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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 64defbc | She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 92da50f | It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened. | comedic places towns | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 3df4e2f | If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| a263b18 | All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it. | Raymond Carver | ||
| cf62ea0 | There is no living being on earth at this moment except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would yawn mockingly at me from every side. God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter -- they .. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 86102c4 | I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would." | love | Orson Scott Card | |
| 3d8471d | But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3e783ae | A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. --Abbot Saxtus | Brian Jacques | ||
| 853a93f | Vera said: "Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?" So I told her why. Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it." | Nora Ephron | ||
| 8f54951 | He shot forward, clasping my cheeks. "Say it again." "Say what?" I replied, gripping his wrists. "I said a lot of things. Help me out here." "Say that I'm not just the Apollyon," he whispered, his voice harsh. Tears built in my throat. "You're not just the Apollyon, Seth." His eyes drifted shut, his face tensed as his fingers splayed across my cheeks. "I don't even know who I am anymore. Or what I ever was." Oh goodness, that ripped right t.. | seth-diodoros the-return | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 2d83b2e | came Daemon's voice. I told him. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5a87f2e | I rolled my eyes. "I'm sure I'll hold out until Halloween." "That's already passed." "Exactly," I muttered" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 3268881 | Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you. | Max Brooks | ||
| 7e65fa6 | Well, I live a double life. Tonight, I'll escort you to dinner. Then I have to rush home and finish my calculus homework.' 'You're not joking, are you?' 'I never joke about calculus homework. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 5cbc82f | Huh," said Percy. "Never seen Jason fly before. He looks like a blond superman." | so-percy | Rick Riordan | |
| edcd0e0 | Annabeth and I were relaxing on the Great Lawn in Central Park when she ambushed me with a question. "You forgot, didn't you?" I went into red-alert mode. It's easy to panic when you're a new boyfriend. Sure, I'd fought monsters with Annabeth for years. Together we'd faced the wrath of the gods. We'd battled Titans and calmly faced death a dozen times. But now that we were dating, one frown from her and I freaked. What had I done wrong? I m.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| b3aeaeb | I turned and faced the Olympians. "We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 4a1c210 | Then, , we were ready to charge in and save Sadie, and she rides up in a limousine driven by an ugly dwarf in a swimsuit, and she accuses of being late. So when she told us the dwarf was driving us to Russia, I was like, "Whatever." And I got into the car." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6c7d36a | I'd been to the British museum before. In fact I've been in more museums than I like to admit--it makes me sound like a total geek. [That's Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.] | Rick Riordan | ||
| 793748a | Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll-I'll Terminus you, buddy!" -- | humor lol percy-i-love-you-bye roman terminus | Rick Riordan | |
| fff8b53 | Brother dear," I said, "did your soul leave your body while Amos was talking, or did you actually hear him? Egyptian gods real. Red Lord bad. Red Lord's birthday: very soon, very bad. House of Life: fussy magicians who hate our family because dad was a bit of a rebel, whom you could take a lesson from. Which leaves us--just us--with Dad missing, an evil god about to destroy the world, and an uncle who just jumped off the building--and I can.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 646fae2 | Happy the Dragon was not so happy. | Rick Riordan | ||
| ccad03a | He'd gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink! | jason-grace old-man-humour | Rick Riordan | |
| cd3a3d7 | I must admit I'm impressed, Sadie. You controlled your magic and controlled Isis. And you, Carter, did well turning into a lizard. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1d54a87 | The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth. And once you've seen that truth - really seen it - you can't look away. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 9ce57b4 | Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures! | Jeff Smith | ||
| 1216327 | To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. | Henry Miller | ||
| 9dae730 | Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth. | integrity objectivism | Ayn Rand | |
| d019594 | Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are? | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| bab3e9a | Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want? | Margaret atwood | ||
| de0731d | There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge. | memories memory-loss ptsd remember remembering sadness trauma traumatic | Katie McGarry | |
| 4506b23 | My siren had sung to me for way too long, capturing my heart, tempting me with her body, driving me slowly insane. Now, I expected her to pay up. | Katie McGarry | ||
| a0d7b68 | The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow." | Elisabeth Elliot | ||
| 0981305 | Since childhood, I'd believed it was important to speak out against bullies while also not stooping to their level. And to be clear, we were now up against a bully, a man who among other things demeaned minorities and expressed contempt for prisoners of war, challenging the dignity of our country with practically his every utterance. I wanted Americans to understand that words matter--that the hateful language they heard coming from their T.. | bullies dignity high low minorities politics | Michelle Obama | |
| b33dd8a | People's lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable - deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. | Alice Munro | ||
| b14e489 | If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive. | Franz Kafka | ||
| f6f3eb6 | The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 166cca1 | A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster. | Milan Kundera | ||
| a88d40d | Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ae6af18 | I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b814e9a | I'm not good at talking," Naoko said. "Haven't been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don't even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there's this big pillar in the middle and they.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7595789 | Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. | life | Haruki Murakami | |
| 94f51de | It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 78c67e8 | Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, OK? | Woody Allen |