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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 70c0000 | Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 3d9e8f8 | Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 712bf4d | Check it out-this is a copy of a painting of a Greek High Priestess named Calliope. it says she was also the Poet Laureate after Sappho. Doesn't she look exactly like Cher?' Wow, that's insane. She does look just like young Cher,' Erin said. Yeah, before she started wearing those white wigs. What the hell's up with that?' Shaunee said. Damien gave the Twins a look. 'There is nothing wrong with Cher. Absolutely. Nothing.' Uh-oh,' Shaunee sai.. | vampire | P.C. Cast | |
| 4fa90ae | We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the sign started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA. We counted five signs before we reached the site. There were 40 cars and a tour bus in the makeshift lot. We walked along a cowpath to the slightly elevated spot set aside for viewing and photographing. All the people had cameras;.. | don-delillo humor photography satire tourism white-noise | Don DeLillo | |
| 91a167c | I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 49b4cc6 | Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion. | organized-religion religion | Dan Brown | |
| 33e8ebc | Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking." | decisions influence life money opinions success | Napoleon Hill | |
| cc9d473 | Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. | Rick Warren | ||
| 876bbd4 | Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary. | Lisa See | ||
| 03bb0f7 | Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore." | homesick old-life | Annie Proulx | |
| 32e51b2 | I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything | surprise | Charles Dickens | |
| 909601f | Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. | dickens humor lie witness | Charles Dickens | |
| 6a71f43 | I wrote back with a quick message: I hit send and received a response back from him almost immediately. | bloodlines sydney-sage the-golden-lily | Richelle Mead | |
| 015618f | I don't know what I'm looking for." "What not?" "Because ... because ... I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn't be able to look for them." | Douglas Adams | ||
| fe17c02 | He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire. | merry mountains vastness | J R R Tolkien | |
| b2bb823 | Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do. | giving | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 3954410 | Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode. | William Styron | ||
| 1a6988f | What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1060844 | You actually enjoyed that, didn't you? (Amanda) Oh, hell yes! Did you see the look on their faces? Man, I love this car. (Kyrian) (She looked up at the sky and implored divine aid.) Dear God, please separate me from this maniac before I die of fright. (Amanda) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5995e5b | I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| e49d080 | I want you to always hold your head up and follow your dreams wherever they take you. Don't you ever listen to the people out to hurt you or make you cry. Listen to your heart and be better than them. No one gets ahead by hurting others. The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That's what's important, Torimou. (Theo) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 984a67c | Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won't be so dense. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8e2ba0b | The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a5364bc | Finally, he pushed back the chair and exhaled. "He's alive," I said. "Your dad's alive." He loooked up at me and, I couldn't help it-- I threw my arms around his neck and hugged him. Then I realized what I was doing. I let go, backing away, tripping over my feet, stammering. "I-I'm sorry. I'm just--I'm happy for you." "I know." Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wra.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 683c21d | You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella" | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| c1168e8 | Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'd all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. | leah-clearwater werewolf | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 60e5085 | That maybe you should make the most of what time you have? That you shouldlive while you're alive? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| cf688fd | Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth? | stephenie meyer | ||
| ea9a8a7 | I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 544ffb6 | We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in 's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth. | earth environment frost nature poem poetry preservation robert-frost survival | Rachel Carson | |
| e1a709c | Politics always change. Stories never do. | Stephen King | ||
| 643a4e7 | People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That's a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man's touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don't understand how you could have self-confidence if you don't do the work... I have never, ever, ever, met a high confident person and successful person who is not what a movie would call a 'workaholic.' Because confiden.. | hard-work inspirational success | Mindy Kaling | |
| 821d1b5 | But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth? | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 1af5700 | Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. | atheist god noremorse science | Christopher Hitchens | |
| e172914 | And it didn't matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl, the stars shone brighter. As if she were the one keeping them illuminated. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 8c13dba | I can't imagine Josh falling for someone vanilla. Not that Josh would ever fall for me. But I wouldn't want to ruin any chance. Even though I don't have a chance. But just in case I do. Even though I don't. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 05b6684 | Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have. | William Goldman | ||
| d00b41a | The secret of theory is that truth does not exist. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 86b8e04 | Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble. | women | Charles Bukowski | |
| b181c56 | People don't do me much good. | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 4b07069 | If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time. | Thomas Harris | ||
| 9d9008b | Fair is whatever God wants to do. | Leif Enger | ||
| ff0c50a | Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 472e438 | I know what it's like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it's like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We've spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don't try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras | Scott Westerfeld |