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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a13880b | I felt pure the way you feel after you vomit, kind of light and strangely holy, like having taken a sauna in hell. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 192d7da | It is so hard for a queer person to become an adult. Deprived of the markers of life's passage, they lolled about in a neverland dreamworld. They didn't get married. They didn't have children. They didn't buy homes or have job-jobs. The best that could be aimed for was an academic placement and a lover who eventually tired of pansexual sport-fucking and settled down with you to raise a rescue animal in a rent-controlled apartment. | pansexual queerness queer | Michelle Tea | |
| bb19684 | Being cast out of society early on made you see civilization for the farce it was, a theater of cruelty you were free to drop out of. Instead of playing along you became a fuckup. It was a political statement and a survival skill. | Michelle Tea | ||
| 0931b7c | I kept my poker face on and listened to him with an air of interest and respect (I thought of what it says in one of Rand's novels, how the winner can afford to be generous). | Harvey Pekar | ||
| f66232b | I called up my grandparents who I hadn't spoken to for over three years. I called my mother, who I had recently told to stop calling lest I contact the police. I sat with them all and it was normal and fun and good. I'm even ready - maybe - to speak to my father. Superman doesn't get upset at the people who shoot bullets at him. I get why, now. | Harvey Pekar | ||
| 7475be7 | So, tell me, Guardian," she said, lowering her voice to a purr. "Is that where you carry your sword, or are you just happy to see me?" | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 72017e9 | Andrea was never sure who leaned forward first, but she was melting toward him and, next thing she knew, felt the scalding pressure of Sean's mouth on hers. He kissed her with strength, barely masking his power, and Andrea closed her eyes and drank it in. His hand stole to the back of her neck, arching her up to savor more of her. "Come inside with me," he whispered against her mouth...." | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| b7a53a0 | Andrea's breath hurt, but wit her fear came rage, a killing anger. They'd taken her A female defending her mate was the most fearsome of Shifters, and whoever had done this to Sean didn't yet know the meaning of terror. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 2a317c0 | Listen to yourself. Poor martyred Louisa. I predict that Fellows will solve this murder and then sweep you off your feet." Daniel shrugged. "Well, the sweeping-you-off-your-feet part might take a little nudge. But he wants to do it. It's a beautiful thing to watch the way he looks at you. Fellows glared at Gil tonight as though he wanted to find a claymore, learn how to use it, and finish him off. Or just pull out a pistol and shoot him." | jealousy love louisa | Jennifer Ashley | |
| 112b5f2 | Connor told me Dad and Aunt Myka are going to shag tonight.Great-grandma,what's shag mean? | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| c03960e | In Nvengaria we would not dream of doing this. We do not punish a woman for what a man has done, and if he dishonors her and she shoots him, it is regarded as justifiable and she is praised for her bravery. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 17438c1 | He also brought Carly's purse from the living room. Having lived for months in the same house as Liam and his mate, Kim, Tiger had learned that these large bags were full of things females considered essential. They fussed when they didn't have them. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| c7ceada | I don't know anything about life. I only know how to run." Daniel reached his tanned and callused hands out to her. "Then grab hold of me and hang on. We're both scared about where this will end up, and when the hurting will come. If the hurting comes, it will be bad, I already know that. But hang on to me, and we'll find out together, all right?" | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 58e1ea0 | When you love, especially with your heart, it comes upon you so fast, you don't have time to resist. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 106382f | There was a time for slaying dragons, and a time for holding on to someone and making the terror go away. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 9986d53 | Don't hunger for what you can't have, she admonished herself. Take pleasure in what you can. Such thoughts had got her through the worst days. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| 34bbfce | Mac's friends had viewed his celibacy as a joke, and his brothers had thought he'd been trying to prove himself to Isabella. Proving himself had been part of it, but the truth was that Mac had not wanted another woman. Going to someone else wouldn't have been comfort, or even forgetting. Mac had lost himself when he'd married Isabella, and that was that. | Jennifer Ashley | ||
| b2461d1 | I think you're talking shit. You think we don't all feel like that? Like we're crazy, like we're not a real person, like we don't exist? Everyone feels that way sometimes. I can remember talking to you when you lost your bag. So what? You can't remember and that's not a bad thing. It doesn't make me better than you. I'm a stranger to you, but here's what I see: I see a girl who has suffered a terrible damage to her brain. Someone who, it s.. | midnight-sun northern-lights svalbard | Emily Barr | |
| 0682c42 | I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling. | gruen water-for-elephants | Sara Gruen | |
| 47b9686 | Dime, ?de verdad crees que este es el espectaculo mas deslumbrante del mundo? -?Eh? -No. Ni por asomo. Probablemente ni siquiera es el numero cincuenta de la lista de los espectaculos mas deslumbrantes del mundo. Tenemos un tercio de la capacidad del circo Ringling. Ya has descubierto que Marlena no pertenece a la realeza rumana. ?Y Lucinda? De 400 kilos nada, 200 como mucho. ?Y tu crees que a Frank Otto le tatuaron unos furiosos cazadores .. | Sara Gruen | ||
| dc527c1 | I've decided it's not about me at all. It's a protective mechanism for them, a way of buffering themselves against my future death, like when teenagers distance themselves from their parents in preparation for leaving home. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 9c2067b | In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life. | tragedy death life | Sara Gruen | |
| bd7cbf1 | There is no question that I am the only thing standing between these animals and the business practices of August and Uncle Al, and what my father would do--what my father would want me to do--is look after them, and I am filled with that absolute and unwavering conviction. No matter what I did last night, I cannot leave these animals. I am their shepherd, their protector. | inspirational | Sara Gruen | |
| 438a4f7 | I stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 246ffbd | a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.---- There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass. | Sara Gruen | ||
| f172bc7 | We keep our prices low and our manners high. -Miss Bartocci | Colm Tóibín | ||
| cf45053 | The men could be easily distinguished as fellow Americans by the quality of their mustaches and the innocent and amicable expressions on their faces; the several women could only have come from New England, making this clear, he felt, by their willingness to allow their menfolk the right to speak at length while confining their own talk to short and brisk, intelligent interruptions or slightly disagreeable remarks once the men had finished. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 6877a40 | In the meantime, when I wake in the night, I want more. I want what happened not to have happened, to have taken another course. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 1fec925 | We had used up all of our time. And I wondered if that made any difference to my mother then, as she lay awake in the hospital those last few nights of her life: we had used up all of our time. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 3c73622 | Now, she felt that she was being singled out for something for which she was not in any way prepared, and this, despite the fear it carried with it, gave her a feeling, or more a set of feelings, she thought she might experience in the days before her wedding, days in which everyone looked at her in the rush of arrangements with light in their eyes, days in which she herself was fizzy with excitement but careful not to think too precisely a.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 2f4e552 | Life is but a day and expresses mainly a single note. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 362a974 | But he also knew that, as much as he wanted to aid and console the soldier, he wanted to be alone in his room with the night coming down and a book close by and pen and paper and the knowledge that the door would remain shut until the morning came and he would ne be disturbed. The gap between these two desires filled him with sadness and awe at the mystery of the self, the mystery of having a single consciousness, knowing merely its own bar.. | loneliness self mystery | Colm Tóibín | |
| a811894 | The details of what I told him were with me all the years in the same way as my hands or my arms were with me. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| e4dbe6d | He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache which he would entertain briefly, but learn to keep at bay. Mostly, however, it was the contentment he entertained; the slow ease and the silence could, once night had fallen, fill him with a happiness that nothing, no society nor the company of any.. | solitude | Colm Tóibín | |
| 36b60d0 | Eilis was fascinated by [...] his sweet duplicity in giving no sign of what had happened before. She was almost glad to know that he had secrets and had ways of calmly keeping them. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| e1ef7bd | I am for that thing in your genome that demands it. I am for that thing which keeps you animals alive. I am, at most, a slice of monkey suspended within the stuff of universal intelligence. You are a monkey in nice clothes. In the harsh environment you refer to as a habitable planet, group behaviors are required to survive long enough to procreate. Since you are stupid monkeys, you have no natural affinity for group altruism. And so you h.. | religion god | Warren Ellis | |
| d44d460 | Straight people are so fucking weird. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 533c4ef | Really?" Mister Sun said. "You killed a man with the same knife you use to make brunch, and you're suddenly squeamish about a hammer." | Warren Ellis | ||
| d68df46 | She's really married?" Tallow said to Bat. "Yeah. Talia's like this Scandinavian Amazon who can break rocks with her boobs. She could fit Scarly in her armpit. Sometimes I think she likes Scarly just because she was the most portable lesbian available." | Warren Ellis | ||
| 1bbf72a | I'm going to shit in your lungs for this. | lungs spider-jerusalem shit | Warren Ellis | |
| e1c5803 | There ain't enough happens in soccer. It's like watching twenty-two hair models kick a ball around for what seems like six months and then one of them falls over and the ball goes in the goal. | Warren Ellis | ||
| af98c66 | Be exposed. Be open. Be who you want to be. It will never hurt as much as starving your own humanity of oxygen. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 189f361 | But I am not a monster because I kill. Killing is easy. I am a monster because I accept the hard choices. (Frank Moses) | Warren Ellis | ||
| 4f3c548 | You never get tired of looking at the stars | stars sky | Warren Ellis |