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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| be1e033 | Social security was the most emotional issue that session. Republicans protested that if the administration bill were passed, children would no longer support their parents, the payroll tax would discourage workmen so much that they would quit their jobs, and that, taken all in all, the measure would remove the "romance of life." | William R. Manchester | ||
| 9bb214d | The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. --JOHN F. KENNEDY on Theodo.. | William R. Manchester | ||
| 42a7a9d | People saw her pretty elf face and red-gold curls and immediately concluded that she was on the side of angels and paladins. In Sharlarra's opinion, people that shallow and stupid deserved to be robbed. | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| dea11aa | Oddly enough, I don't find myself concerned with 'impossible.' It's an enormous relief to know that I'm not having delusions. Nothing real, impossible or not, could be as frightening as that. | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| 4241222 | Close' only counts in horseshoe games and fireball spells | magic | Elaine Cunningham | |
| d760f54 | Look at the sky. Does its sapphire hue dim when you take a single breath? Are the stars drawn closer when you weep? The sky cannot be diminished so. Thus it is with the spirit: it is a thing without beginning or end. | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| f6c6f5c | You will be sacrificed to the gods, and then I will tear out your heart with my own hands." "If you still have your own hands, you're probably not as far up the ladder as you wanted us to think. Put someone else on -- someone with real authority and a few more replacement parts." Tsavong Lah & Jaina" | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| 841abba | The impossible always takes a little longer | Elaine Cunningham | ||
| 2916cd3 | No. No he didn't break you, my dear." Inhuman eyes probed hers delicately. "The most he managed was a bend here and there. Apparently he has forgotten that the beat of the hammer in the flame's heart only strengthens a good blade." | Angela Knight | ||
| 0ef8a8a | He grinned: he'd turned in time to witness her delicate white shoulders dip below the water's surface. Thankfully, she quickly completed her morning's ablutions and made a shooing motion with her hands. Back turned again, he waited for her to dress, all the while telling his privy counselor to cease its repeated suggestions. | medieval-knight medieval-romance time-travel-romance wales | Angela Quarles | |
| 1db64e4 | The pulse visible in the pale column of her neck vibrated faster, her intoxicating scent washed over him, and he was dizzy with lust. Even through his mail and gambeson, he could feel her womanly curves crushed against his hard chest. He uncurled his fingers from her throat and ran the tough leather of his palm's mitten along her neck and to the enticing curve of her shoulder. He nudged her mantle an inch, exposing skin. He cursed that hi.. | knight medieval-time-travel-romance wales | Angela Quarles | |
| 4d2b4a1 | His heat, his erotic pull--she could feel it. A weird, pulsing, virtual pull tugging at her skin, her nerve endings. Made her want to...touch. Made her want. The more she resisted the urge, the stronger it became. It would be a relief, really. To just...touch. One little touch. Just one. | knight medieval-time-travel-romance wales | Angela Quarles | |
| 662cdff | Here, sleep with your back against me. I shall protect you better this way." She nodded, shuffled closer, and leaned back against him. Her unique womanly scent washed over him, and he fortified his resolve, though having her so close on a bed of furs fired his blood. She dragged her fur up, and he draped his extra across, tucking it in around her shoulders and arms. "I do not fancy having one of them lying next to you. Besides, I wish not.. | knight medieval-romance time-travel-romance wales | Angela Quarles | |
| 4cf8c99 | He dragged his lips up the soft skin of her neck and gently nipped her ear lobe, sipping on the soft flesh. Her hands splayed against his chest. Expecting a shove, his senses careened when her fingers fisted his surcoat. Their ragged breath overloud in the forest, he eased his face away, nose rubbing against her jaw on his retreat, and sought her eyes. Hers darkened and--Lord help him--held no censure, only interest. He stepped back. | chainmail historical-time-travel-romance knight medieval-time-travel-romance wales | Angela Quarles | |
| 6893ea3 | What? You think your White Knight's going to charge in and save the day? Not fucking likely. Nic's locked up far away from anywhere anyone would ever even think to look. And Dmitri knows all about Daniel. The only reason he's not strung up in a cave somewhere is because we don't want to call any more attention to ourselves. Daniel's out there hunting alone, and thanks to you his mind's jacked. He'll fold." - Luc to Sarah." | demon-slayer | Angela B. Wade | |
| 69304b3 | Amity was the cold, steady gaze of a double-barreled shotgun, bearing down. She was the glint of pinprick pupils gleaming through a night-lit window, the rythmic blast of a door left banging in a gale wind. The slither of a flesh-flayed limb beneath a bed skirt, a welcome note etched in blood. Amity's forever was reflected in the glimmering edge of an ax, in the rushing footprints, the twitching tail, the brushing fingertips of a zephyr, a .. | horror house | Micol Ostow | |
| 586b2ac | streets with no signs, | Jude Watson | ||
| b76180c | One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way. | obi-wan-kenobi star-wars | Jude Watson | |
| a7d6ac1 | When food arrives, eat; enjoy what you have in every moment. | Jude Watson | ||
| c5815a8 | RUTHERFORD PIERCE TO LEAD REPORTERS ON TOUR OF FOUNDERS MEDIA HEADQUARTERS SITE IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON. | Jude Watson | ||
| ef4bfd1 | amber | Jude Watson | ||
| 54821db | I'm so hungry," Amy said sleepily. "Hey, you stole my line," Dan said." -- | Jude Watson | ||
| 19c3b3a | The sound of rushing water filled Amy Cahill's ears. If she kept her eyes closed, she could imagine she was standing under a beautiful tropical waterfall. Unfortunately, she was hiding in an airport bathroom. Inside | Jude Watson | ||
| 60bba06 | This looks state-of-the-art," Jake remarked." | Jude Watson | ||
| f4391dd | There's a fine line between criminality and genius, | Jude Watson | ||
| 3770bf6 | Living with purpose was hard. | Jude Watson | ||
| fbfc910 | Sometimes kids at school called her mean. She wasn't mean. She just saw reality clearly, and she shared it without dusting it in sugar and rainbows first. One day, when Anna was in first grade, she'd come home crying after her best friend had suddenly refused to sit with her at lunch. Her mother had tried to comfort her. "When someone asks you if you like their dress, say yes," she said. Anna had sniffed, tears rolling down her face, and sa.. | Jude Watson | ||
| 28fcacc | It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill" | ancient dan-cahill jude-watson nowhere-to-run smell smells the-39-clues unstoppable | Jude Watson | |
| 8bf1ce3 | grinned. "If I'm driving, we can." | Jude Watson | ||
| 54d6eb7 | You know, sometimes the right thing isn't the thing you think is right. It's the wrong thing you're afraid to think of. | risks wrong | Jude Watson | |
| 43dc62d | Okay," Amy said, blowing out a breath. "Our grandmother Grace left a will that gave us a choice between a million dollars and a hunt to find thirty-nine clues, which, when we put them together, will make us the most powerful people in the world. So we chose the hunt. Along with various assorted horrible Cahill relatives, all of whom have tried to kill us at one time or another." Shep sighed. "If you don't want to tell me, I guess that's up .. | Jude Watson | ||
| 3cac9d2 | Don't you love that? One of the greatest scientific innovations of all time just came to Townes as he was sitting on a bench in a park. And then he starts "scratching" it out on paper." | James Scott Bell | ||
| bcebd8f | Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our back. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 4013004 | at least ten writing sessions. | James Scott Bell | ||
| b05a927 | Drive thy business or it will drive thee." - Benjamin Franklin" | James Scott Bell | ||
| 94446bf | It's quite interesting to note that Townes's colleagues at Columbia were skeptical of his idea. Niels Bohr, one of the great quantum physicists, and Nobel laureate Isadore Rabi, head of the university's physics department, told Townes his maser idea would never work and urged him to abandon the project. | James Scott Bell | ||
| ad7d0f0 | Good writers are good readers. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 30e9ada | I was in the house alone. That's usually the case because I'm writing and my wife is out in the real world doing something of great value and being with actual people. People who are not tied down to a keyboard, monitor and chair calling out to people who aren't in the house. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 0be991d | Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 85a9c6b | The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay" | James Scott Bell | ||
| c103c0e | To be a writer, you have to write. Not like it's your job, and not like it's your love. You have to write like it's your holy chore, you have to write like you are compelled from above and within and without and with everything that you are. You have to write bad stories, you have to write cowboy stories, you have to write period pieces and opinion essays and speeches, and plays, and stuff you wouldn't show your mother and don't wanna see y.. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 005bb81 | What I found was a moment where the main character has to figuratively look at himself, as in the mirror. He is confronted with a disturbing truth: change or die. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 74460e8 | You must want it enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft--then you can add all the genius you like." - Phyllis Whitney" | James Scott Bell | ||
| b18f922 | A quirky, colorful character overstays her welcome after a few chapters, unless trouble comes calling. | James Scott Bell |