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| 666d4ab | Are you going to do it?" he asked. "Maybe," I said. Don't 'maybe' me, baby. It's written all over you. I'd almost be willing to go along, you know. Of all my relations, I like sex the best and Eric the least." I lit a cigarette, while I considered." | Roger Zelazny | ||
| d4a9aa6 | Blood!" I called out. Give me blood and vengeance this day, my warriors, and you will be remembered in Amber forever!" And as a man. they raised their weapons and cried out, "Blood!" | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 8e91230 | Knowing to whom she owed the new warmth, Alanna tried to thank Mari Fahrar. The old woman brushed her words aside. "All things change," she told Alanna frankly. "It does not hurt men to know women have power, too." Alanna had to laugh. Until Mari and Farda entered her life, she never realized that the tribeswomen viewed their men not with fear but with loving disrespect. Sometimes she felt that she was the one getting the education, not her.. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| a224184 | The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| ecbf812 | My dear, why send Aly to wait on us?" he wanted to know. "I know you were busy with your domestic arrangements, but surely one of the girls with experience waiting on the nobility would have served."He smiled kindly at Aly. "Though you did a creditable job." "Aly isn't used to Bronau as we are, my dear," Winnamine explained. "She might see what would be hidden to us. And she has certain useful skills." "Useful?"Mequen asked, raising his bro.. | mequen | Tamora Pierce | |
| 3c800f2 | Don't worry. We'll farm, soon's he finishes wi' that new-style Scanran fertilizer. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| c334fb2 | The Chamber is only a room, though a magical one, and you will enter it when the time comes. Duke Roger is only a man, for all he wields sorcery. He can be met and defeated. But you, my daughter - learn to love. You have been given a hard road to walk. Love will ease it. Much depends on you, Alanna of Trebond. Do not fail me!" - The Goddess" | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 18fd9d5 | Your ma was a leech with bad teeth," she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. "Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!" | Tamora Pierce | ||
| df7f702 | I don't know about some of these other people, particularly the ministers who served my uncle." "Can't you get rid of them?" Kaddar shook his head. "The country's already in turmoil. I need to keep a few of the same faces around, at least until I get their measure." "It doesn't sound like much fun. I wish you luck with it." "I'll need luck," Kaddar took her hand. "Daine, I found my uncle's papers. He was going to have me arrested an.. | humor kaddar | Tamora Pierce | |
| 5b8d1ec | The wolf who sings alone is not happy. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 88e9f35 | The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again. | okha | Tamora Pierce | |
| cc977e4 | Locks are for the unimaginative. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 63d902c | Onua smiled. She knew an old grievance when she heard one. "Then why wear 'em? Get yourself breeches and a shirt like me." Daine gaped at her. "Men's gear? With folk talking about me all the time as is?" Onua shook her head. "You're not home now. The rules have changed." Daine opened her mouth to object--then closed it. She looked at her skirts. To be rid of them, and the petticoats . . . it hit her, really hit her, that she was free of Sno.. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 153ee5d | Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 6569628 | If you're in trouble, I swear I will never stop until I get to you," he called softly. Sage could've pretended she was already gone, but she couldn't leave without answering. "I know." | danger kickass-heroine mary-e-pearson smart-heroine tamora-pierce ya-espionage-spy-thriller ya-romance | Erin Beaty | |
| b542b59 | Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 295caa3 | Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-oregano in Greece; lime-chili in Mexico; onion-lard-paprika in Hungary, or, in Samin's Moroccan dish, cumin-coriander-cinnamon-ginger-onion-fruit. (And in America? Well, we do have Heinz ketchup, a flavor principle in a bottle that kids, or their parents, use to domesticate every imaginable kind of food. We also now have the familiar salty-um.. | cuisine culture flavor taste | Michael Pollan | |
| 4f4c155 | So what exactly would an ecological detective set loose in an American supermarket discover, were he to trace the items in his shopping cart all the way back to the soil? The notion began to occupy me a few years ago, after I realized that the straightforward question 'What should I eat?' could no longer be answered without first addressing two other even more straightforward questions: 'What am I eating? And where in the world did it come .. | Michael Pollan | ||
| c4b5598 | Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 5e987ea | Gopnik has tested this hypothesis on children in her lab and has found that there are learning problems that four-year-olds are better at solving than adults. These are precisely the kinds of problems that require thinking outside the box, those times when experience hobbles rather than greases the gears of problem solving, often because the problem is so novel. In one experiment, she presented children with a toy box that lights up and pla.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 80c9c58 | Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring - to the carelessness of both producers and consumers. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 0f5e283 | Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites. | Michael Pollan | ||
| d86f650 | More than any other single trait, it is the apple's genetic variability--its ineluctable wildness--that accounts for its ability to make itself at home in places as different from one another as New England and New Zealand, Kazakhstan and California. Wherever the apple tree goes, its offspring propose so many different variations on what it means to be an apple--at least five per apple, several thousand per tree--that a couple of these nove.. | genetics variability | Michael Pollan | |
| 2b11445 | So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. | corn cows factory-farms food industry oil petroleum | Michael Pollan | |
| c1d0370 | Though the industrial logic that made feeding cattle to cattle seem like a good idea has been thrown into doubt by mad cow disease, I was surprised to learn it hadn't been discarded. The FDA ban on feeding ruminant protein to ruminants makes an exception for blood products and fat; my steer will probably dine on beef tallow recycled from the very slaughterhouse he's heading to in June. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 8a275bc | You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them. | trust | Rachel Klein | |
| bc143be | Children were experiments, and his had failed. | Maile Meloy | ||
| 87fdec8 | Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her. | Jim Butcher | ||
| df9f83c | After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence. | M. John Harrison | ||
| ba37d10 | You can't cure people of their character,' she read. After this he had crossed something out then gone on, 'You can't even change yourself. Experiments in that direction soon deteriorate into bitter, infuriated struggles. You haul yourself over the wall and glimpse new country. Good! You can never again be what you were! But even as you are congratulating yourself you discover tied to one leg the string of Christmas cards, gas bills, air l.. | M. John Harrison | ||
| c289057 | He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs. | M. John Harrison | ||
| e9fbed6 | there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait. | M. John Harrison | ||
| f30c4a4 | Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding. | science-fiction worldbuilding writing | M. John Harrison | |
| d4c5966 | Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can. | writing | M. John Harrison | |
| cebb81f | They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 9bea9cd | Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips? | Martin Gardner | ||
| 98873b6 | If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil. | good | Roméo Dallaire | |
| 89caad8 | nny 'SbH `dw llbshr mt~ 'qtrbt mnhm | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 01b101c | The Devil] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind, that's where the business should start! One should begin with that, with that--oh, blind men, of no understanding! Once mankind has renounced God, one and all (and I believe that this period, analogous to the geological periods, will come), then the entire old world view will fall of itself, without antrhopophagy, and, above al.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e8cbf08 | You are going to perform a virtuous deed, but you don't even believe in virtue--that's what makes you angry and torments you, that's why you're so vindictive. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b5ebca9 | n m mn shy' fy hdh l`lm ymkn n yjbr lbshr `l~ n yHbw 'qrnhm, w nh m mn qnwn Tby`y yfrD `l~ lnsn n yHb lnsny@, fdh kn qd wjd w m yzl ywjd `l~ hdh@ lrD shy' mn lHb flys mrd dhlk l~ qnwn Tby`y bl l~ sbb wHd hw `tqd lbshr nhm khldwn. n hdh l`tqd hw fy lss lwHyd lkl qnwn khlqy Tby`y, fdh fqdt lnsny@ hdh l`tqd blkhlwd fsr`n m stGyD kl ynby` lHb bl w sr`n m syfqd lbshr kl qdr@ `l~ mwSl@ Hythm fy hdh l`lm. kthr mn dhlk nh ln ybq~ hnlk shy' y`d mnfy.. | حب خلود | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 7cc4582 | If you ever fall in love with some one, God give you happiness with her! I won't wish anything for her, for she will be happy with you. I know, I am a woman myself, so you must believe me when I tell you so. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6ff2b8e | They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f76fd10 | lGyr@! "lys `Tyl Gywr, nh wthq" kdhlk ql bwshkyn. n hdhh lmlHZ@ lbsyT@ tshhd b`mq `bqry@ sh`rn lqwmy. n m `nh `Tyl mn qlq lnfs wDTrb l'fkr nshy `n nh "fqd ymnh bmthlh l'`l~". wlkn `Tyl m kn lh 'bd 'n yrD~ lnfsh hwn lmrbT@ fy mkn m mn 'jl 'n ytjss wytrSd wytrqb: nh 'kthr thq@ mn 'n yf`l dhlk. bl`ks: kn l bd mn df`h wmn tqdym lbrhyn lh, wmn tHryDh bl'dl@ ldmG@ lHmlh `l~ tSwr lkhyn@. wl kdhlk lGywr lHq. l ystTy` lmr 'n ytkhyl md~ m ymkn 'n yhw.. | small-town-romance western-romance | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |