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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0833d43 | I just--we were talking, and we fell asleep. I swear, we didn't, um--'' ''Yeah, you'd better not have ummed. | eve-rosser morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 0323c03 | He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands. | Miranda July | ||
| 7d3cf08 | Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| c47dc37 | And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all. | honesty narrowness uncertainty | Jack Kerouac | |
| 21f8b84 | Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| bf2be66 | Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita" | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 6a38623 | I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 9014419 | n 'rdt 'n tHZ~ bkhdm@ mmtz@ khdm nfsk bnfsk. | José Saramago | ||
| 8a340df | When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. | numbers | Don DeLillo | |
| 5d7a0d2 | There have been so many interpretations of the story that I'm not going to choose between them. Make your own choice. They contradict each other, the various choices. The only choice that really matters, the only interpretation of the story, if you want one, is your own. Not your teacher's, not your professor's, not mine, not a critic's, not some authority's. The only thing that matters is, first, the experience of being in the story, movin.. | William Golding | ||
| 24d0e21 | People don't help much. | ralph | William Golding | |
| 82cddd8 | An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 62f9ba0 | I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance. | Arthur Rimbaud | ||
| 530b6a5 | Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting. | Dan Brown | ||
| e8ead66 | The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death. | Dan Brown | ||
| ff6d4fa | He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119) | happiness pleasure | Charles Dickens | |
| 2242268 | In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and y.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 9d364c6 | We had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us... calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 32dcd16 | Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden. | Truman Capote | ||
| be20eba | Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned. | love man | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d35e460 | Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 830a2d0 | Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b1ed681 | I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. | mothers people | Jodi Picoult | |
| 819353b | The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her? | jodi-picoult love samantha-van-leer | jodi picoult samantha van leer | |
| 7a504ea | I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn] | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 643f8c3 | How did you get me here? (Tory) I have my evil Jedi ways. The Force is strong with this one. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ad9430a | Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them. | dark-hunter sherrilyn-kenyon | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 43512a8 | When Liam stepped forward again, Derek's arm shot around me , a growl vibrating up from his stomach. Liam put his hand out toward me. When Derek tensed he pilled back, then did it again, testing his reaction, laughing when he got one, untill even Ramone started to laugh. "Check this out," Liam said. "I think the pup's got himself a mate. Isn't that the cutest thing?" | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| bd12742 | I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing. I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell. As i love you,"He told me." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9e7fbd1 | Will you be?" I asked, suddenly anxious. "Will you really be here?" "As long as you want me," he assured me. "I'll always want you," I warned him. "Forever." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 510c01d | From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940): Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen. The voice of forest water in the night, a woman's laughter in the dark, the clean, hard rattle of raked gravel, the cricketing stitch of midday in hot meadows, the delicate web of children's voices in bright air--these things will never change. The .. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| c570286 | Certainty is missing the point entirely. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f529fab | music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 8a337f2 | I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 36ff3d0 | But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4385a16 | This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life. | Jess Walter | ||
| d8bcff8 | He stared at me. "She liked you, boy." The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink. "Yes," I said. "She did it for you, you know." "What?" "Gave up her self, for a while there. She loved you that much. What an incredibly lucky kid you were." I could not look at him. "I know." He shook his head with a wistful sadness. "No, you don't. You can't know yet. Maybe someday..." I knew he was tempted to say more. Probably to tell me how stupid.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 56bf74f | Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. | adolf-hitler big-lie donald-trump fascism post-factual post-truth propaganda reality-control totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | |
| 1422d54 | Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them." -Anne Shirley" | friends humor reading writing | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 9adb09e | I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are. | David Levithan | ||
| 3b706b4 | A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price. | women | Charles Bukowski | |
| 7e57b2c | Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 6a77e60 | they say that nothing is wasted: either that | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 15dc0c3 | Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals. | Doris Lessing |