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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e374f28 | In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 560b6bc | He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced." | madness universe | Douglas Adams | |
| e43a518 | She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted. | foolishness psychology truth | Jeffery Deaver | |
| a1a0222 | I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 6519c85 | Sunshine, I... Starla's voice broke off as she entered the room and caught sight of him standing naked in the corner. She eyed him in an odd, detached way, as if he were an interesting piece of furniture. Talon and modesty were strangers, but the way she stared at him made him damned uncomfortable. In spite of the sunlight, Talon grabbed the pink blanket off the bed and clutched it to his middle. You know, Sunshine, you need to find a man l.. | humor paranmoral-romance | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 6a2f367 | I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 67e88f6 | Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 57b1103 | Your number was up the first time I met you. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| caa55f6 | Um, Bella? You've got a huge cut on your forehead, and it's gushing blood," he informed me. I clapped my hand over my head. Sure enough, it was wet and sticky. I could smell nothing but the damp moss on my face, and that held off the nausea. Oh, I'm so sorry, Jacob." I pushed hard against the gash, as if I could force the blood back inside my head. Why are you apologizing for bleeding?" he wondered as he wrapped a long arm around my waist .. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 2193ac3 | She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers--stern and wild ones--and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 1ea1b18 | We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | ||
| 1404509 | I'm ready for that adrenaline rush...with you. | colin perfect-chemistry | Simone Elkeles | |
| b37efe0 | When I come back, the club is packed. There's hardly any standing room. Anna snagged a wooden bar stool, one of the few seats here. St. Clair stands close to her, facing her, and he smoothes the platinum stripe in her hair. She pulls him even closer by the top of his jeans, one finger tucked inside. It's an intimate gesture. I'm embarrassed to watch, but I can't look away. He kisses her slowly and deeply. They don't care that anyone could.. | lola love st-clair | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 0e541e3 | How much detention did you get? "Two weeks. One per arsehole." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 1aa5648 | What, eBay isn't good enough for us? | James Patterson | ||
| e1e88f9 | She laughed, and the desert sang. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 5f152c2 | Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing." | Harper Lee | ||
| d1f7d52 | It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully. | David Levithan | ||
| c619f11 | In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit. I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, just stay there for three or four days. Then I'd put on my clothes and I'd walk outside, and the sunlight was brilliant, and the sounds were great. I felt powerful, like a recharged battery. But you know the first bring-down? The first human fac.. | sleep | Charles Bukowski | |
| 3f7731e | We live in a primitive time--don't we, Will?--neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books. | Thomas Harris | ||
| d2c3d18 | I can pick up the city feeds on my antenna. It said they were going to change you all. Turn you into something less dangerous. Are you still...?" She gazed at him. "What do you think, David?" He peered into her eyes for a long moment, then sighed and shook his head. "You just look like Tally to me." She looked down, her vision blurring. What's the matter?" Nothing, David." She shook her head. "You just took on five million years of evolutio.. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8e11a37 | We're the unmended, the untended, cold soldiers of the shoe. We're the neglected, the never resurrected, agonies of the few. We're the once kissed, unmissed and always refused. Because we're the unfinished and feared and we're never pursued. And just that easily, on my behalf, I come around. Because I'm burning. The beast of War feeds only on the meats of War. And now I'm for carnage. Here's how my anguish frees. Destroy everyone of course... | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 16e589c | Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 3240e3d | It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people. | Natsuo Kirino | ||
| 195240a | If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 11d62e5 | Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God! | Victor Hugo | ||
| d5fe9a4 | A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| c605367 | To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts -- when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break -- at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent -- I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 75308d8 | A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her. He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he pauses -- fancying she has stirred: he withdraws: not for worlds would he be seen. All is still: he again advances: he bends above her; a light veil rests on her features: he lifts it, bends lower; now his eyes anticipate the vision of beauty -- warm, and blooming,.. | expectation horror imagery jane-eyre reality | Charlotte Brontë | |
| cd8fae5 | Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss? | hell religion | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 9c69cae | They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then--how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look.. | youth | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 9d31978 | Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 4b71ac7 | She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| a95ebd1 | What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. | George Eliot | ||
| 5071095 | I felt for the tormented whirlwinds | inferno italian-medieval-poetry lustful passion reason sinners | Dante Alighieri | |
| b298281 | To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| cf60595 | I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. ( ) | charles-dickens ever-after everlasting-life faith paradise resurrection sydney-carton tale-of-two-cities | Anonymous | |
| 99abec4 | do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? | Robert Greene | ||
| 5863469 | The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. | inspirational life mortality | Mitch Albom | |
| 0eaf032 | Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9a0d9ee | sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks... | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 5790894 | No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| b181c6c | presume nothing | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 846aef8 | This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it. | Anthony Burgess |