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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 75903b7 | So that's us: processed corn, walking. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 55a6e99 | Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it... | women fantasy humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 25007e0 | They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?" | gifts | Terry Pratchett | |
| b3766b7 | I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 66cbce5 | A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope. | sense-of-humor | Andrew Solomon | |
| 1b58fc4 | Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| f929096 | Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 8fecb13 | Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married. | literature novels | Susanna Clarke | |
| 5c06b78 | What's your favorite place to visit?" He absently answered, "Wherever you are." "Bowen, five things about you can't all be about me." But you're the only good thing that I've got." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8298830 | When a group of young females had asked her what one should name her horse, she'd answered, "I like the sound of Fellatio." When Rydstrom had confronted Sabine about it, she'd said, "Do you know how priceless it was to hear that demoness sigh, 'I love my Fellatio'? Even gold can't buy moments like that!" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9ee536b | Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. | solitude loneliness | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 9851d65 | For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure. | history writing letter | Kate Mosse | |
| 37a0fc0 | In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| e515c1f | Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? | reality sexing-the-cherry jeanette-winterson | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 00c120a | I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 1aff0cf | there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a844d2e | Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist. | feminism resentment | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 3917663 | It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara | David Eddings | ||
| 734c20e | Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I've tried. | Sarah Kay | ||
| e6bf97f | You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity. | stupidity the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 7da904c | But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. | Nikolai V. Gogol | ||
| ca1b695 | 'Hlk lmkn fy ljHym hy l'wly'k ldhyn yHfZwn `l~ Hydhm fy l'zmt l'khlqyh | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 1b24005 | But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2069903 | Perfectionism is a particularly evil lure for women, who, I believe, hold themselves to an even higher standard of performance than do men. There are many reasons why women's voices and visions are not more widely represented today in creative fields. Some of that exclusion is due to regular old misogyny, but it's also true that--all too often--women are the ones holding themselves back from participating in the first place. Holding back th.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a33c942 | Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1142091 | The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're-- pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true-- ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5127b01 | I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. | light jesus darkness gospel | Anonymous | |
| 87398bc | Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords. | William Goldman | ||
| 8f20bee | Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting? | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| a681be4 | tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you. | sadness weltschmerz | David Levithan | |
| dfb7004 | You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me. | David Levithan | ||
| 97d2c63 | Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage. | language | David Mitchell | |
| a9cc872 | That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works." | deryn | Scott Westerfeld | |
| d08abcd | This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world." "Michael Jackson lived here?" "No, dummy," Carter said. "Elvis Presley." | Rick Riordan | ||
| f39383d | First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3796d7b | Ew.' 'Yeah,' Claire said. 'I need a shower.' 'I don't think a shower's going to cut it. Maybe fire hoses, and those brushes they use on elephants.' Eve stepped back and offered Shane a hand up as he finally got untangled. 'Speaking of elephants, you sounded like a herd of something coming down the stairs,' he said. 'What the hell are your shoes made of? Hooves? | eve-rosser shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| d487216 | I've won Satan's lottery. | vampires | Christopher Moore | |
| 2952118 | In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.) | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| d9b518b | I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| b7340b5 | Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 1aee5e6 | He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| ad3cbeb | You call it hope -- that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire. | poetry | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 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. | faith reason religion science scepticism belief principles | 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 |