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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 90c7b21 | Okay, tough guy. Let's see what you've got. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| a99aba0 | Do men often tell you you're enchanting?" "No. Men often tell me I hit very hard." Hint, hint." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f257147 | Either he fell asleep in his clothes, or he felt the need to be fully dressed at two o'clock in the morning for some nefarious reason. Leon didn't have any other kind of reasons. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f378262 | He cut right through the layers of civilization, politeness, and social snobbery to some preternatural female sense that said, "Dominant male. Danger. Power. Sex." Why" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 28bdc8e | In my experience, Connor acted as if the word no meant nothing unless he was the one saying it. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0aedc5c | Mr. Evans?" I called. "A moment of your time?" He looked at me as if he'd never seen me before. "Do I know you?" "My name is Dina. I own the bed-and-breakfast." He glanced past me at the old house sitting at the mouth of the subdivision. "That monstrosity?" Aren't you sweet? "Yes." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| dbbed33 | It's a hunting revolver." I slumped back. "It's for big game hunting." "Texas," Alessandro said, loading a state's worth of meaning into a single word." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 42b2be3 | What is going on in your head?" "It's a dark, lawless place, Catalina. So dark." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 65288cd | Lunch, Ms. Baylor. Concentrate. Pick a place." "You seem to be under the impression that I work for you and you can give me orders. Let me fix that." I hung up." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 8aa0175 | Come to dinner with me tonight and I'll consider it." Yes! "No. I don't negotiate with terrorists." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e9d9a17 | Enter my lair, said the dragon. I have shiny treasure for you to play with, I'll keep you warm and safe, and if it suits my purpose, I'll chain you to the floor and kill your client by throwing quarters at him with my magic. Been there, done that. "I" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 14eb546 | Grandma shrugged. "Framed. A man that pretty can't be a murderer." Mother stared at her. "Penelope, I'm seventy-two years old. You let me enjoy my fantasy." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| bafc85b | She has a high opinion of herself," Andrea said. "Oh yes. When she gets into a car, her ego has to ride shotgun." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| fee3930 | If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| bdfca22 | La flatterie n'emane jamais des grandes ames, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui reussissent a se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphere vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un interet. (p.239/317) | flaterie | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 5dd5c14 | Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure." | loneliness relationships sorrow sadness happiness love pleasure | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 3693fab | I haven't any objection to your thoroughly despising me, right now, because I'm convinced you'll come to love me. You'll find I have some tremendous abysses, some huge, focused emotions that fools think of as vices, but you'll never find me lazy, and you'll never find me ungrateful. In a word, I'm neither a pawn nor a bishop, my young friend, but a castle. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| a13ca63 | Trust no one until you are very sure of the heart to which you open your heart. Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the sake of the love which does not exist as yet. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 71a98d4 | Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinee. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 96c7a32 | o ilk gunden beri gunes daha az sicak, daha az aydinlik, gece daha karanlik oldu; hareket hizini yitirdi, dusuncelere bir agirlik geldi. Bazi insanlari topraga gomeriz, ama oyle insanlar vardir ki onlarin kefenleri yuregimiz olmustur, anilari her gun kalbimizin carpisiyla beraberdir, soluk alir gibi onlari dusunuruz, aska ozgu bir ruh titresiminin tatli yasasiyla varligimiza sinmislerdir. Bir ruh var ruhumda. Ben bir iyilik mi ettim, guzel .. | quote vadideki-zambak | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 3974f6d | Epouses nous sommes trahies. Amantes, nous sommes delaissees. | Balzac Honoré de | ||
| 8d4a3b5 | The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 5bf8563 | To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from the heart. [...] For anyone who had learned the social code, and Rastignac had absorbed it all in a flash, these words, that gesture, that look, that inflection in her voice, summed up all there wa.. | personality kindness people character ties hypocrisy kind | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 783002a | Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger.. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 20d8c42 | Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublie, parce qu'il a ete proprement fait. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| e59fe9f | Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to en.. | passion future heart love duplicities pretend test sincerity | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 96c29e1 | no v etom otnoshenii g-zha Voke imela skhodstvo so mnogimi liud'mi, kotorye ne doveriaiut svoim blizkim i otdaiutsia v ruki pervogo vstrechnogo, -- strannoe psikhologicheskoe iavlenie, no ono fakt, i ego korni netrudno otyskat' v samoi chelovecheskoi dushe. Byt' mozhet, nekotorye liudi ne v sostoianii nichem sniskat' raspolozhenie tekh, s kem oni zhivut, i, obnaruzhiv pered nimi vsiu pustotu svoei dushi, chuvstvuiut, chto okruzhaiushchie vt.. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 80223b2 | one can no more hinder criticism than the use of eyes, tongues, and judgment. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| d1990f0 | Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair. | virtue women judith mistress wife vice | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 6fa5f73 | Life is a business transaction. | Honoré de Balzac | ||
| 36f1dda | Quand les enfants commencent a voir, ils sourient; quand une jeune fille entrevoit le sentiment dans la nature, elle sourit comme elle souriait enfant. Si la lumiere est le premier amour de la vie, l'amour n'est-il pas la lumiere du coeur? | honoré-de-balzac | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 8d9a75d | So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man. | faith humanity-and-society | Honoré de Balzac | |
| d742511 | Forgive the cliche, but friends are truly the family you choose. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| ca65be2 | But there's always a chance she's hiding a flask and a Nixon-esque Enemies List in her pinafore apron, which is exactly why we're such good friends. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 1a3ce23 | Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. Yesterday's was the dogs seemed sad. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 5d75e67 | I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 1c17542 | I feel like my takeaway from tonight is that it's okay to love shitty television, provided that you make an effort to appreciate other kinds of entertainment. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 53396af | It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to avoid is the alluring temptation to throw your money away on short, get-rich-quick speculative binges. It is an obvious lesson, but one frequently ignored. | Burton G. Malkiel | ||
| 5d4f79f | To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you. | Kwame Anthony Appiah | ||
| 9c75d93 | The story begins like so much else,' she says slowly, 'With hope. Hope and dreams and daring... | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| 098d3dd | Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich. | money integrity honesty rich | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 316433d | The optimist believes that bad events have specific causes, while good events will enhance everything he does; the pessimist believes that bad events have universal causes and that good events are caused by specific factors. When | Martin E.P. Seligman | ||
| b541506 | So, you never can tell what will happen when you learn to play the harmonica. | harmonica self-expression | Robert McCloskey | |
| c231bf6 | The company you keep is important. If you leave your coat in a room where people are smoking, pretty soon it will smell of smoke. If you leave it outside in the garden, later on, when you bring it indoors, it will carry with it the fragrance of fresh air and flowers. "Such is the case with the mind. Your garment of thoughts absorbs the vibrations of those with whom you mix." | Swami Kriyananda |