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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7216c11 | All peoples have the right of self-determination. | Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ||
| d14a136 | Porsche Cayenne. It was his personal fleet car. Very luxe but equipped with ankle restraints bolted onto the | Janet Evanovich | ||
| e6c9a51 | The rhythm of his steps said, Happy to be here, happy to be here. Rays of sunlight shot between the clouds, making spots of light like polka dots on the ground. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 3a4e794 | Please just let us choose and get it over with. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 4cdc113 | The other hand wanted to wrap itself around Ranger's most perfect body part and not let go. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| c2736d3 | You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work, and there will always be misfortunes we can't control lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life, and I think we have one here" -Mr. Harrow" | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 88a0006 | Officer Gurney ran a strip of yellow tape around the back area of the cafe, roping it off so no one could disturb the site. Then he scanned the crowd. His eyes lit on a comfortably plump woman wearing a red down jacket that made her look even plumper. She had a short brownish-blond ponytail that stuck out through a hole in her red baseball hat. "Brenda," said Officer Gurney. "What do you think?" Grover was in danger of being late for school.. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 5f7a110 | Signs of craziness, like Hoyt McCoy dancing around naked? Disgusting filthiness, like a smelly outhouse or rat-swarmed garbage? | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| e6e81d8 | Goats and oxen, pulling carts in from the fields, left their big, smelly plops all over. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 37ef906 | blotches of blood looked more like a soupspoon than an R. Several people told him angrily to be quiet. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| f45dc5a | This world was huge. There must be another place in it for the people of Ember. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 8fbb483 | She looked powerful, Lina thought, even though she was very short. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 1838f6f | And you, Mackie," said the doctor. "It's been a long time." | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 996e27a | He found his aunt in the kitchen, and he grabbed her by the waist of her pants | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 1244b25 | We were underground', she said. 'Not just the pipeworks, everything! | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 73335bf | The right of self-determination must be implemented through specific measures. | Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ||
| 0fb3812 | She could not understand why this world, which was so full of beauty and wonder, had to also be so full of horrors. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 7c44a1c | Then there might be dead people. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 89de372 | A bird feeder hung from the porch roof, but there were no seeds in it. The curtains in all the windows were closed. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| aeab513 | Just look at it! | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| e45b4e6 | It was more of a castle than a house. It loomed over them, immense and massive, three stories high. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 6fd6e4c | Beeson, wearing a rain jacket with the hood up over her | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 6395e83 | down the stone steps to the windswept beach, her raven tresses flowing out behind her. She scanned the empty sands, and when she saw no sign of Blaine, a great cry of anguish escaped her lips. She could not live without him! She would sooner die! | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 05848fc | She decided to keep this letter because of the strange way it was written. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 69894f8 | What must the ancient world have been like, she wondered, with all these strange things moving around in it? Was it wonderful or terrible? | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| bea2ccd | Doon went up close to the wall of the hotel and examined the words scratched there. He pictured the people who had done it, clutching their burnt chunks of wood, writing with big, angry strokes in the dark of the night. Yes, Tick was right. Hatred seethed in those jagged letters. He felt almost as if their strokes had scraped open his skin. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| f84031e | When anger is in control, you get unintended consequences. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| fb2d395 | What are those? | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 7af1c2c | Crystal didn't like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| cef7227 | Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 81af265 | Church of the Fiery Vision. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| ef82405 | What you get is what you get. What you DO with what you get, though...that's more the point, wouldn't you say" -Doon's Father" | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 7bca522 | Father: And when anger is the boss, you get- Doon: Unintended consequences. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 306bc47 | Finally, Trogg pointed to the hourglass, which was draining its last grains of sand into its bottom half. "Bedtime!" he cried. Minny awoke with a start, and everyone got up and shuffled off to the apartment." | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| bc8be6d | You turned a crazy old guy into an enemy in less than two minutes. YOU did it. You've done it over and over, I've seen you: you approach people like an enemy and bam!, they turn into one, whether they were to begin with or now" -Maddy" | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 423e0b7 | like a pack of wolves across the planet, and people were afraid for the survival of the human race. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| c88087e | Two of the guards looked up at us and lost their balance and fell into the water. They grabbed hold of the loaded boats, which made the boats tip and dump their load into the river. The other guards and Looper knelt down and tried to reach them, but they were pulled in, too. In the midst of all this, the mayor jumped onto the one boat that was still upright, but as soon as he hit it, it turned over and he plunged into the river. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| d60dbb3 | The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. Anger is. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 2e7bf74 | Every time she thought about him, she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 14a4551 | They wore old-fashioned outfits and had sour looks on their faces, as if they were annoyed with the photographer for making them sit still so long. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 0d0bd8c | There was only one thing he | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| b24ab50 | She heard a scrape, and then a rustling sound. | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| 9b6a374 | The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is." Doon walked on silently. Inwardly, he groaned. He knew what his father was going to say, and he didn't feel like hearing it. "And when anger is the boss, you get--" "I know," said Doon. "Unintended consequences." "That's right. Like hitting your father in the ear with a shoe heel." "I didn't mean to." "That's exactly my point." | Jeanne DuPrau | ||
| b3913a8 | Somehow she had done wrong by trying to do right. | Jeanne DuPrau |