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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 13a318b | I don't think your God has ever advised you otherwise. You hear only what you want. He only ever commands your preferences. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| e11fd9b | This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow. | history war | Philippa Gregory | |
| 6cbe2c6 | Instead of the calendrical terms Monday, Tuesday and so forth, we cheerfully offer the following surrogates. Use them freely and often, for their use honors us all. For Sunday, please use Sunshine. For Monday. pleasy use Monty. For Tuesday, please use Toes. For Wednesday, please use Wetty. For Thursday, please use Thurby. For Friday, please use Fribs. For Saturday, please use Satto-gatto. | funny words | Mark Dunn | |
| 4593fda | Looking back on their past decisions about whether to purchase experiences, 83 percent of people sided with Mark Twain, reporting that their biggest single regret was one of inaction, of passing up the chance to buy an experience when the opportunity came along. | Elizabeth Dunn | ||
| 5f2b1e8 | Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why. | Mark Dunn | ||
| a36c8fb | In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of concrete all over the planet, the cancerous rot-outs in Europe, Japan, and the United States, thick with replicating primates, the colonies enlarging and spreading and threatening to shock the biosphere with mass extinctions. | Richard Preston | ||
| 87b7958 | if people learned what this virus could do, there would be traffic jams heading out of Reston, with mothers screaming at television cameras, "Where are my children?" | Richard Preston | ||
| 8094ed4 | Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands--literally every opening in the body bleeds, no matter how small. The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and then sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. It is said to be extraordinarily painful to lose the surface of one's tongue. | Richard Preston | ||
| 62777ce | A good businessman is hard to bruise and quick to heal. | Richard Preston | ||
| f49e7a4 | Suddenly he goes into the last phase--the human virus bomb explodes. Military biohazard specialists have ways of describing this occurrence. They say that the victim has "crashed and bled out." Or more politely they say that the victim has "gone down." | Richard Preston | ||
| 0d99324 | reaches a cell wall, it disintegrates into hundreds of individual virus particles, and the broodlings push through the cell wall like hair and float away in the bloodstream of the host. The hatched Ebola particles cling to cells everywhere in the body, and get inside them, and continue to multiply. It keeps on multiplying until areas of tissue all through the body are filled with crystalloids, which hatch, and more Ebola particles drift int.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 72664f0 | Here are the names of some emerging viruses: Lassa. Rift Valley. Oropouche. Rocio. Q. Guanarito. VEE. Monkeypox. Dengue. Chikungunya. The hantaviruses. Machupo. Junin. The rabieslike strains Mokola and Duvenhage. LeDantec. The Kyasanur Forest brain virus. | Richard Preston | ||
| 281a190 | In 1986--the year before Peter Cardinal died--Gene Johnson had done an experiment that showed that Marburg and Ebola can indeed travel through the air. He infected monkeys with Marburg and Ebola by letting them breathe it into their lungs, and he discovered that a very small dose of airborne Marburg or Ebola could start an explosive infection in a monkey. | Richard Preston | ||
| 12bc90c | Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. Small blood clots begin to.. | Richard Preston | ||
| 7cbc052 | The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and then sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. It is said to be extraordinarily painful to lose the surface of one's tongue. | Richard Preston | ||
| d89c6e9 | If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5887d0e | God did not intend for Irish kids to play in the sun, according to my mother. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 81c1878 | A group of little creatures is coming up the walk. A pirate, a dinosaur, two fairies, and a bride. Why is it that you never see a kid dressed as a groom on Halloween? | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d371e1f | What if a king made bad laws; laws so unnatural that a country broke them by declaring its freedom?" He threw his arms in the air. "Now you are spouting nonsense. Two slaves running away from their rightful master is not the same as America wanting to be free of England. Not the same at all." "How is it then that the British offer freedom to escaped slaves, but the Patriots don't?" | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 82ab545 | His Excellency today appealed to the Officers of this Army to consider themselves as a band of brothers cemented by the justice of a common cause. -General Orders of George Washington, Valley Forge | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 36c92a9 | The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak. | stars | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 91fb403 | You look like yourself. Nobody else. Trust me, that's a good thing. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 9f2d517 | Our inhumane neighbors, instead of sympathizing with us tauntingly proclaim the healthfulness if their won cities... | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 0fc63c0 | A merda de um cara e o adubo de outro. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8064b3a | That feeling in your stomach when you hear him whispering off-key, down the hall. That way your heart trips and then hammers against your ribs when he sees you and he grins like a little kid at the top of a steep, shiny-hot slide. Call it hormones, an early-stage bacterial zombie infection, or a very pleasant dream I was experiencing; I didn't care. I liked That. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 5648d8b | My good sense bitch-slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7ae633b | We'd itch the vermin feasting on our flesh and share the day's many rumors: The King had declared peace. No, the King was sending German and Russian mercenaries to destroy us. A ball of fire as big as a man's head fell from heaven to Hatboro - a good omen. But there'd been an earthquake near York just as a cat gave birth to puppies, which meant the worst. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6a5522e | am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world. The tiny elf dancer became a wooden doll whose strings were jerked by people not paying attention. I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 926d3e7 | I can never tell with moments of silence. They're so... silent. Empty. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6505b14 | It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either. | love sad travel | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 6662c16 | I was in a race to see if I would die from the outside in or the inside out. | rape substance-abuse survivor | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 2684a10 | Flames curled out of all the windows next door. The rooftop beyond that was a lake of fire. Every building in sight was burning. The air was filled with crackling and popping sounds, with shrieks and screams coming from the street below. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 4968ab2 | The girl reflected back from the window in front of me has poinsettias growing out of her belly and head. She's the shape of a breakfast-link sausage standing on broomstick legs, her arms made from twigs, her face blurred with an eraser. I know that this is me, but it's not me, not really. I don't know what I look like. I can't remember how to look. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1b52b89 | The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. That's when they can hear us true. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e00389c | the only thing that helped me breathe was opening a book | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f2b92ae | Did he rape my head, too? | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| cf5692e | So why does everyone make such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| f9d29fc | If the president was back, then the fever was truly over. If the president was back, we were safe. I threw my arms around Nathaniel and planted a big kiss on his cheek. He pulled back in surprise. "Do you always do that when the president rides by? If so, I'll take a job working for him." I blushed and looked down at my feet." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 99cce5f | Cubism. Seeing beyond what is on the surface. Moving both eyes and a nose to the side of the face. Dicing bodies and tables and guitars as if they were celery sticks, and rearranging them so that you have to really see them to see them. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c9b2165 | You'd be shocked at how many adults are already dead inside, walking around with no clue, waiting for a heart attack or cancer to finish the job. When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. It's the saddest thing I know. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| ad5e37c | Eve ate the apple because Adam was afraid | eve fear | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| cf2d599 | THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. We are here to help you. 2. You will have enough time to get to your class before the bell rings. 3. The dress code will be enforced. 4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds. 5. Our football team will win the championship this year. 6. We expect more of you here. 7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen. 8. Your schedule was created with your needs in mind. 9. Your locker co.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b93a810 | Welcome to the only class that will teach you to how to survive" Welcome to Art." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 3ce82d1 | It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing. | relationship sad | Laurie Halse Anderson |