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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a95e9e1 | landed on my chest and stuck its proboscis | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 5baecc6 | For all that we may sometimes despise our fellows and be driven to rages and petty revenges, I think we are even darker creatures when we are alone. We can learn to fear our own thoughts more than the lash of the whip or the slap in the face. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| eb89620 | That light source is lava. A bit more dangerous than those fancy twisty light bulbs ye see these days | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 73c0da3 | You have some kind of food in a safe? Is that, uh... safe? Yes. You may relax and depend on my methods of preservation. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4f536fc | For all its manifold beauties, the world is never so fine once someone you love leaves it; instead, there is only the bleak prospect of loneliness and might-have-beens. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7cae82c | I come to dungeon for good time--which maybe is problem, I admit--but I get bad time instead. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 1282e66 | Tinha andado a manter um silencio amuado para com ele, esperando avidamente que me perguntasse que bicho me tinha mordido. O problema era que ele nao o fazia. Havera alguma coisa mais provocadora do que esperar que alguem comece uma discussao? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 78d0fff | Nao reconheci a minha voz quando perguntei ao mundo: 'Como pode a coisa mais dificil que ja fiz na vida ser tambem a mais cobarde? | Robin Hobb | ||
| ae17009 | Estamos aqui', respondi, e soltei uma gargalhada. Nunca pensara que a ira e o desespero pudessem fazer um homem rir. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 780f9f3 | E tudo porque eu fora demasiado tolo para ver que aquele que caminha sem saber por entre os segredos de um homem pode mesmo assim ter outros segredos seus. | Robin Hobb | ||
| c370859 | I dislike guilt," the Morrigan said. "It is regret and recrimination and despair over that which cannot be changed. It is like eating ashes for breakfast. It is the whip that clerics use on the laity, making the sheep slaves to whatever moral code the shepherds espouse. It is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity. I cannot think of a more poisonous emotion." "I don't like it either," I admitted. "So why d.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| cdc2b9b | Because there's a narcissist with a bunch of cronies who wants to burn down the whole world--your piece of it included--for no other reason than to stoke his own ego and profit besides." "So, kinda like an American president, then." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f6dd7ca | My God, Atticus, you look like you had an orgy with egg yolks and orange juice." "We might need a loofah," I admitted. "Dare I ask what happened?" "An Olympian exploded on us and it was yucky." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| da6bdde | Unidentified hole, please shut it and inspect yourself. Continue to talk and you will be ignored. | star-wars | Kevin Hearne | |
| 22675e7 | The goddess of fire lit him up like a stump, just as she had promised, and I wondered why people who believed in the next life were so anxious to start living it instead of enjoying the one they had. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ad50972 | The current popular image of Zeus as a cheerful, avuncular type perplexes me. I know it comes from a silly kids' movie, but I'm not sure they could have gotten it more wrong. Zeus was never avuncular. He killed his father, raped his sister, and then married her, calculating that sanctified incest was marginally better than the unsanctified kind. After that he conducted a series of what are generously called "affairs" with mortal women, thou.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 481ee89 | I have noticed over many centuries of relationships that a corollary to love is worry. They sort of come together as a matched set, and it's nigh impossible to ditch one without the other. I don't mean worry in the sense of a constant hand-wringing or an outward show of anxiety but a silent panic, always there but flaring up on occasion until one chokes and cannot see through a sudden veil of tears, panic that what you cherish most will be .. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e985ee4 | Why content ourselves with meager fish when we can eat our own animals, the God asked. I can not eat my own ass, though I thought it should be obvious to him. He carries me where so ever I wish. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| abf1c9a | I don't remember the whole thing, because it was very long, but Atticus recited it for me once, and there was a line that went like this: "Cry ham hock and let slip the hogs of war!" I know you might not agree, but for me that was the best thing Shakespeare ever wrote." You mean, "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" from Julius Caesar? "No, I don't think that's it. There was ham in there; I'm sure he was talking about ham. They were goi.. | granuaile humour iron-druid kevin-hearne oberon shakespeare | Kevin Hearne | |
| fb0eb44 | That's using religion to cudgel people into conformity, and it grinds my gears. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 06dd150 | People do that--cling to their past because it's the only thing they consider safe. Trying something new or just accepting it turns their livers into jelly. But that's a load of bollocks. Ye take the new and appreciate it if it's good, like whiskey or poutine or girlfriends who bite, or ye dismiss it as shite if it's bad, like cell phones and cars, and move on. O | Kevin Hearne | ||
| da0c130 | I've never run this far before," he said at one point. "Or this fast for so long. It's better than sticking your head out a car window, that's for sure." My theory is that Oberon might be a master of Tao. He always sees what we filter out. The wind and the grass and something in the sky, sun or moon, shining on our backs as we run: They are gifts that humans toss away like socks on Christmas morning, because we see them every day and don't .. | beauty dogs granuile hunted inspirational kevin-hearne nature new oberon old philosophy taoism | Kevin Hearne | |
| ad1e46f | I wonder if they have a fancy law or name for the principle that Humans Ruin Everything for Profit. Maybe that's just capitalism | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7176db6 | I will tell you, even though you are young and unprepared: Men. are. Shit. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| bdb5e72 | The witch obviously wanted my help with something, and I could only assume that she wanted a new body to inhabit. But I didn't have any of those currently in stock, and bodies were one of the few things you couldn't buy (yet) on Amazon. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 6d8d71d | he says as he drops it by me side again. I can't help but chuckle at that. "Ye know how to train humans already, don't ye?" " | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a91eaa8 | Sensei?" she asked. "Yes?" "Why are you always leaving about halfway through a workout to give Oberon a snack?" "What? Well, he's a good dog." "Granted, but he's a good dog all the time, and the only times you interrupt what you're doing to give him a snack are during workouts." "I reward him sometimes for using big words. And sometimes I reward him for shutting up." Now would be a good time to shut up. " | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 2d31f2f | An owl hoots in the night, spooky as five hells and a jar of creamy peanut butter--that shite's unnatural. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 5e592e5 | An ignoranus," Manannan explains, "is someone who's both stupid and an arsehole." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7253ee4 | Now, ye know right well I'm in favor of solving problems through stomping on nuts, but the first rule to follow--the one ye didn't remember--is not to stomp on your own. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b78ee69 | e estranho, nao e, como nao se sabe ate que ponto alguem faz parte de nos ate esse alguem ser ameacado? E depois achas que nao ha possibilidade de sobreviveres se alguma coisa lhes acontece, mas a pare mais assustadora e que, na verdade, sobrevives, tens de sobreviver, com eles ou sem eles. Simplesmente nao ha maneira de saberes em que te tornaras. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4ad9f22 | It is always best when discussing serious matters to do so around a teapot. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| 2863448 | Heroines did not pick their own battles--the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone. | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| e5dccef | Chang believed that learning was dangerous and best suited for private contemplation, not something to put in the service of the highest bidder- as the Institute did, in thrall to the patronage of men with blind dreams of empire. Society was not bettered by such men of "vision" - though, if Chang was honest, was it bettered by anyone?" | Gordon Dahlquist | ||
| cd54c0f | When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe. | beliefs fear understanding unknown | Gordon Dahlquist | |
| 286c26c | But sometimes they're just oblivious, and their obliviousness brings out the worst in me. I remember once talking to one about the principle of 'one person, one vote' -- the Supreme Court's doctrine that forces states to ensure the weight one person's vote is equal to the weight of everyone else's. He had done work early in his career to push that principle along, and considered it, as he told me, 'among the most important values now writte.. | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 799d1e4 | A broader view of platform governance uses insights borrowed from the practices of nation-states as modeled by constitutional law scholar Lawrence Lessig. In Lessig's formulation, systems of control involve four main sets of tools: laws, norms, architecture, and markets.20 A familiar example can be used to clarify these four kinds of tools. Suppose leaders of a particular ecosystem want to reduce the harmful effects of smoking. Laws could b.. | Geoffrey G. Parker | ||
| 4ce6649 | But it is to say that a basic idea of a representative democracy--one that argues over fundamental choices of policy, through the battle between differently committed representatives--is not the reality of our democracy anymore. We've settled into what Francis Fukuyama calls a "vetocracy," where change of almost any kind, whether from the Right or the Left, is practically always stopped." | Lawrence Lessig | ||
| 1aa8701 | As Lawrence Lessig has so persuasively argued over the years, there is nothing "natural" about the artificial scarcity of intellectual property law." | Steven Johnson | ||
| 5613756 | De que serve uma vida vivida como se nao fizesse qualquer diferenca para a grande vida do mundo? Nao consigo imaginar coisa mais triste. Porque nao haveria uma mae de dizer de si para si, se criar bem esta crianca, se a amar e proteger, ela trara alegria aos qye a rodeiam e assim terei mudado o mundo? Porque nao haveria o lavrador que planta uma semente de dizer ao vizinho, esta semente que planto hoje ira alimentar alguem, e e assim que ho.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 72becec | I've just been living from day to day. Waiting for something or someone else to change the situation." His eyes studied her face, looking for a reaction to his next words. "I think I need to make a real decision. I believe I need to take action on my own." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3e0876e | He has had his wish. He will not bow his head. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8129ed5 | The fire of my burning past sent odd shadows snaking ahead of us as we made our way into the storm's resurgence. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b131232 | Claro que nao sabes (...) E nem sequer queres ver o que esta posto na mesa a tua frente. Homens. Se estivesse a chover sopa, estarias la fora com um garfo. | Robin Hobb |