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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cf7e35a | What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion. | illusion magic inspirational | Tyler Knott Gregson | |
| b4ba713 | l s`d@ bl krm@ | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 4dc503a | But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| c5915ad | She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| c15f3d4 | Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment. | courage hostage luxury enemies | Orson Scott Card | |
| c33a892 | I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end. | poem song tender | Orson Scott Card | |
| 5d047ef | It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle. | Frederick Buechner | ||
| 9eddd74 | But next time, we need to kind of...oh, I don't know, talk first and then throw people through windows later." Daemon crossed his arms. "Can we try that?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| aac8a8f | My eyes narrowed. "You said it was a brilliant idea." "I think lots of things are brilliant ideas. Like nuclear weapons, zero-calorie soft drinks, and blue jean vests," he replied. "That doesn't mean we should nuke people, or that diet drinks taste good, or that you should run out to the local Walmart and buy a jean vest. You people shouldn't always listen to me." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e699d8c | Kat, say something insulting. Come on. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d29f235 | Poseidon put his weathered hand on my shoulder. "Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names...well, it usually says more about than it does about us. And , Percy, are my favorite son." | poseidon | Rick Riordan | |
| eaf0f2d | All invincible and stuff | Rick Riordan | ||
| 20eeae3 | What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence. The voice cackled maliciously. | times thousand the mother-night of house annabeth-chase percy-jackson hades chase jackson percy mother night | Rick Riordan | |
| 7b56c0e | I hate to tell you this," Jason said, "but I think your leopard just ate a goddess." | leopard half-blood goddess demigod jason hera dionysus | Rick Riordan | |
| f8dafc7 | They're not dead," I told the goat. "They both have pulses." "Oh." The goat sighed. "Well, give them a few more hours and they'll probably be dead." "What is wrong with you?" "Everything," said the goat." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 16a09b0 | Are you suggesting that the gods have trouble acting together, young lady?" Dionysus asked. Yes, Lord Dionysus." Mr. D nodded. "Just checking. You're right, of course. Carry on." | zoe-nightshade | Rick Riordan | |
| 535690c | A warm, tickling touch crashed me back to earth. Maybe it sent me straight to heaven. Either way, it dragged me out of hell. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 8e2226d | Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again. | life | Robert Jordan | |
| 828b69e | Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| d0f2312 | He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive. | life love ian-mcewan love-conquers-all sad | Ian McEwan | |
| 59bfb47 | The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies... | Milan Kundera | ||
| 0888aad | You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6779dad | Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d796623 | Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e5a6e67 | A day of dappled seaborne clouds. The phrase and the day and the scene harmonised in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No, it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of .. | James Joyce | ||
| b08ab4c | Giants isn't eating each other either, the BFG said. Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they is not killing each other. Nor is crockadowndillies killing other crockadowndillies. Nor is pussy-cats killing pussy-cats. 'They kill mice,' Sophie said. 'Ah, but they is not killing their own kind,' the BFG said. 'Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.' 'Don't poisonous snakes kill each other?'.. | Roald Dahl | ||
| a4775c4 | And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| e258ecc | I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion." | C.S. Lewis | ||
| a062275 | You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself | strength life perspective | Ken Kesey | |
| 512da1e | I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing | vows | Francine Rivers | |
| cfced08 | Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please. | Francine Rivers | ||
| 0fab96b | The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 0b2d5a6 | It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 410f585 | There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it." | grief loss | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| dbe9235 | I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a116c4f | I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's be.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| dd3e908 | When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that .. | sam-shepard playwriting | Patti Smith | |
| 7c99dda | A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead. | time impermanence | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 9946b9d | I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| e55b249 | The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT! | Mindy Kaling | ||
| ea5cd0a | It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 9f46208 | I want to live life on my own terms. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| b8572d5 | The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 7187cf0 | Summer's lease hath all too short a date. | summer | William Shakespeare |