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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 17111de | Perhaps," said the man, "you would like to be lost with us. I have found it much more agreeable to be lost in the company of others." | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| c0364f8 | Who judges the judge who judges wrong? | justice | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 891366f | Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination. -Calvin | Bill Watterson | ||
| f8c8a11 | People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function. | David Mitchell | ||
| cfe2ad2 | in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful." -- | hatred ignorance power violence | David Mitchell | |
| e0164bc | You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest. | full humble humility learn listen | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 08a86e4 | The phone rang. I picked it up. "Kate Daniels" "It's me," Curran said. "I--" I hung up." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 91f7ceb | Say 'pop.'" "Pop?" "That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass." | ilona-andrews kate magic-slays | Ilona Andrews | |
| f660e5f | The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 66a4ad1 | Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 5dea47e | Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 04cfa02 | She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 72f8191 | Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force! | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 06e4918 | Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 488add2 | It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough , it is your God-given right to have it...I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to apprecia.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 454a1e0 | They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end. | death elephants | Robert R. McCammon | |
| 4f751a3 | Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything. | Martin Amis | ||
| 4081d74 | to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent. | cuss ferocity language | Markus Zusak | |
| 75f7052 | Competence was attractive. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 3caa3dc | We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope. | hope life | Ned Vizzini | |
| 465b206 | For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities. | powerlessness | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| b525223 | Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 1cdbf9b | Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!" | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d9b47c4 | I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 6dce80f | People often belittle the place where they were born. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 64a7f82 | It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin. | life life-philosophy philosophy pumpkin | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| e3aa839 | We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 7ca5db1 | Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. | vegetarianism | Philip K. Dick | |
| e784018 | It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. | mental-illness reality | Philip K. Dick | |
| bc696f5 | To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a0ea6d2 | Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego. | religion zealotry | Michael Crichton | |
| 827013c | Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord... I'm guilty. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 095dfac | So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. | journalism politics | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 1de9b22 | Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. | Alice Walker | ||
| de42797 | No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is. | Chaim Potok | ||
| 467e9df | You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me. | identity value worth | Stormie Omartian | |
| d709673 | She blew a stream of smoke up at the empty clotheslines. 'These silly dreams you have when you're young. I mean, what, Katie and Brendan Harris were going ot make a life in Las Vegas? How long would that little Eden have lasted? Maybe they'd be on their second trailer park, second kid, but it would have hit them sooner or later - life isn't happily ever after and golden sunsets and shit like that. It's work. The person you love is rarely wo.. | love | Dennis Lehane | |
| bc17cf4 | Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| a1122e8 | Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3837bf3 | I couldn't be dead. I hadn't even brushed my teeth, for crying out loud | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8299831 | You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks. "Yes" I answer hollowly. "You ass." | Darren Shan | ||
| a71eb1b | I should've blown more stuff up." -Coach Gleeson Hedge" | coach-hedge tradgedy | Rick Riordan | |
| c24f6a0 | Who's the other kid in the photo?' he asked. 'The sandy-haired guy.' Annabeth's expression tightened. Touchy subject. 'That's Luke,' she said. 'He's dead now. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 18261f3 | Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. "You're right. I- I'm not afraid of a love god." Favonius beamed. "Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go?" | eros favonius heroes-of-olympus house-of-hades jason-grace love nico-di-angelo percy-jackson rick-riordan | Rick Riordan |