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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 72aa025 | Ash twisted toward Daemon, her cheeks flushed. "I can't believe you're allowing him to do this. Next thing we know, you'll be dating a human." Daemon busted out laughing. "Yeah, not going to happen." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 825ffba | What do you think it means if someone has a tattoo of Thanatos's symbol?" "Nothing probably, since a lot of us have tattoos of various symbols." "You don't." As soon as the words left my mouth, I regretted them. His eyes turned from gray to silver in a heartbeat. I imagined he was remembering how I would know if he had a tattoo hidden somewhere." | alex | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 1c3b5fa | So childish, Alex. You've ruined her dress." The vibrant red silk floated around me as I treaded water. "I know. Bad me." | seth | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| eedab4d | Folding my arms, I refused to back down. Andrew never liked me. I don't think he liked people in general. Or puppies. Or bacon. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4a690e7 | The arrogant half smile I disliked so much tipped up one corner of his swollen lips. "You're barely glowing now." | obsidian | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 4c4079c | I thinks Its cute that you call my house Home. By the way, it Is my house. My name is on the deed. - Daemon Black | daemon-black lux lux-series katy-swartz opal | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 7b89d3c | the freaky kid was now staring at me with those purple eyes. Man, I did not like freaky kids. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 618d1ab | Nothing?" Favonius cried. "The one you care for most... plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth?" Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedropping. " | love favonius eros heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace nico-di-angelo rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 508abbf | Must've been hard on your mom," Frank said. "I guess we'll do anything for someone we love." Hazel squeezed his hand appreciatively. Nico stared at the cobblestones. "Yeah," he said bitterly. "I guess we will." | loneliness sadness love | Rick Riordan | |
| a4fdc5a | Very good, Jason Grace," Notus said. "You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you choose your legacy." | heroism roman legacy self greek hero heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson house-of-hades jason-grace rick-riordan | Rick Riordan | |
| 150e2c1 | Maybe love was no match for ice...but Piper had used it to wake a metal dragon. Mortals did superhuman feats in the name of love all the time. Mothers lifted cars to save their children. And Piper was more than just a mortal. She was a demigod. A hero. The ice melted on her blade. Her arm steamed under Khione's grip. 'Still underestimating me,' Piper told the goddess. 'You really need to work on that. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 489b1d9 | Will Solace sighed. He was, of course, tied to Nico. He propped his elbow on Nico's shoulder as if the son of Hades were a convenient shelf. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 65cc0ff | Any moment now..." The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water. No magical raft appeared. "Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said." | Rick Riordan | ||
| d9fc27d | Hi," Piper said, as casually as she could. "We're back." | piper | Rick Riordan | |
| b4ed737 | Leo] lunged at Passalos, but the red-furred dwarf was too quick. He sprang from his chair, bounced off Jason's head, did a flip, and landed next to Leo, his hairy arms around Leo's waist. "Save me?" the dwarf pleaded. "Get off!" Leo tried to shove him away, but Passalos did a backward somersault and landed out of reach. Leo's pants promptly fell around his knees. He stared at Passalos, who was now grinning and holding a small zigzaggy strip.. | humor passalos zipper jason-grace leo-valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 35280a7 | He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 23f2d49 | The rivalry ends here," [Percy] said. "I love you, Wise Girl." | true-love romance together-forever annabeth-chase percabeth percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| d1a167e | Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate | karma | Rick Riordan | |
| 78f8d48 | He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park. | cherub mr-d putto | Rick Riordan | |
| ef4a23c | He remembered Apollo, smiling and tanned and completely cool in his shades. Thalia had said, He's hot. He's the sun god, Percy replied. That's not what I meant. Why was Nico thinking about that now? The random memory irritated him, made him feel jittery. | nico-di-angelo memory | Rick Riordan | |
| f20c253 | It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. | letters | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| fef60d9 | Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| ffafa7d | No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most. | parents-and-children | Margaret Atwood | |
| 7ce5bf6 | Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 8cecc28 | I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner." | fidelity cheating | Erica Jong | |
| 5b70898 | Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? | humanity ecology | D.H. Lawrence | |
| 060a55a | His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain. | love | Alice Munro | |
| 5547a3f | From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be mistaken for light--a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries--after the lovers who made the glow will have long been laid permanently on their backs--metropolises will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cit.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| fb752b8 | These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light. | Ian McEwan | ||
| fd4f45d | This is how the entire course of life can be changed - by doing nothing. On Chesil beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have cared to know, that as she ran away from him, certain in her distress that she was about to lose him, she had never loved him more, or more hopelessly, and that the sound of his voice would have been a deliverance, and she would have turned back. Inste.. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 551442f | Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. | Franz Kafka | ||
| cd46628 | because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love. | lovers life love | Milan Kundera | |
| 6d8208a | It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. He is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, p. 76" -- | weakness helplessness | Milan Kundera | |
| 7883d57 | I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky | creative feelings inspirational sputnik-sweetheart haruki-murakami murakami feeling sky | Haruki Murakami | |
| d9fb9c4 | When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1e0fec2 | Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. | free-will life recipe | Haruki Murakami | |
| 4229cbc | You showed me what it was like to love. What the world could be like, if | L.J. Smith | ||
| 22d969c | I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian. | Steve Martin | ||
| 1c0d888 | There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 13bcf54 | When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 066c310 | The dog would run a few steps toward the house, circle once or twice as though unable to decide what to do next, then run back into the wood, turn, and run again toward the house, all the while whining with agitation, tail low and wavering. "Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ," I said. "Bloody Timmy's in the well!" | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| f1a289e | The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it. | madness normalcy | Robert Anton Wilson | |
| 45b25b7 | He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. | homesickness sick | James Joyce | |
| 1b5e2a7 | We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least. | C.S. Lewis |