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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d18a4bf | I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 916e237 | He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| ada3750 | The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| 24f0d1f | You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. | methods trifles investigation mysteries sherlock-holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| a9c5eb9 | Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 3ca8a69 | You're not a man, you're a mushroom! | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 72bed7c | I captured her cheeks, pulling her back to my hungry mouth. Man, I couldn't get enough of her taste, of how she gave it right back to me on all fronts. Her hands went to the button on my jeans. There was a cracking sound in the house. Most likely something had just went up in flames. | obsidian | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 1071a54 | Jesus. It's like I'm a muggle to your pure-blood or something. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 00b6a85 | Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. "You have a plan?" Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, " | plans reyna the-son-of-neptune percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-heroes-of-olympus | Rick Riordan | |
| cfc5770 | Tell me when it's over " Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn't fall but still Thalia clutched his arm like it was the most important thing in the world. "Everything's fine " I promised. "Are... are we very high " I looked down. Below us a range of snowy mountains zipped by. I stretched out my foot and kicked snow off one of the peaks. "Nah " I said. "Not that high." | thalia-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| cecbe03 | I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum. | Rick Riordan | ||
| c84e6da | Bianca, camp is cool! It's got a pegasus stable and a sword-fighting arena and... I mean, what do you get by joining the Hunters?" To begin with," Zoe said, "immortality." I stared at her, then at Artemis. "She's kidding, right?" Zoe rarely kids about anything," Artemis said. "My Hunters follow me on my adventures. They are my maidservants, my companions, my sisters-in-arms. Once they swear loyalty to me, they are indeed immortal... unless .. | bianca-di-angelo zoe-nightshade percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| b6d0b6b | You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you? | Fannie Flagg | ||
| 6af90f1 | Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| acf91d5 | This overwhelming, encompassing feeling is love. It's not perfect and it's messy as hell. And it's exactly what I need. | ryan | Katie McGarry | |
| feed311 | Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 7cdb1fd | If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by | truth innocent-traitor jane-grey | Alison Weir | |
| 47fce94 | We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish. | hope | Haruki Murakami | |
| aaf6432 | He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 617d783 | Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hundred English camped three miles away, and no idea what to do about them. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm sore. If you've anything like womanly sympathy about ye, I could use a bit! | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f9ac289 | For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 5bde972 | As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart. | michael-hosea | Francine Rivers | |
| 18ecaa1 | The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 28df693 | As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is." | Chaim Potok | ||
| 28ffa00 | For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| a3ac654 | His mom always said that trust was something you earned. And it wasn't something you gave easy. Too often, it was a tool your enemies used to hurt you with. 'Give them nothing, baby. Not until you have no choice. The world is harsh and it is cold. People can be good and decent, but most of them are only out for themselves and they'll hurt anyone they can'. | trust nothing enemies | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 9c6a611 | We have three kinds of family 1.Those we are born to | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1ad8925 | You can have me the way i am -- bad behavior included -- or not at all. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 7a005cd | I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said no.. | hopeful prophetic mystery | Cormac McCarthy | |
| a996ef5 | I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 4714433 | Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)" | words speaking taciturnity expression | William Shakespeare | |
| 8b1a475 | I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155" | James Patterson | ||
| 0b2236d | My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird. | weird introvert | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 5f77737 | If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you. | jaime-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| 3e828dd | Was there ever a war where only one side bled? | war | George R.R. Martin | |
| daa940c | There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 27b8f3e | When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around. | life humans | Tom Robbins | |
| cbe0038 | The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know. | nature science mistake knowledge | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| 7704ab1 | These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age--they're drawn to the age, they do it for the age. Why? In Consuela's case, because the vast difference in age gives her permission to submit, I think. My age and my status give her, rationally, the license to surrender, and surrendering in bed is a not unpleasant sensation. But simultaneously, to give yourself over intimately to a much, much older man provides this sort of younger woma.. | submission | Philip Roth | |
| 7553c20 | She] knew there were women who worked successfully out of the home. They ran businesses, created empires and managed to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted children who went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard or became world-renowned concert pianists. Possibly both. These women accomplished all this while cooking gourmet meals, furnishing their homes with Italian antiques, giving clever, intelligent interviews with Money magazine .. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 495edb9 | Darkness feeds on apathy. | Dan Brown | ||
| a743d08 | Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? | Dan Brown | ||
| 30f519a | We refuse to believe that which we don't understand. | truth | Napoleon Hill | |
| aab3266 | just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life. | death truth inspirational | Lisa Genova |