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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8a596af | How dare he give her no opportunity to ignore him? | Mary Balogh | ||
| a8c16e1 | Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks? | Mary Balogh | ||
| 8ff9bfd | That is the excitement of life," he said when he was finished. "The not knowing. It is often best not to know." | Mary Balogh | ||
| 1eb5323 | Tis what marriage is all about, madam," he said. "Have you not realized it? 'Tis about discovering unknown facets of the character and experience and taste of one's spouse and learning to adjust one's life accordingly. 'Tis learning to hope that one's spouse is doing the same thing." | Mary Balogh | ||
| 996d5c5 | Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 27b8bd6 | But Ashley had always understood. He had always known there was a person behind the silence - not just a person who listened with her eyes and would have responded in similar words if she could have, but one who inhabited a world of her own and lived in it quiet as richly as anyone in his world. With Ashley there had always been a language. There had always been a way of giving him glimpses of herself. | Mary Balogh | ||
| c9f83ec | One cannot try marriage. Once one is in, there is no way out. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 54559c8 | It is foolish to regret anything form one's past. | Mary Balogh | ||
| d03427b | She looked like someone he must have known all his life. She looked like a little piece of home - whatever the devil his mind meant by presenting him with that odd idea. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 2e90f22 | One does tend to assume that life must be far easier for others than it ever is for oneself," he said. "I suspect it rarely is. I daresay life was not meant to be easy." -- | Mary Balogh | ||
| 7c569ac | But I am glad you are not some sort of superhuman pillar of strength. I would not be able to prevail against it. I am too weak, too fragile. In each other's weaknesses, perhaps we can both find strength. | Mary balogh | ||
| 83ed319 | The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 8548d27 | A funny thing, love. It was not always, or even mostly, a sexual thing. | Mary Balogh | ||
| ec4f19c | Once in, when did one fall out of love? It had taken several weeks back in October - though it seemed the feeling had merely lain dormant instead of going away altogether. How long would it take this time? And when would it be gone forever? | Mary Balogh | ||
| afc0d00 | She wondered if she would have tumbled into love with him during the past week if her heart had been whole, if her soul had no been shattered long ago. She rather thought she might have. But a heart and soul could not be mended by the power of the will, she had discovered over seven years. And so she had accepted reality and moved on. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 3314c21 | For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 8c50a18 | Pretty girls always hate other pretty girls. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 6d726a3 | There is no sun, but a hundred blazing blue stars,each shimmering in a long river of nebulous cloud. The air is warm, pleasant,fragrant with the perfume of a thousand invisible flowers. | Christopher Pike | ||
| b409550 | Life is like that short visit on the road. Prayer is for those who wish to talk to God. Meditation is for those who only want to listen to him. | Christopher Pike | ||
| c208f03 | A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had. | death massacre french-revolution cannibalism | J. Christopher Herold | |
| 100055f | But centuries of time have not made me insensitive | feelings time-and-change sensitivity | Christopher Pike | |
| e37cdcc | There's only one sun," Alison said with feeling. "It's always the same, but it's always the best. Do you know what I mean?" | Christopher Pike | ||
| a87c5d5 | Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be. | spirituality | Christopher Pike | |
| 034ea3c | Victim: I don't want to die! Sita: Then you should never have been born | Christopher Pike | ||
| 46d1ee0 | You've felt guilty ever since, haven't you? That's why you're such a rogue reporter, with your exposes and your inside dirt. It's all backlash." "You see right through me, Jones. I'm just a tortured soul, in search of redemption. So you wanna have sex with me now?" The look on her face went from one of sympathetic understanding to one of disgust faster than his Porsche could go from zero to sixty. "You are such an asshole." "Ah, come on. I'.. | Maggie Shayne | ||
| f88855c | MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull. | Teresa Medeiros | ||
| c2dcf52 | He caught her by the shoulders and gave her a hard little shake. "Do you think you're so charming in that silly little nightdress that I can't resist tumbling you? Do you think I have no pride when it comes to you?" "B-b-but I--" "Well, you're right," he shouted. "I don't!" With that, his lips came down on hers" | justin emily teresa-medeiros | Teresa Medeiros | |
| 571bdfc | A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 1c0a7b7 | Some people will not respond to reason. Others refuse to consider alternatives to their normal pattern of behavior. In such cases, an unexpected breaking of one's own patterns can be an effective tool. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 9d148e6 | Alliances are useful in some situations. In others, they are absolutely vital. But they must always be approached with caution. Unity of that sort is based on mutual advantage. While that advantage exists the alliance may stand firm. But needs change, and advantages fade, and a day may come when one ally sees new benefits to be gained in betraying another. | thrawn star-wars | Timothy Zahn Star Wars: Thrawn | |
| b5a7e1b | I have no vision of any future, maitrakh. Not yours; not even mine. I was just thinking about children. Trying to imagine what it's like to try to raise them. Wondering how much of their character a family can mold, and how much is innate in the children themselves." She hesitated. "Wondering if the evil in a family's history can be erased, or whether it always passes itself on to each new generation." | Timothy Zahn | ||
| e367cc9 | Han] glared into his mug. Besides, he didn't add, asking Princess Leia for repacement reward credits would mean he'd have to tell her how he'd lost the first batch. Not in gambling or bad investments or even drinking, but to a kriffing pirate. And then she would give him one of those looks. There were, he decided, worse things than being on Jabba's hit list | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 1d435c8 | I had a plan, all right, ... I was also pretty sure no one on my list of allies was going to like it. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| ae4e539 | But we will succeed. I've seen the future, Jorj. We will succeed, because we have no other choice." -Thrawn" | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 9c79b24 | Working to make everybody equal didn't leave much chance for anyone to achieve greatness. | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| 0860ab1 | What happened to the others?" she wanted to know. "I killed them," he replied. Zannah seemed to think about this for a moment before shrugging indifferently. "Then they were weak," she said with simple conviction. "And they deserved to die." | Drew Karpyshyn | ||
| bc48753 | It's one thing to be a good guy because that's who you are. It's something else to be a good guy because you're too much a fucking pussy to break the rules. | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| d16bd08 | The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over." | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| 4765447 | When you eat, eat. When you sleep, sleep. When you fight, fight. | Matthew Woodring Stover | ||
| 7fcf198 | Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not. Avoiding villainy is not that different from avoiding loneliness: First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 4ec0a7b | If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it? | ethics-and-moral-philosophy global-warming hard-questions climate-change nihilism ethics | Chuck Klosterman | |
| a4c511e | Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum. | perspective | Chuck Klosterman | |
| 2b4dc9a | We must start from the premise that--in all likelihood--we are already wrong. And not "wrong" in the sense that we are examining questions and coming to incorrect conclusions, because most of our conclusions are reasoned and coherent. The problem is with the questions themselves." -- | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 4e1fceb | This is the difference between the fox and the hedgehog. Both creatures know that storytelling is everything, and that the only way modern people can understand history and politics is through the machinations of a story. But only the hedgehog knows that storytelling is secretly the problem, which is why the fox is constantly wrong. | Chuck Klosterman |