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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2ae14a3 | Adventuring turned out to be boring. Zach thought back to all the fantasy books he'd read where a team of questers traveled overland, and realized a few things. First he'd pictured himself with a loyal steed that would have done most of the walking, so he hadn't anticipated the blister forming on his left heel or the tiny pebble that seemed to have worked its way under his sock, so that even when he stripped off his sneaker he couldn't find.. | fantasy humorous reality | Holly Black | |
| 13b63b3 | I forbid you from speaking aloud about your service to me. I forbid you from putting it into writing or into song. You will never tell anyone of the Roach. You will never tell anyone of any of my spies. You will never reveal their secrets, their meeting places, their safe houses. So long as I live, you will obey this. | jude oath prince-dain the-queen | Holly Black | |
| 3c8c03c | No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with. | Holly Black | ||
| 6470ec5 | I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone--truly gone beneath the waves--I hated myself as I never have before. | jude-duarte wicked-king | Holly Black | |
| 482f1c3 | He heard Tamara scream his name, and Jasper yell, "We're supposed to stay here," but Call didn't slow. He was going to be the apprentice that Aaron thought he was, the one who there was nothing wrong with. He was going to do the kind of things that got you mysterious heroic achievements on your wristband. He was going to throw himself right into the fray. He tripped over a loose stone, fell, and rolled to the bottom of the hill, banging his.. | Cassandra Clare and Holly Black | ||
| 9aac367 | Cardan's eyebrows rise, but he has all the appearance of blissful unconcern. "My lady, you flatter me. I had no idea you were interested." Her gaze is unflinching as she passes her gift to one of Cardan's personal guard. "May you grow into the wisdom of your counselors." "The fervent prayer of many," he says." | prayer wisdom | Holly Black | |
| d638aff | After all, I'm already a murderer. No one really expects a murderer to stop killing. | Holly Black | ||
| ea56645 | Apparently you can do lots of things very skilfully while asleep, Mr. Sharpe, but attending my class does not seem to be one of them. | Holly Black | ||
| d4101d3 | Each of you will have a chance to play it, and whosoever plays most sweetly, you will have it. For art is more than virtue or vice. | vice virtue | Holly Black | |
| d157c65 | Ah! A lady of mystery! My very favorite kind. | locke | Holly Black | |
| 0340717 | He leans in and closes his eyes. "Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop." I am shocked into silence." | Holly Black | ||
| 3da9267 | Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder. | Holly Black | ||
| 98ec72b | As I make my way back to the tournament and my sisters, I can't stop thinking of Cardan's shocked face, nor can I stop considering Locke's smile. I am not altogether sure which is more thrilling and which more dangerous. | Holly Black | ||
| ea51c41 | Marry me," he says. "Become the Queen of Elfhame." | Holly Black | ||
| d240676 | But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them." | Holly Black | ||
| 3119307 | Storms are less fickle than they are, seas less capricious. | Holly Black | ||
| 3d55df0 | He closed his eyes. ' ' he said, but she could hear despair in his voice. It made her even angrier. It made her want to live down to his expectations. | Holly Black | ||
| 07aa645 | Jack looked surprised when she stumbled upon him, which was odd, because he was almost never caught off guard. As his mother once said about him, Jack could hear the thunder before the lightning bothered to strike. | Holly Black | ||
| e5f8fcb | Hazel kissed boys for all kinds of reasons -- because they were cute, because she was a little drunk, because she was bored, because they let her, because it was fun, because they looked lonely, because it blotted out her fears for a while, because she wasn't sure how many kisses she had left. | Holly Black | ||
| 08d5c83 | All men are free and equal, in the grave, | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 29f17fa | Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 676daad | there are some feelings so agitated and tumultuous, that they can find rest only by being poured into the bosom of Almighty love,-- | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 863d811 | But, of old, there was One whose suffering changed an instrument of torture, degradation and shame, into a symbol of glory, honor, and immortal life; and, where His spirit is, neither degrading stripes, nor blood, nor insults, can make the Christian's last struggle less than glorious. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
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| d98b158 | You've always stood it out again' me: now, I'll conquer ye, or kill ye!--one or t' other. I'll count every drop of blood there is in you, and take 'em, one by one, till ye give up!" Tom looked up to his master, and answered, "Mas'r, if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I'd give ye my heart's blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, I'd give 'em freely, as the Lo.. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 90256ac | My view of Christianity is such, that I think no man can consistently profess it without throwing the whole weight of his being against the monstrous system of injustice that lies at the foundation of all our society... I have certainly had intercourse with a great many enlightened and Christian people who did not such thing, and I confess that the apathy of religious people on this subject, their want of perception of wrongs that filled me.. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| 7ffb17b | The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| ed42eac | I opened my mouth wide one time to see if the words I was thinking would fall out, but they wouldn't. If words don't want to come out, they don't. I don't understand when people say things and then they say, I didn't mean to say that. Words don't just fall out. You have to push them out. And sometimes, you can't push them out, even if you want to. | Tammara Webber | ||
| bc6cb59 | I heard one muffled sniff and knew she was crying. Damn Chaz. Damn Buck. Damn Lucas/Landon/whoever the hell he was. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 0079710 | I didn't change Reid Alexander. I just helped him uncover who he always was, at his core. | Tammara Webber | ||
| aeffc33 | Back at the hut, all my sister, they start to cry. "No crying," my aunt says, very strict. "You cry only in your mind." But later, when everyone else asleep, I hear my aunt, her tears, they fall like rain." | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 7faed8f | Men are embarrassingly easy to seduce. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| ca263e7 | A sixth sense cannot make up for a total lack of common sense. | psychic-powers sixth-sense | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 0e27029 | Everyone thinks at some time or other that in a hundred years no one now alive will be on earth - the overwhelming force will sweep the place clean. | Philip Roth | ||
| 8ac8a1b | Spring me from this role I play of the smothered son in the Jewish joke! Because it's beginning to pall a little at thirty-three! | Philip Roth | ||
| d0e1bfd | I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious. | Philip Roth | ||
| b173ac1 | How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy? | childhood ocean remembering | Philip Roth | |
| 3164faa | That people were manifold creatures didn't come as a surprise to the Swede, even if it was a bit of a shock to realize it anew when someone let you down. What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that made them who they were and, drained of themselves, turn into the sort of people they would once have felt sorry for. It was as though while their lives were rich and ful.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 83c52ce | Doctor Spielvogel, it alleviates nothing fixing the blame - blaming is still ailing, of course, of course - but nonetheless, what it with these Jewish parents, , that they were able to make us little Jewish boys believe ourselves to be princes on the one hand, unique as unicorns on the one hand, geniuses and brilliant like nobody has ever been brilliant and beautiful before in the history of childhood - saviors and sheer perfection on th.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 68acc6c | Worship me, she says, worship the mistery of the bleeding goddess, and you do it. You stop at nothing. You lick it. You consume it. You digest it. She penetrates you. What next, David? A glass of her urine. How long before you would have begged for her feces? I'm not against it because it's unhygienic. I'm not against it because it's disgusting. I'm against it because it's falling in love. The only obession everybody wants: 'love'. People t.. | Philip Roth | ||
| e953ae2 | Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense of what is unknown with a fantasy that is mad. Better, I thought, that the events of these past three days should remain incomprehensible to me forever than to posit, as I had just been doing, a conspiracy of foreign intelligence agents who are determined to control my mind. We've all h.. | control-my-mind indecipherable | Philip Roth | |
| a9053d2 | and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again. | old-age wholeness | Philip Roth | |
| b377fe2 | It was impossible to believe that Alan was lying in that pale, plain pine box merely from having caught a summertime disease. That box from which you cannot force your way out. That box in which a twelve-year-old was twelve years old forever. The rest of us live and grow older by the day, but he remains twelve. Millions of years go by, and he is still twelve. | Philip Roth | ||
| 7c87451 | Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind. | self-control silence | Philip Roth |