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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1dcd962 | Snow... blots and softens the top of every object like ice on a plum pudding. Hedges, telegraph wires, cars, postboxes, recycling bins. The world is losing its edges. Look upwards and it seems as if the stars themselves are being poured from the sky and turn out not to be vast and fiery globes after all but tiny, frozen things which melt in the palm of your hand. | snow | Mark Haddon | |
| 0abc59a | He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope. | Mark Haddon | ||
| df10a09 | How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his need for periodic isolation and regularly dragged him back to earth mid-soak by hammering on the locked door in search of bleach or dental floss. | Mark Haddon | ||
| bfe7ea1 | For example, people often say "Be quiet," but they don't tell you how long to be quiet for. Or you see a sign which says KEEP OFF THE GRASS but it should say KEEP OFF THE GRASS AROUND THIS SIGN or KEEP OFF ALL THE GRASS IN THIS PARK because there is lots of grass you are allowed to walk on." | Mark Haddon | ||
| 148926f | lys `ly 'n 'f`l m yf`lh lakhrwn , wlknny 'stTy` 'n 'f`l m ynsbny | novel others | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 4f8b0ed | They're beautiful. How did you know I loved roses?" "I didn't, but I've never heard of a woman who didn't, so I took a chance." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| d93ffff | 'n lHy@ fyh lmsrt w l'Hzn , wlm ykn l'mr ystHq lTq@ lynz`j lmr mn l'Hzn , lys l'nh l mfr mnh wHsb bl wl'nh tnqDy 'yDan | novel sadness | Nicholas Sparks | |
| a1510f9 | That's what parenting is all about. Doing the best you can while being terrified of screwing up. Kids | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 182ccf2 | You have to understand that I'm not the girl I used to be," she said. "I'm a wife and a mother now, and like everyone else I'm not perfect. I struggle with the choices I've made and I make mistakes, and half the time I wonder who I really am or what I'm doing or whether my life means anything at all. I'm not special at all, Dawson, and you need to know that. You have to understand that I'm just... ordinary." "You're not ordinary." Her look .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 3d24f14 | The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 74b935e | laid out. It has the most beautiful | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 7d04f02 | Is this Molly?" she asked. Gabby didn't bother to hide her surprise. Living in a small town still took some getting used to. "Yeah. I'm Gabby Holland." "Nice to meet you. I'm Terri, by the way. What a beautiful dog." "Thank you." "We were wondering when you'd get here. You have to get back to work, right?" She grabbed a clipboard. "Let me go ahead and get you set up in a room. You can do the paperwork there. That way, the vet can see you ri.. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 4d82755 | There are too many fault lines to count now. | fault-lines life love nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 5615ca9 | My Darling, It is late at night and though the words are coming hard to me, I can't escape the feeling that it's time that I finally answer your question. Of course I forgive you. I forgive you now, and I forgave you the moment I read your letter. In my heart, I had no other choice. Leaving you once was hard enough; to have done it a second time would have been impossible. I loved you too much to have let you go again. Though I'm still gr.. | nicholas-sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| a6780bc | Trust people," he would tell me, "until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| fa2d41f | Czar Nicholas the Second was overthrown by Lenin in 1917." I blink in surprise. "Yes," I say, "he was." "And do you think I want to know that? IT's not even on your exam syllabus. I never had to know that. So now it's your turn to pick up a few pairs of shoes and make ooh and aah sounds for me becuase Jo ate prawns and she's allergic and she got sick and couldn't come and I'm not sitting on a bus on my own for five hours, OK?" Nat takes a d.. | Holly Smale | ||
| 5a31b88 | There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 74bbe0c | I think I repeated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in my head at least one thousand times: the mathematical product of the combined uncertainties of concurrent measurements of position and momentum in a specified direction could never be less than Planck's constant, h, divided by 4p. This meant, rather encouragingly, that my uncertain position and zero momentum and the Beast Responsible for the Sound's uncertain position and uncertain .. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 07b80e9 | Mr. Archer being EARTH FRIENDLY was APPARATUS HOSTILE. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 102b765 | ' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking about the country that invented spandex-but also because they are a confident, self-assured nation. They Family. They Right from Wrong. They know God-many of them attest to daily chats with the man. And the idea that none of us can truly know.. | ambiguity ambiguous-ending america americans control endings family foreign-film god right-and-wrong | Marisha Pessl | |
| 796b552 | I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 2fbc633 | We swear we see each other, but all we are ever able to make out is a tiny porthole view of an ocean. We think we remember the past, but our memories are as fantastic and flimsy as dreams. It's so easy to hate the pretty one, worship the genius, love the rockstar, trust the good girl. That's never their only story. | marisha-pessl neverworld-wake | Marisha Pessl | |
| b78e799 | America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled ice cream. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 2ee86f5 | America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer blondes, but the great heights to which she has propelled ice cream, " Dad was fond of commenting while standing with the freezer door open and inspecting every flavor of Ben and Jerry's, oblivious to the customers swarming around him, waiting for him to move." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 4d725ca | As far as one journeys, as much as a man sees, from the turrets of the Taj Mahal to the Siberian wilds, he may eventually come to an unfortunate conclusion --usually while he's lying in bed, staring at the thatched ceiling of some substandard accommodation in Indochina," writes Swithin in his last book, the posthumously published Whereabouts, 1917 (1918). "It is impossible to rid himself of the relentless, cloying fever commonly known as Ho.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| cba42de | Those were the best nights of my life. I couldn't say why, exactly, this was so--only that I knew that as an old woman, when I thought back to my youth, I'd remember these nights, sitting with these five people along the harrowing window ledge of the Foreman's Lookout, gazing into that clear blue lake hundreds of feet below. Our friendship was born there. There we were bound together. Something about seeing each other against that spare, al.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 01fc31e | It was astounding how a woman, when she struck marital gold, procured not just a new wardrobe and new friends but a new voice straight out of a 1930s gramophone (brittle, mono-stereo) and a vocabulary that reliably included laze, season, and terribly sorry. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| bb8e112 | You know what Confucius said?" "Remind me." " 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.' " | Marisha Pessl | ||
| da21ec7 | Love is this elusive bird," he said. "You're the lifelong bird-watcher, looking for this rare red-plumed quail people spend entire lives trying to see for three seconds in a cherry tree on a mountaintop in Japan." "You're mistaking love for perfection," I said. "Real love when it's there? It's just there. It's a metal folding chair." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 23e57a2 | A Tornado knocks a house down, killing the owner, and it's a tragedy. Then you learn a serial killer lived there and the same act becomes a miracle. The truth about what happens to us in this world keeps changing. Always. It never stops. Sometimes not even after death. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 20f223a | We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 407a066 | How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead. | death fiction living scary shift sudden transition | Marisha Pessl | |
| 2f2dcc7 | It was the cause of many of Dad's outrages too, when people elected themselves his personal oracle of Delphi... They'd made the mistake of abridging Dad, putting Dad in a nutshell, telling Dad How It Was (and getting it all wrong). ... "The act of being personally misconstrued," Dad said, "informed to one's face one is no more complex than a few words haphazardly strung together like blotchy undershirts on a clothesline-- well, it can fall .. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 6a0de64 | They looked happy, but, of course, that didn't say much. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 8dd2c3b | Here's something else to worry about," he said. And he kissed me--his hand at the nape of my neck and his mouth on mine, soft at first, then serious and demanding. He drew me closer and kissed me again and desire washed over me, hot and liquid and scary. "Oh boy," I whispered. "Yeah," he said. "Think about it." "What I think ... is that it's a bad idea." "Of course it's a bad idea," Ranger said. "If it was a good idea I'd have been in y.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| bba3ba8 | I was standing with my back to the door, and I saw Connie's eyes go wide. "Be still my heart," Lula said, looking past me, through the window to the sidewalk. I figured they were looking at either Johnny Depp or Ranger. My money was on Ranger." -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| efb6443 | I don't care that you're short. I like lots of things that are short. Little dogs and daffodils. I hate you because you're mean as a snake. Would it kill you to be nice? | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 56ac470 | I sensed a familiar presence behind me. A hand brushed my hair back, and Ranger leaned in to me and kissed me on the nape of my neck. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 17be230 | You and Nick are good together," Jake said. "Probably in more ways than you know." "Let's not go there." "You keep saying that to yourself, but maybe it's time for a rethink." "Since when are you interested in my love life?" "You don't have one. You're all about the job. With Bob, you can have both." "You don't know anything about Bob." "I know it's got to be Nick, because there isn't anybody else," Jake said. "Who could possibly compete?" .. | love-life | Janet Evanovich | |
| 79bdda6 | Ranger shrugged. "Things turn up." He reached behind him and came up with a gun. My gun. "Found this in the lobby, too." He tucked the gun under the top edge of my towel, wedging it between my breasts, his knuckles brushing against me. My breath caught in my throat, and for a moment I thought my towel might catch fire. Ranger smiled again. And I did more eye narrowing. "I'll be in touch," Ranger said. And then he was gone." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 8cd85cd | You have no spirit of culinary adventure. You need to be more like that snarky guy on the Travel Channel. He goes all over the world eating kangaroo a**holes and snail throw-up. He'd eat anything. He don't care how sick he gets. He's another one of my role models, except he needs ironing. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 827279f | There was an air of satisfaction to the house at the end of the day. Maybe the day hadn't gone exactly right, but the day had been lived and the house had been there for its family. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 242b4fb | I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1ec0e81 | Hey. I know dirty." Vinnie" | Janet Evanovich |