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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9593731 | The parishioners looked dazed, but happy. The only thing good Catholics love more than God is a short service. Keep your organ music, your choir, keep your incense and processionals. Give us a priest with one eye on the Bible and the other on the clock, and we'll pack the place like it's a turkey raffle the week before Thanksgiving. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f56fa2c | He thought: so this is what it feels like to love. No logic to it - he barely knew her. But there it was just the same. He'd just met the woman he'd known, somehow, since before he was born. The measure of every dream he'd never dared indulge. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| edd37ff | She was guilty, after all, of success, a success that stemmed from birthright and privilege. She took hope for granted, saw opportunity as her due, and had never really had to worry about vanishing into a sea of unseen faces and unseen voices. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| cddae63 | God loves violence. You understand that, don't you?" "No," Teddy said, "I don't." The warden walked a few steps forward and turned to face Teddy. "Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It comes out of us. It is what we do more naturally than we breathe. We wage war. We burn sacrifices. We pillage and tear at the flesh of our brothers. We fill great fields with our stinking dead. And why? To show Him that we've learned from His .. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| c35410f | Civilization seems to be something we choose when it fits our purpose. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 25c1661 | Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him. | alcohol darkness death depression heartache lonely loss mourning sad suicidal-ideation | Dennis Lehane | |
| 982ddf2 | One that society can't forgive, but I can. | compassion confess forgivable friendship grace healing heartache kindness life love surrender truth unforgiven | Dennis Lehane | |
| 1928a16 | Chuck said, "Fuck if I know." Cawley stepped up beside them. "Quite similar to our clinical conclusion." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 468dd27 | Maybe I'd move to Tibet, climb a mountain with the Dalai Lama or head to Paris and wear nothing but black, grow myself a keen goatee and talk about jazz all the time. Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5e42558 | It's a lot easier to ask a woman's forgiveness than her permission. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 13e1431 | If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 921113e | membership consisted solely of sitting around and grousing about how much things had changed for the worse. All they could talk about was the good old days--how much better things had been before the coloreds ruined everything. What they didn't acknowledge was that the things that made it bad for them made it better for everyone else. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| e5f76a5 | Yeah?" "I miss the way you taste." She tried to sound bored. "It's still Colgate." "That's not the taste I was talking about." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 874debe | Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren't lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 9331dc1 | Age is a cruel punishment for youth. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 64df033 | And now, when she looked in the mirror and saw a new line on her own face,a new wrinkle, all she could think was that she was growing old without him | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 73efb54 | It's the truth. I'm sorry to be blunt about it, but girls don't like guys who are doormats. Especially pretty girls, because there's no novelty to it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They can't walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And the women smile because it's easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 9cbe437 | All the sneakiness her sister had exhibited as a child had been honed to adult perfection, so that Claire could be standing right in front of an oncoming train and still insist that everything was going to be fine. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 39bf9ec | Clair watched the young man pour Paul's Scotch with a previously unseen professionalism. Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 78a1513 | Since this wedding that never happened is my fantasy, that boy is clean-shaven on your special day, hair combed neatly, slightly nervous as he stands by the preacher, looking at you the way I always wanted a man to look at you: kind, loving, slightly in awe | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 8b0134f | I must confess, sweetheart, that I have been neglecting my wall of clues. My "useless gallimaufry," your mother called it on the one and only occasion she deigned to look at my work. I sagely agreed with her observation but of course I went running to the dictionary as soon as she was gone. Gallimaufry: a hodgepodge; a confused jumble of various people or things; any absurd medley." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f4a605c | The spiral stairs looked like a robot's asshole. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 4e87193 | women with a little bit of power can be much harder than men. Especially on other women. They have to distance themselves from the weakness of their sex. Yes? | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 7ce7e69 | all the pickup-driving John Boys who drove down to Atlanta every day to make money, then drove back at night and railed against the godless liberals who lined their pockets and subsidized their utilities, their healthcare, their children's lunches and their schools. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 8b5489a | As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 35bf516 | Tessa reached out and took her hand. "Can I tell you something?" "As long as it's not advice on chasing after a married man." She squeezed Sara's hand. "I'm really in love with my husband." Sara gave a careful "Okay." "I know you think Lem is boring and too earnest and too self-righteous, and believe me, he can be all those things, but a thousand times a day, I hear a song, or I think of something funny, or Daddy says one of his stupid puns.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 45dc8de | The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 018011b | A few years ago when she'd read Paul several passages from Fifty Shades of Grey, they'd both giggled like teenagers. "The biggest fantasy in that book," Paul had said, "is that he changes in the end." | Karin Slaughter | ||
| ef1286c | Jeffrey never understood how people could think a dead person was just sleeping. Death changed the air, charged it with something thick and unsettling. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| dba5793 | Dogs are stupid," Rusty said. "This is a known fact. But a cat--you have to earn a cat's respect every single day of your life. You lose it and--" He snapped his fingers. "That's what your mama was to me. She was my cat. She kept my compass pointing true north." -- | Karin Slaughter | ||
| 56fd58b | Violence never worked in the service of women. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| c062bee | Only...ever...you. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| bfe3c3f | People were outraged. They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. They demanded action. And then they went back to their lives until the next one happened again. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| fa009cd | Jeffrey felt too blindsided | Karin Slaughter | ||
| c394e30 | The address label wouldn't come off so I put the ripped electric bill back in its stack by the phone. On top of all the other bills, all the papers that ran the house invisibly | Aimee Bender | ||
| 4c3eb40 | That's editing, if I may say so. Choosing the shot. It's telling us everything. It's telling us things we don't even know it's telling us. It's not just telling us what these characters think, it's telling us what we think. It's manipulative as hell, there's no getting around it, but then all movies are manipulative. When people complain about a picture that's 'manipulative,' what they really mean is it's not very good at its manipulations,.. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 5dcb750 | He had thrilled to his own power only in the throes of sex, when he didn't have the presence of mind to know that pleasure wouldn't last forever, and in the flush of freedom, when he was too innocent to know he wasn't free. Now he seized the power that came from that collision of sex with freedom called love. | Steve Erickson | ||
| 2f57ae0 | Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting. | stranger unfamiliar | Robert Ludlum | |
| f35e8d3 | When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying. | dying kill old-men | Robert Ludlum | |
| 22ec845 | he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 064d25d | You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke." | identity pain pensiveness violence | Robert Ludlum | |
| c513a0d | It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 6a30614 | all the others knew that he had a mind, knew that he was capable of understanding ideas. What will new people think when they see me? They'll see a body that's already atrophying, hunched over; they'll see me walk with a shuffling gait; they'll watch me use my hands like paws, clutching a spoon like a three-year-old; they'll hear my thick, half-intelligible speech; and they'll assume, they'll know, that such a person cannot possibly underst.. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| fa0083e | In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart. "Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?" No one had an answer for him, either yes or no." | achilles-de-flandres bean card ender orson orson-scott-card peter shadow wiggin | Orson Scott Card |