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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4fad32b | When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more, nor less. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 4f96b30 | I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory. | lawrence-durrell | Lawrence Durrell | |
| 6fc1833 | Iggy: So what are we going to do? lead. | James Patterson | ||
| 2b8b0d0 | Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous | Emily Brontë | ||
| af3df2e | The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. | words | Marguerite Duras | |
| 1421ccf | Inigo was in despair. Hard to find on the map (this was after maps) not because cartographers didn't know of its existence, but because when they visited to measure its precise dimensions, they became so depressed they began to drink and question everything, most notably why anyone would want to be something as stupid as a cartographer. It required constant travel, no one ever knew your name, and, most of all, why bother? There grew up, the.. | William Goldman | ||
| 6cce323 | Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| a450134 | To be honest, I'm not sure about this whole scared of commitment business. I think it's become too handy, a useful phrase that men can bandy about whenever they feel like being assholes. And sure, I do believe there are some men who are genuinely terrified of commitment, but there aren't that many, and for the most part I think it's that they haven't met the right woman yet. Because if a man, no matter how scared he professed to be, met the.. | Jane Green | ||
| 5107e67 | There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 9d95959 | Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion | william blake | ||
| bdc02d6 | What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures? | jealousy | Michael Connelly | |
| 6a6898c | Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?" "Mmmm-hmmm," said Gloria. She closed her eyes. "I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart." | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 87c9cda | You never know when some crazed rodent with cold feet could be running loose in your pants. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 58dfa2f | To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes. | dystopia science-fiction slavery | David Mitchell | |
| 7c55b7d | The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring. | joy | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 7ed73b2 | Have you called the alphas?" "Yes." "The rats, too?" He bristled. "What about the rats?" "They think you're hiding information from them" "I hide information from everyone. Do they think they're special?" | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 199b17a | Mmmm, Kate, the Chief of Security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body then the woman who owns it?" "Curran, I will punch you." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 267425f | Let's have a partnership, Kate. I offer honesty, Kate. I don't have to outrun the Beast Lord I just pissed off, Kate. I only have to outrun you and hit you with my car as I hightail it out of here. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 2744b46 | So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man." "Yep" "What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?" | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| d7ca5ad | When a man takes up arms, he does so for many reasons. Sometimes to punish, sometimes to intimidate or frighten. But when a woman picks up a weapon, she means to kill. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 447ec45 | When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 8488d6d | Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this. At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later? | humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| dba58a0 | You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen. | Victor Hugo | ||
| ed6e907 | The soul gropes in search of a soul, and finds it. And that soul, found and proven, is a woman. A hand sustains you, it is hers; lips lightly touch your forehead, they are her lips; you hear breathing near you, it is she. To have her wholly, from her devotion to her pity, never to be left alone, to have that sweet shyness as, to lean on that unbending reed, to touch, Providence with your hands and be able to grasp it in your arms; God made .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 1b4d9d0 | the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982" | read | Leo Tolstoy | |
| a32ac1a | I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder--how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest. Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority: on the contrary, I.. | strength unrequited-love | Charlotte Brontë | |
| bc31f58 | Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further. | imagination marriage wedding | Margaret Mitchell | |
| faced1d | She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 8a77b7b | This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again. | home life | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 3596896 | There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever | morgaine | Marion Zimmer Bradley | |
| 7c1fea4 | It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down. | knowledge wisdom | George Eliot | |
| 9c52839 | You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 85fab24 | It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things | Dante Alighieri | ||
| f064643 | I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough -- just smart enough to have problems. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 7bc8bcd | Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. - | animal-rights animal-welfare cruelty | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| 173ca59 | And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| cae1645 | It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 596a0c7 | Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b5ea773 | Dreams shape the world | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1a9af19 | You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world. | sad | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0425edb | Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing. | geography humor humour | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6d21bff | Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8cb41b4 | What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 20ebafc | And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others. | Erving Goffman |