished looking. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 3b69748 | I wish you'd get one thing straight - I'm not a traitor. I was never on your side. I'm called the enemy. | Karen Traviss | ||
| a703d28 | Maze: "I'm alerting HQ. Stand by." *on the private comlink* Corr: "How are you Omega? Can we help? We're really concerned that you're stranded on a shabla rock surrounded by an infinite number of natives who'll cut your gett'se off when they haul you screaming from the summit." | Karen Traviss | ||
| f2c7b1b | Is it better to not get to know them?' 'No. It's not. It's sharking your responsibility, and it's disrespectful. Get to know them, and then you fully understand the price you're asking them to pay. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 45acf63 | They often got my file mixed up and thought that I had gone to juvenile detention for being a prostitute. All I had done was date a pimp. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 1b6846c | Every day the average person will witness six miracles. But it isn't that we don't believe in miracles--we just don't believe that miracles are miracles. There are so many miracles all around us. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 29e6dc4 | A cat peeped in the window. It had one white paw. One night it had decided to dip it into the reflection of the moon in a fountain to see what would happen. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| 1c9d87c | You should beware of motherless children. They will eat you alive. You will never be loved by anyone the way that you will be loved by a motherless child. | motherless-child | Heather O'Neill | |
| e8344f8 | I turned to the page on decorated buttons and tried to ponder their beauty instead of my own loneliness, trying to will myself into being a sociopath. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| d236541 | It was raining and I had to walk on the grass. I've got mud all over my shoes. They're brand-new, too." "I'll carry you across the grass on the return trip, if you like," Colby offered with twinkling eyes. "It would have to be over one shoulder, of course," he added with a wry glance at his artificial arm. She frowned at the bitterness in his tone. He was a little fuzzy because she needed glasses to see at distances. "Listen, nobody in her .. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 82117d2 | Think about what life will be like without me because I've already considered that question. And I've decided that no life at all would be better than living without you. | Diana Palmer | ||
| 53e30cb | Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal (Candler) | romance-novels | Diana Palmer | |
| 05e4914 | Logic is overrated and superfluous when it comes to love. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 1758517 | Are you a man?'' The question slipped out, and she regretted it. Regretted injecting reality into this delicate, lovely dream of passion. ''I thought I had conclusively proved my manhood to you. Shall I do it again? | Christina Dodd | ||
| efc0f6a | If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. --STEPHEN HAWKING | Nicholas Sansbury Smith | ||
| 9bd1a3f | Evolution has taught them that pointless harm will ultimately harm themselves. | pointless-harm science self-harm | Carl Zimmer | |
| ef19fd4 | Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 3b320c6 | Some ancient eukaryote swallowed a photosynthesizing bacteria and became a sunlight gathering alga. Millions of years later one of these algae was devoured by a second eukaryote. This new host gutted the alga, casting away its nucleus and its mitochondria, keeping only the chloroplast. That thief of a thief was the ancestor or Plasmodium and Toxoplasma. And this Russian-doll sequence of events explains why you can cure malaria with an antib.. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 3500805 | The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately. | Joe Meno | ||
| 836e345 | People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. And therein lies a fascinating dichotomy. "The universe always was," gets no respect as a legitimate answer to "What was around before the beginning?" But for many religious people, the answer, "God always was," is the obvious and pleasing answer to "What was around before God?" | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 4d3a003 | And behold the greatest mystery of them all: an unopened can of diet Pepsi floats in water while an unopened can of regular Pepsi sinks. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 49ccad1 | Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all. No judgment implied. Just an observation. | cosmos science space universe | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 4289247 | But who gets to think that way? Who gets to celebrate this cosmic view of life? Not the migrant farm worker. Not the sweatshop workers. Certainly not the homeless person rummaging through the trash for food. You need the luxury of time not spent on mere survival. You need to live in a nation whose government values the search to understand humanity's place in the universe. You need a society in which intellectual pursuit can take you to the.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| cc0d2d8 | Suppose a hole were dug from one side of Earth, through the center, and out the other side. What would happen to a man if he jumped into the hole? When he got to the middle of the Earth would he keep falling or would he stop? DEBBIE CANDLER RED BUD, ILLINOIS He would be vaporized by the 11,000deg Fahrenheit temperature of the pressurized molten iron core. Ignoring this complication, he would gain speed continuously from the moment he jumped.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| b9abb7a | We have one collective hope: the Earth And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound Sufferers hurl themselves into the arms of war; people kill and get killed in the name of someone else's concept of God Do we admit that our thoughts & behaviors spring from a belief that the world revolves around us? Each fabricated conflict, self-murdering bomb, vanished airplane, every fictionalized dictator, biased or partisan,.. | avenged-sevenfold exist science | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| cb95432 | Each component of this trinity of human endeavor--science, religion, and art--lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an embrace of the mysterious. Where mystery is absent, there can be no wonder. | Neil deGrasse Tyson |