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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7855b95 | As far as threats went, Yelena couldn't be outdone. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| a8706db | Valek would get more from me than a smile. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ed645e8 | Dead air surrounded me. My magic was gone. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 76c7ba3 | I couldn't let my fear stop me from doing what I needed to do. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| cb1570b | It's a good thing you can't read my mind, love. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 86749d5 | Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 34a70fa | You keep things interesting, love. It would be boring without you. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 1743045 | I left Kiki in the yard, and fetched my pick and brushes. She lifted her leg and I dislodged the stone then pulled the shedding blade through her copper hair. After a while, I removed my cloak. When I finished, clumps of horse hair clung to my sweaty clothes. You're beautiful and I need a bath, I said to her. Pasture or stall? Stall. Nap time. | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 24ff55f | As far as threats went, Yelena couldn't be outdone. People might risk pain and even death for a cause, but spending eternity in the fire world was just too big a price to pay. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| e57829a | Broken trust was harder to fix than bones. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 97334b2 | Liv held out her right index finger. "I've got a splinter that I can't get out. It's killing me and affecting my duty." "Uh-huh." I examined the minuscule speck that could be dirt." | healer liv splinter | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 9809b0e | Kerrick the weed. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| cdc2f91 | It's a good thing you're not my Story Weaver. You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads." "Well" | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| ef6a297 | But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 0ca2415 | Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4d87583 | Piles of books on the floor made walking a straight line difficult. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 9a2f34a | Living is a risk," I snapped at him. "Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| c3832bd | Blue Eyes pulled his sword back and tried another lunge. I pushed the weapon toward the ground, but again he flicked his wrist. A line of fire blazed on my right arm. Wonderful. Matching cuts. He paused with his sword held in midair. My blood stained the tip. I glanced past him. Didn't anyone hear the fight? Should I scream? "Submit? You will have so many cuts on your arms and legs, you will faint from lack of blood." "No." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 0da1b51 | I spent my first hours back cocooned in an excited babble of all my friends and family. Everyone except Valek. But I knew I would see him when the horde dispersed. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 8e6705c | I'm beginning to wish that you were an orphan, love. Can you both manage to focus on the task at hand without trying to catch up on fourteen years of sibling rivalry? | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 2420b38 | Where did you stay?' 'I had a room in Valek's suite.' Leif shot me an incredulous look. 'Boy, you worked fast. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 65a150b | In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?' 'Then they'll have a good story to tell.' 'Good?' He adopted the pretense of being offended. 'Prove me wrong.' His eyes lit with the challenge. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 76c0f31 | Ixia wasn't perfect, but there were benefits to living there. For me, Valek was one. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 9b5cda2 | Sometimes you can hear the wire, hear it reaching out across the miles; whining with its own weight, crying from the cold, panting at the distance, humming with the phantom sounds of someone else's conversation. You cannot always hear it - only sometimes; when the night is deep and the room is dark and the sound of the phone's ringing has come slicing through uneasy sleep. | David Bradley | ||
| a48c363 | she encouraged them, allowed them to encourage her. She needed them. Because she was still not sure she could do what she had set out to do. | faith mutual-trust | David Bradley | |
| fad7cbc | Studies have shown that, indeed, introverts are more likely than extroverts to express intimate facts about themselves online that their family and friends would be surprised to read, to say that they can express the "real me" online, and to spend more time in certain kinds of online discussions. They welcome the chance to communicate digitally. The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blo.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 2a9369c | y me pregunto si tenia miedo Le dije que no tenia miedo pero igual no queria morir. No queria morir por mis responsabilidades No responsabilidades mundanas, economicas, matematicas ni sociales. | enrique-vila-mata-john-fante roberto-bolaño | Maciel Alcala | |
| 5056776 | retire-or-expire | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 59680ba | Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been. My Mother. My father. Rebecca. Out of site. Out of mind. | gone loss mindscan | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| 8d3efcc | That is fine. Feeling a need to convince others that you are right also is something that comes from religion, I think; I am simply content to know that I am right, even if others do not know it. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 9ccb6c2 | It is the difference: we generalize do not. Specific bad humans did specific bad things; those humans do we not like. But the rest of humanity we judge one by one. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 2870423 | We've known since 2007 that there's superposition in chlorophyll, for instance. Photosynthesis has a ninety-five percent energy-transfer efficiency rate, which is better than anything we can engineer. Plants achieve that by using superposition to simultaneously try all the possible pathways between their light-collecting molecules and their reaction-center proteins so that energy is always sent down the most efficient route; it's a form of .. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 094e71f | THE EAGLE HAS LANDED by Robert J. Sawyer I've spent a lot of time watching Earth--more than forty of that planet's years. My arrival was in response to the signal from our automated probe, which had detected that the paper-skinned bipedal beings of that world had split the atom. The probe had served well, but there were some things only a living being could do properly, and assessing whether a lifeform should be contacted by the Planetary C.. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 354ac4c | Our manna trees are a copy of the magnificent plants created by Light in Paradise--but a poor copy indeed. Light's creation was topped by thousands of gracious, lacy things that swayed in the breeze and made whispering noises while they enjoyed constant communion with the Almighty. They drank of His energy and used it in such a manner as to mix the water they drank with bits of soil and with the air that men and animals breathed out. And th.. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 79d5a19 | You know, it's funny. If someone attacked you with a knife and scarred you, the courts would assess the physical damage--how long a scar, how many stitches it took to close the wound, whatever--and they'd come up with a figure that you'd be entitled to in compensation. But hurting someone with words that they'll always remember? With an act they'll never forget? That's physical damage, too--it changes you just as permanently as a scar. But .. | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 410214d | A smoking gun is incontrovertible evidence. And that's what I want: indisputable proof." "There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?" | Robert J. Sawyer | ||
| 0641da2 | Maybe they're not even introverts--only 70 percent of sensitive people are, according to Aron, while the other 30 percent are extroverts (although this group tends to report craving more downtime and solitude than your typical extrovert). | Susan Cain | ||
| 0f1a4b3 | Aron has noted that sensitive people tend to speak softly because that's how they prefer others to communicate with them. | Susan Cain | ||
| a7d1503 | One of the best things you can do for an introverted child is to work with him on his reaction to novelty. Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don't mistake your child's caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He's recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. | Susan Cain | ||
| 7f73a52 | As an introvert might be expected to do, he'd prepared thoroughly for the speech, not only rehearsing his remarks but also making sure he could cite the latest research. Even | Susan Cain | ||
| d3a4d78 | He also suffered from a certain amount of what he calls "reputational confusion," in which he became known for being over-the-top effervescent, and the reputation fed on itself. This was the persona that others knew, so it was the persona he felt obliged to serve up." | Susan Cain | ||
| 3d76cf2 | our reverence for alpha status blinds us to things that are good and smart and wise. For | Susan Cain | ||
| 3c436b6 | Men who were too quiet around women risked being thought gay; as a popular 1926 sex guide observed, "homosexuals are invariably timid, shy, retiring." | Susan Cain | ||
| 940d5e6 | shy and introverted people might choose to spend their days in behind-the-scenes pursuits like inventing, or researching, or | Susan Cain |