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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8add051 | Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6954536 | Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| b8873e6 | You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. | Michael Crichton | ||
| ab3c6e4 | She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2addab8 | That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more." | love pain | Ray Bradbury | |
| a4f051a | Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. | life | Ray Bradbury | |
| 21d0191 | They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. | chain-reactions control fear political-bias religious-prejudice | Ray Bradbury | |
| afc1fcb | The more I wonder, the more I love. | Alice Walker | ||
| 50ab3f2 | I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass. | disappointment holidays | Sylvia Plath | |
| 3d45cad | How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old? | John Updike | ||
| 329d26b | You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 19ec125 | Gods were like possums. You could go your whole life without seeing one, but once you found one of them, you found the whole freaky family. | covenant-series jennifer-l-armentrout sentinel | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| fe171e5 | Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. | Henry Miller | ||
| 8949708 | The god's voice was tinged with disappointment. you "I've been to Tartarus and back," Nico snarled. "You don't scare me." " | eros heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades love nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 6d9901f | Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he'd picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me. | rick-riordan zeus | Rick Riordan | |
| 01df99d | One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go." He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid--Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical substances in the world. Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes--duct tape" | duct-tape percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 2564ed0 | Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| c23bfd1 | your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world. | fatal-flaw percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| fc400ea | Um..." Hazel faltered. "You mean you won't... you're not going to-" "Claim your life?" Thantos asked. "Well, let's see..." He pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death, tapped the screen a few times, and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reaping souls. "I don't see you on the list," Thantos said. "Pluto gives me specific orders for escaped souls, you see. For some reason, he has not issued a warrant fo.. | frank hazel jackson percy rick riordan thantos | Rick Riordan | |
| 5c7b24f | When he woke, daylight was coming through the glass floor, and a boy's voice said, "Oh...You are in so much trouble." | Rick Riordan | ||
| acb733f | One and one and one and one doesn't equal four. Each one remains unique, there is no way of joining them together. They cannot be exchanged, one for the other. They cannot replace each other. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 233d6e4 | She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy. | events mercy | Margaret Atwood | |
| 9215ed3 | I am ever a gentle maiden," she shouted. "Damn if I'm not." | humor julie-garwood romance-novels | Julie Garwood | |
| a215ef8 | One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| adc5790 | She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She didn't want a lover who could walk away from her, because she could never do that - love someone completely and survive intact if her left her. | hurt leave love | Christine Feehan | |
| 052bcdc | Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 98c4fa4 | Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. "The Magic Flute" v. Middlemarch? Middlemarch in six. "The Last Supper" v. Crime and Punishment? Fyodor on points. See? I mean, I don't know how scientific this is, but it feels like the no.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 132cc66 | Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| e7b993e | Jealousy--at least as far as he understood it from his dream--was the most hopeless prison in the world. Jealousy was not a place he was forced into by someone else, but a jail in which the inmate entered voluntarily, locked the door, and threw away the key. And not another soul in the world knew he was locked inside. Of course if he wanted to escape he could do so. The prison, was after all, his own heart. But he couldn't make that decisio.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a71571d | Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 9f4d093 | Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that Jose Arcadio Buendia was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 1213a9a | I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth. | Jonathan Swift | ||
| a526fdc | Thus went my first Court Day. I think I'm going to puke. | court-day day dogs puke puppy | Tamora Pierce | |
| 07de204 | Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 44502d6 | the most offensive is not their lying--one can always forgive lying--lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth--what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 52f6162 | How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 96c4d54 | A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love. | love romance writing | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 99fa28a | There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering, is simply this: everything is connected. Everything. Many, if not most, of the links are difficult to determine. The instrument, the apparatus, the focused ray that can uncover and illuminate those connections is language. And just as a sudden infatuation often will light up a person's biochemical atmosphere more.. | tribute | Tom Robbins | |
| 017f2c0 | How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. | life-is-evil schopenhauer | Will Durant | |
| c2cf2cd | They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 46f10b4 | It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 32fc77f | A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being? | earth science space-exploration | Carl Sagan | |
| 828c379 | It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way." "Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 1be5d1e | This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. | Rudyard Kipling |