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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 72eee50 | A problem shared is a problem doubled, | David Gemmell | ||
| bdd42ce | War. Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. | David Gemmell | ||
| 582536c | Fear cannot be trusted...It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest. | David Gemmell | ||
| 41f43e5 | Beware the wooden horse, Agamemnon King, Conqueror, for it will roar to the skies on wings of thunder and herald the death of nations. | fall-of-kings gemmell troy wooden-horse | David Gemmell | |
| 846e19a | In any broth, the scum [politicians] always rises to the top. | David Gemmell | ||
| 27a3af7 | the Betweeners must have known their time was short. Why else would they poison their rivers and streams, strip away the forests that gave them air and pollute their own bodies with toxins and carcinogens? | David Gemmell | ||
| 04a3181 | Who do you think you are?' Asiron asked, with a dry humourless laugh. 'I'll tell you who I am,' answered Parmenion, the words of Tamis echoing in his mind. 'I am Parmenion, the Death of Nations. | David Gemmell | ||
| db4c311 | We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls," she told him. "Even the purest, even the most holy. It is part of the human condition, born into us. We cannot root it out. All we can do--at best--is prevent it from germinating." | David Gemmell | ||
| a8a030e | But war makes heroes. Herakles and Ormenion were warriors, and tey have been made immortal. Father Zeus turned them into stars in the night sky. Oniacus scowled. 'In a drunken rage Herakles clubbed his wife to death, and Ormenion sacrificed his youngest daughter in order that Poseidon might grant fair winds for his attack on Kretos. | David Gemmell | ||
| 1e67eb4 | shyTn drwn nsn hy D`yf rshd mykhnd | David Gemmell | ||
| b85923a | hfstywn nghsh r bl awrd : "bh khshkhy ngh mykhrdm . z ynj chqdr arwm w SlH amyz bh nZr myrsh." drynwrd t'yyd khrd:"arh.hmh dny z rwy dry bhtr bh nZr myrsh.fkhr mykhnm dry m rw mtwD` mykhnh.wnqdr wsy` w b qdrth khh jh Tlby hy m dr mqblsh khwchkh w by rzsh bh nZr myn.mHdwdyt hmwn rw brjsth mykhnh" | David Gemmell | ||
| 6ed78c9 | Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self. | broken-hearted confess delusion denial happy heal healing honesty hope life love pathetic recover rigourous-honesty scars self-hate tragic treatment wound | Dennis Lehane | |
| 0f0062a | The Tale of Peter Rabbit Table of Contents | Beatrix Potter | ||
| 2007b53 | At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity. | Beatrix Potter | ||
| ac6c95a | Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it. - Margaret Wise Brown Home is the nicest word there is. Laura Ingalls Wilder What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common sense. Beatrix Potter I leave this beloved place to you, and with it, all of its secrets. And there are many, all here for you to discover. | Sarah Jio | ||
| 7f43c8e | For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over the town without going into the streets. | Beatrix Potter | ||
| 1a98ea7 | The part of the Lake District that Beatrix Potter chose as her own was not only physically beautiful, it was a place in which she felt emotionally rooted as a descendant of hard-working north-country folk. The predictable routines of farm life appealed to her. There was a realism in the countryside that nurtured a deep connection. The scale of the villages was manageable. Yet the vast desolateness of the surrounding fells was awe-inspiring... | lake-district | Linda Lear | |
| c18254a | Kathe anthropos boleuetai ston topo pou tou tairiazei." "One place suits one person, another place suits another person." | Beatrix Potter | ||
| 1eb670f | It's an island, boss. They'll always find us." Teddy met Chuck's eyes and nodded. For the first time since they'd met, he could see fear in Chuck's eyes, his jaw trying to tighten against it." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5d4d854 | all cats have a Spanish tinge although Puss himself elegantly lubricates his virile, muscular, native Bergamasque with French, since that is the only language in which you can purr. | french french-language purring | Angela Carter | |
| 9abb42c | The touch of her hand filled me with a wild loneliness. | Angela Carter | ||
| 979c06a | step between the gateposts of the forest with the greatest trepidation and infinite precautions, for if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you. They are grey as famine, they are as unkind as plague. The | Angela Carter | ||
| 98dd4f0 | Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. | Angela Carter | ||
| b16c2d8 | a great future behind him, already | future old waste writer | Angela Carter | |
| 723d7f9 | Their reflections merged together, rippling on the dark surface of the mirror that recorded only the intermittent pale blurs of their faces and the gracious, rocking-chair, three-hour rhythm of their bodies, spinning between the waltzing walls. Laughing, breathless, they whirled to the invisible rhetoric of a hundred violins. The patches of candlelight illuminated only their feet for odd moments, and then they were back, dancing in darkness.. | Angela Carter | ||
| b92fea4 | ESCAPING SLOWLY | Angela Carter | ||
| 166043d | I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world. | Angela Carter | ||
| 28f80be | But one story in this book, 'How a Husband Weaned His Wife from Fairy Tales', shows just how much fairy stories could change a woman's desires, and how much a man might fear that change, would go to any lenghts to keep her from pleasure, as if pleasure itself threatened his authority. Which, of course, it did. It still does. | Angela Carter | ||
| a42d9d5 | Finn is Daddy,' said Victoria with fat satisfaction. 'Not yet,' said Finn. 'But we'll christen the first one Proximity.' Melanie choked on a mouthful. | Angela Carter | ||
| 6302363 | Snowlight, moonlight, a confusion of paw-prints. | Angela Carter | ||
| 11623c6 | She is obscene to the extent to which she is beautiful. Her beauty, her submissiveness and the false expectations that these qualities will do her some good are what make her obscene. | Angela Carter | ||
| 93c140d | The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break. | Angela Carter | ||
| 95f8e20 | Fevvers felt that shivering sensation which always visited her when mages, wizards, impresarios came to take away her singularity as though it were their own invention, as though they believed she depended on their imaginations n order to be a woman. She felt herself turning, willy-nilly, from a woman into an idea. | woman | Angela Carter | |
| 90cac57 | He grudgingly admitted what she had already guessed, that he disliked the presence of servants because, she thought, a constant human presence would remind him too bitterly of his otherness [...] | Angela Carter | ||
| 3b4349f | There's a special madness strikes travellers from the North when they reach the lovely land where the lemon trees grow. We come from countries of cold weather; at home, we are at war with nature but here, ah! you think you've come to the blessed plot where the lion lies down with the lamb. Everything flowers; no harsh wind stirs the voluptuous air. The sun spills fruit for you. And the deathly, sensual lethargy of the sweet South infects th.. | Angela Carter | ||
| 3c01f5e | And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods. | Angela Carter | ||
| 22297c7 | And the light, I must apologise for the lack of light... a hereditary affliction of the eyes... | Angela Carter | ||
| 5261423 | It was a sensitive and musical dog. | music | Angela Carter | |
| 31cec24 | Spilt, glistering milk of moonlight on the frost-crisped grass; on such a night, in moony, metamorphic weather, they say you might easily find him, if you had been foolish enough to venture out late, scuttling along by the churchyard wall with half a juicy torso slung across his back. The white light scours the fields and scours them again until everything gleams and he will leave paw-prints in the hoar-frost when he runs howling round the .. | Angela Carter | ||
| cd5a37b | She looks wonderful, but she doesn't look right. | Angela Carter | ||
| cb017d1 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues, who seem always to be perceiving another dimension, where everything is statues. | Angela Carter | ||
| a6524bb | He could not write what he wanted, but what he had to. | Joseph Pearce | ||
| ab4cfe4 | every life should be a quest to achieve the goal of heaven through a growth in virtue, thereby attaining the power, through grace, to overcome the monsters and demons which seek to prevent the achievement of this paramount goal. It is in this way and with this understanding of the meaning and purpose of life that we are meant to read The Hobbit and it is in this way, and this way alone, that we find its deepest and most applicable meaning. | Joseph Pearce | ||
| a5feaff | And here is the paradox at the heart of the Christian life: The one who embraces suffering, who dies to himself in order to die for others, is actually happier than the one who shuns suffering and who puts himself above all else. | Joseph Pearce |