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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b349c90 | When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 0a91079 | Take me someplace where we can be silent together. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b7d4440 | By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later--again, for its own mysterious reasons. | heart | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 enemies hostage luxury | 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. | annabeth-chase chase hades house jackson mother mother-night night of percy percy-jackson the thousand times | Rick Riordan | |
| 7b56c0e | I hate to tell you this," Jason said, "but I think your leopard just ate a goddess." | demigod dionysus goddess half-blood hera jason leopard | 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. | ian-mcewan life love 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 | life perspective strength | Ken Kesey | |
| d774f14 | I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a3b4560 | It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world. | overcoming-past-weaknesses past survivor | Dave Pelzer | |
| 341212a | All she heard next of the strange conversation behind the sofa was Mrs. Pendragon saying something about sending Twinkle (or was his name Howl?) to bed without supper and Twinkle daring her to 'jutht TRY it. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 7bd9b8d | There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b323994 | P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. | justification lies torture | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 64e952f | If I'm a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake? | Graham Greene | ||
| 0c1751b | Can't make an omelette without killing a few people. | killing | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6031674 | I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge. | young | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6d20dd6 | There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4c58bc3 | It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die. | life magic | Neil Gaiman |