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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 83d7956 | Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away. | Umberto Eco | ||
| e1bf62f | You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control. | life-lesson pretend | Jodi Picoult | |
| 33742b4 | As if the night had said to me, 'You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms' One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace. | Anne Rice | ||
| 0eab56d | It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 3ebf81d | The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6ced42c | You know, I couldn't imagine living somewhere without seasons." Yeah?" Real seasons, I mean. I'd miss the changes, the variety. Especially spring. I couldn't live without spring. Days like today are worth every snowstorm and slush puddle. By March, it seems like winter will never end. All that snow and ice that seemed so wonderful in December is driving you crazy. But you know spring's coming. Every year, you wait for that first warm day, t.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 38251b7 | People don't love each other at our age, Marthe--they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is. | old-age | Albert Camus | |
| b2f1153 | Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f340208 | I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics. | narcotics | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 4b49df7 | It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it. | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 7c521a9 | If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all the great religions of the world?" Birbal was a devout Brahmin from Trivikrampur, but he answered unhesitatingly, "I would say to them that in my opinion they were all atheists as well; I merely believe in one god less than each of them." "How so?" the Emperor asked. "All true believers have good reasons for disbeliev.. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 0d03bb4 | Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. | Carlos Castaneda | ||
| ffea1a5 | There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud, leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries | William Shakespeare | ||
| 99201d5 | Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must .. | depression heartbreak mental-health psychiatry psychotherapy sorrow | William Shakespeare | |
| a55b27f | I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah. | James Patterson | ||
| d031e08 | Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks." -Don Vito Corleone" | Mario Puzo | ||
| 2289447 | He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning. | Harper Lee | ||
| e26c205 | Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do. | David Levithan | ||
| f25c39c | Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)" | Charles Bukowski | ||
| d1f457c | I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas. Kennedy himself was 9/10ths the way around the clock or he wouldn't have accepted such an enervating and enfeebling job -- meaning President of the United States of .. | assassination class kennedy | Charles Bukowski | |
| d79dad9 | Silence can mock. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 9ffe4ab | People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 60712eb | You were joking about the whole please and thank you thing, right?" "Meant every word." A little light danced in his eyes and he very deliberately said, "Baby." No. He laughed. "You should see your face right now." "Don't call me that." "Would you prefer 'darling'? Or maybe 'cupcake'?" He winked." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b88b830 | What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 003bff0 | Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediate.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a570f79 | He made me love him without looking at me. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 3a8d4ce | We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 6a7456f | Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be. | Daphne Du Maurier | ||
| aa7e77c | A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all--it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 446dd6a | Love is the only prayer I know. | prayer | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| d0e7fd2 | She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the or.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 64945dd | Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 8c4cdff | But the wild things cried, "Oh please don't go - we'll eat you up - we love you so!" | goodbye sad wild-things | Maurice Sendak | |
| f8119fd | As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. | satisfaction | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 251d261 | I am the way the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father but through me | Anonymous | ||
| 8650f8c | Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6d457b2 | A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8a3508c | You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me" | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 471c502 | A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, nat.. | punctuation | Lynne Truss | |
| 6d3de7c | She's Awakening,' Aiden said, voice tight. 'But the blood...' I heard Marcus move closer. 'Why is she bleeding?' I eased onto my side. 'I'm being tattooed by a giant, mother fu-' Another strangled scream cut of my words as a different type of pain settled in, moving under my skin. It was like lighting racing through my veins, frying every nerve ending. 'This is... wow,' Deacon said, and I pried my eyes open. There was a whole audience by th.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5d55130 | All the pent up, helpless rage formed a wrecking ball inside of me. Maintaining human form was near impossible. I wanted to hit something--destroy something. I needed to. "Daemon, no one--" "Shut up," I said, turning to where Matthew sat in the corner of the room. Right this moment I wanted to destroy him. "Just shut the hell up." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 05b1f3b | The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. | Henry Miller | ||
| 3255790 | Paris is like a whore. From a distance she seems ravishing, you can't wait until you have her in your arms. And five minutes later you feel empty, disgusted with yourself. You feel tricked. | Henry Miller | ||
| 2c109bc | Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game. | Rick Riordan |