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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 05e8156 | The polite thing would be to go back inside, give you privacy when you read it. But, I'm just not that mature.' 'It's nothing. Fine.' Feeling foolish, Laurel opened the envelope. | laurel savor-the-moment shoenapping | Nora Roberts | |
| 168ae5f | I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments. | e-book e-books ebook inferno | Dan Brown | |
| 2577422 | Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God...especially when their gods became threatened. | Dan Brown | ||
| c9d1c81 | Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer. | Dan Brown | ||
| 97a4911 | Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say. | wisdom | Napoleon Hill | |
| 0409aeb | Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard." | Raymond Chandler | ||
| 58f85d1 | Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we'll always have more to give. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 8ee9b99 | I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful. | Ted Dekker | ||
| a9dcbe1 | But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar. | value-of-books | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| b7120e2 | There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. | mind reading | Stephen R. Covey | |
| b7e7cd6 | How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 4ccd326 | What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said. | rotk | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 1e20c41 | But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood." - Legolas" | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c92a652 | Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. | labyrinths possibilities | Umberto Eco | |
| afaf240 | I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. | life romance | Michael Cunningham | |
| c02572e | But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 0286236 | And you are? (Xypher) Pissed off. You wrecked my car, shoved me around, and are a complete and utter dickhead! (Simone) Dear God, what a mouthful - your mom must have really wanted a son. Mind if I call you 'Pissed' for short? The rest of that is just too much to say every time I want your attention. (Xypher) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| f92c77b | The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made. | nick-gautier thorn | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 3051763 | Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8c2db84 | I say we should stake him to an anthill and throw little pickles at him! (Selena) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 543c998 | Bingo pup. It's a lesson best learned early. They're all afraid of us." He strolled over to Derek. "You're trying to be a good kid, aren't you? You think that'll show them they're wrong. So how'd that working out for you? Guess what? They don't care. To them, you're a monster, and nothing you do--or don't do--will change their minds. My advice? Give 'em what they want. It's a short, brutal life." He smiled. "Live it up." Derek stared straig.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 03736e4 | My name is Chloe Saunders. I'm fifteen, and I would love to be normal. But normal is one thing I'm not. For one thing, and his sweet-tempered brother--who just happens to be a sorcerer-- Not normal. My friends and I are also on the run from an evil corporation that wants to get rid of us--permanently. Definitely not normal. And finally, I'm a genetically altered necro-mancer who can raise the dead, rotting corpses and all, without .. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 498f78e | Got your text," he said when I climbed out. "How much did it hurt?" "Not at all," I said. "Apparently, I can't get a tattoo because I'm a witch." "I could have told them-" He stopped. "Oh, you said witch." "Ha-ha." | maya | Kelley Armstrong | |
| f9b262a | Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| ac993b6 | I hate to burst your bubble, but you're really not as scary as you think you are. I don't find you scary at all, actually," I lied casually. He stopped, raising his eyebrows in blatant disbelief. Then he flashed a wide, wicked smile. "You shouldn't have said that," he chuckled. He growled, a low sound in the back of his throat; his lips curled back over his perfect teeth. His body shifted suddenly, half-crouched, tensed lika a lion about .. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 7963c80 | Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 25b1228 | The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| d4955aa | Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| e66d488 | Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!" "The what?" said Richard. "The catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a ..." "Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity." "Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissed shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there .. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 89de6dd | Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| d216474 | The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yours.. | writers writing | Anne Lamott | |
| 2b346c4 | I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei | Amy Tan | ||
| 5f52889 | After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? | past | Amy Tan | |
| 41299c1 | Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius." | cute maggie | Simone Elkeles | |
| d7de1e9 | I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6cd1c99 | Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. | William Shakespeare | ||
| b29a453 | But I hurt you." His voice grows quiet. "I wish that I hadn't." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 64060bc | Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh. | James Patterson | ||
| 5601de5 | Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply | Maya Angelou | ||
| 426553a | I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I'm the parent of numbers that cannot be told. I'm a gift beyond measure, a matter of course, and I'm yielded with pleasure- when taken by force. | L.J. Smith | ||
| 0d43cd2 | She now knew that it was possible to love two people at once--because you could love them in different ways. | L.J. Smith | ||
| 76708cb | I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with. | love | Dorothy Dunnett | |
| 0cd2723 | Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 0fdbf67 | When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place. | Charles de Lint |