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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 72f781b | No one's ever very sure if doves and pigeons are the same bird or not. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5c8e2e1 | The only explanation is that my senses, memory, and mind are conspiring against my well-being, and nothing's scarier than that. | David Mitchell | ||
| f711b80 | A journalist marries the news, Seymour. She's capricious, cruel, and jealous. She demands you follow her to wherever on Earth life is cheapest, where she'll stay a day or two, then jet off. You, your safety, your family are nothing, | David Mitchell | ||
| 149bf00 | That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities. | David Mitchell | ||
| d275b1f | No one else has lived this life. | David Mitchell | ||
| 2c9b1ab | Sawing the head off a thunder god with a rusty hacksaw is not easy when you are eleven years old. | David Mitchell | ||
| 73e68f0 | In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium. | language poet poetry spoken word | Kevin Crossley-Holland | |
| dbafcf1 | Eli likes to explore with other people different kinds of sex that his partner doesn't enjoy; he says, 'It enables me to show different aspects of my sexuality to those who appreciate them most. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| f181235 | EXERCISE Creating Authentic Relationships The questions below deal with issues most people take for granted and let society define for them. You can start with a blank canvas and create your own definitions. * How do you define intimacy and closeness? * What constitutes a relationship for you? * Are there different types of relationships you wish you could have? * How long should a significant relationship last? * What is sex? Is it interco.. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| a873c62 | It is a relationship that is flexible enough to allow for change and that is constantly being renegotiated in the light of changing needs, consensus in decision-making, acceptance and encouragement of individual growth, and openness to new possibilities for growth. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| f2df77b | You can't plan for everything: obstacles will still come up that you never talked about-that it never even occurred to you to discuss. Issues that you never anticipated will push your buttons. Behavior that you thought wouldn't make you jealous will. So, consider as many details as you can beforehand, and be ready for new ones to pop up. | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 3e810bc | Honestly, everyone loves more than one person and people often lie about that. We're just not lying about it'... | Tristan Taormino | ||
| 4d2f75c | They broke things. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 297a246 | Wisdom tells me I'm nothing. But love tells me I'm everything. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 247c3ef | The Germans were still hunting Alek, trying to finish the job they'd started on his parents. Someone had to be on his side. And, as Deryn had gradually admitted to herself these last few days, she didn't mind if that someone wound up being her. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 2f1ecba | Jen's an impact player, a spoiled brat, a royal pain-in-the-ass, and she rewires me like nothing else. | scott-westerfeld so-yesterday | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 5d0f6bc | In their infinite wisdom, the Admiralty approved Alek's medal for bravery in the air on the very same day the United States entered the war. The timing seemed suspicious to Deryn, and of course the medal wasn't for anything useful, like shutting down Tesla's weapon to save the Leviathan. Instead Alek was to be decorated for blundering about on the ship's topside during a storm, and for his great skill in falling over and knocking himself si.. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| c7210eb | If Chizara was agreeing with Ethan, things were bad. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| ed729ac | More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth. | sadness | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 8a1f0e2 | Maybe Flicker's power made her think differently than most people. She saw the world from so many perspectives, and seeing was half of enlightenment. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 0344494 | There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away, all that's left is some story in a history class. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 4460d36 | Maybe that was the point of truth-you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there was to be discovered again. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| f19d859 | Maybe that was the point of truth--you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there to be discovered again | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| c5555bb | As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth. | midnighters school scott-westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| caabf77 | Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 12e476a | I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 29c7ed3 | Aya, that's the barking strangest thing about battle - that it's real | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 17200c6 | He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper. And, at the last, the book taught him that while nothing was certain, all was possible. "At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, Dallben murmured. "And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope." | knowledge pain wisdom | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 6e14155 | From a swift canter the powerful legs of Melynlas stretched to a gallop. The stallion's muscles heaved beneath him and Taran, sword raised, plunged into the sea of men. His head spun and he gasped as if drowning. He realized he was terrified. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 91ff06a | And so shall honor Morgant," Gwydion said, "for what he used to be, and Ellidyr Prince of Pen-Llarcau for what he became." | fantasy honor | Lloyd Alexander | |
| ed04b64 | Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it. | taran-wanderer the-high-king | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 44690be | It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another," he said, "for in it are good and evil mixed." | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 28e7267 | There are those," he said gently, "who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they .. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| ae469b3 | The tasks you set yourself are cruelly difficult. There is no certainty you will accomplish even one, and much risk you will fail in all of them. In either case, your efforts may well go unrewarded, unsung, forgotten. And at the end, like all mortals, you must face your death; perhaps without even a mound of honor to mark your resting place. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| bca64ce | I knew something was wrong when you started being so polite. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| fda9c98 | Some days are like that...and what's to be done about it? Nothing, alas, but hope things will brighten, which they very likely won't. But there you are, it's all one can do. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 84e58a7 | But it's very thoughtful of you to say that. It shows a kind heart, and I think that's so much more important than being clever. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 04dccb8 | I cannot forgive myself for what I did. It has long been one of my strictest principles not to interfere with the life of any individual, let alone attempt to shorten it. If an exception were to be made, Dr. Helvitius would surely qualify. It might be argued that, having neither scruples nor conscience, he had no claim upon the conscience of someone else--least of all, his intended victims. But that is a question to be resolved by a judgmen.. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 5c59538 | Had I done it sooner, perhaps he might have lived. He was a man of courage and good heart, a proud man. Now he is dead. I saved the signal to use in a worthy cause, and when I found one it was wasted." "Wasted?" answered Fflewddur. "I think not. Since you did your best and didn't begrudge using it, I shouldn't call it wasted at all." | morals regret values worth | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 48ec85e | We stopped talking about Zampano then. She paged her friend Christina who took less than twenty minutes to come over. There were no introductions. We just sat down on the floor and snorted lines of coke off a CD case, gulped down a bottle of wine and then used it to play spin the bottle. They kissed each other first, then they both kissed me, and then we forgot about the bottle, and I even managed to forget about Zampano, about this, and ab.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| be9bd43 | there's no second ive lived you can't call your own | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| fdfcbb1 | If you're a person of feeling, if you feel things keenly and deeply--and I don't think you can be a writer unless you feel things not just for the moment but they live in you--that costs you. I don't think you can be a writer of consequence and merit unless you have grave doubts about yourself, about what you've done and who you are and whom you've hurt. And that costs you. And so, it all costs you. What is left is what all of us are going .. | Harry Crews | ||
| 1350999 | Manure grew the fodder for the cow that made that ice cream and fertilized the beets that gave us the sugar, my girl," Juniper said sternly. "Earth must be fed or we all go hungry." | S.M. Stirling | ||
| c507bcb | Dennis says) "Hey, you're playing confuse-the-unbeliever again. I have never been able to get a straight answer on whether you guys have two deities or dozens, taken from any pantheon you feel like mugging in a theological dark alley. Which is it? Number one or number two?" "Yes," Juniper said, with all the other coven members joining in to make a ragged chorus..." | S.M. Stirling |