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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 720ac3d | Not a clue - and, no, I don't touch drugs. The world's unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks. | world kicks unstable drugs | David Mitchell | |
| d438511 | Look around. Walk. Find a cheap bed. Eat what the locals eat. Find a cheap beer. Try not to get fleeced. Talk. Pick up a few words in the local lingo. Just BE there, y'know? Sometimes," Brubeck bites into an apple, "Sometimes I want to be everywhere, all at once, so badly I could just...Do you ever get that feeling?" | David Mitchell | ||
| b6decb3 | No entiendo como no te diste cuenta de que se trataba de una idea descabellada. Todas las revoluciones son una idea descabellada hasta que suceden; entonces se convierten en realidades historicas inevitables. | David Mitchell | ||
| b3d43ce | Run across a field of daisies at warp speed but keep your eyes on the ground. It's ace. Pedaled stars and dandelion comets streak the green universe. | David Mitchell | ||
| 68db973 | Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going. | rituals pleasure | David Mitchell | |
| aa03293 | Cats seem too transdimensional to get hit by traffic, but it happens all the time. | David Mitchell | ||
| 352d721 | Don't mess with the fairies. | David Mitchell | ||
| 3ad08e2 | What if trying to avoid the future is what triggers it all? | David Mitchell | ||
| f08a686 | Photographs make me forget if time is forwards or backwards. No, photographs make me wonder if there is a forwards or backwards. | David Mitchell | ||
| ef3bf14 | The Future," says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. "Coming soon, to a Present near you." | present future | David Mitchell | |
| 1fb2065 | Look at that! Life's more science-fictiony by the day. It's not just that you get old and your kids leave; it's that the world zooms away and leaves you hankering for whatever decade you felt most comfy in. | David Mitchell | ||
| 89c1dcc | Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. | David Mitchell | ||
| 86bbeef | Hello, tiny life-form of star compost, did you know that your lizardly life, too, is billiarded this way and that by quantum scissors, papers and stones? That your particles exist in a time-froth of little bridges and holes forever going back and around and under itself ? That the universe is the shape of a doughnut, and that if you had a powerful enough telescope you would see the tip of your tail? | David Mitchell | ||
| fde9597 | This is how to control entire populations--don't suppress news, but make it so dumb and dull that nobody has any interest in it. | David Mitchell | ||
| fc5d3ab | Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. | dark light empires shadows | David Mitchell | |
| 3fb8de2 | With a story, as with a well-chosen gift, we're happiest when surprised by something we didn't know we wanted. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2695d90 | Snow is bruised lilac in half light: such pure solace. | David Mitchell | ||
| 6f82f77 | This society doesn't work without booze - our parties aren't good enough, our conversations aren't sufficiently interesting, nor is our self-confidence high enough to sustain our interactions without alcohol. It's everywhere, lubricating everything. | social-interactions society | David Mitchell | |
| 39a0ca6 | Well, Hae-Joo probed, what did I do to relax? I play Go against my sony, I said. "To relax?" he responded, incredulous. "Who wins, you or the sony?" The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve? So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners? I said, If losers can xploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term." | David Mitchell | ||
| dcae05d | Florence Nightingale was never called "the Lady with the Lamp," but "the Lady with the Hammer," an image deftly readjusted by the war reporter of the Times since it was far too coarse for the folks back home. Far from gliding about the hospital with her lamp aloft, Nightingale earned her nickname through a ferocious attack on a locked storeroom when a military commander refused to give her the medical supplies she needed." | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 4899ef2 | Oh, I know, I know, she was a sweet girl, a simple country girl; everyone told me that, both then and since. But I could not forgive her animal dumbness - worse, her rank sensuality, easy as any cow's, and like her dumpling breasts, quite irresistable to men - while those of us whom God has made to think and feel, who are strung out like harps along the wires of our own nature, why, we are rarer than music and must content ourselves with sm.. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 8b26e2b | People in open relationships enjoy exploring different dynamics with different people-sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Non-monogamy gives them the opportunity to create unique relationships that nourish and support each other. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| f059dbe | But it won't be much of a battle, will it?" Alek asked. "What can an airship do to a pair of ironclads?" "My guess is, we'll stay absolutely still for an hour. Just so we don't fall into any bad habits." | humour deryn | Scott Westerfeld | |
| aaf3e47 | Nate liked money. It was a sleek and clever invention, beautiful in the way it lubricated power and focused people's attention. But it had a clumsy, brutal side, too. Money bludgeoned people without it into silence, shut them away in neighborhoods like this. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| b456485 | Nice concept. But is it a trilogy or a tweet?" "I can't tell any more." -- | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| b00241e | The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| eaddf60 | Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse. | secret midnighters the | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 936bf09 | She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of the other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 7123d33 | No one owns the sunset, | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| ce29357 | If you threaten Deryn Sharp again, Volger - in any way at all - I'm done with you. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 09f10ad | La naturaleza, al menos, no necesitaba de operaciones para ser bella. Simplemente lo era. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 7494c52 | From now on, no one rewires my mind but me. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 09591df | Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need. | sadness inspirational succeed | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 42802ce | Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 6b567ac | Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants. | humor | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 872b740 | One way everything looks all right, the other way, it looks all wrong. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| dd4b0d1 | Our pride is not in fighting but in farming; In the work of our, hands not our blades. Never have we sought war. We come to the Banner of the white pig because it is the banner of our friend, Terran Wanderer. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| eda3a2e | Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too." | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| e74e285 | There are heroes and heroes. I don't deny he's acted bravely on occasion. He's fought beside Lord Gwydion and been proud of himself as a chick wearing eagle's feathers. But that's only one kind of bravery. Has the darling robin ever scratched for his own worms? That's bravery of another sort. And between the two, dear Orwen, he might find the latter shows the greater courage. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| daf339f | Les jeux sont faits. Nous sommes fucked. | mistakes | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| faee41f | White people were dangerous and snakes were dangerous and now the two were working together, each doing what the other told it to. She was sure she had seen a snake in a weeded ditch with the head of a white man. Right after she came out of the house on the way to Big Joe's, which she had immediately forgotten, she saw it, long and black and diamond-patterned in the ditch with a white man's head. It had blue eyes. The bluest eyes any white .. | Harry Crews | ||
| cb4fe79 | He knew and accepted for the first time that things would not be different tomorrow. Or ever. Things got different for some people. But for some they did not. There were a lot of things you could do though. One of them was to go nuts trying to pretend things would someday be different. | Harry Crews | ||
| b5102be | Be your own judge. But commit no trespass, remembering that where another's liberty begins your own inevitably meets its boundary. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| ef60789 | But then they were males, and therefore idiots about some things. | S.M. Stirling |