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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19b62fa | Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witch queen. She was wiser by far than any short-lived human, but she had not the slightest idea of how like a child she seemed beside these ancient beings. Nor did she know how far their awareness spread out beyond her like filamentary tentacles to the remotest corners of universes she had never dreamed of; nor that she saw them as human-formed .. | angels beautiful-quote ruta-skadi witches | Philip Pullman | |
| 114ee82 | Lady Harborough... was on the platform, making a short speech in which she described the valuable work her hospital fund was doing. It seemed to consist largely of rescuing unmarried mothers from poverty and subjecting them to slavery instead, with the additional disadvantage of being preached at daily by evangelical clergymen. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 308d413 | We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will win that race--I will come first--and you wind up the future like clockwork. The world has no choice but to obey! Can the hands of that old clock in the corner decide to stop? Can the spring in your watch decide to wind itself up and run backward? No! They have no choice. And nor has the future, once you have wound it up. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 10811e8 | Stories don't teach us to be good; it isn't as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or to be bad. They show us people like ourselves doing right things and wrong things, acting bravely or acting meanly, being cruel or being kind, and they leave it up to our own powers of empathy and imagination to make the connection with our own lives. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. It isn't like putting a coin in a machine and.. | morality | Philip Pullman | |
| f15a45d | I see the Master as a man having terrible choices to make; whatever he chooses will do harm, but maybe if he does the right thing, a little less harm will come about than if he chooses wrong. God preserve me from having to make that sort of choice. | Philip Pullman | ||
| ca7bd74 | Wir spuren die Kalte, aber sie macht uns nichts aus, denn sie schadet uns nicht. Wenn wir uns gegen die Kalte warm anziehen wurden, konnten wir andere Dinge nicht mehr spuren, das Kribbeln der Sterne oder die Musik des Mondlichtes auf der Haut. Dafur lohnt es sich, die Kalte zu ertragen. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 512393d | war is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe. | Philip Pullman | ||
| eedfbab | She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 0519b78 | All she knew was that she must be in love with someone, or she wouldn't feel so miserable. | love-hurts | Philip Pullman | |
| dd35785 | It's the exile's dilemma. The home they yearn for is never the home to which they return. If they return. | home | Lauren Willig | |
| 1038774 | I didn't know there could be an almost kiss. It seems like the sort of thing that either happens or it doesn't. Oh no... There's an entire universe of near misses out there, kisses that almost were, but weren't. | Lauren Willig | ||
| bd89c05 | They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next. | ingenuity invention | Lauren Willig | |
| 63f7475 | The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language. | Lauren Willig | ||
| 83cc34e | She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money's worth that night. | James M. Cain | ||
| 0e12bc0 | We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual. | weather | James M. Cain | |
| eeb5fdf | There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till the moon comes up.' I guess we better have a moon.' I want to see that fin. That black fin. Cutting the water in the moonlight. | James M. Cain | ||
| 8c606cc | A good idea is an orphan without effective communication. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| c99d6f6 | Andrew said nothing for a while, then, "You're more a raccoon than a fox." Neil stared. "What?" "A raccoon," Andrew said, and mimed holding a ball in front of his face. "Exy is the shiny object of your sad little world. You know you're being hunted and you know the hounds are closing in, but you won't let go to save yourself. You once told me you don't understand why a person would actively try to die, but here you are. I guess that was ano.. | Nora Sakavic | ||
| faccf42 | This isn't over!" Leroy jabbed his finger at Curran. He probably meant it to look aggressive, but he was swaying on his feet. "Yes, it is," Curran told him. "Go before I change my mind." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4434037 | It was the kind of sky that called space pirates to their ships. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 157f97d | It's my job to run after her. | ilona andrews | ||
| 6780d32 | A roar rumbled in Curran's throat. Barabas sat back a bit. I shuddered. "So scary. Still can't tell you." He opened his mouth. "Lorelei," I said. Curran swore. Barabas" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 64103a8 | Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5454995 | Kaldar picked up a rock and tossed it into the clearing. It landed between two wards. A green stem shot out of the ground, and a hail of needle-thin thorns peppered the soil, striking sparks off the rock. "You got any money on you?" "No." Kaldar grimaced. "What do you have?" William made a mental inventory of some twenty-odd items he'd pulled out of the Mirror's bag of tricks and hid in his clothes this morning. Not much he could part with.. | betting ilona-andrews kaldar the-edge william | Ilona Andrews | |
| 1dabb3b | An evil spark flared in his eyes. "Trade: raccoon for some answers." | funny ilona-andrews kaldar raccoon the-edge | Ilona Andrews | |
| b73a18e | I don't know any lion hunters, period. And you know what, apple pie worked for me." "I've got news for you, it wasn't your apple pie Curran was interested in." | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| c4609c2 | Are you also a professional soldier? He grinned. "I'm more of a gentleman of adventure." George laughed under his breath. "I save these two from themselves," Gaston continued. "Occasionally I do a bit of skullduggery." What? "Skullduggery?" "Scale a ten-foot wall, jump out of the shadows, break a diplomat's neck, plant false documents on his body, and prevent an international incident type of thing to keep the war from breaking out," Gaston.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4396524 | No, I never expect people to be idiots," George said. "I do expect them to lack some of the necessary information, because experience has demonstrated to me that assuming someone in a key position knows everything you do leads to disaster." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 372ff0d | I) went to see the noble knights of Holy Anocracy. By the time they assembled, the inn finished assimilating the new gaming consoles. I waved my hand and three huge flat screen opened in the stone walls of the vampire quarters. Wall spat out sets of controllers. "Greetings," I said. "House Krah, House Sabla and House Vorga, may I present Call of Duty." The three screens ignited simultaneously, playing the opening of the Call of Duty: Advanc.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cae4c56 | Superstitions add texture to life. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 017072d | Taste the undead rainbow. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a3b6370 | Kaldar almost never stops and thinks about the consequences of his actions. Something is fun or not fun, and my brother's fun often lands him in interesting places such as jails or castles belonging to California robber barons. Where other people see certain death, my brother sees an opportunity for a hilarious, thrilling adventure. But when I got the tattoo, Kaldar warned me that marrying her was a bad idea. | marriage | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7b2ddd2 | I leaned into Barabas's office. "Do you want to come help pick out a suit for Christopher?" "No," Barabas said firmly, tapping a stack of papers against his desk to even it out. "Why?" "Because I don't need to see him in a suit." Curran" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| bf0fc54 | William's eyes glowed like two amber coals. She met his gaze and flinched. No emotion reflected in the amber, only intelligence, cruel in a way the eyes of a hunting Mire cat were cruel. She saw no worry, no softness, no thoughts at all, only waiting. He seemed barely human now, not a man but some feral thing, knitted of darkness and biding his time for an opportunity to pounce. | cerise ilona-andrews the-edge william | Ilona Andrews | |
| e3d8d3d | I want gifts and Christmas music. I don't care how many Draziri are out there. They won't take Christmas from me." "Yes, but we don't have a suitable male," Orro said. "And only one dog." I looked at him. "What is this Christmas?" Wing asked. Orro turned from the stove. "It's the rite of passage during which the young males of the human species learn to display aggression and use weapons." Sean stopped what he was doing and looked at Orro. .. | orro random | Ilona Andrews | |
| 77c18b0 | Mhm, Kate, the chief of security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body than the woman who owns is?" "Curran, I will punch you." "Rough play." Curran pretended to shiver in excitement" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 8c60df9 | I smell bacon! Penelope, did you know there is a handsome man in our kitchen? | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 37f26f5 | Sean Evans was officially pissed off. Serves you right, furball. | sean-evans | Ilona Andrews | |
| d77cdf2 | Did you know Draziri taste like chicken?" I asked. Sean glanced at me, as if not sure if I was okay. "I had no idea." "Orro told me," I told him. "We're besieged by murderous poultry." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 779038a | Cuddled up by a dragon. No, thank you. Let me off this train. "If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0a543f0 | Flirt with me now, you sonovabitch! See if I'm impressed. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 835e131 | Fine," he said. "You had no idea it could be this good. Nobody in your past was ever that good and you know that nobody in your future will ever be this good. You've had a taste and you want more. You want sex. Dirty, naked hot sex. It's floating through your head as we speak. You think you can imagine what it would be like. Trust me, you have no idea. I haven't even started. So run from it, think it over, pretend it didn't happen, it doesn.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 96d78f7 | Yes, I want your bullshit. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f2eb7d4 | You threw him away. Sloppy, Hugh. | Ilona Andrews |