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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bcff095 | Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku. | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ||
| c126e5f | What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that." | David Almond | ||
| 19b6a20 | We live on, as long as there are people to live on in. | David Mitchell | ||
| e874ca7 | Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They to be vapid and lazy and vain . . . and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 6300eef | Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar." | borvil goliath insults leviathan scott-westerfeld telsa | Scott Westerfeld | |
| a3ed9cb | I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter. | Colum McCann | ||
| 06af4a6 | Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 76f35f3 | And now, you are forever mine." | magic urban-fantasy | Ilona Andrews | |
| 6fc3fcb | Your headlights don't scare me. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d289b2a | I was conceived because it would be good for my House to have an heir and because my parents' genes ticked the right set of boxes. You were probably conceived because your parents loved each other." "According to our mother," Bern said, "he was conceived because she was too wasted to remember a rubber." Mad Rogan stopped chewing. "I was conceived because my mother skipped bail. Her boyfriend at the time threatened to call the cops on her so.. | humor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 724ddcf | Some people got vicious Dobermans. I got a shaved attack poodle in a black sweater. His tough, spawn-of-hell image had taken a fatal blow, but at least he would be warm. | ilona-andrews magic-bleeds | Ilona Andrews | |
| e397849 | So, Mr. Digence, home to visit the family?" "That's right. My mother's folks are from Killarney." "Oh, really?" "O'Reilly, actually. But what's a vowel between friends?" "Very good. You should be on the stage." "It's funny you should mention that." The passport officer groaned. Ten more minutes and his shift would have been over. "I was being sarcastic, actually. . ." "Because my friend, Mr. McGuire, and I are also doing a stint in the Chri.. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 5877c2f | Who or what inspires you?" "I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself." | humour inpiration self-absorbed | Eoin Colfer | |
| d9883f9 | Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 17284ee | A doctor's door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 42e5468 | Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again. | Victor Hugo | ||
| e6cce48 | The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| bb48a75 | Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world." "Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness." | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 7f4973e | Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?" | humor | David Eddings | |
| 3a514ca | If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 1cd2022 | Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people. | George Eliot | ||
| a5ba3bf | But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure. | pleasure voltaire | Voltaire | |
| 6335c49 | You never know the worth of water until the well is dry. | Sharon Creech | ||
| 7bf28db | Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn't work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 820e0e8 | They might be dirty, and cheap, and their food might taste like shit, but at least they didn't speak in cliches | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 856c06e | The World "You know the saddest thing," she said. "The saddest thing is that we're you." I said nothing. "In your fantasies," she said, "my people are just like you. Only better. We don't die or age or suffer from pain or cold or thirst. We're snappier dressers. We possess the wisdom of the ages. And if we crave blood, well, it is no more than the way you people crave food or affection or sunlight - and besides, it gets us out of the house.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 69d5327 | They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. | forgiving good inspirational | Anonymous | |
| 6645cd1 | Love is patient and kind. It's never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offence and is not resentful | Anonymous | ||
| 6c47ded | Real reading is a lonely activity. | Harold Bloom | ||
| 9dde486 | Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood. | life | Philip K. Dick | |
| 92554e5 | A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit -- no matter how often he's reminded of it -- that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley... | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 4fc2495 | How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils? | politics | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 7eb4bee | Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good. | Philip Gourevitch | ||
| ae26231 | Love happens when people forgive. | Karen Kingsbury | ||
| 4ad52d4 | O love, how did you get here? --Nick and the Candlestick | poetry | Sylvia Plath | |
| 689845a | Forget about the scant hours in her brief life when Sylvia Plath was able to produce the works in Ariel. Forget about that tiny bit of time and just remember the days that spanned into years when she could not move, couldn't think straight, could only lie in wait in a hospital bed, hoping for the relief that electroconvulsive therapy would bring. Don't think of the striking on-screen picture, the mental movie you create of the pretty young .. | Elizabeth Wurtzel | ||
| d2cbe70 | The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it? | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 76b5620 | Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because t.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0bcc025 | Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age. | Brian Jacques | ||
| b381f06 | There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange. | Alex Garland | ||
| 9440957 | Kyler half-jumped half-threw himself toward my open window. I was wussy. Closing my eyes, I balled my hands up near my chest and let out a little shriek. There was a sound of flesh hitting wood and my eyes flew open. He came through the open window, landing on his feet like a damn cat. He stumbled though and banged into my desk, causing books and my computer to shake. He held his hands out to his sides and looked around slowly before his ga.. | j-lynn jennifer-l-armentrout | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 4be9654 | Finish that sentence and i will stab you in the eye with the spork Bethany's about to pull out of her bag for her apple sauce. And she'd be very upset if i got her sprk all messed up. she's rather fond of the thing." - Dawson" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 413819f | We passed Dee's empty bedroom. It looked like Pepto-Bismol threw up in there. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| db9d45d | Really? Kat's angry? Could it be because you're holding her captive?" The words tasted like acid. "She attacked several members of my team." A smile spread across my face. That's my girl." | Jennifer L. Armentrout |