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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19e335c | The dead can read tears. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| d99377f | You can't be pretty forever, you know that? But you can always be beautiful. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| fb087cd | Quite often the dolphins save the lives of those who are drowning, and sometimes they dolphins make a mistake and try to save those who are not drowning at all but are really diving for turtles. That is something that one just has to put up with from time to time, and it serves to prove how simpatico the animals are. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| f894b0e | There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die at the right time, | Louis de Bernières | ||
| d88c7a6 | It's Fortune," he said. "I was given the hardest consulship a man has ever had. Just as I was given the hardest life a man has ever had. I'm not the kind to surrender, and I'm not the kind to care how I win. There are plenty of eggs in the cups and plenty of dolphins down. But the race won't be over until I'm dead." | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 7a47660 | He hadn't wooed her, but had simply claimed her. A gold mine ready to dig. There should have been a period of quiet dinners together, of flowers rather than diamonds, of kisses given after permission to kiss, of a slow awakening that predisposed her to greater intimacies. But no, not the great Alexander Kinross! He had met her, he had married her the next day, and climbed into her bed after one kiss in the church. There to prove himself an .. | men-and-women relationships | Colleen McCullough | |
| 3b3f4e0 | The shock of having to pull herself up in the midst of a spontaneous reaction -- I must remember to tell Dane about this, he'll get such a kick out of it -- that was what hurt the most. And because it kept on occurring so often, it prolonged the grief. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 742b8bc | Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the very moment of their unraveling?...Sometimes, all the miles between are as nothing, sometimes, they are narrowed to the little silence between the beats of a heart. | grief | Colleen McCullough | |
| da18f53 | His sudden and utterly overwhelming panic was over almost before it began; but not quickly enough. In the midst of his brief yet total terror, the King of Pontus shat himself. It went everywhere, solid faeces mixed with what seemed an incredible amount of more liquid bowel contents, a stinking brown mess all over the gold-encrusted purple cloth of his cushion, trickling down the legs of his throne, running down his own legs into the manes o.. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 815af42 | Beware the Greeks when they bear gifts. | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 1a30195 | Why is it, Caesar, that there's always a man like Lucius Metellus?" "If there were not, Antonius, this world might work better. Though if this world worked better, there'd be no place in it for men like me," said Caesar." | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 8f23172 | So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 1cf2e57 | Quando avro una laurea in matematica, o in fisica, o in matematica e fisica, trovero un lavoro e guadagnero un sacco di soldi e saro in grado di pagare qualcuno che si occupi di me e cucini per me e mi lavi i vestiti, oppure trovero una donna che mi sposi e si prenda cura di me, che mi faccia un po' di compagnia per non rimanere da solo. | Mark Haddon | ||
| f911383 | Come devono essere tristi, quei figli unici. Crescere in una casa piena di adulti, sempre in minoranza, sempre sconfitti, nemmeno un po' di quella stupidita sfrenata, niente scherzi da poter ripetere cento volte, nessuno con cui cantare, nessuno con cui litigare, nessuno con cui fare il principe, o lo schiavo [...] in seguito, quando i genitori cadono in disgrazia e diventano essere umani incasinati e banali e si trasformano pian piano da p.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 806e54a | People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark. | Mark Haddon | ||
| adb968c | Then he snored and I jumped and I could hear the blood in my ears and my heart going really fast and a pain like someone had blown up a really big balloon inside my chest. I wondered if I was going to have a heart attack. | surprise | Mark Haddon | |
| 960b30a | Bueno, ?como te va, capitan? Y yo dije: --Me va muy bien, gracias --que es lo que se supone que tienes que decir. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 4395857 | And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer. | logic | Mark Haddon | |
| 6bee100 | It was a stupid, insane, suicidal idea. Which makes it quite hard to explain why I decided to help. I guess it boils down to this. Charlie was my best friend. I missed him. And I couldn't think of anything better to do. Really stupid reasons which were never going to impress the police, the headmistress or my parents. Looking back, I reckon this was the moment when my whole life started to go pear-shaped. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 553a783 | But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes I look up into the sky and I think that there are molecules of Mother up there, or in clouds over Africa or the Antarctic, or coming down as rain in the rainforests in Brazil, or in snow somewhere. | Mark Haddon | ||
| d5a97f2 | The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another, and it comes from the Greek words meta (which means from one place to another) and ferein (which means to carry), and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 8757c7b | Lina had never seen anyone so disorganized as the doctor. She peeked into the medicine room once when the doctor was out and was amazed at the clutter in there-shelves and cupboards and tables piled with stuff in bottles and stuff in boxes and stuff in jars, all higgledy-piggledy. How Dr. Hester found anything she couldn't imagine. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 8447f26 | The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 5f0c668 | You should THINK about what's the right thing to do. Not just take someone's word for it" -Grover" | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 85f7ab6 | Love is love, seems to me. As long as what you love isn't armed robbery, or bombing airplanes, or kidnapping little children." -Crystal" | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| d4a4bff | In the second row was a boy named Doon Harrow. He sat with his shoulders hunched, his eyes squeezed shut in concentration, and his hands clasped tightly together. His hair looked rumpled, as if he hadn't combed it for a while. He had dark, thick eyebrows, which made him look serious at the best of times and, when he was anxious or angry, came together to form a straight line across his forehead. His brown corduroy jacket was so old that its.. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 1b400c1 | How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!" Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he said. "Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse." | predators predatory-and-prey prey | Jeanne DuPrau | |
| 1f04006 | Full to the brim with hope and love and joy, she watched the little light bulb shining like a promise in the night. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 276f402 | Nickie didn't like listening to him because his voice always sounded too smooth. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 1f0ff0b | clearly not all these people who said that God spoke to them heard the same thing. All the fighting nations said God was on their side. How could God be on everyone's side? | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| ee3cc57 | The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is. | control | Jeanne DuPrau | |
| c4eacc6 | Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. Anger is. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 8aba98c | Sure", he said. He started moving the bits around. "Lets see. This looks like it must say . . . and so then this would go here . . . and this . . . " He paused and looked up at her. "Haven't we done this before?" | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| d710bf9 | But that was what made things so exciting--nothing was ever how you expected it to be. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 631af41 | People in Ember rarely threw anything away. They made the best possible use of what they had. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 2aca631 | she loved exploring every nook and cranny | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 4bb8e30 | Well, everyone and their grandmother knows she's still banging Charles after all these years --" "Like a screen in a tornado. Sure." | Marisha Pessl | ||
| ffc5ee3 | When she opened up that closet and found you cowering in the corner, what did she do? You're still alive, aren't you? You're still wearing that sacrilegious getup. What did Ashley do that you were so fucking afraid of?' Villarde only lowered his head. 'You can't even say it, can you?' Villarde opened his mouth, but no sound came out. Then he gasped, a bizarre gagging sound that prompted disgust to flood through me. He was, without doubt, on.. | you-never-can-tell | Marisha Pessl | |
| 762b698 | The store was empty, without a single customer or employee. It appeared in the Internet age, pianos, like physical books, were fast becoming culturally extinct. They'd probably stay that way unless Apple invented the iPiano, which fit inside your pocket and could be mastered via text message. With the iPiano, anyone can be an iMozart. Then, you could compose your own iRequiem for your own iFuneral attended by millions of your iFriends who i.. | ipiano marish-pessl | Marisha Pessl | |
| 3762cd8 | It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 872a62e | Oh? Now tell me your gut reaction to the following words. Colonial. Dellahay. Wood. Patio. Five Pieces. Sun resistant, wind resistant, Judgment Day resistant. Amazing value at just $299. And consider the Dellahay motto neatly inscribed on their cute little tags: 'Patio furniture isn't furniture. It's a state of mind.' " Dad smiled, putting his arm around me as he pushed me gently toward Garden. "I'll give you ten thousand dollars if you can.. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 3a386c9 | A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| f6211c0 | It's a terrible thing, to lie. It's a field you keep seeding and watering and plowing, but nothing will ever grow on it. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| ce36252 | My mind was spinning from the symmetry of this equation I suddenly faced: magical on one side, scientific on the other, a dark pulsing myth and an acceptable reality.... The explanations were like two sides of the same coin, and the side that I favored revealed something essential about the person I was. Prior to investigating Ashley, with little hesitation I'd have believed the side most others would, the side that was logical, rational, e.. | truth two-sides | Marisha Pessl |