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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5151bac | Charlie Asher: I accidently shagged a monk last night. Minty Fresh: Sometimes, in times of crisis, that shit cannot be avoided. | Christopher Moore | ||
| b54911e | He rewarded me with one of those brilliant smiles. If I had been less professional, it might have melted me into my socks. There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was a little boy peeking out, an uncertain little boy. That was it. That was the attraction. Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself. It appeals not only to the woman in us all, but the mother. A dangerous combination. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| a8a337a | If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 1a72914 | We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome. | religion thought-provoking | Richard Bach | |
| 3877058 | I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car. | Linda Howard | ||
| a074d50 | Demon pox. There's always demon pox. | demon-pox will | Cassandra Clare | |
| b85c057 | If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world. | P.C. Cast | ||
| 29b4451 | God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization. | humanism science free-inquiry | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 220970e | A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 9bf7d37 | She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. | humorous stories | Neil Gaiman | |
| 933305d | But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so. | humor manic mania mental-illness psychology | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 6fc5ea0 | He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 033c3d2 | With the whole Mark of Cain thing, does that mean if I accidentally kick you during the night, I get kicked in the shins seven times by an invisible force? | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| f44782d | I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale. I will try to learn how to have it, without you to show me. Tessa, Jem said. She knows despair, and hope as well. you can teach each other. Find her, Will, and tell her that I loved her always. My blessings, for all that it is worth, is on you both. | page-246 clockwork-princess tessa-gray jem-carstairs will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| f32d8d6 | If only Simon were here. He could probably bore you to sleep. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 50487ec | All stories are true. But some of them never happened. | perspective stories | James A. Owen | |
| fa9e5d0 | The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese. | Spencer Johnson | ||
| 76e25a7 | See what you're doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better. | Spencer Johnson | ||
| c40cf6a | Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b359af4 | She was glad she didn't know where it would take her. Because sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out. [Ehlena] | J.R. Ward | ||
| 66d4665 | Science is the only religion of mankind. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| c276615 | It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. | youth | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| c495b9d | A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. | truth | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| d05a8f0 | On the day of the dead, when the year too dies, Must the youngest open the oldest hills Through the door of the birds, where the breeze breaks. There fire shall fly from the raven boy, And the silver eyes that see the wind, And the light shall have the harp of gold. By the pleasant lake the Sleepers lie, On Cadfan's Way where the kestrels call; Though grim from the Grey King shadows fall, Yet singing the golden harp shall guide To break the.. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 72b4d40 | A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 10a84ec | Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 7487a24 | Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands | Judy Blume | ||
| 674fcef | We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 6a29a81 | One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA. | romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| a10dcaa | If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out of straightforward obedience. "Your attendants. I have spoken to them. You will speak to them as well." "Ah. They have seen me in my nightshirt." He looked down at his sleeve, embroidered with white flowers. "Not in your nightshirt, though." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 311313d | There are a lot of things a person with two hands couldn't steal," Eddis said. "So?" "If it's impossible to steal them with two hands, it's no more impossible to steal them with one. Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time." -- | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| b49987b | I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken. | love tris tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| 4a6b023 | One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| ca37d43 | live your life as if you may lose everything. | Mary Higgins Clark | ||
| dd01a62 | Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs? | funny sharp shave arya-stark george-r-r-martin jon-snow a-song-of-ice-and-fire sword cutting | George R.R. Martin | |
| e9163f5 | In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes." -- | war heroism | Stephen E. Ambrose | |
| 1132906 | He shook his head pityingly. "This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do i.. | reminding philosophy-of-life | Robin Hobb | |
| 68f736b | Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 9542881 | Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells. | humor harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 72d0927 | This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy." | movie-reference zombies | Holly Black | |
| d1f58a2 | I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| b13a5ef | Never follow the crowd. | inspirational | Bernard Baruch | |
| 0168bc6 | If I look at the mass I will never act. | inspirational activism apathy genocide helplessness power | Mother Teresa | |
| 2820f28 | Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. | inspirational | Eugene O'Neill |