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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1c8521e | With stumbling feet, he blindly walked somewhere, anywhere. When he got to the king's study, he looked over his shoulder and checked the carpet over which he'd trodden. No trail of his blood. Which, considering the way his chest was hurting, was a surprise. Sure as shit felt like he'd been shot in the heart. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 13a7c65 | You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted. | J.R. Ward | ||
| d9f7712 | You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each square are the words, 'I love you.' And each passer-by, no matter who, gets a square all his or her own. I don't want my square of toilet paper.' I didn't realize it toilet paper. | love vonnegut | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 95e23bb | There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| c0ef6b3 | Look up long enough and you start to feel your infinitesimality. The difference between alive and not--that's something. But from where the stars are watching, there is almost no difference between varieties of alive, between me and the newly mown grass I'm lying on right now. We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the know universe to a miracle. | John Green | ||
| 8b13244 | Llegara un dia en que todos nosotros estaremos muertos dije. Todos nosotros. Llegara un dia en que no quedara un ser humano que recuerde que alguna vez existio alguien o que alguna vez nuestra especie hizo algo. No quedara nadie que recuerde a Aristoteles o a Cleopatra, por no hablar de vosotros. Todo lo que hemos hecho, construido, escrito, pensado y descubierto sera olvidado, y todo esto --continue, senalando a mi alrededor-- habra existi.. | John Green | ||
| 4d233a5 | Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, "I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that's a record," before dying. Alaska's favorite was playwright Eugene O'Neill: "Born in a hotel room, and--God damn it--died in a hotel room." Even car-accident victims sometimes have time for last words. Princess Diana s.. | last-words | John Green | |
| de1047a | Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| e14b1db | I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 6591da8 | There is hope in forgiveness | hope | John Piper | |
| 80248e5 | God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus. | grace | John Piper | |
| f39f4c5 | We can't choose where we come from,but we can choose where we go from there. | Stephen Chbosky | ||
| 1091159 | A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see | empathy intuition prophet wisdom | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| 8c54881 | I am not like other people. I am | Charles Bukowski | ||
| 1cb7077 | And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 8845705 | Eric: ''What part do you like best?'' Sookie: ''oh your butt'' Eric: ''My...Bottom?'' Sookie: ''yep | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2475a50 | To put to rest any doubts you might have... I'm jealous of every man who comes within ten feet of you. I'm jealous of the clothes on your skin and the air you breathe. I'm jealous of every moment you spend out of my sight | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 5be6508 | Costis bowed stiffly. "I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 2084892 | A little danger adds spice to life. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 8a1b899 | We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| b7ff46f | To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| a3ab50f | I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart. | darkness laugh light tris | Veronica Roth | |
| 3e09b0d | It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. | strange time | Veronica Roth | |
| ea9faa0 | I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more? | Veronica Roth | ||
| 40fe3ad | Listen to me," he said, his voice even and intense, "and listen well, because I'm only going to say this once. I desire you. I burn for you. I can't sleep at night for wanting you. Even when I didn't you, I lusted for you. It's the most maddening, beguiling, damnable thing, but there it is. And if I hear one more word of nonsense from your lips, I'm going to have to tie you to the bloody bed and have my way with you a hundred different wa.. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 9dea3c9 | Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely, divorced, widowed; children growing away from you, friends dying. You imagine the loss of status, the loss of desire - and desirability. You may go further and consider your own approaching death, which, despite what company you may muster, can only be faced alone. But all this is looking ahead. What .. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 841abc3 | He pushed himself to his feet. "Don't lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but..." she could see him groping "...abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers." He took a draught of wine. "I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I've proven I'm no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a.. | tyrion-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| 386c29a | When you smell our candles burning, what does it make you think of, my child?" Winterfell, she might have said. I smell snow and smoke and pine needles. I smell the stables. I smell Hodor laughing, and Jon and Robb battling in the yard, and Sansa singing about some stupid lady fair. I smell the crypts where the stone kings sit. I smell hot bread baking. I smell the godswood. I smell my wolf. I smell her fur, almost as if she were still besi.. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 53c35b0 | Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overreact or anything but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free. My uterus is just going to come out between my legs and I'm going to look like I'm walking around with an enormous load in my pants. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 728db7a | No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules | princess | Meg Cabot | |
| 198f603 | A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born! | Elise Broach | ||
| 62991ea | But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie? | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| adfc4d5 | The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both. | warfare | Sun Tzu | |
| 6936fae | I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you? | Stephen King | ||
| 3393b26 | If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. | hood justice teaching | Stephen R. Lawhead | |
| 13fc63e | Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page. | Stephen King | ||
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| 3828992 | Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true. | definitely emphasis exaggeration truth uncertainty | Emma Donoghue | |
| 09ae2a7 | The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. | democrats government humor politics republicans | P.J. O'Rourke | |
| 93297f8 | You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 93e0d9f | I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had. | fitz fitzchivalry-farseer | Robin Hobb | |
| 05adbb7 | She would be a sparkling accent on his arm. She speaks flawless French and Italian, and has a limitless supply of charm when she wishes to dispense it. And'd she'll use him. She'll take, take more. If it was necessary, or if she simply had the whim, she'd toss him to the wolves to see who'd win." He finished the whiskey. "You, Lieutenant, are often crude, you are certainly rude, and have very little sense of how to be the wife--in public--o.. | love roarke summerset | J.D. Robb | |
| 3b4cd46 | She lowered her head until it was at his level. He stroked the line of her jaw, and then pressed his forehead against her hard snout and held her as tightly as he could, her scales sharp against his fingers. Hot tears began to slide down his cheeks. 'Why do you cry?' she asked. 'Because... I'm lucky enough to be bonded with you.' 'Little one. | saphira | Christopher Paolini | |
| f665941 | Talking with her is always...' suggested Saphira. 'Exactly. | Christopher Paolini |