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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a014262 | Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine. | David Mitchell | ||
| 579cc86 | both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate) | selective-hearing willful-ignorance | David Mitchell | |
| cdb51e7 | Pity is a form of abuse.' | David Mitchell | ||
| 70c2345 | Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. | David Mitchell | ||
| e4a7352 | I feel sad that I found what I searched for, but no longer want what I found. | David Mitchell | ||
| 06c4079 | Shiroyama's heart stops. The earth's pulse beats against his ear. An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth ... ... a black butterfly lands on the white stone, and unfolds its wings. | life | David Mitchell | |
| 1675e58 | Power is the ability to make someone do what they otherwise wouldn't, or deter them from doing what they otherwise would. | David Mitchell | ||
| b54a4f4 | An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. | David Mitchell | ||
| 9d48722 | Beg pardon?" I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into." | David Mitchell | ||
| eba3546 | This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think. | David Mitchell | ||
| b63478a | Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think of when I wake, and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, even if J. is in my bed. She should understand, the artist lives in two worlds. | David Mitchell | ||
| a100357 | marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don't be alarmed, and don't resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. In the long run, it's the unasked-for hot-water bottles on winter nights that matter more than the extravagant gestures. | David Mitchell | ||
| a33a79f | Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm." "You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?" | community home rootlessness | David Mitchell | |
| d1eeccd | You look for your meaning. You find it, and at that moment, your meaning changes, and you have to start all over again. | David Mitchell | ||
| f057694 | Sex-positive feminism embraces the entire range of human sexuality and is based on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component of women's freedom. - Madison Young | freedom sex-positive | Tristan Taormino | |
| 425a51b | She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance. | love soldier | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 02dcd0f | Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| fce1c8a | Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160 | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 2cc474a | peeps cant turn into anything smaller than what they are. where would the extra mass go | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| f67154f | He shook with another sob, sinking to one knee and realizing that the survival of that one ship - one girl, really - had been for a moment more important than the war itself, or a city's millions. Then the wind shifted, and Alek breathed in the burnt-meat smells that filled the room behind him. Important enough for him to kill a man, it seemed. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 784697f | There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English." "The word for what?" "I just said I don't *know* it!" | deryn | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 24a0859 | but loving had left her skinless. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| cdeeaa0 | The universe is math on fire. | fire math numbers theory universe | Scott Westerfeld | |
| c0a0921 | Blurbs don't work anymore!" was another. "You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!" seemed at best debatable." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| f1ef3da | I would have killed him to save the Leviathan. To save you." He put his hands on her shoulders. "It was the only thing in my mind, when it came time to choose - that I couldn't lose you. That's when I knew." -- | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 47f3b57 | I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 39d11f8 | Good-bye, good-bye,' muttered Gwystyl. 'I hate to see you waste your time, not to mention your lives. But that's the way of it, I suppose. Here today, gone tomorrow, and what's anyone to do about it? Good-bye. I hope we meet again. But not soon. Good-bye. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 0f5b322 | I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might come along with me for the sport of it. He sent back a message. All it said was 'Humph! | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 34c0b83 | Of wisdom there are as many patterns as a loom can weave. Yours is the wisdom of good and kindly heart. Scarce it is and its worth all the greater. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 1016a52 | Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them. | humorous magic meddling | Lloyd Alexander | |
| bb1e3de | A lady doesn't insist on having her own way. Then, next thing you know, it all works out somehow, without one's even trying. I thought I'd never learn, though it's really quite easy once you get the knack. | eilonwy magick | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 5da9d1d | Prince of Naga-loka. I'm grateful. You're a fine fellow." He stuck out his tongue and grinned wickedly. "For a royal wriggler." " , O flea-ridden tree-climber," Shesha replied, with a fond glint in his eyes. "May your life be as long as you insolence is great." | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 9e7ea65 | Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up through your own choice." | choice duty medwyn taran will | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 5c61b5e | Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| aeec223 | I ask no comfort," Taran replied, "but the truth, be it harsh or happy." "Ah, my sweet robin," said Orddu, "for the finding of that, nothing is harder. There are those who have spent lifetimes at it, and many in worse plight than yours." | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 140570d | Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart | Silas House | ||
| 6d10759 | It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others. | happiness sorrow | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 48f808d | Every body knows Aunty. Stoan boans and iron tits and teef be twean her legs plus she has a iron willy for the ladys it gets red hot. When your time comes you have to do the juicy with her like it or not. She rides a girt big rat with red eyes it can see in the dark and it can smel whos ready for Aunty. Even if they dont know it ther selfs the rat can smel if theyre ready. | Russell Hoban | ||
| e4fb2df | Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it like Ahab with the White Whale. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. Even in matriarchal societies I doubt that there were ever female Beowulfs. Women lie with gods and demons but they don't go looking for monsters to fight with. Ariadne gave Theseus a clew.. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 69db544 | Had you 'artists' had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train terminal," Ignatius snorted." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 97a9a2d | The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 8d9f301 | But now I speculate re the ants' invisible organ of aggregate thought... if, in a city park of broad reaches, winding paths, roadways, and lakes, you can imagine seeing on a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon the random and unpredictable movement of great numbers of human beings in the same way... if you watch one person, one couple, one family, a child, you can assure yourself of the integrity of the individual will and not be able to divine .. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 680f78b | The ultimate technological achievement will be escaping from the mess we've made. There will be none after that because we will reproduce everything that we did on earth, we'll go through the whole sequence all over again somewhere else, and people will read my paper as prophecy, and know that having gotten off one planet, they will be able to destroy another with confidence. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 51106db | Grandmamma had been the last connection to our past. I had understood her as some referent moral authority to whom we paid no heed, but by whose judgments we measured our waywardness. | E.L. Doctorow |