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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c58a2bb | There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been. | A. S. Byatt | ||
| 6745671 | Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 8d8379d | Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just .. | personhood | Orson Scott Card | |
| 768d0cc | One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things. | especially pace throw | Robin McKinley | |
| b58f42d | You undo me. You have no idea how much you undo me. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8e47416 | It's just... wow, I'm happy for you. I think this is great. Its love- the real kind you make sacrifices for. The kind where you scream 'screw it' to everyone else. That's envy-worthy. | deacon | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 42cc7cb | Money doesn't buy taste, personality, or common decency. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8bc70e2 | Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her... long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as a daughter of the love goddess, you had to break someone's heart. Piper had long ago decided to change that rule. Percy and Annabeth were a perfect example of why. You should have to make someone's heart whole. That was a much better test. Whe.. | love percy-jackson piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| 40b46eb | As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn't understand all of it, but he got , , and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife. | hazel-levesque humor insults octavian percy-jackson percy-jackson-and-the-olympians the-son-of-neptune | Rick Riordan | |
| 05aaa33 | Are you crazy?" "Probably" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0384feb | Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second. "Whoa!" Dan said. Amy gripped his arm. "You found it?" "No, but look! This whole essay - 'To the Royal Academy.' He wrote a whole essay on farts!" Dan grinned with delight. "He's proposing a scientific study on different fart smells. You're right, Amy. This guy was a genius!" | ben-franklin dan-cahill essay fart humor | Rick Riordan | |
| 6e59423 | Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead. | goat-boy milkman | Rick Riordan | |
| ea8b2a2 | Etiquette tip: If you're looking for the right time to leave a party, when the host yells, "No one leaves here alive," that's your cue." | humor magnus-chase | Rick Riordan | |
| e291a56 | Why are they so sad?" I asked. "Well, they're dead," Carter speculated." | Rick Riordan | ||
| a097573 | Even his hair was bigger--a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. "Is that why they named you Aphros?" Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. "Because of the Afro?" Aphros scowled. "What do you mean?" "Nothing," Leo said quickly." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 98f66e9 | Leo choked. "Your mom is a rainbow goddess?" "Got a problem with that?" Butch said. "No, no," Leo said. "Rainbows, very macho." "Butch is our best equestrian," Annabeth said. "He gets along great with the pegasi." "Rainbows, ponies," Leo muttered. "I'm gonna toss you off this chariot," Butch warned." | Rick Riordan | ||
| aa7bcac | Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored." | humor inspirational life obvious | Rodman Philbrick | |
| 4746e0e | And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 1401fc7 | Every man has a weakness!" he patiently explained. "I'll find theirs, I promise you." "Every man?" "Yes," he answered emphatically. ... "What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked. "You." | Julie Garwood | ||
| 963139b | When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| ee70234 | His arm was so thick and strong. I was sure it would protect me for as long as I lived. And it did. Even after I lost him. The memory of his arm wraps around me as his arm used to. Each day has been chained to the previous one. But the weeks have had wings. Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either, but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they w.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 1af79e9 | Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects. | Franz Kafka | ||
| edff6c9 | suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others... He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds. But the attacks on those creeds - or on persons devoted to them - have served to darken his memory, casting a shadow across the closing years of his life. When termed a 'dirty little atheist' he surely spoke from lack of understanding. It was a stric.. | atheist draught-burner greatness hollow-candle inventor iron-bridge memory misrepresentation paine prejudice roosevelt teddy-roosevelt theodore-roosevelt thomas-paine | Thomas A. Edison | |
| 4c26aa3 | Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 5e2a7a2 | You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind." | love mind | Haruki Murakami | |
| b514a66 | For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we tak.. | wind | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7b2cf2d | The right words always seemed to come too late. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| c5142ed | Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 645fff0 | There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, sh.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| cc0f770 | Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| c95a152 | To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5919d30 | Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until.. | the-role-model-big-sister | Jodi Picoult | |
| 092e315 | It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bb0de6f | That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1df75cf | What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did. | honesty secrets | Jodi Picoult | |
| f07daad | Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind, when you walk alone. All the time the ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves. Each ghost comes unbidden from the.. | outlander | Diana Gabaldon | |
| f512da3 | The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true. | William Faulkner | ||
| d2961c2 | The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| dcacd21 | Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, not made, which always existed and always will exist. Christ is the Son of God. If we share in this kind of life we also shall be sons of God. We shall love the Father as He does and the Holy Ghost will arise in us. He came to this world and became a.. | C.S. Lewis | ||
| 5532446 | Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing. | louisiana south | Tom Robbins | |
| d1cdc71 | At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with approval. "Couldn't have done better myself" "Couldn't do it at all yourself," muttered Tris. Briar ignored her. "But you'd never find a cork oak in these parts. Too cold." Niko looked down his nose at the boy. "I beg your pardon?" | niko tris | tamora pierce | |
| 75903b7 | So that's us: processed corn, walking. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 14f7114 | And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. | belief faith principles reason religion scepticism science | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 1087e2b | m lnsn dwn Hry@ y mryn? qwly ly.. kyf 'stTy` 'n 'Hbk dh lm 'kn Hran? kyf 'hbki qlby dh lm ykn mlky? | Federico García Lorca |