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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5dc8c39 | They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I did not know that war was like this. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| aae6673 | He must desire the scent of the smoke of their sacrifice. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 90ec40b | I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day. | despair | Philippa Gregory | |
| 0f2fb21 | I cannot know what the future will bring us," he says in a rapid undertone. "I cannot know where you will be given in marriage, nor what life might hold for me. But I can't let you go without telling you--without telling you at least once--that I love you." -- | Philippa Gregory | ||
| c4462a6 | Say yes,' he whispers. 'Marry me.' I hesitate. I open my eyes. 'You will get my fortune,' I remark. 'When I marry you, everything I have becomes yours. Just as George has everything that belongs to Isabel.' 'That's why you can trust me to win it for you,' he says simply. 'When your interests and mine are the same, you can be certain that I will care for you as for myself. You will be my own. You will find that I care for my own.' 'You will .. | equality-between-partners husband-and-wife love loyalty marriage richard-iii trust | Philippa Gregory | |
| af73347 | I think it is unkind of me to stand there with my hands by my sides and a frown on my face. But I let him go without a blown kiss, without a blessing, without a command to come back safely. I let him go without a word or a gesture of love, for he is going out to fight for my enemy and so he is my enemy now. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| a7b288b | The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences. | freedom-of-speech | Mark Dunn | |
| 62545c6 | We appreciate your coming to us with a copy of your letter to your sister, but it was unnecessary. Your offense was known to us even before the letter's receipt by your sister. Effective as of September 15 the primary responsibility of our isle's new assistant chief postal inspector has been to scan all post for use of illegal letters of the alphabet, then to make nightly reports to the Council. A report has been put on file on your behalf,.. | totalitarianism | Mark Dunn | |
| 23c04ad | There is no one great man. Only millions of men and women in possession of tiny pieces of greatness, which when put together, when assembled in the aggregate make the whole. I am a piece of a very large jigsaw puzzle. One of the corner pieces. The one you go for first - important for a time, different from most of the others. But then, in the end, in the big picture, just one of many. | jigsaw | Mark Dunn | |
| 41004cd | He becomes dizzy and utterly weak, and his spine goes limp and nerveless and he loses all sense of balance. The room is turning around and around. He is going into shock. He leans over, head on his knees, and brings up an incredible quantity of blood from his stomach and spills it onto the floor with a gasping groan. He loses consciousness and pitches forward onto the floor. The only sound is a choking in his throat as he continues to vomit.. | Richard Preston | ||
| d442a70 | One general theory for the origin of AIDS goes that, during the late nineteen-sixties, a new and lucrative business grew up in Africa, the export of primates to industrialized countries for use in medical research. Uganda was one of the biggest sources of these animals. As the monkey trade was established throughout central Africa, the native workers in the system, the monkey trappers and handlers, were exposed to large numbers of wild monk.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 560908c | The connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the skull. He open his mouth and gasps into the bag, and the vomiting goes on endlessly. It will not stop, and he keeps bringing up liquid, long after his stomach should have been empty. The airsickness bag fills up to the brim with a substance known as the "vomito negro", or the black vomit. The black vomit is not really black; it is a speckled liquid of two.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 78a6992 | In 1986--the year before Peter Cardinal died--Gene Johnson had done an experiment that showed that Marburg and Ebola can indeed travel through the air. He infected monkeys with Marburg and Ebola by letting them breathe it into their lungs, and he discovered that a very small dose of airborne Marburg or Ebola could start an explosive infection in a monkey. Therefore, Johnson wanted the members of the expedition to wear breathing apparatus in.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 6b02910 | heart bleeds into itself; the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity. The brain becomes clogged with dead blood cells, a condition known as sludging of the brain. Ebola attacks the lining of the eyeball, and the eyeballs may fill up with blood: you may go blind. Droplets of blood stand out on the eyelids: you may weep blood. Th.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 30e0dcf | Isn't it true that if you stare into the eyes of a cobra, the fear has another side to it? The fear is lessened as you begin to see the essence of the beauty. | fear stare the-hot-zone | Richard Preston | |
| 43d1733 | Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a vil.. | Richard Preston | ||
| a25c5db | Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things? | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 873f82d | We were secret sisters with a plan for world domination, potential bubbling around us like champagne. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1ce8f99 | Why do you have such a crappy attitude about math?" "I don't. I have a crappy attitude about everything." | math | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 34cc252 | You promise not to maim me?" "I promise to give fair warning before I maim you." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 210770d | He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Pertrakis.I have never heard a more eloquent silence. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c711e6e | And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie. | eating-disorders lie | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 8cc9b90 | I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 0b7c524 | There was a loud shuffling above. A line of redcoats took their position at the edge of the ravine and aimed down at the rebels. "Present!" the British officer screamed to his men. "Present!" yelled the American officer. His men brought the butts of their muskets up to their shoulders and sighted down the long barrels, ready to shoot and kill. I pressed my face into the earth, unable to plan a course of escape. My mind would not be maste.. | fight love revolutionary-war war | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 2c1b2df | I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep? I draw little windowcracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. It looks like I arm-wrestled a rosebush. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 27fc2b1 | The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f036bb0 | Are you a man-whore?" I asked as the loudest group of them teetered away on their high heels. (High heels? Really? At seven thirty in the morning? Shouldn't you actually have breasts before you start wearing heels?)" -- | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d296abe | I can't let me hear this, but it's too late. The facts sneak in and stab me. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7fa84dc | It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a758e68 | The fat, pumpkin-colored moon rose, turning bloodstains into shadows. All of the colors of shirts and jackets and uniforms paled to the same shade of gray. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d3d585c | Shame, turned inside out, is rage. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| af150f8 | In the spring of fifth grade, the boob fairy arrived with her wand and smacked Cassie wicked hard. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| a3e14bc | I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter's head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 1ddc560 | I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill. | divakaruni fiction houston immigrant-fiction indian indian-american mothers-and-daughters novel | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| b37038e | I broke the first rule, the unwritten one, meant not just for warriors but all of us: I took love and used it as a balm to soothe my ego. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| f92bbfa | Distance is a great promoter of harmony: | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| f40c605 | Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being | pg-40 | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 8cbf527 | But Krishna was a chameleon. | krishna palace-of-illusions | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 17e799f | I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed. | feminism marriage single spinster | Kate Atkinson | |
| 6fd9d3a | It wasn't fair, he thought peevishly. "Who said life was fair?" his father had said to him a hundred times. He had said the same himself to his own daughter. ("It's not fair, Daddy.") Parents were miserable buggers. It SHOULD be fair. It should be paradise." | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 8f74084 | Olivia was her only beautiful child. Julia, with her dark curls and snub nose, was pretty but her character wasn't, Sylvia --- poor Sylvia, what could you say? And Amelia was somehow ...bland, but Olivia, Olivia was spun from light. It seemed impossible that she was Victor's child, although, unfortunately, there was no doubting the fact. Olivia was the only one she loved, although God knows she tried her best with the others. Everything was.. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 7c67009 | It was the kind of summer evening that made Ursula want to be alone. 'Oh,' Izzie said, 'You're at an age when a girl is simply by the sublime.' Ursula wasn't sure what she meant ('No one is ever sure what she means,' Sylvie said) but she thought she understood a little. There was a strangeness in the shimmering air, a sense of that made Ursula's chest feel full, as if her heart was growing. It was a kind of high holiness - she could thi.. | future summer teenage-girl teenage-years time | Kate Atkinson | |
| 9a7413b | All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 424ae67 | A simple acceptance of what comes to us, regarding it as neither bad nor good. as he would have it," Dr Kellet continued ... "It means become who you are," he said." | Kate Atkinson |