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| 1e8e1c2 | Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don't use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand. And, above all, poetry is compacted metaphor or simile. Such metaphors, like Japanese paper flowers, may expand outward into gigantic shapes. Ideas lie everywhere through the poetry books, yet how rare.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 29617d8 | Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other's faults and take care of each other?...In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 5c35b58 | Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| b489b4c | Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction). | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 8cc586c | Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8c07ed2 | But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. | youth charm | Oscar Wilde | |
| fbd33e0 | Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| dac8c6b | She is a peacock in everything but beauty! | insult humor | Oscar Wilde | |
| 21412ed | You have something on your neck," he observed. Alec's hand flew to his throat. "What?" "Looks like a bite mark," said Jace. "What have you been doing all day, anyway?" "Nothing." Beet red, his hand still clamped to his neck, Alec started down the corridor. Jace followed him. "I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head." "And ran into a vampire?" "What? No! I fell." "On your neck?" | alec-lightwood pg-73-74 jace-wayland | Cassandra Clare | |
| 618283e | Ty: Just words I like. If I say them to myself, it makes my mind - quieter. Does it bother you? Kit: No. I was just curious what words you liked. Ty: It's not the meaning, just the sound. Glass, twin, apple, whisper, stars, crystal, shadow, lilt. Kit: Whisper would be one of mine, too. Cloud, secret, highway, hurricane, mirror, castle, thorns. Ty: Blackthorns. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 71567d9 | I don't think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms | responsibility | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5c1c942 | Is your inner vampire different from your...outer vampire?' 'Definitely. He wants me to wear midriff-baring shirts and a fedora.' 'So your inner vampire is Magnus? | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| e40aa88 | Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. "How much of that did you hear?" "Enough to gather that we're going to a party tonight," said Jordan. "I heard about the Ironworks event. I'm not in the Garroway pack, so I wasn't invited." "I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone back into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept tha.. | funny humor ironworks jordan-kyle city-of-fallen-angels the-mortal-instruments simon-lewis date masculinity | Cassandra Clare | |
| 793e661 | So you really cant think of anyone else who might want to kill you?"asked Jace. "Unlike in your case there arent actually all that many people who dislike me."said Simon." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 03b78ac | You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer. | love conflagration veins desire | Cassandra Clare | |
| b7fe4e6 | Sebastian: YOU'RE Ragnor Fell the warlock? Magnus: Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 594c2f7 | Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 88009f2 | endless hope, endless disappointment. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 36c468e | See? See what you can do? Never mind you can't tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here, this here, is what a man can do if he puts his mind to it and his back in it. Stop sniveling,' [the land] said. 'Stop picking around the edges of the world. Take advantage, and if you can't take advantage, take disadvantage. We live here. On this planet.. | inspirational | Toni Morrison | |
| a4ce1a4 | Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 60be32d | We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa) | Robert Fulghum | ||
| a930cea | It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| afada1a | I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 2a9b6e8 | There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow. | love inspirational | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 61047e0 | When he turned back around, his characteristic smart-ass smile was back in place. "Your wish is my command, prince of mine." "How about good ol'-fashioned 'master'?" When John just glared over his shoulder, Quinn shrugged. "Fine. I'll go with fathead then. But that's your damage, I gave you options." [John & Qhuinn]" | lover-enshrined qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| 260eeef | I'm an angel not a frickin' saint. | J.R. Ward | ||
| fc03751 | And love ... love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 41d7a4e | But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it. | inspiration birth-of-ideas contrast feel-inspired get-ideas get-inspired where-ideas-come-from | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 04788b2 | If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction | wisdom | Brian Tracy | |
| 155cc2e | A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. The fact is that women are able to view men just as men view women, as objects for sexual and aesthetic evaluation; we too are effortlessly able to choose the male "ideal" from a lineup and if we could have male beauty as well as everything else.. | equality feminism beauty body-image sexual-violence cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality self-esteem aging | Naomi Wolf | |
| 49d3fbc | I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 5866855 | Some people there's no getting over. | sugar-daddy | Lisa Kleypas | |
| ae815d3 | Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?" "They're ravished in haylofts?" she inquired hopefully." | romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 6b94978 | I don't want to be a widow, I don't want Michael Bayning, and I don't want you to joke about such things, you tactless clodpole!" As all three of them stared at her openmouthed, Poppy leapt up and stalked away, her hands drawn into fists. Bewildered by the immediate force of her fury--it was like being stung by a butterfly--Harry stared after her dumbly. After a moment, he asked the first coherent thought that came to him. "Did she just say.. | romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 407cbcb | My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them." They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance swept through the crowd like a reaping sickle through grain. Mouths slammed shut on every side. There was a scuffling sound as the people in the back shifted, trying to screen themselves from view. The queen looked back at the king, who was broadly smiling." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| ea35e60 | The gold was a gift; you said so yourself." "You are a woman," Nahuseresh said very gently. "You do not understand the world of kings and emperors, you do not understand the nature of their gifts." "Nahuseresh, if there is one thing a woman understands, it is the nature of . They are bribes when threats will not avail. Your emperor cannot attack this coast unprovoked; the treaties with the greater nations of this Continent prevent him. All.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| d74a8fb | A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 195518f | I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 79e0a24 | How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts? | tobias-eaton fourtris tris-prior | Veronica Roth | |
| 2fdc798 | Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away." | divergent mornings tris-and-tobias | Veronica Roth | |
| 7c4dbc0 | A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now. | Veronica Roth | ||
| c60a7cd | It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh] | Irving Stone | ||
| efb494a | Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron," Sebastian said approvingly. "Excellent choice." "You have read this?" Alexei asked. "It's not as good as Miss Davenport and the Dark Marquis, of course, but worlds better than Miss Sainsbury and the Mysterious Colonel." Harry found himself rendered speechless. "I'm reading Miss Truesdale and the Silent Gentleman right now." "Silent?" Harry echoed. "There is a noticeable lack of dialogue," Sebastian confi.. | humor | Julia Quinn | |
| 1c543ad | Never despair. Never surrender. | Alan Moore |