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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2e8806a | Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated. | Luanne Rice | ||
| 3bae219 | Kill the body and the head will die. | biography drugs humor | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 16d400b | The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War. | money politics power war | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 57deb5c | A lot of blood has gone under the bridge since then, and we have all learned a hell of a lot about the realities of Politics in America. Even the politicians have learned - but, as usual, the politicians are much slower than the people they want to lead. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 56ac632 | Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, | religion science | Emily Dickinson | |
| d6d52fc | Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus. | Orhan Pamuk | ||
| 3ddb3d1 | Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 6611891 | It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered. | Robin McKinley | ||
| b19435d | You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson." | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| ed38b5a | You're speechless." He chuckled. "I like that. And I also like you all feisty. Want to hit me again?" | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fadd50d | I swore to you that I wouldn't let that happen, and I know I've failed you, but I'm not going to just give up, Alex. I'll never give up on you. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c0df9a7 | My eyes locked the fury's and I smiled. She hesitated. I snapped to my feet. "Bitch, please." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 83e73d5 | June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them." | hilarious humor june laugh-at-loud rick-riordan the-son-of-neptune | Rick Riordan | |
| 0980ad1 | Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile. | jason-grace lit piper piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| 5fcab74 | Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us. | thalia-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| 9f30ce9 | I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6436aa8 | The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus | Rick Riordan | ||
| f3caa8b | My glowing form was so heavy, its feet sank into the top of the tank. "Sekhmet!" I yelled. The lioness whirled and snarled, trying to locate my voice. "Up here, kitty!" I called. She spotted me and her ears went back. "Horus?" 'Unless you know another guy with a falcon head." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 50deac1 | I'd come to respect the bag. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 80f7622 | The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. "Your injury. Let us tend to it." He looked out through the open doorway and silently gestured to someone out there. "Our world," he said, "is far more advanced than yours. For reasons you'll understand shortly." A thin, bony, naked woman entered the room, carrying two small, white kittens. She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shi.. | kittens sadness | David Wong | |
| 95629d0 | Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart | Ayn Rand | ||
| b9bc900 | It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart. | lesbian love romance | Fannie Flagg | |
| a0b222b | What are they waiting to see?" Sam follows my gaze and I shrug. "Who knows? You could always do a dance, or tell a joke, or... kiss the bride?" "Not the bride," he wraps his arms around me, and gradually pulls me close. Our noses are practically touching. I can see right into his eyes. I can feel the warmth of his skin. "you." Me. "The girl who stole my phone." His lips brush across the corner of my mouth. "The thief." "It was in a bin." ".. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 3ff654c | You look... amazing!" And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black. The kind of deep, soft black that you fall into. A simple sleeveless dress from Whistles, the highest of Jimmy Choos, a pair of stunning uncut amethyst earrings. And please don't ask how much it all cost, because that's irrelevant. This is investment shopping. The biggest investment of my life. I haven't eaten anything all day so I'm nice and th.. | clothing fashion shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella | |
| 5837333 | The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| c61541c | There is no fool like an educated fool... | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 1add8cd | We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| e54f295 | We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live. | letting-go | Elisabeth Elliot | |
| 4f9e58a | JEWS HAVE SIX SENSES Touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing ... memory. While Gentiles experience and process the world through the traditional senses, and use memory only as a second-order means of interpreting events, for Jews memory is no less primary than the prick of a pin, or its silver glimmer, or the taste of the blood it pulls from the finger. The Jew is pricked by a pin and remembers other pins. It is only by tracing the pinprick bac.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e5e9659 | A person is nothing but his image. Philosophers can tell us that it doesn't matter what the world thinks of us, that nothing matters but what we really are. But philosophers don't understand anything. As long as we live with other people, we are only what other people consider us to be. Thinking about how others see us and trying to make our image as attractive as possible is considered a kind of dissembling or cheating. But does there exis.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 88440e0 | It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1d43869 | These days I just can't seem to say what I mean,' she said. 'I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles arou.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ed1b4d8 | Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bff94ff | Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. | writing | Haruki Murakami | |
| af0793d | A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn't find a place for myself within it. A clear gap separated me from it, and this caused me great confusion. I felt as if I were not anchored to this world - this world that I had hated so passionately until then; this world that I had continued to revile for its unfairness and injustice; this world where at least I knew who I was. Now the w.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 3f21187 | Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly's wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a501a5b | This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good. | Kim Edwards | ||
| 7a64f44 | It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by the bulls in Pamplona. It's something else to go home and visit with the folks in Reed's drugstore on the square and actually listen to them. The reason you can't go home again is not because the down-home folks are mad at you--they're not, don't flatter yourself, they couldn't care less--but because once you're in.. | homecoming nostalgia small-town | Walker Percy | |
| 47eba53 | I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is--to piss me off." | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| b710495 | But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9419f2c | I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live | suicide the-pact | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4bb35a0 | Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life. | mothers | Jodi Picoult | |
| 813c945 | And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 36fbaef | Has he come armed, then?" she asked anxiously. "Has he brought a pistol or a sword?" Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. "Oh, no, Mam!" he said. "It's worse. He's brought a lawyer!" | lawyers | Diana Gabaldon |