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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b3f5e77 | El mundo habra acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el dia en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagon de carga. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| fc4e607 | The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 386be6b | This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 1b1b7d7 | sometimes when we are beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, "Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now." " | Brené Brown | ||
| fdbd521 | Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it's understanding the necessity of both; it's engaging. It's being all in. | love psychology vulnerability | Brené Brown | |
| aae5499 | But the not-very-highbrow truth of the matter was that the reading was how I got my ya-yas out. For the sake of my bookish reputation I upgraded to Tolstoy and Steinbeck before I understood them, but my dark secret was that really, I preferred the junk. The Dragonriders of Pern, Flowers in the Attic, The Clan of the Cave Bear. This stuff was like my stash of Playboys under the mattress. | reading | Julie Powell | |
| f166365 | Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| c0ff093 | One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c6581d0 | Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good. | good government | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| f5c7a0b | Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4adff3f | Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but .. | illusion pain tess-of-the-d-urbervilles thomas-hardy | Thomas Hardy | |
| f9f9eac | It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness, | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 92b444e | Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night? | pragmatism | Graham Greene | |
| e5012db | Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8030cf5 | I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!" "You did!" she retorted. "And although I can't say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!" "Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!" | aunt banter chaperon invisible | Georgette Heyer | |
| 1616700 | Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ff0285c | Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty. | Clive Barker | ||
| e460c0a | The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable. | horror | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| a7d56dc | The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 7a76760 | I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day--mock me horribly! | jealousy vanity | Oscar Wilde | |
| 99dc1ee | Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 8850283 | history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills you, but he was wrong. you killed it by accident. thinking you were doing something else. shattering, when all you wanted to do was keep it safe. | Janet Fitch | ||
| 7256ca7 | He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear." | seduction | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2a4fdb7 | Hello," Magnus said to the monkey. The monkey did not reply. "I shall call you Ragnor." | monkey | Cassandra Clare | |
| db5804d | So?" Clary said. (After she Marked Alec with the Fearless rune.) "So what?" Alec rolled his sleeve down, covering the Mark. "So how do you ? Any different?" Alec looked considering. "Not really." Jace threw his hands up. "So it doesn't work." "No necessarily," Luke said. "There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of." Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. .. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| d7adad9 | Give me one good reason why I shouldn't chop him into worthless-bastard-themed confetti. --Isabelle Lightwood | Cassandra Clare | ||
| def8101 | Alex- Alec, if I had given you the impression I had accepted the idea of your death, I can only apologize. I tried to, I thought I had- and yet still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be any more ready to lose you than I am right now. Which is not at all. | tmi | Cassandra Clare | |
| 2f6850c | Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy, Magnus...' 'I guess I shouldn't have said there wouldn't be no risk to you,' Clary said meekly. 'That's right,' said Simon. 'Just remember, when your mother's gnawing my ankle like a furious mama bear separated from her cub, I did it for you. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 2baad71 | Simon shook his head."Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles because it amuses you?" "That and I'm not really familiar with what they sell in mundane grocery stores.Maryse usually cooks or we order in food."said Jace" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 0c652f6 | To marry a girl just to make her a widow," said Gabriel Lightwood. "Many would say that was not a kindness." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| e6d0dd9 | Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 985f960 | In case you were wondering, it is preferable to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven--I've done both. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 4d1d2a4 | Not everything Jace did was insane and suicidal, she reminded herself. It just seemed that way. -Clary, pg.46- | Cassandra Clare | ||
| a38c4a4 | How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page." | practice | Cassandra Clare | |
| ca3bfe3 | You snuck up on me," she said. "I guess I'm not much of a Shadowhunter, huh?" Simon shrugged. "Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace." | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 9f44eb9 | I prefer to think that I'm liar in a way that's uniquely my own." (Jace)" | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 26a296a | You cut me," he said. His voice was pleasant. British. Very ordinary. He looked at his hand with critical interest. "It might be fatal." Tessa looked at him with wide eyes. "Are you the Magister?" He tilted his hand to the side. Blood ran down it, spattering the floor. "Dear me, massive blood loss. Death could be imminent." "Are you the Magister?" "Magister?" He looked mildly surprised by her vehemence. "That means 'master' in Latin, doesn'.. | will | Cassandra Clare | |
| 32342cc | Lovely,wonderful Isabelle.Could you please go away?Now is a really bad time." Isabelle looked from Magnus to her brother,and back again. "Then,you dont want me to tell you that Camille's just escaped from the Sanctuary and my mother is demanding that you come back to the Institute right now to help them find her?" "No,"Magnus said."I dont want you to tell me that" "Well,to bad"Isabelle said"Because it's true .I mean,I guess you dont have to.. | Cassandra Clare | ||
| ab3e25f | the kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory... | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 376447a | Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. | power pride | Robert Fulghum | |
| 6177232 | Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe. | determination frankenstein men | Mary Shelley | |
| 9f4e308 | Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c6bc175 | You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b550f0b | He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fish feed first and the hooked fish, the female, made a wild, panic-stricken, despairing fight that soon exhausted her, and all the time the male had stayed with her, crossing the line and circling with her on the surface. He had stayed so close that the old man was afraid he would cut the line with his tail which was sharp as a scythe and almo.. | hemingway the-old-man-and-the-sea | Ernest Hemingway |