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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19fb591 | I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| b7016ad | Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2f715b4 | She gazed up at him. "Just don't forget our new motto, Leo. 'We can always murder them later, but we can't bring them back.'" "My wise and clever Bride." | iad lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| 04a014a | If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you. | war loyalty | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 8467e70 | Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?' Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.' Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?' Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...tha.. | music | Stephen King | |
| 46106cf | Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire. | Stephen King | ||
| 63494aa | There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 34f3d7e | In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself. | love | Jeanette Winterson | |
| eccd51e | They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces. | hate society | Richard Wright | |
| aacff4e | Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of manipulation in our society. It's how politicians peddle policy and how Madison Avenue sells us things that we don't need. Think about it. Fear that we're going to be attacked, fear that there are communists lurking around every corner, fear that some little Caribbean country that doesn't believe in our way of life poses a threat to us. Fear t.. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 514329b | A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil. | socialism politics | Terry Eagleton | |
| 1043298 | Keep calm and carry on. Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| bb7f1b2 | We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 73677a3 | It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon. Opal tapped this into her notepad. Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable? | fun humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| ee17c6e | Too much damned TV. Thinks he's Sherlock Holmes." "That's professor Moriarty," corrected Foaly. "Holmes, Moriarty, they both look the same with the flesh scorched off their skulls." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| f7142e1 | When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself. | Voltaire | ||
| 9c28c78 | Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a 'falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person." | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| f40db5e | You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid? | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| c89982d | It is not the strongest of the species that survives, | Charles Darwin | ||
| 540d47d | out of the arms... out of the arms of one love and into the arms of another I have been saved from dying on the cross by a lady who smokes pot writes songs and stories, and is much kinder than the last, much much kinder, and the sex is just as good or better. it isn't pleasant to be put on the cross and left there, it is much more pleasant to forget a love which didn't work as all love finally doesn't work... it is much more pleasant to mak.. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 14da37f | girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you luck in bed and out but not in mine thank you. | irony poem poetry women funny death life love bukowski dull girls misogyny rejection sexuality hell | Charles Bukowski | |
| e007a15 | Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 459baa1 | You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go. | Craig Thompson | ||
| b14de94 | She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. "They're anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, don't chew." "Well, I thought I'd stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, I'll swallow them." | funny rose medicine | Ilona Andrews | |
| 5857556 | Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! | suffering women love self-sacrifice purity girls | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 51f07a8 | I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE! | life inspirational book | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| 0b119b0 | the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses | E.E. Cummings | ||
| a8d02d0 | I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 29d001d | Oh, Claire," he said. "You think me a far better man than I am. That's kind, and flattering." "Are you saying that you -" "Doughnuts!" Myrnin interrupted her and darted away, to zip back in seconds with an open box." | myrnin doughnuts ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| b5c13ca | I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes. | Jorge Luis Borges | ||
| 1f7e237 | It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. | Norman Maclean | ||
| f685a41 | Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck. | witch vampire supernatural | Kim Harrison | |
| ceff1d9 | While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| fff9b26 | Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow. "Fuck You," said the Raven." | the-raven raven | Neil Gaiman | |
| dc13fe0 | Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs. | sagan skepticism | Carl Sagan | |
| eee8de9 | Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. | Carl Sagan | ||
| 08a87ea | Statistics show that men are interested in three things: careers, sports, and sex. That's why they love professional cheerleaders." Cal put down his fork "Well, that's sexist." "Yes i know," she said. "But it's true isn't it?" "What?" Cal tried to find his place in the conversation. "Oh, the sports and sex thing? Not at all. This is the twenty-first century. We've learned how to be sensitive." "You have?" "Sure," Cal said. "Otherwise we wou.. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| b6dbab0 | Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it. | money old imagine know young sarcasm | Oscar Wilde | |
| ff9dc60 | If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. | humor epigrams oscar-wilde tribute wit | Dorothy Parker | |
| d4bae40 | He'll come back," Simon said again. "For you." | vampires | Cassandra Clare | |
| 42ccd0f | You know," Kirk said finally, breaking the silence. "I see it. He is pretty hot." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| b5f78f1 | The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever: Someday you and I will be the only two left. | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 916bc50 | As long as you exist and I exist, I will love you. | queen-of-air-and-darkness the-dark-artifices emma-carstairs jemma | Cassandra Clare | |
| fb2fd42 | I was trying to go... somewhere. But I kept getting pulled back here. I couldn't stop walking, couldn't stop thinking. About the first time I ever saw you, and how after I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institute. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I shoul.. | love jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare |