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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6b13755 | Look at her. The sun soaks right int her and shines back out of her. She's magnificent. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0adab86 | Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered. | Robin Hobb | ||
| e34d37a | That isn't how I see it, Amber. That isn't how I see it at all. It's just my life, and now that I have finally discovered what I must have to be happy, I'm willing to lay down my life for it. That's all.' She smiled. 'That is . You are right. And that is all that ever is. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f9646d5 | Night eyes had risen and stretched stiffly. Now he came to lie down beside me. He set his head on my knee. 'I don't understand. You are ill?' 'No. Just stupid.' 'Ah. Nothing new there. Well, you haven't died from that so far. | relationships life | Robin Hobb | |
| 6f94e4c | Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.' Eric Hoffer | Minette Walters | ||
| 717f5e7 | I'll tell you something," said Francis,urgent with shoe lace, "if we keep on saying things weren't when we know perfectly well they were, we shall soon dish up any sort of chance of magic we may ever have had. When do you find people in books going on like that? They just say 'This is magic!' and behave as if it was. They don't go pretending they're not sure. Why, no magic would stand it." Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 2" | magic books | E. Nesbit | |
| 841414b | And that, my dear children, is the moral of this chapter. I did not mean it to have a moral, but morals are nasty forward beings, and will keep putting in their oars where they are not wanted. And since the moral has crept in, quite against my wishes, you might as well think of it.... | E. Nesbit | ||
| dae1f9a | I can't think what made him so horrid. Perhaps it was because he had been so very nice and kind all the earlier part of the day, and now he had to have a change. This is called reaction. One notices it now and then in oneself. Sometimes when one has been extra good for a longer time than usual, one is suddenly attacked by a violent fit of not being good at all. | E. Nesbit | ||
| bcb86e3 | Boys and girls are only little men and women. And WE are much harder and hardier than they are--" (Peter liked the "we." Perhaps the Doctor had known he would.)--"and much stronger, and things that hurt THEM don't hurt US. You know you mustn't hit a girl--" "I should think not, indeed," muttered Peter, indignantly. "Not even if she's your own sister. That's because girls are so much softer and weaker than we are; they have to be, you know,".. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 2cb6539 | There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books. | E. Nesbit | ||
| b0230b9 | Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull calls to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay calls to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for ot.. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 2cd47ac | Albert, you are more highly privileged than ever I was. No one ever made me a nice dungeon when I was your age. I think I had better leave you where you are. | E. Nesbit | ||
| f098ec3 | Presently she said, "Dears, when you say your prayers, I think you might ask God to show His pity upon all prisoners and captives." "To show His pity," Bobbie repeated slowly, "upon all prisoners and captives. Is that right, Mother?" "Yes," said Mother, "upon all prisoners and captives. All prisoners and captives." Chapter" | E. Nesbit | ||
| f25d3e8 | And it's no use putting her on her honour, because----' 'Because she hasn't any,' Philip finished. 'I wouldn't say that,' said the parrot, 'of anybody. I'd only say we haven't come across it. | humour nesbit | E. Nesbit | |
| 080f1a3 | Robert rushed to the gravel-pit, found the Psammead, and presently wished for-- But that, too, is another story. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 96884c7 | Chapter9 | E. Nesbit | ||
| 83ad2ba | For London is like prison for children, especially if their relations are not rich. | E. Nesbit | ||
| 6de71c5 | Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. | E. Nesbit | ||
| e5815e0 | Pastries"! We shall have people talking of "grouses" next, and "deers" and "snipes"." | E. Nesbit | ||
| 6a34146 | And where are you going?" "I dunno," said the Spangled Boy. "I'm running from, not to." Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5." | uncertainty | E. Nesbit | |
| 1aca3fb | klm kn lZlm fdH kn lGDb '`l~ | Charles Simic | ||
| 639e43e | To follow somebody, without them knowing that you're doing it, is not the doddle they make it seem in films. I've had some experience of professional following, and a lot more experience of professional going back to the office and saying 'we lost him'. Unless your quarry is deaf, tunnel-sighted and lame, you need at least a dozen people and fifteen thousand quids-worth of short-wave radio to make a decent go of it. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 93541fa | Solomon raised an eyebrow. Or rather, he left it where it was and dropped his body slightly. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 0105af5 | Later, a very fat woman came in with a trolley and put a plate of something brown and foul-smelling on a table beside me. I couldn't imagine what I'd ever done to her, but whatever it was, it must have been bad. She obviously realised that she'd over-reacted, because half an hour later she came and took the plate away again. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 0bd2455 | It's not the way we do it on planet Earth, certainly. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 7796b47 | Well, that obviously wasn't good enough. Not by a long shot. Saying period at the end of something doesn't make it incontrovertible. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 73e30a7 | I realise it must be strange for you, being here in England. I realise that we must strike you as a nation of hicks, who only got hot and cold running water the day before you flew in, but even so, I have to tell you that I've heard a lot of this before. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 47503d2 | Face-cream, hand-cream, nose-cream, eye-cream. I wondered for a moment how serious it would be if you ever got home drunk and accidentally put face-cream on your hands or hand-cream on your face. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| ef40f47 | The cross-section of a helicopter blade, according to Sarah, is more or less the same as the wing of an aeroplane. Its shape creates a pressure differential in the air passing over its upper and lower surfaces, producing a consequent lift. It differs from an aeroplane wing, however, in that when a helicopter moves forward, air starts passing over the blade that's coming forward faster than it passes over the blade that's going backwards. Th.. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 3354c02 | She kissed me. She kissed me. What I mean is, I was standing there, lips puckered, brain puckered, and she just stepped up and threw her tongue into my mouth. For a moment, I thought maybe she'd tripped on a floorboard and stuck out her tongue as a reflex - but that didn't seem very likely somehow, and anyway, once she'd got her balance back, wouldn't she have put her tongue away again? No, she was definitely kissing me. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 152f1e9 | She just played with it slowly, and then pointed a pair of grey eyes at me. I say a pair. I mean her pair. She didn't get a pair of someone else's out from a drawer and point them at me. She pointed her own pair of huge, pale, grey, pale, huge eyes at me. The sort of eyes that can make a grown man talk gibberish to himself. Get a grip, for Christ's sake. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 774a5a7 | It was a bright red TVR Griffith, with a five litre V8 engine, and an exhaust note that could have been heard in Peking. It fell some way short of being the ideal car for a discreet surveillance operation, | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 94210e2 | Screw you in the ass with an anglepoise lamp, | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 3ff4a6a | His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| d20ebc3 | It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well as do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. | readiness start-up life | Hugh Laurie | |
| 0e928a5 | Look,' I said, 'I'll be honest with you. You're a big chap, and I'm sure you can do more press-ups than I can. And I admire you for it. This world needs people to be able to do press-ups. It's important. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 933a1fc | the guards at the door let us through with no more than a glance. British security guards, I've noticed, always do this; unless you happen actually to work in the building they're guarding, in which case they'll check everything from the fillings in your teeth to your trouser turn-ups to see if you're the same person who went out to get a sandwich fifteen minutes ago. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 6250e0a | Qui t'as dit que je ne le savais pas ? -Tu le sais ? -Non. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 6cbd365 | Une chemise si blanche qu'elle devait etre branchee sur le secteur. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| a72182c | I had an absolutely revolting lunch with O'Neal. Although the food was pretty good. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 7a7dfa0 | Normally, words are sent from the brain towards the mouth, and somewhere along the line you take a moment to check them, see that they are actually the ones you ordered and that they're nicely wrapped, before you bundle them on their way towards your palate and out into the fresh air. But when you're caught up in the flow of things, the checking part of your mind can fall down on the job. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| f77d4ae | The French came to Morocco to build roads, railways, hospitals, schools, fashion sense - all the things that the average Frenchman knows to be indispensable to a modern civilization - and when five o'clock came, and the French looked upon their works and saw that they were good, they reckoned they had bloody well earned the right to live like Maharajahs. Which, for a time, they did. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| f2eee7e | I stood and waited on the open second-floor landing, and tried to imagine what appalling series of bureaucratic errors had led to this estate being so well looked after. In most parts of London, they collect the dustbins from the middle-class streets and empty them into the council estates, before setting fire to a couple of Ford Cortinas on the pavement. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 739da55 | If you want a place guarded properly, hire Germans. | Hugh Laurie |