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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ab4cfb2 | Justice', she said. 'I've heard that word. It's a cold word. I tried it out', she said, still speaking in a low voice. 'I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice. | Jean Rhys | ||
| c285d85 | Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible - the tree of life grew there. But it had gone wild. The paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched. One was snaky looking, another like an octopus with long thing brown tentacles bare of leaves h.. | Jean Rhys | ||
| eebb372 | If I could choose I would rather be happy than write. | Jean Rhys | ||
| a6f2324 | We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt my own tears on my hand I thought, 'Now perhaps we're married. 'Yes, certainly, now we're married,' I thought. | marriage tears | Jean Rhys | |
| ef2f350 | We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. Isn't it so, Mr Blank? There must be the dark background ti show up the bright colours. Some must cry so that the others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.. Let's say that you have this mystical right to cut my legs off. But the right to ridicule me afterwards because I am a cripple - no, that I th.. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 03bbcec | I prayed, but the words fell to the ground meaning nothing. | jane-eyre jean-rhys prayer spirituality wide-sargasso-sea | Jean Rhys | |
| 5109c84 | Fun to think about," Cole said, straining to sound brave. "You get used to it," Jace said. "If you live long enough." "You should become a motivational speaker." Jace grinned." -- | Brandon Mull | ||
| 13a3436 | You've pulled off some shocking upsets in the past, but only a fool would bet on you this time. So I will. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 8179d3a | Disliking someone is almost as big a commitment as loving someone, and it carries none of the benefits. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 2578a74 | You heard what Declan said about you," Cole realized. Liam gave a little shrug. "At least when he talks behind my back, he sticks to the same things he says to my face. It's actually kind of admirable." | Brandon Mull | ||
| 39def60 | We mustn't leave Seth and the house unguarded," Coulter said. "Unguarded?" Seth complained. "Are you trying to destroy my self-esteem?" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 0c3aae5 | Seth | Brandon Mull | ||
| 5f5f2c1 | Seth approached the dog and let it sniff his hand. A warm tongue caressed his palm, and Seth rubbed the top of the animal's head. "You're a good boy," Seth said in his special voice reserved for babies and animals. "You're not going to eat me, right?" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 102f766 | Without opening the gate, and keeping one hand near the elevator buttons, Seth shone the flashlight around the room. The last thing he wanted was to get cornered by zombies inside of an elevator. | Brandon Mull | ||
| d7bfb98 | Seth returned with the ax to the private door. So much for stealth. If the garage door and elevator had not alerted the zombies, this should do the job. The ax was fairly heavy, but, choking up a little, he gave it a solid swing, and the bit crunched into the wood about a foot away from the doorknob. He wrenched it free and attacked the door again. A few more strokes and he had chopped a hole in the door large enough to reach his hand throu.. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 2ad4839 | Kendra rubbed her eyes. She had slept in her clothes. "Come in, then." The door opened and Cody entered with a tray. "Scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, toast, yogurt, and juice," he announced, setting the tray on the desk. "You barge down the stairs, infuriate Torina, and end up with a first-rate breakfast. Maybe I should start acting a little less compliant!" "Don't get too jealous. This may be my last meal." Cody shrugged. "They're expectin.. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 111151c | fingering spots where they had been torn or punctured by boarhound teeth. | Brandon Mull | ||
| ae3be60 | Kendra stared out the side window of the SUV, watching foliage blur past. When the flurry of motion became too much, she looked up ahead and fixed her gaze on a particular tree, following it as it slowly approached, streaked past, and then gradually receded behind her. Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. Maybe sometimes. Not today. Today they were driving a.. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 0ac429d | Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful--sometimes they cause irrevocable harm--but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of .. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 40a2935 | For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, | Brandon Mull | ||
| 06fc027 | Want to know the quikest way to deafen people? Tell them the truth. - Prescia | Brandon Mull | ||
| 14beb3e | I have plans to start a sequel series to Fablehaven around 2016. Beyonders | Brandon Mull | ||
| fc6d978 | I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests. | kindness respect wisdom | Brandon Mull | |
| a12b350 | Rollan didn't like when his horse had to walk near a drop-off, as they were now. He was allergic to the whole falling thing. | Brandon Mull | ||
| de42964 | Kendra, nice to meet you, may you find less happiness than you deserve. Dale, you are as mute as your brother, and nearly as pale. Seth, please have another mishap soon. Stan, you lack the wit of an orangutan, bless your soul. Do not be strangers. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 9588021 | Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. "Then we only have one problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. "How do I get invited?" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 3640cbe | But I do know that there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 625733c | Dreams can range from the meaningless to the prophetic, | Brandon Mull | ||
| e9bb688 | In 1989, the Internet's 400 early adopters were predicting that it would revolutionize how people communicate, | Warren G. Bennis | ||
| 0dd367a | The ideal boss for a growing leader is probably a good boss with major flaws, so that one can learn all the complex lessons of what to do and what not to do simultaneously. | Warren G. Bennis | ||
| 664ab56 | One thing Great Groups do need is protection. Great Groups do things that haven't been done before. Most corporations and other traditional organizations say they want innovation, but they reflexively shun the untried. Most would rather repeat a past success than gamble on a new idea. Because Great Groups break new ground, they are more susceptible than others to being misunderstood, resented, even feared. Successful | Warren G. Bennis | ||
| 6ca3875 | leadership that knows what it wants, communicates those intentions, positions itself correctly, and empowers its workforce. | Warren G. Bennis | ||
| 72f7cdf | When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre. | posterity | Robert Bringhurst | |
| 7d0f6d8 | So, Kerensa, you should never regret any experience, good or evil; for there's some good in what's bad just as there be bad in good... | Victoria Holt | ||
| 3085b99 | How strange is life. Suddenly when one has almost made up one's mind to a certain action it casually throws an opportunity into one's path. | Victoria Holt | ||
| e40d4e6 | there was more to life than being comfortable and living one day after another, quietly, unadventurously, almost like waiting for death. | Victoria Holt | ||
| febcef6 | It seemed I had briefly stepped into a world where people did wild things and paid for them; but it had made me see that there was more to life than being comfortable and living one day after another, quietly, unadventurously, almost like waiting for death. | Victoria Holt | ||
| 0579c33 | But somehow at the back of my mind was the feeling that if I did "the sensible thing" I would regret it, for I would be choosing a way of life that would be so predictable, it would rob me of all the excitement that made up the savor of living. If" | Victoria Holt | ||
| 77b4ba1 | He had all the most charming and irresistible gestures that a girl deeply in love looks for and who refuses to tell herself that they may have been acquired through long practice. | love | Victoria Holt | |
| 1d6b1c0 | I endorse Hillary Clinton for president. She is the second-worst thing that could happen to America. Dorothy and Toto's house fell on Hillary. I endorse her. Munchkins endorse her. Donald Trump is a flying monkey. Except that what the flying monkeys have to say--"oreoreoreo"--makes more sense than Trump's pronouncements." | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 472aae4 | I was talking to syndicated newspaper columnist and Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer just after Clinton's final e-mail scandal broke. I said, "The secretary of state uses her personal e-mail to send top-secret State Department documents to her weird personal assistant who is married to Anthony Weiner who is so crazy that he's destroyed his political career twice by sending lewd Tweets and Instagram photos to random women and who is .. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 42a4236 | Nor should a man necessarily hold a door for a woman, unless it is a revolving door. It's not good manners to hold a revolving door, but it is lots of fun when other people are trapped inside. | P. J. O'Rourke | ||
| 95d3378 | And if there's a libertarian moment in the future it won't be while moderates are in charge. Because there are three basic tenets to libertarianism: Liberty of the individual Dignity of the individual Responsibility of the individual And everybody hates at least one of them. This year everybody hated all of them. Liberty | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| fb6bc41 | Cherubim perhaps, take practice shots with the Big Bang. I would have preferred to write a book about the course of actions taken during this election campaign and how that course of actions led to certain results. But there was no discernable course. The course might as well have been at Trump University. And the results might as well have been determined by a pair of twelve-sided dice used by stoned Bernie Sanders supporters in a game of .. | P.J. O'Rourke |