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20d9b71 I'm no expert with females"--the others rolled their eyes at that--"but I believe an attempted decapitation communicates the need for some space." Kresley Cole
d115dfb Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies. ~Carrow Graie Kresley Cole
851b93f We want you gone. Your presence is obviously upsetting for her." "Oh, aye, the poor, wee lass -- who tossed me like a skipping stone." Kresley Cole
e0bf1c1 And if you don't think I can hold my own against all those eighteenth-century mortals you were out tagging, then you're a fool, Casanova." ... "Oh, yes, I know all about you." He went still. "What are you talking about?" "I was alive back then. And all the Lore heard about the ruthless warlord brothers from Estonia. The general, the scholar, the enigma, and . . . the manwhore." fey humor immortals-after-dark kresley-cole paranormal-romance valkyrie vampires Kresley Cole
0ea1085 I think I just fell into like with him. Kresley Cole
56eea32 Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight. Jacqueline Carey
fae179d Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe? Virginia Woolf
9c999c3 Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth. lies past reality time truth untruths Jeanette Winterson
3552646 When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void. libraries Piers Anthony
01f241d I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing. Gregory Maguire
31f2a99 Why bother trying? What was the point? So I could go to some suck-ass college, get a diploma, march out into a job that I hated, marry a pretty girl who would want to divorce me, but then she wouldn't because we'd have kids, so instead she'd be the angry woman at the other end of the kitchen table, and the kids would grow up watching this, until one day I'd look at my son and he'd look just like that face in the bathroom mirror? If that wa.. Laurie Halse Anderson
fd6cdd0 You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth. Laurie Halse Anderson
8c2542a I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down. knitting Laurie Halse Anderson
3fefbda The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football. high-school Laurie Halse Anderson
6c419d7 The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours. John Fowles
dc81376 If I ever think you are even considering leaving me again, no matter how good you reasons, I'll have you locked in your rooms and the doors barricaded, so help me God." He lifted her foot and began to dry it. Her voice shaking, Whitney asked, "Will you stay locked in there with me?" He raised her dainty foot to his jaw and tenderly laid his cheek against it, then turned his head and kissed it. "Yes," he whispered. -Clayton Westmoreland" Judith McNaught
670e092 Your date appears to be hysterical," Rene told me. "You think I should slap some man into him?" magic-strikes rene saiman Ilona Andrews
3bdbacb All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Eve.. voting Henry David Thoreau
2c84f6b The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen, or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace, that Americans have always dealt honorably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbors or inferiors, that American men are the wor.. myths James Baldwin
e7db5ad It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads. Thomas Pynchon
ea9bce4 I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty Khaled Hosseini
2b9922c Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves. Ivo Andrić
937a370 In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society. Plato
b1c36cc Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives. Isabel Allende
9b1c5ad No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really." dedication friends harry-potter hermione j-k-rowling love powerful trust J.K. Rowling
91284d5 You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' -- 'The Boy Who Scored'-- whatever they call you these days. J.K. Rowling
d23b450 Promise me you'll look after yourself ... stay out of trouble ...' 'I always do, Mrs Weasley,' said Harry. 'I like a quiet life, you know me. J.K. Rowling
81473a4 Voldemort," said Riddle softly, "is my past, present, and future, Harry Potter. . . ." He pulled Harry's wand from his pocket and began to trace it through the air, writing three shimmering words: Then he waved the wand once, and the letters of his name rearranged themselves: " J.K. Rowling
153bf1c Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes. ashes phoenix reborn J.K. Rowling
f7fb414 Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable. Janet Evanovich
a50fb87 Maybe next time we just open the door and start out with some bitch slapping. Janet Evanovich
787c113 People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that. history libba-bray the-diviners Libba Bray
a063f31 And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try. Libba Bray
7b4f4b8 All things are possible. Libba Bray
c3e54be The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion. Libba Bray
dfd8d1d In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant. Ann Patchett
a3b4207 There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again. Ann Patchett
5913e2c I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything. love protection responsibility self-sufficiency solitude P.D. James
8a9d6fd One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn't, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away. Nicole Krauss
9226f05 The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. Or better to say, in face. Grammar of my life: as a rule of thumb, wherever there appears a plural, correct for singular. Should I ever let slip a royal put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head. Nicole Krauss
9229335 Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs. Nicole Krauss
f3a5585 When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not t.. Michael Chabon
6cc3ecd God hides the fires of hell within paradise. god hell irony paradise paulo-coelho Paulo Coelho
6e5e103 Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap... Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with .. Hermann Hesse