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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 650cbb1 | Baby, why are you all wet? | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 6520a95 | The foghorn of Boston Light moaned across the harbor, a sound Teddy had heard every night of his childhood in Hull. The loneliest sound he knew. Made you want to hold something, a person, a pillow, yourself. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| ba62118 | We all have our crosses to bear. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| ae5f98c | She felt like weeping. She didn't know why at first, but then it hit her. He knew her. He knew her, this man she'd married, this man she'd committed herself to walking through this life with. He knew her. And--wonder of wonders--he was still here. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e3a3b5a | There's always a 'she'. Isn't there? | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 959f31c | Everyone wants to tell you something -anything, everything - about themselves and they just go on and on and on. But when it comes time to show you who they are? Their shit is weak, Nadia. Their shit is lacking. And they just cover it up by talking more, by explaining away what can't be explained away. And then they go on talking more shit about someone else. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 2def068 | The lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f35a011 | What was a strong marriage? What was a good marriage? She knew terrible people who had wonderful marriages, glued together somehow in their terribleness. And she knew fine, fine people who'd stood before God and all their friends to profess their undying love to each other only to toss that love on a slag heap a few years later. In the end, no matter how good they were--or thought they were--usually all that remained of the love they'd so p.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 98d7f19 | That doesn't sound invisible to me." "I'm saying it wrong, then." Lydia searched for a better way to explain. "She was always holding herself back. She was cocaptain, not captain. She could've dated the quarterback, but she dated his brother instead. She could've been top in her class, but she'd purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she'd fall closer to the middle. She would know about Mauna Kea, but she would say Evere.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| ed9688d | He saw the towel in her hands. "I've got this." "Let me help." "I think you've helped enough." She thought he was going to leave it at that, but Will told her, "It's been worse today than usual." "Stress is a contributing factor-when you get tired or if something emotional happens." He scrubbed hard at the plate in his hands. Sara saw that he hadn't bothered to roll up his sleeves. The cuffs of his sweater were soaked. He said, "I've been t.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f658df7 | Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| a298cea | She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand | Karin Slaughter | ||
| d53ee23 | but instead of apologizing, I said, 'It's your own fault for playing tennis." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 619ce0a | Proactive interference," Paul would have explained. "It's when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| e114316 | Will had found out the hard way that it's nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 7a3e66c | Some people are born with a hole inside them. They spend their lives trying to fill it. Sometimes it's pills, sometimes it's Jesus. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 109ae01 | The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f1264a7 | Dyadic completion," Paul would've told Claire. "The human brain tends to assume that, if there's a victim, there has to be a villain." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 04f9aa6 | Acid filled Sara's mouth. It wasn't fair. That's what Sara wanted to say. To scream at the top of her lungs. It just wasn't fair. Lena wasn't strong. She would bend, not break. She would recover from this tragedy the same easy way she recovered from every other tragedy before. Even if she lost Jared, Lena would always know what it felt like to have his child growing inside of her. She could always hold her baby's hand and think of holding J.. | jealousy women-helping-women | Karin Slaughter | |
| a930fed | The two women switched to their native tongue. Kate tuned them out. She understood only half of what they were saying. As with most Americans, Dutch sounded to her more like a disease of the throat than an actual language | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 66888d0 | Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 1021a16 | It's always sad when someone dies of a cliche. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| adb3cb8 | She had felt capable of anything. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 9f2cb36 | I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks. I was her truth object, and she was mine. | Glen Cook | ||
| 0025dc5 | We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant. | Glen Cook | ||
| 70fada0 | I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray shooting-jacket was on my back, and from the end of my brother's rifle hung a small bundle of my clothes. My fingers worked moodily at the stock and trigger, and I thought that this indeed was the way to begin life, with a gun in your hand! | Herman Melville | ||
| 9b76ac9 | But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands .. | sea the-ocean | Herman Melville | |
| a76791a | hb 'nn 'khT'n khT' fdH fy fhm ms'l@ lHy@ wlmwt. hb 'n m ysmwnh `l~ hdhh l'rD "Zly" nm hw jwhry lSHyH. hb 'nn Hyn nnZr l~ l'mwr lrwHy@ nshbh lsrTn ldhy yr~ lshms mn khll lm fyZn 'n lm lkthyf hw 'shd 'nw` lhw shffy@! hb 'n jsdy lys l lHm~ ldhy y'wy lyh wjwdy l'fDl. fly'khdh jsdy mn sh fnh lys 'n!" | Herman Melville | ||
| 2020c79 | Heaven have mercy on us all--Presbyterians and Pagans alike-- for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. | Herman Melville | ||
| 63d061f | and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another. | Herman Melville | ||
| 5bc94dc | if some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. events, not books, should be forbid. | Herman Melville | ||
| 512fe92 | It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with abhorrence; that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration before mentioned: i.e. that a man should eat a newly murdered thing of the sea, and eat it too by its own light. But no doubt the first man that ever murdered an ox was regarded as murderer; perhaps he was hung; and if he had been put on his tria.. | Herman Melville | ||
| a57e4f7 | And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. | Herman Melville | ||
| 15659e0 | And even as this old guide-book boasts of the, to us, insignificant Liverpool of fifty years ago, the New York guidebooks are now vaunting of the magnitude of a town, whose future inhabitants, multitudinous as the pebbles on the beach, and girdled in with high walls and towers, flanking endless avenues of opulence and taste, will regard all our Broadways and Bowerys as but the paltry nucleus to their Nineveh. From far up the Hudson, beyond .. | Herman Melville | ||
| 924e775 | wlkn hdh lkhawar l`rD sm@ tkd t`m kl lky'nt lty t`ysh fy lqTy`, fljwmys lbry@ fy lGrb l'mryky - dht l'`rf k'lbd l'swd - tHtshd fy '`dd tblG `shrt l'lwf, wtfr hrb@ 'mm khyWl wHd wt'ml 'yD jmy` bny lbshr: kyf ykwnwn mHtshdyn fy HZyr@ ysmwnh q`@ lmsrH, fdh 'undhrw mHD ndhr Tfyf bsht`l lnr ndf`w fy hyT wmyT nHw lmnfdh, mtjmhryn mtkdsyn yT' b`Dhm b`D, wydf` 'Hdhm lakhr l~ lmwt dwn shfq! | Herman Melville | ||
| 45ffb19 | The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung. | moby-dick | Herman Melville | |
| 5b6d621 | What business have I with this pipe? This thing that is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine. I'll smoke no more. | the-pipe | Herman Melville | |
| 5b80a97 | That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like some slumberers in their beds; the ever rolling waves but made so by the restlessness. | seascape | Herman Melville | |
| 74d827f | In fact, tell him I've diddled him, and perhaps somebody else. | Herman Melville | ||
| 219ecbc | They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business. | chinese-society funny justinian laws lol melville mind-your-own-business moby-dick pandects | Herman Melville | |
| 537574b | m 'shd m 'Htqr l'rD dht lHwjz wltwt wljwzt! tlk lTryq l`m@ lty khdWdth n`l l`bwdy@ wHwfrh! wtHwWltu l~ l`jb b`Zm@ lbHr ldhy l tnTb` fyh athr. | Herman Melville | ||
| 7774c30 | From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. | Herman Melville | ||
| c3b8c8f | A high degree of refinement, however, does not seem to subdue our wicked propensities so much after all; and were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. | Herman Melville | ||
| 7021e79 | Oh, grassy glades! oh ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,--though long parched by the dead drought of the earthly life,-- in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them. Would to God these blessed calms would last. But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every .. | Herman Melville |