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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19c6f95 | Come gather 'round hardy men of the steppes and listen to my tale of heroes bold and friendships fast and the Tyrant of Icenwind Dale of a band of friends by trick or by deed bred legends for the bard the baneful pride of the one poor wretch and the horror of the Crystal Shard. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| b201a5d | We've dug our holes and hallowed caves Put goblin foes in shallow graves This day our work is just begun In the mines where silver rivers run Beneath the stone the metal gleams Torches shine on silver streams Beyond the eyes of he spying sun In the mines where silver rivers run The hammers chime on Mithral pure As dwarven mines in days of yore A craftsman's work is never done In the mines where silver rivers run To dwarven gods we sing or p.. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| d1849fd | There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 501342a | Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 7c58866 | I am sorry," was all Drizzt could quietly mouth. Vierna shook her head, refusing any apology. To Drizzt, it seemed as if that buried part of her that was Zaknafein Do'Urden's daughter approved of this ending." | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 181d719 | Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| ff9e85d | It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go. | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| 99272c6 | I thought I could save a very worthwhile person. | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| 1170892 | Instead of waiting for our attention to be pulled towards something unusual, we can set out frameworks for 'directing' our attention in a conscious manner. | Edward de Bono | ||
| 39ce640 | Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough. | Edward De Bono | ||
| 693574a | There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69) | logic prejudice | Edward De Bono | |
| b36c29d | A fine man", observed my sister, pouring mead for the two of us. "Well trained." | Juliet Marillier | ||
| db293a7 | There is the darkness of a moonless night out of doors, and there is the darkness of a house with its shutters closed and the lamps quenched. There is the darkness of sleep, relieved by the bright images of dreams. But no darkness is as complete, as blanketing, as terrifying as the utter darkness of underground. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| b2f1e8d | Because, when I was away, I couldn't stop thinking about you. Part of me said, yes, it was the right thing to do, for your sake; part of me recognized the kind of man I am, the kind of work I do, the utter impossibility of it. But the other part of me... I felt your absence like a wound. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 3d505ad | Though it was dark, I could see how his eyes came alive with enthusiasm and the way he used his hands to illustrate with surprising grace. There were hidden depths beneath that impassive exterior. A sweet kernel shielded by a tough shell; dancing fire concealed in stone. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 5be32fd | Man sets his hand to games of power and influence, he quests for far horizons and wealth beyond imagining. He thinks to own what cannot be possessed. He hews the ancient trees to broaden his grazing lands; he mines the deep caves and topples the standing stones. He embraces a new faith with fervor and, perhaps, with sincerity. But he grows ever further from the old things. He can no longer hear the heartbeat of the earth, his mother. He can.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 988ff10 | Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back. | juliet-marillier romance | Juliet Marillier | |
| bd515cd | Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer on earth. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| a87a33e | I realized that I had demanded that my parents accept me but had resisted accepting them. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| ee569bf | If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 0436743 | If you stimulate seizures in an animal every day, the seizures eventually become automatic; the animal will go on having them once a day even if you withdraw the stimulation. In much the same way, the brain that has gone into depression a few times will continue to return to depression over and over. This suggests that depression, even if it is occasioned by external tragedy, ultimately changes the structure, as well as the biochemistry, of.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| e31195f | My grandmother had never been very political, and she sure didn't follow high finance. But decades later, she was still repeating her line that she knew two things about Franklin Roosevelt: He made it safe to put money in banks and---she always paused here and smiled---he did a lot of other good things. And that was my pitch to Congressman Frank. Start with something that people understand, something that solves a problem they can see. Do t.. | Elizabeth Warren | ||
| b8c7322 | I'm so bad with people I can't even win an argument with myself. | people-skills | Mercedes Lackey | |
| fe3e42d | When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman. | men-vs-women | Mercedes Lackey | |
| f329441 | Yeah, well, that's what you said the last time it did this, and it was doing it that time too,' Tiercel said waspishly. Clear as mud,' Harrier muttered. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 1c4f88d | My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be," Gan said pleasantly." | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| e89d4d8 | There are no excuses," he said at last. "But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way." | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 510dd03 | If you don't look after your fellow man, if you think that what you want is always more important than what anyone else wants or needs, you're not human, and that's that. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 82b0477 | He sometimes had nightmares that featured e-mail. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 726c8a4 | Not because they're dead. Though unattainability is always attractive. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 4687aee | Here all of nature was captured, labeled, arranged according to a logic that seemed as timeless as if ordered by God, perhaps a God who had mislaid the original paperwork on the Creation and had requested the Field Museum staff to help him out and keep track of it all. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 9024ada | I fell asleep. But later that night I woke up. There was moonlight coming through the window, and shadows of tree branches fell onto the bed, waving gently in the breeze." "And then you saw the ghost?" James laughed. "Dear chap, the branches WERE the ghost. There weren't any trees within a hundred yards of that house. They'd all been cut down years before. I saw the ghost of a tree." | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 245fa1e | Each of them warmed to the sound of the other's voice. They lay in the dark together, in distant cities, each of them thinking, We were lucky this time. And they pressed their phones closer to their ears, and both of them wondered how much longer this separation could go on. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ccffd88 | Time is nothing - Henry's Letter to Claire | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| d55c01d | Everything is still out there: the rooftops and chimneys, the graffiti, the office towers and the cyclists; soon there will be sheep and that immense sky the keep out in the countryside... Once I thought there were two realities, inner and outer, but perhaps that's a bit meagre; I'm not quite the same person I was last night... | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 9569f9d | But don't you think that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life? | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 55ec374 | Jessica put out her hand and braced herself against the door jamb. She experienced one of those rare moments when understanding of the world alters and a previously impossible thing is admitted, if not understood. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| c252299 | I want my own bed, in my own apartment. Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. | love | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| ead270a | Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser." | ashamed child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-survivor coverup defective defective-humans dunce false-self feeling-bad healing healing-insights hidden-feelings hidden-pain hidden-self incest loser overachiever power-trip puritan recovery-from-abuse shame survivor toxic-shame true-self | Maureen Brady | |
| a9347c8 | This is bullshit. You think I care what other people think? What does age have to do with it? Why can't you be that girl? As for what I want to do with my life, why can't I figure that out with you? | Susan Mallery | ||
| 91f0223 | I don't do this," he continued. "I don't get involved. But I've never wanted anyone as much as I want you. It started out as chemistry, pure sexual attraction. I don't even know what to call it. But it's different now. It's bigger and I can't control it and I can't not be with you." -- | Susan Mallery | ||
| c19c345 | Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked. | career-advice | Susan Mallery | |
| f1dc4c5 | I'm starting to remember that it's okay when things don't turn out right the first time. I can always try again and get it right. | jenna | Susan Mallery | |
| 8ea1233 | I'm very comfortable being right," she admitted. "We all are. But sometimes it's a lonely place." | claire jesse | Susan Mallery |