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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 43267d8 | is a broken man an outlaw?" "More or less." Brienne answered. Septon Meribald disagreed. "More less than more. There are many sorts of outlaws, just as there are many sorts of birds. A sandpiper and a sea eagle both have wings, but they are not the same. The singers love to sing of good men forced to go outside the law to fight some wicked lord, but most outlaws are more like this ravening Hound than they are the lightning lord. They are ev.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 5d7632c | Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying to say, and tries to understand. | understanding | Cressida Cowell | |
| 9c3ebd2 | Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain. | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| e0a4d4f | He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 418ee9a | I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books. | child chilldhood read reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| aed4809 | I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm. | J.D. Robb | ||
| c641d48 | Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction. | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 0c9f909 | I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| d7388ed | Did you live here?" Leif asked. I nodded. "For two years"."Where did you stay?" "I had a room in Valek's suite." Leif shot me an incredulous look. "Boy, you worked fast." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 250bac2 | I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick. | appearances brothers humor innocence sleep survival | Maria V. Snyder | |
| ae11fbc | I'll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 3c5314d | Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasantly overwhelmed by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or a well-turned phrase or an act of extraordinary kindness. You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience." | Susan Cain | ||
| a219000 | Madoc once told me, making me lift a sword again and again. | strong weight | Holly Black | |
| 762a294 | Can't get away from your own self. | Holly Black | ||
| d500e86 | Maybe the new me will be different. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 5b47fbd | The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore. | green-day inspirational musician | Billie Joe Armstrong | |
| 4efa276 | To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me. | inspirational | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | |
| af3f7c8 | Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing. | beliefs inspirational religion | Flannery O'Connor | |
| 196a390 | There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go. | gift inspirational joy | Frederick William Faber | |
| ee7ba29 | I change the world, the world changes me. | change gemma-doyle inspirational world | Libba Bray | |
| a86078f | Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative. | eli-stock inspirational | Sarah Dessen | |
| 0c052a3 | If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. | capability inspirational | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| 170a2f1 | And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. | dreams inspirational sweet | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| a4f9ca7 | I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived. | inspirational | Brandon Sanderson | |
| 6b6f208 | I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| baa0df1 | You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong. | weakness | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 0c686f9 | We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that ru.. | aspiration progress | Richard Matheson | |
| 4045d43 | Can't help the way I was raised--anything supernatural is supposed to be either a miracle or satanic." I rolled my eyes. "And you're still trying to figure out which I am?" " I'm trying to figure out if I'm still Catholic." He grinned that heart-stopping grin." | Kresley Cole | ||
| a3fce4d | I hope they're in town. I want to face them! Reign stood and brandished one of the two swords that she usually wore in sheaths crisscrossed on her back-in addition to the dagger sheath she customarily wore on her forearm. "I'll lunch on their balls!" That was Reign's new threat: to lunch on enemies' balls. "Reege, when you threaten males with that, I don't think it has the result you intend. They think less , more ." | lucia reign | Kresley Cole | |
| c96db22 | I'd wear his corsage to an orgy, any day! | Kresley Cole | ||
| 5210371 | Oh my gods, when do you not sport wood? There are bathrooms in the back, so go burp the worm or whatever.--Regin | Kresley Cole | ||
| 10816ac | You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 1836c23 | You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ... | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 9bc9206 | One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3f1ef40 | Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness. | unhappiness | Virginia Woolf | |
| 926f5fd | We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 2f2b7bf | Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics. | artists arts careers creativity empowerment encroachment gender liberation occupation restrictions skills women women-writers | Virginia Woolf | |
| b3fa80b | Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 8c5d58a | There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors | Gregory Maguire | ||
| d169b79 | Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. | man peace people self-acceptance | Gregory Maguire | |
| 8ad3f7b | But you love books, then," Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. "Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive." "What a strange thing to say at your age," she laughed. "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope --- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new uni.. | Anne Rice | ||
| ff34695 | Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite. | Hayao Miyazaki | ||
| 2b39ad5 | I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 6ac78d8 | I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at. | Laurie Halse Anderson |