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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c4ac3d3 | The people that count, the good people, will remember your words and your actions, and how you treated them. Over time, that's what forms our impression of beauty or handsomeness, not just the outward appearance. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 108b1f8 | He searched her face for any sign of sarcasm but saw none. Her shoulders were hunched, and her head was down. He'd made his little rose wither. Any blossoming had now been completely undone. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| ee18932 | I have a problem with anger. I have a bad temper. I have trouble controlling it, and when I lose my temper I can be very destructive. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 87bb40d | He kissed her hair. "You deserve far more and far better than me, Beatrice," he whispered. "La gloriosa donna della mia mente. The glorious lady of my mind." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 7af2ea9 | Grace isn't something we deserve, Gabriel," Julia said softly. "It comes from love. And God wraps the world in second chances and sticky little leaves and mercy, even though some people don't want them." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 05976c1 | You thought love was a human emotion. Yet you say you love me." His expression darkened. "I don't simply say I love you--I love you." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| a1ef576 | The universe isn't based on magic--there isn't one set of circumstances for the good and one for the evil. Everyone suffers sometime. The question is what you do with your suffering. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 2b875ba | No te averguences de aceptar un regalo si te lo ofrecen sin contrapartidas. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 86e20db | a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footprints. | Graham Greene | ||
| 7820eaf | Imaginative persons could probably find interesting things to do with handcuffs and a nightstick. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 9e9c9db | Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky. | humor sneaky | Lawrence Block | |
| 54b5043 | When writing functions in this fashion as self-directed psychotherapy, we err if we demand that people be entertained and enlightened by the process. | Lawrence Block | ||
| a84b222 | When someone put money in your hand you closed your fingers around it and put it in your pocket. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 159de89 | He's got a new BMW now, thanks to the Galaxy. He can't spell it, but he can drive it like crazy. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 41103eb | The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on. Nor all your piety and wit Can call it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 481441e | Forcible sodomy and illegal entry, you put them both down and you get a jury confused. They figure it's two ways of saying the same thing. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 24c7066 | Come on in," Elaine said. "She's already here. Pam, this is Mr. Scudder, Matthew Scudder. Matt, I'd like you to meet Pam." | Lawrence Block | ||
| 872120b | WHEN you hit a gay bar in the middle of a weekday afternoon you wonder why they don't call it something else. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 7110a3e | People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 4f975ca | And I won't deny your neighbors will take you more seriously if you tell them you've written a novel. (Of course if that's the main concern, just go and tell them. You don't have to write anything. Just lie a little. Don't worry--they won't beg to read the manuscript.) | Lawrence Block | ||
| 0d699b0 | any departure from reality that could easily be avoided ought to be avoided. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 8339ac1 | You know what I realized?" "What?" "Most of the people I know are dead. I guess that happens" | Lawrence Block | ||
| b9e5aa9 | novels pass in and out of my hands while volumes of poetry are mine for life. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 7137fd3 | It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it. | Lawrence Block | ||
| d5a41be | A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man, | Lawrence Block | ||
| a6f1b43 | I find him whelming, personally. Neither overwhelming nor underwhelming but somewhere in the middle. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 75f7b54 | Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain't no De Mille epic either, boss. Things'll work out, Bernie. | life | Lawrence Block | |
| ab7cd8d | Being broke is not a crime, nor is it proof of one's inadequacy as a writer or as a human being. If you go around with an attitude of implicit apology for being temporarily without funds, it's going to do you more harm than good. | Lawrence Block | ||
| 8b47cbf | A simple intuition, a single observation, can open vistas of unimagined potential. Once caught in the web of an idea, the researcher is happily doomed, for the outcome is always uncertain, and the resolution of the mystery may take years to unfold. Such was the case in my encounter with the magic toads of the Americas. | research | Wade Davis | |
| 67924d9 | There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people,' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always,' went the British motto, 'justice when possible. | winston-churchill | Wade Davis | |
| 9e4f708 | Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears. | human-nature reflection | Wade Davis | |
| 17b2c2d | They brought their whole intellectual energy to bear on their relationships; they wanted to know not only that they loved people but how and why they loved them, to understand the mechanism of their likings, the springs that prompted thought and emotion; to come to terms with themselves and with one another; to know where they were going and why. | relationships | Wade Davis | |
| 1d87042 | She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience. | ideas inspiration | Wade Davis | |
| 4cb3135 | Death's power lies in fear, which flourishes in the imagination and the unknown. | Wade Davis | ||
| e6e6851 | The chairs - turned towards one another in groups of twos and threes - seemed like the seats of ghosts in close conversation with one another. There were sets of two chairs - very close to one another - in the far corners of the room, which spoke of recent whispered flirtations, over cold game pie and iced champagne; there were sets of three and four chairs, that recalled pleasant animated discussions over the latest scandals; there were ch.. | satire | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | |
| 4a3988e | A woman's heart is such a complex problem--the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution of this puzzle. | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 1b6ff15 | From the railway station far away the sharp clang of a bell...In half an hour the train starts, and there is so much still to say that has been left unsaid...The mothers, fearful and fussy, look for their sons in among the crowd like hens in search of their chicks; their wizened faces are hard and wrinkled like winter apples, they carry huge baskets on their arms, over-filled with the last delicacies which their fond, toil-worn hands will p.. | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 0a59a21 | The evil we do, Monsieur, is within us; it does not come from circumstance. | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 8d15bdd | Chapter7 | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 88ef066 | In his mind he vaguely pondered whether he should strike that long-legged Englishman in the face and call him a coward, or whether such conduct in a lady's presence might be deemed ungentlemanly, when Marguerite happily interposed. | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 517747c | Even the sparrows on the house-tops are objects of suspicion. | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 08825d4 | A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 81d74d3 | women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been. | Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 1ad31f8 | The Little Mute Boy" The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. I do not want it for speaking with; I will make a ring of it so that he may wear my silence on his little finger In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice. (The captive voice, far away, put on a cricket's clothes.)" | Federico García Lorca |