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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8d5c7ae | St. Leonard's Police Station DS Siobhan Clarke (pronounced "Shiv-awn") DI Derek Linford no friend to Rebus, disliked by Siobhan DCS Gill Templer officer in charge of St. Leonard's DC David Hynds a new recruit DS George "Hi-Ho" Silvers officer with both eyes on approaching pension DC Grant Hood young and unpredictable officer with a crush on Siobhan DC Phyllida Hawes tough female officer, usually based at Gayfield Square DCI Bill Pryde secon.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 10e48b7 | Bessant friend of the deceased, also an art dealer Malcolm Neilson artist William Allison Neilson's lawyer Dominic Mann art dealer Eric "Brains" Bain detective, computer specialist Professor Gates pathologist Morris Gerald "Big Ger" Cafferty Edinburgh's preeminent gangster" | Ian Rankin | ||
| 0c0660b | Ah, but it was not a nice world this, not a nice world at all. It was an Old Testament land that he found himself in, a land of barbarity and retribution. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 96d7419 | Where was the religion for a man who believed that good and bad must coexist, even within the individual? Where was the religion for a man who believed in God but not in God's religion? | Ian Rankin | ||
| 463b5ce | Thou art the shoals on which Caliban wilt dash his heart to pieces. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| e9d39cc | People are beginning to realise," the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, "that no matter how 'nelly' or how 'fem' a homosexual is, you can only push them so far." -- | homosexual nelly stonewall | Ann Bausum | |
| 6304c9f | The spirit that emerged outside a Mafia-run bar in 1969 became the pulse of the gay community and inspired not just an annual parade but ways to express gay pride in individual lives. Stonewall happens every day. | Ann Bausum | ||
| a5bc24f | Change does come. | Ann Bausum | ||
| 67801dd | The Hayes-Tilden deadlock and the fate of Radical Republican administrations in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana eventually were resolved in Washington with Senator John B. Gordon playing a large role. Gordon apparently helped forge a "bargain" under which the South agreed to certification of the election of Hayes on an understanding that the new President would evacuate the last Federal occupation troops from South Carolina, Florida,.. | Jack Hurst | ||
| 61a7d99 | everybody who knows me or even knows I exist will die, and then everybody who knows those people and might even conceivably have even heard of me will die, and so on, and the gravestones and monuments we spend money to have put in to make sure we're remembered, these'll last what--a hundred years? two hundred?--and they'll crumble, and the grass and insects my decomposition will go to feed will die, and their offspring, or if I'm cremated t.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 5f0c237 | Modern wars as a rule have been caused by the commercial and financial rivalry and intrigues of the capitalist interests in the different countries. Whether they have been frankly waged as wars of aggression or have been hypocritically represented as wars of "defense," they have always been made by the [ruling] classes and fought by The Masses. Wars bring wealth and power to the ruling classes, and suffering, death, and demoralization to th.. | John Nichols | ||
| 02e000b | So we had to take up the challenge or for ever lose the right to be decent, self-respecting inhabitants of a free world. It became necessary for us to forget the rules temporarily so that in the future rules could occupy a permanent, honoured place in a better way of life. | John Nichol | ||
| 040406c | associate me with names that connoted fame, money, and power. These were the relationships she supported, also because they were less attainable. She loved that I had briefly dated John Travolta, Jimmy McNichol, Leif Garrett, Scott Baio, and John Kennedy. | Brooke Shields | ||
| 997ab6e | We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place? | war sex life | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| 4c8a38d | A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed. | sex taming nationalism | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| d692c76 | A brand is as much an open invitation to complain as it is a promise to deliver | Simon Anholt | ||
| b12d5ae | Mom hopped up to turn off the burner, but it subsided before she got there. 'If this--whatever it is--starts playing with fire,' she said through clenched teeth, 'I'm going to give it a spanking. | Ann Hodgman | ||
| 6ae1038 | A strong man next to you in bed is a comfort, but real security is a German Shepherd bitch on guard at the door. | security-blanket | Susan Conant | |
| 0aac987 | I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.' Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything. | doing | A.J. Hartley and David Hewson | |
| f842ad7 | Perhaps," he continued, "this capacity for evil is in all of us, then, and it's largely down to fortune whether we encounter the circumstance that breathes life into it or not. Just as it's luck that determines when or if that faulty gene breaks and gives you cancer or Marfan or the physique of an Olympian." | David Hewson | ||
| 7223a2d | It's so much easier to define crime than it is to put your finger on justice. | David Hewson | ||
| 97377d2 | Abbott has always had a knack of sidestepping blame for his own hyperbole. Even wild exaggerations are rarely held against him. He retracts a little and is forgiven a lot. "What you've got is constant colour and movement," says his old boss John Hewson. "He gets right in your face. He exaggerates; he grabs the headlines, even if he knows that the next day he's gonna have to back that off." | David Marr | ||
| 14cfba2 | A child was a brief and blissful interlude of responsibility, not a thing to be owned. | David Hewson | ||
| 534f0f9 | His dad, dying in the hospital, had said something about pain. It stuck to you like flour. You thought you could wash it all away, out of your clothes, out of your hair. But some stray grain always persisted, slyly avoiding your well-meant attentions and the drugs the doctors had. Life was like that. The only thing to do, he said, was your best. | David Hewson | ||
| 906b3d6 | The world turns, and life changes, the good old days are fantasies-just screened memories. | Howard Chaykin | ||
| 3559a5f | Gilda: How severe is the corporal punishment here? Mrs. McCracken: Honey, nobody's going to spank you here. Don't worry. | Jennifer Allison | ||
| 51a7965 | And it is a good thing that many ideas have a relatively short shelf-life. Some because they are bad, even pernicious ideas: the Master Race, the class struggle, the Oedipus complex, and Socialism are four bad ideas with wretched consequences that come immediately to mind. | Joseph Epstein | ||
| 1be2836 | On meditation Real Happiness, Sharon Salzberg Insight Meditation, Joseph Goldstein On Buddhism and mindfulness in general Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, Dr. Mark Epstein Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor | Dan Harris | ||
| 633bc3e | At the time, I thought if Stan Davis wanted to live on Green Valley Road, or in the Hundred-Acre Wood, that was his right as an American | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b38a594 | This book is dedicated to all the people who told me they enjoyed Dead Until Dark. Thanks for the encouragement. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| cb33171 | Humans who are born with the essential spark are born to experience or perform something wonderful, something amazing. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4921e39 | Oh, I took some night school courses in psychology," said Bill Compton, vampire." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e3f0f02 | Your life was not right when you were actually surprised that someone didn't want to kill you. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6f0faf3 | I got up the next day at noon, feeling as relaxed as a cat in a pool of sunshine, | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 7b359fc | Ar trebui sa se puna o pancarta pe care sa crie: "Loc de parcare pentru cei care comit atacuri nocturne asupra lui Sookie"." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| e821802 | I have no idea. You know what's really scary?" "What?" "No one will tell you." "Like who?" "Anyone. It's the damnedest thing. I really want to know what I'm up against. So I ask my best friend, she's had two. She says, 'Oh, when you see what you get it's worth it.' That's no answer, right? So I ask someone else who didn't use any anesthesia. She says, 'Oh, you'll forget all about it when you see the baby.' That's not an answer either. And m.. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| b639bac | No threatening the cat!" Mr. Snuggly said." | humor | Charlaine Harris | |
| b56ca02 | The cruelty of children is more shocking than the cruelty of adults. Not only was I shocked, I was angry. But it felt somehow wrong, unhealthy, to be so furious with a child. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 66f398f | Suddenly the blood tasted good, salty, the stuff of life. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| bcbd08b | It must be one of the worst things in the world, to see your child revealed as a selfish little sadist. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 8d68292 | You want to own your own life," Eric said. "As much as anyone can." "Just when I think you're very simple, you say something complex," Eric said. "Are you complaining?" I tried to smile, failed. "No." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| cec0332 | Deitei-me diante da tua lareira e falei contigo sobre a tua vida. - disse. Nao tinha nada a ver com o assunto. -Humm... Sim. Fizemos isso. - Recordo o nosso duche juntos. - Tambem fizemos isso. - Fizemos tanta coisa. - Ah... pois. Esta bem. - Se nao tivesse tanta coisa para fazer aqui em Shreveport, sentir-me-ia tentado a visitar-te para te recordar como gostaste de cada uma dessas coisas. - Se bem me lembro - afirmei -, tambem gostaste. - .. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 6eba42b | The Rev's house is similar to Fiji's, but it's older, smaller, and has only sparse grass in the little front yard. It is also in no way welcoming or charming, and he has no cat. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| ff864ca | I started to say that couldn't happen, that the people I knew wouldn't turn on their friends and neighbors because of an accident of birth. But in the end, I didn't say that, because I wondered if it was the truth. | Charlaine Harris |