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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1d6fecc | What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it. | James Patterson | ||
| cf60bb4 | What happened to your tan. | James Patterson | ||
| d74f07b | People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard. | final james james-patterson lessons-of-life life maximum patterson reality reality-sucks ride the warning | James Patterson | |
| fca5ad0 | An emotional bond between two people can form in a fifth of a second. | James Patterson | ||
| d2282aa | Think about it. When the end comes, will you be buried in the arms of the one you love? Of the one who knew you your whole life, who loved you your whole life? The only person who could really and truly love you like you needed to be loved? I hope so. | James Patterson | ||
| ccccdea | Sheep!" Angel cried, catching sight of some fluffy brown wool. "Anne is quite the animal lover," Fang said to me as we followed Angel. "Horses, sheep, goats. Chickens. Pigs." "Yeah," I said. "I wonder who's for dinner?" He flashed one of his rare smiles at me, and it was like the sun coming out. I felt my cheeks get hot and strode on ahead." | James Patterson | ||
| f5aaf4d | I was speechless. Which is, as you know, very rare. | James Patterson | ||
| 4cfb5c0 | I had made a friend. My second one in fourteen years. I was on a roll | making-friend max unsocialized | James Patterson | |
| 967cfcd | You're your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don't need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself. | James Patterson | ||
| ec0c1c7 | Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-family, health, friends, integrity-are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. .. | James Patterson | ||
| ef5fbb3 | Every journey begins with one step. | James Patterson | ||
| bbf4257 | But to be the best, to reach the pinnacle, requires self-denial, sacrifice, discipline, humility, and preparation. You have to hurt yourself, scold yourself, analyze yourself, recognize your weaknesses at the same time try to eliminate them. And those weaknesses you can't eliminate must be minimized. You must create a plan that highlights your strengths and hides your flaws. You have to do more than simply want to win. Everybody wants to wi.. | James Patterson | ||
| 5a38d0f | She was surprised to feel his hand on her arm and still more surprised-almost unbelieving-to see his fingers unclasp his identification bracelet and remove it from his arm. Silently he fumbled with the bracelet and slipped it around her right wrist. with a tiny click he snapped the clasp shut. Jane gave a gasp of astonishment and turned questioning to Stan. She was wearing his identification bracelet! The silver links on her wrist were stil.. | bracelet fifteen | Beverly Cleary | |
| e7f7dd5 | One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything. | decisions | J. Courtney Sullivan | |
| 0ca5d68 | yk 'n ttkhl~ `n HrSk | novel | Jeffrey Archer | |
| f08a3cb | n lthr lys Gy@ ljmy` | novel rich | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 99be3b7 | His lectures were always well attended, and not just because he imparted so much wisdom and knowledge: he also managed to do it with humour. It had taken Danny some time to realize that the professor enjoyed provoking discussion and argument by offering up outrageous statements to see what reaction he would arouse from his students. | mentors | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 0977ea3 | yjb 'n t`rD mntjtk l 'n tbq~ `l~ 'ml 'n yrh lzby'n mSdf@ | marketing | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 81503ef | In any conversation, it's often something that seems quite insignificant at the time that gives you the piece of information you're looking for. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 2076bd2 | Then one morning she woke to find him sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at her. She blinked at him. 'Is something wrong, darling?' 'No. I'm just looking at my greatest asset, and making sure I never take it for granted. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| f3ecb39 | Never seek the wind in the field--it is useless to try and find what is gone." Your" | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 4f8326c | Don't ever make the mistake most New Yorkers do, of underestimating Chicago. They think it's only a postage stamp on a very large envelope, and they're the envelope. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 651ea79 | If you've struck gold, why go in search of brass? | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 550bf37 | He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport. | funny | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 1d6ef57 | The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death. | jeffrey-archer life popularity sons-of-fortune | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 88ce8bc | if you've got a problem, sleep on it before you make a decision you might later regret. Things always look rosier in the morning. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| fe127a2 | I turned to leave and was exiting the gates when I heard the sound of feet running quickly along the gravel behind me. I turned and saw Alexei, who showed no sign of slowing down, so I opened my arms and he ran into them, embracing me tightly, his arms wrapped around my neck as I lifted him off the ground. "I wanted you to know," he said, his voice choked up as if he was trying to stop himself from crying, "I wanted you to know that you can.. | john-boyne romanov the-house-of-special-purpose | John Boyne | |
| 8de8e56 | Other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of a cupboard. | John Boyne | ||
| 395b6e9 | Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions. | John Boyne | ||
| b137f0c | How can something still feel so painful after twenty-eight years, I asked myself. Is there no recovery from the traumas of our youth? | John Boyne | ||
| e2ae560 | La ninez se mide a traves de sonidos, olores y suspiros, antes de que aparezca la sombra obscura de la razon. (John Betjeman) | razón | John Boyne | |
| 0503175 | I had never considered myself to be a dishonest person, hating the idea that I was capable of such mendacity and deceit, but the more I examined the architecture of my life, the more I realized how fraudulent were its foundations. The belief that I would spend the rest of my time on earth lying to people weighed heavily on me and at such times I gave serious consideration to taking my own life. | John Boyne | ||
| 2b9f249 | Look at me Pieter", she said. He looked up tears in his eyes. "Don't ever pretend that you did not know what was going on here. You have eyes and you have ears. And you sat in that room on many occasions, taking notes. You heard it all. You saw it all. You knew it all. And you also know the things you are responsible for." She hesitated, but it needed to be said. "The deaths you have on your conscience. But you're a young man still; you're .. | John Boyne | ||
| 8d48596 | You were never a real Avery," he hissed. "You know that, don't you?" "I do," I said. "But Christ on a bike, you came close. You came damned close." -- | John Boyne | ||
| 18f0fce | They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master--I lost my life in the textile mill of Nefidov--my master presented one prima donna with a golden wash basin. Every one of her toilet articles was gold. That basin holds my life-blood, my very life. That's for what my life went! A man killed me with work in order to comfort his mistress with my blood. He bought her a gold wash basin with my blood.. | gold greed revolution work | Maxim Gorky | |
| dcbc519 | mdr bh khTr dshth bsh khh khd admw mthl khwdsh afrydh. ps khd hm bh bshr shbht drh. wly m Hl dygh bh khd shbht ndrym blkhh shbyh Hywnt wHshy shdym!.... dr khlys bh jy w mtrskhy r bh m nshn mydhnd.... blh mdr, byd shkhl khd rw tGyyr dd w tThyrsh khrd. bh tn khd jmh hyy z drwG w bhtn pwshndh nd w Swrtsh rw mthlh khrdh nd t rwH m r bkhshnd! | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 4ce3b8d | One thing I did learn early on was not to put all my trust in magic. If it can be done without magic, it's better done without magic. | Garth Nix | ||
| 75adc40 | Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give. | death-and-dying | Garth Nix | |
| d1cd5b2 | Garth on naming characters "I spend lots of time on all the names in the books... Sabriel herself, I tried many different combinations of different words, trying to create a new name. In fact, her name comes from trying to combine the heraldic term for black which is Sable, because I wanted something that felt dark and mysterious, with the "iel" ending that you find in angels' names." | Garth Nix | ||
| d743ae4 | I think I would like to work in the Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter." "Only in parts," said Ryelle. "The Old Levels." "You can't work in the Library without going into the Old Levels," said Mirelle somberly. "At least some of the time. I wouldn't be keen on going to some parts of the Library, myself." | Garth Nix | ||
| 22c490b | Oh, I forgot to tell you the rest of it --he's a widower now, so they can ride off together into the sunset, their wedding rings glinting. | love marriage sunset | Brenda Joyce | |
| 2747c59 | Nomi, he said, you just need to wake up to the fact that other people need to know where you're going. But there's nobody behind me, I told him. And he said, reassuringly, that someday there may be. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 9a450c9 | And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away | Miriam Toews | ||
| 143d022 | My mother tells Tina that she doesn't like books where the protagonist is established as Sad on page one. Okay, she's sad! We get it, we know what sad is, and then the whole book is basically a description of the million and one ways in which our protagonist is sad. Gimme a break! Get on with it! | Miriam Toews |