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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b18e17 | I'm not going to live with you!" a small voice shouted from the kitchen doorway. Beth looked past Keith to see Ben, his expression horrified. Ben started to back away. "I'm not going to do it!" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 152d6a9 | He looks pretty broken up about the fact he won't see me tonight." "Absolutely crushed," Sarah agreed with a nod. "We were supposed to rent a movie together, you know." Sarah shrugged. "It must be terrible to be forgotten so easily." Miles laughed. He was smitten about her, no doubt about it." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 5ffd32f | You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made. It didn't | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3e41a6b | And some time after midnight on that clear October evening, Noah was overcome with longing. And if anyone had seen him, they would have seen what looked like an old man, someone who'd aged a lifetime in just a couple of hours. Someone bent over in his rocker with his face in his hands and tears in his eyes. He didn't know how to stop them. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1b7defa | the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible, attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 982096e | How do you innovate? First, try to get in trouble. I mean serious, but not terminal, trouble. I hold--it is beyond speculation, rather a conviction--that innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity (from the unintended side effects of, say, an initial invention or attempt at invention). | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| fe983df | Grief is always the price we pay for love | love | Nicholas Sparks | |
| d8a6b28 | You're a good girl and always have been, but deep down, you think there's more to life than always following the rules, and there's a part of you that craves the unknown. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 99b13c8 | Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 5ff6e1f | Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| f436abb | Look around. It's almost gone. If only someone had told me that before. About life. If only I had understood. | inspirational life life-is-short understanding | Marisha Pessl | |
| 69e4745 | So I would die in here. I'd leave my little life. I'd barely worn it out. Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closest, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| c9007b5 | You think you know everything. But you don't. Life and people are right in front of you and you act superior and make jokes but it's just a cover for the fact that you're scared. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| a89a997 | All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and when it comes to the Holiday Season, happy families can abruptly become unhappy and unhappy families can, to their great alarm, be happy | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 07c7c22 | It's one of these juvenile therapy scams," he went on, sprinkling a pinch of the Golden Virginia tobacco along the rolling paper. "They advertise help for your troubled teen by staring at the stars and singing 'Kumbaya'. Instead, it's a bunch of bearded nutjobs left in charge of some of the craziest kids I've ever seen in my life--bulimics, nymphos, cutters trying to saw their wrists with the plastic spoons from lunch. You wouldn't believe .. | depression life mental-health suicide teenagers | Marisha Pessl | |
| 9f1259c | It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 6181126 | Dad once noted (somewhat morbidly, I thought at the time) that American institutions would be infinitely more successful in facilitating the pursuit of knowledge if they held classes at night, rather than in the daytime, from 8:00 PM to 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning. As I ran through the darkness, I understood what he meant. Frank red brick, sunny classrooms, symmetrical quads and courts--it was a setting that mislead kids to believe that Kno.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 94cb1b3 | But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 1826da9 | I pretended not to notice, but Dad looked sort of deflated there on the edge of my bed. A lost, even humbled look was wandering around his face (quite surprised to be there). Seeing him like this, so un-Dad, made me feel sorry for him - though I didn't let on. His befuddled expression reminded me of those unflattering photographs of presidents The New York Times and other newspapers adored sticking on their front page in order to show the w.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 868d810 | But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better. Increasing the scale, the depth of content, the univer.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 88d632c | The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| ba0bf89 | He's hot, Lula said, but he's a pig. All men are pigs. Do you really believe that? No but it's a point of view to keep in mind . You don't want to go around thinkin' shit is your fault. Next thing you know, they got you makin' pot roast ad you're cutting up your mastercard. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 66c8500 | Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff?" - Aunt Edna" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 3a895a9 | Ranger slung an arm around my shoulders and kissed me on the top of my head. "Someday I need to talk to you about car care." "I know about car care. I kept a case of motor oil in the back." "That's my girl." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9186fa4 | He rooted for the Mets, he wore Foot of the Loom underwear, and he drove a Buick. His loyalties were carved in stone and he wasn't about to be impressed with some upstart of a toaster salesman who drove a Bonneville. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d9ee994 | I smell vampire" -Lula "You're a Nut" -Stephine "Well I smell something." -Lula "Mold." -Stephine "Yeah. I smell moldy vampire" -Lula" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| adfb601 | I looked down at my bloody shirt and jeans. "My face hurts all over," I said to Ranger. "Where's all the blood coming from?" "You're getting a bruise on your cheek. You have a small cut on your lower lip. You were bleeding from your nose, but that seems to have stopped. You have a puncture wound on your neck." "I'm a mess!" Ranger wrapped his arms around me and held me close. "You're beautiful. You evacuated the hotel and you delivered Vlat.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 0b9c4a3 | Connie, giving her thoughts on why Vinnie's hot temper is less than normal, says: "Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning." | humorous vinnie | Janet Evanovich | |
| 2b26ee0 | We're not going to die. You're with me kiddo and it just happens I know a few survival skills." "Oh yeah right. Like carrying your Visa Gold in case the restaurant doesn't accept American Express." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d28c6ff | It has been my experience that the only normal people are those you don't know very well. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a009f74 | That's disappointing," Nick said. "I was hoping to see you in action again. It's kind of sexy in a violent, perverted sort of way." "Gosh, knowing that makes my day complete." "I thought you'd want me to be open about my feelings now that we're married." | married | Janet Evanovich | |
| afb222b | Your cousin Maureen just got a job at the button factory. They're probably still hiring." Helen Plum" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 83b96cd | I slipped the acres of pink taffeta over my head and struggled to get it zipped. What had originally been a dress from the Little House on the Prairie collection was now straight out of the Little Whore-house on the Prairie collection. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 0d94612 | It wouldn't kill you to flirt a little, so I don't remember this assignment as totally sucking. I'm babysitting a guy who thinks he's a leprechaun, and I'm rescuing a has-been horse. The least you could do I grab my ass once in a while. | flirting stephanie-plum | Janet Evanovich | |
| 15e541c | Ranger stood and stretched, his black T-shirt rode up, and I caught a glimpse of two inches of brown skin and hard abs and almost had an orgasm. "Babe," he said. "Are you okay?" "Yep. Why?" "You sort of moaned." "Gas." "Understandable." We took the elevator to the lobby and looked in at the bar. Filled with men speaking Russian." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e767048 | That shooting gave me an appetite," she said. "Somebody pass | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 83aa0b1 | You don't have to be there to be there. | kate o-hare-and-fox the-heist | Janet Evanovich | |
| c2ce3a2 | His pager beeped, and he looked at the readout. "I have to get back to Deal. Do you have any secret weapons in your arsenal? You want to make any last-ditch efforts at apprehension?" Ugh. He was so smug! "I hate you," I said. "No, you don't," Ranger said, kissing me lightly on the lips. "Why did you agree to meet me?" Our eyes locked for a moment. And then he cuffed me. Both hands behind my back." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 50a475f | Morelli was wearing a blazer over a black knit shirt, He took a seat, and his jacket swung wide, exposing the gun at his hip. "Nice piece!" Grandma said. "What is it? Is that a forty-five?" "It's a nine- millimeter." "Don't suppose you'd let me see it," Grandma said. "I'd sure like to get the feel of a gun like that." "No!" said everyone in unison. "I shot a chicken once," Grandma explained to Morelli. "It was an accident." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 07b7e70 | Pretty much everything about you gets me hot. | paranormal-suspense | Jayne Ann Krentz | |
| 12fdd6e | The key to loving how you live is in knowing what it is you truly love. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 9fd6694 | as the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 6887c8f | How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| 659a464 | The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread. | Fulton J. Sheen |