1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
4986
4987
4988
4989
4990
5443
5619
6757
7581
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc25281 | Depression, in Karla's experience, was a dull, inert thing - a toad that squatted wetly on your head until it finally gathered the energy to slither off. The unhappiness she had been living with for the last ten days was a quite different creature. It was frantic and aggressive. It had fists and fangs and hobnailed boots. It didn't sit, it assailed. It hurt her. In the mornings, it slapped her so hard in the face that she reeled as she walk.. | Zoë Heller | ||
| 19d16d2 | But the Dog was gone forever. Lirael | Garth Nix | ||
| 7b4fe96 | Everything is always better for a walk. | Garth Nix | ||
| d0007cc | How come it's all right for the bad guys to do whatever they want, and whenever I want to do something it's 'forget about it'? What's the good of being the Rightful Heir anyway? All I get is trouble! | Garth Nix | ||
| 59178b3 | What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget. Though I have had other names. | Garth Nix | ||
| f25624a | as if they were crazed stoats that had to be got rid of before they killed again. | Garth Nix | ||
| 35ac0fc | I don't have a lot of valuables on me at the moment though... and I need the ones I have for my Quest. Could you perhaps agree to rob me later? - Anya | Garth Nix | ||
| 337d41f | How could anyone even start to put it all back together?' 'You start small,' said Dehlia. The raven had a very particular stare. Her single eye, bright with moonshine, was focused on Anya in a very alarming way. 'With a Quest to save one of those small kingdoms, and set it to rights, and have its ruler swear to uphold the bill. Then you go on from there. | Garth Nix | ||
| decf220 | Will you turn me back to myself, please, Frogkisser? | Garth Nix | ||
| b06ca98 | When do we c-c-come and rescue you?' 'If I'm not back by nightfall, come and take a very careful look,' said Anya. 'But I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess. | Garth Nix | ||
| bca6cd8 | Er, your librarians go into battle?" "When they must," said Lirael. "The Library is very old, and deep, and contains many things that have been put away for good reason. Creatures, dangerous knowledge, artifacts made not wisely, but too well . . . books that should not be opened without proper preparation, some books that should never be opened at all." "Creatures?" | Garth Nix | ||
| df94972 | As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where I stood last time. Anyhow, me and Arthur is like two fingers of a gauntlet. Or at least the thumb and the little finger. I mean, I'm his top General, and all. So if I say you're in, you're in." | clever epic funny humor humour make-me-laugh silly witty | Garth Nix | |
| d0b2944 | If she had been in a pointing competition, she would have lost points. | Garth Nix | ||
| f20d511 | luxuriate in a constant flow of information, picking out whatever I wanted to know. | Garth Nix | ||
| 1926c87 | Mmmmmm, said Ardent [the Royal Dog]. He liked cooked food. Also raw food and semicooked food, and things that might be food and so were worth chewing on for a while to make sure they food. | Garth Nix | ||
| 2938110 | Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it. | garth-nix infestation | Garth Nix | |
| 2fa3866 | She was no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. | Garth Nix | ||
| e3e8bfd | Lirael didn't answer either question. She just looked at him, waiting for him to talk. He met her gaze at first, then faltered and looked away. There was something unnerving about her eyes. A toughness he had never seen in the young women he knew from the debutante parties in Corvere. It was partly this that made him talk, and partly a desire to impress her with his knowledge and intelligence. | Garth Nix | ||
| 0f7b7aa | Garth on making his stories feel real "Things like armour, clothes and other small details are very important in building up the reality of the story... I do spend quite a lot of time on things like clothing, armour, weapons and try and make them feel real." | Garth Nix | ||
| 012968c | So, you're the small troublemaker who foiled Saturday's Cocigrue," said Lady Friday. Leaf, a friend of the so-called Rightful Heir , this Arthur Penhaligon. How kind of you to visit." -- | Garth Nix | ||
| 419756e | Ever thought of becoming a wizard?' - The Good Wizard 'Not before now,' said Anya. 'I've always wanted to be a sorcerer...' Her voice trailed off as the Good Wizard raised her eyebrows. 'But not so much anymore,' continued Anya. | Garth Nix | ||
| db280ba | Do you think I could still be a wizard? One day?' 'Perhaps,' said the Good Wizard. 'I was a princess myself once. | Garth Nix | ||
| e75c257 | This is what it is, to be an Abhorsen. | Garth Nix | ||
| aa2c1f6 | Oog aim vack, | Garth Nix | ||
| aa793fb | What do we do? asked the next-oldest puppy, one who rarely spoke. What can we do? Watch. Wait. Protect the princesses. Keep them cheerful and unafraid. They will need whole hearts and the memory of happiness, at least, to have any chance of doing what must be done. | Garth Nix | ||
| b93ffe7 | The 'rob from the rich, give to the poor' is more of a general overview than a specific thing we have to do every time. It really means making sure those who have too much do some sharing with those who have too little, and it isn't always just about valuables or money or even basic things like food. It is also about sharing power and opportunities. | Garth Nix | ||
| acb39f6 | Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it. There's plenty I'm afraid of. Just not vampires.' 'We fear the unknown,' she said. 'You must know a lot about vampires. | garth-nix infestation vampires | Garth Nix | |
| f85ba2a | If I'm not back by nightfall, come and take a very careful look, said Anya. But I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess. What kind of princess are you? Not the kind that needs rescuing, said Anya firmly. | Garth Nix | ||
| 9562d52 | What's wrong with this city! Like I said, no one's really in charge. Mayor and council are afraid to do anything in case the sorcerers don't like it. So they don't do anything. should do something, Anya growled. She rowed on in silence for a while after that, thinking. It was easy to say "someone should do something" but rather more difficult to put it into practice." | Garth Nix | ||
| 217388c | there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| f4ff429 | Dun gece senin yatagindaydim!" diye sucladi Amanda,gozleri kederle buyumustu."Dun gece beni defalarca optun.Sevgili oldugumuzu saniyordum." Cliff'in yuzu bembeyaz kesildi. Konusmakta zorlaniyordu. "Biz sevgili degiliz. Dun gece bir hataydi. Bir daha asla olmayacak. Sen hala bakiresin." "Kismen!" Genc kadin yaklasti, bir yandan da basini salliyordu. "Bana sarildin ve beni optun. Dilin bogazimin icinde, elin bacaklarimin arasindaydi! Sevgili .. | Brenda Joyce | ||
| 09cc16d | How to make spiced rum. Place rum, allspice, cloves, cardamom, star anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange peel, and one vanilla bean--split lengthwise--in a jar and store in a dark place for 2 days. Strain rum using cheesecloth. Pour and enjoy. | Ellery Adams | ||
| 81ff787 | Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't assholes? I asked Wilson. Because I would start to love them, he said. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 33131e7 | Here, in their midst, George feels a sort of vertigo. Oh God, what will become of them all? What chance have they? Ought I to yell out to them, right now, here, that it's hopeless? | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 0d59156 | Feeling guilty's no reason for staying, or going. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| a620d55 | She closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them and gazed at me. 'I wonder if you know how you have changed. It is the one good, perhaps, to come out of this terrible year. Oh, the spark was clear in you when you first came to me - but you covered your light as if you were afraid of what would happen if anybody saw it. You were like a flame blown by the wind until it is almost extinguished. All I had to do was put the glass around you.. | Geraldine Brooks | ||
| 2381c5e | Yoli, she said, I'm just saying that apologies aren't the bedrock of civilized society. All right! I said. I agree. But what is the bedrock of civilized society? Libraries, said Elf. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 57c95eb | My dad had said don't look, but I'd already seen him. Pickled eggs are the Devil's snack. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 17b7f1b | I think Ray might have wanted a son. One night when I was seven or eight I announced to my family that I wanted to play hockey with the boys on Friday nights and Ray became just a little too eager. Okay he shouted. All right We have to get you a stick We have to get tape I'll be waiting in the car | Miriam Toews | ||
| dbf8318 | Wealthier Mennonites even though they're not technically supposed to be wealthy do their drinking in North Dakota or Hawaii. They are sort of like rock bands on tour in that the rules of this town don't apply to them when they're on the road. An embarrassing situation for wealthy Mennonites is to meet other wealthy Mennonites at the swim-up bar at the Honolulu Holiday Inn. | Miriam Toews | ||
| 36c27cb | When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from drowning. She got out her markers and drew a screaming face on the cork. | wine | Miriam Toews | |
| 3e3e4e7 | He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer from depression but nobody knows why. I said, Well, thank you for that! As cheerfully as if I was accepting a plate of homemade Christmas cookies from one of my students. | mennonites | Miriam Toews | |
| 4b6d9da | She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named - when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery? This makes her feel compassion towards the people who invented the concept of "telling time." How hopeful, she says. How beautifully futile. How perfectly human." | time | Miriam Toews | |
| 98cba71 | Stuff was happening. Even in Half-a-Life. Little things, but it all added up to something big. To our lives. It was happening all along. These were our lives. This was it. My mom was hanging onto the lives, the recorded lives, of these women. We might escape, but what if we didn't? What if we lived in Half-a-Life all our lives, poor, lonely, proud, happy? If we did, we did. These were our lives. If we couldn't escape them, we'd have to live.. | Miriam Toews |