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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 889624a | Priests come to my home beside the northern sea where they find an old man, and they tell me I am just a few paces from the fires of hell. I only need repent, they say, and I will go to heaven and live forevermore in the blessed company of the saints. And I would rather burn till time itself burns out. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 7a437d5 | I had no idea what I was speaking of, but only knew I must sound confident. Fear might work on a man, but confidence fights against fear. Odda | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 8b03563 | There is a thing called the blood feud. All societies have them, even the West Saxons have them, despite their vaunted piety. Kill a member of my family and I shall kill one of yours, and so it goes on, generation after generation or until one family is all dead, and Kjartan had just wished a blood feud on himself. I did not know how, I did not know where, I could not know when, but I would revenge Ragnar. I swore it that night. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 36c94de | No, fate is difficult. Is all ordained? Foreknowledge is not fate, and we may choose our paths, yet fate says we may not choose them. So if fate is real, do we have choice? | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 0e18902 | Are all Dumnonian warriors so ill-mannered?" she asked the table at large in an acid voice. "You want warriors to be courtiers?" Celwin retorted brusquely. "You'd send your precious poets to kill the Franks? And I don't mean by reciting their verses at them, though come to think of it that might be quite effective." He leered at the Queen and the three poets shuddered." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 7af28ff | War is fought in mystery. The truth can take days to travel, and ahead of truth flies rumor, and it is ever hard to know what is really happening, and the art of it is to pluck the clean bone of fact from the rotting flesh of fear and lies. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 36fe3bc | I could imagine Cnut sitting there and thinking that I must join him soon, and we would raise a horn of ale together. There is no pain in Valhalla, no sadness, no tears, no broken oaths. | cornwell the-empty-throne uhtred | Bernard Cornwell | |
| 4fbba6f | Someone wise, I forget who, said we must leave our children to fate. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| e8e16ba | It was funny, Richard Sharpe thought, that there were no vultures in England. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 0620f98 | Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering. | pain self-help suffering | A.M. Homes | |
| dabb585 | Driving a Bentley to Target- only in LA does this make sense. | A.M. Homes | ||
| 2f7bf08 | December 26, 10:00 a.m. Dear America, Miracles of miracles, I've made it through the night. When I finally woke up, I convinced myself I was worried for nothing. I vowed that I would focus on work today and not fret so much about you. I got through breakfast and most of a meeting before thoughts of you consumed me. I told everyone I was sick and am now hiding in my room, writing to you, hoping this will make me feel like you're home again.. | Kiera Cass | ||
| 450fdfd | I may say, without undue egotism, that when I make up my mind to do something, it is done quickly. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 71d9376 | I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No one would have the audacity to die when you are doctoring them. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 2c9ce06 | I am the scourge of God | insanity obsession | Peter Ackroyd | |
| 16dfe17 | If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will. | romance sarcasm | Elizabeth Peters | |
| f844606 | You certainly are a repository of useless information. How do you know all that?' David asked, with more amusement than admiration. 'I have a mind like a magpie's, easily distracted by interesting odds and ends,' Ramses admitted. | interesting-facts ramses | Elizabeth Peters | |
| eddfa7f | The Ten Worst Songs to Strip To: 1. That Midnight Oil song about aborigines | stripping | Diablo Cody | |
| 72eb1ac | Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.) | Diablo Cody | ||
| f6b62dc | Besides I'm a sucker for a pair of pretty eyes. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 21d0e8d | What are you afraid of?' I asked. 'Airplanes, guns, large predators, ad master vampires. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4160e5c | The only part of love that is blind is that first rush of endorphins and craziness; after that wears off, no one knows you as honestly, warts and all, as the people who love you, truly love you. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1730498 | I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that. | relationships | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 1c558fd | It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| e89a0d7 | The goat gave a high, questioning bleat. It was staked out in the middle of the boneyard. It was a brown-and-white-spotted goat with those strange yellow eyes they sometimes have. It had floppy white ears and seemed to like having the tope of its head scratched. Larry had petted it in the Jeep on the drive over. Always a bad idea. Never get friendly with the sacrifices. Makes it hard to kill them. I had not petted the goat. I knew better. T.. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 510e760 | I think we can do it." "But you don't know for sure," he said. "No." "Geez, Anita." "Don't get rattled on me. We can do this." "But you aren't sure." "I'm not sure we'll survive the plane ride home, but I'm still getting on the plane." "Was that supposed to be comforting?" he asked. "Yeah." "It wasn't," he said. "Sorry, but this is as good as it gets. You want certainty, be an accountant." "I'm not good at math." "Me either." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 7eef63c | Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job. | love | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 6d76e75 | He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| c458226 | Jean-Claude's eyes widened just a bit. 'Ma petite, you have had a busy night, I see.' His French accent was as thick as I'd heard it in a while, which meant he was feeling strong emotions that he couldn't quite hide, but he was trying. I appreciated the effort, because the accent alone meant that what he wanted to say was his version of, You are covered in blood and worse, which means you were in horrible danger and probably nearly died ..... | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 6782fe8 | I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 113157f | Real ghosts are so much easier to deal with than the kind we carry around in our heads. Most people haunt themselves more effectively than any spirit. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| d85f8a4 | was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| b0b74ff | That's what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love. | menage shifters vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| c3ae719 | It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how do you tell the difference? | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 68ad40b | It was after 2:00 A.M. before we got back to the graveyard. The Feds had kept us forever, like they didn't believe we were telling them the whole truth. Fancy that. I hated being accused of concealing evidence when I wasn't. Made me want to lie to them just so they wouldn't be disappointed. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 128fd53 | It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires. | ardeur jean-claude narcissus-in-chains richard thirst vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| a793d88 | Why, you may ask, didn't we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the farmers why he wanted the cow. The God-fearing folk would sell their cows to be eaten, but not for raising zombies. Prejudiced bastards. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 2085f47 | just because it's childish and unfair doesn't mean it isn't the way I felt. Stupid, but true. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 51b5113 | I talk to myself every once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it. I | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 885e469 | Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed. | cat humor magic | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 68660b7 | Fears are not meant to be shared; they're meant to be conquered. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f64d8d5 | I really wish the "normal" people would leave us freaks alone and stop trying to save us. We get by, we take care of each other, and the people who cost the freaks their jobs didn't give them employment, or a place to stay, or a family to be a part of; they just destroyed their world and felt morally superior for doing it." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 95bdcd2 | The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. | Luke Davies | ||
| f021e10 | It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. And it feels like being born | Luke Davies |