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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d2b61fa | Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact. | humor janco magic-study | Maria V. Snyder | |
| cd8373a | Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it didn't. Because it would have been all too sad to miss out on right now. That would have turned the past into a fraud. It would have meant all my happy memories were a lie. It would have meant all that time and all that love was a waste, leading up to a wasted future. It would have been the ultimate betrayal of everything I thought .. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 11b60fd | Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| d71a933 | Dog love is blind. For that matter, dog love is stupid. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 63e82eb | Last fall, I was sitting at the kitchen table of two friends who have been together since 1972. They tell me a story about how they got together. She couldn't decide between two suitors, so she left New York City to spend the summer in an ashram. (Did I mention was 1972?) One of the suitors sent her postcards while she was gone, the famous postcards that came inside the sleeve of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. Needless to say, he.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 41403ce | Before I met Maria, I was your basic craven hermit. I spent most of my time in my room, in love with my walls, hiding out from the world with my fanzines and my records. I thought I was happier that way. I had developed these monastic habits to protect myself from something, probably, but whatever it was, the monastic habits had turned into the bigger problem. In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of whic.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 042a3b4 | It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people to communicate by bombarding each other with pitiful cultural artifacts that in a saner world would be forgotten before they even happened. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 6afd211 | What the hel--" "Finally! I can talk!" Janco said. Ari turned. Janco held the Sandseed's scimitar in his hand. The man lay on the ground, unconscious. "Care to explain?" Ari asked. "Didn't you see my signals?" "Yeah. But they didn't make sense. Five into one and it's an intrusion." "It's an illusion! Five of them are an illusion." "That's not the signal for illusion. This is." Ari demonstrated the proper signal. "That's what I did." "No, yo.. | Maria V Snyder | ||
| 7d32a96 | Fear can be a big motivator. | motivation | Maria V. Snyder | |
| e72117f | You've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart. | posion-study valek yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| d8fac58 | weariness seemed to settle on him like a coating of dust. | weariness | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 69f8a22 | Leif: Getting killed would have been easier. No guilt. No worries. No fear. Caring for someone is terrible and wonderful. I don't know if I have the strength to do it for another. How do you deal with it? Yelena: I focus on the wonderful parts and suffer through the terrible parts, knowing it will end eventually. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 7236e22 | Kade: Life is rarely fair. Opal: I know that now. Parents teach their children to share, to play fair, to be honest. But... surprise! Life isn't fair. And it takes a while to transition from the childhood lies to the adult reality. I probably clung to the part of me that still expected fairness longer than most. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| c5dd1b5 | The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel--which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 02d8bb3 | Introverts tend to assume leadership positions within groups when they really have something to contribute....they listen carefully to the ideas of the people they lead. All of this gives them a big advantage over leaders who rise to the top simply because they're comfortable talking a lot or being in control. | Susan Cain | ||
| c903c2b | Ask the friend for love | Hafez | ||
| 23869af | Wie ich heimschritt bemerkte ich mit einemmal vor mir meinen eigenen Schatten so wie ich den Schatten des anderen Krieges hinter dem jetzigen sah. Er ist durch all diese Zeit nicht mehr von mir gewichen dieser Schatten er uberhing jeden meiner Gedanken bei Tag und bei Nacht vielleicht liegt sein dunkler Umriss auch auf manchen Blattern dieses Buches. Aber jeder Schatten ist im letzten doch auch Kind des Lichts und nur wer Helles und Dunkles.. | europe mourning peace remembrance war | Stefan Zweig | |
| 922c71c | Puede acaso explicarse que ciertos individuos, que ni siquiera saben nadar, intenten lanzarse desde lo alto de un puente para salvar a alguien que se ahoga? Esos individuos se mueven sencillamente a impulsos de una fuerza magica; una fuerza los impele antes de que tengan tiempo a darse cuenta de se insensata temeridad; y exactamente asi, sin meditarlo, sin una consciente reflexion, segui yo a aquel desgraciado desde la sala de juego al vest.. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| e8aea32 | Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 48f8e43 | For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an electric current, that anyone that identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom. | fate freedom identify identity individuality rob robbed sympathy | Stefan Zweig | |
| 0b2c031 | Celui qui n'est pas passionne devient tout au plus un pedagogue; c'est toujours par l'interieur qu'il faut aller aux choses, toujours, toujours en partant de la passion. | passion | Stefan Zweig | |
| 001426c | l'amour, pour toi, ne peut etre que quelque chose de leger, revetant la forme d'un jeu et denue d'importance ; tu redoutes de t'immiscer dans une destinee. Tu veux t'abandonner sans mesure a toutes les joies du monde, mais tu ne veux pas de sacrifice. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 5f4587c | The herd instinct of the mob was not yet as offensively powerful in public life as it is today; freedom in what you did or did not do in private life was taken for granted - which is hardly imaginable now - and toleration was not, as it is today, deplored as a weakness and debility, but was praised as an ethical force. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 5c55a39 | For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 23446e0 | Mutluyken adil davranmak, mutsuzken adil davranmaktan daima daha kolaydir. syf- 160 | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 97aa878 | Toutes nos creations originales et puissantes sont le fruit d'une concentration, d'une monomanie sublime, proche de la folie. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 9454353 | I will tell you the whole story of my life, and it is a life that truly began only on the day I met you. Before that, there was nothing but murky confusion into which my memory never dipped again, some kind of cellar full of dusty, cobwebbed, sombre objects and people. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 1f97bcc | I love you," Severin said, looking up, looking at nothing at all. "I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss y.. | Holly Black | ||
| 39684dc | He would make out with girls in front of her. He would make out with boys in front of her. He would wink at her from across rooms, daring her to criticize him. | Holly Black | ||
| 0c7790f | During his next visit, my father secretly decided that our bathroom needed towel hooks. Using nails that were too long, my father pierced the door, creating towel hooks on one side, medieval blinding devices on the other...No matter how inconvenient a household malfunction might be, Kazem can always make it worse, for free. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 89590de | The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. | assassin-s-creed assassination | Eric Ambler | |
| b6b99e6 | At the window of my room, I catch my reflection in the glass. Shaggy black hair. Sneer.I look like a hungry ghost, glowering in at a world I am no longer fit to be a part of. | Holly Black | ||
| de8728d | It's just that Hazel is so--people like Hazel. Boys like Hazel. She goes through this world as if nothing touches her, as if no one can reach her, as though she's focused on something bigger and better and more important that she's not going to tell you a single thing about. It drives people crazy. It charms them. | Holly Black | ||
| 5a33e0c | You're awful." He said it as though he was delighted. "And the worst part is that you believe otherwise." | Holly Black | ||
| 9de4945 | Yes, my great villan, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can | jude-duarte | Holly Black | |
| 16b2727 | Nie ma drugich szans, sa tylko inne. Jakakolwiek podejmiesz decyzje, zycie zawsze bedzie inne niz wtedy, gdybys podjal inna. | Simon Beckett | ||
| 8dbb4d7 | la, `rft f`lan m ldhy y`nyh l'lm. l'lm, lys fy tlqy lDrb Ht~ lGm. wlys fy nGrz qT`@ mn lzjj fy Hd~ qdmyk tstwjb nqlk l~ lSydly@ lrtq jrHk. l'lm, hw hdh lshy ldhy yHTm qlbk, l'lm hw lmwt mn dwn qdr@ `l~ lbwH bsrn l'y kn. nh 'lm yshl dhr`yk, wfkrk, wyj`lk Gyr qdr `l~ dr@ r'sk `l~ lmkhd@ | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| 3aaed17 | Matar nao quer dizer a gente pegar o revolver de Buck Jones e fazer Bum! Nao e isso. A gente mata no coracao. Vai deixando de querer bem. E um dia a pessoa morreu. | José Mauro de Vasconcelos | ||
| 7fdc265 | You're the one who doesn't understand," Lev said. "In America, I have my own car. There's more food than you can eat, all the booze I want, all the cigarettes I can smoke. I have five suits!" "What's the point in having five suits?" Grigori said in frustration. "It's like having five beds. You can only use one at a time!" | Ken Follett | ||
| 0a09cea | I hope it unnerves them to know that I am lying. After all, if the insult to me is pointing out that I am mortal, then this is my riposte: I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them. | Holly Black | ||
| 291a1a5 | Lords and ladies who walk unseen, lords and ladies all in green, three times I stamp upon the earth..." Hazel hesitated and then gave the only reason she could think of why the Folk might grant her entry to their revel."Let me in for the sake of mirth." | Holly Black | ||
| f2b923c | I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. 'I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down to gether at the table of brotherhood - I have a dream. 'That one day even the state of Mississippi - a state sweltering with th.. | Ken Follett | ||
| c639143 | I went to the doctor," said the woman next to Ethel. "I said to him, 'I've got an itchy twat.'" [...] She went on: "The doctor says to me, he goes, 'You shouldn't say that, it's a rude word.'" [...] "I says to him, 'What should I say, then, doctor?' He says to me, 'Say you've got an itchy finger.'" [...] "He says to me, 'Do your finger itch you all the time, Mrs. Perkins, or just now and again?'" Mildred paused, and the women were silent, .. | humor | Ken Follett | |
| dcf75fa | A German attack on Russia's ally France would, in reality, be defensive--but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe. | Ken Follett |