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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0e52a9b | He would be atleast sixteen-old enough to have a driver's licence- and he would have crinkles around his eyes that showed he had a sense of humor and he would be tall, the kind of boy all the other girls would like to date | find-in-a-boy fifteen | Beverly Cleary | |
| 204ced4 | Love isn't like a cup of sugar that gets used up, | Beverly Cleary | ||
| ec7fc00 | Oh well, thought Jane, that's how men are. He's probably taking it for granted. She found it very pleasant to be taken for granted by Stan | fifteen | Beverly Cleary | |
| a8ba9e2 | If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different | fifteen | Beverly Cleary | |
| 0d85b22 | The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become. | women inequality | J. Courtney Sullivan | |
| 510dc46 | even if there was no God there was always the ocean- before you and after you, breathing in and out for all eternity. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| a599b95 | What would you have today if you woke up with only the things you thanked God for yesterday?" He wondered" | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 13da9a2 | She didn't have a single friend on earth to see her off. She had outlived them all. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| d619a2a | Like a blind man, unaware of race or religion, he quickly discovered that prejudice was often taught at the breakfast table. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 4a4cd02 | you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| 18b5249 | 'n lshkhS l ystTy` 'n y`ysh blkhbz wHdh | someone | Jeffrey Archer | |
| 168de9f | I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they make a profit they forget that it was you who recommended it, and if they make a loss they never stop reminding you. My only advise would be not to gamble what you can't afford, and never to risk an amount that might cause you to lose a night's sleep | money sleep loss risk friends afford recommend gamble investment win | Jeffrey Archer | |
| ec64986 | If it wasn't for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really. | John Boyne | ||
| e832d66 | How about your plan?" "Nothing. Useless. And now we have started on the others I seem to have less time to concentrate on my own." "Why don't I seduce him?" "Not a bad idea, but you'd have to be pretty special to get PS100,000 out of him, when he can hang around outside the Hilton or Shepherd Market and get it for PS30. If there's one thing we've learnt about that gentleman it's that he expects value for money. At PS30 a night it would take.. | jeffrey jeffrey-archer | Jeffrey Archer | |
| f12cd21 | the descent was going to be more difficult than the ascent. | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| a30c14f | Seated opposite me in the railway carriage, the elderly lady in the fox-fur shawl was recalling some of the murders that she had committed over the years. | opening-lines | John Boyne | |
| 3f0fc57 | The notion that he had a life outside our life, outside our friendship, was deeply hurtful to me. | John Boyne | ||
| d3f3dfc | Just because someone looks sky at night, doesn`t mean it is astronaut. | John Boyne | ||
| 840dd4c | It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of power themselves. | john-boyne the-house-of-special-purpose | John Boyne | |
| 48c8fed | I like 'fresh fruit flan'," said the donkey. "Three excellent words." "I don't have one," said Noah immediately before the question could even be asked, and the donkey opened his eyes wide in suprise, and for a moment Noah wondered whether he might even consider eating him." | John Boyne | ||
| 841e073 | Collars, trench coats or jackboots - uniforms allow us to exercise our cruelty without ever feeling guilt. | John Boyne | ||
| 5b4fc6d | You are not there, Father," I cried. "I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind." "And that is?" "This house is haunted." | thriller | John Boyne | |
| f279763 | The sensation that for the world to exist with an object of such beauty in it--and for that object to be unattainable--was the very sweetest kind of pain imaginable. | loneliness love desire | John Boyne | |
| 440f323 | You're a bit of an oddball, Jonathan,' I said. 'Has anyone ever told you that?' 'Nineteen people this year alone,' he said. 'And it's only May. | John Boyne | ||
| fe3a7cf | These were colours he'd never ever seen before; ones he couldn't possibly begin to name. Here, to his left, was a wooden clock, and it was painted, well not exactly green, but a colour that green might like to be if it had any imagination at all. And over there, beside the wooden board game whose overriding colour was not red, but something that red might look at enviously, blushing with embarrassment at its own dull appearance. And the woo.. | John Boyne | ||
| 6e58ef5 | A home is not a building or a street or a city or something so artificial as bricks and mortar. A home is where one's family is... | John Boyne | ||
| 24d4be6 | Se me ocurre que, incluso aunque Zoya y yo aun seguimos vivos, mi vida ha concluido ya. No tardare en perderla y no habra razon para que continue sin ella. Veran, es que somos una sola persona. Somos GeorgiZoya. | John Boyne | ||
| a4c3dce | This is habitual. Mother flutters her wings, and every institution within sight tumbles flat. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 5a04eee | I didn't blow anyone!' he roared. 'If anyone was getting blown it was me. Although, of course, it wasn't me anyway, as it never happened.' 'That's a great quote,' said Mr Denby-Denby. 'We should definitely put that into the press release. I don't blow teenage boys. They blow me. | John Boyne | ||
| c06929e | There was a huge wire fence that ran along the length of the house and turned in at the top, extending further along in either direction, further than she could possibly see. The fence was very high, higher even than the house they were standing in, and there were huge wooden posts, like telegraph poles, dotted along it, holding it up. At the top of the fence enormous bales of barbed wire were tangled in spirals, and Gretel felt an unexpect.. | John Boyne | ||
| c53a427 | He tells a story, and that's what I like. Does this fella tell a story? He doesn't spend twenty pages describing the colour of the sky?' 'He hasn't so far.' 'Good. Jeffrey Archer never talks about the colour of the sky and I like that in a writer. I'd say Jeffrey Archer has never even looked up at the sky his entire life.' 'Especially now that he's in prison,' I suggested. | writing-quotes | John Boyne | |
| 470c6d3 | Please don't embarrass yourself by offering an opinion. | John Boyne | ||
| bd8adf2 | Situations like that always made Bruno feel very uncomfortable because, in his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all. | John Boyne | ||
| b3a1641 | the number of books increased on the shelves neatly made for him by one of his carpenter friends. The room began to look like a home. | Maxim Gorky | ||
| 72f3b7f | When they tear a workingman's hand in a machine or kill him, you can understand-- the workingman himself is at fault. But in a case like this, when they suck a man's blood out of him and throw him away like a carcass --that can't be explained in any way. I can comprehend every murder; but torturing for mere sport I can't comprehend. And why do they torture the people? To what purpose do they torture us all? For fun, for mere amusement, so t.. | Maxim Gorky | ||
| b828cc3 | His reading habit was so varied that in his early teens, he was reading both Maxim Gorky's Mother and the detective thrillers (Jasoosi Duniya) of Ibn-e-Safi. The detective thrillers--be it Indian or American pulp fiction--were a big favourite for their fast action, tight plots and economies of expression. He remembers the novels of Ibn-e-Safi for their fascinating characters with memorable names. 'Ibn-e-Safi was a master at naming his chara.. | Diptakirti Chaudhuri | ||
| 920fca1 | I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery. | Zoë Heller | ||
| b5f1a71 | It is always difficult, the transition from noisy refusal to humble acceptance. | Zoë Heller | ||
| 34aa183 | I don't particularly want to meet anyone. I'm quite happy by myself. Or at least, I was, back home. | Garth Nix | ||
| 777235b | You have to know where you are to know where to go. | Garth Nix | ||
| b99dec4 | Sixth comes Saraneth, also known as the Binder. Saraneth speaks with the deep voice of power, shackling the Dead to the wielder's will. | Garth Nix | ||
| bedb967 | they might refuse the evidence of their own eyes and continue blindly on over the ridge, driven by optimism and hope that finally they would find somewhere to call home. | Garth Nix | ||
| c19750b | It's you I'm concerned about. You are letting your fear come between you and getting better. | Garth Nix | ||
| a9d50b4 | Voli si stezku chodec, nebo stezka chodce? | Garth Nix |