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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c897de5 | it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start. | John Boyne | ||
| d08d9ca | Berlin, | John Boyne | ||
| e4fe175 | I never really noticed it any more, in the way that one often ignores familiar things, like seat cushions or loved ones. | John Boyne | ||
| 466b57e | But there was something about the new house that made Bruno think that no one ever laughed there; that there was nothing to laugh at and nothing to be happy about. | John Boyne | ||
| 63755e0 | The people are behind him for now. He has infected them with his hatred. He demands absolute loyalty, and when anyone dares to criticize him, they lose their position. I think he will lead a great army, but what will be the result? | John Boyne | ||
| 3cb7971 | He put his face to the glass and saw what was out there, and this time when his eyes opened wide and his mouth made the shape of an O, his hands stayed by his sides because something made him feel very cold and unsafe. | John Boyne | ||
| e1cd7b1 | You have many years ahead of you to come to terms with your complicity in these matters. Just don't ever tell yourself that you didn't know." She released him now from her grip. "That would be the worst crime of all." | John Boyne | ||
| 0b3f781 | Something must be done. Not just for him but for all the Pierrots out there. The Fuhrer will destroy the whole country if he's not stopped. The whole of Europe. He says that he is illuminating the minds of the German people--but no, he is the darkness at the center of the world. | John Boyne | ||
| 05fbde5 | if you ask me we are all in the same boat and it's leaking | John Boyne | ||
| 8531e76 | Is it really that easy for the innocent to be corrupted? | John Boyne | ||
| c902ab7 | irritated by the fact that the rules that always applied to children never seemed to apply to grown-ups at all (despite the fact that they were the ones who enforced them). | John Boyne | ||
| d8be2a8 | his head and said that he didn't want to talk about it. Bruno assumed that there were bullies all over the world, not just in schools in Berlin, and that one of them had done this to Shmuel. He felt an urge to help his friend but he couldn't think of anything he could do to make it better, and he could tell that Shmuel wanted to pretend it had never happened. Every day Bruno asked Shmuel whether he would be allowed to crawl underneath the w.. | John Boyne | ||
| 215cb4f | When you sit down with a book, you are separating yourself out of your world for a few hours and getting lost in the story. | John Boyne | ||
| bfbc7b0 | all - were wearing the same clothes as each other: a pair of grey striped pyjamas with a grey striped cap on their heads. | John Boyne | ||
| 0adf3d1 | I had told the truth, or a version of it, anyway. | John Boyne | ||
| d7d70fd | It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery. | failure-of-imagination rationality | Zoë Heller | |
| 8549324 | One pretends that manners are the formalisation of basic kindness and consideration, but a great deal of the time they're simply aesthetics dressed up as moral principles, aren't they? | Zoë Heller | ||
| 8bba928 | In other words, I am the Brunette Who Keeps Her Head. | Jane Heller | ||
| 2d84f55 | what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most | Jane Heller | ||
| c0c13f9 | Millennia of servitude, Abhorsen. Chained by trickery, treachery... captivenin a repulsive, fixed-flesh shape...but there will be payment, slow payment --not quick, not quick at all! | Garth Nix | ||
| 34f069d | continue to love each other, something I discover is not an automatic state but must be worked at, like an ever-changing tactical problem, though I would never describe it that way to my beloved | love | Garth Nix | |
| 7bf4f68 | Some were Charter Mages, and there would not be time to argue rights and wrongs, so any aggressive magic he used would be countered or negated by these others, as was the nature of Charter Magic. | Garth Nix | ||
| ea3229a | It was like someone far away calling someone else's name. | magic sense | Garth Nix | |
| 32a72ff | It's a long way back. she said softly. Nick shrugged and held her hand tighter. Not so far as we've come already. | Garth Nix | ||
| dee2a66 | Devoid of life, it was also devoid of the Dead. | Garth Nix | ||
| 537035d | Every Clayr is given the gift to See some portent of her death, though not the death itself, for no human could bear that weight. Almost twenty years ago I Saw myself and your little dog, and in time I realized that this was the vision that foretold my final days. | Garth Nix | ||
| 024a6ba | your librarians go into battle?" "When they must," said Lirael. "The Library is very old, and deep, and contains many things that have been put away for good reason. Creatures, dangerous knowledge, artifacts made not wisely, but too well . . . books that should not be opened without proper preparation, some books that should never be opened at all." "Creatures?" | Garth Nix | ||
| 4ce58ce | Lirael left in a daze of happiness. She had survived the ordeal. She had been accepted. She was going to be a librarian! | Garth Nix | ||
| a276db4 | Who can I trust?" Arthur blurted out. "Those who wish you well," said the Old One. "Not those who wish to use you well. Be a player, not a pawn" | Garth Nix | ||
| ae77895 | I don't want to be kind of sorcerer, said Anya swiftly. Besides, you wouldn't...you wouldn't love me then, would you? We will always love you, said Tanitha. But you would not know that if you become like the Duke. He has grown too cold form his magic, and has forgotten what it means to love. | Garth Nix | ||
| ac5faf4 | And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.' 'Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny. | garth-nix independance wickedness | Garth Nix | |
| f8c27ee | Nick was watching her, too, she realized, as those thoughts clamored in her mind. But not with puzzlement or enmity. He was just looking, tilting his head on the side, with one eye partly closed. "Pardon me," he said. "I was wondering how you knew Sam. Are you a . . . um . . . a princess? Only, if you're his fiancee or something, I thought I should know. To . . . ah . . . offer my congratulations, as it were. And I don't even know your name.. | Garth Nix | ||
| ed415c7 | Lirael almost apologized, but she held it back. She did feel sorry for Nick. It wasn't his fault he had been chosen by an ancient spirit of evil to be its avatar. She even felt sort of maternal to him. He needed to be tucked in bed and fed willow-bark tea. That thought led to the idle speculation of what he might look like if he were well. He could be quite handsome, Lirael thought, and then instantly banished the notion. He might be an unw.. | Garth Nix | ||
| a87f42f | You are a fierce Librarian, aren't you? | Garth Nix | ||
| fe824cf | You have told yourself that you have found your knight in shining armor, my brother Rick. Isn't that the truth? You met him and he fit the bill, so you have told yourself a wonderful story and, stubborn brat that you are, you have been clinging to it ever since. After all, what could be more appropriate than for Francesca Cahill, reformer extraordinaire, to fall in love with my reform-minded Republican brother? But wait! Being as this is a .. | deadly francesca-cahill | Brenda Joyce | |
| 35601b2 | Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and approaching reality. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 6154787 | Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said. | humor | Miriam Toews | |
| 6311c5a | Mennonites formed themselves in Holland five hundred years ago after a man named Menno Simons became so moved by hearing Anabaptist prisoners singing hymns before being executed by the Spanish Inquisition that he joined their cause and became their leader. Then they started to move all around the world in colonies looking for freedom and isolation and peace and opportunities to sell cheese. Different countries give us shelter if we agree to.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 7995bdc | I understand that if you say a certain word over and over and it begins to make you feel bad then you should goddamn stop saying that word. | Miriam Toews | ||
| db50079 | Wild was the worst thing you could become in a community rigged for compliance. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 270c760 | I was beginning to understand something I couldn't articulate. It was a jazzy feeling in my chest, a fluttering, a kind of buzzing in my brain. Warmth. Life. The circulation of blood. Sanguinity. I don't know. I understood the enormous risk of telling the truth, how the telling could result in every level of hell reigning down on you, your skin scorched to the bone and then bone to ash and then nothing but a lingering odour of shame and dec.. | feeling irma-voth life literature miriam-toews novel | Miriam Toews | |
| 26195a8 | When negative experiences such as having one's house shot at occur in my dad's life he tends to come alive. His confusion lifts. Pieces of life's puzzle fuse into meaning like the continents before that colossal rift. It's entirely logical to him that his house has been shot at and when he's able to spend a minute or two in a world that makes sense he appears almost happy. And when he gets happy he does decisive things like this time he wen.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| ff3c80d | Alcohol, sadness, impulsive, regrettable behavior. Those were his reasons. The staples of discord. I understood. Sometimes he sends me e-mails that are so formal they seem to have been drafted by a phalanx of lawyers and sometimes he sends me e-mails that are sort of a continuation of our conversations over the years, a kind of intimate banter about nothing as though this whole divorce thing is just a game. All the recriminations and apolog.. | Miriam Toews | ||
| aa8508e | He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using. | Miriam Toews |