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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 346f509 | He pulled away abruptly - self-preservation required it - and pressed his brow to hers, breathing deep. "You remember one thing. You decide you want to get married, it's going to be me." Briony watched him stalk outside, slamming the kitchen door behind him. Both eyebrows raised, she turned to Ken. Close your mouth, honey. That's just Jack trying to be romantic and failing miserably. Don't let him get away with that shit either. If he's goi.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| e1e3216 | It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 6a12803 | Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall. | Franz Kafka | ||
| aa8ab44 | Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. | growth tolerance | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| cd57163 | about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queuejumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, "Excuse me, I was here first." They don't say, "You will .. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 65693b4 | Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns. | ray-bradbury | Ray Bradbury | |
| 8dcc88d | Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 6dfb607 | With luck, it might even snow for us. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 6ba99e2 | I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 2b4aeaf | Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed. | fairness | Jodi Picoult | |
| 63f8585 | You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed. | pain | Jodi Picoult | |
| a091c22 | Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 185dc7c | Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bdc0260 | Love loves to love love. Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Gerty MacDowell loves the boy that has the bicycle. M. B. loves a fair gentlema. Li Chi Han lovey up kissy Cha Pu Chow. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old Mr Verschole with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs VErschoyle with the turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Quee.. | James Joyce | ||
| 74651d5 | What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds. | James Joyce | ||
| 1c776b7 | The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. | life-lessons scars wisdom wounds | Wallace Stegner | |
| 1c627fb | She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent. | human-nature hypocrisy mannersers | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 5053ac1 | When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 610ddb5 | It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself. | love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| a5ef752 | A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present. But you... You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant! | comedy dr-seuss optimist optimistic yourself | Dr. Seuss | |
| cb6e6b7 | A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Vaclav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal. | humour life philosophy | Douglas Coupland | |
| eb9606c | Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should remind them that the words of the Declaration [of Independence] apply not only to people in this country, but also to people all over the world. People everywhere have the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When the government becomes des.. | patriotism politics | Howard Zinn | |
| c557335 | Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you. | Diana Wynne Jones | ||
| 414c9da | I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "--or the best. Now I'm all confused." | confusion exposed-truth jon lying | Tamora Pierce | |
| 209bf77 | Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!" | cursing profanity rage | Tamora Pierce | |
| df5a80d | Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars. | Walter Kaufmann | ||
| 415b021 | One can't love humanity. One can only love people. | Graham Greene | ||
| 1e7b53c | Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. | space | Carl Sagan | |
| 4712232 | To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. | hope | James Hillman | |
| ad511bf | The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey - All of them sensible everyday names. There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, Some for t.. | individuality names | T.S. Eliot | |
| 8df7334 | William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You thieve my brains, consider me your toy, my doting doctor tells me I am not!' Lilith: No! Words of power! William Shakespeare: 'Foul Carrionite specters, cease your show, between the points... ' [he looks to The Doctor for help] The Doctor: 761390! William Shakespeare: '761390! Banished like a tinker's cuss, I say to thee... ' [he again l.. | harry-potter | Gareth Roberts | |
| 94bb56f | And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a little angry, "and I trust her." Mothers are usually women," said the Spook. "And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!" | witch women | Joseph Delaney | |
| 1eabad6 | I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| ec7ae06 | The moment his hand closed about the stone, light blazed from it again, raying out through his fingers. For the first time Tessa saw that he had a design on the back of his hand, drawn there as if in black ink. It looked like an open eye. "As for the temperature of Hell, Miss Gray," he said, "let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate it never wrong. Not even if he says the sk.. | william-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| f7a4db9 | She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly lit, light streaming through a tall picture window. In the middle of the room stood Jace. He wasn't alone, though-not by a long shot. There was a dark-haired girl with him, a girl Clary had never seen before, and the two of them were locked together in a passionate embrace | Cassandra Clare | ||
| bf3296b | I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer time. It is my choice, William, and you cannot make it for me. | jem page-79 tessa will | Cassandra Clare | |
| b92e338 | I care about you," Simon said. "I always cared about you." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 26bc4ab | You have been known to call upon Brother Zachariah for a broken toe. "It was turning green," said Will" | brother-zachariah heronstairs jem-carstairs will-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| 011d929 | Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy -- just different. There's nothing wrong with being different. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0f88bf4 | Right, because I'm flat-chested a midget. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 6b68f13 | Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 8656202 | It doesnt hurt." "But my eyes do," said a coolly amused voice from the doorway. Jace. He had come in so quietly that even Simon hadn't heard him, he grinned as Isabelle pulled Simon's shirt down. "Molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, Iz?" he asked. "I'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the Accords." | mortal-instruments simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 0ea649e | Beauty is harsh. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 588cfa1 | It sounded old. Old and tired and beaten to death. Deserve. Now it seemed to him that he was always saying or thinking that he didn't deserve some bad luck, or some bad treatment from others. He'd told Guitar that he didn't "deserve" his family's dependence, hatred, or whatever. That he didn't even "deserve" to hear all the misery and mutual accusations his parents unloaded on him. Nor did he "deserve" Hagar's vengeance. But why shouldn't.. | deserve family happiness maturity pain responsibility sorrow | Toni Morrison |