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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5499ba2 | You was in all sorts of places, huh?" "Yeah, I was. Saw the world." "What'd you think of it?" "Different languages, same shit." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0e16ca4 | It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman. | moonlight-mile women | Dennis Lehane | |
| 2d45c5f | He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every lie. | society-thinking | Dennis Lehane | |
| d518a23 | Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those sometimes - okay? - and get your fucking head right." Those were the last words his wife heard from him. He'd closed the door and walked down the stairs, paused on the last step. He thought of going back. He thought of going back up the stairs and into the apartment and somehow making it right. Or, if not right, at least softer. Softer. That .. | regret shutter-island | Dennis Lehane | |
| b9184e5 | She had the air of someone clinging to a wall of soap. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5f2d646 | There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 1f61bde | His words hung between them, and Faith tried to pin down when exactly their relationship had gone from cooly professional to personal. There was something so kind about him under his awkward manners and social ineptness. Despite her best intentions, Faith realised that she could not hate Will Trent. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| bb00a2c | Marriage. That's what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with the bones. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f159c20 | In her defense, her helicoptering tended to revolve around making sure that Dee could take care of herself. LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 3bfef1b | I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire. | humor | Karin Slaughter | |
| 6df9909 | I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart. | stupid | Karin Slaughter | |
| 042d335 | They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds. --Mexican Proverb | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 5c697d4 | There was love to be felt, and discovered, still. | color-master | Aimee Bender | |
| 94abda0 | Walk soft, like whispers. | whispers | Aimee Bender | |
| 301b278 | And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because that is what we do when someone dies too early, too beautiful, too undervalued by the world, or sometimes just at all -- we shake our fists at the big, beautiful, indifferent sky, and the anger is righteous and strong and helpless and huge. I shook and I shook, and I put all of it into the dress. | death grief | Aimee Bender | |
| 3430177 | At least I'm not asking you to go to six o'clock Mass with me in the morning." "Darling Eve, to get me to do that the amount and variety of the sexual favors required are so many and myriad even my imagination boggles." "I don't think you can exchange sexual favors for Mass attendance. But if I decide to go check it out, and I get the chance, I'll ask the priest." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0edabe7 | The silence lasted precisely five seconds, during which time eyes roamed other eyes, several throats were cleared, and no one moved in his chair. It was as if a decision were being reached without discussion: evasion was to be avoided. Congressman Efrem Walters, out of the hills of Tennessee by way of the Yale Law Review, was not to be dismissed with facile circumlocution that dealt with the esoterica of clandestine manipulations. Bullshit .. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 5ba49d1 | To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days. | history independence-day past | Carol Ryrie Brink | |
| c70eb28 | Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre? | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 6390f34 | the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day. | nerbery newbery | Carol Ryrie Brink | |
| cf15498 | There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2a649b1 | You own nothing? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| ddb2340 | In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b8527e8 | Will we be extinguished? What difference does it make then, the ones of us who had plans, what does it matter the work we've done? The children we've raised? He looked pointedly at Olhado. "What will it matter then, that you have such a big happy family, if you're all erased in one instant by that ... bomb? "Not one moment of my life with my family has been wasted," said Olhado quietly. "But the point of it is to go on, isn't it? To conn.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 071b471 | I am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 07d5f43 | Then they, too, lay down on mattresses stuffed with straw, hearing the music of the flies to buzz them to sleep, holding each other's hands as they dozed, thinking of the miracles by which love works its will in the world. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| d8aa8fd | We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 4d22f9c | The piggies were not to be disturbed- | enders-game piggies | Orson Scott Card | |
| 73f7c38 | But I'm three times your age or more and my brain is worn out and full up. I don't have much room to tuck new things square inside; they just cling to the outside for a while and drop off. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 022e66e | Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 11c67b3 | The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e07e082 | There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e0adeb0 | There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules. | science-fiction | Orson Scott Card | |
| 37b39cb | I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are and go ahead and LEAD. -Petra | Orson Scott Card | ||
| a037704 | Human beings are just machines, Petra knew that, machines that do what you want them to do, if you only know the levers to pull. And no matter how complex people might seem, if you just cut them off from the network of people who give shape to their personality, the communities that form their identity, they'll be reduced to that set of levers. Doesn't matter how hard they resist, or how well they know they're being manipulated. Eventually,.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b0ba6d2 | You were baptized?" "My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet. The Speaker chuckled. "Imagine. A closet Catholic and a lapsed Mormon, quarreling over religious procedures that they both claimed not to believe in." | religion | Orson Scott Card | |
| c960e2b | Ela reached out for Grego. He refused to go to her. Instead he did exactly what Ender expected, what he had prepared for. Grego turned in Ender's relaxed grip, flung his arms around the neck of the speaker for the dead, and wept bitterly, hysterically. Ender spoke gently to the others, who watched helplessly. "How could he show his grief to you, when he thought you hated him?" "We never hated Grego," said Olhado. "I should have known," said.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5c4cbbb | I don't think it has anything to do with truth, Olhado. It's just cause and effect. We never can sort them out. Science refuses to admit any cause except first cause-knock down one domino, the one next to it also falls. But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but .. | hate-crimes understanding | Orson Scott Card | |
| 37d0f70 | Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures. | ender jane | Orson Scott Card | |
| 0948e76 | I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was. "Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you." That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked. "Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant." | unfulfilled wishes | Orson Scott Card | |
| ac3079c | I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard. | games genius | Orson Scott Card | |
| 6889189 | The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game. | game genius life live truth war world | Orson Scott Card | |
| a781adf | For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire. | ender feelings genius life personality | Orson Scott Card | |
| c742774 | It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it. | genius life trick truth | Orson Scott Card |