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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f66733b | The heart is a map of the world, did you know that?" "I don't even know what it means," he said. "I saw a medieval map once. It showed the earth as a flat disc with Jerusalem in the center. Rome was bigger than Africa, and America was not even shown, of course. The heart is that kind of map. The self is in the middle and everything else is out of proportion. You draw the friends of your youth large, then later it's impossible to rescale the.. | Ken Follett | ||
| 194464b | You didn't ask for a priest." "Whether I've been good or bad, I don't think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart." | Ken Follett | ||
| 346ce20 | All birds and men are sure to die but songs may live forever. | Ken Follett | ||
| 524d935 | It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go. | Ken Follett | ||
| c0cbe0c | Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged." She" | Ken Follett | ||
| 147ed77 | He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver. | politics reward work | Ken Follett | |
| 207c72a | Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completely, and leave the world to the birds and trees, Walter thought apocalyptically. Perhaps that would be for the best. | Ken Follett | ||
| f2c37d1 | Driving a Porsche is like fucking a model," he says, and he would know. "It will never feel as good as it looks." | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 91ae045 | I'd been forced into a movie, and there was nothing to do but follow the script. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 2658557 | There's no way to know what's pissing him off right now. In my family, we don't so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| c768709 | Our sages say burying someone is considered the truest form of kindness and respect, as the deceased will not be able to thank you for it." That's kind of funny, actually, since Dad was not exactly prone to expressing gratitude to his children when he was still alive. You were either screwing up, or you were invisible. He was quiet and stern in a way that led you to expect an Eastern European accent. He had soft blue eyes and unusually thic.. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 5d6c04b | The only difference between a rut and a grave is depth. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 7d09d95 | But the truth is always a lot fuzzier, hiding in soft focus on the periphery. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 7cbf85f | In my defense, I was young and there was an open bar. | funny | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 8c2767d | The last time I saw Wade, I attacked him with an office chair. The time before that, I jammed a lit cheesecake up his ass and almost burned his balls off. So it's understandable that his first reaction upon seeing me is to flinch and assume a defensive posture. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 6121bc7 | The thing about people who work in finance is that they consider their job infinitely more important than anything or anyone, and so it's perfectly legitimate to tell everyone else to fuck off because they have a conference call with Dubai. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 1080a97 | Baking bread is as glorious as planting flowers, as doing a cardiac bypass, as teaching a child to read. | Laura C. Schlessinger | ||
| 16eb67b | Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness. | Laurie Garrett | ||
| 5e6bdd0 | I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone." Horrifyingly, she felt her eyes prick with sudden tears. He bent down and picked up Aidan, slinging him over one shoulder. "We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile." | the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown | Holly Black | |
| 0a41b78 | I'm just surprised your parents let you go online," Call said. It was such a regular, non-fancy way to waste time. When he imagined her outside the Magisterium, having fun, he imagined her riding a polo pony, although he wasn't exactly sure what that was or how it was different from a regular pony." | internet | Cassandra Clare and Holly Black | |
| 438fff3 | Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. | Holly Black | ||
| 8d389ec | The flavor of that blood stayed with him through the long years of his service (...) by then he could no longer remember whose blood it was, only that he had grown used to the taste. | Holly Black | ||
| 5e6158f | Sprites glitter in air that stinks of freshly spilled blood. The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can. | carelessness-of-people corruption-politics forgetfulness | Holly Black | |
| 980006d | You're terrible at this whole 'tell me whatever I want to know' thing." My hand goes to the crossbow, but I don't pick it up. He sighs. "Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don't you want to see it?" He raises his brows." | double-entendre double-meaning faeries question suggestive tail tale truth-telling | Holly Black | |
| b05a530 | I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. I think of Cardan and how he will hate me. I think of what it means to make myself the villain of the piece. "For the next full minute, I command you not to move," I whisper back." | jude-duarte villians | Holly Black | |
| f49b34c | You can't be jealous of me. You don't have to live at the sufferance of the same person who murdered your parents. You don't have to stay angry because if you don't, there's a bottomless well of fear ready to open up under you." I stop speaking abruptly, surprised at myself. I said I wasn't going to be charmed, but I let him trick me into opening up to him." | Holly Black | ||
| 15a1ff3 | One of his hands slides over my stomach, tracing the shape of my skin. He kisses me again, and it's like falling off a cliff. Like a mountain slide, building momentum with every touch, until there is only destruction ahead. I have never felt anything like this. | Holly Black | ||
| 467ebd8 | I expect her to say The Liar. She gives me a tricksy grin, full of secrets. "What else? The Queen." | Holly Black | ||
| efc8577 | When it happens to a wizard, insurance companies go broke and there's reconstruction afterward. What was stirring in me now made those previous feelings of battle rage seem like anemic kittens. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a4afaf9 | I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you. | lying thomas-raith truth | Jim Butcher | |
| fba6b52 | Sometimes you wake up, and there's a little voice inside your head that tells you that today is a special day. For a lot of kids, it sometimes happens on their birthday, and always on Christmas morning. I remember exactly one of those Christmases, when I was little and my dad was still alive. I felt it again, eight or nine years later, the morning that Justin Demourn came to pick me up from the orphanage. I felt it one more time the mornin.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 7c0f9d4 | I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests. | Jim Butcher | ||
| fd2d4ab | That's the true power of a wizard. I know things. Knowledge is power. With power comes responsibility. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a395308 | Just then, Toot buzzed back into the apartment from somewhere. He zipped in frantic, dizzying circles, starting at the point he'd last seen Lacuna, until his spiral search pattern took him to the kitchen. Then he swooped down to Lacuna, landing neatly on the counter. I peered at the two little faeries. Toot held out to Lacuna a wrapped watermelon Jolly Ranger, as if he were offering frankincense and myrrh to the Christ child. "Hi!" he said .. | jim butcher | ||
| 0cf8d8b | You're mad," the fallen angel said. "Get me some Alka Seltzer and I'll foam at the mouth, too." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 29e5587 | And from the perspective of those in need, that extra quarter of a million bucks your material person spent on the prestige addition for his house looks like an awful lot of lifesaving food and medicine that could have existed if the jerk with the big house in the suburbs hadn't blown it all to artificially inflate his sociogeographic penis. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a06dcff | Which put me one step ahead of where I was, now. I had already killed the Nightmare-or helped to kill it, at least. Something about that just didin't seem fair. There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e77ffe2 | Why?" I demanded of her. "Why bring the child into this? Why not just come straight to me?" "Does it matter at this point?" I shrugged. "Not really. I'm curious." She stared at me for a moment and then she smiled. "You don't know." I eyed her warily. "Don't know what?" "Dear boy," she said. "This was never about ." I scowled. "I don't understand." "Obviously," Arianna said, and gave me a stunning smile. "Die confused." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 41a5a39 | Lean forward a little, my lord," Toot said instantly, and shouted, "Hey, Kernal Purpleweed! Come watch the Za Winter Lord Knight's back!" I fought not to smile. "No, that's a metaphor," I said. Toot frowned and scratched his head. "I don't know what it's for." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3f5e982 | It is the only way," Vadderung said. "If anyone managed to set free the things in the Well..." "Seems like it would be bad," I said. "Not bad," Vadderung said. "The end." "Oh," I said. "Good to know. The island didn't mention that part." "The island cannot accept it as a possibility," Vadderung said absently. "It should probably put its big-girl pants on, then," I said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5b13e61 | So you really could die. Your godmother is right, you know. You are mad as a hatter. Nutty as a fruitcake." "Crazy like a fox," I said." | Jim Butcher | ||
| b3e5a04 | We headed toward the creepy old slaughterhouse full of dangerous beings. Which... pretty much tells you what kind of day I was having, right there. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 23117f9 | Ogres were wyldfae--they could work for either Winter or Summer, and they could have a range of personalities and temperaments running the gamut from jovially violent to maliciously violent. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 8c9aa23 | Because Thomas is too pretty to die. And because I'm too stubborn to die. And most of all because tomorrow is Oktoberfest, Butters, and polka will never die | Jim Butcher |