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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6f30ea6 | Never trust a leader who proclaims himself a leader before anyone else does. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| c4b7f9b | Better the devil you can live with than one you don't know. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 845d6b9 | ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tim Tigner began his career in Soviet Counterintelligence with the US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. That was back in the Cold War days when, "We learned Russian so you didn't have to," something he did at the Presidio of Monterey alongside Recon Marines and Navy SEALs. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tim switched from espionage to arbitrage. Armed with a Wharton MBA rather than a Colt M16, he moved to Moscow in t.. | Tim Tigner | ||
| f88a1d8 | There's a rift in this country between the people and its leaders. There is corruption at the highest levels of government; it goes beyond mere power politics. The Constitution has been seriously assaulted, our way of life threatened. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 4dd1b34 | The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old it is easier still. | Robert Ludlum | ||
| 2be11ab | NEW FRIENDS | Margaret Sidney | ||
| d9843dc | The matter is," said Jasper, putting his face out, "that as I could not possibly make you hear my calls, I chose to break the window. Have the goodness to let my father and me at once out of this vehicle." | Margaret Sidney | ||
| cde9e04 | I've always found," said Dr. Fisher, springing from his chair, "that all you had to do to start a thing was to--begin." | Margaret Sidney | ||
| f83e92c | no insult can do us harm if only we do not say or do anything in return. | Margaret Sidney | ||
| 11e334a | Who was Tanta? Why Tanta was just Tanta. All of the other aunts could be called Tanta Rivka. Tanta Frieda or Tanta Fannie, but not this Tanta. She had a name - it was Minnie - but the children never thought of using it. She was Tanta - The Tanta... | Sydney Taylor | ||
| 141ef49 | friends." "Ye--" | Sydney Taylor | ||
| cbb22fc | Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult to tell you about England, because there all men are not free to pursue their own lives in their own ways. Some men live like princes, while other men must beg for the very crusts that keep them alive. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 994ef9b | But every redhead's temper has its limitations. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 7a97d67 | purple pansies | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 351a571 | Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| b6e1da4 | Riding around on Minnie's shoulder But | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 80c8868 | There is only here, she told herself, there is only this house. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| e76d7a6 | It's a strange thing, but somehow we expect more of girls than of boys. It is the sisters and wives and mothers, you know, Caddie, who keep the world sweet and beautiful. What a rough world it would be if there were only men and boys in it, doing things in their rough way! A woman's task is to teach them gentleness and courtesy and love and kindness. It's a big task, too, Caddie--harder than cutting trees or building mills or damming rivers.. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 4f31b01 | eyes wide | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 371c70a | I don't think a person is mature until he understands what a wonderful world he lives in and that a lifetime isn't long enough to get to know it. | Carol Ryrie Brink | ||
| 29b415d | She'd have put it behind her, Eve thought, but it was always behind you. In a corner, in the dark. Squatting there behind you and chuckling in its throat. | J.D. Robb | ||
| eaefad6 | Eli left her there. In the kitchen he found the pomegranate he'd bought for her and quartered it quickly on a pale blue plate. He thought the contrast between the shades of the pomegranate and the blue might please her. Any one of a number of details can prevent a ship from sinking. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 5f238be | She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it. | perfect unsettling | Emily St. John Mandel | |
| ddeee79 | She was unmoored and her memories were eroding in the sunlight, | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| c8848cd | by this point he's twenty-eight, time speeding up in a way that disconcerts him, the parties going too late and getting too sloppy, waiting in the ER on two separate occasions for news of friends who've OD'd on exotic combinations of alcohol and prescription medications, the same people at party after party, the sun rising on scenes of tedious debauchery, everyone looking a little undone. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| e166417 | It's hard to be a No. 1 when you're not even No. 1 on your team. | Adam Wainwright | ||
| ef4528c | You remembered." "Of course," Clark said. "That's one thing I like about birthdays, they stay in one place. Same spot on the calendar, year in, year out." "But the years keep going faster, have you noticed?" | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 578a458 | No guarantee any of us will be much of anything, but we still try. | Robyn Carr | ||
| ef986f6 | Adulthood's full of ghosts. . . . I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, there's a mortgage, kids, whatever, they're trapped. . . . High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 510de1e | I'm sorry, I've just realized that I'm as minimally present in this world as you are, I had no right to judge-- | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 67a6776 | the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret. | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| d18a3b0 | A life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films: | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| c726f4a | to the sack and began removing cartons, placing them on the table. | Robyn Carr | ||
| d500ac0 | That woman is my woman | Robyn Carr | ||
| c5eca9e | Dr. Eleven, Vol. 1, No. 1: Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 858ceb6 | Although actually when she thought about it, Annette said, the post-apocalyptic movies she'd seen had all involved zombies. "I'm just saying," she said, "it could be much worse." | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| 4665adb | That woman is my woman, Jack said [...] | Robyn Carr | ||
| 7866f73 | Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting diseases and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god--Society, The State, The Government, The Commune--must give it to them. Let the fight.. | Rose Wilder Lane | ||
| bedaabf | His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest dramas; someone has to remember them | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| b05c18e | Someone told me once ... long ago ... that men would call me Warlock! | Adam Warlock | ||
| c569afc | Let the conflict END! | Adam Warlock | ||
| eaf3871 | The feudal system was the most perfect social system in history. It even had a safety valve, to release any pressure of energy in it. An exceptional, ambitious, and gifted boy might get his master's permission to learn to read and write, and enter The Church. Church discipline was strict, but The Church represented the spiritual world, and in it, all men were equal. Any priest might become the Pope. A serf's son did become a Pope. | Rose Wilder Lane | ||
| 30e7911 | Do what makes your heart beat. | Robyn Carr | ||
| db7c8cf | possible | Robyn Carr |