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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1690b35 | This is why we fight. To have our voices heard and to let everyone know we won't be taken lightly. They don't know who they're messing with. They want a war? Bring it. Because we are going to be fierce and fabulous, and they'll never see us coming. | T.J. Klune | ||
| f2f0aba | I sit here, day after day, waiting for release. Waiting for death. Because I know when my heart no longer beats, my beloved will be waiting for me, and we will howl together in the stars. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 4a58e26 | No cussing!" I admonished him. "You're a godsdamned knight, for fuck's sake. Act like one!" | T.J. Klune | ||
| dad6fbf | MARK REFUSED to leave my side. On the nights when I couldn't stand the sight of another person, he would stay outside my door. Sometimes I would let him in. He would motion for me to turn around, facing away from him. I did. On those nights, the hard ones, I would hear the rustle of clothes being discarded. The snap and groan of muscle and bone. He would nuzzle my hand when I could turn back around. I would climb into bed, and he would jump.. | T.J. Klune | ||
| ab1d769 | It's a nice dick," Bambi said. "Oh my god, would you please not stare at my alfa's junk?" "He's pretty good with it too," Jessie said. Joe growled at both of them as he followed his mate. Bambi laughed as Jessie flipped him off." | T.J. Klune | ||
| 489b729 | I should have known it was going to go downhill from there. "Now, I understand you're looking to be dominated," Sir said. Justin squeaked. "Uhh," I said. "I don't think that's quite what I--" "Did I say you could speak, boy?" Sir asked sharply. "No, Sir. Sorry, Sir." He waited a beat, as if making sure I wouldn't step out of line again. I didn't, because I didn't want to get fisted or have something shoved up my pee hole. "Now. We should pr.. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 72618a4 | Heyyy," I said with a wave. "What. Is. ." " , he says," Gary snapped, flipping his mane prettily. "Can you believe this? You raise a child most of his life, watch him go through years of puberty to become a reasonably attractive man, only to find him negotiating kink contracts with a leather Dom and saying ." He sniffled. "I've never been more proud of anything in my life." Tiggy frowned. "Sam a pain slut?" "I highly doubt that, kitten... | T.J. Klune | ||
| 87a479a | My path may have been set in stone, but stone crumbles, and sometimes we have to forge our own way through. | T.J. Klune | ||
| 3cad16e | A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 78982c9 | Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. It is not your system or clear sight that mills Down small to the consequence a life requires; Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. They bled an old dog dry yet the exchange rills Of young dog blood gave but a month's desires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. It is the Chinese .. | William Empson | ||
| be09a3d | The Teasers Not but they die, the teasers and the dreams, Not but they die, and tell the careful flood To give them what they clamour for and why. You could not fancy where they rip to blood You could not fancy nor that mud I have heard speak that will not cake or dry. Our claims to act appear so small to these Our claims to act colder lunacies That cheat the love, the moment, the small fact. Make no escape because they flash and die, Ma.. | William Empson | ||
| ecaaab7 | Well your full of cow pies up to your ears! I don't give way on the orders of rabble, or bow to Devall's uppity marshal. He can stuff his gold braid! Yes, up his tight arse where it will hurt the most, for all that I care for his posturing! These wagons will pass. Afterwards, you can shoot all the crossbolts you like, and ram yourselves straight to oblivion! | Janny Wurts | ||
| cb95344 | The ancients wrote about and celebrated key elements of deep play, coining names for some of its moods. Because of them, for example, we know its "rapture" or its "ecstasy," and those words I too have used on the many occasions when I've felt deep play. Rapture and ecstasy are not themselves deep play, but they're central components of it. Rapture means, literally, being "seized by force," as if one were a prey animal who is carried away. C.. | Diane Ackerman | ||
| 574a443 | I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter. "Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company." | Janny Wurts | ||
| 38d708b | There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving. | Janny Wurts | ||
| fecc49d | The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool. | Janny Wurts | ||
| c2516be | You don't have to like a man to respect him. | Janny Wurts | ||
| fbb9445 | Because you've survived, there is a next strategy. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 44dbc11 | I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource. | Janny Wurts | ||
| ee03a32 | Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 9a5ddd1 | There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 1157e89 | Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances. | Janny Wurts | ||
| d3d1af4 | Did they want what I wanted? Did they want to understand, to unlock it? To decode it? To glean, to touch, to learn, to get something, to proceed, to get somewhere, to graduate, to work, to thrive; to someday, sometime, finally earn the luxury, the permission to ... stop, to stop all of this, to relax, and forget? | life work | Chip Kidd | |
| 8e16935 | We are the Western World. We read, see, think. Left. To. Right. We can't help it. ..The problem with Top to Bottom is that it's unAmerican. We want to begin in the depths and climb our way upward. But our typographic system argues against this and wins, and images follow suit. | Chip Kidd | ||
| 902a329 | photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence -- once they became an option -- they mutated . . . into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born. | drawing painting photography | Chip Kidd | |
| ded2e57 | I've been drawing shoes,' said Sketch, evoking a fireman who's been searching the smoking hulks of scorched buildings for burn victims, 'and it's been going feetingly. | Chip Kidd | ||
| 34af4e4 | Pyne: I guess your long hair makes you a girl. Zappa: I guess your wooden leg makes you a table. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| f09666f | For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird. | labyrinth mabinogion welsh wisdom | Evangeline Walton | |
| e02849f | It isn't brave to do something you're not afraid to do. | fear | Evangeline Walton | |
| 2f34910 | Five actors playing allotted parts on a set stage; and now he, for whom no part had been written, had walked onto the stage unexpectedly, because one of the players had turned rebel, as she had once before. He threw everything out of focus, and them into a fever. The heat and intensity of these flying questions was enough to make a man with even partially trained clairvoyant faculties feel as if he sat in a room filled with flashing firefli.. | evil-thoughts haunting hauntings | Evangeline Walton | |
| f1dd5ce | Quincy laughed. "If I were Elizabeth I shouldn't thank either of you for that comforting diagnosis. Would it do any good to open Aunt Sarai's grave and drive a stake through her? If you believe in as much sorcery as that, you must regret the days of witch-burners, Carew." Carew said quietly, "No. Witch-burners were barbarous blunderers. If I wanted to suppress a dangerous letter, could I do it by burning the envelope and leaving the letter .. | spiritual-development spiritual-evolution witch witch-hunts witches | Evangeline Walton | |
| 1058899 | The sword was called Kaledvoulc'h, which means hard lightning, though Igraine prefers to call it Excaliber, and I shall call it so as well because Arthur never cared what name his longsword carried. Nor, did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. "What is the egg to the eagle?" he asked me, then said that he had been born, he had lived, an.. | manliness | Bernard Cornwell | |
| 4cf925d | When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed. | feel fight gods man needed | Bernard Cornwell | |
| dbf7da6 | He asked, looking at her dark-rimmed eyes, "You do not sleep?" She shivered. "No. I do not want to sleep any more. I sleep too much already. It is so cold, where Quincy sends me in my sleep. Deep into the house, farther in, not into the house we see. It is as if that house were a face, and when you see a face you can't see the brain or the thoughts of the person behind it. And it is so strange - the house inside the house." ******** "How is.. | nightmare vision | Evangeline Walton | |
| cd45a01 | Death is the one friend who never fails any man. | Evangeline Walton | ||
| 6ef4689 | The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 0217edc | The drop from abundance to scarcity produced a decidedly more positive reaction to the cookies than did constant scarcity. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 7b89325 | In this case, because we know that the things that are difficult to possess are typically better than those that are easy to possess, we can often use an item's availability to help us quickly and correctly decide on its quality. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| ede587d | once we realize that obedience to authority is mostly rewarding, it is easy to allow ourselves the convenience of automatic obedience. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 2551bbd | Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice? | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 2c00aa3 | READER'S REPORT From the Parent of a College Coed Dear Mother and Dad: Since I left for college I have been remiss in writing and I am sorry for my thoughtlessness in not having written before. I will bring you up to date now, but before you read on, please sit down. You are not to read any further unless you are sitting down, okay? Well, then, I am getting along pretty well now. The skull fracture and the concussion I got when I jumped out.. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| f1e9835 | The patrolman's account provides certain insights into the way we respond to social proof. First, we seem to assume that if a lot of people are doing the same thing, they must know something we don't. Especially when we are uncertain, we are willing to place an enormous amount of trust in the collective knowledge of the crowd. Second, quite frequently the crowd is mistaken because they are not acting on the basis of any superior information.. | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 4ae9fd1 | Just as amino acids can be called the building blocks of life, associations can be called the building blocks of thought.49 In | Robert B. Cialdini | ||
| 8e7a290 | The principle of social proof says so: The greater the number of people who find any idea correct, the more the idea will be correct. | Robert B. Cialdini |