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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| af9b212 | And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair! | mirror-of-galadriel lothlorien galadriel | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 755e967 | We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| f2e7a67 | I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really going into battle." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 7f521df | No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," he said. "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| e1a1784 | At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of powe.. | harry-potter badass j-k-rowling dumbledore powerful power | J.K. Rowling | |
| 481b584 | And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encountered the thing that was then Voldemort, and how he had faced him, and how he and Dumbledore had discussed fighting a losing battle not long thereafter. It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . . And Harry saw very clearly as he s.. | death darkness forest fighting safety protection | J.K. Rowling | |
| a7fe646 | Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| f3737b9 | The inner eye does not see upon command. | J. K. Rowling | ||
| 8347750 | But somebody else had spoken Snape's name, quite softly. "Severus . . ." The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleading. Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face. "Severus . . . please . . ." Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. " " A jet of green light shot from the end of .. | pain death killing-curse severus-snape dumbledore misery sad | J.K. Rowling | |
| e22fcca | The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f1a0b13 | Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high | Libba Bray | ||
| a9be2d2 | And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| 05114b3 | Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 9c756eb | But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. | karma past | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| e2cd5d0 | But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| cee87ec | Regardless of his motives or his methods, Rhysand was keeping me alive. And had done so even before I set foot Under the Mountain. | keep-alive rhysand rhys | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 78329ef | This thing between them, the force of it, could devour the world. And if they picked it, picked them, it might very well cause the end of it. | rowaelin eos rowan-whitethorn ya | Sarah J. Maas | |
| f1ec9c8 | The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before? | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 8f1d3ce | Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?" | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 45e6faa | Horses are of a breed unique to Fantasyland. They are capable of galloping full-tilt all day without a rest. Sometimes they do not require food or water. They never cast shoes, go lame or put their hooves down holes, except when the Management deems it necessary, as when the forces of the Dark Lord are only half an hour behind. They never otherwise stumble. Nor do they ever make life difficult for Tourists by biting or kicking their riders .. | humor horses | Diana Wynne Jones | |
| e7e4dca | Look at this!" he shouted "look at it! what has that one-woman force of chaos done to these spells?" Sophie and Michael whirled round and looked at Howl. His hair was wet, but, apart from that, neither of them could see that it looked any different. "If you mean me-" Sophie began. "I do mean you! Look!" Howl shrieked. He sat down with a thump on the three-legged stool and jabbed at his wet head with his fingers. "Look. Survey. Inspect. My .. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 2ac4e91 | Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?" | man men rosethorn | Tamora Pierce | |
| 12d5442 | The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. | soccer sports | Terry Pratchett | |
| c0160dc | I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 508a568 | A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos. | Edward De Bono | ||
| c5121e6 | What if -- is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions--? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes -- the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right? | good wrong bad-deeds what-is-bad what-is-good good-deeds black-and-white | Donna Tartt | |
| 38b170b | Your man Jesus seems to me a bit of a son of a bitch when it comes to women,'Roland said. 'Was He ever married?' The corners of Callahan's mouth quirked. 'No' he said, 'but His girlfriend was a whore.' 'Well,' Roland said, 'that's a start.' | women | Stephen King | |
| 53bd374 | Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out." | jane-seymour henry-viii mary-boleyn threat | Philippa Gregory | |
| 7b2b541 | The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the gate, individuals still have bars and elaborate internal security systems. Americans spend more than thirty billion dollars a year on security. When I have stayed with friends in these communities and inquired as to whether all the security is in response to an actual danger I am told "not really," that it is the fear of.. | racism love white-supremacy patriarchy media | Bell Hooks | |
| 0e92e51 | We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. | white-supremacy patriarchy | bell hooks | |
| 683497b | The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b679558 | One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a6af105 | If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 24942ec | For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. | Edmund Spenser | ||
| 9cfee95 | Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things. | David Eddings | ||
| 2a92e89 | In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is ful.. | philosophy toilets ideology | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 513ff50 | Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers. | John le Carré | ||
| a96f91d | She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague "she" of all the poetry books." | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| 3ff5220 | I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them. | Gustave Flaubert | ||
| b6079dd | For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| eafa7b9 | Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. | beowulf-seamus-heaney coast-guard | Seamus Heaney | |
| 514255c | I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent-and working at a pace so slow-that I would be able to hear myself living. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 56c5cd0 | Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b782c72 | I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. | Elizabeth Gilbert |