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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 18d91de | But as a kid, I preferred the black side, and often wished that Mommy had sent me to black schools like my friends. Instead I was stuck at that white school, P.S. 138, with white classmates who were convinced I could dance like James Brown. They constantly badgered me to do the "James Brown" for them, a squiggling of the feet made famous by the "Godfather of Soul" himself, who back in the sixties was bigger than life. I tried to explain to .. | James McBride | ||
| b8b939b | He made her feel out of kilter, wholly off-balance. The other night in his arms, it had felt so good to lean on him, if only for a while. To forget the load she had borne for so long now. And she could see it, God help her, she could, an erotic vision that ran through her mind, filled her world; her hands running over his shoulders- dark and burnished as his face. His form, long and muscular and naked, all fluid masculinity as he raised him.. | sexual-attraction | Samantha James | |
| 0e86c71 | The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar. | James McBride | ||
| ae04648 | Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for. | James McBride | ||
| 7e40e3c | back," Daddy said. "It'll work out." He had no idea what to do about Helen. They spoke a completely different language. He was an old-timer who called school "schoolin"' and called me "boy." He had run off from Jim Crow in the South and felt that education, any education, was a privilege. Helen was far beyond that. Weeks passed, months, and Helen didn't return. Finally Jack called. "I found her. She's living with some crazy woman," Jack sai.. | James McBride | ||
| 1285620 | I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets. | James McBride | ||
| f456703 | The Old Man's prayers was more sight than sound, really, more sense than sensibility. You had to be there: the aroma of burnt pheasant rolling through the air, the wide, Kansas prairie about, the smell of buffalo dung, the mosquitoes and wind eating at you one way, and him chawing at the wind the other. He was a plain terror in the praying department | James McBride | ||
| 2e245a2 | It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. | James McBride | ||
| 9d46349 | If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot. | James McBride | ||
| 75b85e9 | The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him. | James McBride | ||
| 22480cd | Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date. | lyrical sound | James McBride | |
| 6f49527 | They'll pull the trigger and tell the hammer to hurry. | James McBride | ||
| 58b8a56 | Most cars drove through there because the drivers is either from The Bottom and wanna get home - or they ain't from The Bottom and wanna get home in one piece. | James McBride | ||
| efef535 | writer or a musician, not knowing that it was possible | James McBride | ||
| 1046ec7 | She enticed him. She intrigued him. By heaven, she entranced him. , he thought again. Aidan hadn't been convinced, yet maybe Alec was right. Perhaps a woman was just what he needed. But he rather suspected this prickly chit wasn't what either of them had in mind. No, he strongly suspected, Miss Fionna Hawkes was not the kind of woman with whom one had a hot, torrid affair. Yet there was no denying that desire that scalded his veins like fir.. | fionna-and-aidan sexual-attraction | Samantha James | |
| 33ea3cf | She nestled against him, already limp and relaxed. With a tremulous little sigh, she curled her fist against his chest. Aidan had to force himself to relax. He held himself very still, tempering the desire that churned and clamored in his chest, twisting and turning restlessly. He was still shocked by it, by its strength, its persistence, for it grew more rousing with every moment spent with her. | fionna-and-aidan sexual-attraction | Samantha James | |
| b262763 | Naked, Aidan watched from the bed with smoldering eyes. He grinned. "But come tame this monster first!" | sexual-attraction | Samantha James | |
| e91472a | So you're trying to get me prepared for one of my crew dying?" "Historically speaking, humans are pretty much at a hundred percent on that." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 3658440 | Yeah," Alex said in his drawling voice. "I mean, Naomi only got beat half to death. She can cut this Clarissa slack, it's no big deal. But the captain's girlfriend got hurt. He's the real victim here." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 4e82ffe | Burton had sent Timmy to collect a debt, Timmy had killed the man instead, and Burton hadn't cut him loose. Two points defined a line, but three defined the playing field. Burton didn't always have need of boys like Timmy, but sometimes he did. Right now, he did. Lydia sighed. The churn was coming. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| ddf95f5 | Water from Saturn, vegetables and beef from the big mirror-fed greenhouses on Ganymede and Europa, organics from Earth and Mars. Power cells from Io, Helium-3 from the refineries on Rhea and Iapetus. A river of wealth and power unrivaled in human history came through Ceres. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| dd610b3 | by not elaborating, he'd sort of told the truth. The fact was weirdly disturbing. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 8bdd4f8 | Prepare us for what?" Holden asked. "To poke gods with a sharp stick?" "No, Captain Holden. No sticks," Duarte said. "When you fight gods, you storm heaven." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 132902e | Then why do they act like they hate us?" David's father said with something like triumph. "Because that's what fear looks like when it needs someplace to go." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 5691d01 | and the Mark Watney, out of Mars. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 6e5891a | Reputation never has very much to do with reality, | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 65af3d7 | The others had been laughing until Bobbie reminded them that low-power radio wasn't radio silence and politely suggested they all shut the fuck up instead of getting the team killed. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 284bfb1 | Oh, I'm not dying out here," Amos said, and pointed toward the interior of the ship with his chin. "Worst-case scenario, I'm dying inside there." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 1dc8d70 | I thought if you told people facts, they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| b3aebf2 | You all right?" He smiled. "Why do you ask?" "Because you're not all right," she said." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 52eb465 | I thought if you told people facts, they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people. Naomi | James S.A. Corey | ||
| c7e6bc1 | Baltimore was Earth writ small, crowded and bored. Its citizens were caught between the dismal life of basic and the barriers of class, race, and opportunity, vicious competition and limited resources, that kept all but the most driven from a profession and actual currency. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 93be2fa | Anyway, that's not what I meant when I said Marco decides when he wins. You don't understand how slippery he can be. Whatever happens, he'll shift so it was his plan all along. If he were the last person alive, he'd say we needed the apocalypse and declare victory. It's what he is. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 84b54c2 | Burton's misfortune was to be born where and when he was, in a city of scars and vice, in an age when the division in the popular mind was between living on government-funded basic support or having an actual profession and money of your own. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 4643201 | We're fine now," Sanjrani said. "We'll be fine for three years. Maybe three and a half. Then the recycling systems stop being able to meet demand. We won't have infrastructure in place to fill the gaps. And then we'll starve. Not just Earth. Not just Mars. The Belt too. And once we start, we'll have no way to stop." "All right," Michio said. "How do we fix it?" "I don't know," Sanjrani said." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 35e367f | As long as you always see the next step, you can walk the whole way." She" | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 5345038 | Thank you, Mister Patel," Holden said. "In thanks, you may now have all my stuff. I don't care about any of it anymore." "Including the coffee maker, sir?" "Almost all my stuff." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 17ba9f9 | He is, however," Amos continued, "keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel's reactor." Holden ran his fingers through his hair. "So not too generous, then." "Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c." | rail-gun speed-of-light tungsten war | James S.A. Corey | |
| 4bd7eb4 | We may have to get clever before the next one shows up, but no matter what happens, we'll keep firing until that thing is a cloud of complex molecules and regret. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| f8f27ef | He was her best friend, but he was terrible husband material. After his second failure at it Bobbie pointed out that if he just wanted something to hurt, she could break his arm for him and save everyone time. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| a57fff0 | Tilly screamed. Anna's shocked brain only registered annoyance at the sound. Really, when had someone screaming ever solved a problem? | James S.A. Corey | ||
| bef4bfd | Inaros isn't going to chase after the Giambattista and Rocinante, because he'll be distracted by the largest and most aggressive fleet action in history kicking his balls up into his throat. By the time he understands what we were really after, it'll be too late for him to do anything but hold his dick and cry. But I need to know that you're in. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 5c4ff4b | That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you'd just get tired and want it to end. For | James S.A. Corey | ||
| b6ed9bc | You ever wondered why I leave as soon as anyone else shows up?" "I'm special?" "Yeah, I wouldn't go that far." | James S.A. Corey |