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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d6e1785 | It was as if a part of me had died, accepting that I couldn't be who I wanted, so I had to work at making who I was someone I could live with. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 9a16d53 | Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space. My life was so | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1a87115 | Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space. My life was so screwed up. | Kim Harrison | ||
| a7107ca | Bug!" Francis exclaimed. "You're a--" His words choked off with a rasp as I jerked my arm. "Bug?" Jenks shouted, incensed. "You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now!" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1835f20 | You think being a demon's familiar is a good thing? What train hit you on the way home? | Kim Harrison | ||
| da42544 | I don't know. She's much better already. She wasn't talking half an hour ago. Look at her now." We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her." | Kim Harrison | ||
| dc4714f | Rachel Morgan, private runner for hire. All rights earnestly upheld. All wrongs sincerely avenged. | Kim Harrison | ||
| ddfc465 | Rachel's witchcraft is whiter than her ass. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 8220e0d | My gaze jerked to a blur falling from the ceiling. It was headed right for me! Gasping, I ducked. Nick clutched my arm. Thrown off balance, my heels dipped on the marble floor. Crying out, I went down. Sprawled with my legs every which way, my face burned as Jenks hovered before me, laughing. "Damn it all to hell!" I shouted. "Watch what you're doing!" There was a collective gasp, and everyone looked at me. Jenks hid himself in my hair, his.. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 31ee79a | The dangerous reality of the Hollows remains carefully hidden. We know if we color too far out of humanity's self-imposed lines, old fears will resurface and they will strike out at us. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 0bd46e4 | You want something to eat?" Nick said, yanking my attention back. "I, uh, could go across the street for some Graeter's. You like butter-pecan ice cream?" | Kim Harrison | ||
| f422036 | had my splat gun, but I wasn't a brave person. I ran away from big-bad-uglies. It increased my life span dramatically. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7c07b30 | Most people," he said, "are desperate to be needed. And if they don't feel good about themselves or think they're undeserving of love, some will fasten upon the worst possible way to satisfy that need to punish themselves. They're the addicts, the shadows both claimed and unclaimed, passed like the fawning sheep they make themselves into as they search for a glimmer of worth, knowing it's false even as they beg for it." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 42b5db0 | I popped open the hard case and carefully put the so-ugly-they-could-work-as-birth-control glasses on. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 577cec1 | Pink wings in the lowering moon as the earth slipped 'round her silver light. They reached our wall. Our lines were strung. We held our land. What's said is done. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7fa6a2b | The first went down beneath the oak, stung by the taste of steel in his blood. The second on holy ground did fall, stained with the cries of his folly. The third in the dust and salt did fail, sent back to his master, a silent warning given." Jenks looked up, clearly not seeing me. "This ground is ours. So it is said with broken wing, poisoned blood, and our unburied dead." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 2747406 | Mouse burger," I stated again, arms crossed and hip cocked. "A weenie little man with the courage of a mouse." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1504bac | Mr. Ray, you yelled at it again, didn't you? I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff. | Kim Harrison | ||
| cf58732 | A person is okay," he said, peering into the darkness and the open street. "But when you put a bunch of us together, something is switched on, something ugly." He glanced at her apologetically. "All of us, humans and nonhumans alike, are genetically primed to attack what's different from the collective." | Kim Harrison | ||
| e611638 | Does this thing move, or do you just sit in it and play with yourself? | Kim Harrison | ||
| f62b3a6 | In exchange for their soul, they had the chance for immortality. It came with a loss of conscience. The oldest vampires claimed that was the best part: the ability to fulfill every carnal need without guilt when someone died to give you pleasure and keep you sane one more day. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3b62ba4 | We need to cull the programs that don't work and foster the ones that do, throw out political agendas and instead give the power back to the people so that Cincinnati may regain her greatness! My record speaks for me, and I will speak for you! | Kim Harrison | ||
| 6c4b7e3 | Son of a beaver biscuit... | Kim Harrison | ||
| db098e6 | Five trolls in dra-a-a-a-ag," the four-inch man sang from my shoulder. "Four purple condoms, three French ticklers, two horny vamps, and a succubus in the snow." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 06549e0 | giving him a painful bunny-eared kiss-kiss | Kim Harrison | ||
| 2059705 | The coffee smelled wonderful, and as it went chattering into a mug, | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3a329fb | Funny how fate seems to push people together sometimes, | Kim Harrison | ||
| 9420620 | shimmered under his tight jaw | Kim Harrison | ||
| 0702b0f | questions are effective persuasive devices. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 563062b | There is a quest, but ever more hopeless, for arrangements and ways of putting the broken pieces back together. The task is equivalent to squaring the circle, because everyone loves himself most but wants others to love him more than they love themselves. Such is particularly the demand of children, against which parents are now rebelling. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 360b168 | The very fact of their fury shows how much Plato threatens what is dear and intimate to them. They are little able to defend their experience, which had seemed unquestionable until questioned, and it is most resistant to cool analysis. Yet if a student can- and this is most difficult and unusual- draw back, get acritical distance on what he clings to, come to doubt the ultimate value of what he loves, he has taken the first and most difficu.. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 106f037 | Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 51d4510 | Allan Bloom suggests a difference between European and American nihilism.3 European nihilism is pessimistic. Nietzsche's philosophy proposes dreadful things. It takes one to the abyss of his being. It's a tremendously confounding, depressing, scary, and confusing time. All the more was nihilism scary for the Europeans because they saw what it resulted in, fascism. In a complete breakdown of cosmic order, humanity seeks an Orderer, and any O.. | Peter M. Burfeind | ||
| ddf587d | If the politicization of art and education represents one large part of the counterculture's legacy, the coarsening of feeling and sensibility is another. No phenomenon has done more to advance this coarsening than rock music. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of rock music to the agenda of the cultural revolution. It is also impossible to overstate its soul-deadening destructiveness. The most reviled part of Allan Bloom's book .. | rock-music | Roger Kimball | |
| 74b08c6 | The faith in God and the belief in miracles are closer to the truth than any scientific explanation, | Allan Bloom | ||
| 926cd52 | Music, as everyone experiences, provides an unquestionable justification and a fulfilling pleasure for the activities it accompanies: the soldier who hears the marching band is enthralled and reassured; the religious man is exalted in his prayer by the sound of the organ in the church; and the lover is carried away and his conscience stilled by the romantic guitar. Armed with music, man can damn rational doubt. | Allan Bloom | ||
| fbc189a | Intr-o societate si o epoca in care ciudatii sunt aruncati in adaposturi, adusi la serenitate pe baza de serotonina si recuperati de catre grup din individualismul lor prea intens si ambitios, cand ce e prea diferit este marginalizat, atunci devine extrem de important pentru constienta natiunii sa afirme activ extraordinarul. Daca eminenta depinde de destin, iar destinul de caracter, atunci putem inversa raportul dintre cele trei notiuni: p.. | James Hillman | ||
| c6237ec | Once she stopped to pluck a pink rhododendron flower that was just coming into bloom and took it back to the ward with her, twirling it in her hands. | Allan Hall | ||
| d8c8b6e | It may well be that a society's greatest madness seems normal to itself. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 89c5a0b | Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 2a5e9b6 | Responding to Fukuyama's thesis in 1989, Allan Bloom was full of foreboding about the gathering revolts against a world that 'has been made safe for reason as understood by the market', and 'a global common market the only goal of which is to minister to men's bodily needs and whims'. | Pankaj Mishra | ||
| a52fd6a | in the under or mystic current of its meaning, I fancied that I perceived, and for the first time, a full consciousness on the part of Usher, of the tottering of his lofty reason upon her throne. The verses, which were entitled "The Haunted Palace," ran very nearly, if not accurately, thus: I. In the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace-- Radiant palace--reared its head. In the monarch Thought's d.. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 5a1d647 | Lao Tzu wrote: "Know the personal, yet keep to the impersonal: Accept the world as it is. Then the Tao will be luminous inside you, and you will return to the Uncarved Block." There is so much philosophy packed into this verse that it summarizes central teachings about happiness from three great ancient traditions: those not only from Taoism, but also from Buddhism and Stoicism" | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 488aea0 | Your happiness does not depend so much on what kind of body you have, but on how well you take care of it. | Lou Marinoff |