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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 71cb78f | They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food. | chambers dark-tower deschain gunslinger hunger jake man roland stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 4884824 | Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. | horror love lovers | Stephen King | |
| 7a44c1a | Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart." | Stephen King | ||
| 80c8422 | Have all beautiful things sad destinies? | beauty destiny question sad | Jean Rhys | |
| 3f249eb | You can't go back. Can't fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference." She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. "From where I'm standing, you're the best step I ever took." | J.D. Robb | ||
| dc30e42 | Man. God. Roarke. An interesting and flattering lineup. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9d51b35 | It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 15fdc6e | Eragon. Is that all you say? Yes. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| f9eb9fd | I love your silences, they are like mine. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 1e0634a | Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, "I don't think I would have made it past the audition,Yelena. I probably would have set my hair on fire by this point." "What's a singed head for the sake of art?" I teased. He laughed." | yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 9e89bb1 | There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is.. | pity | Stefan Zweig | |
| 953be99 | Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence." | assistant executive-assistant incompetence management valets | Jim Butcher | |
| 33cfe3d | God save me from idealists. | idealism thomas-raith | Jim Butcher | |
| 3614dc7 | She inched closer to him. "I intrigue you?" "You know you do," he replied boldly, his eyes burning into hers. Wow-things were suddenly heating up fast. He wondered if they would have sex right there on her desk.Somebody better move that stapler. With a coy look, Taylor stood up to whisper in Jason's ear. "then I think you're going to find this next part really intriging," she said breathlessly. He gazed down at her-he like the sound of that.. | romance tension | Julie James | |
| 1493e1f | You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE. | bible central-christian-church church inspirational john-paul john-paul-warren john-warren leadership motivational pastor-john-paul-warren pastors religious speakers spiritual voice-of-the-nations | John Paul Warren | |
| 478d44f | A man is born gentle and weak; at his death he is hard and stiff. All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death. Stiffness is thus a companion of death; flexibility a companion of life. An army that cannot yield will be defeated. A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. The hard and stiff will be broken; the soft and supple will prevail. | inspirational | Lao-Tzu | |
| ec9ab2f | I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!" | military violence | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2a6d571 | Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course -- it was not round and shiny -- but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1fe4042 | Mr Horsefry was a youngish man, not simply running to fat but vaulting, leaping and diving towards obesity. He had acquired at thirty an impressive selection of chins, and now they wobbled with angry pride.* * It is wrong to judge by appearances. Despite his expression, which was that of a piglet having a bright idea, and his mode of speech, which might put you in mind of a small, breathless, neurotic but ridiculously expensive dog, Mr H.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6caf495 | Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 65fdef0 | Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours. | Susan Mallery | ||
| a64433a | There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7d335e6 | To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. | letting reject struggle to want | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| eec2bf5 | When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all around them and in between the hills there was a wide expanse of black bog. Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. "This is one of your kingdoms, I suppose, sir?" he said. "My kingdoms?" exclaimed the gentleman in surprize. "Oh, no! This is Sc.. | jonathan-strange mr-norrell scotland stephen thistle-down-hair | Susanna Clarke | |
| f65c9f6 | Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten? | George Saunders | ||
| 828bca5 | Ellie said, "Isn't it a little warm for black?" You're extremely pretty, Dr. Sattler," he said. "I could look at your legs all day. But no, as a matter of fact, black is an excellent color for heat. If you remember your black-body radiation, black is actually best in heat. Efficient radiation. In any case, I wear only two colors, black and gray." Ellie was staring at him, her mouth open. "These colors are appropriate for any occasion," Malc.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 91e9db4 | A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction. | Alan Lightman | ||
| a5fe9e0 | I will fight any battle for you, crush any adversity. Because you are mine, beautiful girl. I love you so madly that the past before you feels sane... | Kresley Cole | ||
| 64eeb8f | Fuckhead: The name's MariKETA. Go to hell, The WITCH, doing a creepy spell somewhere right now. | Kresley Cole | ||
| d534276 | Holly's forgiven you?" "Almost mostly. But she still gives me slack about it when she's sick. I take it as a husbandly badge," he said, puffing out his chest. "Sick? You told me she was fully immortal." "Yeah, but she still throws up some, because, well, the thing of it is... Ah, fuck, Rydstrom, I knocked her up." "You're going to be a father?" Gods help the world. I'm going to be an uncle? "I got Holly, like, on the first shot. Nix is.. | funny holly-s-pregnancy kresley-cole rydstrom | Kresley Cole | |
| 2cf9ec6 | The wishes might not come true the way you think they will, not everything will be perfect, but love will come because it always does, because why else would it exist and it will make everything hurt a little less. You just have to believe in yourself. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| af3ff66 | Hey!" he shouted. "This is my fucking Lake of Death. I have complete and utter exclusive rights to sailing this lake. Get the fuck off my lake!" | Jeff Noon | ||
| fcd7dc7 | The moment was all; the moment was enough. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 5cbd082 | I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| dcbad8f | Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 83a42df | I am not one and simple, but complex and many. | identity | Virginia Woolf | |
| 5e0de90 | My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 6cec52d | Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? | danger reading | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 3b48835 | Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there. | Anne Frank | ||
| a747e31 | Who else but me is ever going to read these letters? | innocence irony | Anne Frank | |
| 27fa019 | We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images. | John Champlin Gardner Jr. | ||
| c0aa793 | I cry to let everything out | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 50e50f8 | They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| c677bd6 | He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become. | politician | Kate Atkinson |