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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fbdd617 | So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 30bb799 | Maybe this city did deserve Aelin Galathynius's flames. Maybe Chaol deserved to burn, too. | chaol-westfall queen-of-shadows rifthold | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 30c4ba3 | I know you two are old and up past your bedtime so ill keep this quick. | ferynes gavriel rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 63f82be | Rhys's lip pulled back from his teeth. "I dare you." Temper--he had to be in some mood today to let his temper show this much. Good. That made two of us. I flung my other shoe right at his head, as swift and hard as the first one." -- | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| f3b5019 | Who do you wish to be? | sarah-j-maas throne-of-glass | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 2bcd305 | She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling. | Miranda July | ||
| bcb1f6d | It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn't dying. | Miranda July | ||
| 0a5f0fb | Hart and Hope," I muttered. "If you're going to name your kids like that, of course they're going to think they live in a comic book." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| eab8285 | People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children. | Rachel Caine | ||
| cbb9b9a | storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 37091af | Loafe with me on the grass--loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want--not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 371a1c4 | Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| d4be2b6 | It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers. | self-consciousness | David Sedaris | |
| e5df228 | I wanted to get me a full pack complete with everything necessary to sleep, shelter, eat, cook, in fact a regular kitchen and bedroom right on my back, and go off somewhere and find perfect solitude and look into the perfect emptiness of my mind and be completely neutral from any and all ideas. I intended to pray, too, as my only activity, pray for all living creatures; I saw it was the only decent activity left in the world. To be in some .. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 1d4d553 | Let me say right here, if I haven't made it clear, that I have seen as many pale, naked old-man parts in the last twenty-four hours to bruise my delicate psyche for a lifetime, so don't be surprised if you someday find me wandering the moors at midnight, a crazed look in my eye, babbling about albino Tater Tots nesting in Brillo pads and being pursued by sagging man ass, because that shit can happen when you've been traumatized. | Christopher Moore | ||
| 4e422df | You're enjoying this, aren't you?" I'd feel better if I could guard your back." You're going to do that with a rifle from the closest hill, remember." Night vision and scope, fine, but I can't kill them all from a distance." You couldn't kill them all if you were johnny on the spot, either," I said. No but I'd feel better." Worried about me?" He shrugged. I'm your bodyguard. If you die under my protection, the other bodyguards will make fun.. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4558ace | you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing. | José Saramago | ||
| c77a1ee | It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. | change singularity the-singularity | Isaac Asimov | |
| cc68282 | You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| fef1e9b | I am not going to be the person who completes you," he said, glancing at me and turning away. "You are one messed-up bitch." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3f87abe | You had this all planned, didn't you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn't as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried. | kisten rachel-morgan romance supernatural vampire | Kim Harrison | |
| a995af2 | I'm not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement," Trent said. "It's a workday. Besides, she has a crutch." "Crutch or no, she's hurt!" Ceri protested. "I mean," Trent said intently, "she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn't like." -- | Kim Harrison | ||
| 14bf0fe | When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is possible that his book will remain as a whole; as an entity; as a novel. If the people the writer is making talk of old masters; of music; of modern painting; of letters; or of science then they should talk of those subjects in the novel. If th.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| d97738f | Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should ? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is , merely because we understand it to be such? | wrongdoing | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| a9ca140 | To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone | Ayn Rand | ||
| c7ae428 | Women can change better'n a man," Ma said soothingly. "Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head." "Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk-gets a farm and looses his farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, its all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on-changin' a little, maybe,.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| dc9148c | And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe. | John Steinbeck | ||
| cb3daf2 | George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 46ff3ea | Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it. | Nora Roberts | ||
| f5aa763 | He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel's heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del's hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist. | hugs love relationships | Nora Roberts | |
| 2b18f98 | When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit | Dan Brown | ||
| 258a997 | One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back. | life love positive positivity | Napoleon Hill | |
| aa5bc93 | We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to. | life | Paulo Coelho | |
| 8f96f91 | What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life? | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 11e1e7e | In short, Europe's colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography--in particular, to the continents' different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate. | Jared Diamond | ||
| a57b56b | She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. | humor | Charles Dickens | |
| dfc031b | I do not think, therefore I am a moustache | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| d8ff6da | Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? | innovation | Frank Herbert | |
| 93d8ecb | There are blondes and blondes and it is almost a joke word nowadays. All blondes have their points, except perhaps the metallic ones who are as blond as a Zulu under the bleach and as to disposition as soft as a sidewalk. There is the small cute blonde who cheeps and twitters, and the big statuesque blonde who straight-arms you with an ice-blue glare. There is the blonde who gives you the up-from-under look and smells lovely and shimmers an.. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| d569065 | What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 9861926 | You're pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?" Clive smiled. "I don't know, should I?" Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man's desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I've always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as m.. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 4f2fc15 | though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert. | realization | Edith Wharton | |
| 9664fc9 | So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. | life vogons work | Douglas Adams | |
| f03abc3 | Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered." "Yeah," said the voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel." | fear humour panic useless | Douglas Adams |