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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c376b1a | Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching | faith inspirational-attitude | Rodman Philbrick | |
| 55c5aa3 | How you coach them is how they're going to play. | education mentoring | Stefan Fatsis | |
| 4979324 | Every inch of you belongs to me," Afron whispered. "From your ears" -- he nibbled delicately at one -- "to your lips" -- another nibble -- "to your chest" -- a swipe of his tongue met Makara's flesh -- "to your belly" -- a lingering tickle of the tip of Afron's tongue in Makara's belly button -- "to your marvelous, thick cock." | m-m possessive-hero | D.C. Juris | |
| fcc6383 | Well the Dutch invented the microscope," she said. "They were jewellers, grinders of lenses. The want it all as detailed as possible because even the tiniest things mean something. Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life- a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple- the painter is giving you a secret message. He's telling you that living things don't last- it's all temporary. Death in life. That's why they're called natures mortes. .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 2b19b72 | beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful. Only what is that thing? Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 971e943 | I'm a joker I'm a smoker | Steve Miller Band | ||
| a54680e | Look," he said. "We'd like you to return the salary." "Oh, is that all?" I said. "Heck. That's easy. The answer is no." "What?" "No." "No?" "What part of that two-letter word don't you understand, Brad?" I asked. "Was it the vowel that threw you, or the consonant ?" | John Scalzi | ||
| 89fc868 | The recruiting office was a small storefront in a nondescript strip mall; there was a state liquor authority store on one side of it and a tattoo parlor on the other. Depending on what order you went into each, you could wake up the next morning in some serious trouble. | John Scalzi | ||
| 052be49 | The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position. | John Scalzi | ||
| 869eae1 | I mean that you and I know that in this universe, God is a hack," he said. "He's a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can't plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?" | John Scalzi | ||
| 9344b11 | You have to eliminate the low-hanging targets first, on the off chance you were dealing with morons. | John Scalzi | ||
| 2aed01b | You just know this is going to be bad," Susan said. "--but when I went to college," Harry continued, throwing a piece of bread at Susan, "if your roommate died, you were usually allowed to skip your finals for that semester. You know, because of the trauma." "And oddly enough, your roommate got to skip them, too," Susan said. "For much the same reason." | John Scalzi | ||
| 02e5c3b | There is a moment of surface tension when a knife blade presents its demand and the flesh honors it. An instant of pressure before the puncture, the rip before the slide, a small eternity easy to miss but impossible to ignore if you've felt it before. I lived in that moment a great while for the small sliver of time it was there. | John Scalzi | ||
| e89a2fe | I glared at the man. "You know, Dr. Russell, most doctors would have found a more tactful way to break the news." "I'm sorry, Mr. Perry," Dr. Russell said. "I don't want to seem unconcerned. But it's really not a problem. Even on Earth, testicular cancer is easily treatable, particularly in the early stages, which is the case here. At the very worst, you'd lose the testicle, but that's not a significant setback." "Unless you happen to own t.. | John Scalzi | ||
| a77bd3c | The supply transport's on autopilot most of the way down anyway. I'm just on board so that if it crashes, they can say someone died. | John Scalzi | ||
| 1ddccda | It's a hell of a thing to say good-bye to your whole life. | John Scalzi | ||
| 28bd0f8 | It's just a reminder that war favors the rich. The ones who can leave, do. The ones who can't, suffer." Kiva was silent for a moment. Then, "Fuck you for having a conscience, Tomi." | John Scalzi | ||
| 8211bc9 | Imagine waking up and finding your first and last view of the world was a shotgun barrel. That'd be a hell of a life. | John Scalzi | ||
| 92fb447 | Breakfast was amazing, and I say that having been married to a woman who could make a breakfast spread that would have made Gandhi stop a fast. | John Scalzi | ||
| 7ce033f | I seem to be good at speaking the politicians' language," Szilard said. "Apparently there's an advantage around here to being mildly socially retarded, and that's the Special Forces for sure." | John Scalzi | ||
| 42202b9 | he didn't exactly have the "programmer" look to him, if you know what I mean. He'd be the programmer's boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays." | John Scalzi | ||
| 8355438 | Cardenia gawked at Rachela I. "You're unbelievable." "I worked in marketing," Rachela I said. "Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn't call it that after that point." | John Scalzi | ||
| 7c2b8f0 | Wes is Wes," Alastair said. "One in every family. I love him, but I think of him as a sarcastic pet." -- | John Scalzi | ||
| c355ecf | Well, life is like that sometimes", Isabel said. "We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them." | John Scalzi | ||
| e7b9ce5 | The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense. | geriatrics legions offense universe | John Scalzi | |
| 90ac871 | Remember that the plant wants to eat you," the groundskeeper said. "It's not going to let you get away. Don't fight it. Let yourself be eaten." "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm finding your advice to be less than one hundred percent helpful," | John Scalzi | ||
| ade9a5b | I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually, | John Scalzi | ||
| 3236dbf | What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too," I said. "And you wait around for your body to catch up." "Is that what you're doing now?" Jane said. "Waiting for your body to catch up, I mean." "No, not anymore," I said. "You eventually get to live again. You just live a different life, is all." | John Scalzi | ||
| 97c40f9 | If knew you were going to drug me, kidnap me, and take me back to the dark ages with out my pants, I never would have slept with you. | John Scalzi | ||
| f5d79da | She was old and crankily conservative in the way only old liberals could be. | John Scalzi | ||
| 4eccc79 | Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live. | remember trust weapon | John Scalzi | |
| 99725d8 | I didn't always write for a living, and even back when it was my most fondly held dream to one day be able to do so, writing was difficult. Writing is like pulling teeth. From my dick. | David Rakoff | ||
| f4db6ef | It must be murder to be an aging beauty, a former Tadzio, to see your future as an ignored spectator rushing up to meet you like the hard pavement. What a small sip of gall to be able to time with each passing year the ever-shorter interval in which someone's eyes focus upon you. And then shift away. | beauty | David Rakoff | |
| 9ad70c7 | Should you happen to be possessed of a certain verbal acuity coupled with a relentless, hair-trigger humor and surface cheer spackling over a chronic melancholia and loneliness - a grotesquely caricatured version of your deepest self, which you trot out at the slightest provocation to endearing and glib comic effect, thus rendering you the kind of fellow who is beloved by all yet loved by none, all of it to distract, however fleetingly, fro.. | David Rakoff | ||
| 67a0429 | Mexico is a lawless place. I don't care what the UN says, or what the State Department travel advisories tell you. The fact is that Mexico, as a whole, is a narco-state run by powerful regional cartels, with a hollow and largely irrelevant central government that is nothing more than window-dressing to appease the international community. Freedom is for those who can afford it, law is for sale, and what is fair is determined by who is most .. | Tucker Max | ||
| 9ce4faf | FUCK. This is not good. I'm allergic to whiskey. I think maybe I should explain this to her, and request a different alcohol. Then I remember that I am awesome. Even fighting through anaphylactic shock, I can STILL bury this emotionally unstable, bulimic undergrad. | Tucker Max | ||
| 34ba9bf | Here's to the women we've met, and to the women we've fucked, And to those amongst us who've had no such luck. Here's to beer in the glass, and vodka in the cup, Here's to pokin' her in the ass, so she won't get knocked up. Here's to all of you, and here's to me, Together as friends we'll always be, But if we should ever disagree, Then FUCK ALL OF YOU, HERE'S TO ME! | Tucker Max | ||
| 60e9ec1 | It is said of the Jews, deprived of a stable homeland for so long, their temples destroyed, and their communities in the Diaspora, that they were forced to rebuild not physically but within | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 97b8619 | People claim to want to do something that matters, yet they measure themselves against things that don't, and track their progress not in years but in microseconds. They want to make something timeless, but they focus instead on immediate payoffs and instant gratification. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 36d06b8 | When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it. --MARCUS AURELIUS A | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 71f9d48 | There is always a countermove, always an escape or way through. No one said it would be easy and of course the stakes are high, but the path is there for those ready to take it. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2a50bda | While overpaid CEOs take long vacations and hide behind e-mail autoresponders, some programmer is working eighteen-hour days coding the start-up that will destroy that CEO's business. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 8894a3e | The reason the knives are so sharp online is because the pie is so small. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| fa606a1 | Great entrepreneurs are never out of the game for long. They slip many times, but they don't fall. | Ryan Holiday |