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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 826098d | Part of her wanted simply to sit and stare out of the window, at the lawn, flaky with sodden leaves, and the branches with yellow leaves, or few, or none, she thought, taking pleasure at least in Shakespeare's rhythm, but also feeling old. She took pleasure, too, in the inert solidity of glass panes and polished furniture and rows of ordered books around her, and the magic trees of life woven in glowing colours on the rugs at her feet. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 405672e | Why do you go cold?" He kept his voice gentle. "I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I have. People treat you as a kind of ;possession; if you have a certain sort of good looks. Not lively, but sort of clear-cut and-" "Beautiful." "Yes, why not. You can become a property or an idol. I don't want that. It kept happening" "It needn't." "Even you - drew back - when we met. I expect that now. I use it." "Yes. But yo.. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 8aeecdf | He had said she was provocative; so she was, she needed to prove she was there to be seen; but the proof always, contradictorily, drove her to further uncertain agony of guilt and self-distaste. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 60175c3 | Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| 54a0e10 | There are readings--of the same text--that are dutiful, readings that map and dissect, readings that hear a rustling of unheard sounds, that count grey little pronouns for pleasure or instruction and for a time do not hear golden or apples. There are personal readings, which snatch for personal meanings, I am full of love, or disgust, or fear, I scan for love, or disgust, or fear. There are--believe it--impersonal readings--where the mind's.. | reading readings subjective-readings | A.S. Byatt | |
| a8044a0 | Think of me if you will as the Lady of Shalott . . . who chooses to watch diligently the bright colours of her Web - to ply an industrious shuttle - to make - something - to close the Shutters and the Peephole too - | A.S. Byatt | ||
| b3f8fbb | Male or female, what did it matter, really, when the body yearned? | sexuality | Kate Elliott | |
| c86679c | If we prosper only through the suffering or death of another, then that is not prosperity. | Kate Elliott | ||
| c9d5c9b | Some of it was wrong decisions made for the right reasons, and a little of it was right decisions made for the wrong reasons; but most of what I did was wrong decisions for the wrong reasons. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 4228b3b | It is time,' he said, 'to collect on my wager.' He moved slowly. First, his hands sliding round me and cool light-colored hair drifting against my cheek, and then softly, so softly, the brush of lips against my brow, my eyes, and then my lips. Once, twice, thrice, but not closer. The sensations - like starfire - that glowed through me chased away from my head all thoughts save one, to close that last distance between us. I locked my finger.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| cf3d664 | How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized. | god response satan | Stormie Omartian | |
| cbe7635 | As prayer warriors, we must remember that no matter how hopeless a situation may appear to us, God gives us power in prayer to do something about it. We may be overwhelmed by it, but God isn't. We may not see a way out, but God can. Because of Him, we can make a difference! | god prayer warrriors | Stormie Omartian | |
| 3ca050e | We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 1e1d8dd | One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic mane.. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 2214883 | The sound of her breathing reminded me, as it so often did, of how vulnerable she was. And how vulnerable we were because of how much we loved her. The fear - that something could happen to her at any moment, something I'd be helpless to stop - had become so omnipresent in my life that I sometimes pictured it growing, like a third arm, out of the center of my chest. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 4a0c87b | When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home. | gangsters | Dennis Lehane | |
| a6191c1 | This was the photograph, I knew, that had already burned its way into my dreams and my shadows, into that part of my mind that I have no control over. Its image would reappear in all its wanton cruelty for the rest of my life, particularly when I was least prepared for it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 441f8af | It was the lack of a clear reason that got to her most, & it stabbed her that a relationship that had once seemed unbreakable could slip apart so easily due to nothing more than time, family turmoil, & growth spurts. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 99042ee | My blessings outweigh my regrets. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 820b856 | The trick, Teddy had long since learned, was to stay busy and stay focused. They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 08cd83a | The mind...It's an engine essentially. That's what it is. A very delicate, intricate motor. And it's got all these pieces, all these gears and bolts and hinges. And we don't even know what half of them do. But if just one gear slips, just one...Have you thought about that? It's just like a car. No different. One gear slips, one bolt cracks, and the whole system goes haywire. Can you live knowing that?" He tapped his temple. "That it's all t.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| a995a86 | you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into their energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. And in the passing, maybe a wisp of it adheres to you, grafts itself to your cells. And in this communion, the dead continue to live. Or strive to. | honoring-the-dead living | Dennis Lehane | |
| e4aff6c | scarred by wisdom she'd never asked for. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0a4b113 | After my daughter was born, I'd considered buying a shotgun to ward off potential suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as I listened to these girls babble and imagined Gabby one day talking with the same banality and ignorance of the English language, I thought of buying the same shotgun to blow my own fucking head off. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 2c9eb5e | I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: that restless feeling dissolves like butter. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| e6236cf | There were a few things she knew about Will Trent. He was tall, at least six-three, with a runner's lean body and the most beautiful legs she had ever seen on a man. His mother had been killed when he was less than a year old. He'd grown up in a children's home and never been adopted. He was a special agent with the GBI. He was one of the smartest men she had ever met, and he was so dyslexic that, as far as she could tell, he read no higher.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 92e9600 | Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| bb2900b | When somebody dies, you forget they're an asshole. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 7351a94 | You don't understand how the world works. That there are consequences you can't predict. That bad choices, bad deeds, can corrupt you. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 8dc1ee6 | People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 2092d52 | She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage. But she knew that she loved him. She needed him. He was the anchor that kept her from drifting away. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 529c7d5 | It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples. | eating untrusting | Aimee Bender | |
| 272d74d | I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it. | Aimee Bender | ||
| f58e191 | By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 3b94cf3 | I loathe him. He stands for everything I hate in Washington. The right schools, houses in Georgetown, farms in Virginia, quiet meetings at their clubs. They've got their tight little world and you don't break in--they run it all. The bastards. The superior, self-inflated gentry of Washington. They use other men's intellects, other men's work, wrapping it all into decisions bearing their imprimaturs. And if you're on the outside, you become .. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| c81277a | If I haven't done badly, it's because I've become indispensable to too many like David Abbott. I have in my head a thousand facts they couldn't possibly recall. It's simply easier for them to place me where the questions are, where problems need solutions. (Alfred Gillette) | Robert Ludlum | ||
| e33ab0e | You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake. | belief | Orson Scott Card | |
| 2609989 | And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.. | death greed grief growing-up lost lost-innocence regret saddest-thing the-end the-princess-and-the-bear too-late | Orson Scott Card | |
| 52f2aae | But I am designed to last forever," said the expendable, "if not interfered with." "Isn't that nice? Expendable yet eternal. You'll be able to go back and observe any part of human history that you wish. Watch the pyramids being unbuilt. See the ice ages go and come in reverse. Watch the de-extinction of the dinosaurs as a meteor leaps out of the Gulf of Mexico." "I will have no useful task. I will not be able to help the human race in any .. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2a338b0 | Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none." | pathfinder | Orson Scott Card | |
| 69a3176 | We have discussed your definition, analyzed its ramifications to a reasonable depth, and accept it," said the expendable. "Meaning I gave you what you wanted?" "Ambition and desire are human traits. You gave us what we lacked." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 699f759 | Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins. That's because they were stupid. | ignorance poke share stupid | Orson Scott Card | |
| 80e1c7f | Achilles acted as if he had already won, and because the other kids followed him, he had. | following power | Orson Scott Card | |
| 59a83bb | Because human nature never changes. | failure human-nature | Orson Scott Card |