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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d32ace4 | Chapter Fourteen: Teresa "So not unnatural at all," Holden said, tipping a little more wine from the bottle into the doctor's glass. "Meaningless term," Cortazar said. "Humans arose inside nature. We're natural. Everything we do is natural. The whole idea that we are different in category is either sentimental or religious. Irrelevant from a scientific perspective." Tiamat's Wrath" | holden the-expanse-tiamat-s-wrath | James S.A. Corey | |
| cd45a4b | The messages coming back flooded the comm buffers with rage and sorrow, threats of vengeance and offers of aid. Those last were the hardest. New colonies still trying to force their way into local ecosystems so exotic that their bodies could hardly recognize them as life at all, isolated, exhausted, sometimes at the edge of their resources. And what they wanted was to send back help. He listened to their voices, saw the distress in their ey.. | war humanism sacrifice inspirational war-relief helping-others refugees | James S.A. Corey | |
| 860179b | if you hear hoofbeats in the distance, your first guess is that they're horses, not zebras. And you're hearing hoofbeats and jumping straight to unicorns. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 15dcd76 | Easy to make rules," Emma said. "Easy to make systems with a perfect logic and rigor. All you need to do is leave out the mercy, yeah? Then when you put people into it and they get chewed to nothing, it's the person's fault. Not the rules. Everything we do that's worth shit, we've done with people. Flawed, stupid, lying, rules-breaking people." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 222c8be | Downtime's easier to enjoy when I know it'll end. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 70f8695 | It had been a failure, but it was a failure he understood, and that made it a victory. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 24829eb | Just do not pull that fucking trigger. Do you understand what I'm saying? Don't. You will be personally responsible for the deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I'm on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar's not low. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 6623f3c | It seemed to her that the real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren't getting old. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 39245ef | They don't hate us," Bobbie said, her voice tired. "They're afraid of us." "Then why do they act like they hate us?" David's father said with something like triumph. "Because that's what fear looks like when it needs someplace to go." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 6a686e9 | They'd never precisely been friends, but they'd managed to stop the human race from being wiped out by a corporation's self-induced sociopathy and a recovered alien weapon that everyone in human history had mistaken for a moon of Saturn. By that standard, at least, the partnership had been a success. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 0daadeb | You take care of your tools, your tools take care of you. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 227c554 | The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don't love them anymore. They're embarrassed by the stupid things they did when they were young that everyone else has forgotten. And so they're vulnerable. We all define ourselves by the people around us, because that's the kind of monkey we are. We can't transcend it. So when they watch you, they hand you the power to change what they are to.. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 3fa6022 | My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power. | Anna Deavere Smith | ||
| da2f523 | This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: "Love--Eros--makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness." | Edith Hamilton | ||
| f7cb590 | The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it. | perspective perception | Edith Hamilton | |
| b6b413d | Love came easy, but it just wasn't for me. It flew away like swallows on a summer evening. Love sang softly, but it just wasn't to me. Was I a fool to give my love, to give my soul, and more away? My heart aches with longing, cries each night, As I just fall apart. --Carmen, singing "Love Has Flown Away" | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 225601c | Each of us is born with a history already in place | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 933dd76 | When Miss O'Brien looked at me... what did she see that caused her to turn away? What did she see? | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| a776d67 | She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 0d26172 | Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers probing parts you never though you could probably probe" - Gray" | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 40c5511 | In the foreseeable future, I will be a dead person. I want to remind you that dead people are people too. There are good dead people and bad dead people. Some of my best friends are dead people. Dead people have fought in every war." Then" | Al Franken | ||
| 6df3578 | I know I'm sort of farting into the wind on this. But I hope you'll fart along with me. I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's | Al Franken | ||
| cb4604d | The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech. | William L. Shirer | ||
| e077372 | To all the millions of discontented Hitler in a whirlwind campaign offered what seemed to them, in their misery, some measure of hope. He would make Germany strong again, refuse to pay reparations, repudiate the Versailles Treaty, stamp out corruption, bring the money barons to heel (especially if they were Jews) and see to it that every German had a job and bread. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 8a0d3cc | Without screaming or weeping these people undressed, stood around in family groups, kissed each other, said farewells and waited for a sign from another S.S. man, who stood near the pit, also with a whip in his hand. During the fifteen minutes that I stood near the pit I heard no complaint or plea for mercy... An old woman with snow-white hair was holding a one-year-old child in her arms and singing to it and tickling it. The child was cooi.. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 9a63993 | THIS IS DICK -- DON'T TOUCH!!! | Betty MacDonald | ||
| b8440ce | On either side the wild roses, their pink dewy faces turned to the sun, tumbled over the fences, sprawled on the ground and filled the air with their pure summery smell. | wildflowers scents | Betty MacDonald | |
| b8900d5 | Like the perfect beach vacation, where the routine is so blissfully uneventful that when you return home and friends ask how your trip was, you can't really recall what exactly you did to fill up so many hours. That's what being with Dex is like. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 30bb3a4 | So I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season--or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. Our choices. Our fleeting moments together. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 2b7095b | It's heartbreaking when you love a book that fails. And it always seems to happen to the nicest authors. | Emily Giffin | ||
| c44fe74 | I just wonder if sheer force of will to forgive can be enough to set things right Because after all, power is one thing. Love is a different creature altogether. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 17ea4cd | Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. | love doctor | Emily Giffin | |
| eb223fc | You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that has really has more to do with personality- the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom- almost never -even proposition. Someone always loves more. | love love-hurts | Emily Giffin | |
| 84ab0f5 | As I've said many times, the only way to stay trim is to eat bacon. | Emily Giffin | ||
| b2b3d5a | Grief is a mystery to be lived through, not a problem to be solved, | Emily Giffin | ||
| e5b206d | Guys aren't so different from us, I think, which no matter how many times I think it will always seem like a remarkable revelation. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 49d83e4 | What's not to love' is hardly a reason to love," she says. "And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction." | love | Emily Giffin | |
| a5a586c | so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing. | Emily Giffin | ||
| e3eae5d | I'll remind you of that someday , Maura says. "when you're married to a man who once looked into your eyes and promised to forsake all others. I'll remind of that after you've just had his baby and you have postpartum depression and feel as fat as cow and you are pumping milk into a plastic containers in the middle of the night while he's running around with some twenty-two-years old named Lissette. I'll remind you of that. Maura to Jess." | motherhood family-life no | Emily Giffin | |
| 2df0fdc | As of that moment, we had a secret, and having a secret--even a little one--creates a bond between two people. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 7c821f1 | Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are. | women | Emily Giffin | |
| 99e76de | Let him who reads forgive the intrusion of a dream into a history of fact. But it came so home to me--I saw it all so clear in a moment, as it were; and, besides, who shall say what proportion of fact, past, present, or to come, may lie in the imagination? What is imagination? Perhaps it is the shadow of the intangible truth, perhaps it is the soul's thought. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 2ef907e | We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights. | H. Rider Haggard | ||
| 49d5d3b | A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish." | H. Rider Haggard |