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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a8fd9a5 | Everyone deserves a happy ending. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 30cda19 | There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| a93365d | He knows she's his daughter, twit. (Artemis) Twit? Moi? The Simi? Why, I do believe the bitch-goddess has done gone and gotten herself confused. She thinks she's me, not that I blame her. All women want to be me because of my beautoneousness and the fact that I have such stylish clothing and sparklies. But believe me, I ain't no heifer-goddess. (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4777939 | You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8e0e88c | What are you talking about? Are you for real? (Nick) What do you mean? The Simi's not turning invisible again, is she? Ooo, that would be bad. I promised akri I wouldn't do that no more in public places. But sometimes the Simi can't help it. Kind of like putting barbecue sauce on salads. It's just mandatory and reflexive 'cause you gots to kill the taste of the ick rabbit food. (Simi) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e2456ef | Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me. | song | Peter S. Beagle | |
| e281518 | Distract me, please | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 80a62ff | Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that... Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 2092af3 | Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 55c7c04 | It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required. | bad-writing dullness humor writing | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 6a11b49 | I start to walk out of the room, but I hear him start to panic and his breathing gets labored. He reaches out to me. "Don't go. Please." I sit next to him on the bed, wondering if he's afraid of being abandoned. He slings his arm around my thigh and rests his forehead against my knee. "I have to protect you," he says softly. "From who?" "El Diablo." "El Diablo? Who's that?" I ask. "It's complicated." What does that mean? "Try to rest," I t.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ff8b76f | That's not the only reason I'm stayin', chica. I can't leave you any more than I could walk out that door right now while my leg is busted up. I was just thinkin' . . . should we tell your parents now or later?" "Tell them what?" I ask, eyes wide. He kisses me softly, then says proudly, "That we're in a serious, monogamous, committed relationship." "We are?" "Si. And when I get out of here, I'm gonna fix the door to your car." | conversation kiara-westford | Simone Elkeles | |
| 53f6e6e | Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 4c76070 | I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 4e40620 | Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives. | inspiration meaning | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 64ce7b9 | What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts | Lewis Carroll | ||
| b325f3d | Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 05ce37f | Consider anything, only don't cry! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 85abe43 | I shot him the bird. (Get it? I shot him the--never mind.) | James Patterson | ||
| be04076 | Max?" said the Gasman. "Are those, um, rats?" Lovely. "Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids," I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl." | James Patterson | ||
| 9acade1 | Uh-oh,' said Gazzy, but Angel was so nauseated she didn't have time to leap to a safe distance, or grab a gas mask Bbbbbrrrrrrrttthhhhhhttttttt. 'Mother of God, no!' Total cried, doing a fast belly-crawl to the pool and throwing himself in. 'You said it wasn't your digestive system!' 'What was that?' Dylan asked. He winced and threw an arm oer his nose and mouth. ... 'Sorry,' Gazzy said miserably, but he couldn't help a tiny grin. Nudge was.. | humor | James Patterson | |
| 023f101 | I love you," Matt said. I love you, too," Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it." If I have a soul, I'll go with you," promised Matt." | love soul | Nancy Farmer | |
| fc051e9 | I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think. | ugliness | Marguerite Duras | |
| b9d28c0 | Evil is relative...You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger. | morality | Glen Cook | |
| cf13166 | I love the vagueness of words that involve time. 'It took him awhile to come back' -- it could be a matter of minutes or hours, days or years. It is easy for me to say it took me awhile to know. That is about as accurate as I can get. There were sneak previews of knowing, for sure. Instance that made me feel, oh, this could be right, But the moment I shifted from a hope that needed to be proven to a certainty that would be continually chal.. | David Levithan | ||
| ed696d2 | If other people see you differently, you'll end up seeing them differently, too. | David Levithan | ||
| 664467b | stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter. | David Levithan | ||
| c65f432 | You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. | honesty lies truth | David Levithan | |
| a1c467f | Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love. | David Levithan | ||
| 4fa71ad | the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them... | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 39edd80 | I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 7d4849e | I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 5561a6e | Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth. | lying truth | David Mitchell | |
| 04f6a59 | Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d007c4a | My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| fa60030 | One school of thought says that the best way to handle an issue like this is exposure therapy," Mad Rogan said. "For example, if you're terrified of snakes, repeated handling of them will cure it." Aha. "I'm not handling your snake." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| c28ca0f | The hallway led me to the stairway of a million steps. My leg screamed in protest. I sighed and started climbing. I just had to keep from limping. Limping showed weakness, and I didn't need any enterprising, career-motivated shapeshifters trying to challenge me for dominance right about now. I had once mentioned my desire for an elevator, and His Majesty asked me if I would like a flock of doves to carry me up to my quarters so my feet woul.. | curran kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 2b53ce1 | What is wrong with you? Many, many things. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 2966032 | Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind me of that spark of decency inside me. I'm trying to do something decent now, Captain. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| d805379 | The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia and a crack team of plastic surgeons. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 05acf0f | Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6777282 | I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 24af076 | Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 261306f | The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die. | Ned Vizzini |