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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 81017db | Like the vacationer who returns to a beloved summer house year after year, the addicted reader opens book three or four or eleven in a given series and is thoroughly at home in the locale--its by now familiar native characters, the verbal shrubbery and the narrative floorboards that occasionally creak. | literature mysteries reading series-books | Selma G. Lanes | |
| f1efcf3 | The truth of us was always that you were our ring. We'd summoned you out of ourselves, and you were not given a vote. If only for that reason, you deserved all the protection we could muster. Everything else was subordinate to this fact. If that sounds like a weight, it shouldn't. The truth is that I owe you everything I have. Before you, I had my questions but nothing beyond my own skin in the game, and that was really nothing at all becau.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 4ec3286 | I'm beginning to be weary of fruitlessly championing the truth." | Anna Karenina | ||
| d1a6b15 | If he could se me here, S'yan would remind me that the handlers of these men are dictators, despots, and strongmen. That their peace is the peace of the dead. I am a king. And while they derive their power from gun barrels, I derive mine from a god. Some days I wake up actually believing this. And every day I wake up knowing my people must believe this. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 2411c01 | Either you are a nation, or you are nothing. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 5c872a4 | This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet." | Anna Karenina | ||
| 2468a3e | spymaster does," Herbert said. "When he's someplace new," | Jeff Rovin | ||
| a7b59f5 | Lancelet's skin was so soft--she had thought all men were like Arthur, sunburnt and hairy, but his body was smooth as a child's. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 885ed38 | Leave tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow's men to solve. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| ee4566b | Uther: "I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you" "If your priests are right," said Viviane calmly, "I am already thoroughly damned and you may save your breath." | foolish love-and-hate | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| e3e75b2 | The mountains shook again and settled into place, shaking themselves ever more lightly until the tremblors ceased. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 8c0562d | tremblors | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 8a644ca | it was an old saying: three could keep a secret if but two of them lay in their graves... | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 9cd6900 | They have known one another since they were young, and if they cannot forget that once they loved in a way that comes not twice to any man | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| b1d7de3 | And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruction cannot be punishment for sins, but is in the way of all nature. | paganism philosophy | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| caf944d | They have known one another since they were young, and if they cannot forget that once they loved in a way that comes not twice to any man or woman, why should you begrudge them that? | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| c71c181 | they've put a price on my head because, like all governments who buy brains, they like to limit what the brains are used for. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| dc4e1d3 | If, she thought, you can call a man your lover when you have never exchanged a single kiss. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| e9e1efb | One man was bad enough, who would want others who might be worse? | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| fadd099 | A flor e ate mesmo o fruto sao apenas o comeco. Na semente esta a vida e o futuro. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 7fa3e05 | these Romans counted their lineage through the male line, rather than sensibly through the mother; it was silly, for how could any man ever know precisely who had fathered any woman's child? | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 5b09e69 | ghosts. He had learned a little of the history of Halyn House | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 89f2a93 | The friendship of a Comyn lord is as the sweetness of a beehive: it bears a deadly sting! | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| c809df5 | Perche lei riusciva a capire quel che non capivano i suoi genitori? Non avrebbero dovuto essere piu saggi di lei? Era spaventoso che non lo fossero. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 6d7f9c8 | Ma la donna disse che gran parte della gente sogna di ricominciare da capo, e aggiunse che in questo c'era qualcosa di commovente, non di pazzo. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 0b80e6c | Was she mad, with her fancies of shared destiny and the other half of her soul? | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| a7b6aef | Desiderero sempre una felicita fuori della mia portata? si chiese d'un tratto. Oppure imparero con il tempo a vivere appagata all'interno delle nebbie che ci circondano? | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 3099952 |
Isarma!>> mormoro lei. < |
Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| c9f5df8 | The careful observance of discipline is the mark of the artiste. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| b75c83b | benighted | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 44d308f | Il mondo gira come questo fuso... e la sola certezza e che il bene e il male si avvicenderanno sempre. Senza cambiamento non puo crescere nulla di nuovo, e quando i vecchi disegni si ripetono questo accade in modo nuovo... Il volto della Signora cambia ma il suo potere persiste, il re che dona la sua vita per la terra rinasce per ripetere il suo sacrificio. A volte anch'io nutro dei timori, ma ho visto passare troppi inverni per non credere.. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 2fa1f3c | this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. And | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 3fcc2cd | Non c'e mente piu maligna di quella d'una donna per bene...eccettuata la mente d'un prete | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 619b034 | You had to be something", I reminded him. "You needed a gimmick. Nobody cares if you sing, or tell stories, or swill wine with the best of them - what sets a man apart in these immoral times in his chastity." (Never look at a Gift Sword in the Horse's Mouth)" | jennifer-roberson | Jennifer Roberson | |
| 1601e5a | the concept of monotheism | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 7a092e5 | Mas existe uma teia... uma teia de escuridao tecida em torno de todos nos. E enquanto o tempo continuar a existir, nunca podera ser desfeita ou destruida. E o karma. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| a75d667 | The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination." Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis" -- | Helena Hunting | ||
| 37a4417 | the comfort of the people around him was never part of Merlin's job. Copyright (c) 1998 by Marion Zimmer Bradley All rights reserved. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 00f9319 | They wish to keep the weapons, and the harps, and everything else save for the suffering of childbirth and the toil of the cooking pot and the loom. I dare say they would like to say women cannot serve the gods, but no one would be foolish enough to believe that. | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| 4bcbe2a | consort--and it is for you to prepare | Marion Zimmer Bradley | ||
| fa9e645 | That's the point, isn't it: the opposite of love isn't hate. It's lethargy. | John le Carré | ||
| 9aa2c38 | Mihail Ivanitch, when is your birthday?" he asked all, of a sudden. | Anna Karenina | ||
| ac4fbb4 | We live without making anything, as though we were ancient vestals set to keep in a fire. | Anna Karenina | ||
| 522b745 | Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be." | Anna Karenina |