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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2227a7a | Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| f8ccef0 | Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans! | humor coffee | Terry Pratchett | |
| dc8792a | There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 19d70bb | We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?" "To live," said Camilla. "To live forever," | Donna Tartt | ||
| 6468483 | Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now! | Charles Stross | ||
| fcc3074 | Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| a7df3b3 | But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, a.. | life ocean | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 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." | humor fey valkyrie immortals-after-dark kresley-cole paranormal-romance 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. | time lies reality past 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 026e3c4 | Don't feel bad; I regularly reduce people to unintelligible stammers. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 052da11 | Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries. | men future inspirational | Eoin Colfer | |
| 4c5f6a3 | Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. | star | Victor Hugo | |
| acda8bf | Plea Against the Death Penalty | Victor Hugo | ||
| d560231 | We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then. --Beldin | David Eddings | ||
| ef002ad | No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you. | pain | George Eliot | |
| 08fda6b | Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 98c5403 | Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of .. | happiness blessings contentment pray soul | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 777b7ae | But to yell at your creativity, saying, "You must earn money for me!" is sort of like yelling at a cat; it has no idea what you're talking about, and all you're doing is scaring it away, because you're making really loud noises and your face looks weird when you do that." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 726ef55 | I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 0697866 | but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 359e699 | There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c8e01af | Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1c20d78 | This is crazy', said Shadow. Like the rest of your life is sane? Give me a fucking break. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c7055f5 | Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad... | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 37df868 | I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 27550f2 | So, having found a lady, could you not have come to her aid, or left her alone? Why drag her into your foolishness?' 'Love,' he explained. She looked at him with eyes the blue of the sky. 'I hope you choke on it,' she said, flatly. | tristan | Neil Gaiman | |
| 28bc7d4 | There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life! | injury population strangers | Ray Bradbury | |
| fb24c04 | Muhammad (PBUH) is not the father of any man among you, but He is Messenger of Allah and the last of the Prophets. And Allah is Ever AllAware of everything." (Surah Ahzaab Ch33 V40)" | Anonymous |