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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f3b4894 | But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slayer of evil, I defeat all those who raise their swords in opposition to Arthur, King of all Britain." "Trust me, kid, women prefer a man who can cook." | knight-of-the-round-table | Tanya Huff | |
| b0b57b4 | Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn. | knights sneaking stealth | Tanya Huff | |
| 3ef4e41 | he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| eca5f18 | It seemed to me that the baker had an honest response to the painting. Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked at paintings, with his honeyed words and studied expressions. He was too aware of having an audience to perform for, whereas the baker merely said what he thought. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 274b33d | I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal and not getting quite enough to eat. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 2482d7d | This was the sort of situation that she read about in the novels she favored, by authors such as Miss Jane Austen, whom Margaret was sure she'd met long ago at the Assembly Rooms the first time we visited Lyme. One of Miss Austen's books had even featured Lyme Regis, but I did not read fiction and could not be persuaded to try it. Life itself was far messier and didn't end so tidily with the heroine making the right match. We Philpot sister.. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| e67a2dd | Perhaps thee will best understand what Abigail is like if I tell thee that when she quilts she prefers to stitch in the ditch, hiding her poor stitches in the seams between the blocks. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 741b40a | But the beauty of the woods, the incredible joy of it is too alluring to be ignored, and I could not stand to be away from it--indeed, still can't--and so I ran dogs simply to run dogs; to be in and part of the forest, the woods | Gary Paulsen | ||
| bfc135d | You want to stay hungry...to learn. You get full, you get sleepy, lazy; you get lazy, you don't learn. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 400a5eb | He moved to the trees. Where the bark was peeling from the trunks it lifted in tiny tendrils, almost fluffs. Brian plucked some of them loose, rolled them in his fingers. They seemed flammable, dry and nearly powdery. He pulled and twisted bits off the trees, packing them in one hand while he picked them with the other, picking and gathering until he had a wad close to the size of a baseball. Then he went back into the shelter and arranged .. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| f1057c4 | If his mother hadn't begun to see him and forced the divorce, Brian wouldn't be here now. He | Gary Paulsen | ||
| cc9ac03 | Change is good, but sometimes leaving things the way they've always been is better. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 1cf6fa5 | And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 3aff154 | In a real situation, like when I was here before, there were things wrong--going wrong. The plane didn't land and set me on the shore. It crashed. A man was dead. I was hurt. I didn't know anything. Nothing at all. I was, maybe, close to death and now we're out here going la-de-da, I've got a fish; la-de-da, there are some more berries. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 62a6d9d | I began to understand that they are not wrong or right--they just are. Wolves don't know they are wolves. That's a name we have put on them, something we have done. I do not know how wolves think of themselves, nor does anybody, but I did know and still know that it was wrong to think they should be the way I wanted them to be. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 814b20a | And now I saw how easy it was for the Providence of God to make the most miserable Condition Mankind could be in worse. Now I look'd back upon my desolate solitary Island, as the most pleasant Place in the World, and all the Happiness my Heart could wish for, was to be but there again. I stretch'd out my Hands to it with eager Wishes. O happy Desart, said I, I shall never see thee more. O miserable Creature, said I, whether am I going: Then.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 0afe215 | Call on me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| fef0039 | He told me it was for men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortune on the other, who when abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprize, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me, or to far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found by long experience was .. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| a59a1ed | Rahim, a boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b68eaa3 | This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| ee53bd7 | Bu kentin ne catilarini isildatan aylari sayabilirsin, Ne de duvarlarinin gerisine gizlenen bin muhtesem gunesi. | bin-muhteşem-güneş güneş muhteşem | Khaled Hosseini | |
| d725c4f | EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think. NW: Yes, but I did it the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebels with mathematics? | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a10827d | Mot khi ta tro thanh ai do, con nguoi cu cua ta cung chet di. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 221e811 | qwnyn Tlbn fwr wSwlh llHkm: .kl lmwTnyn yjb 'n ySlw khms mrt f~ lywm. dh kn wqt lSl@ wkntm tqwmwn bshy' akhr fswf, tjldwn .`l~ kl lrjl 'n ytrkw lHhm. wlHjm lSHyH hw mqdr qbD@ tHt ldhqn. dh lm tTy`w fswf tjldwn .kl l'wld sylbswn l`my'm. l'wld mn lSf l'wl l~ lSf lsds syrtdwn `my'm swd, f~ lmrHl l`ly syrtdwn `my'm byD. kl l'wld syrtdwn llbs lslm~. yqt lqmSn stkwn mzrr@ .lGn mmnw` .lrqS mmnw` .l`b lwrq, l`b lshTrnj, lqmr, lTy'rt lwrqy@ mmnw.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| ee07e02 | l`uywn hy nwfdh lrwH * | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 607d2b2 | The lucky ones, the ones who weren't here when the place was getting bombed to hell. We're not like these people. We shouldn't pretend we are. The stories these people have to tell, we're not entitled to them. | khaled-hosseini war | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 4a92497 | When guilt leads to good. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4cb4c81 | He had a frozen, wide-eyed look to his face, I remember, the way some old people do, like they are perpetually startled by the monstrous surprise that is old age. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6bce7cf | But they were wasting their time. Because Hassan stood with his arms wide open, smiling, waiting for the kite. And may God--if He exists, that is--strike me blind if the kite didn't just drop into his outstretched arms. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 99d1276 | Alas, Abdullah and Pari, Baba Ayub's days of happiness came to an end. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| ae5a694 | Sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| dbaec3f | Yuregi cokuverdi, ta ayaklarinin dibine kadar. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 5e0ea94 | A sadness came over me. Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| efaddc5 | What I have in ample supply here is children who've lost their childhood. But the tragedy is that these are the lucky ones. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a097e23 | In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings. | love | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 5861abd | There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d91ab4c | Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres. | connection-with-people | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 1d24a5b | For you, a thousand times over." Then I turned and ran. It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything alright. It didn't make anything all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0faaa88 | I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into. | wishes | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 8393532 | Her seye, devasa olasilik oranlarina ragmen, kontrol edemedigin bir dunyanin, kaybetmeyi kaldiramayacagin tek seyi elinden almayacagina dair, son derece tekinsiz ve akil almaz aptallikta bir inanc duymak. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4310ba6 | I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again. | amir khaled-hosseini | Khaled Hosseini | |
| ef008b2 | there is a field. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 99c8607 | lm ykn mn lshl 'n ttHml lTryq@ lty ytklm bh m`h, Htqrh lh, hnth wskhryth mnh.. 'n ymr bjnbh k'nh l shy 'w k'nh qT@ fy lmnzl .. lkn b`d 'rb` snwt mn lzwj, r't mrym bwDwH km ymkn lmr'@ 'n ttHml `ndm tkwn khy'f@ .. wknt mrym khy'f@ Hqan,, mn Tb`h lmtqlb@, mzjh l`nyf, Srrh `l~ lHywny@, Ht~ lmshjrt ltfh@ lty tHdth fy lmwjht lDrwry@ bynhm, kn yHlh bllkmt, blSf`t, lrfst... w'Hyn ySlH lwD` b`tdhr qdhr ,, w'Hyn dwn 'y shy ... | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 9946582 | lan t`tqd mrym b'n lns yjb 'n l ysmHw l'nfshm 'n ynjbw 'wldan mn jdyd, dh knw qd mnHw kl lHb ldhy ldyhm l'wldhm lsbqyn, dhlk lys `dlan! | Khaled Hosseini |