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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7f2a79d | She didn't bother taking off her snow-crusted cloak; she came to us quickly, dripping and shivering, her eyes luminous and strained from trying to see beyond the world. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| ea4ad8a | In sixteen years since then, she had changed beyond recognition, and he had not changed by a moment, being the same dispassionate, thin-haired wraith who had picked her up with his bony hands and tucked her into a book bag to add to the acquisitions of the royal library. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| b65a61d | You have a very peculiar expression on your face,' he commented drowsily. 'I was just thinking.' 'About what?' 'About how we know what's real. How we wake out of a timeless place and recognize time. How you know me here, now, even when nothing or anyone else in this place is familiar. I might have been wandering through your dream, but you knew immediately which of me will bring you paper.' He was silent for so long, still clasping her wris.. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| e41d686 | I think they could teach us unimaginable things. Unimaginable! I can't imagine anything except danger. I know. That's why they're afraid of you. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| cd3da5e | She [Kane] and Axis performed the ancient ritual of flinging their toys at one another's heads, and in that moment recognized a common destiny. They became inseparable. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 6f3fcd1 | Explain to me again," he begged," why we are here." She had told him once before; it had been like listening to a vivid, improbable dream." | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 083088d | Oh, yes." He felt the pearls brush down his face again. Dory turned: he met her eyes and let her see the new pearls forming. "Anything that beautiful is terrible. Because it's outside of you. It's not you. You'll do anything to make it part of you. You'd eat it, drown in it, kill it, let it kill you. Anything to stop it from not being you." | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| f25a241 | His face, at once beautiful and feral, revealed no more than the lion's face, which says nothing at all as the lion crouches and waits. It speaks only when it springs. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 032250c | You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely. | freedom-to-love love | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 1ccd756 | if you speak of this I will tear out your voice and top it down the nearest drain | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 96d5645 | He ran from her suddenly, swift and quiet like a mountain cat among the high peeks of Eld mountain. She watched him dive in among the trees, and the autumn winds shoke suddenly at his heels. She sad down on a fallen trunk and dropped her head among the knees. A great soft warmth shiled her from the wind, and she looked up and saw into Gules Lyons quiet, golden eyes. What is it, white one? She knelt suddenly and flung his arms around the gre.. | love magical-stories sorrow | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| b48879d | Power does not willingly give up its place to truth. | Kate Horsley | ||
| 8bee181 | Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it. | overwhelm wisdom | Kate Horsley | |
| 4167e82 | Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose. | life-lessons loneliness wisdom | Kate Horsley | |
| a749e3b | God is in his heaven and he don't care most of the time. The trick of life is to know when God does care and do all you need to do behind his back. | Edward P. Jones | ||
| dc64141 | Traders risk the bank's capital: they literally bet the bank, at least up to their limits. If they win then they get a share of the winnings. If they lose, then the bank picks up the loss. Traders might lose their jobs but the money at risk is not their own, it's all OPM - other people's money. What if the losses threaten the bank's survival? Most banks are now 'too big to fail' and they can count on government support. Regulators are wary .. | Satyajit Das | ||
| 39cd43d | Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment" - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money" | finance modeling modelling | Satyajit Das | |
| 2a271c2 | kucuk mucizeleri kabul ettigimiz zaman kendimizi buyuk mucizeleri hayal edebilecek yeterlilikte hissederiz. bir istiridyenin icinden parlak, canli, lezzetli bir canlinin cikabilecegini kabul ettigimiz anda ayni kabuktan afrodit'in gelecegini de kbul etmisiz demektir. bununla da yetinmeyerek afrodit'in kabugundan busbutun uzaklasacagini, kendine bir studyo daire edinecegini, tipki istiridye gibi onu istegi bicimde donatacagini da dusunebilir.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4f155f0 | Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker. His books | C.J. Box | ||
| c322bd8 | It doesn't matter that something you've done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you. | John McPhee | ||
| 80e7c9f | I'd much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk. | John McPhee | ||
| 382ec23 | Push up some mountains. Cut them down. Drown the land under the sea. Push up some more mountains. Cut them down. Push up a third set of mountains, and let the river cut through them. "Unconformity" is the geologic term for an old, eroded land surface buried under younger rock layers. Put your outspread hand over the Carlin Canyon, Nevada unconformity and your fingers span roughly forty million years- the time that it took to bevel down the .. | erosion evolution geology mountains mystery nature wonder | Keith Meldahl | |
| f9e9b02 | A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled an.. | time | John McPhee | |
| 0b0c303 | Pigeon she strut on the rooftop Cockroach he strut on the sink My baby strut down to Jerusalem Where blood is the favorite drink | Tom Robbins | ||
| c017bf4 | It has been Anita's style as a geologist to begin with an outcrop and address herself to history from there--to begin with what she can touch, and then to reason her way back through time as far as she can go. A river conglomerate, as tangible rock, unarguably presents the river. The river speaks of higher ground. The volume of sediment that the river has carried can imply a range of mountains. To find Precambrian jaspers in the beds of you.. | John McPhee | ||
| 1d596d9 | Just as Rolland and I know that together with our team, God has given us the nation of Mozambique, our dear friends Brian and Pamela Jourden know that the Lord has a great revival to birth in Zimbabwe and across Africa. Many prophetic words have been released over their lives, and financial miracles grow their ministry. When they started Generation Won/Iris Zimbabwe in 2008, Zimbabwe had gone from being one of the most prosperous nations in.. | Heidi Baker | ||
| 1306435 | We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other's garde. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 673fe19 | But this ... creature was none of those things. He was barely distinguishable from an animal. The young man--singlehandedly--seemed intent on increasing the universe's entropy by an order of magnitude. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 6a36f7c | Your outrageous and reckless chaos is the only reason you are able to beat me in any strategy game," Seurat said. "It certainly has nothing to do with your innate skills." | Brian Herbert | ||
| 5fd343a | the tough philosophy of Ginaz taught that there were no accidents, no excuses for failure. Every event was the result of a sequence of actions. Intentions were irrelevant to actual outcomes. | Brian Herbert | ||
| 3cbe2ff | Quite a body count around here today, Fenring mused. And I didn't kill any of them. | Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson | ||
| 5209af6 | Looking closely at de Vries, he added, 'You are a very ugly man, Piter. Even with my disease, I'm still prettier than you. | Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson | ||
| 933d310 | Some people consider facts to be dangerous things that must be locked away and carefully guarded. But I consider mysteries a far greater threat. We should seek answers wherever possible, regardless of the consequences. --GILBERTUS ALBANS, secret Erasmus dialogues | Brian Herbert | ||
| 81e007d | the Baron felt cold inside, certain that even the most careful manipulations would not stand up to the close scrutiny of these demonic auditors. | Brian Herbert | ||
| c021ece | Each of us influences the actions of the people we know. --XAVIER HARKONNEN, | Brian Herbert | ||
| 42de09a | A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition." -- | losers losing vorian-atreides winners winning | Brian Herbert | |
| 36aae62 | The tapestry of the universe is vast and complex, with infinite patterns. While threads of tragedy may form the primary weave, humanity with its undaunted optimism still manages to embroider small designs of happiness and love. | Brian Herbert | ||
| db3ca77 | Anyone who searches for the meaning of life is on a fool's journey. Human life has no redeeming purpose or value. --the cymek GENERAL AGAMEMNON, A Time for Titans | Brian Herbert | ||
| 6d505d2 | Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues. | leadership priorities | Brian Herbert | |
| 42d7936 | We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end, we died in pain, the black stinking mud our shroud, embraced at last not by living arms, but by the bones of those who before us died ... | Charles Todd | ||
| ac1d086 | It's intriguing to speculate how much latent (or blatant) homophobia lay behind that vote. Did the fans decide to kill off Jason Todd so as to redeem Batman for unproblematic heterosexuality? Impossible to say. | Charles Hatfield | ||
| 14641e5 | Love teaches you humility--patience--understanding. | Charles Todd | ||
| a618c39 | The Gates of Eden," as he called it that night, took us furthest out into the realm of the imagination, to a point beyond logic and reason. Like "It's Alright, Ma," the song mentions a book title in its first line, but the song is more reminiscent of the poems of William Blake (and, perhaps, of Blake's disciple Ginsberg) than it is of Tolstoy's War and Peace, vaunting the truth that lies in surreal imagery. After an almost impenetrable firs.. | Sean Wilentz | ||
| 02122ff | They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing their new best-seller. They met because literature was their shared passion. Books were as important to them as breath itself. They shared the ability to immerse themselves in the lives of fictional characters, to argue passionately about the development of plots, about decisions taken, dil.. | literature reading | Gloria Goldreich |