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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f942292 | Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty... and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 3d97fab | And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now that was a thought made me shudder to the bone. I wondered if it were true, and if it were, what would happen when some deity bent out of true by mortal ambition returned to set the record straight. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| c7368f8 | He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than enough suffering in the world without adding to the balance. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| cb8f153 | Young men," Melisande murmured after they had left, smiling faintly. "Such a sense of honor. Is he a little bit in love with you, do you think?" "Joscelin quite despises me," I said. "My lady." "Oh, love and hate are two sides of the same blade," she said cheerily enough, motioning for a servant to take my cloak, "and an edge finer honed than yon Cassiline's dagger divides them." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| eed62ab | Io sono Phedre no Delaunay de Montreve, e sono unica. | phèdre | Jacqueline Carey | |
| cb2237c | There's some sort of Soothsayers' Code that prevents soothsayers from soothsaying on a day-to-day basis, when it might, you know, avert this kind of ordinary, everyday tragedy. Something about the laws of causality being broken and the order of creation overturned, resulting in a world run amok, river running backwards, the run rising in the west, cats and dogs getting married... I don't know; don't ask me. I don't pretend to understand (.... | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 64b0fa1 | By the way, if you're ever conversing with an actual vampire, do refer to the House of Shadows as Twilight Manor. There's a reason vampires aren't known for their senses of humour. If you accidentally do so, I'd say run, but it's probably already too late. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 37b7fa6 | To, co se podvoli, neni vzdycky slabe. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| f0e0c8a | The world began in ending, and it will end in beginning. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 7356eab | Non c'e nulla che non valga la pena sapere. | sapere | Jacqueline Carey | |
| f5d8c58 | It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. "Come on." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 7181664 | La genialita ha bisogno di un pubblico. | pubblico | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 91a8a5c | So I leave flowers; spring flowers, then summer flowers. I gather the red and orange and yellow trumpet flowers, for a trumpet is a thing that makes a loud noise like a shout, and I tie their vines together and leave them to shout I love you in a row from Miranda's window-ledge. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| c99618f | He is searching for an answer for which no question exists. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 03f4306 | Feeling foolish, I scowled at her. "Does it amuse you to mock me, my lady?" "A little." Refreshed by sleep, her eyes sparkled unrepentantly. "You are so very serious, my shadow." -- | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 9a2fb3d | What she referenced with such careless ease seemed a world-shattering notion to me. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 5a65395 | Tell me, my heart, would you rather wed a handsome man or a wealthy one?" Zariya considered the question. "If I had the luxury of choice, I would choose a kind man." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| b773f77 | She was oh, so very beautiful to me, and her strength and courage and daring vulnerability only made her the more so. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 2cdcf54 | Men will heed words spoken from one in a position of authority that they disdain from other sources. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| c5bb694 | but oh, by all the fallen stars, it hurt! | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 164198f | You should not be here, the forest whispered behind us. You do not belong here. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 390cbd6 | Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 9901c2b | Wind will blow through any chink it can find, flow around any obstacle in its course. Follow the wind's example and let it guide you into those spaces. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 92bb2aa | In the desert we say Make haste slowly. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 4d62060 | Let him be a boy while he may. It is too soon for him to wrestle with mortality. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| a100a3a | a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 83b9f7b | I was not going to be killed by a gods-bedamned caterpillar | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 0768b65 | What is fear, but courage's shadow? | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| cf0df77 | I did not like this place. Everything about it conspired to say, You do not belong here, you are not welcome here. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| b00a674 | It went well enough at first. One need not be able to name a danger to sense and avoid it. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| d5f88dd | Jahno asked with a stymied scholar's anguish. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 51052dc | We must share our knowledge, share our strengths and weakness, share the burden of danger and the rewards of victory. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| c3039a1 | And on Sunday we went to the flea market and it was so cool. Nicola said she wanted to look at pictures and fabrics, so Carey and I went to an amazing part, called the Marche Malik, all retro stuff, and I got this denim jacket, it's just gorgeous, got all flowers embroidered on it, so much cooler than some mass-produced thing from Hollister. I'll go and get it.' 'And there we were spending squillions on one from Hollister,' said Bianca, 'so.. | Penny Vincenzi | ||
| c07d1d7 | Carey recalled Tillman turning to him and tapping him on the shoulder. "Look who's coming up the road!" he said incredulously. In a scene straight from a movie, General Douglas MacArthur confidently walked straight up the center of the road, "bullets flying around him." Carey was dumbfounded. As MacArthur walked up to his position, Carey pulled him behind the building. "The general fell over" and stared at the lieutenant, quickly snapping, .. | Patrick K. O'Donnell | ||
| a12244d | one of the most heartbreaking conditions of life on Earth is that most of the animals we love... die so long before we do. | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 0875af6 | hospice. If she is going to take it, she must move today. The doctors still don't understand what is wrong with her, only that her self and her strength are ebbing away, and there seems no stopping it. Wilson's afternoon will be spent getting his wife, with whom he's traveled the world, ready for her final journey. He is making plans himself to move from their large, beautiful home, with its huge kitchen with tiles around the stove and many.. | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 18ae106 | But Christopher obeyed a higher calling: the intoxicating call of green grass and sunshine, the sweet scent of the earth on one of the last days of summer. | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 9c87225 | And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but didn't have a chance to grow. | relationship | Sy Montgomery | |
| 75bee2d | They don't want to hear how Octavia is different from us. They want to know how we're the same. They know what it's like to have an itch. They can imagine what it's like to be a mother. This brief encounter has changed them. Now they can identify with an octopus. They | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 05e46a0 | humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness" and that "nonhuman animals, including all birds and mammals, and many other creatures, including octopuses [italics added], also possess these neurological substrates." | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 8c4c4a2 | I was warmly amused at the way each one tried to outdo the others in showing how her ape was the "most human"--trying to win the audience over to favor her animal. Orangutans, Birute said, seemed the most human because of the whites of their eyes. Dian insisted that her gorillas were most humanlike because of their tight-knit family groupings. And Jane reminded us that chimps are the apes most closely related to man, sharing 99 percent of o.. | Sy Montgomery | ||
| f766e35 | His coming to you, and your loving him, was a counterbalance, in a way, to the world's mistreatment of pigs, | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 02f0866 | The emperor Caesar Augustus had a parakeet who greeted him daily, and after his victory over Mark Antony in Egypt in 29 B.C., he purchased a raven whose trainer had taught him to say "Ave, Caesar Victor Imperator." (The trainer had wisely taught another bird to say "Ave, Victor Imperator Antoni" in case the battle went the other way.)" | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 4a7742f | Love is the highest and best use of a life. | Sy Montgomery |