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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7d82482 | Laws are not drawn up near dumpsters with dirty needles and rats, but in mahogany trimmed board rooms where the marble gleams with the light of noble intentions. Rarely do these coincide with the gun toting men who are charged with the task of enforcing them. They are the offensive linemen of society. Nobody buys their jersey. People just yell at them when they are offsides. But without him everything will collapse! When I was an offensive .. | Graham Elwood | ||
| cd8e35f | Sean deliberately loitered on the patio with his grandmother and the other septuagenarians before going to the kitchen to pour May Ellen and Lily's drinks. He wanted to give them a bit of privacy. Sean thought--drawing deep drafts of the scented, heavy Florida night air into his lungs-- Because it was happening already: the Lily Effect was at work on his brain. Why in God's name had he told her he'd be accompanying her and the team on som.. | Laura Moore | ||
| 9c5a916 | Monitoring Sean's progress with the towel, Hal gave a grunt of disgust. "Come on. I have an extra towel you can use in the office. No way you can drive home like that--you'll ruin the car's interior. 'Sides, we need to talk," Hal added heavily. Turning on his heel, he headed back toward his office. Sean swallowed with a decided lack of enthusiasm. They entered Hal's cramped cubicle of an office and Hal shut the door behind him. It closed wi.. | Laura Moore | ||
| aa352bc | One master those arts for health in mind and body, for the ability to live one's life as courageously, uniquely, and energetically as one wishes! | Akira Toriyama | ||
| 703fd54 | On the path of the budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent. One strive to avoid defeat by one's own self. | training | Akira Toriyama | |
| 01d45b8 | There's only one certainty in life. A strong man stands above and conquers all! | Akira Toriyama | ||
| e1409ce | I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation. | Ali Larter | ||
| 4e03a17 | I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow. | Ali Larter | ||
| b15f6e7 | silence was darkness, and that naming shone a light. | Michael Chabon | ||
| bad23a4 | You were very brave,' Nancy said, with the same encouraging indifference | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 0f95ac7 | Odd how many suffering members of humankind have faced eternity obsessed with their bowels, their bedsores, or the meagerness of their diets. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 17ff1d2 | The only thing that had changed was that the bills were bigger. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 069b330 | Her eyes are open but she does not see. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 064738d | Time sure kicks the shit out of people... | time | Dan Simmons | |
| ec40773 | Colonel Fedmahn Kassad knew only that all the great passions of a passionate life had led him to this place and to this moment, and if death awaited him here, then so be it. And if love and glory and a victory that would make Valhalla quake awaited, then so be it. | love passion soldier valhalla yperion | Dan Simmons | |
| 44baea1 | The poem celebrated love and loyalty but teetered on the brink of nihilism with its constant thread of corruption through love of power, human ambition and intellectual | Dan Simmons | ||
| 30bc276 | In this cold, teeth can shatter after two or three hours--actually explode--sending shrapnel of bone and enamel flying inside the cavern of one's clenched jaws. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9d5c942 | Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful. | Dan Simmons | ||
| dfa7852 | Just as well," he said. "We have one deus ex machina too many as it is." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 7ed7437 | I don't believe in God with a capital G and, despite their obvious solidity, I don't believe in the gods with their small g's. Not as real forces in the universe. But I believe in the bitch-goddess Irony. She crosses all time. She rules men and gods and God alike. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 86406ba | I nodded, understanding nothing. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 0bd2d32 | I was always waiting for you, she sent. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 971f85f | apocalyptic statuary of the post-Hegira expansionist period. I | Dan Simmons | ||
| 839e178 | I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater," said [Sherlock] Holmes. "I'd say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MP's, but in truth most are too smart and too honest for Parliament." | class-struggle honesty intelligence parliament politicians | Dan Simmons | |
| 47680a1 | kilometers of open sea and the equator. The next land we see then is the northwest coast of Aquila, the so-called Beak. Animals. To call this conveyance a "passenger dirigible" is an exercise in creative semantics." | Dan Simmons | ||
| d0991a4 | that strange elasticity of the human heart in finding new relationships, new people to share one's life with, new potentials. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 2745845 | The Matterhorn's summit ridge is not quite what excited journalists like to call "a knife-edge ridge." Our boot prints in the snow along the actual ridge prove this. Had it been a knife-edge ridge, with snow, our boot prints would have been on both sides, since the smart way to traverse a true knife edge is to hobble slowly along like a ruptured duck, one leg on the west side of the narrow summit ridge, one on the east. A slip then will lea.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| df14beb | him to shoot anyone who even looked cross-eyed at him. "Web English is such a subtle tongue," he said. "That phrase is older than the Web," I said. "Just do it." | Dan Simmons | ||
| bc6e602 | It's a Templar," said Dure, astonished to find a follower of the Muir here." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9f8b061 | We all retreat into ourselves in some way. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 6525605 | My days were but heartbeats to you. I hated you for that. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 2a8bde4 | I did not truly know M. Masteen," said the priest. "We were not of the same faith. But we were of the same profession; Voice of the Tree Masteen spent much of his life doing what he understood to be God's work, pursuing God's will in the writings of the Muir and the beauties of nature. His was the true faith--tested by difficulties, tempered by obedience, and, in the end, sealed by sacrifice." Dur" | Dan Simmons | ||
| 5b291f7 | martyrs of the Antarctic. | Dan Simmons | ||
| e4bd3be | clusterboink | Dan Simmons | ||
| 8ebb190 | This was, without a doubt, the cruciform of which the Bikura spoke. And it had been set here a minimum of many thousands of years ago--perhaps tens of thousands--long before mankind first left Old Earth. Almost certainly before Christ taught in Galilee. I | Dan Simmons | ||
| b522f59 | The Church might have died before this revelation could have brought new life to it. But | Dan Simmons | ||
| cc804dd | If there really was a goddess like Sedna who ruled the world, her real name was Bitch Irony. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 8379338 | always visibly earnest and hopeful and strident and feminine and eccentric | Dan Simmons | ||
| 69802ae | when I find the bullet iwill spit it out it out. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 30d1261 | The Zen Gnostics claim forty billion followers," he rumbled. "But what kind of religion is that, eh? No churches. No priests. No holy books. No concept of sin." Dur" | Dan Simmons | ||
| f38bfdb | I was getting used to the caustic voice in my head. It and I had made a peace when I realized that it wasn't urging me to lie down and die, just critiquing my inadequate efforts to stay alive. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 9cf609e | It is at times like this that I have the sense... the slightest sense... of what a sacrifice it must have been for the Son of God to condescend to become the Son of Man. | jesus-christ | Dan Simmons | |
| 475b60e | Perhaps Nemes and her kind will keep it in a zoo to hunt it when they are bored. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 3ce2cc5 | Brawne set her hand on the thing's broad chest and pushed. The | Dan Simmons |