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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9be484e | The sea was silent, the sky was silent; I was alone with the night and silence. | silence tranquility peaceful night | H.G. Wells | |
| 9efa7ab | It'll be like a game of chess. We can let the game unfold as it did before, but if we want to avoid checkmate, we'll have to readjust the pieces a few moves shy of the finish. | Darren Shan | ||
| f4f54cf | The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books, the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool. In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall out of a tree, you break so.. | Darren Shan | ||
| 141c84e | I do not mock the beliefs of others. This world is large enough for a thousand religions. Every race has the right to its own. | Darren Shan | ||
| 7904513 | This is crazy. We're standing here, talking about nuclear bombs being dropped on Carcery Vale. It's insane. | grubbs-grady insane | Darren Shan | |
| 9fed41e | The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled. | true | Darren Shan | |
| 29215fc | It was an age of tragic mistakes. | Darren Shan | ||
| 8b729c0 | That depends," I said, whipping off the cloth. "If you think it's a deadly performing spider -- you're right!" | Darren Shan | ||
| 3f56e35 | An assistant could be just what the witch doctor ordered. | Darren Shan | ||
| d72a7cb | Okay," I sighed. "I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me." "Fair enough," he said." | Darren Shan | ||
| 9359eab | The world was more fun if you could enjoy it with complete abandonment, untouched by the misery of others. | Darren Shan | ||
| d12d3d8 | Nobody had promised as much as the representives of the short man with the silly-looking moustache, p20 | Darren Shan | ||
| d1ee829 | Speculation led to disaster, he realized, and he needed to always ignore the "mad crowd" and its inclinations." -- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d8d66fc | Will it hurt?" I ask. "Getting your parts replaced?" Freak doesn't answer for a while and then he says in his stern, smart voice, "Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain." | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 8ab644b | Excerpt from a standup routine by Matt Graham:) Last Friday, my roommate sent me out to get some canned fish, because we're having some Catholic survivalists over for dinner. Weirdest thing happened. I'm coming up the steps, I stumble, all the groceries fall down the stairs. Except for a can of salmon, which falls up the stairs. Bizarre experience, but it gave me an idea. Couple nights later I was driving the wrong way down a one-way street.. | Stefan Fatsis | ||
| f3bbf01 | Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist. | Donna Tartt | ||
| e6fe34c | ONE SUNDAY MORNING, I climbed up to the light from a weighty and complicated dream, nothing of it left but a ringing in my ears and the ache of something slipped from my grasp and fallen into a crevasse where I would not see it again. Yet somehow--in the midst of this profound sinking, snapped threads, fragments lost and untrackable--a sentence stood out, ticking across the darkness like a news crawler at the bottom of a TV screen: | Donna Tartt | ||
| c5deffe | For humans--trapped in biology--there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in the ground like garbage. Time destroyed us all soon enough. But to destroy, or lose, a deathless thing--to break bonds stronger than the temporal--was a metaphysical uncoupling all its own, a startling new flavor of despair. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 3c8b6d4 | We don't like to admit it," said Julian, "but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than anything. All truly civilized people - the ancients no less than us - have civilized themselves through the willful repression of the old, animal self. Are we, in this room, really very different from the Greeks and the Romans? Obsessed with duty, piety, loyalty, sacrifice? All those things which are .. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1cf95f5 | We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. --FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD | Donna Tartt | ||
| 0c0d3a8 | Well, also ask yourself this: do you know what Steve Miller looks like? No, you don't. Nobody does. He could be standing right next to you on the subway platform, playing "Jungle Love" on a custom Stratocaster with his name inlaid on the fretboard in mother-of-pearl, and you still wouldn't know who he is. Because as far as you or anybody else knows, Steve Miller is a big blue space-horse with a mane made out of orange space-flames." | It Books | ||
| 6c226ec | Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." -- HENRY MIL.. | Steve Pavlina | ||
| 8c26215 | I had, bluntly, the worst fucking headache I had ever had in my life. I'm trying to think of the best way to describe it. Try this. Imagine a migraine, on top of a hangover, while sitting in a kindergarten of thirty screaming children, who are all taking turns stabbing you in the eye with an ice pick. | John Scalzi | ||
| 3164bab | Okay, that's interesting," Duvall said. "So you're a priest of the Forshan religion? Which schism?" "The leftward schism, and no, not a priest." "Couldn't handle the celibacy?" "Leftward priests aren't required to be celibate," Dahl said, "but considering I was the only human at the seminary, I had celibacy thrust upon me, if you will." "Some people wouldn't let that stop them," Duvall said. "You haven't seen a Forshan seminary student up.. | John Scalzi | ||
| 4c7cf08 | Again I ask permission to be blunt." "Ambassador Abumwe, at this point I cannot imagine you being otherwise." | John Scalzi | ||
| 5d955ff | Harvey knew what he was and what he was best at: He was a noisy son of a bitch and he was good at making things fall down and go boom. | John Scalzi | ||
| f5b5d62 | At least one tribe, the Geln, strongly opposed attacking the Colonial Union, since humans were reasonably strong, distressingly tenacious and not especially principled when they felt threatened. | John Scalzi | ||
| 193f188 | Two classics stuck with them. Ender's Game delighted them all; here were soldiers who were just like them, except smaller. The main character was even bred to fight alien species like they were. The next day the members of the 8th greeted each other with the salutation ::Ho, Ender,:: until Brahe told them to knock it off and pay attention. | John Scalzi | ||
| f46d3b1 | One of the great unwritten chapters of retail intelligence programming featured a "personal shopper" program that all-too-accurately modeled the shoppers' desires and outputted purchase ideas based on what shoppers really wanted as opposed to what they wanted known that they wanted. This resulted in one overcompensatingly masculine test user receiving suggestions for an anal plug and a tribute art book for classic homoerotic artist Tom of F.. | John Scalzi | ||
| d1d6b23 | After watching Star Wars everyone wanted a lightsaber and was irritated that the technology for them didn't really exist. Everyone also agreed the Ewoks should all die. | John Scalzi | ||
| 0cafcae | Praise is always a good thing, especially in a crisis. | John Scalzi | ||
| 1bd2753 | This novel took me rather longer than usual to write, for a number of reasons but one big one being simply that 2017 was a raging trash fire of a year, filled with horrible people trying to do horrible things and often succeeding. It's harder to bear down creatively when the world is burning. | John Scalzi | ||
| 6c5c117 | It's not a bad idea." "It's a terrible idea," Oi said. "It just has the advantage of being better than the other option." | John Scalzi | ||
| fa84b91 | For two years, all you have to do is go where they tell you, stay behind your rifle, and kill and not be killed. It's simple, but simple isn't the same as easy. | rifle same killed go tell simple kill easy | John Scalzi | |
| 5936cf3 | Are we there yet?" I asked Joshua. "No," Joshua said. "Are we there yet?" I said. "No." "Are we there yet?" "No." "Are we there yet?" "Yes," Joshua said. "Stop the car." | John Scalzi | ||
| aa41578 | The diagnostic said there was nothing wrong with the threep, which may have meant there was something wrong with the diagnostic. | systems-check tech-support | John Scalzi | |
| 95d8cb6 | Even without the Interdependency, being interdependent was the best way for humanity to survive. | John Scalzi | ||
| f629182 | Oh for God's sake how divine can I be? My feet hurt, I have gas and I need to pee. | John Scalzi | ||
| 5237451 | Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults. | John Scalzi | ||
| bee7f06 | I have to tell him that the sheep we're looking for is a woman who runs a pet store," Creek said. "I think telling him his younger brother's been resurrected as a computer program might be a little much for one day." Archie" | John Scalzi | ||
| 597e760 | Even then, retailers learned early that shoppers prefer their shopping suggestions not be too truthful. One of the great unwritten chapters of retail intelligence programming featured a "personal shopper" program that all-too-accurately modeled the shoppers' desires and outputted purchase ideas based on what shoppers really wanted as opposed to what they wanted known that they wanted. This resulted in one overcompensatingly masculine test u.. | John Scalzi | ||
| fb89c2c | Lovely," Wilson said, looking at the display. "And by 'lovely,' I mean 'Oh, crap." | John Scalzi | ||
| 3b9e4a5 | Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five. | amazed leon seventy-five tick pork made grease chicago blood fat | John Scalzi | |
| 78b9b6a | First off, to everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already created the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No. | John Scalzi |