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| 29a7e31 | Don't let the title mislead you," Arlbeth told her. "The king is simply the visible one. I'm so visible, in fact, that most of the important work has to be done by other people." "Nonsense," said Tor. Arlbeth chuckled. "Your loyalty does you honor, but you're in the process of becoming too visible to be effective yourself, so what do you know about it?" | Robin McKinley | ||
| 2dcf1db | But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 66223ca | including Rilly, who was beside herself with excitement, and her mother, who was beside herself with Rilly-- | Robin McKinley | ||
| ce2a082 | Her fingers crawled upwards and touched the outer curve of her breast, and the fingers paused, quaking in fear; but after the moment, despite the panic trying to break out of its shadows and seize her mind, she told her fingers, go on. This is my body. I reclaim my body for myself: for my use, for my understanding, for my kindness and care. Go on. And the fingers walked cautiously on, over the curiously muscleless, faintly ridged flesh, coo.. | Robin McKinley | ||
| d1c4c7b | She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names. | fantasy retelling | Robin McKinley | |
| 75052ca | There was a long pause while she hated everyone impartially: Tor for behaving like a farmer's son whose pet chicken has just been insulted; her father, for being so immovably kingly; and Perlith for being Perlith. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 29ecfe4 | Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e3cbfc8 | Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible...and good? What would we find to talk about? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4a09597 | Roma tidaklah dibangun dalam waktu sehari. Begitu juga sebuah jalan kereta api. Atau hal-hal lain yang menyenangkan dalam hidup ini. - Charles Ingalls | books romantis | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| d6e15d3 | Mr. Edwards admired the well-built, pleasant house and heartily enjoyed the good dinner. But he said he was going on West with the train when it pulled out. Pa could not persuade him to stay longer. "I'm aiming to go far West in the spring," he said. "This here, country, it's too settled up for me. The politicians are a-swarming in already, and ma'am if'n there's any worse pest than grasshoppers it surely is politicians. Why, they'll tax th.. | humor pioneer-days politicians taxes | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| f05d5d9 | This is the war where we change. This is the trickster war. It's where we disappear, just like they desire us disappear. I spoke it you before: They wish us blank," he said, gesturing without thinking at Dr. Trefusis, who was the nearest exemplar of the white race. "They want us with no history and no memory. They want us empty as paper so they can write on us, so we ain't nothing but a price and an owner's name and a list of tasks. And tha.. | slaves | M.T. Anderson | |
| a6f9002 | No amount of lies, no matter how cleverly couched, will ever outstrip or outlast God's truth, nor will any lie ever outreach His grace. The Lord knows those who are His, His sheep hear His voice, and the arm of the Lord is never so short that He cannot save. | Frank E. Peretti | ||
| 9a88264 | We are aware that the gods of patriarchy are pale derivatives and reversals of ancient yet always Present Goddess(es). We suspect that phallocentric writers and artists who have even a glimmer of insight are sometimes made uncomfortable by their own state of deception. Those who have any awareness of the heinous crime of reversal which is patriarchy must be in a state of deep conflict and fear of...Her. | Mary Daly | ||
| 550b259 | Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted. | Dick Francis | ||
| 471b21c | Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 0d52e8b | We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and their); there's sounds like theirs; and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up. | Lynne Truss | ||
| b916034 | intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it. | technology youth | Lynne Truss | |
| 1989503 | there used to be a shopkeeper in Bristol who deliberately stuck ungrammatical signs in his window as a ruse to draw people into the shop; they would come in to complain, and he would then talk them into buying something. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 88d784e | Clicking on "send" has its limitations as a system of subtle communication. Which is why, of course, people use so many dashes and italics and capitals ("I AM joking!") to compensate. That's why they came up with the emoticon, too--the emoticon being the greatest (or most desperate, depending how you look at it) advance in punctuation since the question mark in the reign of Charlemagne. You will know all about emoticons. Emoticons are the p.. | humour internet-usage punctuation writing | Lynne Truss | |
| bac357c | we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families. | Lynne Truss | ||
| ddfd68c | Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect for your reader, | Lynne Truss | ||
| c6eb733 | When Jack came in he found him sitting before a tray of bird's skins and labels. Stephen looked up, and after a moment said, 'To a tormented mind there is nothing, I believe, more irritating than comfort. Apart from anything else it often implies superior wisdom in the comforter. But I am very sorry for your trouble, my dear.' 'Thank you, Stephen. Had you told me that there was always a tomorrow, I think I should have thrust your calendar d.. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| f9e65ac | The event caused a certain amount of ribaldry and a fair number of sentences depriving men of their grog for playing the God-damned fool, an offense that came under Article Thirty-six 'All other crimes not capital, committed by any person or persons in the fleet, which are not mentioned in this act, or for which no punishment is hereby directed to be inflicted, shall be punished according to the laws and customs in such cases used at sea,' .. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| bcc50fc | Jack and Stephen were neither of them human until the first pot of coffee was down, hot and strong. | coffee-lifestyle | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 0ec578a | Trollops are capital things in port, but will not do at sea. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| d65e5c7 | Martin was a thoroughly amiable man, a man of wide reading, but when he came to write he mounted upon a pair of stilts, unusually lofty stilts, and staggered along at a most ungracious pace, with an occasional awkward lurch into colloquialism, giving a strikingly false impression of himself. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 7af75e6 | Oh, what is that bird?' 'It is a wheatear. We have seen between two and three hundred since we set out, and I have told you their name twice, nay, three times. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 5ab13ec | I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep. | Patrick O'Brian | ||
| 0e47619 | She also mentioned how close my balcony was to yours; so close that even an old lady like herself could leap between the two without the least effort." Venetia's cheek heated and she pulled her night gown closer, "Grandmama is anything but subtle." "Almost as subtle as your mother." "Oh no! Not mama too." ..."Your mother was concerned I might be afraid of heights. She told me if she were thinking of jumping between the balconies and couldn'.. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| 44d471e | In order to understand something really and truly well, you must know where it came from. There is no other way to appreciate its value. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| e79124a | We see the world in terms of history, not money. That's the main difference between us and the rest of the world - we appreciate man's foibles, passions, and beliefs, while the rest of the world appreciates their coins. | Karen Hawkins | ||
| f749916 | On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact. | bullshit bullshit-and-politics delusion power-corrupts propaganda truthiness | Gore Vidal | |
| 8944bec | the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth...and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness. | Gore Vidal | ||
| e8def50 | Let the dust take me when the adventure's done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury. | Gore Vidal | ||
| f648849 | I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view anything except the backs of prostrate men. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 3967775 | Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before. | Gore Vidal | ||
| 442a504 | While cooking demands your entire attention, it also rewards you with endlessly sensual pleasures... The seductive softness of chocolate beginning to melt from solid to liquid. The tug of sauce against the spoon when it thickens in teh pan, and the lovely lightness of Parmesan drifting from the grater in gossamer flakes. Time slows down in teh kitchen, offering up an entire universe of small satisfactions. | Ruth Reichl | ||
| 4f792f6 | I don't like fighting,' he said. 'It makes me hurt inside. Like I'm a kid again. In the cupboard, in the dark. If the grown-ups are fighting, it must be my fault. That's why I don't do rows.' He blinked hard, to keep the tears at bay. She was the only person in the world who could make him feel so exposed. It din't always feel like a good thing. 'Carol, I'm going home tomorrow. I can't manage without you. Not in any sense. So can we stop th.. | Val McDermid | ||
| 0b7778a | Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. | Henning Mankell | ||
| c3b4a64 | The truth is never simple. It's only in the Western world that you think knowledge is something you can acquire quickly and easily. It takes time. The truth never hurries. | Henning Mankell | ||
| d68574b | God allowed no mistakes. | Henning Mankell | ||
| be11b28 | We're living as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought. As if we longed for the car thieves and safecrackers of the old days, who doffed their caps and behaved like gentlemen when we came to take them in. But those days have irretrievably vanished, and it's questionable whether they were ever as idyllic as we remember them. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 74150ed | The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past. | the-coma | Alex Garland | |
| 8ce400c | But the story I'm telling here began the day I discovered the affair between Mark and Thelma, and it ended exactly six weeks later. It has a happy ending, but that's because I insist on happy endings; I would insist on happy beginnings, too, but that's not necessary because all beginnings are intrinsically happy, in my opinion. What about middles, you may ask. Middles are a problem. Middles are perhaps the major problem of contemporary life.. | Nora Ephron |