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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2c7655a | Thereon were seated in a hundred decorative attitudes, or stood immobile like carvings, or walked superbly across their sapphire setting, interweaving with each other like a living arabesque, a swarm of snowwhite cats. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 192476d | During the first half of this early period only two major ceremonies befell the child and of these Titus was happily unaware, namely the christening, which took place twelve days after his birth, and a ceremonial breakfast on his first birthday. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 0d86537 | Titus watched Keda's face with his violet eyes, his grotesque little features modified by the dull light at the corner of the passage. There was the history of man in his face. A fragment from the enormous rock of mankind. A leaf from the forest of man's passion and man's knowledge and man's pain. That was the ancientness of Titus. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 6a222a2 | These three sere beings at the shadowy corner waited on. Nannie was sixtynine, Keda was twenty-two, Titus was twelve days old. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| b7368dd | Houses, like people, have their own peculiarities. | personality peculiarity houses | Maeve Gilmore | |
| 9dd5625 | As he trilled, as he prattled, as he indulged in his spontaneous 'conceits', as he gestured, fop-like and grotesque, his magnified eyes skidding to and fro behind the lenses of his glasses, like soap at the bottom of a bath, his brain was often other-where, and these days it was well occupied. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 8ffe50e | It took place to the accompaniment of such hideous swearing as caused his withered leg to blush beneath the sacking. It must have been hardened by many years of oaths, but this morning an awakened sense of shame at what the upper part of the body could descend to, raddled it from hip to toe. Its only consolation was that the contaminating influence had not descended lower than the lungs, and what diseases the withered leg experienced were e.. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| edca532 | It was only when these nefarious doings were satisfactorily completed that Steerpike visited the aunts for the second time and re-primed them in their very simple roles as arsonists. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 2d45a02 | Aren't there any, dear?' 'No,' said Fuchsia. 'Why aren't there?' Fuchsia realized that Mrs Slagg knew virtually nothing, but the long custom of asking her questions was a hard one to break down. This realization that grown-ups did not necessarily know any more than children was something against which she had fought. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 1a0685d | Never having had either positive cruelty or kindness shown to her by her parents, but only an indifference, she was not conscious of what it was that she missed - affection. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| 6ff4d9a | This is the darkness: I have known great storms Scourge the long day - but this is motionless And sterile: this is something featureless The blind brain turning upon drugs and worms. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| f01021b | Not only were the books lost and the thoughts in the books, but what was to him, perhaps, the most searching loss of all, the hours of rumination which lifted him above himself and bore him upon their muffled and enormous wings. Not a day passed but he was reminded of some single volume, or of a series of works, whose very positions on the walls was so clearly indented in his mind. | Mervyn Peake | ||
| ca04617 | John Martyn on instead, Grace and Danger, | Ian Rankin | ||
| c8298da | It would utterly ruin my reputation," he explained in self-mocking tones. "Dandies, my dear Aurelia, do not dance attendance upon young ladies at these affairs. Rather they find a convenient pillar to lean upon, cross their anus, and look insufferably bored." -- | Susan Carroll | ||
| ddff4fb | According to the "universality studies" conducted by psychologists Paul Ekman, Carroll Izard, and Friesen (1969-1972), the words Happiness. Fear. Anger. Sadness. Contempt. Surprise. Disgust. describe the natural expressions of emotion shared by the entire human race." | expressions-of-emotion smiling-quotes susanspeaks-com customer-service-quotes law-of-attraction-quotes motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes communication-skills | Susan C. Young | |
| 50182ea | The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle. | money motivation empowerment success life finances recession stay-woke wages debt | Brandi L. Bates | |
| cf81a39 | THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings. A lapis lazuli sky was blanketed by gunmetal gray clouds as it wept crocodile tears across the parched Los Angeles landscape. When Ivy was a child and she overheard adults talking about their break-ups, in her young feeble-formed mind, she imagined it in the most literal of essences. She once heard her mother.. | sex emotion poetry meaning beauty inspiration humor love wisdom black-authors black-history deity literary-fiction scorpios valentine-s-day wilmington rebirth prose foodies stress knowledge new-york | Brandi L. Bates | |
| b9d68a5 | Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas? | irony bravery courage inspiration motivation strength success life-lessons humor wisdom adversity achievement-attitude growth | Brandi L. Bates | |
| 5b56896 | His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea... | love-quotes wealth motivation success life-lessons life wisdom affluence brandi-bates albert-einstein-life-quotes opulence soledad-francis truth-to-power life-philosophy | Brandi L. Bates | |
| f285dff | Christopher didn't understand that there was a fine line between seeking death and being indifferent to its occurrence. | C.S. Harris | ||
| 38763cf | be the most special place because of the friends who made that place special. At an important time in life when people were changing from children into grownups, a few people shared in the amazing transformation. While the places where we live and work do not define us or determine who and what we will become, they do form the context in which we flourish, wither, or merely subsist. The places of our lives either nourish us or drain us. Pla.. | Harry Lee Poe | ||
| 9638014 | Gie'd her a total riddy, | Ian Rankin | ||
| a09d19c | Rain wasn't quite falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 845b57d | Brain Salad Surgery. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 2dfba5b | Infra-red connection,' he explained. 'Gets us on-line in a hurry. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 19470db | Rebus lifted a Guardian | Ian Rankin | ||
| 7037497 | the club coincided. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 8ab9027 | Wars were connected by arms manufacturers, the same arms manufacturers who made the guns used in robberies, who made the guns used by crazy people in America when they when on the rampage in a shopping centre or hamburger restaurant. So already you had connection between hamburgers and dictators. Start from there and the thing just grew and grew. | crime-fiction guns | Ian Rankin | |
| ff6b885 | Well to hell with them. He'd done his duty, he'd paid his respects. He wouldn't bother them any more. Let them live in their cramped flat, visited by this ... gentleman, this mock adult. Rebus had more important things to do. Books to read. Notes to make. And another busy day ahead. It was ten o'clock. He could be back at his hotel by eleven. An early night, that's what was needed. Eight hours' sleep in the last two days. No wonder he was r.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 0a6ceff | Thing about that ladder, Shiv, each rung you climb there's another arse waiting to be licked." "What a lovely image." "We all need some poetry in our lives." | Ian Rankin | ||
| 584c292 | This bleak housing-scheme, designed by sadists who'd never had to live anywhere near it, had a heart which had shrivelled but refused to stop pumping. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 7e7df81 | That was the problem with having money: you ended up with decisions to make. And if you bought anything, where would you put it? He'd need either ditch something, or to start on another carrier bag. That was the problem, being Frank. | money problems | Ian Rankin | |
| a17e500 | So Clarke was in her Vauxhall Astra, on her way to the Royal Infirmary. The hospital sat on the southern edge of the city, plenty of space in the car park at this hour. She showed her ID at the Accident and Emergency desk and was shown where to go. She passed cubicle after cubicle, and if the curtains were closed, she popped her head around each. An old woman, her skin almost translucent, gave a beaming smile from her trolley. There were ho.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| e8e7639 | The man called Gareth was laughing into his mobile phone as the door opened. There were gold rings on each of his fingers, chains dangling from his neck and wrists. He wasn't tall but he was wide. Rebus got the impression much of it was fat. A gut hung over his waistband. He was balding badly, and had allowed what hair he had to grow uncut, so that it hung down to the back of his collar and beyond. He wore a black leather trenchcoat and bla.. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 91e466b | Scotsman's way of dealing with death. He'd found | Ian Rankin | ||
| c8edbdd | Down Where the Drunkards Roll." "How" | Ian Rankin | ||
| 5bcd77e | Rebus remembered that the premature withdrawal of the penis during intercourse for contraceptive reasons was often referred to as 'getting off at Haymarket. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 10e5b9f | Bad Men Do What Good Men | Ian Rankin | ||
| 2e5bb5e | He's a piece of the jigsaw.' 'Maybe so, John, but if he is, he's a bit of sky or cloud - I can see the picture clearly enough without him. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 13d2f56 | I'm game if you are. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 8c7c6c3 | But you used to know a good thing when you saw it. Trouble is, that's never what I see when I look in the mirror. What do you see? He looked at her. Sometimes I don't see anything at all. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 11345cc | I wouldn't join you if you were coming apart at the seams. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 48520b5 | If it were a peg, you couldn't hang a fucking hankie on it, never mind your coat. | Ian Rankin | ||
| 0a2c947 | muttered. Then: | Ian Rankin |