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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1fe05ea | His mouth landed on mine, crashed into mine, and I might've stopped breathing. He pulled me up against him, until only the tips of my toes remained on the carpet, and all the interesting parts were nearly lined up, chest to chest, hip to hip. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4b55302 | That was what I wanted at some point in my life, for someone to look at me the way I looked at tacos. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2dc4d44 | no soy el tipo de persona que huye de algo, no importa lo dificil que sea. Preferiria plantar la cara contra una pared de ladrillos que vivir por el resto de mi vida preguntandome como pudo haber sido. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 64a31d5 | I'm not some random guy you just met. I'm not someone who doesn't know that what's at the core of you is worth working at, breaking through those walls for." Oh my God. "People don't get second chances often, Sasha, but we got one, and I'm not going to let that pass us by." "A second chance?" I repeated dumbly. "For us?" "That's what I'm thinking." Stunned, I was quiet for a moment. "What if I don't want a second chance?" He laughed. "Oh, .. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| dae50f5 | I was intrigued by the idea of someone being stuck anywhere. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 3d0ad7e | We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration of the self. This development part of what distinguishes the "modern" from the "early modern" has shaped the work of many of our most celebrated authors, whose personal experiences indelibly and visibly mark their writing. It's fair to say that the fiction and poetry of many of the .. | readers-and-writers reading | James Shapiro | |
| 94786e5 | During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks." | Max Brooks | ||
| 50b7f48 | I can't tell you if this is the right path; the future is too mountainous to see to far ahead. ... Only 'the gods' know what awaits us at its end. | Max Brooks | ||
| 4684989 | So I put it out of its misery, if it really was miserable, and tried not to think about it. That was another thing they taught us at Willow Creek: don't write their eulogy, don't try to imagine who they used to be, how they came to be here, how they came to be this. I know, who doesn't do that, right? Who doesn't look at one of those things and just naturally start to wonder? It's like reading the last page of a book... your imagination jus.. | Max Brooks | ||
| e07e193 | The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding. | zombies | Max Brooks | |
| 94f7ab6 | and that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude. --Arthur Sinclair | Max Brooks | ||
| d4532ac | First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own dreams bring to us. The terms and settings of the old myths are strange; they seem archaic and distant to us, but if we listen to them carefully and take them seriously, we begin to hear and to understand. | Robert A. Johnson | ||
| d54de36 | So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 3e26721 | In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex, and therefore without any of the tumultuous emotions that arise... | emotion | H.G. Wells | |
| a047e98 | He, I know - for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made - thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 4c5d94a | In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 3393efb | A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all." The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lampshade, the white cloth with it silver and glass table furniture--for in those days even philosophical writers had luxuries--t.. | dodos extinction foreshadowing overconfidence shortsightedness | H.G. Wells | |
| 069fb44 | But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours -- that's another matter. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 49b1726 | For it is just this question of pain that parts us. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your own pains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions about sin,--so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely what an animal feels. | pain | H.G. Wells | |
| 20fcea8 | There is still something in everything I do that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort. Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it, but always I fall short of the things I dream. | H.G. Wells | ||
| ad81706 | Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, | H.G. Wells | ||
| 172dd3d | Over me, about me, closing in on me, embracing me ever nearer, was the Eternal, that which was before the beginning and that which triumphs over the end; that enormous void in which all light and life and being is but the thin and vanishing splendour of a falling star, the cold, the stillness, the silence, - the infinite and final Night of space. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 3fa43b1 | I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 05a7ccb | growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination | H.G. Wells | ||
| 89ca8ce | He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills. | H.G. Wells | ||
| c569b44 | This was selfish and wasteful. Cowardly. Nobody should voluntarily give up on life. If it was your time to die, death would calmly claim you. Otherwise it was your duty to press on and live. P29 | Darren Shan | ||
| c67c4a6 | Kernel grins. "To the death, Master Grady?" "To the death, Master Fleck," I grin back. Then we both say together, "But not ours!" | kernel-fleck | Darren Shan | |
| bfc16f3 | Look at me!" I roar. "Do you think you'll be the first I've killed today? I wasn't a murderer, but you changed me. I'm a monster now. And I'm hungry." "Meera!" Anotoine whines. "Prae! Please, I beg you. You're civilised people. Help me!" "We can't," Prae says coldly. "Even if we wanted to - and personally I have no problem with him gutting you - we couldn't. He's not ours to control. He's one of your specimens. You helped create him - now.. | Darren Shan | ||
| 7043182 | First of all," he said, with a sly smile, "we have to kill you!" | Darren Shan | ||
| be03c00 | The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl. | destiny destruction werewolf | Darren Shan | |
| 703e39f | If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned. | destiny mankind | Darren Shan | |
| 3cf2593 | Find the heroism within yourself to play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. | Darren Shan | ||
| beda189 | Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character. | darren-shan election human larten-crepsley mortal mortals politics power qualities strength vampaneze vampire | Darren Shan | |
| bc089a0 | Alive is better than dead. Always. | Darren Shan | ||
| 55a2106 | Shut up!" I say, holding my hands to my ears. "Shut up!" But the stupid gummy won't shut up; he's trying to tell me something important even though I'm covering my ears and I don't want to hear it and I don't want to think about who I am or what's wrong with me or why I'm out here at the edge of the Urb, at the edge of the known world, listening to some old mope who's so crazy, he think about the future when everyone knows that the future d.. | denial future | Rodman Philbrick | |
| 691e437 | For the last week or so it's like getting jabbed with a little needle every time I hear that word. Gram is trying to pretend how excited she is I'm finally in the eighth grade, like this is a really big deal. Which is a joke, because the only reason I got passed from seventh grade is because they figured this way the big butthead can be -- quote -- someone else's problem, thank God, we've had quite enough of Maxwell Kane -- unquote. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 0c129c2 | Captain Sophia Coloma looked every inch of what she was, which was the sort of person who was not here to put up with your shit. | John Scalzi | ||
| f39e22b | Which is why Mom, when she's being indiscreet, refers to the trophy room as the "vet's office." Because that's where Dad brings people to take their balls." | John Scalzi | ||
| fa402eb | How do you like your peace now, motherfucker? | John Scalzi | ||
| 482cf08 | Whether you're an extra or the hero, this story is about to end. When it's done, whatever you want to be will be up to you and only you. It will happen away from the eyes of any audience and from the hand of any writer. You will be your own man. | John Scalzi | ||
| 33c4ba1 | You're an interesting person, Jack." Sullivan said. "I wish I could figure out what you were thinging when you punched Stern and turned on Isabel." "Well, I think that's the thing." Holloway said. "I think it's clear that sometimes I just don't think." "I think you do." Sullivan said. "It's just you think about you first. The not thinking part comes right after that." | John Scalzi | ||
| 9e025b8 | Other science fiction shows had science advisers and consultants," Hanson pointed out. "It's science fiction, " Weinstein said. "The second part of that phrase matters too." "But you're making it bad science fiction," Hester said. "And we have to live in it." | John Scalzi | ||
| 87b5c73 | Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the person you want to kill. | John Scalzi | ||
| 9cb2c18 | the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked. | John Scalzi |