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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 51348a7 | There," I said. "Decades of psycho logic picked apart in three seconds by an eleven-year-old. Take that, modern science!" | James Patterson | ||
| 0176d3a | And why was the blind guy on watch, you might ask? Because a cockroach couldn't come within fifty feet of us without his knowing it. Iggy | James Patterson | ||
| bd543d6 | And there won't be any TV or cable because all the people will be dead!" I was on a roll now. "So our only entertainment will be Gazzy singing the constipation song! And there won't be amusement parks and museums and zoos and libraries and cute shoes! We'll be like cavemen, trying to weave clothes out of plant fibers. We'll have nothing! Nothing! All because you and the kids want to kick back in a La-Z-Boy during the most important time in .. | James Patterson | ||
| 449dbfc | It was all I could do to not give a mwa ha ha ha! | James Patterson | ||
| 36cd497 | Fang snapped out his huge wings and shone the penlight under his chin so it raked his cheekbones and eyes. My mouth dropped open: He looked like the angel of death. | James Patterson | ||
| e969eeb | However, I had been hoping that Donald Trump would just drop me off in one of his helicopters. | James Patterson | ||
| 0055f9e | Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. | James Patterson | ||
| c0534cb | Cornwall, | James Patterson | ||
| 4088031 | Assume nothing, question everything. | James Patterson | ||
| 342bb12 | Terrible. This morning, when I put on my underwear, I could hear the Fruit of the Loom guys laughing at me. | James Patterson | ||
| 27d2d75 | He was laid-back. Drugs'll do that to a person. Take a pill and you're not really crazy anymore. | James Patterson | ||
| 323efa5 | lips touched mine. His mouth was warm and firm, his hand gentle on my neck. I'd kissed him once before, when I thought he was dying on a beach. But that had lasted a second. This was... going on and on. I realized I was getting dizzy, and then realized it was because I hadn't taken a breath yet. It seemed like an hour before we broke apart. We were both breathing raggedly, and I stared into his eyes as if I would find answers there. Which o.. | James Patterson | ||
| b4e2252 | Emily was lucky in many ways. She was lucky in the house she lived in, a house with three balconies, a cupola, banisters just right for sliding down, and the second bathtub in Yamhill County. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 81c5c0f | davenport | Beverly Cleary | ||
| bce961f | Mother, what am I going to do?' Beezus demanded. 'It's checked out on my card and I'm responsible. They won't let me take any more books out of the library, and I won't have anything to read, and it will all be Ramona's fault. She's always spoiling my fun and it isn't fair!' Beezus didn't know what she would do without her library card. She couldn't get along without library books. She just couldn't, that was all. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 825e4f4 | And the muscles of his scrawny arms Are strong as rubber bands. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 26271d2 | Ramona could not understand why grown-ups always talked about how quickly children grew up. Ramona thought growing up was the slowest thing there was, slower even than waiting for Christmas to come. She had been waiting years just to get to kindergarten, and the last half hour was the slowest part of all. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 32ddee4 | Girl Snouts." "We are not," contradicted Sarah. "We're Girl Scouts." "Hup, two, three, four. Hup, two, three, four," counted Mrs. Collins, who was the jolly type and did not understand how parents sometimes embarrass their children. Down the hill marched the class. Mitchell felt Bernadette's toe on his heel again and jumped in time." | Beverly Cleary | ||
| ef5f324 | bags and boxes across the hot parking lot to the van. On the way back to the mall, Willa Jean, who spotted the ice-cream store that sold fifty-two flavors, told her uncle she needed an ice-cream cone. Uncle Hobart agreed that ice-cream cones were needed by all. Inside the busy shop, customers had to take numbers and wait turns. Ramona, responsible for Willa Jean, who could not read, was faced with the embarrassing task of reading aloud the .. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 02a858f | Ellen might have known her best friend would think of something like that. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 1e849d7 | Daisy picked up the large, limp cat that was almost too heavy for her. "This is Clawed," she said. "C-l-a-w-e-d," she spelled. "Not like a man's name. My brother named him Clawed because he had been clawed by another cat when he found him hiding in a gutter. Daddy says he hopes Jeremy never finds a wounded skunk." | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 06e3a5e | Don't eat so noisily. My grandmother used to say, 'A smack at the table is worth a smack on the bottom. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 1405c00 | Poor Miss Binney, dressed like Mother Goose, now had the responsibility of sixty-eight boys and girls. | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 2f0bb41 | They wiped his paws on a good bath towel whenever he came in with wet feet, because they had not been married long enough to have an old bath towel, | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 6f0991f | Mother," said Ramona urgently. This time she stepped into the hall. "Unless we get a ladder (Go back to your room, Ramona) and break the window so we can unlock it," Mother continued, speaking with one sentence inside another, the way grown-ups so often did with Ramona around. "But Mother," insisted Ramona even more urgently. "I have to--" "Oh, dear, I might have known," sighed Mother." | Beverly Cleary | ||
| cdaca9c | Amy thought a moment. How could they get rid of their mother? "We could have her away taking care of a sick neighbor, and we are all alone in the house" | Beverly Cleary | ||
| 206c6af | His radicalism took many forms. A vegetarian, he founded a commune, Fruitlands, so extreme in its Utopianism that members neither wore wool nor used animal manures, as both were considered property of the beasts from which they came. One reason the venture failed in its first winter was that when canker worms got into the apple crop, the nonviolent Fruitlanders refused to take measures to kill them. The Mr. March of Little Women departs fro.. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 12e50d5 | This was a bargain she struck, a ritual to guarantee safety. Nothing truly bad could happen if she was expecting it. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 3df589f | Maggie wondered if in some ways all the complaining only made matters worse. | J Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 51fe3e5 | Nothing had just happened to her, she had made a choice, and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life. | big-picture choice choices choices-and-consequences decisions life life-lessons maturation wisdom | J. Courtney Sullivan | |
| b91696c | Her mother... told Kate that after women got out of lousy marriages, they generally had the good sense to stay away from the institution altogether. While men just kept trying to get it right because they were incapable of being alone. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 53de50a | This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn't hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 1dd193d | She had learned over time that to know anything was bearable. It was secrecy that could not be borne. | learning secrets | J. Courtney Sullivan | |
| 02cfacf | Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| d13a910 | It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 233a9e8 | Old age had distilled her down to her essence. | elderly essence humanity life life-lessons old-age old-people wisdom womanhood | J. Courtney Sullivan | |
| c09e696 | Beyond those was a stretch of sand and miles of dark blue sea. You couldn't make out a thing on the other side. As a little girl, Maggie believed that the world dropped off out there, that if you swam far enough you might fall into a starry sky. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| b87b67e | The dogs were partly responsible for keeping her sane. The relationship she had with them was pure joy. No ulterior motives, no spite, just love and care and kindness, exactly the emotions she wanted to cultivate. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 15f6a7f | He also believed that loyalty was earned - sharing a bloodline didn't mean you had to be close. | J. Courtney Sullivan | ||
| 0957af6 | Gaffer Swanthold speaks truth when he saith, 'Better a crust with content than honey with a sour heart. | Howard Pyle | ||
| 67cbed1 | For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so be he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Where fore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve success with entire satisfaction unto yourself and to your great glory and perfect happiness. | chivalry howard-pyle king knight | Howard Pyle | |
| 92bf0ed | sheer | Howard Pyle | ||
| 65f9b3a | before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It's one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We fear more so we can do less. | John Boyne | ||
| 38ecb62 | Es muy bueno fingiendo ser alguien que no es -le comente despues a Zoya en el vestibulo, cuando esperabamos para felicitarlo, sin saber muy bien si con esas palabras pretendia o no halagarlo-. No se como lo hace. - Yo si -repuso ella, sorprendiendome. | John Boyne |