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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ea56e9d | As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel. | politics national-autonomy | Ben Bova | |
| d932a69 | Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow. | Adrian McKinty | ||
| 6b19a3c | The riot had taken on a beauty of its own now. Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Crimson tracer in mystical parabolas. Phosphorescence from the barrels of plastic bullet guns. A distant yelling like that of men below decks in a torpedoed prison ship. The scarlet whoosh of Molotovs intersecting with exacting surfaces. Helicopters everywhere: their spotlights finding one another like lovers in the Afterlife. And all this through .. | helicopters riot bombs revolution | Adrian McKinty | |
| 79ddf77 | A black Mercedes Benz 450 SL pulled up. It was your classic hood auto beloved of terrorists, pimps and African dictators. | mercedes-benz pimps terrorists cars car | Adrian McKinty | |
| 570c919 | I called to the waiter, 'bring me one of those Antares things.' Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 1bfb430 | People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth. | war | Joe Haldeman | |
| 9fe814b | Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar: | sestina spoiler | Joe Haldeman | |
| 0abc31f | I tried to get through to my brother, Mike, on the Moon, but the phone company wouldn't let me place the call until I had signed a contract and posted a $25,000 bond. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 9ced241 | Politicians cover their mistakes with money; cooks cover their mistakes with mayonnaise; doctors cover theirs with dirt. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 51412bb | Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart. | sadness incarceration | Dennis Lehane | |
| f58c607 | I stared down the slim barrel of a gun, looked into eyes rabid with fear and hatred, and saw my reflection. Pulled the trigger to make it go away. I heard the echoes of my gunshots, smelled the cordite, and in the smoke, I still saw my reflection and knew I always would. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c46a1ab | She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest. | mystic | Dennis Lehane | |
| b1ef25a | After all your years climbing around in people's heads like a cranial janitor, do you think people know why they do things? People rationalize, they turn their delusions into something romantic that they can disguise as ethics or principles or ideals. People are selfish, Doctor- odiously, monstrously, but in so small and paltry a monstrousness that we barely notice it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 80e79a3 | When it came down to it, though, you had to remember all those assholes cutting you off in traffic and walking the streets and shouting in bars and turning their music up too loud and mugging you and raping you and selling you lemon cars-all those assholes were just children who'd aged. No miracle. Nothing sacred in that. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3b538a6 | It was one of those sneaky days in late winter where spring came along to get a lay of the land. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 7cb16ed | Confidence you haven't earned always has the brightest glow. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3a70281 | The truth of himself was a lonely boy in an empty house, waiting for someone to knock on his bedroom door and ask if he was okay. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 66f8f80 | Love like that? Hell, it seems so pure, it's damn near criminal. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 831c9e0 | Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'. | moving-on | Dennis Lehane | |
| c2ca4f6 | You were having nightmares, Marshal. Serious nightmares." "I'm in a mental institution on an island in a hurricane," Teddy said. "Touche," Cawley said." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| b9ccab6 | The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But, shit, you roll up your sleeves and work--at everything--because that's what growing older is. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5e950a5 | He used it on the next guard, the one in front of the fence. He disarmed him, a kid, a baby, really, and the guard said, 'You going to kill me?' 'Jesus, kid, no,' Teddy said and snapped the butt of the rifle into the kid's temple. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c01a772 | Brendan Harris loved everyone now because he loved Katie and Katie loved him. Brendan loved traffic and smog and the sound of jackhammers. He loved his worthless old man who hadn't sent him a single birthday or Christmas card since he'd walked out on Brendan and his mother when Brendan was six. He loved Monday mornings, sitcoms that couldn't make a retard laugh, and standing in line at the RMV. He even loved his job, though he wouldn't be g.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f4ba746 | This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything. | pettiness humankind | Dennis Lehane | |
| f3c740c | You hear it most when politicians who live in places like Hyannis Port and Beacon Hill and Wellesley make decisions that affect people who live in Dorchester and Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, and then step back and say there isn't a war going on. There is a war going on. It's happening in playgrounds, not health clubs. It's fought on cement, not lawns. It's fought with pipes and bottles, and lately, automatic weapons. And as long as it doesn't.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6bec33a | I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum | nuns | Dennis Lehane | |
| fe1d016 | But I say their rules are bullshit. I say there are no rules but the ones a man makes for himself. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 8cb3394 | Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she .. | invisibility self-preservation | Karin Slaughter | |
| 6438fab | I found this." He put the briefcase on the table and opened the locks. She saw a stack of papers, an evidence bag with a red seal. He pulled a college notebook with a blue plastic cover from one of the pockets. Black fingerprint powder spotted the cover. "I tried to clean it up," he said, wiping the grime on the front of his sweater. "I'm sorry. It was in Allison's car and I..." He flipped through the pages, showing her the scrawled handwri.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 75d8782 | because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 9dd9277 | Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 389f7f1 | He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f7a0bc3 | Every place always has somebody who doesn't fit in. That's what makes them fit in. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 770817c | Rage had consumed her. She hadn't wanted to just murder him. She had wanted to empty her gun into his chest. And then she wanted to fill the holes with burning oil and dance in his still-warm blood. She had felt dead inside. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 3576464 | somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 978ef45 | We have more than hope," Buttercup said. "There is true love." | William Goldman | ||
| f7bd998 | Westley y yo estamos unidos por el lazo del amor y eso es algo a lo que no podreis seguirle el rastro ni con mil sabuesos, algo que no podeis romper ni con mil espadas. | William Goldman | ||
| 8501a94 | Well, you haven't once said you loved me.' 'That's all you need? Easy. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I. | William Goldman | ||
| 8d12637 | I can live without love." And with that she left Westley alone." | William Goldman | ||
| 02f652f | Is he really so wonderful, this Westley of yours?" "Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side." | romance love young-love | William Goldman | |
| c1ceda0 | I don't think most people realize--and there's no reason they should--the amount of demeaning garbage you have to take if you want a career in the arts. I mean, going off to med school is something you can say with your head high. Or being a banker or going into insurance or the family business--no problem. But the conversations I had with grown-ups after college... "So you're done with school now, Bill." "That's right." "So what's next on .. | William Goldman | ||
| b65aa96 | Two things happened: (1) The door, quite clearly, locked. (2) Out went the candles on the high walls. "DON'T BE FRIGHTENED!" Inigo screamed. "I'M NOT, I'M NOT!" Fezzik screamed." | William Goldman | ||
| 15be8a5 | In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess. | Steven Kotler | ||
| dea4851 | the chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers. | insult | William Goldman |