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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5fa3d8e | I'm coming with you," Kartik insists. "You'll get yourself killed," I argue. "Then it's a good day to die," he says," | Libba Bray | ||
| 57a1bfd | Promise. Don't misunderstand me--you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing." | Libba Bray | ||
| 493f6bf | My head kinda hurts," Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes. "What is it?" Miss New Mexico checked to make sure her bra straps weren't showing. "N-nothing." Miss Ohio managed an awkward smile." | Libba Bray | ||
| 3ae3706 | I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least the lions are honest about their desire to eat you and make no effort to hide it. | Libba Bray | ||
| 8e1cd60 | Corro porque puedo, porque debo. Porque quiero ver hasta donde puedo llegar antes de tener que parar. | Libba Bray | ||
| f0450de | Hold up. How do you have sex with somebody?" Adina scoffed. "Is she all, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't s ee your penis there'?" Tiara squealed and waved her hands. "Don't say that word!" "What? Sorry? "Gah!" Tiara put her fingers in her ears. "What about Petra teased. "Like, 'Yon volcano is quite phallic, Lady Tiara.'" Tiara looked confused. " | Libba Bray | ||
| 048c261 | From the elevator, Mabel watched the old woman's bare feet hobbling away, a trail of salt and the lace hem of her nightgown left in her wake like sea foam. | Libba bray | ||
| 3a3d61c | Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you. | Libba Bray | ||
| 3f2c1fe | People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense--words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions--words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History. | Libba Bray | ||
| 22c8afd | The ground's soft with pine needles and the occasional crunch of a cone. The air smells like it's just been born. | Libba Bray | ||
| f6428aa | Why must we die when everything within us was born to live? | Libba Bray | ||
| 57363fe | There's a Douglas Fairbanks picture at the Strand. A swashbuckler. You love those." Evie closed one eye. "You're telling me not to lose hope because there are pirate pictures?" "I'm trying here, Baby Vamp. When you're facing evil, a good pirate picture doesn't hurt." | Libba Bray | ||
| 86c40ad | Balder murmurs from the backseat, his eyes still closed. "I looked upon your face and knew happiness." Without further warning, the sky opens up and cries." | happiness inspirational libba-bray love | Libba Bray | |
| 442fb88 | Tell me, do you have family near?" Miss Addie asked. "I'm an orphan," Theta said. "You're wrong." The old woman blinked up at the ceiling, her fingers waving in the air. "You do have family. I see it in your aura. They're... they're all around you." | theta-knight | Libba Bray | |
| 6165ee6 | I love you for who you are, not for who the world thinks you should be. | Libba Bray | ||
| c614bbe | This? This is Putopia," says Dr. A, the tall guy with the curly hair who was trying to catch the grape in his mouth. He's wearing a T-shirt under his lab coat that reads MY BANG THEORY IS BIGGER THAN YOURS. "Putopia?" I repeat. "Yes. Putopia. It stands for Parallel Universe Travel Office... pia." | Libba Bray | ||
| cbda7f2 | What was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all? | Libba Bray | ||
| 45babf9 | i salute your spunk, but question your sanity. | Libba Bray | ||
| 69d76f6 | No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions. | Libba Bray | ||
| bdf0d94 | There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were. | Libba Bray | ||
| cc9c609 | Read backward in order to move forward, resisters. The best part? You can find everything you need at your local library. Libraries: serving the resistance since forever. Seriously, libraries are The. Best. Don't even bother fighting me on this one. You will lose. | Libba Bray | ||
| 25e4620 | Evie's eyes widened. "More interesting than dope and sorcery?" | Libba Bray | ||
| 8dee97a | Is this all you want?" Sam asked bitterly. "A good time?" "You're one to talk!" "I like a good time. But not all the time." -- | Libba Bray | ||
| 7b9c304 | Nicole hated that she could never quite feel like she was just herself, just Nicole, but that she was somehow representing an entire race. That's how they saw her, as a "they" and not a "she." | Libba Bray | ||
| 0435442 | Esta celoso! Kartik esta celoso y Simon me ve...apetitosa. Me siento complacida. Y desconcertada. Pero sobretodo complacida. | Libba Bray | ||
| 77336bc | One can never go back. One always has to move forward. | Libba Bray | ||
| 88a9e99 | in a manner befitting your station while at Spence. It's fine to be kind to the lesser girls, but remember that they are not your equals." Station. Lesser girls. Not your equals. It's a laugh, really." | Libba Bray | ||
| 742c3af | Don't tell anybody, but sometimes, I just don't want to sparkle. | Libba Bray | ||
| 1e2ab58 | Soon I will take all you love and watch you burn. Sweet dreams, Object Reader. | Libba Bray | ||
| e26e343 | They weren't protected by our own laws. They were on their own. Doesn't sound terribly American. On the contrary, it's very American, Will said bitterly | xenophobia | Libba Bray | |
| 224771e | Every city is a ghost. New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel beam, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. | Libba Bray | ||
| bf4fef5 | It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl. | patriarchy | Libba Bray | |
| fc6862d | The world is full of dead optimists. | pessimism | Libba Bray | |
| 0c9c2a1 | I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: . Hey, it's not my fault they don't have TiVo yet. | Libba Bray | ||
| 10d0206 | Sam. Don't make me kill you on a full stomach. I might get a cramp. | Libba Bray | ||
| e14eb18 | Sam's mother used to say that inside everyone was the chance to change the world. It sat like a seed eager to grow into greatness. The professor could have his ghosts. Ordinary people were capable of extraordinary bravery. That was the only magic Sam knew or trusted. | Libba Bray | ||
| f75a2dc | Looking for truth makes a man hafta look at himself along the way. | truth | Libba Bray | |
| 103bd85 | So, ah, who's the lucky girl?" Sam asked, waggling his eyebrows suggestively. When Jericho ignored him, Sam grabbed one of Jericho's Civil War soldier figurines and held it up to his mouth. "Oh, Jericho," he said in a high-pitched voice. "Take me in your arms, you big he-man, you!" "Please put General Meade back in Gettysburg. You're changing the course of the war. And it's just a date." | Libba Bray | ||
| 27d475f | In Chinatown, a large rock painted with a message-- CHINESE GO HOME!-- shattered the front window of Chong & Sons, Jewellers. An arsonist's fire gutted the Wing Sing restaurant overnight; Mr. Wing stood in the softly falling wisps of soot-flecked snow, his sober face backlit by the orange glow as he watched everything he'd built burn to the ground. [...] Fear was everywhere. At a eugenics conference in the elegant ballroom of the Waldorf-As.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 52c2e1c | Certain things existed out of time. It was ten years ago, it was this morning. In that way the accident was like his mother's death. It did not recede so much as hover, waxing and waning at different intervals but always there. It happened in the past and it was always happening. It happened every single minute of the day. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 9dfc7ff | I was still in high school when I decided I didn't want children. My somewhat twisted rationale was that I would never inflict childhood on anybody, especially not someone I loved. I never changed my mind. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 59fba03 | Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 33a3bbc | A pain exploded up high in her chest and spit her out of this terrible world. | Ann Patchett | ||
| def5172 | I wrote the last sentence of in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into the beautiful spring feeling panicked and amazed. There is no single experience in my life as a writer to match that moment, the blue of the sky and the breeze drifting in from the bay. I had done the thing I had always wanted to do: I had written a book, all the way to the end. Even if it proved to be terrible, it was mine. | writing-process | Ann Patchett |