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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2519fa7 | Power that affects nothing is mere vanity. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 7c3c81f | Bodies are great, and I wouldn't go anywhere without mine, but sometimes they're so disappointing. If | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| ed63d86 | I hurtled down a path through the middle of a park, past shrubbery so refined it was probably entitled to vote. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| f8297e2 | You still search for Narnia, even though by then you're too old to believe in it and it doesn't want you there. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| e0911f2 | we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world. Well, | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 6bea051 | Are you okay?' 'What do you mean?' 'You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.' 'Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 71fdbf8 | I cannot remember when I became exhausted instead of merely tired. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| e8201eb | Ignorance isn't always bliss. Sometimes it's just a huge pain in the arse, | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 27ad5ea | It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 9834aaf | Growing older, it appears, does not mean growing up. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 81b2da9 | If a door isn't there then you can't hope to go through it, but if it's there but always locked, then you're trapped. Someone is keeping the door shut. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 377584e | Humans and stories need each other. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 4b26bf4 | And sometimes, when a lot has happened in your life, much of it inexplicable, silence is what you need to say the most. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| ec69333 | One of life's dreariest truths, my dear, is that something once wonderful can come to seem ... ordinary. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| e6ea169 | What?' 'Wherever there are good people,' he said, 'there are also bad. The world is heavy. If it doesn't want to follow where you're leading, then in the end the dream will die. What replaces a dream is often thin and dry for a time. People do not show their best sides in such circumstances. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| f4c93aa | You can never go back, only forward. I read that in a book once. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 6d19853 | The Devil waited until he was sure the two policemen were going to keep their side of the bargain. A man called Nietzsche once observed that there is no such thing as moral phenomena, only a moral *interpretation* of them. The Devil had a certain amount of time for Nietzsche. despite the mustache. He'd understood. We look at a squirrel and say it is jumping; but we might as well think about a jump in its essence, and claim that the *jump* i.. | humor | Michael Marshall Smith | |
| c64aad5 | The future is hungry and unkind. It'll gobble you up, little girl. It will eat your heart. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 1972b46 | Almost every story in the world has a back door through which the Devil can enter if he so chooses. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 228a321 | Normally, when I'm doing something that's very much to do with me and the things I enjoy, I have to do it alone. Other people seldom understand the things that give you them most pleasure, and I for one would rather not have them around to undermine the occasion." " | Ellen Datlow | ||
| 70591a4 | Erik left the church and walked back out through the streets. The people coursing through them did not frighten him any more because he realized their movements and the sound of their thousand voices were notes in a vast piece of music, a story made of sounds, sometimes dissonant - like the shouts of men trying to sell bits of meat, or old, rusty tools - and at others sweet and pure, like mothers fondly calling their children, or greeting t.. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| e3de5f9 | Imagine, if you will, a watchmaker's workshop. In fact, please imagine one whether you wish to or not. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| b29d7b0 | In your twenties you unquestioningly believe you're writing in pencil, a striking first draft. You do things with such confidence. You know you're so strong, so individual, wholly unique: that you have power over heaven and earth, and that the future and its wonders are either already in your hands or will be after you do the next thing, or the thing that follows naturally after that. And so you bravely pick up the existential pencil and s.. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| ce369c7 | There is no beginning. We are always in the middle. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 20cd72b | Parents hear those words more often than anyone, and always from those they love the most. Families are the crucibles that temper the toughest of love's swords. It gets intense in there sometimes. You know you're going to get slapped with those words sooner or later, when the little person in your charge glares hot-eyed up at you and flexes their soul. You'll joke about it with your partner before it happens, how someday this bundle of depe.. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 8854570 | People stopped knowing how to behave, and most of all they stopped remembering . They needed reasons to toe the line, and that was what they were given. Two reasons. Heaven, and Hell. Equal in resonance and moment. No one will ever be able to tell whether it has been the promise of Heaven or the threat of Hell that has kept this world from teetering into chaos ten thousand times. is why Hell matters, and that's why the power of black dee.. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 4d94e66 | Never ask questions if you might not want to know the answers, lest you are pulled into those stories and the truths they reveal. Sometimes ignorance is better. It would probably not be so popular otherwise. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 59356a3 | I was a circumstance, Hannah, that's all. Good or bad - and I assure you that I remain extremely and appallingly bad - there are many angels because there were once many gods, pushing, pulling, hiding, guiding. Once we get through the fog and find a place that feels comfortable we look back and call their influence fate, and the destination our destiny. That's all. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 249bbec | Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. | Anthony Trollope | ||
| 9ddef9a | Well. it's all been interesting,' Hannah declared, standing to leave. 'But if I'm honest, I'd prefer my life to be a lot more mundane from now on. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| d4f9a70 | We all serve the fates. Life will happen to us come what may. Not everyone gets to be a grandparent, but we're all someone's grandchild. We have no choice therefore but to carry someone else's weight, enacting their long-ago choices and duties of care. There's no point blaming others for what happens next, however: responsibility for shaping and unearthing our stories, following the bouncing squirrel of our destinies, lies with us alone. Ou.. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| 43a4056 | you have become all the things you have done and thought, and now can't undo or unthink. | Michael Marshall Smith | ||
| d3d5647 | He, who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self offenses weighing. Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking! | Kate Elliott | ||
| 5c41611 | I shall bury the blade in your skull, just above your right eye." "That's what I love about you. Your precision." | family | Kate Elliott | |
| 87b8fc5 | I don't know," said Diana. "I gave up a long time ago trying to decide whether we're ever ourselves or are only playing roles. And who could tell which the role was, the passionate kisser or the ruthless conqueror? Maybe they both are roles. Or maybe they're both true. Can't two contradictory things exist inside one person?" | Kate Elliott | ||
| 656ae7a | I am like you, Bloodheart," he said, his voice hoarse; but his voice always was hoarse now, for he had survived worse injuries than these. The iron collar, and his chains, weighed heavily on his neck. "My heart rests not within me but with another, and she is far away from here. That is why you will never defeat me." | love strength-of-will undefeated | Kate Elliott | |
| 0402d15 | Was it not Democritus of your own country who said, 'Well-ordered behavior consists in obedience to the law, the ruler, and the woman wiser than oneself'? Although in the text I read the words were written as, 'the man wiser,' but I can only suppose the scribe wrote the word wrong or meant it to be 'Elder. | Kate Elliott | ||
| 294a3d7 | But aren't all of us like a fine weaving? The pattern the world sees often hides the threads." Tess" -- | Kate Elliott | ||
| 63ba1c3 | Hyacinth, we all have our limits. I can't save the world. I can't stop this war. Maybe, just maybe, I can communicate a few things through art. | Kate Elliott | ||
| 1cc439c | When acquaintances embrace, one can read the gap between them. When friends, when siblings embrace, no matter how close, there is still an infinitesimal distance, like a layer of molecules, separating them. When a mother hugs her child, they meet. But when lovers embrace, they don't just meet but join. Tess | Kate Elliott | ||
| fabb88e | You're not afraid to take risks." "Neither are you, Diana. Don't ever lose that quality. Once a person stops pushing and growing, she is as dead in the spirit as if she were dead in the flesh." | Kate Elliott | ||
| b9abfc5 | The problem with meddling," said Charles under his breath, "is that for every problem you solve, you create two more." | Kate Elliott | ||
| cf8cc51 | I am trapped, and for once in my life I see no path through these Rings. Four | Kate Elliott | ||
| b17b881 | Sometimes, when you wished too hard for something, you paid a bitter price. | Kate Elliott |