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| 89ac7fa | He said only, "Bad people. Some very bad people." Uncle Chris's mouth flattened into a small, thin line. Then he nodded crisply. He knew all about bad people. John was speaking in a language he understood. "Is it drugs?" Uncle Chris asked, in a hushed voice. I looked at John, in his black jeans and T-shirt, with his long dark hair, and studded leather wristbands. I could see why Uncle Chris had asked. To someone of his generation, it would .. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 7ad384b | I was about to order Chinese when I looked out the window and saw you. Hey, do you two want to stay? We're getting moo shu." It was so like Uncle Chris to go from wanting to beat John up one minute, to inviting him for moo shu the next. "Uh, maybe," I said. I pointed to the French doors, looking questioningly at John. He nodded. "Let's see how it goes, okay, Uncle Chris?" "That'd be good," Uncle Chris said. "We could talk all this out." Joh.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| e19174d | John," I murmured, rising from the bed and going to stand by the table, staring down in astonishment at the gold-rimmed china plates and intricately embroidered napkins in sapphire rings. "How did all of this get here?" "Oh," he said casually. "It just does. Coffee?" He lifted a gleaming silver pot. "Or do I seem to remember you being more partial to tea?" His grin was wicked. I gave him a sarcastic look-it was a cup of tea I'd thrown into .. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 5c365a8 | I would think you'd have better things to do right now than look up the marital status of my ex-boyfriends on the Internet," Mom had said to him, scathingly. "I like to keep track of their mating habits," Dad had smirked." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 62c4850 | On the other hand, if these four-Mr. Graces, the brutish Frank, the mysterious Mr. Liu, and rude little Henry-were the only company John had had for a hundred and sixty-odd years, it explained a lot about his brooding. | Meg Cabot | ||
| cc54656 | His hair, at first glance, appears merely dark, but upon closer inspection is actually many strands of chestnut brown, gold, and black. He wears it long, for a guy, not because doing so is "in," but because he's too busy with his many interests to remember to get it cut regularly. His eyes seem dark at first glance, as well, but are actually a kaleidoscope of russets and mahoganies, flecked here and there with ruby and gold, like twin lakes.. | love | Meg Cabot | |
| 7f6bc4c | On top of the good was a hideously ugly bronze statue in the modern style. The statue was of a couple, dressed in togas, wrapped in an embrace. Cupped in their hands was a piece of fruit. I couldn't be sure, because realism did not appear to be the artist's specialty, but it looked to me like a pomegranate. "Good God," Frank, who'd trailed after us, said when he saw the statue. "Rector's even sicker than any of us thought. I've never wished.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| cc49bfc | Sister Ernestine said something very nasty about how maybe Miss Simon didn't realize how unpleasant detention at the Mission Academy could be. I assured Sister Ernestine that if she was threatening corporal punishment, I would tell my mother, who was a local news anchor-woman and would be over here with a TV camera so fast, nobody would have time to say so much as a single Hail Mary. Sister Ernestine was pretty quiet after that. | Meg Cabot | ||
| df8597b | There are nice, funny totally good-looking guysout there. You just have to know where to look...and apparently, where NOT to look. Which is in the ladies' shower of your dorm. | Meg Cabot | ||
| d5cf928 | Her name is Hope?" John asked, the corners of his mouth beginning to tug upwards. "No." I bristled, thinking he was making fun of me. Then I realized I'd been caught. "Well, all right...so what if it is? I'm not going to name her after some depressing aspect of the Underworld like you do all your pets. I looked up the name That was the name of one of the death horses that drew Hades's chariot. And ?" I glanced at the dog, cavorting in an.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| afec1fa | I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral. | funeral sarcasm | Meg Cabot | |
| a72baf9 | Douglas has more books- and comic books- than anyone I know. Still, if you wanted to borrow one, and took it down off the shelf and forgot to mention it to him, Douglas would notice right away it was missing, even though there are maybe a thousand other ones that look exactly like it right on the shelf beside it. Douglas is one of those books people | order reading | Meg Cabot | |
| 9740f69 | I'll remind her of how fat her arms looked in that slutty dress she wore at senior prom. That always makes her cry. Like goddamned Niagara falls. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 29005d6 | Of course, I didn't know how I felt about my first kiss coming from one of the undead, but hey, beggars can't be choosers, and let me tell you something, Jesse was way cuter than any live guy I'd met lately. | susannah-simon suze-simon the-mediator | Meg Cabot | |
| e375602 | Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. | fear | Meg Cabot | |
| 9184635 | Yeah," Nicole said, her straw noisily hitting the bottom of her Gut Buster. "Well, I would have appreciated it if you guys had wrecked a little less stuff. Because my house smelled like smoke for months. And construction on the Tarantinos' new garage starts at eight on the dot every morning, and it's still going on, and you know how I get if I don't have my full ten hours of beauty sleep." "So that's what happened to your face," Cody said. .. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 987da24 | Good bye AEHS. You suck. I hate you. And yet... Somehow I'll miss you too. | meg-cabot princess-diaries school | Meg Cabot | |
| 79b40e2 | Grandmere says she can't get over the change in me. She says I seem taller. And you know maybe I am. She thinks it's because I'm wearing another one of Sebastiano's original creations, designed just for me,just like the dress that was supposed to make Michael see me as more than just his little sister's best friend . . . except that it turned out he already did. But I know that's not it. And it isn't love, either. Well, not entirely. I'll t.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 7a82163 | However much they're paying teachers these days, it is not enough. Middle-schoolers are animals. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 271d9d1 | I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pitbull's tested positive. Twice. | William Gibson | ||
| 6815296 | If you fancy resenting the tedious, I recommend intentional communities, particularly those led by charismatics." "You" | William Gibson | ||
| ebc1a6a | Really, my artiste, you amaze me. The lengths you will go to in order to accomplish your own destruction. The redundancy of it! In Night City, you had it, in the palm of your hand! The speed to eat your sense away, drink to keep it all so fluid, Linda for a sweeter sorrow, and the street to hold the axe. How far you've come, to do it now, and what grotesque props. . . . Playgrounds hung in space, castles hermetically sealed, the rarest rots.. | William Gibson | ||
| a8d9bd6 | Take me home," she said, and the words hit me like a whip. I think I shook my head. "Take me home." There were levels of pain there, and subtlety, and an amazing cruelty. And I knew then that I'd never been hated, ever, as deeply or thoroughly as this wasted little girl hated me now, hated me for the way I'd looked, then looked away, beside Rubin's all-beer refrigerator. | William Gibson | ||
| eaaea77 | She is like a little safe, locked, that no one can open. Perhaps there is a treasure inside. | William Gibson | ||
| 217ee4f | A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil. | William Gibson | ||
| 21878ee | At another time she asked,'what is a soul?' ' No one knows,'I replied; 'but we know it is not the body, and it is that part of us which thinks and loves and hopes'...[and] is invisible...'But if I write what my soul thinks,'she said, 'then it will be visible, and the words will be its body. | helen-keller inspirational-quotes life-quotes | William Gibson | |
| 96f6b9f | NEWT: That's all very well, Dumbledore, but, forgive me for asking, why can't you go? They stop. DUMBLEDORE: I can't move against Grindelwald. It has to be you. (beat) Well, I don't blame you, in your shoes I'd probably refuse too. It's late. Good evening, Newt. DUMBLEDORE Disapparates. NEWT: Oh c'mon! DUMBLEDORE'S empty glove reappears and tucks the business card bearing the address of the safe house into NEWT'S top pocket. NEWT (exasperat.. | grindelwald newt-scamander | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2215f69 | This was different: the feeling of being chosen. Out of everybody in the world...this boy had picked him as the one he liked best of all. | Elise Broach | ||
| f804572 | It's strange, isn't it? One small bit of information - a private relationship, something that happened a long time ago - and the whole story seems different. | Elise Broach | ||
| 6210c11 | she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals. | Elise Broach | ||
| ab27a50 | Loving someone is easy. It's your car and all you have to do is start the engine, give her a little gas and point the thing wherever you want to go. But being loved is like being taken for a ride in someone else's car. Even if you think they'll be a good driver, you always have the innate fear they might do something wrong: in an instant you'll both be flying through the windshield toward imminent disaster. Being loved can be the most frigh.. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| f4795a0 | We're often wrong at predicting who or what will transform us. Encountering certain people, books, music, places, or ideas ... at just the right time can immediately make our lives happier, richer, more beautiful, resonant, or meaningful. When it happens, we feel a kind of instant love for them, both deep and abiding. Now and then it can be something as trifling as a children's book, a returned telephone call, or a night at a seaside bar in.. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 167b017 | I think we love differently every day. Like the guy who said you can't stand in a river at exactly the same place twice. Today I love you differently than yesterday, or will tomorrow. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 0005e5c | One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked out the door. If you were in a hurry, everything else was too, even the pigeons. You shared the same speed and sense of urgency to get wherever you were going. When you had time to kill, it was happy to give you things to look at and do that easily took up whole days. I didn't agree with people who said Manhattan was a cold, indi.. | living manhattan mood | Jonathan Carroll | |
| d334f59 | The Bible is not an argument. It is a record of human experience. The point is not to prove that it's the word of God or it's inspired or it's whatever the current word is that people are using. The point is to enter into its stories with such intention and vitality that you find what it is that inspired people to write these books. | Rob Bell | ||
| 6a974c0 | I don't know what sort of occasion I was waiting for...because everyday was a special occasion with your father. | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 45bad30 | If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... | Donna VanLiere | ||
| 4e1a7d9 | Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action. | communication rhetoric | Leonard Koren | |
| 7b78cbc | porque en el mundo, Clotaldo, todos lo que viven suenan. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | ||
| 2c86a45 | If there is a divine being who made everything, including us, what would our experiences with this being look like? The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. We are dealing with somebody we made up. And if we made him up, then we are in control. And so in passage after passage, we find God reminding people that he is beyond and bigger and more. | Rob Bell | ||
| 35c63ca | Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall," the paratroopers liked to say. "He forgot to put a roof on it." | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| fe3b19d | The first man stepped up to the open door. All the men had been ordered to look out at the horizon, not straight down, for obvious psychological reasons. | Stephen E. Ambrose | ||
| 92aebef | The best lesson from the myths of Newton and Archimedes is to work passionately but to take breaks. Sitting under trees and relaxing in baths lets the mind wander and frees the subconscious to do work on our behalf. Freeman Dyson, a world-class physi- cist and author, agrees: "I think it's very important to be idle...people who keep themselves busy all the time are generally not creative. So I am not ashamed of being idle." -- | innovaton | Scott Berkun | |
| 5b247f5 | Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time? | Doug Stanton |