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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f67a216 | existing's tricky:but to live's a gift) | E.E. Cummings | ||
| 0d5152f | He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap. "Ah," he said. "Must deactivate the security....Turn around, please." "What?" "Turn around, Claire. It's a secure password!" "You have GOT to be kidding." "Why ever would I joke about that? Please turn." | funny ghost-town humor morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| b1c4733 | How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, silenced her, and even decades after it was supposed to have ended, still acted with a high hand in resolving her affairs in places like Cote d'Ivoire, a name she had been given because of her export products, not her own identity. Her name was Asia. His was Europe. Her name was silence. His was power. Her name was poverty... | fables feminism possibilities | Rebecca Solnit | |
| c750a4f | If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| b4c2e50 | The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 6d12c0f | I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 9413375 | Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both. | Christopher Moore | ||
| a2a4198 | If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 39f231b | An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight. | religious | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 62102ec | The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages. | inspirational | Richard Bach | |
| 68eeac8 | the mad have a grace all their own | Kim Harrison | ||
| 47ebc68 | I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History. | Joan Didion | ||
| 752a37a | He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again. | William Golding | ||
| 7973817 | I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death." | rape violence | Alice Sebold | |
| fa59d08 | The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52). | Ayn Rand | ||
| 886ff30 | Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 777b394 | A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men's loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does n.. | Steven Pressfield | ||
| 470732b | because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. | little-women louisa-may-alcott talent | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 49b65f1 | Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e2c434a | Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Eowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone. | Éowyn | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7c61afc | Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c7dee2a | Facts are lonely things | Don DeLillo | ||
| f518550 | Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 12955a9 | Shut up, sit down, and read. (Tory) Please? (Acheron) You need something? (Tory) You to be polite to me, Ms. I Own The World- Now Do What I Say You Pathetic Pleb. (Acheron) You don't strike me as the kind of guy who takes orders anyway. (Tory) Yes, but a simple please goes a long way. I'm the one doing you a favor here. (Acheron) Fine. Please sit down, shut up, and read. (Tory) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ad95e11 | What are you? (Danger) Well, had you listened before you stabbed me, you would have heard the 'I'm Acheron's Squire' part. Apparently that somehow escaped your hearing and you mistook me for a pin cushion. (Alexion) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 360abac | Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut your mouth and open your ears." "I'm not the one talking." Kyrian snarled at him. "Don't get smart with me." "You want me stupid?" "Nick...." | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9f80062 | no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| d3953b3 | But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow. | Albert Camus | ||
| 494d9a5 | A weed is a plant out of place. | Jim Thompson | ||
| 88020d1 | I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 68a8b1a | The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- | life poem | Robert Frost | |
| a53af60 | People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that? | humor | Stephen King | |
| 584cb67 | Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders | Jim Morrison | ||
| 1ac49b2 | You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do. | men | Hilary Mantel | |
| 11cb875 | It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed hands out while all about in that circle attended companies of lesser auxiliaries routed forth into the inordinate day, small owls that crouched silently and stood from foot to foot and tarantulas and solpugas and vinegarroons and.. | desert fire stars | Cormac McCarthy | |
| 2b3bcdc | When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group--bacteria, mice, people--and subject that group to certain conditions. They compare the results with a second group which has not been disturbed. This second group is called the control group. It is the control group which enables the scientist gauge the effect of his experiment. To judge the significance of what has occurred. .. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 3e96b8d | You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who's layin there? | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| e1a2667 | Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird. | inspirational writing | Anne Lamott | |
| 8eabe3e | A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. | misery moroseness subconscious | P.G. Wodehouse | |
| 43c30fb | In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us. | dogs life relationship | John Grogan | |
| 05cf169 | One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours. | mine yours | William Shakespeare | |
| 2c428bd | All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. | actors humanity mankind stage theater world | William Shakespeare | |
| 1275013 | Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8b50aaf | There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. | William Shakespeare |