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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a0e8a44 | Her hair was a dirty color that was too dark to be blond, her chin was big and her eyes were small. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 9a9acb1 | There's a great many things hard to fathom in darkness that set themselves straight in the light of day. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 1e59ce4 | Time was of the essence. For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 7ecbacf | The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 6fdb1fb | Pigs are remarkable creatures and, though most men are too blind to see it, have intelligence that they show in their eyes. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 502f1ff | They were not willfully cruel, you know. Only foolish. Misguided by their learning, their ambition, their own self-deceiving blindness. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| ebd3899 | just 'cause a thing's impossible don't mean it can't happen. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| b859acd | And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, boo.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 6c2dd97 | A story so cherished it had to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| bb823cf | The doctor is an intelligent, cultivated man. He has a sincere desire to see the twins improve and has been the prime mover in bringing me to Angelfield. He explained to me at great length the difficulties I am likely to face here, and I listened with as much politeness as I could muster. Any governess, after the few hours I have had in this house, would have a full and clear picture of the task awaiting her, but he is a man, hence cannot s.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| ad379c1 | There are stories that may be told aloud, and stories that must be told in whispers, and there are stories that are never told at all. The story of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong was one of these latter ones, known only to the two parties to whom it belonged and the river. But as secret visitors to this world, as border crossers between one world and another, there is nothing to prevent us sitting by the river and opening our ears; .. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| aee552c | El silencio no es el entorno natural para las historias -me dijo en una ocasion la senorita Winter-. Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| e9d5a46 | El silencio donde moraban sus demonios. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| 3fb6aa6 | A river no more begins at its source than a story begins with the first page. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| e553a44 | Pero ?que tormenta golpea en silencio? | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| 74a2cde | her fear of action was overtaken by her fear of inaction. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| effb472 | No conviene encarinarse con los personajes secundarios. No es su historia. Vienen, se van, y una vez que se han ido ya no vuelven. Eso es todo. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| 2c3869b | Cualquier institutriz, despues de pasar unas pocas horas en esta casa, se habria hecho una idea clara y completa de la tarea a la que se enfrenta; pero el medico es un hombre, de modo que no puede percatarse de lo tedioso que a cualquiera le resulta que le expliquen detenidamente lo que ya ha entendido. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| 2b7345c | Una mente fatigada tiende a tomar derroteros infructuosos; no hay nada que una buena noche de sueno no pueda reparar. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| e753dd6 | Cuando escribo, incluso ahora mientras estoy escribiendo esta frase, esta palabra, soy consciente de la presencia de un lector fantasma que se inclina sobre mi hombro y contempla mi pluma, que tergiversa mis palabras y distorsiona mi significado, haciendome sentir incomoda incluso en la intimidad de mis propios pensamientos. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| dd4d271 | the last few miles of the Atlantic Ocean back to England with all of the jewellery hidden in her knickers. Granny | David Walliams | ||
| 96beb8f | Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. I | Ernest Cline | ||
| 35ccfa2 | There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behaviour seeping out from under whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| f442bab | I twitched a smile, resisting the temptation to kick his teeth down his throat, and folded myself into the deck chair. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| f6478ba | It is true, I spend some of my leisure time in purchased sexual release, both real and virtual. Or, as you so elegantly put it, whorehouses. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| e67ff1b | Is Sullivan at Bay City Central right now? | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| e776339 | IN ARCHITECTURAL ECHO of service pyramid theory, the Shorn block had rented out its bottom two levels to a series of shopping and eating units that collectively went under the name Basecamp. According to the Shorn promotional literature that Chris had read, Basecamp provided employment for more than six hundred people and, together with the Shorn-owned vehicle repair shops in the basement, was a working embodiment of the virtues of trickled.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| b81ba2f | Bullet-proof, right?' 'Mmm.' Kawahara tipped her head to one side. 'Depends on the bullet, I would say. But impact resistant, certainly. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4a5537f | I'd rather you didn't smoke in here.' 'Kawahara, I'd rather you died of an internal haemorrhage, but I don't suppose you'll oblige me. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| f7fd8bb | The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here--it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin... | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| c4fe35a | The lawyers I saw there had about as much in common with the man who had defended me at fifteen as automated machine rifle fire has with farting. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 426321a | The car boosted up and presumably out because I heard the drumming of rain against the bodywork. There was a faint smell of leather from the upholstery, which beat the odour of faeces on the inbound journey, and the seat I was in moulded itself supportively to my form. I seemed to have moved up in the order of things. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 478dc79 | The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, TAKE IT PERSONALLY. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here - it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| f7f77b3 | If they want you, a youngish Quell had once written of the Harlan's World ruling elite, sooner or later they'll scoop you up off the globe, like specks of interesting dust off a Martian artifact. Cross the gulf between the stars, and they can come after you. Go into centuries of storage, and they'll be there waiting for you, clone new, when you resleeve. They are what we once dreamed of as gods, mythical agents of destiny, as inescapable as.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 33f2ca2 | I'd rather you didn't smoke in here." "[...]I'd rather you died of an internal haemorrhage, but I don't suppose you'll oblige me." | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 55b8079 | When I looked at the curve of her hips and thighs on the window shelf, I could feel the way she had writhed back against me so clearly it was almost virtual. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| a798e24 | He storms down in savage joy, to meet all the waiting blades and hate. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| ab90272 | Screams powering down to sobbing. The sickly stench of charred flesh made it across in ribbons to where I lay. It was like a homecoming. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 7f76091 | And for the moments that the embrace lasted, and a little while after, I felt as clean as the breeze coming in off the sea. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 0165f57 | Kristin, nothing ever does change." I jerked a thumb back at the crowd outside. "You'll always have morons like that, swallowing belief patterns whole so they don't have to think for themselves. You'll always have people like Kawahara and the Bancrofts to push their buttons and cash in on the program. People like you to make sure the game runs smoothly and the rules don't get broken too often. And when the Meths want to break the rules them.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 693103c | You'll let your life, the most precious thing you have, be stolen from you hour by hour and day by day as long as you can eke out the existence your males will let you have. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 271da37 | Anyone who builds satellites we can't shoot down needs to be taken seriously and, if they ever come back for their hardware, be approached with caution. That's not religion, it's common sense. Quellcrist Falconer Metaphysics for Revolutionaries | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 06c4d27 | The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine. Reality doesn't offer this assurance, so it's very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you're in control. Quellcrist Falconer Ethics on the Precipice | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| b0c2127 | In any agenda, political or otherwise, there is a cost to be borne. Always ask what it is, and who will be paying. If you don't, then the agenda-makers will pick up the perfume of your silence like swamp panthers on the scent of blood, and the next thing you know, the person expected to bear the cost will be you. And you may not have what it takes to pay. Quellcrist Falconer Things I Should Have Learnt By Now Vol II | Richard K. Morgan |