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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7e4ba8f | The Municipal Councils in these areas excluded Chinese members, and the police and civil servants were foreigners. Even the names of the streets reflected foreign imperialism--such as Jessfield Road, on which St. Faith's was located. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| a6af96d | there was one path across Boston Commons that a young man must not ask a young woman to take unless he meant business. Which path was that? she asked Holmes. "Ah," she remembered the elderly doctor saying, "if I were only fifty years younger I would show you." | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 17287e8 | soldiers on the banks of the canal, they looked carefully to see whether they were Japanese or Chinese so they'd know which pass to pull out. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| a63924a | Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a book that will deeply affect someone. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 6459361 | He put down his roll and reached over and took her gnarled hand, stroking the back of it with his thumb. "I'm trying to tell the child something only you and I can understand. How good it is to be old." I watched her face go from being startled by his gesture to being pleased that he had somehow joined her side against me. Then she seemed to remember. She drew back her hand. "We'll die," she said. "Yes," he said. "But we'll be ready. The yo.. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 9e287c2 | But I had never caused my parents "a minute's worry." Didn't they know that worry proves you care? Didn't they realize that I needed their worry to assure myself that I was worth something?" | love parents worry | Katherine Paterson | |
| d9b4513 | But I had never caused my parents 'a minute's worry'. Didn't they know that worry proves you care? Didn't they realize that I needed their worry to assure myself that I was something? | Katherine Paterson | ||
| cf09ab9 | Agnes. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 1406d97 | It had never occurred to Jess that parents were meant to be understood any more than the safe at the Millsburg First National was sitting around begging him to crack it. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 4534264 | Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask "What is truth?" and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable." | educational-philosophy philosophy | Katherine Paterson | |
| 20fe0e0 | Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| fa86e78 | Belief is not a required component of ability. | Tanya Huff | ||
| dc42f6f | Good afternoon, Gunnery Sargent." "Any ideas...?" Dr. Sloan turned slowly and stared up at Torren through narrowed eyes. "About what?" "I'm sorry had you not noticed the birds?" "Oh, ha!" Arms folded she resumed staring to the west. "I'm not doing anything. They just keep coming back." "Maybe your jacket is..." "...Is what? Stuffed with bird seed? Emitting matting coos on a frequency only these birds can hear? Looks like their big blue moth.. | Tanya Huff | ||
| e5aac5e | The last time he'd had a ride this rough, there was a set of twins involved. "You okay?" Torin's voice in his military surplus PCU sounded distant. Flat. "Rough ride," he growled without relaxing his jaw. "You're thinking about the twins, aren't you?" "Might be." That had sounded more like Torin." | Tanya Huff | ||
| c97cc6f |
Nezavisimo ot togo, naskol'ko udalis' Gitleru ego < |
Tanya Huff | ||
| e6117c5 | I will shove my fist so far down your fucking throat that you'll be shitting my fingernails for a week. | Tanya Huff | ||
| ffc84a6 | It's always Mardi Gras somewhere. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 5b2ac50 | One, if I'm behind the wheel we go by Winchester rules: driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole. | Tanya Huff | ||
| beb49a0 | Hey, what've you got?" "Same fukking thing as you," Juan grunted. "Hot bag of balanced nutrients in a tasty fukking paste." | Tanya Huff | ||
| ffd6eae | There's always hope, Charlotte, that's the point of the story. | Tanya Huff | ||
| f419756 | When they finally allowed the horses to slow to a walk, Vree dropped out of the saddle to stretch her legs. *We're going to forget how to get anywhere on our own two feet. Gonna end up looking like fat-assed officers.* Vree arched her back, rocked forward, then arched it again, working the stiffness out of her shoulders. *Giving the pounding it's taking, if my ass is getting fat, it's in self-defense.* | Tanya Huff | ||
| a00b45a | and Phillips, go to Staff Sergeant Pole, have him assign you to platoons." "Platoons, Gunnery Sergeant?" "Got extra food stored in your ears, Phillips?" | Tanya Huff | ||
| a35d70e | If you're reading this, Alysha Catherine, I'm dead. Don't make a fuss--it's a state we all come to in the end. Except possibly for Jane who may be too mean to die. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 375e96b | The aunties were big believers in you made your bed, you crash and burn in it. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 7609e07 | You expecting a collapse, Gunny?" "The technical sergeant is repairing alien technology with a piece of torn uniform--I'm expected the Goddamned tunnel to blow up." "Ressk's helping." Mike's voice sounded muffled. "And that makes all the difference," Torin snorted." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 2a2ed53 | they're going to blame the sorcerer for both those things as well as the hike in Calgary's transit fares, middle-aged women wearing jeans that barely cover their asses, and SciFi canceling The Dresden Files. | Tanya Huff | ||
| dfeaa18 | The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point. | Tanya Huff | ||
| e6447ce | Does he honestly think he's still in charge?" Mashona wondered. "He thinks Human's First has an apostrophe." | Tanya Huff | ||
| cdcbd28 | What about some kind of an ancient curse?'' Ancient Curse Kills Two. He could see the headlines now. ''Don't be an asshole.'' The reporter snatched the microphone to safety just in time and, smiling pleasantly, asked, '' Can I quote you on that, Detective?'' Celluci's smile was just as sincere. ''You can tattoo it on your chest. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 43686fc | California is where you get to start over. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| f929c61 | I stood by the fire, everyone around me so cheerful, and thought what an odd creature I am - even I know that. Too much space and I'm frightened, too little and I'm frightened. There is indeed no comfortable place for me - I am too near the fire or too far away. Behind | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 117c525 | God placed the fossils there when He created the rocks, to test our faith, he responded at last. As He is clearly testing yours Miss Philpot. It is my faith in you that is being tested, I thought. | page-92 page-93 remarkable-creatures tracy-chevalier | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 4aca105 | had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| b4cf22e | of all the cities he had been to--Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City--San Francisco was by far the worst. | cities san-francisco | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 096de07 | pinetums | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| d6634a0 | I liked sleeping in the attic. There was no Crucifixion scene hanging at the foot of the bed to trouble me. There were no paintings at all, but the clean scent of linseed oil and the musk of the earth pigments. I liked my view of the New Church, and the quiet. No one came up except him. The girls did not visit me as they sometimes had in the cellar, or secretly search through my things. i felt alone there, perched high above the noisy house.. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 64cd274 | I missed the currency of ideas. In London we had been part of a wide circle of solicitors' families, and social occasions had been mentally stimulating as well as entertaining. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 2addc2e | Although we kept the door ajar so that we could hear, we could not see beyond the gentlemen standing in front of the door in the crowded room. I felt trapped behind a wall of men that separated me from the main event. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| a0788c2 | making: | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 096de94 | What's funny about opposites be that wet and dry both has water, boy and girl be about people, Heaven and Hell be the places you go when you die. They all has something in common. So they an't completely different from each other the way people think. Having the one don't mean t'other be gone. | opposites two-sides-of-the-same-coin | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 9038d90 | Anos de acarrear el agua, retorcer la colada, fregar los suelos, vaciar los orinales, sin que la belleza o el color o la luz entraran en mi vida, se extendian ante mi como una paisaje llano en el que se divisa el mar a lo lejos, pero nunca puedes alcanzarlo. Si no podia trabajar fabricando los colores, si no podia estar cerca de el, no sabia como iba a poder seguir trabajando en aquella casa. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 64fd26e | Yes, my boy; yes, my girl. The tension between contraries is what makes us ourselves. We have not just one, but the other too, mixing and clashing and sparking inside us. Not just light, but dark. Not just peace, but at war. Not just innocent, but experienced. | contraries gray-area mix-of-traits william-blake | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 4bdb2d3 | I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| bbe09c1 | Prying out a stump reminded him of how deeply a tree clung to the ground, how tenacious a hold it had on a place. Though he was not a sentimental man - he did not cry when his children died, he simply dug the graves and buried them - James was silent each time he killed a tree, thinking of its time spent in that spot. He never did this with the animals he hunted - they were food, and transient, passing through this world and out again, as p.. | Tracy Chevalier |