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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 83fd1c1 | Metaphors are lies. | Mark Haddon | ||
| db8be9c | I've been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on an island," Mary Lou said to Adina one afternoon as they rested on their elbows taking bites from the same papaya. "Lord of the Flies. What about it?" You know how you said it wasn't a true measure of humanity because there were no girls and you wondered how it would be different if there had been girls?" "Yeah?" "Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they nee.. | Libba Bray | ||
| c8f0b75 | I am Jack's smirking revenge. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| cb1b7a3 | I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 29d7d97 | He tugged on the hood, and I savored the shadows and menace and wings. . That's what I'd call the painting. He said softly, "I love it when you look at me like that." The purr in his voice heated my blood. "Like what?" "Like my power isn't something to run from. Like you see me." | pg466 rhysand | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 8fdb974 | He gripped her hard, forcing her to meet his eyes as he snarled, "I see you. I see every part of you. And I am not afraid." . A line in the burning brightness. ." | love pg418 rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| bcd2fe7 | We'd better eat before we raise hell. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| c84437d | Rhysand merely raised a brow. "I already have everything I want." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 2e7755d | Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 5314fc4 | You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-" "I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to." | humour gender-stereotypes | Tamora Pierce | |
| adb836a | He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep. | stupidity | Tamora Pierce | |
| 6842235 | But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 533e139 | A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been. | writing | Betty Smith | |
| 65b1737 | Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle | Gregory Maguire | ||
| de03ff6 | We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down." | Chinua Achebe | ||
| d6845c7 | It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 4ca81af | If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void. | opal | Eoin Colfer | |
| 53fc663 | If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. | friends friendship respect | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 28ead57 | On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages that moved him: "He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others... I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 151e32a | Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was. | Sarah Kay | ||
| 2d8926b | A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5004edb | I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 56fc397 | Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving | every-day | David Levithan | |
| 5e68458 | Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 9dbd1b1 | Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 83cbb5b | People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people. | irony humorous humor ironic | Terry Pratchett | |
| 31195be | Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? | Walt Whitman | ||
| ae674b0 | There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?" | Rachel Caine | ||
| d2af231 | Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask | Rachel Cohn | ||
| b2d9e88 | Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking. | liking ownership | José Saramago | |
| 2050759 | Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated by a skin, I bet you've never thought of that, you carry a darkness about with you all the time and that doesn't frighten you...my dear chap, you have to learn to live with the darkness outside just as you learned to live with the darkness inside | José Saramago | ||
| 8057660 | Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have. | fate life predetermination | Kevin Brockmeier | |
| 8ac4c01 | You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4e08ef3 | Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. | parenting parents | Neil Gaiman | |
| 17843d1 | I trudged back to my bedroom and pushed the door open, intending to wash my face or brush my teeth or make some stab at smoothing my hair, because I thought it might make me feel a little less trampled. Eric was sitting on my bed, his face buried in his hands. He looked up at me as I entered, and he looked shocked. Well, no wonder, what with the very thorough takeover and traumatic changing of the guard. Sitting here on your bed, smelling.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 30e05e0 | I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide. | tiredness | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 86feaf2 | Emma's gaze went from Alec to Jace, curious. "Do you worry about him?" she asked Alec, surprising a laugh out of him. "All the time," he said. "Jace could get himself killed putting his pants on in the morning. Being his parabatai is a full-time job." | emma parabatai jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 979be12 | I am here to determine my relationship." Simon goggled. She couldn't be talking about him. Could she? "Do you see that man?" Isabelle asked, pointing at Simon. Apparently she was talking about him. "That's Simon Lewis, and he is my boyfriend. So if any of you think about trying to hurt him because he's a mundie or--may the Angel have mercy on your soul--pursuing him romantically, I will come after you, I will hunt you down and I will crush .. | mundie sizzy isabelle-lightwood simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| ebaf872 | My heart is your heart," he said. "My hands are your hands." | love jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 4f3b0b9 | Magnus, we're going down to the lake," he said. "Do you want to come?" "Why?" Magnus inquired. Alec shrugged, "Clary says it's pretty," he said. "I mean, I've seen it before, but there was a huge angel rising out of it, and that was distracting." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 48a7352 | You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes. | sex expatriate | Ernest Hemingway | |
| a45de34 | When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. | writing revisions critical-thinking editing | Stephen King | |
| de12e65 | Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil. | love monsters vampires | Christopher Pike | |
| daba749 | His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand--passive resistance and open displays of contempt. | Kurt Vonnegut |