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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ac033a | She knew, with vast certainty, that she would never desire to be kissed by a man who had first asked her permission. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0e89f23 | There are times when not thinking requires all of one's concentration. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 20a3230 | So this was our adventure. And the prince and the princess get married and live happily ever after, with many children to warm the in their old age.' He had probably heard that phrase thousands of times in his life. It was a common way for a minstrel to end a hero tale. 'Perhaps,' I said cautiously. 'Perhaps.' 'What happens to the rest of us? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1fdaf2d | His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved. He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool. | death fitz fool love nighteyes sorrow together whole | Robin Hobb | |
| 79fadf5 | You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me. As | Robin Hobb | ||
| ec44191 | I don't need to be a hero, Fool. I'd settle for feeling that what I did every day had significance to someone besides myself." "p. 144 Fitz to the Fool" | Robin Hobb | ||
| 08cf036 | I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life. | control life | Robin Hobb | |
| 33f914a | It's that which is between the gardener and his bit of soil that makes a garden. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e91dbac | Death does not conquer. It threatens, but it cannot subdue the future. What must be, will be. | Robin Hobb | ||
| d409662 | you'd be wise to eat lightly, or not at all, of any food you do not prepare yourself." "At all the feasts and festivities that will be there?" "No. Only at the ones you wish to survive." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 53c98da | How many miles to Babylon? Three score and ten! Can I get there by candle light? Yes, and back again? | inspirational | E. Nesbit | |
| 7e29ddb | Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder... | reading | Eleanor Brown | |
| c7b367c | I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 214e1fa | Robert explained how much simpler it was to pay money for things than to exchange them as the people were doing in the market. Later on the soldier gave the coins to his captain, who, later still, showed them to Pharaoh, who of course kept them and was much struck with the idea. That was really how coins first came to be used in Egypt. You will not believe this, I daresay, but really, if you believe the rest of the story, I don't see why yo.. | egypt fantasy humor | E. Nesbit | |
| d0aed6d | Oh, Helen, I don't want to.' 'Then don't,' said Helen. 'Ah, but I do want to, too.' 'Then do,' said she. 'But don't you see, when you want to and don't want to at the same time, what are you to do? There are so many things to think of.' 'When it's like that, there's one thing you mustn't think of,' she said. 'What?' Philip asked. 'Yourself,' she said softly. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 4f52a33 | I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year | E Nesbit | ||
| 59bfd87 | Don't go to Casablanca expecting it to be like the film. In fact, if you're not too busy, and your schedule allows it, don't go to Casablanca at all. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 560313d | I had to wonder how Ginny could hold her head up under the weight of cosmetics smeared all over her face. Underneath it all, she may have been quite pretty. Or she may have been Dirk Bogarde. I will never know. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 846f822 | Hugh] winced as I squealed the tyres, but after all, it wasn't his motorcar. Holmes did more than wince before we were out of Oxford, but I didn't hit anybody, and only brushed the farm cart slightly. It wasn't his automobile either, and what do men know about driving? | driving mary-russell pastiche sherlock-holmes | Laurie R. King | |
| a92b4fb | In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers." Neville Chamberlain" | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 6704b2c | Chier, parce que tout partait de travers. L'eclairage, la bande-son, l'action. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 2792f18 | killing Dirk, killing anybody, was not going to change anything apart from Francisco's f***ing ego, which was already large enough to house the world's poor twice over, with a few million bourgeoisie in the spare-room. | humor | Hugh Laurie | |
| c08de34 | He flapped his mouth some more, and then shook himself awake, came to a decision, and starting sneaking huge, theatrical looks around the restaurant, as a way of telling all the other lunchers that I Am Now Going To Give This Man An Important Piece of Paper. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 882fa04 | Hugh Laurie once described how he eventually came to realise that there is not a finite amount of success in the world, and that someone else gaining great success did not necessarily mean that there was now less to go around for everyone else. It's a good thing to remember. | Rob Brydon | ||
| 08bae17 | He had used drugs and nanonic supplements to compensate at first, then supplements became replacements, with bones exchanged for carbon-fibre struts. Electrical consumption supplanted food intake. The final transition was his skin, replacing the eczema-ridden epidermis with a smooth ochre silicon membrane. Warlow didn't need a spacesuit to work in the vacuum, he could survive for over three weeks without a power and oxygen recharge. His fac.. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| e8de981 | Taxis are useful in this town, aren't they?" Clayton mused. "So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same." | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 3bc0bfa | We're on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you've got money. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| ee84618 | Pick a gender and stick with it, guys. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 5917817 | Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness? | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 4e44d83 | Let's see how long the rich can eat their money for | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| d141939 | Any species possessing this kind of knowledge base is best left unannoyed. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| dce5697 | Consciousness is just a window into time. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| c9de785 | sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer. | speculative-fiction | Peter F. Hamilton | |
| 5c61b47 | Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 4f9da7b | Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa's arena. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 67ce10b | That's just to start?' 'Yeah.' 'Giu. So what happens after that?' 'Whatever needs to happen. That's the whole point of being strategic. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 4522c00 | Only people with one short life want to go tearing out into the great unknown with nothing more than a flashlight and a stick to poke the rattlers with. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| c35bbe8 | With a degree of privacy assured, I squatted down and crapped out the biopackage I'd brought along. The human anal cavity has traditionally been a smuggler favorite for most of our existence on Earth. It made me really proud to carry that fine institution on into the starflight era. Yeah, right. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| d6d7bb9 | Any sentient entity who has lived, has changed. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 8e14a86 | In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege. | Peter F. Hamilton | ||
| 978f1fb | I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased to the other. Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat, Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not even the best, Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And par.. | David S. Reynolds | ||
| f14cde5 | Were you sad to leave Cambridge?" I asked her. She was, she said. Very sad. But she was also looking forward to being back in New York. "The world is complicated," she added. "You don't have to have one emotion at a time." | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 2e7ecff | But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore the circumstances and time in or about which it was written. | Will Schwalbe | ||
| 1ccc004 | loneliness can kill people--in different ways can actually make you die. Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as 'big bursts' and 'little bursts.' Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows.. | Will Schwalbe |