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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 225be32 | Must being in love always mean being in pain? | Alain de Botton | ||
| e580d46 | The wisdom to quit is all we have left. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| ecfdd93 | and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| b0cb5b3 | I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean? | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 61591ab | she wasn't very interesting but few people are. | poem poetry people women humanity family death life love bukowski interesting conversation society | Charles Bukowski | |
| c13d7db | Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. | grief-and-loss hope-and-despair | David Mitchell | |
| a9bd89d | Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good? | good | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 4d86fd7 | No one ever really gets used to nightmares. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| bb97b04 | And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence. | silence love space | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 4da9118 | Perhaps I just wasn't scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 13f288a | Where is Barbie?" The female shifter snickered and choked it off. "Is there a stripper pole?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 36fd9b0 | What the hell is this?" Desandra asked "This is Cuddles. She's a mammoth donkey." Derek grinned, leaning on the fence. "Do you have any self-respect left?" "Nope." | desandra derek kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| d71dc5c | Don't," Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. "You try to hurt her again and I'll pull your arm off." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 1b51467 | Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. | women-s-stories | Rebecca Solnit | |
| 6981a5e | I care so much about everything that I care about nothing | William Saroyan | ||
| a47f2d9 | Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot! | wisdom | Jack Kerouac | |
| 519ce5f | Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1461391 | Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship. | Sam Harris | ||
| 9072aca | Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And .. | Sam Harris | ||
| 97cafd5 | As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping. | José Saramago | ||
| bfa6e56 | Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story. | Sandra Brown | ||
| 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.. | enlightenment irony literature hate stupidity religion friendship humor love bastille demagogy fatwa first-amendment satanic-verses washington-post united-states-constitution george-hw-bush iran khomeini theocracy intimidation dictatorship united-states rushdie individualism fascism principles bullying free-speech censorship | 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. | science sagan | 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. | universe world repair tea | 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 .. | violence personality freedom soul-of-a-man wilde oscar prison soul | 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-lightwood jace-wayland jace-herondale | 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.. | magnus-bane jace-herondale | 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." | tohrment dark-lover darius | J.R. Ward |