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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3e7b41f | If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you'd be wrong. He'd be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 90899bf | You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?" | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 64be3d8 | Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 078bb28 | My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| e195460 | To be really mediaeval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. | humor wilde clothing greeks soul | Oscar Wilde | |
| 1630d77 | Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 3989197 | I know. In fact, I am never wrong. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 35f952a | You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently. | sebastian-verlac sebastian | Cassandra Clare | |
| eb5040e | Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest." | henry clockwork fire | Cassandra Clare | |
| d4f4e5f | And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear." "And you kill them, too?" Simon asked, directing the question to Jace, who had put the stele back in his pocket and was examining his flawless nails for defects. "Only when they've been naughty." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 6b79e01 | She had fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just to the left of his collarbone. As she moved away, the clockwork angel slipped free and she saw to her surprise that where it had lain against his skin it had left a mark behind, no bigger than a shilling, in the shape of a pale white star. | will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 40d44bb | All the stories are true | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 6a8b57d | We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 3ba3102 | Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends." -- | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| dd880bf | What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself? | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 5d56345 | And then Tohr said softly, "I'm lucky to have found love, I thank the Scribe Virgin every day that Wellsie is in my life." Wrath's Temper surged, set off by something he couldn't put his finger on. "You're ." Tohr hissed. "And you've been dead for hundreds of years. You're just too mean to find a grave and lie down." | wrath | J.R. Ward | |
| f1476e9 | Life's meant to be lived blind--that's how you don't take shit for granted. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 4e8f56c | You're a good Irishman, right?" When Butch nodded, V said, "Irish, Irish... let me think. Yeah..." Vishous's eyes sobered, and in a voice that cracked, he said, "May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And... my dearest friend... until we meet again may the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 3d78a35 | As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog's big head and stroking the soft fur...playing with an ear...dipping down and finding the long waves that flowed from the animal's broad, strong chest. Not that any of that meant he was keeping the the animal, of course. It just felt nice, was all. | wrath vampire paranormal-romance | J.R. Ward | |
| 9b21113 | When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to raise the kids or whatever. What they're really saying to each other, though without realizing it, is this: "You are not enough people!" | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 42a5efd | Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy's wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference." Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not.. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 937248e | I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I like to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden stre.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 54dfd03 | Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval. | relationships opinions nicole-diver rosemary-hoyt | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 8775c11 | I am wired by nature to love the same toys that the world loves. I start to fit in. I start to love what others love. I start to call earth "home." Before you know it, I am calling luxeries "needs" and using my money just the way unbelievers do. I begin to forget the war. I don't think much about people perishing. Missions and unreached people drop out of my mind. I stop dreaming about the triumphs of grace. I sink into a secular mind-set t.. | money fitting-in mind-set worldliness missions materialism sickness | John Piper | |
| c1c2835 | No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says." | insurgent pansycake uriah veronica-roth | Veronica Roth | |
| d3f3f5b | Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are. | Veronica Roth | ||
| be51dcc | His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work." | love tobias-eaton simulation tris-prior | Veronica Roth | |
| fe88e75 | If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4db559b | He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you bring it?" "My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?" His smile widened. "I brought mine." Daphne gasped. "You didn't!" "I did. Just to torture Mother. I'm going peruse it right in front of her, pull out my quizzing glass--" "You don't have a quizzing glass." He grinned--the slow, devastatingly wicked smile that all Bridgerton males seemed to possess. "I bought one just for this occasion." ".. | siblings | Julia Quinn | |
| 90e1ebd | Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6f641b2 | Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother. | alcohol dwarf feast tyrion-lannister jon-snow drunk | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5e32593 | Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. | reading immortality books rebirth reader | Alberto Manguel | |
| 1d5c7e2 | Don't worry. I'm only your escort tonight. I would offer to protect you from the drunken attentions of the other men, but I know all to well that you're quite capagble of holding your own. You're probably armed. Right?" Always." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 0281d0b | There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6a845fa | Sometimes I forget how much I like riding the bike." Most chicks do," I said. "Roar of the engine and so on." Murphy's blue eyes glittered with annoyance and anticipation. "Pig. You really enjoy dropping all women together in the same demographic, don't you?" It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels." | women humor karrin-murphy | Jim Butcher | |
| 7bceefb | The only way to end grief was to go through it. | Holly Black | ||
| 696475f | Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far. | fae | Holly Black | |
| 68ddb73 | i think thats one of the problems with the world today, nobody knows who they are. everyone is running around looking for an identity, or trying to borrow one, only they dont know it. they actually think they know who they are and hat they are? theyre just a bunch of schleppers...who have no idea what a search for personal truth and identity really is, which would be alright if they didn't get in your way, but they insist that they know eve.. | Hubert Selby Jr. | ||
| 4277d68 | Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. | religion inspirational fight secularism | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | |
| 5ec7c89 | Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor. | inspirational | Colleen Houck | |
| d55ec83 | wisdom inspirational | ???? ???? | ||
| 37bc0b7 | Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. | inspirational | Bruce Lee | |
| be82771 | We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget. | inspirational reminding | G.K. Chesterton | |
| b154c90 | The same wind that uproots tree | inspirational | Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi |