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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5243667 | He would never believe, in his wildest dreams ,that she no longer loved him. She had said it once, but he would dismiss these sorts of things as "temperament" or "wine" as if a bottle contained an infusion of foreign thoughts with which she had innocently poisoned herself." | Peter Carey | ||
| 20c4961 | She could see herself still blushing and he was looking at her with those big dark eyes, as if he knew. But that was a trick of his, not an intentional trick but a misleading sign. He saw nothing.It looked as if he could see everything and people always gave him credit for it. | Peter Carey | ||
| 37091c1 | At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man | Peter Carey | ||
| 92116d6 | He held back nothing of himself in his effort to please his audience | don-t-hold-back no-holding-back performing please-like-me please-others selflessness | Peter Carey | |
| 4259b79 | People feel ashamed of being depressed, they feel they should snap out of it, they feel weak and inadequate. Of course, these feelings are symptoms of the disease. As far as the depressive being weak or inadequate, let me drop some names of famous depressives: Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud. Terry Bradshaw, Drew Carey, Billy Joel, T. Boone Pickens, J. K. Rowling, Brooke Shields, Mike Wallace. Charles .. | Richard O'Connor | ||
| 6bdbd8b | Another time, the souls of a husband and wife came through to validate their presence to their daughter with a very specific shtick. The dad had me yell, "Bingo!" at which point Mom's soul said, "They don't have bingo on TV. It's !" The daughter laughed so hard and said that game show was her parents' favorite. She used to call them when they were alive, and they'd say, "We need to call you back. The Big Deal is on right now!" When the dau.. | Theresa Caputo | ||
| fdbc2c3 | I went to him unhesitatingly. He drew me against him, his lean body clad in black velvet doublet and breeches, with the de Morhban crest on his shoulder. I felt the dark tide of desire loose in my marrow, as one hand clasped hard on my buttocks, pressing me to him, and the other grasped the nape of my neck, entangled in the mesh caul, drawing my head back. He kissed me, then, hard and ruthlessly. I had chosen this. For what had happened bef.. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 2a655ea | Lifting his head, Quincel de Morhban looked at me with something like awe. "It's true," he whispered. "What they say ... Kushiel's Dart. It's all true." "Yes, my lord," I murmured; if he'd told me the moon was locked in his stables, I'd have said the same, at that moment. De Morhban released me, turning away to pluck a great silvery rose, mindful of its thorns. "You see this?" he asked, placing it in my hand and folding my fingers about the.. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| f425d90 | Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| bb6f43b | I aspire to wisdom, my lady. I do not believe I possess it, not yet. But my lord Ptolemy Solon holds that happiness is the highest form of wisdom." I made a broad gesture. "Today the sun is shining and we are engaged in a pleasant pursuit in the company of friends. If that is wisdom, let us be content." | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 233e122 | I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now. I knew it in the soles of my feet, in the sturdy muscles of my calves. Surely the finding mattered more than the losing. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 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. | love religion | 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 |