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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cbb9ddc | Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. "I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the lethal-amulet test, remember?" "Not that. You keep it in your underwear drawer?" I hesitated, wondering why I was embarrassed. "Well, where do you put your elven magic?" I asked." -- | funny elven-charm ivy rachel | Kim Harrison | |
| 576c7b7 | I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check. | scope-of-government separation-of-powers | John Adams | |
| 8cd7449 | My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass. | words poetry | Federico García Lorca | |
| e93692f | why do you like fights Darry~Ponyboy He just likes to show off his muscles~Sodapop | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 14a3d6a | Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you. | Sara Zarr | ||
| fce8996 | Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that they had evolved and dispersed from the site of their evolution? | evolution god noremorse pg270 creator atheist | Richard Dawkins | |
| 596b6d9 | He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 52dbcad | Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| b2aab86 | And all the woe that moved him so That he gave that bitter cry the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 9be0866 | But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality. | personality wisdom vanity | Oscar Wilde | |
| 79096a7 | I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her. | heartbreak love mortal-instruments unrequited-love | Cassandra Clare | |
| d98ad3f | My darling, you are indisposed! You must remain abed for the next eight months. Little Buford - " "I am NOT naming our child Buford..." | funny clockwork-prince child | Cassandra Clare | |
| d8ff2f7 | Unless there was a reason for me to stay. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 17660db | Pain made you strong. Loss made you powerful. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 14521c7 | he said. She blinked at him, a little dazed. "What?" "A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another." | tessa-gray | Cassandra Clare | |
| bd1e0ad | You screamed." Will said. "Is that all you did?" "I screamed a great deal." Tatiana sounded injured." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 3b7cb49 | Simon," Isabelle interrupted, "you're talking like a nerd." She said it almost fondly, but it freaked Simon out more. "And I don't know how to be smooth, sexy vampire Simon for you, either!" Isabelle's perfect mouth curved, like a dark half-moon in her pale face. "You were never that smooth, Simon." "Oh," said Simon. "Oh, thank God. I know you've had a lot of boyfriends. I remember that was a faerie, and"--another flash of memory, this time.. | lord-montgomery sexy-vampire sizzy simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3ef1cf2 | The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." Jace: " Enormous? Did you just call me fat?" Inquisitor: "It was an analogy." Jace: "I am not fat." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| be7fa68 | You and Jace - you're not quite normal, are you? I mean, not normal Shadowhunters. There's something special about you both. Like the Seelie Queen said. You were experiments." He smiled at her startled look. "I'm not stupid. I can put these things together. You with your rune powers, and Jace, well...no one could be that annoying without some kind of supernatural assistance." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 7cad40e | I need a bodyguard." Simon eyed him. "Have you been watching The Bodyguard? Because I am not going to fall in love with you and carry you around in my burly arms." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| cab9c25 | You are just jealous," Magnus remarked calmly. "Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself." "Oh, I am positively green with envy," Ragnor snapped. "Come now, Ragnor. That's not fair," said Magnus. "You know I love it when you make jokes about your complexion." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a972050 | Jordan slammed the coatrack down on the ground and sighed. "if you were a vampire, this would have been a lot more useful." "yes," said jace. "or, you know, just someone with a lot of coats." | humor city-of-fallen-angels jace | Cassandra Clare | |
| 41ffdb9 | I knew you were crazy, but I didn't realize that you were out of your goddamned mind!! | humor | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9ded210 | Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 646c1ae | Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. | sex humor technophobes wit technology | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| b1cc9f5 | You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein] | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 1de444e | Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit. | Timothy Zahn | ||
| 82c6264 | Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, it's off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, .. | Joseph Campbell | ||
| a89dcc4 | Let me kiss you." Qhuinn groaned as he leaned in. "I know I don't deserve it, but please ... it's what you can do for me. Let me feel you...." Qhuinn's mouth brushed his own. Came back for more. Lingered. "I'll beg for it." More with the caress of those devastating lips. "If that's what it takes. I don't give a fuck, I'll beg..." | qhuinn | J.R Ward | |
| 5370a53 | What's next? The size of my cock?" "Hey, even pencils can get the job done--I've heard the moaning from your room to prove it." | humor vishous butch | J.R. Ward | |
| 8e0f580 | God damn it, you've got to be kind. | kindness | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 6c73367 | Hughes: (Talking for Mustang) 'I won't allow you to die under my jurisdiction because it'd be a pain to clean up the mess.' That's what he said. Edward: Fine. Tell him, 'Understood. I'll never die before you, colonel, you @#'$ idiot.' Hughes: Ha ha ha! They say the ruder you are, the luckier you are! In that case, you and Roy are gonna live forever! | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 2b8009d | People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die. | John Green | ||
| 192b546 | The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. | death-and-dying romantic death cowpox smallpox cancer augustus-waters waters hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars grace beautiful hazel | John Green | |
| ac7a28b | And then, in boating supplies, Margo located an air horn. She took it out of the box and held it up in the air, and I said, "No," and she said, "No what?" And I said, "No don't blow the air horn," except when I got to the in , she squeezed on it and it let out an excruciatingly loud honk that felt in my head like the auditory equivalent of an aneurysm, and then she said, "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. What was that?" And I said, "Stop .. | humor | John Green | |
| 253ec97 | I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it? | John Green | ||
| 53ef70a | He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. | lifestyle | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 39add0d | You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover's soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it. | T.H. White | ||
| 02c2b8d | Have you ever seen ? Well, I'm not American. I'm not a werewolf, and this isn't London. | Lynsay Sands | ||
| 90f0556 | The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A fairy upstairs and a little child downstairs- but as long as there's not one in my lady's chamber, I can stand it"." | charlaine harris | ||
| 7377dc8 | And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that. | love | Charlaine Harris | |
| 8494fcf | I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia | lisa kleypas | ||
| 056e8dd | I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now." | lillian kleypas | Lisa Kleypas | |
| b5bc2ba | He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit. | perseverance eugenides | Megan Whalen Turner |