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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4607089 | After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly. 'notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very wise of me.' She lifted the basket again, setting it on one hip. 'I supposed I won't see you for a while, so farewell, best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwa.. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 976d99d | It's a dirty way to fight, but I'm late for lunch." - Valek to Yelena" | fantasy fight humor valek yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 3fada15 | Why do you suppose they made you king in the first place?' I ask him. 'Not for your benefit, but for theirs. They meant you to devote your energies to making their lives more comfortable, and protecting them from injustice. So your job is to see that they're all right, not that you are - just as a shepherd's job, strictly speaking, is to feed his sheep, not himself. | Thomas More | ||
| d87b37b | Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 5018dd7 | I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 6c583bd | My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a06bcac | For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled. | despair letting-go life moving-on sadness | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 7758094 | nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others | Philip Roth | ||
| 02d7c7c | Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to et.. | death horror murder poetry primal-scene vampires | Charles Baudelaire | |
| 0df8274 | Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it? | inspirational | Violet Weingarten | |
| 47d04da | The human touch is that little snippet of physical affection that brings a bit of comfort, support, and kindness. It doesn't take much from the one who gives it, but can make a huge difference in the one who receives it. | comfort human human-touch humanity humanity-quotes inspirational kindess love support | Mya Robarts | |
| ba07581 | Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard. | inspirational | Dean Koontz | |
| 915104c | God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. | inspirational religious | Neal A. Maxwell | |
| a5b8d05 | Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you. | inspirational life | Daniel Radcliffe | |
| a0b1b31 | A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 53300c8 | It's amazing how good governments are, given their track records in almost every other field, at hushing up things like alien encounters. One reason may be that the aliens themselves are too embarrassed to talk about it. It's not known why most of the space-going races of the universe want to undertake rummaging in Earthling underwear as a prelude to formal contact. But representatives of several hundred races have taken to hanging out, un.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 151ccfe | Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war. | war | Terry Pratchett | |
| 406ba4d | Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under the.. | funny humour religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 27f6c96 | THERE's nO JUsTICE, THERE's JUsT ME. --Death | Terry Pratchett | ||
| cf296b7 | Death wants to gank me. Must be Tuesday. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 417a04a | Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 38c6314 | I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it--His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures. | god gospel scripture | R.C. Sproul | |
| ec9541e | There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are to.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 86fb636 | But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects; and sounds very remote and then very close; flesh being gashed and blood spurting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude. | solitude | Virginia Woolf | |
| fa95ed1 | I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6d9f002 | It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| d0d08ec | There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain. | Sue Grafton | ||
| bbe74af | Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 45e3cfc | All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 1a903d2 | I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful. | beauty good ugliness | John Fowles | |
| 76f3bc2 | Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 3548a6c | Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places. | snow twilight | L.M. Montgomery | |
| f9519cd | That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them." | nonsense | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 2cc4118 | I think people make their own faces, as they grow. | grow growing-up people | Enid Blyton | |
| b18d335 | Patriarchy has no gender. | bell hooks | ||
| ecc27d7 | Lily Calloway...all this time, your superpower has been loving me. | love-story superheroes | Krista Ritchie | |
| 5fea8a0 | Shh," he said. "Look." "Where?" "Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you." "Me?" "Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for." | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 909561b | He watched in awe as she stacked up an enormous armload of music. "There," she finished, slapping Frank Zappa's Greatest Hits on top of the pile. "That should do for a start." "You are a music lover," said the wide-eyed cashier. "No, I'm a kleptomaniac." And she dashed out the door. He was so utterly shocked that it took him a moment to run after her. With a meaningful nod in the direction of the astounded Cahills, she barreled down the.. | humor | Gordon Korman | |
| a87f96f | There," she said softly. "Now he could be sleeping." | dobby luna-lovegood | J.K. Rowling | |
| fc31f43 | Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck." | plant ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 217479e | This is mad," said Ron. "We're the only ones left who haven't got anyone -- well, except Neville. Hey -- guess who he asked? !" " ?" said Harry, completely distracted by this startling news. "Yeah, I know!" said Ron, some of the color coming back into his face as he started to laugh. "He told me after Potions! Said she's always been really nice, helping him out with work and stuff -- but she told him she was already going with someone. Ha!.. | hermione ron yule | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2e172f3 | Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball! | hp4 humor pg-399 yule-ball | J.K. Rowling | |
| 1a32956 | But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 0f66d34 | What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older. You could tell the truth, be polite, take everyone's feelings into consideration and still have to deal with other people's shit. At nine or ninety. | Mark Haddon |