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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 264d4e2 | If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart. | parallel-universe possibility | Philip Pullman | |
| 397854f | Maybe I should add some graffiti to spice it up. For a good time call the Consort. Beast Lord eats your food and turns into a lion in his sleep. Mahon has hemorrhoids. Boudas do it better. Warning, paranoid attack jaguar on the prowl... | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7e940bb | Hey, would you look at that shit?" I turned on my heel. The patrons who'd fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle. "Clear out!" I barked. They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders." | paranormal | Ilona Andrews | |
| 24f057d | And if the Pack Council produces any kittens, we'll give them to Jim to raise. He needs to mellow out anyway." I looked at him. He took his hands off the wheel and held them apart about six inches. "Cute fluffy kittens. Just sitting on Jim's lap." I pictured Jim with his badass-chief-of-security expression covered in small fluffy kittens. It was too much. The numbness inside me broke, like a dam. I giggled and laughed. Curran laughed, too." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9aa4f3c | Aha," Andrea said. "I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'." | ilona-andrews kate magic-slays sugar-woogums | Ilona Andrews | |
| ede5cc8 | Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d97522e | It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. | political-philosophy | Tom Stoppard | |
| c7b56bb | Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?" "Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?" "No. I was unconscious." | foaly iceland unconscious | Eoin Colfer | |
| 5529ba5 | Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere?" | Eoin Colfer | ||
| c572f51 | I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished. | excitement nerves | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 07852bf | The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper. | libraries reading summer | Polly Horvath | |
| dcc3507 | The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever. | inferiority shyness social-anxiety | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 61c2017 | The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 023fe01 | People will selectively use "tradition" to justify anything." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| bb62083 | He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. | humour | Martin Amis | |
| 3170045 | You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything | critics love | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 84b65d8 | The Love that moves the sun and the other stars. | stars sun | Dante Alighieri | |
| d7ebae8 | And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea. | Voltaire | ||
| 2db1442 | Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying. | gratifying worst-moment-know | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| aafb604 | One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 9c9751c | Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that , and it was changing him. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 63cb3ef | She patted him on the arm. "You're fucked up, Mister. But you're cool." "I believe that's what they call the human condition," said Shadow." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d5751c7 | I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c48eaf2 | Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you're in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e4b6863 | M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises... | magic neil-gaiman words writing | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0f19d85 | When someone works for less pay than she can live on -- when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently -- then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will .. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| a5cdb94 | Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well. | Mitch Albom | ||
| a60f2a1 | Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis. | John Scalzi | ||
| 1fac093 | They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archtype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate -- confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not .. | agency ego-inflation god-is-dead nazism | Philip K. Dick | |
| f735078 | God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 72cc562 | The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 9152fe5 | Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are | life | Jeannette Walls | |
| 9791e70 | To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. | yossarian | Joseph Heller | |
| 67d8439 | Sometimes women scare the hell out of me. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 9fdceae | Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 0ae9b8e | Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 772aaec | On Stripping Bark from Myself (for Jane, who said trees die from it) Because women are expected to keep silent about their close escapes I will not keep silent and if I am destroyed (naked tree!) someone will please mark the spot where I fall and know I could not live silent in my own lies hearing their 'how nice she is!' whose adoration of the retouched image I so despise. No. I am finished with living for what my mother believes for what .. | women | Alice Walker | |
| 8d553fe | I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 63c65f4 | I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say "fine" | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 1518bdf | And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 35433b9 | At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good earnest, and going to University. It was unheard-of several shocked governesses were only too quick to tell me, when I spoke a little too boldly -- but my father nodded and smiled and said, 'We'll see.' Since I believed my father could do anyth.. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 58720eb | Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. | fool holmes intelligence sherlock thriller | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| cae4896 | It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| 1e621d9 | When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver. | french sand sky stars wind | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |