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| 77472a9 | Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls, the universe is changed. On every act the balance of the whole depends. The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth and light, all t.. | equilibrium intelligence responsibility | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f18ae92 | To hear, one must be silent. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 96243e6 | Get ready to unleash hell. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f5586be | She dared a look at Rowan, whose face remained carefully blank, but saw the words there anyway. You wicked, clever fox. And here you were, thinking the red hair was just for vanity. I shall never doubt again. | queen-of-shadows rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| eb304ca | Alone with Rolfe, Celaena raised her sword. "Celaena Sardothien, at your service." The pirate was still staring at her, his face pale with rage. "How dare you deceive me?" She sketched a bow. "I did nothing of the sort. I told you I was beautiful." | celaena-sardothien sassiness | Sarah J. Maas | |
| d33f89b | It's a shame," I said, the words nearly gobbled up by the sound of the city music. "That others in Prythian don't know. A shame that you let them think the worst." He took a step back, his wings beating the air like mighty drums. "As long as the people who matter most know the truth, I don't care about the rest." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 64fbe11 | I'm surprised there aren't more mirrors in this house, since you seem to love looking at yourself so much." Azriel" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1f760b3 | Oh, come on, just this once," Eve said. "Protects your neck. As in your arteries and veins? That's kind of crucial, right?" "Thanks for the thought, but it doesn't go with my shoes." "You're seriously going to worry about what people think right now?" "No, I'm worrying about people taking pictures and putting them on Facebook. That crap never dies. Kind of like you, Mikey." Michael, straight-faced, said, "He's got a point, because I would d.. | michael-glass morganville-vampires shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 6b068c4 | Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go." "Ooh, me, too," Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. "What? It's what girls do. Get over it." | gender-stereotypes morganville-vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| e6dc651 | re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body. [From the preface to Leaves Grass] | learning soul truth wisdom | Walt Whitman | |
| cac3fd0 | In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I'm a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. 'I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,' they say. 'Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she's done to our family.' Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh's loft. 'You will .. | soap-operas | David Sedaris | |
| 8461b30 | Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat." | Christopher Moore | ||
| 0583263 | How do you know, when you think blue -- when you say blue -- that you are talking about the same blue as anyone else? You cannot get a grip on blue. Blue is the sky, the sea, a god's eye, a devil's tail, a birth, a strangulation, a virgin's cloak, a monkey's ass. It's a butterfly, a bird, a spicy joke, the saddest song, the brightest day. Blue is sly, slick, it slides into the room sideways, a slippery trickster. This is a story about the c.. | color | Christopher Moore | |
| fe4872c | Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 44b3add | We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 8aced01 | I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. | evidence observation science | Isaac Asimov | |
| d7b7c7c | It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. | Jules Verne | ||
| a1014d2 | Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did... | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 173ac7f | It's inappropriate for the queen of the dead to be afraid of ghosts. | MaryJanice Davidson | ||
| ccee28a | The History Teacher Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age, named after the long driveways of the time. The Spanish Inquisition was nothing more than an outbreak of questions such as "How far is it from here to Madrid?" "What do you call the matador's hat?" The War of the Roses t.. | Billy Collins | ||
| f9f5297 | But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain. | Billy Collins | ||
| 44801e4 | Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you f.. | soldiers | John Steinbeck | |
| 4d97342 | There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist | ignorance power wisdom | Dan Brown | |
| 0df5a92 | There's just no substitute for the truth. | Dan Brown | ||
| 5aa8d7f | When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness. | Napoleon Hill | ||
| d2bd01f | In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love. | unconditional-love | Lisa See | |
| 2cf244a | Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision. | darkness human-nature optimism perception perspective pessimism subconscious thoughts | Charles Dickens | |
| 94d8353 | Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 755ef45 | Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her." | thinking | Raymond Chandler | |
| 5d6b079 | The world, a tired performer, offers us another half-assed season. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 27f4e1f | The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 4be7478 | A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 25cf192 | Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life...all of our life. | humanity love self-giving | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 4d399a8 | Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets--as vast and indestructible as nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and san.. | Anne Rice | ||
| 5e6342a | The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian) From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick) One day, Gaitor bait... (Kyrian) Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| bedbaed | A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c69d6d5 | I've spent my entire life listening to people tell me why I can't be loved and how I'm nothing but a worthless piece of shit. I always told myself that I didn't care, that I didn't need anyone else. It was a lie, you know. I do care and I want Kiara. If it costs me my life to be with her, it doesn't matter. I've already lived past my prime, anyway. I get up every morning with more pain in my joints than the day before. If I have to die, I'd.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9cf3c81 | I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it? | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| f2326f6 | There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| fff6ec6 | I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, "Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake." | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 2901a61 | Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. | Thomas Wolfe | ||
| 6df2225 | I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts." | Anne Lamott | ||
| 7dd3914 | He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. | haunting literature | Cormac McCarthy | |
| d9259ee | Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. | Cormac McCarthy |