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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d3bd03e | To never let the other forget who they are--love is also about that. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| cc73fa1 | Maybe love bore fruit even more poisonous than fear. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 12eea19 | No, it wasn't quite true that John had no conscience at all. Everyone had one. But there were many voices in his head that had an easier time reaching him: his ambition, his desire for fame and success--and for revenge. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 05445cf | It hadn't been easy to reach the city where Jacob had grown up. The borders in his world were more tightly guarded than the island of the Fairies. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 568f22b | For far too long she'd made herself small, made herself fit into their world. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 96d81e7 | Fox squeezed past him, feeling his warmth like a home. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 7caeafb | Geschichten haben nie ein Ende, Meggie<<, hatte er mal zu ihr gesagt, >>auch wenn uns die Bucher das gern vorgaukeln. Die Geschichten gehen immer weiter, sie enden ebenso wenig mit der letzten Seite, wie sie mit der ersten beginnen.<< | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 77c70c6 | And this time he would have said it, right? I love you. So much. Too much. But that was forbidden. For all time. The Elf would take his heart in payment. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| effe463 | A child in the woods. A child with an army. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 3c27636 | Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph.) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending, I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming. William Goldman, The Princess Bride | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 2a60927 | Fox could've kissed him on the mouth just to taste the smile on his lips. Forbidden. She'd almost forgotten. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 11f4f95 | Oh, if you're a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you're a bird, be an early bird But if you're a worm, sleep late. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| ff0c2f8 | There is a sort of busy worm, That will the fairest book deform. Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint The poet, patriot, sage or saint, Nor sparing wit nor learning. Now, if you'd know the reason why, The best of reasons I'll supply: 'Tis bread to the poor vermin. J. Doraston, quoted by W. Blades | bookworm | Cornelia Funke | |
| 0d94342 | Liebe ist eben genauso ungerecht verteilt auf dieser Welt wie Regen. Die einen kriegen entschieden zu viel davon ab und die anderen zu wenig." - Frieda" | die-wilden-hühner die-wilden-hühner-und-die-liebe kinderbuch love | Cornelia Funke | |
| ae1cc5b | Every soldier had to battle his weaker self. His weaker self had brought Donnersmarck to his knees, trembling. He had screamed it away, he had outrun it, he had drowned it in the blood of others. And he had always defeated it. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 57a61dc | Oh yes, he was an idiot. He'd always been frightened by how much he needed her. And now it was too late. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 95bb9c4 | Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover. | elizabeth-hoyt maximus | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 1414d0e | There was nothing less imaginative or more risk averse than the bureaucratic mind. | Jack Du Brul | ||
| ae702e9 | If you're not done in that minute, I will describe in excruciating detail that one time my hoof got stuck in Kevin's asshole. You understand me?" I" | T.J. Klune | ||
| bae7d5f | There is a feeble urgency behind all forced mannerisms of finery- haste and pomp cannot coincide. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 3588109 | Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment -- I need to see how they dance.' 'Okay.' She danced, and as she danced, she tried to think of the most delicious salads she could imagine -- with artichokes and sundried tomato and blue cheese dressing, and beets, lots of beets. | beets erotica food humor salad sex vegetarianism | Nicholson Baker | |
| f13f0db | Who cares about my cock? It'll fend for itself. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| fd59704 | And I'll flip through the newest issue, walking back from my blue mailbox, hunting for the poem he chose over mine, and it'll be the same thing as always. The prose will have pulled back, and the poem will be there, cavorting, saying, I'm a poem, I'm a poem. No, you're not! You're an impostor, you're a toy train of pretend stanzas of chopped garbage. Just like my poem was. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 95e5f0b | And now I'm back outside again sitting in the white plastic chair looking at the dew on the gas cap of my car. A fly wants to bit me on the ankle. The mosquitoes are all asleep. They're just not out at this hour. Only one biting fly. And a mourning dove, who blows through his thumbs to make that sound. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 8260d92 | In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as the problem - even the staple holes of the problem - was copied and sent on to other departments for further action, copying, and stapling. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| b77839d | You have to suffer in order to be a human being who can help people understand suffering. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 8f183a8 | The damage that you have inflicted heals over, and the scarred places left behind have unusual surface areas, roughnesses enough to become the nodes around which wisdom weaves its fibrils. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| a921692 | Though simple, the trick was something that struck me as useful . Thus, the 'when I was little' nostalgia was misleading: it turned something that I was taking seriously as an adult into something soupier, less precise, more falsely exotic, than it really was. Why should we need lots of nostalgia to license any pleasure taken in the discoveries we carry over from childhood, when it is now so clearly an adult pleasure? I decided that from n.. | Nicholson Baker | ||
| 7f44e4e | Tipping confounds me because it is not a reward but a travel tax, one of the many, one of the more insulting. No one is spared. It does not matter that you are paying thousands to stay in the presidential suite in the best hotel: the uniformed man seeing you to the elevator, inquiring about your trip, giving you a weather report, and carrying your bags to the suite expects money for this unasked-for attention. Out front, the doorman, gascon.. | Paul Theroux | ||
| f9ebb97 | One of the sicknesses of the twentieth century? I'll tell you the worst one. People can't stand to be alone. Can't tolerate it! So they go to the movies, get drive-in hamburgers, put their home telephone numbers in the crapsheets and say 'Please call me up!' It's sick. People hate their own company --- they cry when they see themselves in mirrors. It scares them, the way their faces look. Maybe that's a clue to the whole thing... | loneliness | Paul Theroux | |
| 02b3d90 | Travel is transition, and at its best it is a journey from home, a setting forth. I hated parachuting into a place. I needed to be able to link one place to another. One of the problems I had with travel in general was the ease and speed with which a person could be transported from the familiar to the strange, the moon shot whereby the New York office worker, say, is insinuated overnight into the middle of Africa to gape at gorillas. That .. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 6352ac6 | Maputo was much praised as a desirable destination, but it was a dreary, beat-up city of desperate people who had cowered there while war raged in the provinces for twenty-five years, destroying bridges, roads, and railways. Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence; I saw no positive results of charitable efforts. But whenever I expressed.. | Paul Theroux | ||
| f0da871 | One of the grandest creations of the New South was a mythical concept of an Old South." What people take to be an epoch was a matter of mere decades of pretension and an exercise in irrational nostalgia." | Paul Theroux | ||
| c90300b | The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction. | writing | Paul Theroux | |
| 0926bfc | And then there are the laziest and most presumptuous of people, those who can read but who don't bother, who live in the smuggest ignorance and seem to me dangerous. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 8a111bf | and I began to think that the strictures of Islam would quickly make me a fancier of the margins of anatomy, thrilling at especially trim ankles, seeking a wink behind a veil, or watching for a response in the shoulders of one of those shrouded forms. | Paul Theroux | ||
| cf13ba3 | The Swahili word safari means journey, it has nothing to do with animals, someone 'on safari' is just away and unobtainable and out of touch. | Paul Theroux | ||
| ad5381e | Borges, who said, "Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve." | Paul Theroux | ||
| 76ce795 | Most people on earth are poor. Most places are blighted and nothing will stop the blight getting worse. Travel gives you glimpses of the past and the future, your own and other people's. | Paul Theroux | ||
| 0932cd3 | Kyralia estaria muy bien gobernada, si gobernar fuera un delito | Trudi Canavan | ||
| 5ac32de | En ocasiones, revelar la medida justa de la verdad era mejor que mentir descaradamente. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| 90ffd6f | I love you, he told her. Sweet joy rushed through her. But there was a distinct smugness about his words. He'd sensed her feelings in return, and was pleased with himself for doing so. Turns out I love you too, she replied, communicating her wry amusement. Of all the annoying people in the world. | tessia the-magicians-apprentice trudi-canavan | Trudi Canavan | |
| 3b52133 | But as I witnessed what Dakova was capable of, I cared less about what the Guild did and didn't allow. He did not need black magic to perform evil. I saw him do things with his bare hands that I will never forget. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| 72540cd | I suppose if Akkarin came to rescue you all the time, people would say you weren't a good choice. The novices are all jealous of you, not realising that they would be in the same situation if they were the High Lord's favourite, even if they are from the Houses. Any novice he chose would be a target. Always expected to prove themselves. | sonea | Trudi Canavan |