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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 716a2eb | Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 280d246 | I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6afd417 | Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| ddf0863 | Stay back, human. You don't know what you're dealing with. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 08c3238 | I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming. | growth | Daniel Keyes | |
| 754b005 | Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men w.. | literature men women life scarlett-o-hara | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 1a27d4e | The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. | Robert Greene | ||
| 646f12a | And when she at last came out, her eyes were dry. Her parents stared up from their silent breakfast at her. They both started to rise but she put a hand out, stopped them. 'I can care for myself, please,' and she set about getting some food. They watched her closely. In point of fact, she had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an.. | loss love | William Goldman | |
| 6cf0e8b | As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons. | Harper Lee | ||
| dea0b90 | You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 0512234 | I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9a11052 | He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. "Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c5c64ff | You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 4b7960f | You don't notice the dead leaving when they really choose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down. I would compare it to a woman in the back of a lecture hall or theater whom no one notices until she slips out.Then only those near the door themselves, like Grandma Lynn, notice; to the rest it is like an unexplained breeze in a closed room. Grandma Lynn died several years.. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 7510d13 | I had a good teacher." "Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass." "I mean you, dummy." | jealousy morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| a2e6564 | There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads taller than Mr. Croup; second, Mr. Croup has eyes of a faded china blue, while Mr. Vandemar's eyes are brown; third, while Mr. Vandemar fashioned the rings he wears on his right hand out of the skulls of four ravens, Mr. Croup has no obvious jewelery; fourth, Mr. Croup likes words, while Mr. Vandemar is always h.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| afc55f4 | I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?" | sookie-eric | Charlaine Harris | |
| fc89386 | Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing. | Audre Lorde | ||
| ff15c34 | And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the last stage of the pox." "Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them." "Yes, but if Benedict was going to turn into an enormous serpent, you'd think you could at least hav.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 9abee5d | You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 06df765 | There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of." Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo." Luke and Magnus, pg. 285" | magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 39bfefd | When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaw.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 16d6ecc | If love is great, then it is worth fighting for. | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 411de15 | If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. | shakespeare futility | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 6361781 | Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to. | John Green | ||
| 1546219 | So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe. | John Green | ||
| e7c36aa | I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite. | quentin | John Green | |
| e540d89 | As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly. | kissing | John Green | |
| c347137 | What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. .. | god what-is-sin sin | John Piper | |
| d5b98b9 | I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were gone... And I realized it was already yours. It had been since the beginning. Except that I hadn't told you. It drove me mad, the thought that you would never know. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 1ef1a7d | I know I want you," he heard himself say, all his vows and his honor all forgotten. She stood before him naked as her name day, and he was as hard as the rock around them. He had been in her half a hundred times by now, but always beneath furs, with others all around them. He had never seeen how beautiful she was. Her legs were skinny and well muscled, the hair at the juncture of her thighs a brighter red than that on her head. Does that ma.. | sex kiss romance love ygritte | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5fdfa46 | Someone Hot is sometimes can't be the person they appear to be- except for their hotness... that cannot be denied. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 2b18fbc | Rachel bit her lip. "I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the next math test and I start spouting a prophecy in the middle of geometry class? Gods, that would be embarrassing." | rachel percy-jackson-and-the-olympians | Rick Riordan | |
| a2419fb | Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled. Cupid said. " | eros heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 8685dae | People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know. | humor bellybutton | Rick Riordan | |
| bbc76d9 | Dalmatia," Nico said, making Jason jump. Jason wished he could put a bell around Nico di Angelo's neck to remind him the guy was there. Nico had this disturbing habit of standing silently in the corner, blending into the shadows." | nico-di-angelo | Rick Riordan | |
| e69954d | Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9513286 | What an author doesn't know could fill a book. | books knowledge | Holly Black | |
| 51e58ef | And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the walls, where death is honor and flesh is weak. It is ever so easy to go. Harder to find your way back. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 6af8682 | I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemp.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 52d952f | Argue not concerning God,...re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul... | personal-faith religion inspirational | Walt Whitman | |
| 8a0ad32 | Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others. | inspirational | Buddha | |
| 5651b0f | It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone. | inspirational | Margaret Thatcher | |
| a1fa4dd | It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. | Mitch Albom |