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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 53747d7 | Adulation is like rain. You can only get so wet. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 99088e4 | A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship | mythology | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 7a6bed1 | She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 1b5f4b8 | Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 1c917f5 | Don't pout that way, my child, you'll give yourself a blister. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 740f352 | Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord. | metaphor turn-of-phrase | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 0ad6768 | When prophecies give no help, men must find it themselves. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 2567a3c | It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen to return, I would ever wonder whether my choice was made through wisdom or following the wishes of my own heart. I see this is as it must be, and the destiny laid upon me. I am content to die here. | fate folly love wisdom | Lloyd Alexander | |
| f52f85c | Inconvient things are always remembered | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 4c48dc9 | Torrens kicked at the door until it was finally opened. The farm couple and three youngsters had been eating breakfast in the common room. The yard dog would have bounded in had not Torrens kicked the door shut. 'I want a bed. Quilts. A hot drink. I am a doctor. This woman is my patient.' The farm couple was terrified. The look on the face of Torrens cut short any questions. They did as he ordered. One of the children ran to fetch his medic.. | romance | Lloyd Alexander | |
| e138357 | Ah, Princess," Dallben said, with a furrowed smile, "a crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much." | crown dallben eilonwy rulership | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 66c618b | It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed. | gwydion judgment wisdom | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 405a331 | It may be," replied Coll, smiling, "we know least what we treasure most. But we will have more than enough to keep us busy when you come back, and you will learn, my boy, there is nothing like work to put the heart at rest." | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| b48d6e4 | There is much to be known," said Adaon, "and above all much to be loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts." | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 3dcd1de | Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage in our own lives and in the lives of others, so far as we have witnessed them, teaches us that this is false. The house of mourning is decorously darkened to the world, but within itself it is also the house of laughing. Burst of gaiety, as heartfelt as its grief, relieve the gloom, and the stricken survivors ha.. | William Dean Howells | ||
| 4841c6c | You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn's meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels! | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 0f80ca4 | It is 12:23 in the morning, and people are coming to be here, coming to help. They saw what happened, and they can't stay in their houses. Not just Harry and Craig's friends. But their friends' parents, too. Jim from the tech crew has sped over with more lights from his basement. There have to be at least a dozen people. Then more than a dozen. Smita's mom is here. Two more police officers. And a man Harry's never seen before walks up and g.. | David Levithan | ||
| f041080 | Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit. | sacred | S.M. Stirling | |
| f90fb36 | Grief is the tribute we pay the dead," she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. "But they don't ask more than we can afford to give. They've never really gone from us, you know, those we love; they're part of our story, and we of theirs." | S.M. Stirling | ||
| e6a3671 | It doesn't stop being magic because you can you explain it, Father. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 179d296 | But really, that is kind of silly,' Abigail tried to explain. 'I mean, a book is much less personal than a programmed screen that can respond to you according to your needs, and concentrate on what's hard for you, and go fast on what's easy. A book stays the same no matter *who's* reading it. And anyway, I don't see how anyone could read a whole long book, it must be so boring!' 'But...but it wasn't,' Peter said faintly. 'I...almost forgot .. | William Sleator | ||
| 36bbb90 | He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 22d5260 | Where are we?' the mouse child asked his father. His voice was tiny in the stillness of the night. 'I don't know' the father replied. 'What are we Papa?'. 'I don't know. We must wait and see'. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 2325ea0 | Frances has gotten out of bed again and come to her parents' room...) 'How can the wind have a job?' asked Frances. ' has a job,' said Father. 'I have to go to my office every morning at nine o'clock. That is my job. You have to go to sleep so you can be wide awake for school tomorrow. That is job.' Frances said, 'I know, but...' Father said, 'I have not finished. If the wind does not blow the curtains, he will be out of a job. If I do .. | humor jobs spanking stalling | Russell Hoban | |
| 948c50e | It was the sort of situation that would be ever so charming and warmly human in a film with Peter Ustinov and Maggie Smith but that sort of film is only charming because they leave out so many details, and real life is all the details they leave out. | Russell Hoban | ||
| d2adba2 | A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 83e69dc | There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion of their running still flickered on the dry wind -- tawny, great, and quickly gone. Sometimes the honey-colored moon shivered to the silence of a ghost-roar on the rising air. | Russell Hoban | ||
| 678f3ca | Thus with continued concentration and the expenditure of enormous amounts of energy he tried to keep himself from slipping into the vast distances of his unhappiness. It was all around him. It was a darkness as impudently close as his brow. It choked him by its closeness. And what was most terrifying was its treachery. He would wake up in the morning and see the sun coming in the window, and sit up in his bed and think it was gone, and then.. | sadness | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 6a18a06 | I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| f382448 | I'm Homer, the blind brother. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 24a5782 | Jacqueline, for how many days have I been without food. There was a crash, the whole house shook. Where is Langley? Where is my brother? | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| a03382b | But I can stop on any corner at the intersection of two busy streets, and before me are thousands of lives headed in all four directions, uptown downtown east and west, on foot, on bikes, on in-line skates, in buses, strollers, cars, trucks, with the subway rumble underneath my feet... and how can I not know I am momentarily part of the most spectacular phenomenon in the unnatural world? ...The city may begin from a marketplace, a trading p.. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 2a880ce | Perhaps we all reappear, perhaps all our lives are impositions one on another. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| bf21f31 | Over the years I have become very good at getting out of things I don't want to do. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| cec387d | My mentality, uncontrollable and wanton as always, whispered to me a scheme so magnificent and daring that I shrank from the very thought of what I was hearing. "Stop!" I cried imploringly to my god-like mind. "This is madness." But still I listened to the counsel of my brain. It was offering me the opportunity to Save the World Through Degeneracy." | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| ed52e36 | I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 8baad57 | Apparently I am pushing a jinx about the streets. I am certain that I can do better with some other wagon. A new cart, a new start. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| b13b568 | Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?" Ignatius bellowed over the crowd in front of the store. "This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians, all of whom are only too well protected by graft. If you have a moment,.. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| b61a26f | perverts around the world will also band together to capture the military in their respective countries. In those reactionary countries in which the deviates seem to be having some trouble in gaining control, we will send aid to them as rebels to help them in toppling their governments. When we have at last overthrown all existing governments, the world will enjoy not war but global orgies conducted with the utmost protocol and the most tru.. | perverts revolutions | John Kennedy Toole | |
| 6f52fb7 | It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility." Why, Gillian, it's that very ability that makes us so superior." | Victoria Alexander | ||
| 99b6c7b | Yes, well, there's something to be said for damsels who need rescuing." Thomas's gaze strayed back to Marianne. She would never need rescuing. And wasn't there something to be said for that as well?" | Victoria Alexander | ||
| f3de907 | It's that undefined something we're really afraid of-the flicker of movement we don't quite catch out of the corner of our eye, the bad dream we can't quite remember when we wake up, the sound of a door opening downstairs we thought we heard. And worst of all, the things we're not sure even happened, the things that we might just have imagined, that might mean we're going mad, all those nameless, nebulous things we can't quite put our finge.. | Connie Willis | ||
| bbb86a7 | Virginia was working in the garden, and her husband Leonard called out for her to come inside, that Hitler was just about to speak on the radio. | Connie Willis | ||
| 386d442 | It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all. | guilt | Connie Willis |