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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e7bc00d | Today dies a crooked and gluttonus man' - it was true, at least literally; McCullough allegedly weighed three hundred pounds and suffered from scoliosis. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| ec90339 | I don't . Religion? Humans desperate to take out infinity insurance. Death? The great big . Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt. | death love religion | Marisha Pessl | |
| dd2ecb5 | Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 1a4838d | Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, for, everything around you. And if it were opened, would anything be set free? For the impenetrable prison with the impossible lock is your own head. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 56198e3 | He chose you because a plain setting makes the diamond sparkle brighter. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| cc85914 | Women of Manhattan, magnificent as they were, they forgot sometimes they weren't immortal. They could throw themselves like confetti into a fun-filled Friday night, with no thought as to what they fell into by Saturday. | nyc women | Marisha Pessl | |
| 6a17f54 | Time leeches most horror and pain from our memories. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| dc4e4df | the territory between two people who were once soul mates but were no longer was akin to wandering into Pakistan's tribal region. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| aec916d | The dark side of life has a way of finding us all anyway, so stop chasing it. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 58d4a20 | They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to him in front of the T-Birds, a Mrs. Robinson when she tells Elaine she didn't seduce Benjamin, a Daisy when she chooses Tom with the disposition of a sour kiwi over Gatsby, a self-made man, a man engorged with dreams, who didn't mind throwing a .. | cruelty daisy-buchanan denial disappointment embarrassment grease jay-gatsby movies nervous pop-culture rejection rude rude-awakening teenagers the-graduate the-great-gatsby tom-buchanan | Marisha Pessl | |
| 1ae5acd | I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees' nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| cc75457 | Think of this as an adventure, Diesel said. I'm from Jersey. I get my adventure on the Turnpike. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| bd3e3fd | You're scared now, I can smell it..." Benito Ramirez" | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 72cef76 | Wouldn't want to tarnish my image by looking like a good guy. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 5b8cb99 | I rooted through my pocketbook and did a fast paraphernalia inventory. I was carrying defense spray, which was a big no-no in a crowded mall. And I carried a stun gun, which on close examination turned out to need a new battery. My two pairs of cuffs were in working order, and I had an almost full can of hair spray. Okay, probably I wasn't the world's best-equipped bounty hunter. But then what did I really need to bring in an old guy with a.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| a473b46 | No Ranger in sight. That's because he's in the wind. You can't see the wind. Or maybe the wind went home to watch Tuesday night fights. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 7b924f5 | It was M-m-moe and Shorty," I said. "Damn, I can't stop shaking." "Adrenaline burn-off," Ranger said. "It's normal." "Why aren't you sh-sh-shaking?" "I'm not normal." | ranger stephanie-plun takedown-twenty | Janet Evanovich | |
| b9e5096 | My big move was to get out of my underpants without snagging my foot and falling on my face. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 2e1085f | As a backup, I intended to get a quart of defense spray. I wasn't much good with a gun, but I was bitchin' with an aerosol can. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 57708a2 | He wears jeans, untucked shirts, and a Glock 19, and he has a big shaggy dog named Bob. | jeans | Janet Evanovich | |
| 07a05de | If Mickey Mouse could fly, he'd be Donald Duck. | disney specialist | Janet Evanovich | |
| 9f16d5f | And Grandma spooned in some beans. "We need one of them psychics," Grandma said. "I saw on television where you can call them up, and they know everything. They find dead people all the time. I saw a couple of them on a talk show, and they were saying how they help the police with these serial murder cases. I was watching that show, and I was thinking that if I was a serial murderer I'd chop the bodies up in little pieces so those psychics .. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 764fbf7 | anyone else would have just killed the alligator | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 8a37272 | Sometimes it's hard to tell what's love and what's only indigestion, | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d515e08 | It was mesmerizing," Grandma said. "It was like staring into the eye of a cobra. I don't care if I do anything else on the bucket list. This was awesome. It was like a biblical experience." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| d457946 | My mother was about three feet from Pooka. She threw herself forward, grabbed hold of his shirt, and they both went down to the ground. They rolled around a little and by the time I reached them, my mother was on top, punching Pooka in the face. "She's beating the crap out of him," Lula said. "Way to go, Mrs. P." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| c3010af | I shuddered at the mention of Mrs. Steiger. "What's that about?" Ranger asked. "Mrs. Steiger is the Antichrist." "Damn," Ranger said. "I left my Antichrist gun at home." "Looks like you brought everything else." "Never know when you'll need some tear gas." "If we have to gas Mrs. Steiger, it"ll ruin my chances of being Miss Burg in the Mayflower parade." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 462f37e | Sounds to me like you're talkin' about the wrong things. Why don't you talk about other things? Like you could make a list of things you won't fight over and then you only talk about those things. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 65b3af1 | Not that I've noticed." She looked down at my gun. "What a nice Glock. My sister carries a Glock, and she just loves it. I was thinking about trading in my .45, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. My dead husband gave it to me for our first anniversary. Rest his soul." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 609429d | She gestured to the bag. "What have you got in there?" "Nothing much. Some golfballs, a handful of tees, a Glock, extra ammo, two hand grenades, a tear gas canister, a knife, Tums, clean socks, flares, and some Ensure chocolate shakes." "You took all of that with you to play golf?" | jack | Janet Evanovich | |
| 109f6b0 | What's with the super soaker?" -Stephine "I had a stork of genius when you called me this morning I said what do I have to do to protect myself from the vampire? And the answer that came to me was holy water! I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner." -Lula "You have the Super Soaker filled with holy water?" -Stephine "Yeah I sucked it out of the church. You know that birdbath thing they got right up front?" -Lula "THe baptismal font?.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e4ce30b | I heard about them Rangers on TV," Grandma said. "I heard they get dogs pregnant." -Grandma Mazur" | humor | Janet Evanovich | |
| a3e9082 | Now that, would be a really dumb ass thing to do. | paranormal-suspense | Jayne Ann Krentz | |
| 4187bdd | Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters. | Jayne Ann Krentz | ||
| f132c69 | Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 832d345 | Each life experience leaves a layer of memory like a deposit of sediment: things we've loved and moments of contentment we've cherished that when recalled, reveal glimmers of our true selves. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| c4ad162 | Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but Himself. It was His Person around which His teaching centered; not His teaching around which He would be remembered. 'Greater love than this no man hath' - that was the secret of His magnetism. | god jesus religion the-cross | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| edfb20e | Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new ideal of tolerance which inspires no sacrifice. Why should any human being in the world be merely tolerated? What man has ever made a sacrifice in the name of tolerance? It leads men, instead, to express their own egotism in a book or a lecture .. | tolerance | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| a5b2acf | It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war? | god goodness morality | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 79e8019 | Communism is an aggressive religion of the species. | Fulton J. Sheen | ||
| e8bc05d | Holiness must have a philosophical and theological foundation, namely, Divine truth; otherwise it is sentimentality and emotionalism. Many would say later on, 'We want religion, but no creeds.' This is like saying we want healing, but no science of medicine; music, but no rules of music; history, but no documents. Religion is indeed a life, but it grows out of truth, not away from it. It has been said it makes no difference what you believe.. | holiness jesus religion sanctification truth | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 2c63a47 | When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in sin refuses to change, God sends chastisement. This chastisement need not be external, and certainly it is never arbitrary; it comes as an inevitable result of breaking God's moral law. But the entrenched forces of the modern world are irrational, men nowadays do not always interpret disasters as the moral events they are. When calamity strike.. | suffering | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 8c74860 | To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma. | metaphysics philosophy religion | Fulton J. Sheen | |
| 5ef7205 | She'd read all of Jane Austen that year--Austen was good, but when you told people you liked Pride and Prejudice, they expected you to be all sunshine and wedding veils, and Sylvia preferred the rainy moors. The Brontes weren't afraid to let someone die of consumption, which Sylvia respected. | Emma Straub |