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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 58b864a | You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said." | detective express fiction hercule murder orient poirot | Agatha Christie | |
| 4929882 | Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 0fbf6c4 | We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours. | Jean Rhys | ||
| c8d29bf | Well, what we know Is not what they tell us We're not ignorant, I mean it, And they just cannot touch us Through the powers of the Most-High We keep on surfacin' | Bob Marley | ||
| b8f5073 | I found a few springs of rosemary and returned. Ignoring the collective sigh when I appeared, I stripped off the leaves and handed them to Loren. He sniffed them in suspicion. "What's this?" I guess it would take more than my word for them to trust me, "Rosemary." No glimmer of recognition. "It's to make your stew taste better. Don't you know the basic herbs and spices?" "No. I took this job in self-defence. Quain burns everything. Belen th.. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 0f96e07 | There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 42bd9d6 | Shigure: Perhaps I can offer some advice? ...You know, Tohru-kun, when you get anxiety about the future it's better not to think about it. And let's not wipe our faces with dishtowels... For example let's say, Tohru-kun, that you are surrounded with a mountain of laundry piled so high around your feet that you can't move. Are you with me? Now, let's assume you don't have a washing machine, so you have to wash everything individually by hand.. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 7471f33 | What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 4d98c7f | The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. | inspirational | J.P. Morgan | |
| d6643a3 | The home we seek is in eternity | inspirational | Farid Attar | |
| d438861 | You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you. | attitude inspirational life potential | Myles Munroe | |
| 7eddee1 | The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind. | inspirational writing | Walter Mosley | |
| 8be779b | To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road. | inspirational political | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 02ce2e4 | We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. | inspirational journey life purpose | Gloria Gaither | |
| 7a80115 | If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. | gift inspirational life-lessons | Charles M. Schulz | |
| aabc709 | There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| ee6c577 | No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles]. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 2989a7c | They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dfb373d | And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves. | Betty Smith | ||
| 0f52444 | Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet. | poetry words | Virginia Woolf | |
| 0b21238 | I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 6a77038 | I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4de46ec | You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 961b39e | It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 008a52a | Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. B.. | choice compassion determinism empathy free-will inspirational morality reductionism science wisdom | Clarence Darrow | |
| 8e24a7b | Well, right now I'm dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading. | death | Tim O'Brien | |
| d00bcd4 | Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. | krishna life palace-of-illusions panchaali seriousness | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 68a69e0 | Royce understood then why she had come: she had come to finish the task her relatives had begun; to do to him what he had done to her brother. Unmoving, he watched her, noting that tears were pouring down her beautiful face as she slowly bent down. But instead of reaching for his lance or her dagger, she took his hand between both of hers and pressed her lips to it. Through his daze of pain and confusion, Royce finally understood that she w.. | jenny judith-mcnaught roycesweetiepie | Judith McNaught | |
| ec6674a | If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. | individuality | Henry David Thoreau | |
| f9f51ad | how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should? | James Baldwin | ||
| 129d7b7 | Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you? | Ralph Ellison | ||
| aeedc33 | and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools - guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus - THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 6d9ffc2 | But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods...for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them. | november | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 50a4e13 | Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| ce6035e | Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 8eb7381 | what if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal;...would that be a life to disregard? | Plato | ||
| 8e408d2 | She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying. | Isabel Allende | ||
| d68d81d | My suffering left me sad and gloomy. | Yann Martel | ||
| 724f540 | He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass. "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -" The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. "Harry...Potter..." And then with.. | death dobby friends harry-potter j-k-rowling love loyalty sad why | J.K. Rowling | |
| 28ccf10 | I knew it! " "Are we allowed to speak yet?" said Ron grumpily. Hermione ignored him. "Nicolas Flamel," she whispered dramatically, "is the !" This didn't have quite the effect she'd expected. "The what?" said Harry and Ron. "Oh, , don't you two read? Look -- read that, there." | hermione-granger humor philosopher-s-stone ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| a5a814d | Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2deca2d | Most of the time, I think you have to make a choice--at a certain point--of the man you want to be. And I will tell you at that time you need a parent or a friend. And if you've learnt to hate your parent by then and you have no friends...then you're all alone. And being alone--that's so hard." -Draco Malfoy" | harry-potter malfoy | J.K. Rowling | |
| 490ac56 | And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me." | love | Mark Haddon | |
| 7fcbed9 | I gave you the best of me. | heartbreak love romance | Nicholas Sparks |