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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ec9ce32 | You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 5063c5d | When the Pentagon feels free and even gleeful about killing anybody and Everybody who gets in the way of their vicious crusade for oil, the public soul of this country has changed forever, and professional sports is only a serenade for the death of the American dream. . | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 12bae19 | I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively - for the first time in a long, long while - by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you've lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it's time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 2e2b328 | The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life | hooker hunter loathing thompson waitress | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 187841c | The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy--then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. | politicians | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 4dc6a5e | I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose. | inspirational | Francine Rivers | |
| a33e6b1 | Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. | Alice Walker | ||
| e8304ee | I felt a Cleaving in my Mind-- As if my Brain had split-- I tried to match it--Seam by Seam-- But could not make it fit. | poetry | Emily Dickinson | |
| d92477d | My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| f1d300d | That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks. | victim vulnerability weakness | Dennis Lehane | |
| 67c4b5e | That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third." | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5ef4c76 | Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 5c9dad6 | If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians; and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are able to find among them no such act of adoption; we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that . [ ] | common-law founding-father saxons | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 21da159 | Jack, you've debauched my sloth. | drunk sloth | Patrick O'Brian | |
| 6dd458a | But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. | indifference life quality-of-life | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| 1ec82f8 | Good morning," said the little prince. Good morning," said the merchant. This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink. Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince. Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minute.. | life wisdom | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| cc704d5 | Man, it was so quiet you could hear a grasshopper karate chop a fly. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 0f2b01b | Shit. Next I'll hold her hand and start talking about butterflies and rainbows. Fuck me. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f4bfbba | Luc let out a strangled, hoarse laugh. "Oh shit. ET so phoned home, kids." | luc | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 666ced6 | Taking pity on me, Carissa kept her voice low. "You were calling out for Daemon."I dropped my face in my hands and moaned. "Oh, God." Lesa giggled. "It was kind of cute." A minute before the tardy bell rang, I felt an all-too-familiar warmth on my neck and glanced up. Daemon swaggered into class. Textbook-less as usual. He had a notebook, but I don't think he ever wrote anything in it. I was beginning to suspect our math teacher was an alie.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5820cbb | The loss of innocence refers to carnal sin and it's not like you have to do the deed to experience the pleasure of sin. Correct?!.. Cayman dipped his chin. 'In other words, all she needed to do was to have an orgasm..And most likely not by herself.' ..Someone kill me now! ..'Well.' Roth drew the word out.'This is awkward.' I slowly lowered my hands.'You think? | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 078a356 | There is the heart, Aiden. There is love, which means there is always hope. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6e143f4 | Smacking his arm lightly, she leaned back. "And Adam is way nicer than his brother." "A rabid hyena is nicer than Andrew," he retorted. "When we were kids, he locked me in an old chest once. Left me there for hours." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| fb09490 | You wouldn't lie to me, would you, Tink?" "No." He grinned. "You have Amazon Prime." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6e5a21a | I think I might have blushed. Damn me. -Daemon | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2178455 | In that moment, I wanted to punch myself in the face. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 088eb56 | Oh no. Oh, hell to the no to the tenth power. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 54c87de | She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear ..." "And in boyfriends," I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that" | crepsley gavner humor | Darren Shan | |
| 99586c3 | Percy grunted. "Believe me, some days I regret the choice. Oh, you want to turn down our offer? Okay, fine! ZAP! Lose your memory! Go to Tartarus!" -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 032f7d3 | For a moment, Nico felt like a little kid again. He was tempted to blurt out, That's so cool! Even before he got into Mythomagic, he'd been obsessed with pirates. Probably that was one reason he'd been so smitten with Percy, a son of the sea god. | Rick Riordan | ||
| ad6920d | Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, "Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters." More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan." | heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson-and-the-olympians rick-riordan son-of-neptune | Rick Riordan | |
| ad2e040 | Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship." | percy-jackson tyson | Rick Riordan | |
| ddc365b | Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... even the gods.' 'You feel that way?' She [Annabeth] looked down. 'Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really is messed up? What if we could do it all over again from scratch? No more war. Nobody homeless. No more summer reading homework.' 'I'm listening.' 'I mean, the West represents a lot of the best things mankind ever did - that's why the fire.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6472a64 | Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2dc5e25 | Piper leaned toward [Jason], her caramel braid falling over her shoulder. Her multicolored eyes made it hard for him to think straight. "And where is this place?" she asked. "A . . . uh, a town called Split." "Split." She smelled really good--like blooming honeysuckle. "Um, yeah." Jason wondered if Piper was working some sort of Aphrodite magic on him--like maybe every time he mentioned Reyna's name, she would befuddle him so much he couldn.. | piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| 754b002 | Poseidon held out his arms and gave me a hug. I realized, a little embarrassed, that I'd never actually hugged my dad before. He was warm--like a regular human--and he smelled of a salty beach and fresh sea air. | poseidon | Rick Riordan | |
| 7971c83 | the answer to every problem involved penguins | penguins | Rick Riordan | |
| e3c69dd | Just because I'm Native American doesn't mean I can track furniture through the wilderness." She deepened her voice: "'Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this way an hour ago.' Heck, I don't know." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 24be102 | My dad gave me a present once,' Nico said. 'It was a zombie.' Reyna stared at him. 'What?' 'His name is Jules-Albert. He's French.' 'A... French zombie? | humour nico-di-angelo reyna zombie | Rick Riordan | |
| fffd129 | She had tried to steer me towards vertiginous heels again - why are these people so incredibly keen on crippling their female customers? I began to wonder if cobblers and chiropractors had established some fiendish cartel. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| ef2d214 | You've made me shiny, Laura," I said. I tried to stop it, but a little tear ran down the side of my nose. I wiped it away with the back of my hand before it could dampen the ends of my new hair. "Thank you for making me shiny." | Gail Honeyman | ||
| aa911f4 | For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is the season of your awkward harvesting, When the pain takes you where you would rather not go, Through the white curtain of yesterdays to a place You had forgotten you knew from the inside out; And a time when that bitter tree was planted That has grown always invisibly beside you And whose branches your awakened hands Now long to di.. | memories past-trauma trauma | John O'Donohue | |
| ac185e0 | Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 942bc85 | There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. | motherhood mothers parents parents-and-children sympathy | Sophie Kinsella |