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| e0af2e1 | The jogger sighed. He pulled out his phone and my eyes got big, because it glowed with a bluish light. When he extended the antenna, two creatures began writhing around it-green snakes, no bigger than earthworms. The jogger didn't seem to notice. He checked his LCD display and cursed. "I've got to take this. Just a sec ..." Then into the phone: "Hello?" He listened. The mini-snakes writhed up and down the antenna right next to his ear. Yeah.. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| e8c34ef | Hazel] hissed in frustration. 'I hate eidolons. I thought Piper made them promise to stay away.' 'Oh...' Frank said, like he'd just had his own daily happy thought. 'Piper made them promise to stay off the ship and not possess any of us. But if they followed us, and used other bodies to attack us, then they're not technically breaking their vow...' 'Great,' Leo muttered. 'Eidolons who are also lawyers. Now I really want to kill them. | frank-zhang hazel-levesque lawyers leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 21c039a | Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug. "Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps!" | jason-grace leo-valdez percy-jackson rick-riordan the-house-of-hades | Rick Riordan | |
| 2c106e9 | Now, leave." All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza. "Percy!" Annabeth grabbed him." | pizza rick-riordan the-mark-of-athena | Rick Riordan | |
| f10b238 | Rowww!" Bast wailed. The wrecking ball rolled straight over her, but she didn't appear hurt. She leaped off and pounced aain. Her knives sliced through the metal like wet clay. Within seconds, the wrecking ball was reduced to a mound of scraps. Bast sheathed her blades. "Safe now." "You saved us from a metal ball," Sadie said. "You never know," Bast said. "It could've been hostile." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 89c7273 | Nico sighed in exasperation. He hated working with other people. They were always cramping his style, making him uncomfortable. And Will Solace ... Nico revised his impression of the son of Apollo. He'd always thought of Will as easygoing and laid back. Apparently he could also be stubborn and aggravating. | teamwork will-solace | Rick Riordan | |
| 3eee698 | Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. | friendship inspirational npr the-scorpion-and-the-tortoise this-american-life | David Rakoff | |
| 04b239e | Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. | jane-eyre | Dodie Smith | |
| f52a49f | I knew every raindrop by its name. | Denis Johnson | ||
| c7bad63 | Sometimes I have the feeling that we're in one room with two opposite doors and each of us holds the handle of one door, one of us flicks an eyelash and the other is already behind his door, and now the first one has but to utter a word ad immediately the second one has closed his door behind him and can no longer be seen. He's sure to open the door again for it's a room which perhaps one cannot leave. If only the first one were not precise.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 94905fa | Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 144e40b | Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 1427940 | Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they've told me. Do you think that's crazy? "No," I said, shaking my head, "I'd guess your method works quite well." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b725f09 | I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7938757 | There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b4a6964 | I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b18e0d4 | I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room--but eventually, you learn to live with it. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 47808f4 | Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite. | monster | Jodi Picoult | |
| 6c9652d | There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions. | life | Jodi Picoult | |
| 5c69d13 | I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let's think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow--that's vulnerability. | inspirational | Brené Brown | |
| 38fca43 | None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is. | David Guterson | ||
| b7409f2 | When the telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's , I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and.. | bastille bullying censorship demagogy dictatorship enlightenment fascism fatwa first-amendment free-speech friendship george-hw-bush hate humor individualism intimidation iran irony khomeini literature love principles religion rushdie satanic-verses stupidity theocracy united-states united-states-constitution washington-post | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 19e6374 | She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 117475c | Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice. | immune lightning | Tess Gerritsen | |
| 129efdd | If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers. | sagan science | Carl Sagan | |
| 687a7b7 | We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad. | Clive Barker | ||
| a9e23f2 | For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. | Bram Stoker | ||
| 8aeaaa3 | The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 678f7e8 | We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. | repair tea universe world | Rudyard Kipling | |
| b26057a | The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in .. | freedom oscar personality prison soul soul-of-a-man violence wilde | Oscar Wilde | |
| 2085770 | Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. | discovery | Oscar Wilde | |
| c869cdd | One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me. | jace-herondale jace-lightwood jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 3030f69 | We gather here today," said Robert, reaching out his arms expansively, "to honor my son, Alexander Gideon Lightwood, who has single-handedly destroyed the forces of the Endarkened and who defeated in battle the son of Valentine Morgenstern. Alec saved the life of our third son, Max. Along with his parabatai, Jace Herondale, I am proud to say that my son is one of the greatest warriors I have ever known." He turned and smiled at Alec and Mag.. | jace-herondale magnus-bane | Cassandra Clare | |
| 131e1e8 | Youre a public menace.You shouldnt be allowed out on your own."said Simon. "Jealousy is such an ugly emotion,Lewis."said Jace." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 38f68b5 | Screw the Silent Brothers." "No thanks. There's strong and silent, and then there's just freaky." "Isabelle!" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 512caab | That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the childcatcher from . | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| fd22fe7 | Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d1f9577 | I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d8bf736 | Henry patted Charlotte's shoulder anxiously. "Would you like a cool cloth? What can I do to help?" "You could ride up to Yorkshire and chop that old goat's head off." Charlotte sounded mutinous. "Won't that make things rather awkward with the Clave?" asked Henry. "They're not generally very receptive about, you know, beheadings and things." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0f550e3 | The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them. the look seemed to say. | jace-wayland seelie-queen | Cassandra Clare | |
| c1b7856 | In D&D, my first move, when you're dealing with an opposing army like that, would be to lure away a group of them-say five-and take their clothes." "Is this so they have to go back to the fortress naked and their embarrassment will negatively affect morale?" Said Jace. "Because that seems complicated." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 9dccbea | Might I make free with your lettuce, my lady? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8c80204 | Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments. | moments perfect | Mary Balogh | |
| 7e2b502 | Maybe I could do it." Darius shot him a dry look. "You want to try to get back into your house after the fact? Wellsie will stake you through the heart and leave you for the sun, my friend." Tohrment winced. "Good point." "And then she'll come looking for me." Both males shuddered." | darius dark-lover tohrment | J.R. Ward |