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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fac9681 | All fear is the same no matter the cause of it; you conquer or are conquered by it. I wasn't into losing, not even to myself, maybe especially to myself. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 075d5cd | Too much fear will paralyze you, but too little fear will make you careless. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 860eae3 | I gazed up at him as the laughter filled his face, and just loved him. The day had sucked, but Jean-Claude made it suck a lot less, and that was what love was supposed to do. It was supposed to make things better, not worse | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| ff3df7d | Do the gods sleep well at night? I think maybe they do. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 201255b | You have a high opinion of yourself, Anita. Confident. I like that. Always so much more entertaining to break someone strong. The weaklings fold and cry and snivel, but the brave ones, they almost demand that you hurt them." He stalked towards me, reaching out one white spider-hand. "Do you want me to hurt you?" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| c73c91d | There is a frozen moment after a really good shot to the face. A moment of shock, or paralysis where all you can do is blink. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 06b8f37 | because love can die from being withheld, like a flower that is so beautiful you hide it away from the sun trying to make it last longer; but every flower needs sun, and being in love requires risking yourself. It can require risking everything you are, not just in battle, but emotionally. Sometimes you have to risk it all to gain it all. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 189844d | Humans still have a tendency to think that good is always pretty and that evil is always ugly. I've found that it's so often the other way around. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 5d36b6d | we're all creatures of light and darkness. Embracing your darkness won't kill the light. Goodness is stronger than that. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| de119c1 | That body did not bleed while I carried it, Nesbit. You touch it but a moment, and it bleeds." "No, I didn't kill her." ... "The dead always know who to blame. They are very good that way." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 33ebf42 | A very ex-boyfriend once described me as a little china doll. He meant it as a compliment. I didn't take it that way. There are reasons I don't date much. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 58af939 | Why do i put up with you? You insult me at every turn. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f9b35a0 | there is beauty that hits the eye like a bolt of lightning, that burns and sears and blinds. It is more disaster than pleasure. But yours, yours is a beauty that lulls one into comfort, into not protecting one's eyes from the light, then one night you realise that the moon, too, has its beauty. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 25c610a | She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| bf6e545 | I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| c7939a0 | I would have to spend the afternoon shopping. I hate to shop. I considered it one of the life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 9b1fde1 | Larry and the pilot stood to one side, smoking, sharing that camaraderie of all people who are determined to blacken their lungs. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 592a327 | Visions of such things would get you talking of demons, which Quinlan had done briefly. The police ignored him, and I didn't back up his story. Quinlan had never met a real demon, or he wouldn't have made the mistake. Once you've been in the presence of demons, you never forget it. I'd rather fight a dozen vampires than one demonic presence. They don't give a shit about silver bullets. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 8720c28 | I didn't try to pull away; things that can bench-press Toyotas don't let go. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 5f8d1d6 | Everyone turned towards me. The two female vamps smiled, most unpleasantly. They looked at me like I was a piece of candy and they wondered what sort of center I had. Soft and gooey, or hard with a nut in the middle? I'd had men undress me with their eyes, but I'd never had anything trying to picture what I'd look like with my skin off. Yikes. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| ada5ac1 | They would be happy to bring some up. No one bitched about the time. No one questioned. You can always tell how much you're paying for a room by how little they complain. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| dd395f0 | When you talk about love, and family, invariably too you are talking about compassion. This would include the notion that we are all just lumped together, and tolerance is a virtue. | Luke Davies | ||
| c230c04 | Not only good to be alive, but nice to come with a stranger. Intimacy? For now I want nothing of it. I am simply trying to emerge from the violent unnecessariness of death. | Luke Davies | ||
| 33d212d | I understand only that a vast void, an emptiness, is needing to be filled. O the things we grasp at. | Luke Davies | ||
| 358b832 | What everyone fails to notice, when talking to the other humans, to mothers and lovers and strangers in the streeet, is the one obvious point: 'future corpse, future corpse. | Luke Davies | ||
| 2dd318d | I would feel deeply the elegant satisfaction of being caressed by that gawky boy, and I would take his face in both my hands and kiss him hard, as if I could draw from those lips the very strength and sweetness he did not know he had. | Luke Davies | ||
| c521b61 | We are all, I realise, even as I write this, merely moving closer to our deaths. At the end of this sentence I am closer to mine than I was at the beginning. It's relentless. It's a savage thing. And yet for a long time I've carried with me a sense of life opening out. Evidently it's some kind of protective illusion. | Luke Davies | ||
| dacfe93 | It is so exquisitely funny and sad, the way we view each other; how very little, despite our best efforts, we communicate. | Luke Davies | ||
| 3706be3 | Given the right experimental manipulations, people can be led to believe that they consciously intended an action when they neither chose it nor had control over their movements. | Sam Harris | ||
| 8cbe1e8 | It should go without saying that these rival belief systems [Judaism, Islam, Christianity] are all equally uncontaminated by evidence. | Sam Harris | ||
| 342b52f | This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience | Sam Harris | ||
| 76b9f7b | In fact, we can directly experience that consciousness is never improved or harmed by what it knows. Making this discovery, again and again, is the basis of spiritual life. | Sam Harris | ||
| 5308084 | I still considered the world's religions to be mere intellectual ruins, maintained at enormous economic and social cost, but I now understood that important psychological truths could be found in the rubble. | Sam Harris | ||
| f477cb0 | In those circumstances where we deem it obviously necessary to lie, we have generally determined that the person to be deceived is both dangerous and unreachable by any recourse to the truth. In other words, we have judged the prospects of establishing a genuine relationship with him to be nonexistent. | Sam Harris | ||
| c4beb38 | Happily, the benefits of training in meditation arrive long before mastery does. | Sam Harris | ||
| a6f610e | The reality of your life is always now. And to realize this, we will see, is liberating. In fact, I think there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in this world. | Sam Harris | ||
| 17ad448 | You are not in control of your mind--because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts. | Sam Harris | ||
| fc08e5b | Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world. | logic reason religion | Sam Harris | |
| 663d6e3 | it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| c9a0489 | The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 3e67fc0 | Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude. | solitude | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| f69b30e | but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened. | life | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| e4d6b82 | it was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle. It was, of course, difficult to understand, yet it was very evident that they did. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| f2d82ef | And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new. I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad. | dejah-thoris edgar-rice-burroughs falling-in-love in-love john-carter love love-quotes romance romantic romantic-quotes | Edgar Rice Burroughs |