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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 938e924 | Whatever happens, I'm glad we ate that bleeping lizard. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| d4a3f11 | Still the congenitally clueless--tourists and locals alike--continue to flop into the Gulf and mess with these phenomenal creatures, dooming them to a future of begging, sloth, and worse. A dolphin that swims close enough to take a treat from your fingers is also close enough to be stabbed by a scumbag with a screwdriver. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 5f228a0 | The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 6e8807a | No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| d25ee8c | He considered telling her about his years as a big-time smuggler, but he doubted it would improve his odds of getting laid. Once upon a time, sure, absolutely--but hers was a generation that grew up on homegrown or Humboldt and thought Panama Red was a merlot. Gaspers suspected the young bartender would have been more impressed to meet a guy who worked for Apple, or maybe a professional skateboarder. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 85a1c9b | The man's a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would've been an easy snack for a saber-toothed tiger. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 44c73f2 | Cleveland, Ohio, | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| 4e2a5cf | Simultaneously a frantic, high-tech juggernaut and a timeless Asian dream, Bangkok straddles like no other metropolis the boundary between acrid and sweet, soft and hard, sacred and profane. It's a silk buzz saw, a lacquered jackhammer, a steel-belted seduction, a digital prayer. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 195b233 | Sana bu aski anlatamam; yirmi alti veya otuz alti yasina gelsen de anlatamam. Akla mantiga sigmayan bir sey oldugu icin insana cok cekici geliyor zaten. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ddf10ee | I risk a glance, and St. Clair stares back. Deeply. He has not looked at me like this before. I turn away first then feel him turn a few beats later. I know he us smiling, and my heart races. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 550d20c | Josh: Don't do this to us. I think you're afraid. I don't know why - I don't know what I could've said or done to make you distrust me - but for once in your life, Isla, take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are. I know who you are, and I love who you are. Why don't you trust me? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 40aaefb | I hate that it sounds like a punishment. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1348f10 | Toph kicks over the microphone stand in a grand, asshole gesture, and the three of them jump off the stage. It's a little less dramatic when they have to come right back to take apart their stuff before the next band comes on. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 245697a | But, for me, yes. I have to be with Anna. But this is something you have to figure out on your own. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| b77d02f | Es posible que mi casa sea una persona y no un lugar? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| af0e5a5 | Anna: What are you doing here? Etienne: I came for you. Anna: And how on EARTH did you know I was up here? Etienne: I saw you. I came to make another wish, and I was standing on Point Zero when I saw you enter the tower. I called your name, and you looked around, but you didn't see me. Anna: So you decided to just ... come up? Etienne: I had to. I couldn't wait for you to come down, I couldn't wait any longer. I had to see you now. I have t.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 9ddb79d | Not always getting what you want, but sometimes getting what you need. | christmas first-kiss holiday life love my-true-love-gave-to-me winter | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 2432918 | I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| dce2077 | So why did he do it?" Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love." | lola-and-the-boy-next-door lola-nolan love mistakes romance | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 16dccdc | And I want to press my palm against his chest to feel it beat, to prove he's really there. But we cannot touch. | lola-nolan ya-contemporary ya-contemporary-romance | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 179a30b | I need you to be my person," Mags said. "I need to see you. And hear you. I need you to stay alive. And I need you to stop kissing other people just because they're standing next to you when the ball drops." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6480b6b | Part 3 Anna: St. Clair... Etienne: And that. Why don't you call me Etienne any more? Anna: But ... no one else calls you that. It was weird. Right? Etienne: No. It wasn't And every time you say St. Clair, it's like you're rejecting me again. Anna: I have never rejected you. Etienne: But you have. And for Dave. Anna: And you rejected me for Ellie on my birhtday. I don't understand. If you liked me so much, why didn't you break up with her? E.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 38c9be7 | If you like someone, you should have to make an effort. | christmas first-kiss holiday life love my-true-love-gave-to-me winter | Stephanie Perkins | |
| bca5672 | I need you to be my person, | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 257be4a | He stayed with her for so long because he liked the idea of being in love. He has an empty well in his heart that needs to be filled by someone. Anyone. But that's not enough for me, and it won't be enough for him either once he finally realizes the truth. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d47f395 | I don't want to feel this way around him. I want things to be normal. I want to be his friend, not another girl holding out for something that will never happen. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e0fbb0c | To be good at anything you have to practice. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6d6d92f | The room is full of adult Honeywells talking about the things that Honeywells always talk about, which is to say everything, horses and houses and God and grouting, tanning salons and--of course--theater. Always theater. Honeywells like to talk. When Honeywells have no lines to speak, they improvise. All the world's a stage. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d8d1793 | I slowly, slowly remove it. "No, I don't love Max anymore. But I don't want to give you this broken, empty me. I want you to have me when I'm full, when I can give something back to you. I don't have much to give right now." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d1d3883 | Lola: Do you think things have to be easy? For it to work? Cricket: NO. I mean, yes, but... sometimes there are... extenuating circumstances. That prevent it from being easy. For a while. But then people overcome those... circumstances... and... Lola: So you believe in second chances? Cricket: Second, third, fourth. Whatever it takes. However long it takes. If the person is right. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 070f2cc | I pick a fight. I am cruel. I annihilate him. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 9fd51dd | Any girl faced with daily attention from a gorgeous boy with a cute accent and perfect hair would be hard-pressed not to develop a big,stinking, painful,all-the-time,all consuming crush. Not that that's what's happening to me. Like I said.It's a relief to know it won't happen. It makes things easier. Most girls laugh too hard at his jokes and find excuses to gently press his arm. To touch him.Instead,I argue and roll my eyes and act indiffe.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| cddb153 | I feel it coming, but I can't stop it. PANIC. They left me.My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE! Meanwhile, Paris is oddly silent.Even the opera singer has packed it in for the night. I lose it.The walls here are thinner than Band-Aids, so if I break down, my neighbors-my new classmates-will hear everything. I'm going to be sick.I'm going to vomit that weird eggplant tapenade I had for dinner, and everyone will hear,and no one will invi.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ce419f8 | But Matt's the only guy I've ever gone out with,and he barely counts.I once told him I'd dated this guy named Stuart Thistleback at summer camp. Stuart Thistleback had auburn hair and played the stand-up bass, and we were totally in love,but he lived in Chattanooga and we didn't have our driver's licenses yet. Matt knew I made it up,but he was too nice to say so. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 0167610 | I smile as I leave them, wondering what building my dad would try to save with his writing.Probably a baseball stadium. Or a Burger King. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| f818690 | No creo en la moda. creo en los disfraces. la vida es demasiado corta para ser la misma persona dia tras dia. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e3a68af | Are you gonna say what's on your mind, or are you gonna make me guess? Because I'm not good at guessing games. People should say what they mean to say and not make other people stumble around. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1ee3893 | Things are not always how they seem. | christmas first-kiss holiday life love my-true-love-gave-to-me winter | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 2c5473f | ''You know what's the strangest thing about tonight? Tonight, being an astoundingly strange night?'' ''What's that?'' ''That you still don't realize I'm willing to do anything, anything-he gestured in a full circle around them- ''to stay in your company...'' | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| ae10fb5 | In the history of terrible holidays, this ranks as the worst ever. Worse than the Fourth of July when Granddad showed up to see the fireworks in a kilt and insisted on singing "Flower of Scotland" instead of "America the Beautiful." Worse than the Halloween when Trudy Sherman and I both went to school dressed as Glinda the Good Witch,and she told everyone her costume was better than mine,because you could see my purple "Monday" panties thro.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d0fa07f | Son nuestras imperfecciones las que nos hacen perfectos para otra persona. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6888f78 | The pressure is on. They've teased me all week, because I've avoided anything that requires ordering. I've made excuses (I'm allergic to beef," "Nothing tastes better than bread," Ravioli is overrated"), but I can't avoid it forever.Monsieur Boutin is working the counter again. I grab a tray and take a deep breath. " , uh...soup? " "Hello" and "please." I've learned the polite words first, in hopes that the French will forgive me for butch.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 4c35b2c | The translator, no matter how true he thinks he's staying to the text, still brings his own life experiences and opinions to the decisions he makes. Maybe not consciously, but every time a choice is made between one meaning of a word or another, the translator determines which one to use based on what he believes is correct, based on his own personal history with the subject. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1b3be82 | Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys.They can say anything to me,and it'll be sexy." "You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. " 'Oh,do me, Marco!" "I wonder if Marco will like football?" Mer asked dreamily." | Stephanie Perkins |