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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 225d97b | All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'?" "Anna Karenina." | Lisa Gardner | ||
| f0fe217 | Family is family. Even if you hate them, it's hard to let go. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 97ae233 | Devouring lives by the dozen, from the innocent to the not-so-innocent. It hardly mattered to him. He took, because destroying others was the only time he wasn't afraid. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 8442d84 | YOU SPEND ENOUGH time chasing a dog to get back a precious black boot, you start to think like a dog. Spend the rest of your time chasing criminals, and you learn to think like a criminal. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 5bed047 | Harris Reed: "Ah, you caught me." Bobby: "And now's the part when I throw you back." | Lisa Gardner | ||
| f0ffc83 | darkened. And, oh, the graceful curve of the lower landing, the hand-hewn craftsmanship of each individual spindle, the hours of meticulous, painstaking labor. Except, then he turned away from the staircase toward the front sitting room to discover built-in shelves, a gorgeously restored fireplace mantel, the original crown dentil molding . . . He gave up. He stood in the middle of | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 64283e6 | approached alone, the hallway too small, the rooms too tightly bunched | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 22d59b3 | according to Freud, the tie you pick, the ring you wear, the shirt you buy, all say something about you. Nothing is random, everything you do has intent. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 7df859c | And that's love, yes? Not making all the right decisions all the time, but being there when it matters the most. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 1722023 | It's true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But no one says that strength doesn't come at a price. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 21be64c | No doubt about it: Mac would make an excellent mother. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 8bd494f | When we'd magically assumed we could do better than our own parents, because we hadn't walked in their shoes yet. We didn't realize just how complicated and lonely even a good marriage can get. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| c1cedd7 | In the past week or so, she was noticing some minor pains, small episodes of shortness of breath. Probably because she had a fairly decent-sized lifeform hanging off her spine, pummeling her lungs, playing soccer with her bladder. You know, the usual baby games. | motherhood pregnancy | Lisa Gardner | |
| 61713ee | Let me be the first to say, there isn't a hell big enough for some of the assholes we have walking here on this earth. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 0379dd0 | You can be in love and still feel incredibly lonely. You can have everything you ever wanted, only to realize that you wanted all the wrong things. You can have a husband as smart and sexy and compassionate as mine, and yet not really have him at all. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| e8d99d7 | Without sadness, there can be no happiness, which means a state of eternal bliss really wouldn't be that blissful. In fact, at a certain point, it would be mostly annoying. Nothing to strive for, nothing to look forward to, nothing to do. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| cd114c7 | The results are about as meaningful as a sixth toe - gives you something to look at, but doesn't do a damn thing. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| a00a237 | IN A DETECTIVE'S WORLD there was one true blight on society, and it wasn't the master criminal; after all, superpredators were few and far between. It was the media. Sunday | Lisa Gardner | ||
| f78eba7 | D. D. Warren knew from experience, | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 105b62b | And if I'd once fallen hard for my husband, I fell even harder for my child. It was as if my entire life had been building to this one moment, my finest work, my greatest accomplishment, this tiny bundle of precious life. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| a3cbcec | Alex said, his voice subdued, tense. "So it would seem," D.D." | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 34611d1 | COURTHOUSES WERE THEIR own special kind of madness. | Lisa Gardner | ||
| 0a1ff06 | He raised his right hand to her in the classic Vulcan salute. "Live long and prosper, Michael Burnham." She returned the salute and felt for a moment as if she had found the brother she had never known she had always wanted. "Peace and long life, Spock." | David Mack | ||
| 488559b | Perhaps I will not kill him in my sleep. At least, not tonight. | David Mack | ||
| 77b40c7 | How can I be lonely when I hate people? | David Mack | ||
| 234653b | Pick up your feet, Mister Saru," Burnham said as she and Gant headed to the turbolift. "Time, tide, and transporters wait for no one." | David Mack | ||
| 12c8ac3 | Maybe a captain more obsessed with strict protocol and formality would have been stalwart in hiding his feelings, but Riker didn't subscribe to such emotionally stunted ideals of manhood. | David W. Mack | ||
| ab8f52c | You would elevate tradition and societal approval over the expansion of knowledge. If anything deserves to be called 'illogical,' it is that. | David Mack | ||
| 8962441 | Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 807a42f | When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods. After a while, as the days of waking became less and less bearable from their .. | horror science-fiction | H. P. Lovecraft | |
| 82c437a | I am about to break into a dimension of the impossible. To enter this realm., I must set my mind (hypnotize myself) free from the earthly fetters that bind it. If the events to witness are unbelievable, it is only because my imagination is chained. So I now sit back, relax, and believe...so that I may cross the brink of time and space...into that land we sometimes visit in our dreams -- my horrific forsaken dreams. | h-p-lovecraft | Chris Mentillo | |
| 53f0015 | Who else sat on a wet rock, naked, reading ancient Greek? | Charlotte Gordon | ||
| 94fe122 | All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand. | Mary Gordon | ||
| 30777ba | I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish praise from blame. | Mary Gordon | ||
| d4d11a3 | listen. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| 8cc17dd | He'd known the headland was undercut from years of waves and weather, but he hadn't expected to trigger its complete collapse. Shoving the wall over had been merely an attempt to complicate the situation. He'd never imagined . . . this. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| f095448 | my grandfather laid claim to all the virtues. Vice was the only thing left to me." Clare scowled at him. "The old earl has been dead for four years, and you're a grown man. Find a better excuse, or learn better behavior." | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| f11243e | But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile! | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| c7772cc | Because you loved, you promised. You must try harder to keep that promise. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| e45c242 | Isn't a mistress supposed to care about her lover?" she asked softly. Their glances met, and Nicholas felt something shift deep inside him, creating a moment of strange vulnerability. This woman could hurt him badly if he wasn't careful." | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| cb58955 | Su abuela siempre le aconsejaba que no fuera demasiado explicita al formular sus deseos, porque a veces la mejor solucion es una que no se le ocurriria nunca. | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| f7419b9 | bullet wound will do." Gordon" | Mary Jo Putney | ||
| aa442bb | Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.) | horror | Lisa Unger | |
| fe3b7ba | When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. | Lisa Unger |