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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7837919 | No!" Leo yelled. "Uhhh," Nico groaned from the floor. "Piper!" Jason cried. "Monkey!" Frank yelled. | frank-zhang hazel-levesque jason-grace leo-valdez monkeys piper-mcclean rick-riordan riordan the-argo-ii the-house-of-hades | Rick Riordan | |
| f3deed9 | Percy: "You asked Poseidon for... me?" Tyson: "For a friend, young cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learns to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive." Percy: "But that's so cruel!" Tyson: "Makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. But I got scared. Monsters chased me so much, clawed me sometimes--" Percy: "The scars on your back?" Tyson: "Sphinx on Seventy-second Street. Big Bully. I pray.. | percy-jackson poseidon tyson | Rick Riordan | |
| eb0886e | So, great. This is Camp...what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?" Aphros frowned. "I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________." He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses." | Rick Riordan | ||
| a169b38 | To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 9a0ba1f | Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 28653af | Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 8f82d9e | He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last wea.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| f0ff359 | Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 8bccaa1 | The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking away, thinking about something else. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 97e29a6 | While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appear.. | moon | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| d4006cc | Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 9c3711f | Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 58de2a0 | So what can I do now?" she spoke up a minute later. "Nothing," I said. "Just think about what comes before words. You owe that to the dead. As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself. Is that too much to ask?" "A little," she said, trying to smile. "Well, of course it is," I said, trying to smile too. "I doubt that this makes se.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cf44135 | You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c970536 | When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. | James Joyce | ||
| a3a19f6 | The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. | old-age solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| f9cb8e3 | Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals - although a case could be made for the dolphins - because they seldom grow up. Behavioral traits such as curiosity about the world, flexibility of response, and playfulness are common to practically all young mammals but are usually rapidly lost with the onset of maturity in all but humans.. | rebellion | Tom Robbins | |
| b72a509 | Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact: you remember first of all that reason did not abandon you during the whole course of your dream; you even remember that you acted extremely cleverly and logically for that whole long, long time when you were surrounded by murderers, when they were being clever with you, concealed their intentions, treated.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9d06146 | We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 11fd0b6 | You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. | paranormal paraphrased young-teen | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2f0dfe3 | He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| e14dc4c | She made an impatient noise. "By the Angel, you don't know anything about your kid, do you? Do you even really know how vampires are made?" "Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much ... " | city-of-fallen-angels funny humor isabelle-lightwood simon-lewis the-mortal-instruments vampire | Cassandra Clare | |
| 68275e8 | What do you want?" Jace shrugged. "Clothes mostly, some weapons." Sebastion shook his head. "Too dangerous. We need to get in and out fast. Only emergency items." "My favourite jacket is an emergency item," Jace said. It was so much like hearing him talk to Alec, to any of his friends. "Much like myself, it is both snuggly and fashionable." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 10af339 | No," Jace agreed. "We don't fly. We break and enter." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| c58e568 | You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 25534fb | Better to love and fear than feel nothing | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 035b5f3 | Will," she said softly, sleepily. "Last night--" You were kind to me, she was going to say. Thank you. The glare from his blue eyes stabbed through her. "There was no last night," he said through his teeth. At that, she sat up straight, almost awake. "Oh, truly? We just went right from one afternoon on through till the next morning? How odd no one else remarked on it. I should think it some miracle, a day with no night--" | night | Cassandra Clare | |
| ea4576c | I am dramatic," said Will. "If i had not been a Shadowhunter, i would have had a future on the stage." -- | will | Cassandra Clare | |
| c2d07ff | I swear on the Angel." He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. "The hell with that. I swear on us." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 5f5f1f4 | It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. | art clarity communication writing | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 9aa1399 | If you eliminate all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer. | J.R. Ward | ||
| ef26878 | I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. | augustus-waters souls | John Green | |
| acbd856 | Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder | humor | John Green | |
| d17cf81 | For , literally translated, 'Since it must be so,' of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the and , it does not try to cheat itself by any bravado 'Till we meet again,' any sedative to postpone the pain of separation. It does not evade the issue like the sturdy blinking . is a father's . It is - 'Go out in the world and do well, my son.' It is encouragement and admonition. It is hope and faith. But it passes .. | emotion english farewell father french german god goodbyes japanese mother spanish | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 3342118 | I know myself," he cried, "but that is all." | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 607ad88 | I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| a54fbd0 | Annabelle's eyes stung as she stared at him, while need and inexhaustible tenderness gathered like an ache in her body. "I realized something," she said huskily, "when I was standing outside the foundry, watching it burn and knowing you were inside." She swallowed hard against the thickness in her throat. "I would rather have died in your arms, Simon, than face a lifetime without you. All those endless years... all those winters, summers..... | hunt simon wallflower | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 92c8a0d | A thief never makes a noise by accident. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| be49385 | We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left. | quote tris veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| b8b20c3 | As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore. | Alan Moore | ||
| 4bee6f6 | For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| a98c4c0 | The women are the strong ones, truly. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3bbbd39 | Tonight the world is yours, as am I. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 30383e0 | The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. | Warren Ellis |