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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2815e6b | Huh... guess they didn't want a cracker after all. Another myth BUSTED | oberon two-ravens-and-one-crow | Kevin Hearne | |
| 14739c8 | I forgot how good it feels to be rooted. And to be rooted is not the same thing at all as being tied down. To be rooted is to say, here I am nourished and here will I grow, for I have found a place where every sunrise shows me how to be more than what I was yesterday, and I need not wander to feel the wonder of my blessing. And when you are rooted, defending that space ceases to be an obligation or a duty and becomes more of a desire. | home rooted | Kevin Hearne | |
| d3d057a | Why don't high school math teachers ever come up with cool problems like this? If a 150-pound Irish wolfhound launches himself at seventeen miles per hour at a 250-pound draugr, will that dead motherfucker go down? The answer is Hel yes. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f589ad7 | But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me. | irony sarcasm | Kevin Hearne | |
| c385b5d | She'd made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do so, and I realized, far too late, that though I never did or could have loved her as she might have wished, I should have loved her more. | death love | Kevin Hearne | |
| 9832592 | Technology is always perfectly dependable until it isn't. | star-wars | Kevin Hearne | |
| 163e430 | there's no damsel with a tragic history in there? With a name like the Three Craftsmen, they each should build something awesome for a beautiful princess to try to win her favor and then two of them would die.> You must be thinking of stories from other cultures. Irish women tend to kick ass and do whatever they want. For exhibits A, B, and C, I give you the Morrigan, Brighid, and Flidais. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e82c434 | Leif stared at me, utterly still, the way only vampires and pet rocks can manage. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 336c7d5 | That's it," Flanagan said, his thick hands gripping the bar and his eyes wide. "I'm getting back on the wagon and I'm never getting off again. Oh, Jesus, look at that." "I'm looking," Jesus said. Flanagan flicked an annoyed glance at him" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c6df903 | That tradition is the way our culture gets made. As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition of "free culture"--not "free" as in "free beer" (to borrow a phrase from the founder of the freesoftware movement[2] ), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free trade," "free enterprise," "free will," and "free elections." A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting.. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| dc9e8f5 | If "piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if "if value, then right" is true- then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of "big media" today- film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of a kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation's pirates join this generation's country club-until now." | media piracy | Lawrence lessig | |
| 47d625a | The biggest coward in the world Is a man who awakens a woman's love, with no intention of loving her. -Bob Marley | Kim Kaye | ||
| e6ed5f2 | A glance can both submit and subvert; it can be sharp or shy, scornful or adoring; it can be a near cousin to scrutiny - but it almost always assumes a degree of mutually encoded knowledge. A spark is struck and apprehended; the head turns on it's spinal axis; the shoulders freeze; the eyes are the only busy part of the body, simultaneously receiving and sending out information, so that a glance becomes more than a glance. It is a weapon, a.. | Carol Shields | ||
| 1bca58d | I don't know how to get things started... It's like there's this great big wheel I've got to start rolling only I don't seem to have the muscles to get it going. | starting | Carol Shields | |
| e750d1c | His voice, you might say, became the place where he lived, the way other people live in their furniture or gestures | Carol Shields | ||
| 2a090a3 | What is it that constitutes virtue, Mrs. Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptation to resist? Is he a strong man that overcomes great obstacles and performs surprising achievements, though by dint of great muscular exertion, and at the risk of some subsequent fatigue, or he that sits in his chair all day, with nothing to do more laborious than stirring the fire, and carryi.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 3c292e8 | Matrimony is a serious thing. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 8a3294d | Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.' 'But should you wish yourself to be like him?' 'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am. | flaws individuality | Anne Brontë | |
| 45f20aa | What did we talk about? I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my knee. We had too many cups of tea and then didn't want to leave the table to go to the bathroom because we didn't want to stop talking. You will think we talked of revolution but we didn't. Nor did we talk of our own souls. Nor of sewing. Nor of babies. Nor of departmental intrigue. It was political if by politics you mean the laboratory tal.. | women women-writers | Joanna Russ | |
| a60392c | If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do. | convenience mother pleasure | Anne Brontë | |
| cebc608 | But still I was curious to know what sort of an explanation she would have given me--or would give now, if I pressed her for it--how much she would confess, and how she would endeavour to excuse herself. I longed to know what to despise, and what to admire in her; how much to pity, and how much to hate;--and, what was more, I would know. I would see her once more, and fairly satisfy myself in what light to regard her, before we parted. Lost.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| f5788cd | Whatever was wrong, in either her or her brother, he would encourage by laughing at, if not by actually praising: people little know the injury they do to children by laughing at their faults, and making a pleasant jest of what their true friends have endeavoured to teach them to hold in grave abhorrence. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 471abf9 | There is perfect love in Heaven! | love perfection | Anne Brontë | |
| d5c86eb | And if that illustration will not move you, here is another: -- We are children now; we feel as children, and we understand as children; and when we are told that men and women do not play with toys, and that our companions will one day weary on the trivial sports and occupations that interest them and us so deeply now, we cannot help being saddened at the thoughts of such an alteration, because we cannot conceive that as we grow up, our ow.. | Anne Brontë | ||
| d1efd3a | She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands. | listening | Anne Brontë | |
| c880c6a | By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me, and my reward shall be hereafter. | duty-and-attitude | Anne Brontë | |
| 62aaaf8 | That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true." | love prayer wish | Anne Brontë | |
| 6459073 | A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been. Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; | loss poetry | Anne Brontë | |
| 4589bc9 | How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own! | friendship mourning sad selflessness | Anne Brontë | |
| dfc8c79 | Die in your dreams, wake up insane. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 10cd009 | Suddenly, everything was easy and clear. I simply did whatever Chade told me to do, and trusted to him to have it turn out right. My spirit rode high on the crest of that wave of faith, and sometime during the night it occurred to me: this was what Burrich had had from Chivalry, and what he missed so badly. | chade chivalry-farseer fitzchivalry-farseer | Robin Hobb | |
| 236afd6 | That's how it's done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That's how you do it. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 22170ab | It is an odd language, yours. You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0900486 | I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e3acf5d | Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 01b40d7 | in your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5caf5c3 | History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.' He smiled enigmatically. 'The future is another kind of history. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1b33893 | We aren't fated to survive, then at least let us fight it to the end. Let it be fate that extinguishes us, not our own lack of heart. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3c980fa | Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces. | break earth force human-beings humankind humans live method mold nature remake shatter style way | Robin Hobb | |
| 479ebbd | I looked at her, wanting her with all the lust of my months alone and untouched. But I knew also that for that deeper hunger for companionship and understanding, she offered me no more solace than any man might find in his own hand. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 39278eb | Her nakedness was not vulnerability, but armour. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a6265f2 | Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1e556a2 | What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too s.. | betray collect cultivate decide discern employ hide knowledge learn path power purchase reveal secret seek-out threat trust use utilize | Robin Hobb | |
| ccf7146 | It was, after all, a time for heroes and all sorts of marvelous things to occur. | Robin Hobb |