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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| adfae5a | Lucky for me I didn't know. Why lucky for her? Not lucky for the people she was protecting, but lucky for Roza. She didn't have to choose. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| d8d5555 | Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law. | bolshevik curious delightful elizabeth-wein innovative mother surprising the-pearl-thief | Elizabeth Wein | |
| f4d204d | She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars. | bisexual-character chuckle ellen-mcewen julie lgbtqia-character romance stars teen-romance the-pearl-thief | Elizabeth Wein | |
| 9d51e6b | Och, they suit you, Queenie! Promise me you'll wear them. | elizabeth-wein julie lgbtqia-character queenie sarcasm the-pearl-thief | Elizabeth Wein | |
| 52fb64f | take me. Ancient | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| ccee2f4 | Von Linden really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 89fb401 | But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France--a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 4250ffd | But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to. A | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 1ea26d9 | Ellen looked around the room with an odd expression, for the first few seconds not taking in the collection spread across the tables, but just taking in the library: the smell of ink and foxy paper and old wood, the green view of the river beyond the leaded casement window propped open just an inch. As if she loved it, but was a little scared to be there. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 97f30ae | Even when you're flying high and steady, the weight doesn't go away--it's just balanced by lift. I have worked pretty hard over the past year and a half to keep my life in balance. But the weight's still there, waiting for an increase in gravity to pull me earthward again. | Elizabeth E. Wein | ||
| ea482dc | It's not desperation--there is something inhuman in it. That is what I find so creepy. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing--and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| e19152d | The ballpoint pen was invented by Laszlo Biro, a Hungarian journalist who fled to Argentina to escape the German occupation of Europe. In 1943 he licensed his invention to the RAF, and the first ballpoint pens were manufactured in Reading, England, by the Miles aircraft manufacturer, to supply pilots with a lasting ink supply! | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 0383633 | Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It's an illusion I've noticed before--words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 1cd8b50 | Patriotism is not enough--I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone. | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| ad5c1a4 | I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water? | elizabeth-wein ellen-mcewen frustration indignation lady-julia sarcasm the-pearl-thief upstart | Elizabeth Wein | |
| c0c099b | The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back. | elizabeth-wein julie memory mind submerged the-pearl-thief | Elizabeth Wein | |
| b999ca9 | Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence. | certainty elizabeth-wein ellen-mcewen julie romance silence smoking stars the-pearl-thief | Elizabeth Wein | |
| 3d9fb00 | Punishment and revenge are two different things. | Elizabeth E. Wein | ||
| 615ddf2 | Which would you rather have--an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom? | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| a6b9eed | That's why we like to make things pretty; it's just'cause we're so dang sick of cleaning up horrible messes. Same instinct | Elizabeth Wein | ||
| 3b0453b | It was like my whole life suddenly went from black and white to glorious Technicolor | Claudia Carroll | ||
| 9a7490a | Being an old maid is a little bit like drowning. A really delightful sensation once you give up the struggle. | Claudia Carroll | ||
| da5ca78 | out for | Claudia Carroll | ||
| 33bc593 | If you take away Eau Rouge, you take away the reason why I do this. | Ayrton Senna | ||
| 0dcab65 | There are no small accidents here. | Ayrton Senna | ||
| 0731d6b | I always had one goal, and that was to become a musician. I had no other choice. | Ayub Bachchu | ||
| 6d5ecfe | It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product. | Ayumi Hamasaki | ||
| 57976e3 | I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream. | Ayumi Hamasaki | ||
| b851921 | We tend to privilege the lone genius who generates ideas that enthrall us, or change our world. According to research by a trio of Stanford psychologists, Americans see independence as a symbol of strength, viewing interdependence as a sign of weakness. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 54ec81c | I thought Mommy's life was strange, not mine. | Ayumi Hamasaki | ||
| aeb085e | If you're a matcher, you'll also punish takers for acting unfairly toward other people. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| b6f4627 | My job is simply to be myself, to be Ayumi Hamasaki. | Ayumi Hamasaki | ||
| 8e10a91 | Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too? | Ayumi Hamasaki | ||
| 57d02d1 | I don't want to become adult! | Ayumi Hamasaki | ||
| 6bb7087 | If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world! | Ayumi Hamasaki | ||
| 5f7f82d | Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 6c51764 | Why would an adult be so shitty at being an adult? It just didn't make any sense. His dad's leaving made no sense, and now Luke's mom, Emma, made no sense. It almost made him question adulthood in general. What if they're all just faking it? What if none of them has the slightest idea what they're doing? | Aric Davis | ||
| dce317b | You would fight for me?" "To the death." Emmy Grayne & Luke Kessler Accidentally on Purpose" | L.D. Davis | ||
| 1eb8239 | And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. - Luke 6:31 | Luke | ||
| ce825b4 | You just happen to be our ten thousandth customer," I lied, "and this is our special thank-you." I slid the bakery box across the counter to him. "Hmmmmm. Usually, I prefer to be number one, but I guess I can make an exception this time." He grinned. "What's in here?" He snapped the red-and-white -striped string on the white bakery box and opened the lid. A little greedy, too, I thought. Wanted to enjoy life now. He downed the cupcake in t.. | flavors luke-davis personality-traits self-centered-man | Judith Fertig | |
| 50fdca7 | The mightiest ever built | B-17 Flying Fortress | ||
| 0611b87 | Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. | B. F. Skinner | ||
| 8c114ea | If we create networks with the sole intention of getting something, we won't succeed. We can't pursue the benefits of networks; the benefits ensue from investments in meaningful activities and relationships. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| a8db540 | The lesson of that victory was that Soviet citizens must still heed Lenin's warning of 1921. | Andrei Grechko |