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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ed08759 | Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. | elderly old-people seniors | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 26dc77c | Sense is never common. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0e275a9 | You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. | essays food romance | Anthony Bourdain | |
| b1a537e | Oh, yes, she's unusual!" he said bitterly. "She blurts out whatever may come into her head; she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another; she's happier grooming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less dignity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a faul.. | love regency-romance unusual | Georgette Heyer | |
| 9f39baf | They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . . | S.E. Hinton | ||
| 1e754ea | This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 11f61e1 | Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. | captivity freedom marriage married-life matrimony relationships single | Michel de Montaigne | |
| eca0402 | Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 27be86c | What i'm trying to tell you," Min said, "is that im going to grow up to be one of those chubby old ladies. It's in my genes. Like self raising flour. i'm going to pouf." "thats going to work out well for me," Cal said. "because i'm going to grow up to be one of those horny old men who chases chubby old ladies around the couch." | love | Jennifer Crusie | |
| d73ddb7 | When I am high I couldn't worry about money if I tried. So I don't. The money will come from somewhere; I am entitled; God will provide. Credit cards are disastrous, personal checks worse. Unfortunately, for manics anyway, mania is a natural extension of the economy. What with credit cards and bank accounts there is little beyond reach. So I bought twelve snakebite kits, with a sense of urgency and importance. I bought precious stones, eleg.. | depression mania manic-depression | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 9b8aee4 | It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 3e92c6c | What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. | soul | Oscar Wilde | |
| 5705d64 | Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 69b9ef6 | In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 030d391 | The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville. | Alan Moore | ||
| 4818e1f | Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it." "Of course they don't. They know what happens when one of us consumes vampire blood. They probably expect you to have more sense." "That expectation never seems to serve them very well, does it?" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 4d43dc6 | I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown" | mr-darcy tessa-gray | Cassandra Clare | |
| f1403e6 | I whisper your name, Ty. I whisper the most important thing: I love you. I love you. I love you. Livvy | ty-blackthorn | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2d3af33 | Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay." "I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider," said Simon." | gay gayness isabelle-lightwood lgbtq magnus-bane references simon-lewis spiderman | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8f43c63 | The blood of Heaven binds you," said the Queen. "Blood calls to blood, under the skin. But love and blood are not the same." "Riddles," Clary said angrily. "Do you even mean anything when you talk like that?" "He is bound to you," said the Queen. "But does he love you?" | cofa queen | Cassandra Clare | |
| c564988 | That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight." "Not if they're growing out of your..." Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0b61871 | And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa--she loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybody's? | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 60d8ff9 | I'm really grateful to you for saving us, Maia, and Jace is too, even though he's so stubborn that he'd rather jam a seraph blade through his eyeball than say so. And don't you say you hope he does," she added hastily, seeing the look on the other girl's face, "because that's really not helpful." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 88d3896 | Julian spoke through his teeth. "Malcolm, this is not a love story." "Every story is a love story." | malcolm-fade | Cassandra Clare | |
| 8cc9502 | One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon | simon-lewis | Cassandra Clare | |
| 69a6eb1 | I believe everything you say," Tessa said with a smile, her hands creeping down from his waist to his weapons belt. Her fingers closed on the hilt of a dagger, and she yanked it from the belt, smiling as he looked down at her in surprise. She kissed his cheek and stepped back. "After all," she said, "you weren't lying about that tattoo of the dragon of Wales, were you?" | tessa-gray wessa will will-herondale will-s-dragon-tattoo | Cassandra Clare | |
| f750393 | Jace is in love with the idea of dying," said Isabelle." -- | jace-lightwood the-mortal-instruments tmi | Cassandra Clare | |
| 92901a1 | Gibberish?" Jem suggested "Pornographic?" said Will at the same time. "Could be both," said Will. "Haven't you ever heard of pornographic gibberish before?" | william-herondale | Cassandra Clare | |
| d15bc66 | At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens -- that letting go -- you let go because you can. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 2f6ca73 | The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academ.. | politics | Toni Morrison | |
| 7db4416 | The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs? | Robert Fulghum | ||
| f2bb3da | My big fish must be somewhere. | hemingway the-old-man-and-the-sea | Ernest Hemingway | |
| e05c0c9 | And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder." | sunset | Mary Balogh | |
| b9ec51d | Vishous to Qhuinn: "Listen, I gotta go. I need both hands to hold my gut as I laugh my ass off attcha. Later." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 455a6a9 | Wrath walked over to the closet and looked throught the clothes. He took out a black long-sleeved shirt, a pair of leather pants, and --jeez, what was this? Oh, not fucking likely. He was not going to fight in BVDs. He'd go commando before he got cought dead inthose things. | J.R. Ward | ||
| cadaa70 | Beth wrapped her arms around Wrath's waist and leaned into her hellren's body. Their black hair mixed together, his straight, hers wavy. God, Wrath's was so damn long now. But word was that Beth liked the stuff so he'd grown it out for her. V wiped his mouth again. Weird, how males do shit like that. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 87eafc9 | The male's diamond eyes locked on Payne, and though she hadn't seen him in forever, she knew who he was. Sure as if she was staring at her own reflection. Tears sprang unbidden to her eyes for last she had known, he breathed no longer. "Vishous," she whispered desperately. "Oh, brother mine..." | payne sister vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 95001b2 | You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye--and he was willing to bet, when it happened, you weren't thinking about all the reasons that could have kept you apart. You thought of all the reasons that kept you together. And, no doubt, how you wished you'd had more time. Even if you'd had centuries... When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. Bu.. | carpe-diem forever loss love qhuinn time | J.R. Ward | |
| e3c9cfe | You should be more paranoid | Lisa Scottoline | ||
| eca384a | That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. | sociology | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 7b37f1e | Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense." | dying | John Green | |
| a50915e | Hmm, that's not sexual harassment, baby. When I decide to get sexual, trust me, you'll know it. ~ Braden ~ | Lora Leigh | ||
| 658367d | Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 51e45ce | Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them. | Zora Neale Hurston |