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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5cde3d7 | just another gargoyle that took up temporary residence in Danny Boy's dreams and went away. "Some people say insomnia is a disorder." | James Lee Burke | ||
| 790ab42 | At some point in your life, you have to give up anger or it will destroy your spirit the way cancer destroys living tissue. | James Lee Burke | ||
| a2b6bf2 | Mexico was not a country, Krill thought. It was a revolution that had never stopped. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 032aab5 | James Lee Burke or | John Grisham | ||
| 6a37b36 | past Louis Armstrong Park, a place no white person in his right mind enters either day or night, | James Lee Burke | ||
| 781c87a | Advice might be cheap, but there is nothing facile about the faith of those to whom we give it. | James Lee Burke | ||
| c57d385 | Pray that liars aren't kept a long time in purgatory | James Lee Burke | ||
| 9cd34c6 | I would like to believe that there is a resolution in the human tragedy and that order can be reimposed upon the earth in the same way it occurs in the fifth act of the Elizabethan drama that supposedly mirrors our lives. My experience has been otherwise. History seldom corrects itself in its own sequence, and when we mete out justice, we often do it in a fashion that perpetuates the evil of the transgressors and breathes new life into the .. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 35c7214 | Barbara Shanahan, sometimes known as Battering Ram Shanahan. She was over six feet tall and had freckles and wore her light red hair cut short and wore a blue suit with white hose. She worked hard and was a good prosecutor, and I had always wanted to like her. But she seldom smiled and she went about her job with the abrasiveness of a carpenter building coffins with a nail gun. | James Lee Burke | ||
| c31abc4 | The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the cafe parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my suscepti.. | attraction lonliness | James Lee Burke | |
| 65ac0f2 | I don't like to bust drunk drivers. I don't like to listen to their explanations, watch their pitiful attempts to affect sobriety, or see the sheen of fear break out in their eyes when they realize they're headed for the drunk tank with little to look forward to in the morning except the appearance of their names in the newspaper. Or maybe in truth I just don't like to see myself when I look into their faces. | James Lee Burke | ||
| e1acb84 | I drove to the bar Theodosha had called from and parked on the street. The bar was a gray, dismal place, ensconced like a broken matchbox under a dying oak tree, its only indication of gaiety a neon beer sign that flickered in one window. She was at a table in back, the glow of the jukebox lighting her face and the deep blackness of her hair. She tipped a collins glass to her mouth, her eyes locked on mine. "Let me take you home," I said. ".. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 0e1f37a | I love you, bwana, but sometimes I think I committed an unpardonable sin in a former life, and you were put here to give me a second chance. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 463e080 | He had learned in Vietnam there were three groups of people who got you killed--pencil pushers, amateurs, and idealists. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 1f1cf41 | Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 38eedf3 | Gamblers and lovers pay big dues and enjoy limited consolations. But sometimes they are enough. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 64b2365 | Baptized Christians ran the ovens in the camps. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 40a372b | At heart they were secular Calvinists and believed their fellow man was born in a degraded state; consequently, they oversaw atrocities with equanimity and substituted pragmatism for compassion and slept the sleep of the dead. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 37088d9 | He knows things don't happen in order, like past, present, and future. | James Lee Burke | ||
| c64d9c3 | They seemed to have the coloration and texture of the rubber in a pencil eraser. They | James Lee Burke | ||
| bd90dc4 | At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 77176c8 | You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy? | Ann Coulter | ||
| aba1891 | I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore -- total fag. | Ann Coulter | ||
| 993aafd | when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 5c1bfb5 | Besides, isn't it better to let evil die inside its own flame? | James Lee Burke | ||
| eb73211 | I was not simply tired of the world's iniquity. I was tired of greed in particular and the ostentatious display of wealth that characterizes our times, and the justifications for despoiling the earth and injuring our fellow man. | James Lee Burke | ||
| a4ca216 | What we do is punish the people who are available," she said." | James Lee Burke | ||
| 164836c | symbolize the ruinous consequence of America's decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 7d779da | But the past is the past, and you don't get it back. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 6de96b5 | Jolie Blon," the most haunting and unforgettable lament I have ever heard." | James Lee Burke | ||
| 58c0cfa | I still wanted to believe George Orwell's admonition that people are always better than we think they are. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 8a1d229 | War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| cbe87b3 | He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| f83c8aa | You are a man without a heart, Dr. Leddell. And you, Mary Cooper, are a meddler. A woman can be forgiven for many transgressions but not that. I have been called worse. And by people I hold in more esteem than you. Ha! I pity the poor man unfortunate enough to marry you someday. He writes his own ticket to hell. If he does, then I'll make that hell as pleasant a place for him as I know how. But I won't deceive him and tell him it's heaven, .. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 10df816 | Girl in Blue, by Ann Rinaldi, | Donalyn Miller | ||
| fd8be9b | The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid. | future house quiet time unafraid wolf-by-the-ears | Ann Rinaldi | |
| 6d86684 | You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| ddb885b | Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do anything that needs forgiveness. | forgiveness friends strength | Ann Rinaldi | |
| fa41167 | You're too young. I've met Miss Dix. She wants women who are matronly and not pretty. You fail on both requirements. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| 49ad936 | There are forces in the world that we cannot see, and they are for good as well as for evil. And I sensed, with an inner certainty, that the forces of good were far more powerful than the forces of evil. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| d1094d4 | I thanked him and said goodnight. I left him there and went into the house. Maria was playing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic. | Ann Rinaldi | ||
| e806612 | He knows the most important language of all. Human compassion. | language | Ann Rinaldi | |
| 5f32900 | The president's philandering aside, unquestionably the biggest change between the Kennedy | Bill O'Reilly | ||
| 5ac5322 | The warm sand did feel good on my feet and now I was almost glad that we didn't have to spend another night on the hard, wet boards of the raft. | Theodore Taylor |