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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f63ddf7 | The joy of her smiles and laughs seemed, to Mister Sun, to be in her genuine surprise at their arrival, as if strong emotions traveled some miles to get here and showed up without warning. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 9e38b31 | We only wanted jetpacks because we couldn't make magic carpets work. | Warren Ellis | ||
| ef36bce | Prediction is the best circus act of all. But it is just an act. It's a carny turn. Stop doing it. | Warren Ellis | ||
| f92bf04 | If Albert Einstein, the last century's very poster boy for the cunning man and the wild-haired magician of science, knew one thing, then it was simply that there was always more to be known. He didn't pridefully condemn dreams of physics and incomplete theories. He pointed off into the future and named the unknown things as, in fact, spooky action at a distance. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 80dbfd4 | Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the sex was shit. | sex nun | Warren Ellis | |
| 3e17fe7 | Is that what we do? We pitch our tents, do our little clown shows, and then take off up the road to the next town ahead? Leaving our science-fictional debris on the blasted dirt to poison the minds of future generations, like the alien litter in STALKER and ROADSIDE PICNIC. Flying cars rusting out like Saturn Five rockets propped up as roadkill talismans at Kennedy, leaking toxins into the soil. Jetpacks oozing fuel from cracks in their tan.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 9323e23 | Benighted infants," Strauss laughed, gesturing at Goldmark to get the coffees. "I'd be amazed if anything in here grew on or near an animal. It's all that printed meat, diddled with by needles." | Warren Ellis | ||
| df4f66f | Yeah, trust the fuckhead. | trust spider-jerusalem | Warren Ellis | |
| a2ee546 | Bukkake," said a voice in my ear. "Multiple ejaculations onto the face. It's the new thing." It was the tattooed girl, crouched behind my chair. "This is the only genuine and authentic Godzilla Bukkake night in America." | Warren Ellis | ||
| d6bed23 | Bloody Wolf Blitzer intoning that a weather bomb is going to detonate over America because the planet hates humans and time is a flat circle. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 7da6b2c | I think super-heroes and religion are indivisible. I think they're indivisible from Superman. | Patrick Meaney | ||
| 2d7a381 | No more circuses. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 3e38ecc | ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT | Warren Ellis | ||
| 5a16a48 | I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills... Take control of your world. | globalization marxism capitalism revolution | Warren Ellis | |
| bde0c17 | Magic is the cheat codes for the world. Sending a signal to reality's operating system, see? | Warren Ellis | ||
| ea70033 | All people are scum. No matter what they look like. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 8740cf5 | It was like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vatful of absinthe. | spider-jerusalem peyote news | Warren Ellis | |
| e9ca8c6 | Elegance is really a kind of control. | Anne Rampling ; Anne Rice | ||
| 815ec30 | To call it a "setback" is like calling the Expulsion from Eden a minor misunderstanding." | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 8efcf93 | Get some sleep. Our troubles will still be there on the morrow | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 55a9a9d | If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who've yet to meet him. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 1439335 | How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 4b4558c | What is forgiveness worth without trust? | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| d0057f3 | Troubles may ofttimes be so dire that they cannot get better. But they are never so dire that they still cannot get worse. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 825554c | If that's how you'd rather remember it. But I did not mean that as a reproach. I do not, in truth, think less of you for having the common sense to abandon a ship once waves began to break over the bow. Nor, after sixteen years shut away from the sun, am I likely to find tears to spare for Henry Plantagenet. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 7314992 | After that, he was still. They could hear church bells chiming in the distance. Somewhere Vespers was being rung, people were at Mass, life was going on. Andre had not thought there was a need for words of farewell, not between them. But now he found himself approaching the bed, suddenly afraid that he'd waited too long. "Richard." He held his breath then, until the other man opened his eyes. "Listen to me," he said hoarsely. "You will not .. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 157670c | His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure. | middle-ages kings | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 4e15f39 | She wanted to order him clapped in irons, as he so deserved. But she was stopped by what she saw in the faces of the watching men: disapproval, instinctive and involuntary, but disapproval, nonetheless. They were not comfortable when power was wielded by a woman, not at a man's expense, a man who had just acquitted himself so spectacularly at Lincoln, winning their reluctant respect in a way she knew she never could. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 816e0b8 | She might be that most unfortunate of women, a barren queen, | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| a8b9c3d | There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 0d86707 | It puzzled Maud that her male relatives could not see this. Was it that men could not believe a woman might share their ambitions, their need for power? Eleanor saw herself as more than Henry's queen, mother of his children. First and foremost, she was Duchess of Aquitaine, never doubting that she could have ruled as well as any man and better than most. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 64010b9 | More than men had died at Lincoln. It seemed to Stephen that reality was a casualty, too, for nothing made sense anymore. What was he doing here in the solar of Lincoln Castle, bleeding all over the Earl of Chester's wife? | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| ec97766 | He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 3cbd8a1 | He'd never seen one so vibrant, though, or so vividly compelling... those glowing green eyes sparkling with sunlight and curiosity and silent laughter, and when she glanced in Henry's direction, she held his gaze, a look that was both challenging and enigmatic... He was utterly certain that this was Eleanor of Aquitaine, and no less sure that the French King must be one of God's greatest fools. | vibrant fools | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 75702be | Those who served both the Almighty and secular lords did their best to follow Jesus's teachings and render unto Caesar the things which were Caesar's, and unto God the things that were God's, all the while praying they'd never have to choose between the two. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 15ee7e2 | Well, dearest, what would you tell a farmer who had an over-abundant harvest? To plant less, of course!"... "I am not complaining about the frequency of the planting," she said. "I'd just rather not reap a crop every year." | sex humour harvest | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| cbf1f16 | when a man fell into a deep hole, it was usually a good idea to stop digging. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 41b4158 | The book is Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203, by Judith A. Everard, | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 2350d5f | Richard grinned, very pleased with himself for having found a way to honor his mother, thwart his father, and serve God, while having a grand adventure at the same time. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| df5b5e3 | It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world | human-nature | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 3ec2040 | as was his way, once he acknowledged the problem, he set about finding a means to resolve it | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 43a993d | He was too astute a politician, too ambitious a Prince, to confuse friendship with statecraft. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 9897bf7 | But in all honesty, I do not find it so peculiar a notion, that a Welshman should rule Wales. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 6f9741f | Simon said nothing, thinking of all the good men who'd died because this inept, faithless fool had been born a King's son. | Sharon Kay Penman |