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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9449d23 | I was afraid you were in trouble for a second, Your Highnessness," Han said, but the barb sounded hollow and unconvincing. Leia looked up at him, and the softness in her face told him that she'd heard the relief in his voice. He might just as well have said I thought I'd lost you. "No such luck," she said softly. He was surprised by the power of his urge to sweep her into his arms and kiss her. For a moment, there was something else in her .. | leia-organa | James S.A. Corey | |
| 1259100 | Han thought again of mystical energy fields and said a quiet thank-you to whoever or whatever might be looking out for them | James S.A. Corey | ||
| cb2861f | I'm an engineer, not a damned hairstylist," Naomi said," | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 4c5b70a | You get in its way, you get paved over. If you can find a way to live in the cracks, you can thrive anywhere. There were always cracks. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 94e3859 | Holden was imagining what several hundred rounds of Teflon-coated tungsten steel going five thousand meters per second would do to human bodies when Alex threw down the throttle and a roomful of elephants swan dived onto his chest. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| dfe830f | Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?" "Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch." | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 5e35067 | The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only distance and air. | fact space sun | James S.A. Corey | |
| 5b89960 | The lights shifted into and out of his field of view. He wondered if that was what it would be like to look at stars. He'd never looked up at a sky. The thought inspired a certain vertigo. A sense of terror of the infinite that was almost pleasant. "There" | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 16d5b0a | Basic problem solving. If you don't have the data you need, play with the data you have, see if something comes out of it. She'd | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 031ec94 | Your fancy alien train is broken?" "My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade ago and you can barely keep the coffee pot running." "You are a sad, bitter little man." | coffee coffee-pot spaceship technology train | James S.A. Corey | |
| 3f0bae1 | Psychological autopsies are also necessary to identify errors or oversights and expunge guilt. | Antonella Gambotto-Burke | ||
| d471e56 | All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always. | crisis destruction life nature pattern | James S.A. Corey | |
| 5228466 | Let me get this straight," he said. "You'll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you?" Dresden" | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 46c6d0e | You've worked with George R. R. Martin a lot in the past. What kind of advice did he have for this project? Yes, I've done a number of projects with him in one incarnation or another. In this case, he was mostly just encouraging. He likes old-fashioned space opera, and he followed my progress on the book with great interest. He was also the first to read the final version. He was very complimentary. He said at one point that it was the best.. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| ff4bbb4 | It throbbed with an inhuman power, tidal and deep and painful. Look at this too long, Elvi thought, and I will lose my mind in it. She took a step toward it, feeling the structures in the blackness respond to her. She felt as if she could see the spaces between molecules in the air, like atoms themselves had become a thin fog, and for the first time she could see the true shape of reality looming up just beyond her reach. | atoms black maddness molecules power reality | James S.A. Corey | |
| 76a4fe1 | There are some kinds of damage that take you far beyond normal rules and systems of ethics and morality--beyond this point be monsters, as the ancients used to say. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 676e241 | I don't see anything," Miller said. "What's it look like?" "The eye of an angry God?" Elvi said. "Oh," Miller said. The heavy plates of his robotic body clicked and hissed against each other as he shifted. "Yeah, well that's probably it, then. Good work." | angry detective-work eye god | James S.A. Corey | |
| b02821c | But it is only a machine. It doesn't think. It follows instructions. If we learn how to alter that programming, then we become the architects of that change. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 1520509 | Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way? | death design eyes fatalism organs universe wings | James S.A. Corey | |
| 4622cb1 | The closest analogy, the one her brain reached for and rejected and reached for again, was splashing into a lake. It was cold, but not cold. There was a smell, rich and loamy. The smell of growth and decay. She was aware of her body, the skin, the sinew, the curl of her gut. She was aware of the nerves that were firing in her brain as she became aware of the nerves firing in her brain. She unmade herself and watched herself being unmade. Al.. | analogy awareness transcendence | James S.A. Corey | |
| 1e13d0c | Men did not touch each other as Karadur touched this man unless they were lovers. But there was more between them, a connection, a feeling that was present even when they sat apart. | lgbt mm-romance | Elizabeth A. Lynn | |
| 1712750 | Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth. | rhetoric | Anna Deavere Smith | |
| 4cad5ab | Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea. | creation | Anna Deavere Smith | |
| 34dbf7c | I said, "Los Angeles burned but Los Angeles is but one city experiencing this kind of hopelessness and despair," I said, "and we need a job program with stipends ..." I said, "These young people really, ya know, are not in anybody's statistics or data. They've been dropped off of everybody's agenda. They live from grandmama to mama to girlfriend." I said, "We now got young people who are twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two years old who have nev.. | Anna Deavere Smith | ||
| 634cff6 | Americanah; Ayad Akhtar, American Dervish; Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street; Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Teju Cole, Open City; William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying; Nell Freudenberger, The Newlyweds; Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban and King of Cuba; Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker. | Cristina Henriquez | ||
| 38c9e98 | Sylvia Plath's achingly powerful The Bell Jar weaves her personal battle with depression into the tapestry of fiction. Ned Vizzini's best-selling It's Kind of a Funny Story was inspired by his own psychiatric hospitalization. The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, contains | Jessica Lourey | ||
| f83f831 | Do you mind telling me what you pray?" "I pray for the wisdom to find meaning in the . . . her death. | prayer | Katharine McMahon The Alchemist's Daughter | |
| 7fbf1c0 | Do you mind telling me what you pray?" "I pray for the wisdom to find meaning in the . . . her death." "And have you?" "No, Mrs. Aislabie, I find no meaning. But perhaps that's because I'm too small to see a plan so large I rarely get anything but a brief glimpse of it." -- | prayer | Katharine McMahon | |
| fc46468 | they had thrived on Earth for millions of years, but their own waste killed them. | Philip Plait | ||
| 3854507 | No hard figures are available on how much was actually paid out or how many Friends complied with the request of their Yearly Meeting. For those who did pay their slaves, it was common to use the yearly wage of the day. We do know that one Mr. F. Buxton, in an appeal before the British House of Commons to abolish slavery, said that it had cost North Carolina Friends fifty thousand pounds to release their slaves.14 For some southern Friends .. | Richard J. Foster | ||
| 1420e30 | BILSKIRNIR | John Lindow | ||
| 16e0f00 | Cupid, you see, was a more dangerous archer than even mighty Apollo, for, although Apollo's arrows could drain one's life blood in an instant, a wound from Cupid's arrows would cause one to fall deeply in love, | William F. Russell | ||
| e807942 | Always speak and act the truth, and be kind to all who need your help. | William F. Russell | ||
| ad974d1 | Oh, don't mind me. I'm just grouching. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 97c042c | Well, all those are just things, aren't they? Possessions or activities. Things we do, things we care about. But there's something behind them all that ties them all together into my life, who I am, what I am. With Keith, you never knew. He was a cipher. For example, I'm sure he loved his family, but he never really showed it or spoke much about it. I don't know what really mattered to him. He never talked about hobbies or anything like tha.. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 818f489 | structure, Banks noticed, high cheekbones and a strong jaw, with pale, freckled skin. She sat with her legs curled under her and her hands resting on the arms of the chair. 'Coffee?' asked Dr Wong. Chelsea declined the offer, but Banks and Winsome said yes. 'I'm not fetching it for you myself, you understand,' Dr Wong said. 'I wouldn't stoop that low.' 'I don't care who gets it,' said Banks, 'as long as it's black and strong.' Dr Wong smile.. | Peter Robinson | ||
| ad3ef0d | Their lovemaking had been a little tentative at first, but that was only to be expected. It never happened in real life the way it did in movies, with both lovers exploding together in a climax of Wagnerian proportions as fireworks burst, orchestras crescendoed and trains rushed into tunnels. That was pure Monty Python. In real lovemaking, especially with people new to one another's bodies, there are disappointments, mistakes, hesitancies. .. | Peter Robinson | ||
| c9703df | It's hard knowing what to allow and what not to. It's hard to know how much discipline to apply. If you don't give enough, then the child runs wild, and the parents get the blame. If you keep too strict control, he doesn't develop naturally and he blames you for screwing him up. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 8b5d375 | one half of his face drooping lower than the other, as if it had melted like a Dali watch. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 468d1cc | used to write her books. | Peter Robinson | ||
| 7bf9d6c | scuffle, police in riot | Peter Robinson | ||
| 8ebacef | They were the sort of walls that hoarded winter and emanated its chill throughout summer. | Peter Robinson | ||
| c571417 | For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad. But | Peter Robinson | ||
| 918e100 | BANKS ENJOYED THE DRIVE TO LEEDS. THE WEATHER WAS fine, the traffic not too horrendous, and the iPod shuffle treated him to a truly random medley of David Crosby, John Cale, Pentangle and Grinderman, among others. A mild beer hangover from Kev Templeton's wake hammered away insistently in the back of his head, muffled by extra-strength aspirin and plenty of water. At least he had had the sense to avoid spirits and sleep on Hatchley's sofa, .. | Peter Robinson |