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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c6e0026 | And don't look for anything out of the law around here," she said. "The Cowgills and the Leapers is kin to the sheriff. No justice in these parts. It's every man for hisself." "But as the saying goes, if you can't get justice," Mrs. Dowdel remarked, "get even." | Richard Peck | ||
| 5bc9874 | We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be" -Archer" | Richard Peck | ||
| 628cb72 | Therese (of Lisieux) told her sister, Celine, who was upset with her own faults, "If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be a pleasant place of shelter for Jesus." If you observe yourself, you will see how hard it is to be "displeasing" to yourself, and that this is the initial emotional snag that sends you into terribly bad moods without even realizing the origins of these moods. So to.. | Richard Rohr | ||
| b56ffee | The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.' Then I could read her thoughts and I knew what this day meant. Mrs. Abernathy's son could have been my dad. | Richard Peck | ||
| fb404d0 | A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed. | Richard Peck | ||
| cf92cc7 | So there is some justice in this world, though not a lot. | Richard Peck | ||
| 1706e56 | You are everything that's ever been my favorite thing," she wanted to tell him. "You are my love song, my birthday cake, the sound of ocean waves and French words and a baby's laugh. You're a snow angel, creme brulee, a kaleidoscope filled with glitter. I love you and you'll never catch up, because I've gotten a head start and my heart is racing at light speed." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| aee99b5 | Mr. Rohan," she heard Beatrix ask, "are you going to marry my sister?" Amelia choked on her tea and set the cup down. She sputtered and coughed into her napkin. "Hush, Beatrix," Win murmured. "But she's wearing his ring--" Poppy clamped her hand over Beatrix's mouth. " " "I might," Cam replied. His eyes sparkled with mischief as he continued. "I find your sister a bit lacking in humor. And she doesn't seem particularly obedient. On the.. | beatrix cam cant-brawl-in-front-of-ladies merripen poppy st-vincent win | Lisa Kleypas | |
| c740199 | All knowledge is worth having | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| fddc7d6 | The keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 5020ac7 | Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| c04d037 | The wise man," the dragon rumbled, "does not play games with dragons." | banewreaker dragon dragons fantasy high-fantasy jacqueline-carey the-sundering wise | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 9198a56 | I could kill you in a dozen different ways without breaking a sweat. Do not think to dictate my comings and goings. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 90ed434 | Non c'e appagamento che non sia reso piu dolce dal protrarsi del desiderio. | desiderio fantasy rosa | Jacqueline Carey | |
| bb15548 | But history is replete with potential candidates for the presidency who waited too long rather than example of people who ran too soon." - David Axelrod" -- | Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson | ||
| 3cc96d7 | What we see depends mainly on what we look for. | Caleb Carr | ||
| 54a42a4 | answers one gives to life's crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of contextual experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior. | Caleb Carr | ||
| d64d91c | Kreizler emphasized that no good would come of conceiving of this person as a monster, because he was most assuredly a man (or a woman); and that man or woman had once been a child. First and foremost, we must get to know that child, and to know his parents, his siblings, his complete world. It was pointless to talk about evil and barbarity and madness; none of these concepts would lead us any closer to him. But if we could capture the huma.. | Caleb Carr | ||
| c34bf55 | They'll want him to be mad, of course,' Laszlo mused, not hearing me. 'The doctors here, the newspapers, the judges; they'd like to think that only a madman would shoot a five-year-old girl in the head. It creates certain ... difficulties, if we are forced to accept that our society can produce sane men who commit such acts. | Caleb Carr | ||
| bf894be | What is a warrior's first and greatest weapon, young Khai?" "It is his mind, Elder Brother," I said." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| bd0e343 | C'e perspicacia nella follia. | follia | Jacqueline Carey | |
| f9053db | Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you're sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone, and drunk with joy, and your heart's a boulder in your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces, all at once?" "Mm-hmm." He finished his ale. "That would be love." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| d252bc4 | Questions are dangerous because they have answers | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| f65f05b | Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| d8c501e | It's as if you've been shot in the heart, Bill, but you're unaware of the hole or the loss of blood. I doubt you even heard the shot! | John Irving | ||
| f8a103d | I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 7b697ee | You're as bad as your master," he muttered, scarce audible amid the sea-sounds. "Worse. At least he didn't ply his words from a courtesan's lips." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 5d59c1a | Is the world so cruel, then, that that is all that is required to move a man to risk his life? Kindness? | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 4ab0708 | I still believe in you, as a writer, but the only stuff we ever had in common doesn't travel very far." "What stuff is that?" he'd asked her. "We're completely at ease being naked in front of strangers and total fuckheads", she'd told him. Maybe that's part of what being a writer entails, Danny Baciagalupo found himself thinking on that rainy spring night in Iowa city." | John Irving (Author) | ||
| f4873f7 | But don't you see how your ... opinions can be disturbing? It's very American--to have opinions as ... strong as your opinions. It's very Canadian to distrust strong opinions." "I'm a Canadian," I said. "I've" | John Irving | ||
| b7e3fc8 | IT (The country) IS HEADED TOWARD OVERSIMPLIFICATION. YOU WANT TO SEE A PRESIDENT OF THE FUTURE? TURN ON ANY TELEVISION ON ANY SUNDAY MORNING - FIND ONE OF THOSE HOLY ROLLERS: THAT'S HIM, THAT'S THE NEW MISTER PRESIDENT! AND DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE FUTURE OF ALL THOSE KIDS WHO ARE GOING TO FALL IN THE CRACKS OF THIS GREAT, BIG, SLOPPY SOCIETY OF OURS? I JUST MET HIM; HE'S A TALL, SKINNY, FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY NAMED "DICK." HE'S PRETTY SCARY. .. | future-prediction humor politicians politics president stupidity | John Irving | |
| 8bd8c82 | If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off. | writing | John Irving | |
| 1fb0bc7 | In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imagine such nonsense. (In part, it was because of her perverse ability to imagine anything that in this instance Ruth failed to imagine the obvious) | imagination writers | John Irving | |
| 83789c2 | A book feels true when it feels true," she said to him, impatiently. "A book's true when you can say, 'Yeah! That's just how damn people behave all the time." | John Irving | ||
| 6efca5e | Stewart, Jr. who was called Stewie Two, graduated from Steering before Garp was even of age to enter the school; Jenny treated Stewie Two twice for a sprained ankle and once for gonorrhea. He later went through Harvard Business School, a staph infection, and a divorce. | John Irving | ||
| 55e1219 | when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble. | John Irving | ||
| c652eaa | DON'T GIVE IT ANOTHER THOUGHT," he said. "WE'RE PALS, AREN'T WE? WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR? I'LL NEVER LEAVE YOU." | John Irving | ||
| 1ab669a | He felt the pregnant woman squeeze his hand so hard that it hurt. The word 'Mother!' was strangely on his lips when Nurse Angela finally got the door open and seized Homer Wells in her arms. 'Oh, oh!' she cried. 'Oh Homer - my Homer, our Homer! I knew you'd be back!' And because the pregnant woman's hand still firmly held Homer's hand - neither one of them felt able to let go - Nurse Angela turned and included the woman in her embrace. It s.. | John Irving | ||
| 4d7cb5e | When he and Wally stopped laughing, Homer said, 'I've never seen the ocean, you know.' 'Candy, did you hear that?' Wally asked, but Candy had released herself with her brief laughter and she was sound asleep. 'You've never seen the ocean?' Wally asked Homer. 'That's right,' said Homer Wells. 'That's not funny,' said Wally seriously. 'Right,' Homer said. A little later, Wally said, 'You want to drive for a while?' 'I don't know how to drive,.. | John Irving | ||
| 9d4fa45 | You can't protect people, kiddo," Wally said. "All you can do is love them." | John Irving | ||
| a38137b | Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an "intelligence explosion," and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last inven.. | Ray Kurzweil | ||
| fb3b4d5 | And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it--perhaps your favorite sentence--to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears. | John Irving | ||
| 176e092 | That was when I first began to think about certain events or specific things being "important" and having "special purpose." Until then, the notion that anything had a designated, much less a special purpose would have been cuckoo to me. I was not what was commonly called a believer then, and I am a believer now; I believe in God, and I believe in the "special purpose" of certain events or specific things." -- | John Irving | ||
| d1bb0a3 | It's natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard. Because you often feel like interfering--you want to be the one who makes the plans. . . You can't protect people, kiddo, all you can do is love them. | John Irving |