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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7b94226 | But until we are old ladies- a cypress age, a Sawtooth age- I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love. | Karen Russell | ||
| 29acea6 | Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys... | humor-relationships short-stories | Karen Russell | |
| 7467cfa | But things can be over in horizontal time and just beginning in your body, I'm learning. Sometimes the memory of that summer feels like a spore in me, a seed falling through me. | Karen Russell | ||
| b36f4aa | Being unconscious with somebody, that's a big deal. | Karen Russell | ||
| 5d2993d | We are sealed in our own little melancholy atmospheres, like planets, and revolving around the sun, our common but distant desire. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| e351816 | I love you but I'm not in love with you | Tony Parsons | ||
| 8fab365 | If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do... | Tony Parsons | ||
| 2902ea6 | Now we are free to come and go as we please, not in sorrow but in laughter. | Elaine Showalter | ||
| 6fa9af7 | Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment. | identity memory mental-disorder mental-illness psychiatry psychology | American Psychiatric Association | |
| 8a204e1 | Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of the whole post-impressionist period, by which I mean that before them Bonnard, Vuillard, & Seurat are my favourite painters of that time. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 7c9acba | A lady both callous and brash Met a man with a vast black moustache; She cried, 'Shave it, O do! And I'll put it with glue On my hat as a sort of panache. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 6357caa | I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason. | moors moors-murders myra-hindley the-moors-murders | Edward Gorey | |
| 645d456 | Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH: A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'd By your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shade Below the garden... His mind's eye sees them quoted on the bottom third of a right-hand page in a (possibly) olive-bound book he read at least five years ago. When he does find them, it will b.. | reading writing | Edward Gorey | |
| 0ab6592 | He presented it with a length of string | Edward Gorey | ||
| 87e8d36 | The Baron told her that only art meant anything. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 53b651c | Mr. Earbrass has rashly been skimming through the early chapters, which he had not looked at for months, and now sees for what it is. Dreadful, , DREADFUL. He must be mad to go on enduring the unexquisite agony of writing when it all turns out drivel. Mad. Why did n't he become a spy? How does one become one? He will burn the MS. Why is there no fire? Why are n't there the makings of one? How did he get in the unused room on the third fl.. | Edward Gorey | ||
| 0fcf9d7 | The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural' is STATED, FIXED or SETTLED; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e., to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."--Butler: "Analogy of Revealed Religion"." -- | Charles Darwin | ||
| 0d11a8a | Years ago, when I was about to go on a book tour for | fantasy interview mythic-fiction writing | Charles de Lint | |
| 2504cee | These days I live in a magical little village on Dartmoor in Devon, England, and my "special spot" is a moss-covered rock in a circle of trees in the woods behind my house. | get-away inspirational nature rural-setting urban-setting | Terri Windling | |
| 348f2f5 | We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope--nay, the iron will!--to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine or under starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance every step, be they through gardens of bright flow.. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| ca0860a | If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. --Drizzt Do'Urden | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 4e09e8a | You wish this to end," the mercenary remarked to Dinin when they were alone. "You have not met my brother," Dinin replied evenly, and his hand instinctively twitched near the hilt of his magnificent drow-made sword, as though the mere mention of Drizzt put him on the defensive. "Not in combat, at least." | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 2637ab9 | there is indeed reward for those who follow the path of conscience, | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| d5486af | I don't like the sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 5d643e6 | Icewind Dale. Windswept passes and forbidding glaciers stand at the top of the world. Below them, in the cold valley, an evil force broods: the magic of Crenshinibon, the Crystal Shard. Now dwarf, barbarian, and drow elf join to battle this evil. Tempted in the furnace of struggle, they form an unbreakable friendship. A legend is born. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 80d70f5 | Those who aspire to less accomplish less. There can be no doubt. It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them." He shot Drizzt his typical wry smile. "At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his effort!" | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 96c87d6 | Joy multiples when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. | life | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 7dd1630 | I pray that the world never runs out of dragons. I say that in all sincerity, though I have played a part in the death of one great wyrm. For the dragon is the quintessential enemy, the greatest foe, the unconquerable epitome of devastation. The dragon, above all other creatures, even the demons and the devils, evokes images of dark grandeur, of the greatest beast curled asleep on the greatest treasure hoard. They are the ultimate test of t.. | inspirational truth warming | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 49a3b27 | Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity. | curiosity intellect writers writing-advice | Phillip Athans | |
| 330e94e | One never knows when one might walk into a tale." - Ardaz" | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 7521546 | The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack's patients. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| d84490b | His touch warmed my whole body. I was longing to throw my arms around him and hold him close, but the magic of this moment was like a single, lovely strand of cobweb, fragile and delicate. One wrong move and it would snap beyond mending. | magic ya-fantasy-romance | Juliet Marillier | |
| 456632a | YA stories feature a young adult protagonist or protagonists and usually focus on that character's journey toward maturity (the tradition of the Bildungsroman.). Learning about love / relationships is an important part of that stage in our lives, so it's not surprising so many writers are building strong romantic elements into their YA stories. I don't remember quite such an emphasis on romance in the books my children read as young adults,.. | young-adult | Juliet Marillier | |
| 6a091b4 | What sort of man would you choose for yourself, Liadan?, he asked me. One who is trustworthy, and true to himself, I answered straightaway. One who speaks his mind without fear. One who can be a friend as well as a husband. I would be contented with that. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| a4b25b4 | You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bold; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life. | juliet-marillier love obsession obsessive-love passion passionate true-love | Juliet Marillier | |
| 2cde06b | Bran dissera, uma vez, que a confianca era um conceito sem qualquer significado. Mas, se nao podiamos confiar, ficavamos sos, porque nem a amizade, nem a sociedade, nem a familia, nem a alianca, podiam existir sem confianca. Sem ela ficavamos dispersos, a merce dos quatro ventos, sem nada a que nos agarrarmos. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 203befd | Saved my life," Grim said. "You saved mine." "Good team, then." | Juliet Marillier | ||
| eab3467 | All the same, our eyes spoke of something good, something deep, something that could grow and flower if the world we lived in would allow it. Something too precious to put into words. Something I would not dare let out into the light of day, not yet. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 6cb32e3 | Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined to make things as complicated as possible for themselves. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| c1440dd | His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body. | music simile | Juliet Marillier | |
| eec25d8 | Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 23582db | There is a moment, if you trip or slip, before your hand shoots out to break your fall, when you feel the earth rushing up at you and you cannot help yourself, a passing, fraction-of-a-second terror. I felt that way hour after hour after hour. Being anxious at this extreme level is bizarre. You feel all the time that you want to do something, that there is some affect that is unavailable to you, that there's a physical need of impossible ur.. | depression | Andrew Solomon | |
| 151e86f | What to say? That I would have loved to make the trip but was busy staying out of the mental hospital? It's so humiliating--so degrading. If I knew I wouldn't get caught, I'd love to lie about it--invent an acceptable cancer, that recurs and vanishes, that people could understand--that wouldn't make them frightened and uncomfortable. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 911f546 | that I would give up my life readily if I found myself in war, or if my plane crashed into a desert. I would struggle tooth and nail to survive. It's as though my life and I, having sat in opposition to each other, hating each other, wanting to escape each other, have now bonded forever and at the hip. The opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality, and my life, as I write this, is vital, even when sad. I may wake up sometime next.. | Andrew Solomon |