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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 64aa165 | Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 741e445 | Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once. | Stephen King | ||
| d152784 | Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? | brief dreams sweet | Stephen King | |
| d228cbf | there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake. | thoroughness work-ethic | John D. MacDonald | |
| c06dfc8 | I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. | Agatha Christie | ||
| bf842b6 | I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books. | death library | Alberto Manguel | |
| 463f0f3 | And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. | lost-love | Jean Rhys | |
| 84a3bc8 | You don't get it? He poisonded me! He poisonded me, and you're next. I'm going to die. We're all going to die." -Seth" | Brandon Mull | ||
| 4506461 | break the rules pay the price | Brandon Mull | ||
| 2be56f5 | Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic. | humor seth-sorenson | Brandon Mull | |
| 1dc813b | Casting back her head, Arya gazed up at the twinkling sky, her long neck gold with firelight, her face pale with the radiance of the heavenx. "Do you ask out of friendly concern or your own self-interest?" She gave an abrupt, choked laugh, the sound of water falling over cold rocks. "Never mind. The night air has addled me. It has undone my sense of courtesy and left me free to say the most spiteful things that occur to me." | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 1872f27 | For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| c316952 | Haste is a poor counselor | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 3a56bda | I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass. | motivation | Jim Butcher | |
| 84be10a | HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment | quote | Jim Butcher | |
| d4fd0f3 | Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy." | harry-dresden karrin-murphy | Jim Butcher | |
| 5f613e5 | You," Madeline said, her voice hollow and wheezing, "are like a bad case of herpes, wizard. You're inconvenient, embarassing, no real threat, and you simply go away." | simile | Jim Butcher | |
| 57f2ad2 | So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?" "Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again." "For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite." | humor vampires | Jim Butcher | |
| cb10627 | How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate? | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| bc20da4 | Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings. | inspirational | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 287be1b | People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who they were, and the truth of it was that they had no more idea who or what they were than he had. They believed their flashing signs, too. They ought to be standing up and shouting, "This isn't me! This isn't me!" They would if they had any decency. "This isn't me!" Then you might know how to proceed through the.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 7e0fd65 | You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, ge.. | Philip Roth | ||
| 8a8eab4 | The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. | inspirational | Richard Bach | |
| a25278a | He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love. | chivalry god inspirational religion | Lao Tzu | |
| be836e8 | Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship. | love | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 2e942d9 | the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 359a1b3 | I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places. | reading | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0f93bec | I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3405395 | You get a wonderful view from the point of no return. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| d838c1f | Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm. "What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?" "I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly. "I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be-- all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a s.. | cruelty death justice life philosophy sport wisdom | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0b19d18 | Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist. | people reality | Terry Pratchett | |
| 14a17c4 | Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 8d6c4d9 | I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique. | individuality maniacal | Katherine Dunn | |
| 86245cd | I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn't lead, their jobs I couldn't do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 08092b6 | It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out." " | egg infancy | Naomi Novik | |
| 20f46cc | Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 20ecb4b | Damiano is hot," Lucia murmured, then realized she'd spoken aloud. "And by that, I mean, I respect his mind." | Kresley Cole | ||
| faed386 | After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| a9d6abb | Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them." | betty-smith humor thanks | Betty Smith | |
| 74fd4e1 | You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden those words in the lining of my coat. I take them out like a jewel thief when no-one's watching. They haven't faded. Nothing about you has faded. You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it's not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Can I be sure which is which? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4821746 | If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| b9f51b3 | How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 268557a | Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. | literature reading words | Anne Michaels | |
| a541ba4 | I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy. | Laurie Halse Anderson |