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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e5d3f25 | You're back early from Chicago," Jim remarked, seemingly oblivious to his friend's cold reserve. "I wonder why?" "You know damned well why," Nick retorted grimly. Jim's brows lifted, but he turned his tawny, appreciative gaze on Lauren. "I'd tell you how gorgeous you look,but at the moment,Nick is already restraining the urge to knock my teeth down my throat. "Why?" Lauren gasped, her own gaze flying to Nick's granite features. Jim answered.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 3fcf918 | I'm supposed to believe you sold your emeralds out of some freakish start-out of a frivolous desire to go off with a man you claim was your brother?" "Goodness, I don't know what you are to believe. I only know I did it." "Madam!" he snapped. "You were on the verge of , according to the jeweler to whom you sold them. If you were in a frivolous mood, why were you on the verge of tears?" Elizabeth gave him a vacuous look. "I my emeralds... | Judith McNaught | ||
| c6ba2ed | As Ian's father had once jokingly remarked of their gifted son, "Ian us to raise him because he loves us, not because he thinks we're smarter than he is. He already knows we aren't, but he doesn't want to wound our sensibilities by saying so." | Judith McNaught | ||
| d6e5bdb | Where is your home?" she asked after a long, comfortable silence. "Wherever you are." | Judith McNaught | ||
| e670481 | Well?" she teased in turn. "What do you think?" The gray eyes that finally lifted to hers were flaming, but instead of answering, he flicked his burning gaze down her length again. He hesitated, and then said abruptly, "I think that the dress fits you perfectly." Lauren burst out laughing. "Don't ever let anyone tell you that you have a way with flattery, because you don't." "Is that right?" he mocked, his eyes challenging. "In that case, I.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| d3bf190 | Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears." She shook her head, remembering. "He waas going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this -" She made a motion as if she were pulling on rubber band. "But he wanted you to have the best pears. For you, only the best would do." | Judith McNaught | ||
| f391652 | You have to marry me. I think I've just been voted off the committee on international trade-they think I'm unstable. And Tony took me off his lift. Mary says she'll quit if I don't bring you back. Ericka found your earrings, and she gave them to Jim. He said to tell you that you can't have them unless you come back for them... | Judith McNaught | ||
| d2a1d65 | Now that you've had other men to use as a basis for comparison,how do I rate?" he teased. "That's an adolescent question," Lauren retorted scornfully." | Judith McNaught | ||
| 6d4f1d5 | Maybe I ought to do exactly what I told Nick I was going to do and pursue you myself." Lauren smiled. "I have a feeling you're as jaded and cynical as he is." He looked so stung that she added teasingly, "Well,you are-but still very attractive,for all that." "Thanks," he said dryly." | Judith McNaught | ||
| 039b7e0 | Being brave doesn't mean you're never afraid. Being brave means that, even though you're scared, you still do what you should do. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 99d4e4a | No se con que palabra describiria lo que senti aquella noche. Palabras melosas como "amor" o "excitacion" no lo definirian adecuadamente. Era una mezcla de envidia y celos... y una especie de urgencia... de deseo de el. Aun ahora, a veces, tengo miedo de perderle." | Ai Yazawa | ||
| c037716 | Junko: Why don't you find a guy who's a fan of Trapnest, and go to the concert with him? Kyousuke:Yeah! Do that, Nana. You'll find yourself a boyfriend, and you'll even be able to see the concert! Then you'll be killing two birds with one stone. Nana Komatsu: I don't want a boyfriend. I'll never fall in love again. *SILENCE* | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 3715835 | Nana Oosaki, about Shin: I wonder if he's really eighteen. He looks sixteen. I'm sure he lied about his age... Nana Komatsu: See! You were complaining but you still read the application! Shin: The studio's free! Great! <3 | Ai Yazawa | ||
| f014b27 | I broke up with Ren a year and nine months ago. Soon it will be two springs. My 20th birthday is in march. I'm working hard to buy myself a present. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 4b5823c | These women were like her sisters. Even if she wanted desperately to be free of them. Sometimes the strongest prisons were the ones created by the people you loved the most. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 6509196 | He moved quickly away from her through the ring, his whole body starting forward with the big animal in two-point and then -- the horse's legs extended before and behind her, a carousel pony but real, the immense thrust invisible to anyone but the boy on the creature's back -- he was rising, rising, rising. . . And aloft. | horses | Chris Bohjalian | |
| 7179ba6 | Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. --Margaret Atwood | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 2c4b132 | The dead were too ...present. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| cef1fbd | His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves. | wry | Anthony Powell | |
| fe44e32 | It doesn't do to read too much,' Widmerpool said. 'You get to look at life with a false perspective. By all means have some familiarity with the standard authors. I should never raise any objection to that. But it is no good clogging your mind with a lot of trash from modern novels. | Anthony Powell | ||
| bebc368 | He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included. | socially-inept unpopularity | Anthony Powell | |
| 9c95305 | Speaking about time's relentless passage, Powell's narrator compares certain stages of experience to the game of Russian Billiards as once he used to play it with a long vanished girlfriend. A game in which, he says, "...at the termination of a given passage of time...the hidden gate goes down...and all scoring is doubled. This is perhaps an image of how we live. For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions .. | Anthony Powell | ||
| 4e911b8 | Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody. | templer-s-views-on-women women | Anthony Powell | |
| 7803ecf | I used to imagine life divided into separate compartments, consisting, for example, of such dual abstractions as pleasure and pain, love and hate, friendship and enmity; and more material classifications like work and play: a profession or calling being, according to that concept--one that seemed, at least on the surface, unequivocally assumed by persons so dissimilar from one another as Widmerpool and Archie Gilbert, something entirely dif.. | Anthony Powell | ||
| 300c74e | It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence. | darren-hunt demographics-of-united-states eric-garner human-rights-day humanity kajieme-powell killing-of-black-men-in-america mass-incarceration michael-brown post-racial-america prison-reform race-and-racism-in-america race-relations racial-profiling tamir-rice trayvon-martin troy-anthony-davis | Aberjhani | |
| 5e8cf36 | The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| a146db4 | Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| d25a45d | you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at the farmer's bookshelf. Because what you're feeding your emotions and thoughts is what this is really all about. the way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview. You can learn more about that by seeing what is sitting on my bookshelf than having me fill out a whole bunch of forms." Joel Salatin" | Michael Pollan | ||
| 327f3a8 | Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread. | history writers | Janet Wallach | |
| 0063156 | Talk Back? That's really what it's called? You're supposed to walk into some church basement and say, 'I'm here to learn how to Talk Back'? | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 4cd63aa | Help me, Mother,' Peggy said, and tears came to her eyes as they always did when she spoke to her, because she would never get over the emptiness of a world that no longer held her mother. | mothers-and-daughters | Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman | |
| ad9deb7 | But I want to be loved. I have always been loved. I want my husband to love me with a passion, like in a troubadour tale, like a knight. | margaret-of-anjou | Philippa Gregory | |
| 88cf6a0 | Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a179921 | With this contradictory parentage of mine: solid English earth and French water goddess, one could expect anything from me. An enchantress or an ordinary girl. There are some who will say I am both. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 31fc8d5 | I won't forgive this wrong done to me and my house, whoever it was that killed my boys, I shall put a curse on their house that they will have no first born son to inherit. Whoever took my son will lose his son. He will spend his life longing for an heir. He will bury his first born and long for him, for I cannot even bury mine. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 007efbd | Jane would be the next queen and her children, when she had them, would be the next princes or princesses. Or she might wait, as the other queens had waited, every month, desperate to know that she had conceived, knowing each month that it did not happen that Henry's love wore a little thinner, that his patience grew a little shorter. Or Anne's curse of death in childbed, and death to her son, might come true. I did not envy Jane Seymour. I.. | henry-viii | Philippa Gregory | |
| 60428e5 | My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 6c98104 | I wil not heat treason from my own daughter | elizabeth fight plantagenet woodville | Philippa Gregory | |
| 8149bcf | You're not cursed daughter, you are the finest and rarest of all my children, the most beautiful, the most beloved. You know that. What curse could stick to you?' The gaze she turns on me is darkened with horror as if she has seen her own death. 'You will never surrender, you will never let us be. Your ambition will be the death of my brothers, and when they are dead you will put me on the throne. You would rather have the throne than your .. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 7a82aea | Have you ever wondered, Anne, in your untiring dance of seduction, whether you might not be dancing to Henry's tune instead of your own? I know how clever you are. How enticing. People whisper the word "witch" whenever you smile at him. But which of you is pale and hollow-eyed from too many scheming, sleepless nights? Which of you is growing more feverish day by day? Which of you is truly bewitched, Anne?" | seduction-strategy | Philippa Gregory | |
| b779264 | My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby. | history life personhood women | Philippa Gregory | |
| 56afe5c | And then the sword came down like a flash of lightning, and then her head was off her body and the long rivalry between me and the other Boleyn girl was over. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 10327dd | If it was not in your interests to betray me then you would have been loyal. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3b8680b | I told you, I don't want you riding with me." "Which is why I waited," Frieze explained patiently. "To see what direction you were going in, so that I could make sure I took the opposite one. but of course, there may be wolves, or thieves, highwaymen or brigands, so I don't mind your company for the first hour or so." | luca | Philippa Gregory |