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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6fd3d14 | When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 2d9d257 | As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 2fff584 | A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife's adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death. There is a familiar version of this story, but a friend of mine - a Speaker for the Dead - has told me of two other Rabbis that faced the same situation. Those are the ones I'm going to tell you. The Rabbi walks forward and stands beside the woman. Out o.. | forgiveness law life | Orson Scott Card | |
| ba72615 | Modesty is for saints and losers. I'm neither. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0103804 | Some things are best left...unknown, you know? People search for answers and they don't always like what they get. Sometimes the truth is worse than the lie. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4388a16 | At the end of the hall stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque: ASCLEPIUS MD, DMD, DME, DC, DVS, FAAN, OMG, EMT, TTYL, FRCP, ME, IOU, OD, OT, PHARMD, BAMF, RN, PHD, INC., SMH There may have been more acronyms in the list, but by that point Leo's brain had exploded. | greek-gods leo-valdez rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| a5adf36 | Your mom is a rainbow goddess?" "You got a problem with that?" "No, no. Rainbows. Very macho." | iris leo | Rick Riordan | |
| 1cd47a1 | One false step, and you'll fall all the way to Tartarus--and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will have you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork. | arachne artwork death doors-of-death heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians tartarus the-mark-of-athena weaving | Rick Riordan | |
| df87202 | You teach combat, I guess." Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. "Why does everyone assume that?" Leo glanced at the massive sword on the fish-guy's back. "Uh, I don't know." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 7846a9e | There was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, "Percy is my brother?" like he'd just won the lottery. Aw, Tyson," I'd say. "It's not that simple." | rick-riordan sea-of-monsters | Rick Riordan | |
| 4d8ac9b | I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 9169492 | And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| fa05f8a | All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| c542e17 | Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that ve.. | health meat veganism vegetarianism | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 352c98c | Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 84ef988 | my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. | life | Nick Hornby | |
| 516a039 | I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 589a79f | We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 066aa39 | First came bright Spirits, not the Spirits of men, who danced and scattered flowers. Then, on the left and right, at each side of the forest avenue, came youthful shapes, boys upon one hand, and girls upon the other. If I could remember their singing and write down the notes, no man who read that score would ever grow sick or old. Between them went musicians: and after these a lady in whose honour all this was being done. I cannot now rem.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 0688bf0 | We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. | education inspiration knowledge life work | C.S. Lewis | |
| c736085 | Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! | funny | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 053972d | Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn't have any panties on, but she had good manners. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 6788f88 | Just because someone isn't willing or able to love us, it doesn't mean that we are unlovable. | Brené Brown | ||
| d4b8b9e | Wizard Howl," said Wizard Suliman. "I must apologize for trying to bite you so often. In the normal way, I wouldn't dream of setting teeth in a fellow countryman." | wales welsh | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| e992c43 | Haven't you ever noticed that people who win say it's because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn't the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 6efa3a5 | Actually--and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable--some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan--'a land without.. | britain colonialism europe holy-land irony israel israeli-palestinian-conflict jews land palestine religion turkey zionism | Christopher Hitchens | |
| d19787e | In all the world, you are what I love the most. | jem-carstairs tessa-gray | Cassandra Clare | |
| 11b2e56 | I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave, and what their neighbors need to do to be on the side of the good. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9f94843 | She smiled again. "Do you like cat?" she said. "Yes," said Richard. "I quite like cats." Anaesthesia looked relieved. "Thigh?" she asked, "or breast?" | humor | Neil Gaiman | |
| 134aa4a | I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 312a794 | The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. | grammar humor misunderstandings problems troubles world | Michel de Montaigne | |
| 5ab8860 | I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff?" "I was born amazing" Jace stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingertips, lightly but enough to make her shiver." | clary-fray jace-lightwood | Cassandra Clare | |
| c085aaa | Any place you love is the world to you. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 4b27780 | You could sketch me," said Emma. She flung herself down onto her seat, leaning her head on her hand. " 'Draw me like one of your French girls.' " Julian grinned. "I hate that movie," he said. "You know I do." Emma sat up indignantly. "The first time we watched Titanic, you cried." "I had seasonal allergies," Jules said." | emma-carstairs julian-blackthorn lord-of-shadows | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9c5faf5 | Will set his fork down and began cheerfully, in the manner of Edward Lear's | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ed9a745 | Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind. | cassandra-clare city-of-fallen-angels friends loneliness vampire | Cassandra Clare | |
| 737012e | I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.' | Cassandra Clare | ||
| cadb9f5 | I don't have a reason to lie to you. Not now.' Jace's gaze remained steady. 'And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous.' 'Good,' Simon said. 'If you want to know why it's because you smell like blood.' 'It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury.' Jace raised his left hand. It was a glove of white bandages, stained across the knucles where blood had seeped through. | jace-wayland simon-lewis vampire | Cassandra Clare | |
| 85cfc6d | I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born." | Christopher Pike | ||
| 53a6bd1 | I mean, I think I am basically a cool girl, but I am also a pain in the ass. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| be64842 | I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice." | humor | John Green | |
| 54bf997 | Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really. | John Green | ||
| d527352 | You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. | John Green | ||
| f092bfe | The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves. | shakespeare the-fault-in-our-stars william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare |