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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc411f8 | Yes, I have a very small and mostly nerdy fan club. And much to my amazement, it grows a little larger every day. Apparently, these new recruits liked what they saw of my act on YouTube (even though everybody wishes that doofus blocking the camera had a smaller head). | James Patterson | ||
| 92c7436 | The school crossing guard is a zombie?" screams the youngest Smiley. Then she starts crying. "I hugged her once, Mommy! Am I gonna turn into a zombie, too?" "Take it easy, dear," says Aunt Smiley. "It's just a joke. I think. Right, Jamie?" | James Patterson | ||
| 96b2604 | I loved this woman. You can't just turn off that kind of feeling. But I loved a person who didn't exist. I loved someone Diana was pretending to be. Maybe the signs were there, but I refused to see them. Maybe I didn't want to see them. | James Patterson | ||
| 44dca63 | Okay, so how, exactly, did I get into this mess--up onstage at a comedy club, baking like a bag of French fries under a hot spotlight that shows off my sweat stains( including one that sort of looks like Jabba the Hutt), with about a thousand beady eyeballs drilling into me? | James Patterson | ||
| e652f78 | Everything wanting to contribute to my ulcer, Get in line and take a number! | James Patterson | ||
| 29ac354 | And no southern jokes, please. Ick. | James Patterson | ||
| bc8a421 | amour fait les plus grandes douceurs et les plus sensibles infortunes de la vie. | James Patterson | ||
| 4d85f20 | Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library The Island of Dr. Libris Welcome to Wonderland: Home Sweet Motel Welcome to Wonderland: Beach Party Surf Monkey The Haunted Mystery series COAUTHORED WITH JAMES PATTERSON Daniel X: Armageddon Daniel X: Lights Out House of Robots House of Robots: Robots Go Wild! I Funny I Even Funnier I Totally Funniest I Funny TV Jacky Ha-Ha Treasure Hunters Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile Treasure Hunters: Secret.. | Chris Grabenstein | ||
| fdafb4c | It was so cold outside that a lawyer would have his hands in his own pockets. | James Patterson | ||
| 4100620 | Ramona grabbed the book. "It's mine. I told you it was mine!" Then she turned to Beezus and said triumphantly, "You said people didn't buy books at the library and now you just bought one!" | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 0963391 | Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him. "I'm glad we're going steady," he whispered. "So am I." | dating fiction fifteen girl love romance teen | Beverly Cleary | |
| a90600a | Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name | fifteen | Beverly Cleary | |
| 434974c | I know this is probably sort of sudden." The boy hesitated. "But I was wodnering if you would care to go to the movies with me tomorrow night." | fifteen | Beverly Cleary | |
| 323d8de | This morning the sun was shining, so Barry and I mailed my letter to Mr. Henshaw and then walked over to see if there were still any butterflies in the grove. We only saw three or four, so I guess most of them have gone north for the summer. Then we walked down to the little park at Lovers Point and sat on a rock watching sailboats on the bay for a while. When clouds began to blow in we walked back to my house. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| d33c281 | Say, who is this Mr. King?" "What Mr. King?" asked Ramona, walking into his trap. "Nosmo King," | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 2d144ea | If you don't see the book you want on the shelf write it. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 38e7e76 | attention. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 0d3286e | Reality Television is the 'Howard Stern-ation' of all that is bad with our media today | manny-pacheco | Manny Pacheco | |
| ce25b81 | But then you were alone, your body trying to heal itself while your mind went numb. There was a mix of joy and the purest love, couples with real boredom and occasional rage. It got easier as the kids got older, but it never got easy. | J Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 4232306 | Ruby shook her head, but she smiled, a look that said she loved this man, loved the life they had made together. They seemed utterly comfortable with one another, like they knew each other all the way through. | J Courtney Sullivan | ||
| e45481d | It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to hold on to, and without the fear of ever losing it. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 6fb3f64 | Sometimes April worried that she'd been built without some fundamental piece that everyone else had that just let them deal. Even her mother, who got involved in every lefty cause she could, seemed to be able to shake it all off at the end of the day and enjoy life. But the evil in the world, everywhere you looked, was always on April's mind. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| bedf4b7 | And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to imagine how she might come back to life, since nothing good seemed quite real without her there to approve of it. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| a07f4c3 | I exist in two places, here and where you are. --MARGARET ATWOOD, | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 08d9a93 | It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone. | growing-up knowledge life-lessons maturity old-age pain parenthood parenting wisdom | J. Courtney Sullivan | |
| afc1769 | You want your kids to do better than you did," he said. "That's what the American Dream is all about. But it's hard when they outgrow you. It hurts like hell." | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 10b35aa | Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, who hath made me what I am. So, though I may not undo that which I have done, yet I may, with Thy aid, do better hereafter than I have done heretofore. | god remorse repentance sin | Howard Pyle | |
| 94f2e50 | And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortune befall some, whiles others laugh and sing for hope and joy, as though such grievous things as sorrow and death could never happen in the world wherein they live. | misfortune sadness | Howard Pyle | |
| ead816b | You fought in the Great War?" a journalist from The Guardian asked me in a long interview to coincide with the presentation of the prize. "I didn't think it was all that great." I pointed out. "In fact, if memory serves, it was bloody awful." "Yes, of course," said the journalist, laughing uncomfortably. "Only you've never written about it, have you?" "Haven't I?" "Not explicitly, at least." He said, his face taking on an expression of .. | John Boyne | ||
| d9d874e | I said my goodbyes to Madge at the front door and watched her for a few moments as she made her way down the driveway before closing it again. At first I rested my forehead against the woodwork, wondering what I might do next, but as I turned, a hand grabbed me by the neck and threw me across the floor. I hit the wall of the hallway with a scream and felt a body, invisible, rushing towards me. Before it could reach me, however, another pres.. | John Boyne | ||
| 05d7d40 | Did I ever tell you that they nearly cut my dick off?' 'No,' I said, uncertain whether this was something that had really happened or something he was misremembering in his delirium. 'It's true,' he said. 'The night before the Gardai found me. They said that I had a choice. That they'd either pop one of my eyes out or cut my dick off. They told me I could choose which.' 'Jesus,' I said. 'I mean I would have said my eye, of course. Probably .. | John Boyne | ||
| c5d8814 | Hay veces en que le envidio su juventud, pero trato de no pensar mucho en eso. Un anciano no debe tener celos de aquellos que vienen a ocupar su puesto, y recordar el tiempo en que era joven, sano y viril es un acto de masoquismo que no sirve de nada. | John Boyne | ||
| cf74c8c | no man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It's like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you've developed the skill to handle a BMW in rush-hour traffic on a busy Autobahn. | John Boyne | ||
| 4da8af0 | Let's just hope we get to come back here someday when all this is over | John Boyne | ||
| 2555f0c | Insa, in timp ce reflecta astfel, picioarele il dusera pas cu pas din ce in ce mai aproape de punctul din departare, care intre timp devenise o pata, apoi se transforma intr-un strop. Si in curand dupa aceea, stropul deveni o silueta. Dupa care, cand Bruno se apropie si mai mult, vazu ca nu era nici punct, nici pata, nici strop, nici silueta, ci o faptura. De fapt, era un baiat. | John Boyne | ||
| a019ed9 | Here's a tip though', he told me, leaning over and pressing a hand into my shoulder. 'If you want to improve your time, run faster. | John Boyne | ||
| ba33f6b | Actually, they were very strange parents,' I told her. 'Neither of them were what you might call conventional people. And they had an extremely peculiar approach to parenting. Sometimes I felt as if I were little more than a tenant in their house, as if they weren't entirely sure what I was doing there. But they never mistreated me, nor did they ever do anything to hurt me. And perhaps they loved me in their own way. The concept itself migh.. | parents-and-children | John Boyne | |
| 7778b9a | Catherine on her relationship with Kenneth (and a great quote in the wake of International Women's Week - and remember this is written by a male author even if it's put in the mouth of a woman): 'And what did I do, only slip my hand inside his own and say that maybe he should hold my hand instead for a while, and I can see the look on his face even to this day. The shock and the desire. Oh, I loved the power I had over him! The power I coul.. | love men-and-women men-as-weak power sex women-s-strength | John Boyne | |
| 43790a2 | And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead. | immortal living | John Boyne | |
| 61ed4fc | He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs. | John Boyne | ||
| 853f223 | Nao", disse Bruno rapidamente, pois sempre tentava ser honesto e sabia que, se hesitasse mesmo que por um momento, nao teria mais coragem de dizer o que pensava." | John Boyne | ||
| 6e90a36 | Que uno contemple el cielo por la noche no lo convierte en astronomo. | John Boyne | ||
| 3f64934 | Some things are just sitting there, waiting to be discovered. Other things are probably better off left alone' Nine-year-old | John Boyne | ||
| 08a914c | O | John Boyne |