1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
7668
7669
7670
7671
7672
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 71682bb | Curiosity may have killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 7a9b6a3 | My thanks, Master." He waved his hand. "It is what I do. If you wish to thank me, do a kindness for someone in need." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| cfb4cea | couples. Their duties done, they had eyes only for each other, locking glances and smiling deeply; two realms, two rulers, united in love and a shared dream. It | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 3c8a7fc | There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| bca9d3e | Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 2337424 | Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d'Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving? | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 490528f | there | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| fe0b5c4 | super-size emotions had saved me. God knows, I'd spent enough time wrestling with them, but I'd never thought before about how much of what animates us as human beings--or semi-human beings--depends on our feelings. Without | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| aa8ef54 | whatever complicated emotions I felt for him, I didn't want to ruin the moment with my unfortunately stereotypical American ignorance of history and geography. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| c955ca8 | How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men's lives and the wealth of nations as love-tokens. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| b9a570e | mayhap if I played at being the kind and gentle husband long enough, it would become true. Master Piero once told us that we might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 2d2698e | Comme ils sont dans l'erreur ceux qui voient en Elua un dieu bien delicat, fait uniquement pour etre adore par les amants aux yeux tournes vers les etoiles. Mais que les guerriers clament donc leur foi dans des dieux de sang et de tonnerre ; l'amour est dur, plus dur que l'acier - et trois fois plus cruel. Il est inexorable comme la maree, et la vie et la mort marchent sur ses brisees. | religion love | Jacqueline Carey | |
| 2381a2f | Somewhat to my surprise, there were several polite golf claps. Vampires. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 9a55a4e | where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 8fbe14b | I have always thought that the notion of a Republic is a noble one, dating back to the glory days of Hellas, which all D'Angelines regard fondly as the last Golden Era before the coming of Elua. Now, seeing it in action, I was not so sure. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 31b124f | That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to reveal a glimpse of sky. It | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 789ab49 | Mercy and compassion are all the grace left to us. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 0b3b131 | Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. And | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| b50a78a | We knew each other's histories and secrets, hopes and fears and dreams. When you need to get good and drunk, that's the kind of person you want keeping pace with you. "Okay," | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| b41c71c | Preserved pufferfish. Former flounders. Ex-eels. | lol | Sy Montgomery | |
| 3710d73 | Just about every animal," Scott says--not just mammals and birds--" can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy." Once you find the right way to work with an animal, be it an octopus or an anaconda, together, you can accomplish what even Saint Francis might have considered a miracle." | Sy Montgomery | ||
| f5c93c4 | As he did with the electric eels, Scott is trying to figure out a way to induce the toads to show themselves. How? "You need to get within the mind of the toad," he says." | Sy Montgomery | ||
| a9defe6 | Being friends with an octopus-whatever that friendship meant to her-has shown me that our world, and the worlds around and within it, is aflame with shades of brilliance we cannot fathom | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 31b58ab | teachers are all around to help you: with four legs or two or eight or even none; some with internal skeletons, some without. All you have to do is recognize them as teachers and be ready to hear their truths. | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 8929539 | species from elephants to monkeys purposely eat fermented fruit to get drunk; dolphins were recently discovered sharing a certain toxic puffer fish, gently passing it from one cetacean snout to another, as people would pass a joint, after which the dolphins seem to enter a trancelike state.) | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 99330ee | voles make up 85 percent of the diet. (One feature of vole biology that inadvertently helps out hawks is that these rodents mark their territories with urine, which Scandinavian researchers recently discovered reflects ultraviolet light. Hawks can see UV light--and may well use the voles' territorial markings as signposts to the nearest restaurant.) | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 87446b0 | The Buddha denied the existence of persisting selves. At the end of life, the self may dissolve into eternity like salt in the ocean. To some, this might seem distressing. But to lose the lonely self in the ocean of eternity could also be a release, an enlightenment, as the mystics promise. | Sy Montgomery | ||
| 500d814 | Rose and Ash were the kind of sickeningly cute couple that made Gin want to puke, especially when they acted all weird, doing things they thought were hilarious, but were just stupid as far she was concerned. Gin didn't know why Rose embarrassed herself in public like that. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 0eb14bf | Gin was smart enough to know if she had limited the party to just her girlfriends, it would be a very small one: namely her and Sandy. It's not that the girls at school didn't like Gin. It was more like they tolerated her. Not that Gin wasted any energy trying to be friends. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| c924892 | The weird part was that Gin kind of wanted the woman to suspect that something was going on. The best part of being up to no good is when people know you're up to no good, but can't do a thing about it. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 28fb88f | When Gin first told her she was going to throw a party, a Rainbow Party, Sandy's mind was full of Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. She knew it sounded odd, since Gin rarely liked childish things like that, even for their retro appeal. But Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake stuff were sold at Hot Topic next to Good Charlotte, Metallica and Iron Maiden. Sandy assumed that rainbows from the '70s were the new "in" thing." | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 085715d | Gin was always so calm around guys. Sandy wished some of that would rub off on her. Obviously, she didn't want all of Gin's habits to rub off, but a few of the useful ones might be nice. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 497d6f9 | Sandy was ready for a bit of excitement in her life too. She was tired of being treated like she was so immature, like she didn't know anything about boys or sex or anything. While it was true that she didn't have any experience, she was more than ready to learn. She was ready to say goodbye to Sandra Dee. At least, she thought she was. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| d3a5419 | On the surface, the Celibacy Club was one of the more contradictory groups at school. It was the kind of club where kids (mostly girls) would walk past the classroom a couple of times before they went inside for the meeting, as if they were embarrassed to join a club whose members proudly declared their intention to wait until marriage. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| a2b6e14 | Skye certainly had moments in her life when she wished she could rewind time and reclaim her virgin status. The loss of it had happened so quickly, she wasn't sure she was even remembering what had happened correctly. Everyone always talked about knowing when the moment was right. Well, at the time, Skye thought she knew it was the right time. It certainly seemed right, but honestly, she wasn't really thinking in her brain at the moment. T.. | Paul Ruditis | ||
| 66772ae | Fair are the daughters of men, and fairest are those who read. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 8c9f29b | Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you? | James K. Morrow | ||
| 9cc5a4f | Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances, | James K. Morrow | ||
| d604fc2 | The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxx xxx The human race is destroying itself with nostalgia... | James K. Morrow | ||
| e63607e | WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL'S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 37250b5 | Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 17d64d3 | A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time's avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 60594ec | There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages. | James K. Morrow | ||
| 2bcf97c | If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don't know what does. | James K. Morrow |