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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc68c79 | They got so accustomed to the false alarms that when she did eventually die, they did not realize it, and she lay there twenty minutes, serene in my embrace, smiling blankly at me. | Darren Shan | ||
| afd5c44 | I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades. | lonely love movement shades | Darren Shan | |
| 58db282 | Arra made me promise, on her deathbed, that I would not let Darren die. I beg you -- do not force me to choose between loyalty to you and my vow to her. | Darren Shan | ||
| b63ebae | sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others-- even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit | Darren Shan | ||
| 963da2a | Do not be such a baby," he jeered, tugging my hands free. "It hurts!" I howled. "Of course it does." He laughed. "It hurt me too. Did you think becoming a vampire was easy? Get used to the pain. Much of it lies ahead." | Darren Shan | ||
| 2cd1d1e | The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal. | equality god p275 thin-executioner | Darren Shan | |
| 5cbeeff | To be added when I get it cause I just realised I don't have it at the moment. | Darren Shan | ||
| de4bdfc | It's one thing to go into a fight knowing you'll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit. | kernel-fleck sacrifice | Darren Shan | |
| d6321e4 | Mr. Crepsley "What are you doing?" | Darren Shan | ||
| da75ecb | But when Tel Hasani wasn't looking, he cast a worried eye over the snake, just incase there were any family resemblances. | Darren Shan | ||
| b28c9fd | Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next. --Samuel Reed | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| e4d1690 | when the dope fiend who lived there finally got busted. At first I'm thinking the dope fiend is back, | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 23c71ec | No matter how much Steve and I preached about staying legal, most of these men never believed us, and some would grin or wink as we spoke. They thought the CKKKK was like the Klan group their grandfathers belonged to back in the 1920's or 30's, when members could get by with just about anything. That ignorance about the CKKKK extended to the masses of people as well. I received hundreds of phone calls from people wanting me to go out and as.. | ku-klux-klan racism | Frazier Glenn Miller | |
| dfd51d4 | The nice thing about crowds is that someone can throw a bottle and you don't take it personally. | urban-life | David Sedaris | |
| 8694ce3 | Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole," Szilard said. "And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay." -- | John Scalzi | ||
| 1dc3139 | Mom, I remember Lizzie," Hart said. "She's really not my type." "She has a brother," Wes said, from his lounge. "He's not my type, either," Hart said." | John Scalzi | ||
| 9bb37b9 | That's the human brain," Attavio VI said. "It creates patterns when there aren't any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It's in the design of the brain itself. It's primed to lie." "And primed to believe the lie." | John Scalzi | ||
| 8e4c61a | We don't get to choose our battles. | choose | John Scalzi | |
| 737be82 | I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant." "Ah, repression," Keyes said. "Excellent. Try to avoid taking a potshot at me when you finally blow, please." "I can't promise anything, sir," Alan said." | John Scalzi | ||
| 877cde2 | I served with that son of a bitch, Corporal. Ruiz wouldn't compliment his mother for giving birth to him, if you know what I mean. | John Scalzi | ||
| c6f005c | In one hand I have a restraining order, and in the other I have a Taser. Which would you like to meet first? | John Scalzi | ||
| afa8b3a | Well, I'm sorry you might possibly be out a bit of money, Jack," Isabel said. "Jesus, Isabel," Holloway said. He opened the door. "A bit of money? Try at least a couple billion credits. That's billion, with a b. Saying that's a bit of money is like saying a forest fire is a nice way to roast some marshmallows." | John Scalzi | ||
| d19b0be | God damn it," Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. "Aren't we all just too good-looking for words." | John Scalzi | ||
| ebe0eed | Christ on a Popsicle stick. | John Scalzi | ||
| fa97aca | Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?" Vann asked. "She did not," I said. "It may have been implied." | John Scalzi | ||
| ad3b489 | Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child," Papa continued. "Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway got you. You are the man who killed my child. Get off my planet, you son of a bitch." | justice smackdown | John Scalzi | |
| 1879a90 | The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer. | John Scalzi | ||
| a122c08 | This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort in trying to remember it. As I said, this is the place where she's never been anything but dead. There's not much value in remembering that. | John Scalzi | ||
| cb872a2 | What if I told you that that which makes you fundamentally human is something that you share with another people, a people so different from you that they might appear strange or frightening at first glance. A people who might terrify you from appearance alone. Could you make the jump, and understand that inside, they are not so different at all? | John Scalzi | ||
| 06942de | A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone must curate. | history memory | John Scalzi | |
| d4ce203 | Colonization is the key to our race's survival. It's as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races. | colonization colonize contained key race races simple survival | John Scalzi | |
| 6ea45d5 | The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred's got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks. | humor scooby-doo | John Scalzi | |
| fdbf005 | I hate that I've become one of those old men who visits a cemetery to be with his dead wife. When I was (much) younger I used to ask Kathy what the point would be. A pile of rotting meat and bones that used to be a person isn't a person anymore; it's just a pile of rotting meat and bones. The person is gone--off to heaven or hell or wherever or nowhere. You might as well visit a side of beef. When you get older you realize this is still the.. | John Scalzi | ||
| b294d7c | A church is an institution separate from the religion it serves. It's filled with people. And you know how people are. | John Scalzi | ||
| c20e8ca | I don't look smug." "You always look smug. You have resting smug face." | John Scalzi | ||
| 0ab1126 | I finally understand what Julie Norem meant when she told me that one could be simultaneously anxious and happy. The assurances are momentary, at best half comforting, like being told "That's not a man in your room. It's just your clothes draped over the back of a chair casting a shadow, see? However, there IS, actually an insane, knife wielding murderer loose in the neighborhood. G'night." Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice.. | David Rakoff | ||
| d062341 | I am the furthest thing from a do-gooder. I am venal and flib and too clever by half, I know, but the thrill of the most brilliantly quicksilver apers'u is no match for the self-interested high I get from having done someone a good turn. You'd think I'd do more good turns as a result, but there you go. | David Rakoff | ||
| d18629f | The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no match for the happenstance that seems of late only to promise death, mayhem, poverty, flood. And here you are, having spent all that time protecting your home from the oncoming elements only to find that it has been shored up with crackers. | David Rakoff | ||
| 8d74535 | I will stipulate to having both French sea salt and a big bottle of extra virgin in my kitchen. And while the presence of both might go some small distance in pigeonholing me demographically, neither one of them makes me a good person. They are mute and useless indicators of the content of my character. | David Rakoff | ||
| 2f77950 | We are disclosing animals, wired for unburdening. It's what we do as a species. When I am being told, I listen, mindful of the honor, remembering all the while that the shore would be mistaken to believe that the waves lap up against him because he is so beautiful. | David Rakoff | ||
| 6073bb2 | Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead. | Erik Larson | ||
| ba84b86 | You ever met one of those guys who, in a totally calm and composed way, can scare the shit out of you? Like an MMA fighter, or the fat Kardashian sister who married Lamar Odom? | Tucker Max | ||
| 6e9c052 | I wish I could bottle the seductive look she gave me so I could sniff it when I jack off. | Tucker Max | ||
| 11b1f0e | You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while. | Tucker Max |