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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 18eca60 | Ronan, taking in Blue's posture and Gansey below, observed, "If you spit, Blue, it would land right in his eye." Gansey moved to the opposite side of the bed with surprising swiftness, glancing at Adam and away again as quickly." | gansey maggie-stiefvater the-raven-boys | Maggie Stiefvater | |
| bc305dc | The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. | women beauty humor plainness making-love | Oscar Wilde | |
| 2aef816 | People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. | shallowness visible superficial invisible thought | Oscar Wilde | |
| 60188d1 | I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die. | family humor | Oscar Wilde | |
| 466ce8a | As of yesterday, my son became engaged to be married to his partner, Magnus Bane-- | magnus malec visions | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8eb2972 | wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness | madness tessa-gray clockwork-prince infernal-devices will-herondale misery | Cassandra Clare | |
| e9e1a18 | She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise. | jace-and-clary | Cassandra Clare | |
| f862670 | Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want? | page-522 clockwork-princess tessa-gray will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| d3ce0ba | Magnus rolled onto his back and put his feet up on the arm of the sofa. "What do you care if Alec's miserable?" "What do I care?" Jace said, so loudly that Chairman Meow rolled off the couch and landed on the floor. "Of course I care about Alec; he's my best friend, my parabatai. And he's unhappy. And so are you, by the look of things. Takeout containers everywhere, you haven't done anything to fix up the place, your cat looks dead--" "He.. | dead-cat parabatai misery | Cassandra Clare | |
| cbbdfc4 | When a decision like that is made by a government, it emboldens those who are already prejudiced to speak their deepest thoughts of hate. They assume they are simply brave enough to say what everyone really thinks. | mark-blackthorn the-dark-artifices lord-of-shadows | Cassandra Clare | |
| 7c97f6d | A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did. | magnus-bane jem-carstairs | Cassandra Clare | |
| a5e1ac3 | I'ts a girl" Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d2ea4f6 | She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered if all that hatred didn't just stem from the fact that she was jealous. It must be nice not worrying that every time one of your family members walked out the door, they'd never come back. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 69d1226 | Hey, Clary. You take care of yourself," he said. "I know you can." He paused. "And take care of Jace, that poor, helpless blond." Jace made an obscene gesture, which actually did feel familiar to Simon, so he knew that was their thing." | helpless-blond take-care simon-lewis jace-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 5916500 | Maybe warlocks only liked other warlocks. Though Magnus did seem to like Alec quite a lot. | warlocks shadowhunters | Cassandra Clare | |
| c7b815b | When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8432263 | I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| afd0e1c | I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 9fa81f5 | When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how no.. | love attraction ernest-hemingway rich | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 46cfcff | We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 71cca78 | The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?" "The New York Yankees," Butch replied." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 5a698eb | There was a sniffle from the crowd. At which point, Rhage's voice hissed, "What. This is beautiful, 'kay? Fuck all y'all." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 5296994 | I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance... | John Green | ||
| 6406276 | It's so weird, to know you're crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It's not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can't figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can't be sure, you know? | John Green | ||
| 115e7cf | I glanced again. He was still watching me. Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy... well. | hot eye-contact | John Green | |
| 4294d8b | And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person. | John Green | ||
| b80e05d | If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your de.. | writing inspiration composition focus concentration | Muriel Spark | |
| fe2d95f | Remember that you are a Black Swan. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| d3cf15c | They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies." | eric-northman | Charlaine Harris | |
| dc82a0d | I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.. | soldier | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 8460397 | Sleep, my love," He whispered, smoothing her long hair, lifting the damp locks away from the back of her neck. "I'll be here to watch over you." "You sleep too," she said groggily, her hand creeping to the center of his chest. "No." McKenna smiled and pressed a soft kiss against her temple. His voice was husky with wonder. "Not when staying awake is better than anything I could find in a dream." | lovers romantic love post-coital sweet | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 9386e64 | Irene-" "Don't call me that." "You were the princess Irene the first time we met." "It means 'peace'," Attolia said. "What name could be more inappropriate?" "That I be named Helen?" Eddis suggested. The hard lines in Attolia's face eased, and she smiled. Eddis was a far cry from the woman whose beauty had started a war." -- | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 831c3aa | Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how smart he is and that if I'm not careful he'll notice that I keep staring at her, and that will be my undoing. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 816edd7 | Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke. | childhood-memories | Julian Barnes | |
| ee59a7b | Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9204845 | See? Anger can be healthy. When the time comes-and it will come-remember that. And what I said. Embrace your powers-love yourself the way Nature made you, and you will prevail. Always. | Meg Cabot | ||
| ddfa29e | And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there! | princess | Meg Cabot | |
| d0252ac | However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don't mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords...I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together...and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours.. | freedom hope | Cressida Cowell | |
| 5d50808 | Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue. | Stephen King | ||
| b6b1e6c | May be she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain. | Stephen King | ||
| 7fe0062 | For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all. | Stephen King | ||
| dbf1fc5 | Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 4863a12 | Would you jump in front of a maxibus for me?" "Absolutely. They don't go very fast." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 6725070 | It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe. | Christopher Paolini |