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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ac23ec7 | Seth wished he had kept the zombie hand. | Brandon Mull | ||
| f702d12 | Nothing matters more than what happens in our minds," Trillian said. "Your experiences in what you consider your real life in the real world only exist in your mind and in the minds of others. The mind is everything. And dreams are the playground of the mind." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 4b35c93 | 13. Who is the coolest author ever? Is it the guy who wrote Fablehaven? If not, what's the matter with you? | Brandon Mull | ||
| 5cfa96e | Not a wall in the building lacked books. Books even occupied the space above doorways. | reading repository-of-learning | Brandon Mull | |
| 58c0252 | Ha! Rollo! | Victoria Holt | ||
| 4c357a3 | Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies. | fitzchivalry-farseer old-wit | Robin Hobb | |
| a83eb44 | Nature will get rights as soon as it gets duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 5f824be | We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics. | economics redistribution-of-wealth socialism | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 2f27b43 | Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. | o-rourke p-j prertension seriousness | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 6c006fe | If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. | celebrity celebrity-culture | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 21e8d4d | When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 7ed3a0e | W if for Women. They're awful, mendacious, Nasty and selfish, cruel and salacious, | O'rourke P J | ||
| c7b876e | There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 6c50984 | All Julie has to do is explain to her friends that she's using it to individually seal each item that she throws out." "Then they'd think she was a geek," I said. "She will thank me later," Monk said. "Why would she thank you for being considered a geek?" "Don't you know anything about teenage life?" Monk said. "It's a badge of respect." "It is?" "I was one," he said. "You don't say." "A very special one. I was crowned King of the Geeks, no.. | geeks goldberg high-school lee monk mr-monk natalie teenage teenage-life | Lee Goldberg | |
| 1e4720d | The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world, and why not finally carry that secret out with our bodies into the living rooms and porches, backyards and grocery stores? Let the whole thing flower: the poem and the person writing the poem. And let us always be kind in this world. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 647a9d7 | As writers we are always seeking support. First we should notice that we are already supported every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support. There is the sunlight coming through the window and the silence of the morning. Begin from these. Then turn to face a friend and feel how good it is when she says, "I love your work." Believe he.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 12b351b | It's a tough job being somebody's personal assistant. You have to anwser their phone, manage their correspondence, run their errands, pay their bills, arrange their schedule, and basically do whatever tasks, menial to major, they are too busy or self absorbed or distranted or pampered or disinterested to do themselves. | natalie | Lee Goldberg | |
| 33a5672 | What crannies of untouched perception can you explore? What autumn was it that the moon entered your life? When was it that you picked blueberries at their quintessential moment? How long did you wait for your first true bike? Who are your angels? What are you thinking of? Not thinking of? What are you looking at? Not looking at? | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 4c362a7 | In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is gone. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 63c9bb4 | A small pebble can turn a wheel out of its path, he told me, but warned me that it was seldom a pleasant experience for the pebble. | Robin Hobb | ||
| baed0a9 | Before she turned around to face him, she wiped away the tears that had started down her cheeks. Nancy didn't cry much, but when she did, she cried in private. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| ffff59f | I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means. | philosophy truth wisdom | Louis L'Amour | |
| 386ff11 | The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 2883d7d | There will always be folks who will talk, and the better you do in the world the more bad things they will say of you. Back there in the settlement you remember how the dogs used to run out and bark at our wagons?" "Yes, ma." "Did the wagons stop?" "No, ma." "Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going some place you haven't time to bother with barking dogs." | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 8e96880 | Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 06b1f28 | Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough. | history | Louis L'Amour | |
| c96b30c | To be a man was to be responsible. It was as simple as that. To be a man was to build something, to try to make the world about him a bit easier to live in for himself and those who followed. You could sneer at that, you could scoff, you could refuse to acknowledge it, but when it came right down to it, Conn decided it was the man who planted a tree, dug a well, or graded a road who mattered. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| cf87fcf | L'amour c'est comme l'alcool, plus on est impuissant et saoul et plus on se croit fort et malin, et sur de ses droits. | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | ||
| 0c1d1e2 | Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying) | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 05c0ee2 | Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy. | bookshelves bookstores happy libraries | Louis L'Amour | |
| 7027b33 | He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 1ce5a43 | There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| d5eff92 | A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| c5c1bda | Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king. | kings power rulers | Louis L'Amour | |
| 984573d | We should be going in there with a thousand naked warriors who fight like wet cats with dodgy bowls. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4e24e68 | You ever notice the rampant child neglect going on in faery tales" ~ Oberon" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 3015976 | The function of assholes in the world, just like the asshole we all have, is to spread shit around. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 5dcdf53 | Anyone with a cursory knowledge of mythology knows that it is suicidal to sexually harass a goddess. Look what Artemis did to that guy who stumbled across her bathing. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ed61011 | Celibacy is a terrible idea, adhered to by people who hate themselves and want everyone else to do the same. You should do what you want to do, you know. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f37d3fe | Hopefully next time I won't be recovering from an assassination attempt, and then I'll do better. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 6f19c27 | Gaia has left us wonder wherever we go, if we only open our eyes to it." ~ Atticus" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 6291607 | There ye go again," my archdruid said. "Using your colon instead of yer brain. Ye believe yer thinkin' because yer workin' hard, but all yer doin' is squeezin' out shit." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| fcff74d | Grody is in the eye of the beholder. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e2c2b96 | That's what a skinwalker is: a mean asshole with a meaner spirit squatting inside." " | humor kevin-hearne oberon tricked | Kevin Hearne |