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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc2d879 | We keep a safe distance. We only whisper. We duck into the shadows whenever Cinderella turns around. We're really good at this sneaky thing. I bet we could be spies when we grow up. We'd be the cool brother-and-sister team that gets to go to exotic | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 0aab4c9 | Do you think she's still here?" Jonah asks." | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 272b62d | again, right? But how will they know to save us? Hmm. Yopopa's supposedly a genius. That's probably | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 3d20c2a | dogsicle! | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 0bf7b2b | The school didn't want us mixing with the rest of the senior class. Which was ridiculous. We had ESP, not Ebola. A curriculum had been tailored just for us, to help us prepare for what lay ahead. Not that anyone knew what lay ahead. It's not like there had ever been an entire class of telepaths before. Yup. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 021172a | I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves --" "I'm going to" -- | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 8386d9e | Just to make sure it wasn't cancer. Or a heart attack. Or lymphangioleiomyomatosis. Which, sure, only affected one out of a million people, but it started with a cough, and if you were the one out of a million, then you were done-like-dinner within the year. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 3c911ce | We don't have clairvoyance or precognition. At least, I don't. Does anyone else?" "I don't even know what those mean," Jordana said. "Telepathy is when you can hear other people's thoughts. Clairvoyance is when you are aware of something happening in another location. Precognition is when you can tell the future. And then there's telekinesis, which is when you can move objects with your mind." "No, I'm just having the first one," Tess said... | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 00a30bf | She looks at me strangely. "Um, no. I'm frozen." | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 9d73ecf | Oh, I can find Matt anywhere. I have perfect Matt-dar. I used to be able to spot him across campus in a group of a thousand. I'm like Edward sniffing out Bella. I'm a vampire. I can smell him in any room. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 87eacce | Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 7cec57d | Couldn't he have checked his shoelaces BEFORE entering a dark, super-creepy cave? | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| e65b2db | I'm dreaming | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 6c34dcc | Why?" Pi asked. "What are your secret thoughts?" "Nothing," Mackenzie blurted out. Don't think about it, don't think about it. Tess shook her head. She doesn't want the whole school knowing she cheated on Cooper. Aha. "Tess!" Mackenzie yelled. Tess clamped her hand over her mouth. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to think it!" | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| e4050c2 | MISTAKE! | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 4ffbc77 | I'm going to | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| c971e4d | We find our way to the marble kitchen, open the fancy silver fridge, and serve ourselves a heaping plate of coleslaw and chicken fingers. "Mmm," I say. Prince makes sloppy eating sounds. "Delicious," says Jonah. He smiles at Frederic. "Tastes just like frog legs." I laugh so hard I snort coleslaw out of my nose." | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 9e877a9 | We were not always freaks. Sure, most of us occasionally exhibited freakish behavior. But that's not the same thing. This is the story of how we became freaks. It's how a group of Is became a we. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| b5b81be | Really?" I say. "Hmm. I guess it's possible that she's not home. It's not nighttime yet. The original story doesn't take place until tomorrow, so she might not even be around right now. She could be out luring children with bubble gum or something." | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| fa85305 | Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone wanted and not old enough to be - and didn't want to be - the funny old queen whose jokes everyone laughed at. Instead, he was just middle aged and alone. | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| f1b3049 | Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren't alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But often this seemed to be accompanied by a kind of neutering, a gradual disappearance of anything remotely resembling sexuality, until finally the men in question were more like kindly old aunties than men who liked to fuck other men. | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 084fe7a | He's afraid they'll tell their kids to stay away from him and cross the street when they see him. "Don't talk to the crazy man, honey. He might bite you." Coming from someone covered in tattoos, this seemed a little strange. I mean, you can tattoos. You can't see crazy. If I was him, I'd be more worried about people thinking he was in a gang or something." | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 9816d45 | I mean, if I'm going to go to all the trouble of being gay and everything, I might as well tell people. | gay lgbt | Michael Thomas Ford | |
| baa6131 | To be fair he is Lord Byron," Jane said. "I don't know many people who haven't slept with him at one time or another." -- Jane Fairfax" | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| 121ce77 | you either are or aren't | Michael Thomas Ford | ||
| a1a6d19 | When I was a kid, I used to watch that show, sitting on the couch in my pajamas and wishing more than anything that one day I'd just change into this other person. I thought that would explain everything. You know, about why I felt so different. Then I'd find out that my mother was really an alien or that I'd been bitten by a radioactive spider as a baby and it would all be okay because I'd be able to fly and see through walls.. But it neve.. | depression loneliness michael-thomas-ford sad suicide-notes superhero | Michael Thomas Ford | |
| d03e956 | All of these parallels between Mesoamerican and ancient western Eurasian writing testify to the underlying universality of human creativity. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 6d1d1c5 | Yes, world history is indeed such an onion! But that peeling back of the onion's layers is fascinating, challenging--and of overwhelming importance to us today, as we seek to grasp our past's lessons for our future. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 0fda62d | The difference between a kleptocrat and a wise statesman, between a robber baron and a public benefactor, is merely one of degree: a matter of just how large a percentage of the tribute extracted from producers is retained by the elite, and how much the commoners like the public uses to which the redistributed tribute is put. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 1b01b47 | That need for police and laws and moral commandments to be nice to strangers doesn't arise in tiny societies, in which everyone knows everyone else. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 4a8d4fc | Severe problems of overpopulation, environmental impact, and climate change cannot persist indefinitely: sooner or later they are likely to resolve themselves, whether in the manner of Rwanda or in some other manner not of our devising, if we don't succeed in solving them by our own actions. | Jared Diamond | ||
| adde66d | The people whose children had to walk barefoot to school killed the people who could buy shoes for theirs. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 9520c9a | Thus, Fertile Crescent and eastern Mediterranean societies had the misfortune to arise in an ecologically fragile environment. They committed ecological suicide by destroying their own resource base. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 63041c3 | Still later, after the invention of saddles and stirrups, horses allowed the Huns and successive waves of other peoples from the Asian steppes to terrorize the Roman Empire and its successor states, culminating in the Mongol conquests of much of Asia and Russia in the 13th and 14th centuries A.D. Only with the introduction of trucks and tanks in World War I did horses finally become supplanted as the main assault vehicle and means of fast t.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 21fbd3a | Stored food can also feed priests, who provide religious justification for wars of conquest; | Jared Diamond | ||
| dd2a9d9 | As on Easter Island and at Chaco Canyon, Maya peak population numbers were followed swiftly by political and social collapse. Paralleling the eventual extension of agriculture from Easter Island's coastal lowlands to its uplands, and from the Mimbres floodplain to the hills, Copan's inhabitants also expanded from the floodplain to the more fragile hill slopes, leaving them with a larger population to feed when the agricultural boom in the h.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 6d5194a | Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby. | monogamy recreational-sex sex | Jared Diamond | |
| a57f524 | Almost everywhere else in the world, my archaeologist friends have an uphill struggle to convince governments that what archaeologists do has any conceivable practical value. They try to get funding agencies to understand that studies of the fates of past societies may help us understand what could happen to societies living in that same area today. In particular, they reason, environmental damage that developed in the past could develop ag.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| fa62628 | society's structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 0cf0b24 | All these adoptions of European styles make it obvious that the Greenlanders paid very close attention to European fashions and followed them in detail. The adoptions carry the unconscious message, "We are Europeans, we are Christians, God forbid that anyone could confuse us with the Inuit." Just as Australia, when I began visiting it in the 1960s, was more British than Britain itself, Europe's most remote outpost of Greenland remained emot.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 5ba6c60 | breeds of dogs were developed and raised for food in Aztec Mexico, Polynesia, and ancient China. | Jared Diamond | ||
| 1c6f19e | New Guineans old and young routinely eat mice, spiders, frogs, and other small animals that peoples elsewhere with access to large domestic mammals or large wild game species do not bother to eat. Protein | Jared Diamond | ||
| 8056e9c | Perhaps the most important single step in the whole history of writing was the Sumerians' introduction of phonetic representation, initially by writing an abstract noun (which could not be readily drawn as a picture) by means of the sign for a depictable noun that had the same phonetic pronunciation. For instance, it's easy to draw a recognizable picture of arrow, hard to draw a recognizable picture of life, but both are pronounced ti in Su.. | Jared Diamond | ||
| aac3baa | a society's fate lies in its own hands and depends substantially on its own choices. | Jared Diamond |