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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eb3f86a | They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because - well, I guess because he might have been glad to see me. Doc's weird that way. Sleepy, the oldest, just stood there, looking ... well, sleepy. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 25e366c | mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy | strategy war | Sun Tzu | |
| 29cfc29 | He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did. | heartbreak hurt love | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| f28b5f1 | He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells." | hypocrisy sexism women | Warren Ellis | |
| 6d5802b | Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the brain makes the existence of the soul less possible yet more probable by the nature of the search. | Stephen King | ||
| 7a6864b | In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't and plenty of them aren't in prison either. | Stephen King | ||
| d254669 | It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 8785ffd | knt 'nZr dwman l~ lrwyt kmntwj tfh , lW 'nny ktshftu 'khyran 'nh mfyd@ llGy@ Dd lkab@ | Alberto Manguel | ||
| 36051ee | Are you her boyfriend?" ... No, I'm her fiance." Nate said. We've been promised to each other since birth," Summer added. Our wedding isn't until March." | boyfriends humor marriage | Brandon Mull | |
| 6a0bb2b | My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 5531543 | I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| f3e16de | I told you I set no limits on my love for you. I don't. Yet I have never expected you to offer me your body. It was the whole of your heart, all for myself, that I sought. Even though I've never had a right to it. For you gave it away ere ever you saw me. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 69b3b83 | It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel." "Hmm." He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. "Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 0497f3d | Roarke: "I'll drop you." Eve: "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me." Roarke: "You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece." Eve: "Sometimes you're my love muffin. He managed a strangled laugh.She could, at the oddest times, surprise him." | couple love | J.D. Robb | |
| 48b6b4f | But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 935605c | Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| eb37534 | I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help.' 'Why not?' 'My lady, you make your own luck. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| da3b5b5 | But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . . . . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 99d200b | If you're the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure. | Holly Black | ||
| b661149 | So what are you really wearing?" The words left her mouth before she could consider them. She winced. He didn't seem to mind; in fact, he flashed her one of his brief smiles. "And if I said nothing at all?" "Then I would point out that sometimes, if you look at something out of the corner of your eye, you can see right through glamour," she returned. That brought surprised laughter. "What a relief to us both then that I am actually wearing .. | roiben | Holly Black | |
| 9c896c6 | Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you over, the way it rushes you onward, a pebble turning in a brook. I've always been obsessed with where I'd go, and what I'd do, and how I would live. I've always harbored a desperate hope that I would make something of myself. Not then. Time stopped seeming so much like the thing that would transform me into somet.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4e6ddb5 | My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| c6081a6 | The coward says in his heart "There is no love." Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it. | cowardice inspirational inspirational-quotes love power-of-love the-coward | C. JoyBell C. | |
| 0595c14 | Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto | comics inspirational marvel marvel-comics stan-lee | Stan Lee | |
| 0791f78 | We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others. | inspirational motivational peace philosophy spiritual wisdom zen | Forrest Curran | |
| a8ae8d2 | No guts, no story. | attitude inspirational leadership success | Chris Brady | |
| d4ca73a | You were ordered to obey to Allah, and you were create to perform good deeds. | good-deeds inspirational purpose-of-life | Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S | |
| 07de5c2 | I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get | inspirational | Anne Tyler | |
| e711a1f | He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine... | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d59350e | Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7f02aee | At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are. | inspirational life terry-pratchett tiffany-aching truth witches | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9c647a4 | All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b96265e | In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and the reality of madness. I discovered two conflicting qualities of character. I am melodramatic by nature; on the other hand, I can go out and "seem normal" under the most abnormal of circumstances. Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "never real and always true", and that is how depression feels. You.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| dc53630 | It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 631459a | Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life--a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple--the painter is giving you a secret message. He's telling you that living things don't last--it's all temporary. Death in life. That's why they're called natures mortes. Maybe you don't see it at first with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer--there it is. | mortality | Donna Tartt | |
| 4039118 | There was a song in this forest, too, but it was a savage song, whispering of madness and tearing and rage. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 7a90437 | They all had stories. They had mothers or fathers, sisters or lovers. They weren't alone in the world, mattering to no one but themselves. It seemed utterly wrong to treat them like pennies in a purse. I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them-- this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man. | Naomi Novik | ||
| e662d7f | Each time is true, but the truths are not the same. | Alan Lightman | ||
| c7336b7 | When they passed the centaur king's cell, Volos pointed at Regin and slid his forefinger across his throat. She replied, "Hey, didn't I see you in a donkey show down in Tijuana? No? You've got a twin then--" | berserker dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie volos | Kresley Cole | |
| 6ad29bc | You're still... Declan?"-- --Voice hoarse, he said, "Aye, it's me. I will never be your perfect Viking, Regin! I've made unforgivable mistakes. I've no family or friends, and my men hold no love for me. I'm scarred inside and out. And I'm bloody askin' for you anyway!" | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| c3dfd66 | Lothaire, I've met dirt younger than we are." -Nix" | Kresley Cole | ||
| b4c8219 | for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 4821a71 | A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 4741761 | What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them? | Patricia Highsmith |