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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a9a96fb | I doubt I could stop even if my dad knocked on the window and told me Jesus was very disappointed in my behavior. | Bijou Hunter | ||
| aaa5db5 | Staring at where the sex god drove off, I mumble, "My future lover gave us an order, so shut up while I submit to his will." | Bijou Hunter | ||
| eba17e6 | Johnny pats his son on the back like the owner of a violent dog trying to keep it on a leash. | Bijou Hunter | ||
| a8be0a0 | Hell yeah. I'm great with kids. I have this talent where I listen to them babble, but not too closely so I don't lose my mind. | Bijou Hunter | ||
| 4d1b414 | nearly bled to death today," Poppy says, balled up on the floor. "I'd have died without accomplishing all of my dreams." "What dreams?" "I want blue hair and a cooch tat." "Don't you think you might be aiming too high with those goals?" Journey asks. "Maybe, but I was born a dreamer." | Bijou Hunter | ||
| 3567a9a | Cooper tugged me down the walkway to the other end of the hall and a small bedroom. "This can be the baby's room. We could stick a few kids in here. That way they're close to us and away from Tawny." "This is nice, but I want to see where we'll make those babies." Cooper gave me his horny expression then nudged me to the next room. "Imagine it with new floors, paint, less trash on the floor." "I'm imagining the bed right here," I said, g.. | Bijou Hunter | ||
| f045f9d | Keeping Candy happy means making me happy and me being happy is all that really matters in life. | Bijou Hunter | ||
| 574402e | I expected Candy to pick a different rental house. The little yellow one always gets positive comments from broads. Instead, she chose the blocky, brick house. It's the kind of house I'd have picked. Like the fuckwit I've become, I take her choice as a sign that she and I are made for each other. "Why" | Bijou Hunter | ||
| 0c765a6 | Want to come inside?" Poppy asks, grabbing my wrist and tugging me forward. "Do you hunger to see where Journey lives and breathes? We could interrogate you a little too. Yes, come inside." | Bijou Hunter | ||
| 4ef1c9d | Did you take the pill?" Poppy asks, stopping me at the door. "There's no room in this house for your bastard offspring." | Bijou Hunter | ||
| 8a508f0 | Court makes quite an impressive image roaring up to the house. Poppy watches him from the window and whispers to our cat Thelma how the scary man is going to pound my vagina soon. | Bijou Hunter | ||
| 0975124 | Four wheels make more sense," she says as I start the engine. "Just saying." "Cars are fine, but there's nothing like riding down the road with a beautiful woman wrapped around me." Justice leans around my arms and smiles at me. "You can call me beautiful whenever you want. I just wanted you to know that. Oh, and if I fall off, tell my sisters I died feeling superior to them." | Bijou Hunter | ||
| 44e742e | Reducing average cortisol to a safe level, say under 15 ug/dl, is very important. Unfortunately, there is no convenient way to measure average cortisol, so fasting levels are used. Cortisol is a very fast-acting hormone, and any minor stress prior to a blood draw, such as an argument over billing, could run it up. So unless you are in a normal relaxed state, the measurement should be taken with a grain of salt, or ideally, taken again. Ten .. | Mike Nichols | ||
| 85fc38e | The early days of revolution were remarkable for how submerged and scattered that hard right was. Most of its high-profile figures had left the country or been arrested after February. Only the erratic Purishkevich remained at large, more or less powerless, tolerated and toothless. The political integument of Petrograd in particular had lurched leftward, repositioning radicals as moderates and moderates as right-wingers. In those days every.. | russia | China Miéville | |
| 2e92424 | The children from the bridge were often waiting there, eyeing me. They congregated by the stump and played a game involving motions as strange as those of worship. To me it looked as if they were feeling the missing bark for handholds, as if it were an expertise of town children that they could climb ghost trees. | China Miéville | ||
| 339e663 | The branches dropped shaggy creepers that, when they reached the earth, hardened into roots and pried apart paving. | China Miéville | ||
| 0b75074 | Rude creatures emit slime and phosphorescence and move with flickerings of unclear limbs. The logic of their forms derives from nightmares. | China Miéville | ||
| c49d42c | 'Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.' | Amit Chaudhuri | ||
| 0491c66 | 'The car horns created an anxious music, discordant but not indifferent.' | Amit Chaudhuri | ||
| cf1d3a7 | '... he sang with his eyes squeezed tight, as if he were dropping from a great height.' | Amit Chaudhuri | ||
| 46ac33d | '... a severe woman with a patient but unprevaricating gaze, who turned out to be Indira Gandhi.' | Amit Chaudhuri | ||
| 186bc9e | So what's your alternative?' people say, as if that's logic. We don't have to have an alternative, that's not how critique works. We may do, and if we do, you're welcome, but if we don't that no more invalidates our hate for this, for what is, than does that of a serf for her lord, her flail-backed insistence that this must end, whether or not she accompanies it with a blueprint for free wage labour. | China Miéville | ||
| fa7aa02 | Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing. - Jamie McGregor | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| fcd4976 | Everything, though, depended on whether we could teach the Ariekei what we had to. | China Miéville | ||
| 5817cb0 | I take it from Colin Wilson, who in his own work explored the evolutionary potential of imagination. Imagination, he said, is 'the ability to grasp realities that are not immediately present'. Not an escape from reality, or a substitute for it, but a deeper engagement with it. We could also say that imagination is simply our ability to grasp reality, or even, in some strange way, to create it, or at least to collaborate in its creation. | Gary Lachman | ||
| 6373f9d | And this is a point whose importance goes far beyond this discussion of the occult. We are considering the most important law of human nature. Man is at his best when he has a strong sense of purpose. When my consciousness is doing its proper work--grasping some of the immense complexity of the universe, and calculating how to increase its control and power--its energy flows into the subconscious, and arouses all the forces of the subconsci.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| f3af9a9 | Mystics of many countries and many centuries have spoken of this memory...' And he defines the real danger of this 'lunar knowledge': 'It is perhaps well that so few believe in it, for if many did many would go out of parliaments and universities and libraries and run into the wilderness to so waste the body, and to so hush the unquiet mind that, still living, they might pass the doors the dead pass daily; for who among the wise would troub.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| b3c9e38 | Sentencing Packer, Judge Melville Gerry gave vent to his feelings along unexpectedly political lines: "There were only seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, and you ate five of them, you depraved Republican son-of-a-bitch!" | Colin Wilson | ||
| 4b31ba3 | Because it feels lost, bewildered, unsure of itself, the conscious ego"--our left brain--"searches obsessively for meaning." In the process "it has achieved more in three thousand years of bicameral consciousness than in the previous million years of inner unity." Wilson" | Gary Lachman | ||
| a6ffd75 | 'Gulp by gulp, in the air-conditioned study, he swallowed civilisation.' | Amit Chaudhuri | ||
| 0f892ab | 'Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership ...' | Amit Chaudhuri | ||
| 1c275cb | 'Light shafted obliquely on it.' ( The Steamer ) | Amit Chaudhuri | ||
| 9123701 | 'As the sun came up, we/saw the leaves peer out, shivering.' ( Letter from the Hills ) | Amit Chaudhuri | ||
| 5d806ae | Maybe it was always that way and everyone has always been forever waking in a flustered confusion deep at night trying to believe that the awful sound they think woke them was nothing, or was the nervous bark of a dog, not the sound of violence or of a child weeping in the kind of desolation or terror that demands intervention | terror | China Miéville | |
| 650c95c | It's not just us keeping them apart. It's everyone in Beszel and everyone in Ul Qoma. Every minute, every day. We're only the last ditch: it's everyone in the cities who does most of the work. It works because you don't blink. That's why unseeing and unsensing are so vital. No one can admit it doesn't work. So if you don't admit it, it does. But if you breach, even if it's not your fault, for more than the shortest time ... you can't come b.. | China Miéville | ||
| 8657001 | It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force.. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 237bb37 | if you're gonna shoot off your mouth, make sure it's loaded first. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| b877838 | Kelly, before you walked out there, the audience thought you were just a beautiful, untouchable dream, a fantasy, out of reach. When you tripped and fell, it showed them that you're human, and they adored you for it | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| f28cbe7 | The great majority of people hate what they're doing, Mr Douglas. Instead of devising ways to get into something they like, they remain trapped all their lives, like brainless insects. It's rare to find a man who loves his work. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 2879fec | Then there was only the soft night wind and the timeless sea. And the stars above, where it had all been written. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 637eeac | EVERYONE AT YAMPA VALLEY | Tilly Bagshawe | ||
| 4fa6822 | impish, vivacious, and daring. She was half smoldering, half firecracker. Her face was puckishly heart shaped, her eyes were a mischievous brown, her figure alluring. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| b5857e0 | Newspapers and old magazines were piled everywhere. A door to an inner room burst open and Norman Z. Moody emerged. He was about five foot five and must have weighed three hundred pounds. He rolled as he walked, reminding Judd of an animated Buddha. He had a round, jovial face with wide, guileless, pale blue eyes. He was totally bald and his head was egg-shaped. It was impossible to guess his age. "Mr. Stevenson?" Moody greeted him. "Dr. St.. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| ffa5ee3 | average Russian reads three times as many books a year as the average United States citizen. | Sidney Sheldon |