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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fd57220 | Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern journalism. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 0fca4ff | Of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9c845e6 | What the gods are supposed to be, what the priests are commissioned to say, is not a sensational secret like what those running messengers of the Gospel had to say. Nobody else except those messengers has any Gospel; nobody else has any good news; for the simple reason that nobody else has any news. Those runners gather impetus as they run. Ages afterwards they still speak as if something had just happened. They have not lost the speed and .. | revival revolution | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 6418e03 | Plato in some sense anticipated the Catholic realism, as attacked by the heretical nominalism, by insisting on the equally fundamental fact that ideas are realities; that ideas exist just as men exist. Plato however seemed sometimes almost to fancy that ideas exist as men do not exist; or that the men need hardly be considered where they conflict with the ideas. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| c4e1298 | People like frequent laughter," answered Father Brown, "but I don't think they like a permanent smile. Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7478b6b | The devotee is entirely free to criticise; the fanatic can safely be a sceptic. Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| b24d20a | When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb, I keep my secret still. Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet: | palm-sunday poem | G.K. Chesterton | |
| ec4fa04 | Every trace of the passionate plumage of the cloudy sunset had been swept away, and a naked moon stood in a naked sky. The moon was so strong and full, that (by a paradox often to be noticed) it seemed like a weaker sun. It gave, not the sense of bright moonshine, but rather of a dead daylight. | moon | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 1b398d0 | Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 2f83b5f | The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is, it calls any moral method unpractical, when it has just called any practical method immoral. | francis-of-assisi secular-dogma | G.K. Chesterton | |
| b00cdaa | The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. | orthodoxy right wrong | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8efdac4 | And for most of that time, wisdom has had to work in secret, whispering her words, moving like a spy through the humble places of the world while the courts and palaces are occupied by her enemies. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 735a8fe | He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves--the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself. Matter loves matter. It seeks to know more about itself, and Dust is formed. | Philip Pullman | ||
| f2effa8 | I felt as if something all passionately believed in depended on carrying on with something I didn't. | Philip Pullman | ||
| ce1c303 | She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply. | faith forgiveness god hope love mary-magdalene prostitution redemption religion second-chances | Philip Pullman | |
| 31d1684 | I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you say, I'll always be thinking about it, and if I end up doing that, I'll feel resentful because it'll feel as I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else. | inspirational | Philip Pullman | |
| 76b89fe | I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about for ever, all my atoms, till I find you again... I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers .. | love northern-lights the-amber-spyglass the-golden-compass the-subtle-knife | Philip Pullman | |
| 8bf5995 | Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 8c3d6ea | There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 506e18e | You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less. | Philip Pullman | ||
| d0fd824 | Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way. | hope | Philip Pullman | |
| 9d1b6ca | Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn't be done in a day. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 11de1a1 | Things turn up in strange places all the time. For example library books, which possess a disconcerting ability to move from place to place, seemingly of their own volition. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 1231e96 | A year and a half had indeed made some changes in Veda's appearance. She was still no more than medium height, but her haughty carriage made her seem taller. The hips were as slim as ever, but had taken on some touch of voluptuousness. The legs were Mildred's, to the last graceful contour. But the most noticeable change was what Monty brutally called the Dairy: two round, swelling protuberances that had appeared almost overnight on the high.. | James M. Cain | ||
| 5c69863 | Names are deeply meaningful to your brain, and misleading names add chaos to your code. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 766480e | Don't gloss over a routine or piece of code involved in the bug because you "know" it works. Prove it. Prove it in this context, with this data, with these boundary conditions." | Andrew Hunt | ||
| f8b9a0a | Most twenty-four-year-old women I know sleep in something more revealing. Something more adult." I raised my eyebrows. "There is nothing wrong with my Hello Kitty T-shirt." It was thin and comfortable, and it reached to my mid-thigh, which meant that if I had to get up in the middle of the night to dispatch any intruders, I'd do it with my butt covered and modesty intact. Sean frowned. "Sure, if you're five. Got a touch of arrested developm.. | sean-evans | Ilona Andrews | |
| 28582c0 | And those who love us most lie to us most of all, | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5ad082a | Either you can work on both, or you can keep thinking with your balls. It's your choice. Say 'pop.'" "Pop?" "That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass. If you stick it back up there again, there is nothing I can do about it. This is the only lecture you'll ever get from me." I headed for the door." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 03193d6 | PARTY STARTER. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4e8c848 | Arland hit me with another smile. Vampire smiles should really be outlawed. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| df17f5b | When in doubt and in need of information, find a snitch and squeeze him. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f846f57 | Greedy can be bought, timid can be frightened, smart can be persuaded, but the zealots are immune to money, fear, or reason | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 449b71c | He hung his head. "Am I punished?" "Yes. I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart." | ilona-andrews on-the-edge wal-mart walmart | Ilona Andrews | |
| 1493625 | No." Roman got up off his chair. "The wedding night is for you and Curran. The wedding is for everyone else and it's the price you pay so you can get to the wedding night." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f6e0ff3 | Quillonians were a reclusive race, proud, prone to drama, and violent when cornered. A couple of them had stayed at my parents' inn, and as long as everything went their way, they were perfectly cordial, but the moment any small problem appeared, they would start putting exclamation marks at the end of all their sentences. My mother didn't like dealing with them. She was very practical. If you brought a problem to her, she'd take it apart a.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5b01f89 | He hit her with his best smile. Her eyes widened. She took a deep breath. "Oh no, not that seductive face. I'm overcome with the need to take off these awful clothes. What is happening? I do not understand. Oooh. Ahhh." She touched her wrist to her forehead. "Somebody help me. I'm being drenched with my own fluids." " | the-edge | Ilona Andrews | |
| b4abae8 | The double doors separating the private dining room from the rest of Bernard's swung open. A tall broad-shouldered body filled the doorway. Hugh d'Ambray strode into the room. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0a7c027 | You want me to go back into that house protected by a magic sticky note?" "Don't even start," I told him. "It's working. If it weren't working, you couldn't drag me into that place." "What did you write on here? 'Don't die'?" "No, I wrote, 'Don't be an a-hole!'" I headed for the house. "On yours or mine?" | humor jim magic | Ilona Andrews | |
| 843129f | Cajun stomp?" "You heard me, swamper. And keep your hands to yourself." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| af4388a | Some people in the world only saw in black and white. They were driven by fear. They had learned how to survive in their little corner of the world and they saw any change as a threat to their survival. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 27b883e | Kate Daniels, deadly swordswoman and rescuer of hungry orphans. "Come in. Wash your hands." | urban-fantasy-series | Ilona Andrews | |
| da6947f | The newcomer struck him as an enterprising sort of man. The kind that would slit your throat for a box of tissues in your bag while you slept. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 396bdd6 | I'd appreciate it if in the future when you come up with a plan that makes a hardened criminal pause, you could at least give me the gist of it ahead of time. In broad strokes. | richard | Ilona Andrews |