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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7586786 | There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking. | power-of-words reflection | E.L. Doctorow | |
| be12043 | I had an appointment with a sexual deviant and I didn't want to be late. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f569a9f | It would have been nice to have had unicorns. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| e84790c | So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so pleased to meet you at last. I am, of course, your servant." Holly shook the proferred hand, thinking that manners were lovely, but she really needed someone cunning and ruthless right now, and this kid didn't appear to be very cunning." | holly-short orion | Eoin Colfer | |
| 0b72d82 | He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis" "Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?" | holly illegal singing | Eoin Colfer | |
| 870b411 | And I will not be beaten by that jackass." "Jackass?" said Foaly, wounded. "My favorite uncle is a jackass." | foaly jackass | Eoin Colfer | |
| 281264c | Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing. | Victor Hugo | ||
| a54a7d5 | Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 3eac8e1 | I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 5ad1180 | He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| a715fd4 | Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. | on-fiction | Daniel Keyes | |
| 9ddf46f | A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2029375 | I feel alone. I don't mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket resting on my body, or the feathers of my pillow under my head, or the tight string of my sleep pants twisted up around my waist. I feel alone as if it were an actual thing, seeping throughout this whole level like mist blanketing a field, reaching into all the hidden corners of my room and finding nothing living but me. It's a cold sort of feelin.. | alone beth-revis lonely | Beth Revis | |
| 8bad9ad | He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos. | stable | Beth Revis | |
| da2c685 | Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. | greed love money | Gustave Flaubert | |
| f9d6092 | Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| b9f7fc1 | Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 3c432b3 | Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?" Dream: "There isn't one." Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was." | gaiman love poignant sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| bc87292 | The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right. | live | Neil Gaiman | |
| 14b92d4 | If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA's state-funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic new facts... That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do. That sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused. That purposeful sleep-deprivation can also be an ab.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 69416a8 | Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle. Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal eno.. | Robert Greene | ||
| 539c3b5 | He who poses as a fool is not a fool. | Robert Greene | ||
| 1a52275 | Do not fight them. Instead think of them the way you think of children, or pets, not important enough to affect your mental balance | Robert Greene | ||
| 2f6f4c3 | A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. "Mom,guess what ?" she squealed waving the drawing . her mother never looked up. "what"? she said ,tending to the pots. "guess what?" the child repeated ,waving the drawings. "what?" the mother said , tending to the plates. "Mom, you're not listening" "sweetie,yes I am" "Mom" the child said "you're not l.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f123b0d | You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can't trade them in. You can't lie to them. You can't run two at once, substituting back and forth. "Sticking with your family is what makes it a family." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 2b04105 | You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore" | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e599648 | When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? | animal-welfare animals carnism evil factory-farms meat necessity | Matthew Scully | |
| 54de860 | What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted" | Joseph Heller | ||
| 7039cd0 | With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything... | life solitude | Saul Bellow | |
| d3c6435 | You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| e5f1d76 | If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descripti.. | fake freethinker freethought god-of-abraham imposter jehovah judaism lies new-testament reason skeptic skepticism yahweh | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 91e4b3f | It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. | stupidity valor wisdom-quote | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| 702df23 | It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. | beautiful countryside experience john-watson london love rural-life sherlock-holmes sin smiling vile | Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| d52c5ba | Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again | Antoine de Saint Exupéry | ||
| 7cfb938 | Aiden has gone Rambo on us. | solos | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| f6cf95a | Hey there, sleeping beauty..." Over his shoulder, the sky had deepened to a denim blue. "Did you kiss me awake?" "I did." Daemon was propped on his side, using his arm to support his head. He placed his hand on my stomach and my chest fluttered in response. "Told you, my lips have mystical powers." My shoulders moved in a silent laugh. "How long have you been here?" "Not long." His eyes searched mine. "I found Blake sulking around the woods.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 115c168 | You're not going to answer me?" Or do I need to repeat myself for a third time? It's okay. I like to hear myself talk." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2534ae8 | You..." The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead." | Rick Riordan | ||
| c0f71f8 | He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles). | muscle-shirt stupid | Rick Riordan | |
| 7db9c18 | Why would Gaia be back at camp?' Leo asked. 'Percy's nosebleed was here.' 'Dude,' Percy said, 'first off, you heard Athena - don't blame my nose. Second, Gaia's the earth. She can pop up anywhere she wants. Besides, she told us she was going to do this. She said the first thing on her to-do list was destroying our camp. Question is: how do we stop her? | leo-valdez pecy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 51d33a6 | At least he had Annabeth. They would find a way out of Tartarus. They had to. He didn't think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together. They hadn't survived so much just to get killed now. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 67fbf52 | Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?" "I'm pretty sure I never said that." | leo-valdez percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| a88196c | I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e28a338 | She had been in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love, but rather doing something much more ordinary | Jonathan Safran Foer |