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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f5102c8 | What?" That's when I knew how wrong I'd been." | Meg Cabot | ||
| c760ad8 | They really do look gold.How is that even possible?How can someone have golden eyes? | Meg Cabot | ||
| f2b1f7b | I did remember. Mr. Rector and Mr. Endicott had basically taken a beautiful island paradise and bulldozed it into an ugly subdivision, complete with tennis courts and a tiki bar. | Meg Cabot | ||
| b23c010 | They could be making her sleep in a closet under the stairs! | Meg Cabot | ||
| 9f31a76 | I know everything," she said. Her eyes were filling with tears. "If I knew everything, would I have gotten into this mess in the first place? I certainly don't know why you assume I'm going to drop everything and fly off to Antigua with you. I don't even know what I'm doing her. I don't know why we haven't talked in two weeks. And the worst part is, if I go to Antigua with you, I don't know if I'll ever want to come back. I'm pretty sur.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 7a4eacc | Que utilidad tiene la formula cuadratica en la vida cotidiana? | Meg Cabot | ||
| a417661 | John looked down at me like the awards for most naive girl in the world had already been handed out, and I'd won first prize. | Meg Cabot | ||
| d917271 | Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait. Love, Michael | Meg Cabot | ||
| 57fe4f6 | Pizza Hut isn't real pizza," I tell them. "The way that balloon of Big Bird they fly in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade isn't the real Big Bird." | Meg Cabot | ||
| 5318c4b | Grandma being possessed by a murderous demon from hell makes perfect sense to me, | Meg Cabot | ||
| b27a3ff | I do not expect Henrique Mauricio to conform to my standards of behavior," Alaric said. "I expect him not to do things that make me want to pound his face into a bloody pulp. Sadly, every time I meet him he fails to live up to this expectation." | humor | Meg Cabot | |
| bdce8ad | This resentment you feel toward Father Henrique is another example," Holtzman said. "What did the man ever do to you? Nothing. So he botched that exorcism. It was his first one. He was young. Do you know what I did at my first exorcism?" "Ran," Alaric said at the same time as his boss. "Thats exactly right," Holtzman went on. "Its extremely frightening to look into the face of evil for the first time." "Not," Alaric said, "as frightening as.. | humor | Meg Cabot | |
| 3a6faf2 | After more than one hundred and fifty years of living alone in the darkness, I met you, Susannah, and through you, I met Father Dominic. Everything my mother said in her letter came true. It wasn't the same church, and it wasn't the same priest. But the letter and the ring were there, all because of you. And now I want to give that ring to you. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 66701e8 | Stuart Maxwell told me in a shaky voice that the first time Cheyenne picked him out as her victim for the kissing game, it had been like a nightmare as he'd found himself cornered by the circle of girls, only to see Cheyenne's lips coming closer and closer, until finally the smell of cranberry Kiehl's lip balm had overwhelmed him. 'And that's when,' Stuart told me in a horrified voice, 'I knew it was all over. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 6bb2010 | Are you flirting with me? | Meg Cabot | ||
| afafae1 | You gazed into my eyes, what could I do but linger? I ran my hand through your hair, and a cootie bit my finger. | Meg Cabot | ||
| f416476 | I am willing to overlook your intense personal insecurities for the moment in order to inform you that I will not be able to attend the dedication tomorrow night, as I have alternate plans. I will elaborate no more, for fear of further fraternal wrath. I like that, further fraternal wrath. Maybe I'll put that in my novel. Fraternally yours, your faithful brother, John | Meg Cabot | ||
| 60d2561 | I think my teacher was wrong: making cheese wasn't what I was born to do. I was born to make people feel good when everything around them seemed just awful. | beru-lars beru-whitesun-lars blue-milk-cheese calling space-cheese star-wars tatooine | Meg Cabot | |
| a0510ba | Once we were outside, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. "Grandmere!" I yelled. "What'd you say to them? What'd you say to convince them to let me go?" But Grandmere just laughed in this scary way and said, "I have my ways." Boy, did I ever not hate her then." | clarisse-renaldi humor mia-thermopolis | Meg Cabot | |
| 24ab9dd | And if you write something that cheers someone up when they're feeling down, doesn't that change the world? | Meg Cabot | ||
| 8d4de47 | Observation point," he said, pointing to the wooden sign in front of us that said, OBSERVATION POINT. NO LITTERING. "A lot of kids come here on Saturday night." Micheal cleared his throat and looked at me meaningfully. "And park." I have to say, up until that moment I really had no idea I was capable of moving so fast as I did getting out of that car. But I was unbuckled and out of that seat quicker than you could say ectoplasm." | susannah-simon suze-simon the-mediator | Meg Cabot | |
| 83abf74 | What do you mean, "Not to worry, she's home safe with Skiboy"? What the hell is a "Skiboy"?" | too-funny | Meg Cabot | |
| cd13a65 | I went to bed all happy, thinking maybe a boy liked me. It's stupid that that's all it takes sometimes to make you happy. | Meg Cabot | ||
| d17ded5 | You don't have to shout, sweetie. I can read you just fine in lower-case letters. | Meg Cabot | ||
| fd598a6 | think of climate change as slow, but it is unnervingly fast. We think of the technological change necessary to avert it as fast-arriving, but unfortunately it is deceptively slow--especially judged by just how soon we need it. This is what Bill McKibben means when he says that winning slowly is the same as losing: "If we don't act quickly, and on a global scale, then the problem will literally become insoluble," he writes. "The decisions we.. | David Wallace-Wells | ||
| cfd4201 | Otherwise, he'd have found the ruin empty, and then, somehow, very quietly and almost naturally, he would have died. | William Gibson | ||
| 6552bab | That's what money will buy you, in America," Brown had said, firmly. "People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why?" "Why?" asked Milgrim, more concerned with this uncharacteristically expansive mode of expression on Brown's part. "Because they have better stuff," Brown had replied. "No other reason." | americans materialism money | William Gibson | |
| 754071e | Do you always wear Malaysian imitations of Brooks Brothers blue oxford button-downs, Mr. Laney?" Laney had looked down at his shirt, or tried to. "Malaysia?" "The stitch-count's dead on, but they still haven't mastered the thread-tension." "Oh." "Never mind. A little prototypic nerd chic could actually lend a certain frisson, around here. You could lose the tie, though. Definitely lose the tie. And keep a collection of felt-tipped pens in .. | William Gibson | ||
| adc9c2e | Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts . . . A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. | William Gibson | ||
| 34b3e3d | They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours. The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective. For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. | William Gibson | ||
| 32473e4 | Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after the explosion. Most of him, anyway. | William Gibson | ||
| f3bcc65 | Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves." "I've" | William Gibson | ||
| 4c749a0 | Zona spat a stream of Spanish that overwhelmed translation, a long and liquid curse. | William Gibson | ||
| 069bf7d | All the meat, he thought, and all it wants. | William Gibson | ||
| 80d6144 | Biz here was a constant subliminal hum, and death the accepted punishment for laziness, carelessness, lack of grace, the failure to heed the demands of an intricate protocol. | William Gibson | ||
| 640885b | I'm not Wintermute now." "So what are you." He drank from the flask, feeling nothing. "I'm the matrix," | William Gibson | ||
| 1979b45 | When you raise the dead, they bring their baggage. | William Gibson | ||
| 39d7590 | She isn't feeling easy with any of this. She doesn't know quite what to do with Bigend's proposition, which has kicked her into one of those modes that her therapist, when she last had one, would lump under the rubric of 'old behaviors.' It consisted of saying no, but somehow not quite forcefully enough, and then continuing to listen. With the result that her 'no' could be gradually chipped away at, and turned into a 'yes' before she hersel.. | William Gibson | ||
| 2fbf017 | You can't get clever men to fight such a system, as it makes too much sense to 'em. | William Gibson | ||
| 6b96b72 | DUMBLEDORE: How was it? NEWT: They're still convinced that you sent me to New York. DUMBLEDORE: You told them I didn't? NEWT: Yes. Even though you did. A beat. DUMBLEDORE inscrutable, NEWT wanting answers. NEWT: You told me where to find that trafficked Thunderbird, Dumbledore. You knew that I would take him home and you knew I'd have to take him through a Muggle port. DUMBLEDORE: Well, I've always felt an affinity with the great magical bi.. | newt-scamander | J.K. Rowling | |
| 25916e2 | Ako s'lzite mogat da izplatiat nashite grekhove, bikh plakal, za da kupia oproshchenie za vsichki tvoi m'ki v b'deshchiia ti zhivot, ako mozhekh sega da izplacha vsichko vmesto teb, bikh plakal, dokato iztekat ochite mi. | africa български death-of-a-loved-one fatherhood love love-quotes sean-courtney | Wilbur Smith | |
| 2660278 | INT. DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS CLASS--FOURTEEN YEARS PREVIOUSLY--DAY It is Boggart time. DUMBLEDORE supervises the line of teenagers advancing to try their luck. "Riddikulus"--"Riddikulus"--gusts of hilarity as a shark becomes a flotation device, a zombie's head turns into a pumpkin, a vampire turns into a buck-toothed rabbit. DUMBLEDORE: All right, Newt. Be brave. 16-YEAR-OLD NEWT moves to the front of the queue. The Boggart turns into.. | newt-scamander | J.K. Rowling | |
| 728f4eb | NEWT withdraws his head, still leaning against the wall of the dark alleyway, to find a single black glove hanging in the air in front of him. He looks at it, expressionless. It gives a little wave, then points into the far distance. NEWT looks to where it is pointing. High on the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, a tiny human figure raises its arm. NEWT looks back at the glove, which makes as though to shake hands. NEWT takes it, and he and th.. | newt-scamander | J.K. Rowling | |
| f123e9b | She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out. | Jill Mansell |