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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a4abde8 | Aren't you supposed to be hiring someone else to train me full-time anyway?" "Yes," he said, getting up and pulling her to her feet along with him, "and I'm worried that if you get into the habit of making out with your instructors, you'll wind up making out with him, too." "Don't be sexist. They could find me a female instructor." "In that case you have my permission to make out with her, as long as I can watch." "Nice." Clary grinned,.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 5943485 | Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 8e0da72 | Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f818254 | Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about. | hemingway | Ernest Hemingway | |
| cb4c087 | I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| e4aaa64 | Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. | writing | Joseph Campbell | |
| a57f14b | Funny, transformative events were not always scheduled and not always expected. Yeah, sure, your change turned you into a male. And when you went through the mating ceremony, you were part of a whole. No longer just yourself. And the deaths and the births around you made you view the world differently. But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you .. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 3e22862 | Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| 629fd7f | Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. | philosophy science | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| fc9ae07 | Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. *Harmless untruths | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| c5a2674 | I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 89a1ac1 | So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. | failure giving-up mysteries | John Green | |
| c8a1527 | You just use the future to escape the present. | John Green | ||
| 948470e | It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be." | John Green | ||
| b7bc427 | Oh to be a pear tree - any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 1e574d9 | He looked like the love thoughts of women. | Zora Neale Hurston | ||
| 0cb8978 | The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. | heart life | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | |
| 07dffd7 | Creo que si alguna vez tengo hijos y estan disgustados, no les dire que la gente se muere de hambre en China ni nada parecido porque no cambiaria el hecho de que esten disgustados. E incluso si otra persona lo tiene mucho peor, eso realmente no cambia el hecho de que tu tienes lo que tienes. Bueno y malo. Como lo que mi hermana dijo cuando yo llevaba ya una temporada en el hospital. Dijo que estaba muy preocupada por ir a la universidad, y .. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 0509f54 | When I was driving home, I just thought about the word 'special'. And I thought the last person who said that about me was my Aunt Helen. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 7d1f0de | I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for that boy, and this moment will just be another story someday because all the people who make touchdowns and home runs will become somebody's dad. And when his children look at his yearbook photograph, they will think that their dad was rugged and handsome and looked a lot happier than they are. I just hope I remember to tell.. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 97ce4ad | If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flaw.. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 8ac10d1 | I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. | atheism barack-obama justice martin-luther-king-jr morality obama-inaguration obama-speeches preacher sermons slavery unitarianism | Theodore Parker | |
| 5156388 | Fangtasia, where all your bloody dreams come true,' said a bored female voice. 'Pam. Listen.' 'The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.' 'Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.' 'Fuck a zombie! | pam sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| be17973 | They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 82dc117 | You don't annoy me." Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. "I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot's been asleep. And when you start moving, the blood coming back into it is uncomfortable . . . but also good. Do you understand what I mean?" "Yes. I make your feet tingle." A smile came to his lips. "Among other things." | romance tingling | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 3ade022 | Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 1984daf | Dying would have been so much easier. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| e2bbbe3 | If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| ef5aca5 | Do I look like I've been crying?' I say. 'Hmm.' He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he's inspecting my face. A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. 'No, Tris,' he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, 'You look tough as nails. | four tobias veronica | Veronica Roth | |
| 00bbd58 | How difficult it is to be simple. | Irving Stone | ||
| 3df9c3d | You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess. | heart | Julian Barnes | |
| cf83f13 | grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds. | mind | George R.R. Martin | |
| 0d34270 | Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head? | heaven-sent hector-da-silva jesse susannah-simon suze twilight | Meg Cabot | |
| 9aa3f51 | No No No Just | Meg Cabot | ||
| c08cbbd | He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had. | cabot john meg pierce | Meg Cabot | |
| 84d9f5a | Being the survivor stinks. | Sara Gruen | ||
| a06ff6e | Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children. | Stephen King | ||
| 96c0842 | A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain | Stephen King | ||
| b4e2299 | What good is money if it can't buy happiness? | money wealth | Agatha Christie | |
| 8dc1ae5 | I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days. | reading tsundoku | Alberto Manguel | |
| 4aa9529 | He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough. | agnes-is-adorable anne-brontë quotes | Anne Brontë | |
| d4e29d1 | The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn't you ever have dollies?" "Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks." | jd-robb nora-roberts peabody | J.D. Robb | |
| c47e0f5 | Atra esterni' ono thelduin Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr Un du evari'nya ono varda (May good fortune rule over you peace live in your heart may the stars watch over you) | Christopher Paolini | ||
| d497ce5 | I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari countered. "Remember your campaign against sand?" "Sand! Horrid little stuff. Gets everywhere. I had a perfectly good argue--" "Janco." Ari's voice rumbled deep in his throat. In a heartbeat, Janco switched gears. "Well, this blood magic sounds worse than sand." | Maria V. Snyder |