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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3fb97e9 | That day, engrossed together in the fate of the child, he met her mind to mind and fell in love with her, with every grain of his spirit and cell of his body; with the essential finality of death. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 745b293 | To succeed as you want, you have to be precise; you have to have polish; you have to carry polish and precision into everything you do. You have no time to sigh over seigneuries and begrudge other people their gifts. Lack of genius never held anyone back,' said Lymond. 'Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 140cf71 | Leave the rest all to me. You know. O boo de la thing.' 'What?' said Archie, in his turn. 'You know. The thing they say about camels. At the end of the trau ...' 'You mean the thing Mr Crawford says,' said Archie with ungenerous malice. 'Au bout de la trace on trouve toujours ou le chameau ou le proprietaire du chameau.' 'That's it!' said Philippa. 'That's it exactly. Only of course,' she said cheerfully, 'Mr Crawford says it in French. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 313889b | Come, my love,' said Mikal, 'and say goodnight to the dark.' And held him close, full of a sweet young compassion, as the little boy died. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| af895b9 | Lucent and delicate, Drama entered, mincing like a cat. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| ca5bac9 | Au bout de la piste on trouve toujours ou le chameau ou le proprietaire du chameau . . . | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| e23e372 | Will he?" said Lymond. "Will you, Marigold?" Brilliant, youthful face confronted restless one. A little, malicious smile crossed the Master's face. "Oh, no, he won't," said Lymond confidently. "He's going to be a naughty, naughty rogue like you and me." -- | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 3af4759 | So this was Richard's brother. Every line of him spoke, palimpsest-wise, with two voices. The clothes, black and rich, were vaguely slovenly; the skin sun-glazed and cracked; the fine eyes slackly lidded; the mouth insolent and self-indulgent. He returned the scrutiny without rancour. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 5efdd8b | If you're the first of November, you're Scorpio. 'Better,' said Lymond coldly, 'to be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose. | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 4b687ce | The opposite of love is evil. | Peter Straub A Dark Matter | ||
| 810d974 | As Lily Cavenaugh says in The Talisman (and it was Peter Straub's line, not mine), "You can never be too thin or too rich." And if you don't believe it, you were never really fat or really poor." | Stephen King | ||
| 9c173ac | It's a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it. | Peter Straub | ||
| 5182a54 | She had been like a roller coaster aficionado for whom tame county fair roller coasters were as good as the ones that spun you upside down and dropped you so fast your eyes turned red. It was all just a ride. | Peter Straub | ||
| 725a553 | You know how when a woman gets angry, really angry, she can reach way back into herself and find rage enough to blow any man to pieces | Peter Straub | ||
| 30d91d9 | whatever his circumstances and surroundings, it was only a dead imagination that could call him a failure. | Peter Straub | ||
| 7c6334d | Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night. | mystery peter-straub | Peter Straub | |
| 3c8b7b5 | Every night he comes thudding out of sleep drenched in sweat and staring into the dark. Something huge and scaly is twisting away into nothingness. There you are again, he thinks. There you are, old friend. | Peter Straub | ||
| 167f996 | I know this doesn't make sense, but if we ever did this before, exactly this, with you sitting over there and me here, in this same room, well, wasn't the food even better? I mean, a lot better? | Peter Straub | ||
| 6ac4e07 | Privilege encased them, surrounded them like armor. In the cast of their faces was the assumption that they would never have to take anything very seriously. For the first time in my life I saw the truth in the old proposition that the rich were better-looking. | Peter Straub | ||
| 60ad5fd | Sometimes, it seems like sighted people can hardly see anything. | Peter Straub | ||
| 51d52d9 | Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace. | Michael J. Gelb | ||
| b00b709 | In the cool weak light the nightflames all had died, and the silent streets echoed death and desolation. Worlorn's day. Yet it was twilight. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 488adc7 | The battle proved a victory--at least in part--and soon after, his grandfather finally died, and Ser Elmo became Lord of Riverrun. But he did not long enjoy his station; he died on the march forty-nine days later, leaving his young son, Ser Kermit, to succeed him. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| b8eb657 | I wait with sullen resignation," said Tuf, unmoving." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 29cf718 | When I don't fancy a man's eyes, I put an arrow through one. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 0736b3d | She's old, is Granny Weather, he says, and cranky, too, but there's more magic in one of her toenails than most of us will find in a lifetime. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 949859f | understanding that, for all that they knew so little of each other, there was something deep inside each of them that saw a kindred spirit in the other. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 31316ae | One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 8497a59 | We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 2a9f756 | Yes, no. I don't know. It's all so confusing. I'm just a kid." Abuelo smiled. "You kept saying that while you told me your story, but what does it mean?" "That I'm too young to have to be making decisions like this." "You're never too young to do the right thing," Abuelo said." | Charles de Lint | ||
| 5acca97 | Nothing's free in this world," Zeffy told her, "except leftovers and friendship, and even friendship costs. The difference is, usually we don't mind paying the coin it requires." | Charles de Lint | ||
| 206ed90 | The past scampers like an alleycat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter--here ink is smeared on a page, there lies an old photograph with a chewed corner, elsewhere still, a nest has been made of old newspapers, the headlines running one into the other to make strange declarations. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 5195b77 | I don't know," Kerry said. "It doesn't feel like any medicine I ever took before." She raised a hand to her forehead. "It really does feel like a light, shining inside me. How did you put it there?" Maida laughed. "You're so funny! I didn't put it there. Nobody can do that--not even Raven." "But--" "It was always there. I just made it a little brighter so that you could find it." -- | Charles de Lint | ||
| 16aaeab | What Jilly liked best about him was his theory of consensual reality, the idea that things exist because we agree that they exist. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 5fa11c9 | Maybe there's something you can learn from being a cat instead of a little girl." "What" | Charles de Lint | ||
| 0bc5504 | There are three great taboos in textbook publishing," an editor at one of the biggest houses told me, "sex, religion, and social class." While I had been able to guess the first two, the third floored me. Sociologists know the importance of social class, after all. Reviewing American history textbooks convinced me that this editor was right, however. The notion that opportunity might be unequal in America, that not everyone has "the power t.. | James W. Loewen | ||
| b346837 | As Benjamin Franklin put it, "No European who has tasted Savage Life can afterwards bear to live in our societies."48" | James W. Loewen | ||
| 4a5e47a | The duty of the historian," Gordon Craig has reminded us, "is to restore to the past the options it once had." Craig also pointed out that this is an appropriate way to teach history and to make it memorable." | James W. Loewen | ||
| 62f98d7 | Old myths never die--they just become embedded in the textbooks. --THOMAS BAILEY | James W. Loewen | ||
| e530e0e | One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only remember that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses i.. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 9892141 | History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. --MAYA ANGELOU1 | James W. Loewen | ||
| bab36c3 | It is not too much to say that the blacks in Georgia and the Carolinas made Sherman's march possible. Their help meant that Sherman's forces would not be traveling through hostile territory without supply lines. Rather, the soldiers were more like a huge guerilla force in friendly territory. | James W. Loewen | ||
| bfcdf72 | This is a story of eternal love, which is born among the ices but which is soon mixed with dreams of death and of a new dawn. The first heroes were those who surrendered themselves to the holocaust of love. As they died, they caught a last glimpse of the City of Dawn and felt for the last time the milky lightning of the moon. | eternal-love jung lightning love miguel-serrano moon | Miguel Serrano | |
| cc25a9f | I don't remember well, and in fact I know nothing absolutely nothing at all, about the women I have loved.' Papan answered: That simply means that you have never loved. You simply have no idea of love as an absolute concept. Loving is knowing. It is also like a crime since it involves death, burial, and resurrection. Love is something very serious. Today it is completely forgotten. Love in fact is a strange and secret chemistry, in which th.. | Miguel Serrano |