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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1ebaa7f | Tally really didn't have the strength to explain that she'd really meant her hangover, which was sprawled in her head like an overweight cat, sullen and squishy and disinclined to budge. | distopia hangover humor humorous scott-westerfeld tally-youngblood | Scott Westerfeld | |
| fb28073 | Freedom has a way of destroying things. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| f010d07 | When a single nation's armies are ordered against each other, all is lost. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 641e9d0 | I'm sick of the rules and boundaries. The last thing I want is to become some empty-headed new pretty, having one big party all day. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8529d3b | We were all troublemakers," Zane said. "So we have exciting stuff stored in our heads. But you have to keep telling those stories, listening to one another, and breaking the rules. You have to stay bubbly, or you'll gradually forget everything from back then. Permanently." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| d8493cd | I don't want to be ugly all my life. I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say." "I'd rather have something to say." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 80f8a47 | Well, well, imperfect gods." Tally allowed herself a chuckle. "What would your father say, Andrew?" He shook his head. "I am not sure. But he isn't here. I am the holy man now." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| b24e99c | getting what you wanted never turned out the way you'd thought it would. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8df1272 | Being in the city all the time made everything fake, in a way. Like the buildings and bridges held up by hoverstruts, or jumping off a rooftop with a bungee jacket on, nothing was quite real there. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| b619a73 | I read that the real Cleopatra wasn't even that great-looking. She seduced everyone with how clever she was." "Yeah, right. And you've seen a picture of her?" "They didn't have cameras back then, Squint." "Duh. So how do you know she was ugly?" "Because that's what historians wrote at the time." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 637d103 | Yeah, well. They're more like 'Keep Out' signs, or 'Keep In,' I guess--as in keeping you guys in your place. The world goes on for a whole lot farther, trust me. This is just a trick to keep you from knowing it. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 99a10af | So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower, one whose smart walls had clever holes in them that could give her anything: food, a clique of fantastic friends, wonderful clothes. And, best of all, there was this mirror on the wall, so that the princess could look at her beautiful self all day long. The only problem with the tower was that there was no way out. The builders had forgotten to put in an elevator, or eve.. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| efd5952 | Even then, her mind had started to change, realizing that nature didn't need an operation to make it beautiful, it just was. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 7ab0100 | The features that we take from our parents are the things that make us different. A big nose, thin lips, high forehead--all the things that the operation takes away. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| b302fe4 | Some were grotesquely fat, or weirdly overmuscled, or uncomfortably thin, and almost all of them had wrong, ugly proportions. But instead of being ashamed of their deformities, the people were laughing and kissing and posing, as if all the pictures had been taken at some huge party. "Who are these freaks?" "They aren't freaks," Shay said. "The weird thing is, these are famous people." "Famous for what? Being hideous?" "No. They're sports st.. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 5d6daf1 | The woman looked like she was starving, her ribs thrusting out from her sides, her legs so thin that Tally wondered how they didn't snap under her weight. Her elbows and pelvic bones looked sharp as needles. But there she was, smiling and proudly baring her body, as if she'd just had the operation and didn't realize they'd sucked out way too much fat. The funny thing was, her face was closer to being pretty than any of the rest. She had the.. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| f566422 | I am steadfast. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 5076c03 | everyone in the city is manipulated. The purpose of everything we're taught is to make us afraid of change. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 3e4c80f | it had never occurred to him before now that people could see reality in completely different ways. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 29e13a3 | Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system! | humor youth | Howells William Dean | |
| 2745dbb | I am stuffing your mouth with youryou vomit them out upon my face. | Anne Sexton | ||
| b9fe886 | I shouldn't ca' fo' the disgrace of bein' poo' if it wasn't fo' the inconvenience. | William Dean Howells | ||
| 52bba6e | There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss. | Anne Sexton | ||
| 2b0bfaf | God is only mocked by believers. | Anne Sexton | ||
| dd6bba7 | Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow. | Aphra Behn | ||
| 61236e1 | Blue eyes wash off sometimes. | Anne Sexton | ||
| 4f75170 | Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. | Aphra Behn | ||
| aa4f2c9 | the youngsters in canoes were now singing "My Old Kentucky Home." Zenith was still in the halcyon William Dean Howells days; not yet had it become the duty of young people to be hard and brisk, and knowing about radios, jazz, and gin." | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| d3d23c5 | Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! | Aphra Behn | ||
| ca995e5 | Every morn is a fresh beginning, | Anne of Avonlea | ||
| ed3659c | He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet. | Aphra Behn | ||
| d43b4b5 | Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. | Aphra Behn | ||
| 400f97d | Les jeux son fait. Nous sommes fucked. | life | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| e62a4a4 | and the characters are all invented as to their psychological evolution, though some are based upon those of real persons easily identifiable in that narrative. The drama is that of the actual events in its main development; but the vital incidents, or the vital uses of them, are the author's. At times he has enlarged them; at times he has paraphrased the accounts of the witnesses; in one instance he has frankly reproduced the words of the .. | William Dean Howells | ||
| fd8854b | She was herself in that moment of life when, to the middle-aged observer, at least, a woman's looks have a charm which is wanting to her earlier bloom. By that time her character has wrought itself more clearly out in her face, and her heart and mind confront you more directly there. It is the youth of her spirit which has come to the surface. "I" | William Dean Howells | ||
| c87b7ae | forest to their fields of corn and tobacco on the fertile slopes and rich bottom-lands. The | William Dean Howells | ||
| 0652568 | It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do. | William Dean Howells | ||
| 7992506 | I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But | William Dean Howells | ||
| b0188fd | The stranger looked at his watch; he jumped to his feet. "Nine o'clock! Mrs. Braile, I'm ashamed. But you must blame your husband, partly. Good night, ma'am; good--Why, look here, Squire Braile!" he arrested himself in offering his hand. "How about the obscurity of the scene where Joe Smith founded his superstition, which bids fair to live right along with the other false religions? Was Leatherwood, Ohio, a narrower stage than Manchester, N.. | William Dean Howells | ||
| 20e9584 | in Altruria every one works with his hands, so that the hard work shall not all fall to any one class; and this manual labor of each is sufficient to keep the body in health, as well as to earn a living. After the three, hours' work, which constitutes a day's work with us, is done, the young people have all sorts of games and sports, and they carry them as late into life as the temperament of each demands. | William Dean Howells | ||
| 05a6c3a | I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost. | editha george mgg truth william-dean-howells | William Dean Howells | |
| e47a320 | I haven't done anything--yet. | editha mgg william-dean-howells | William Dean Howells | |
| e2c9770 | It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better. | editha george mgg paradox realitivity william-dean-howells worse-reason | William Dean Howells | |
| 33f7a38 | It's easy enough to be sensible for other people. But when it comes to myself, there I am! Especially, when I want to do what I oughtn't so much that it seems as if doing what I didn't want to do MUST be doing what I ought! | William Dean Howells |