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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 67bc888 | She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 37a42a8 | ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 11216a3 | Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears... | writing | Jack Kerouac | |
| d8fdd41 | You see, there's a drill: 1. I [Amy] will say 'Right then, let's go and rescue him [Rory].' 2. The Doctor will say 'Ah yes, but...' 3. And then he'll list the fourteen things that we have to do before we resuce Rory 4. And why they're all more important than rescuing Rory 5. The list normally includes wounded puppies 6. An exploding bus full of grannies 7. You know what I mean 8. So we'll go and do those instead 9. Cos they're all so import.. | doctor-who rescuing-rory rory-williams the-doctor | James Goss | |
| 3a16c4a | I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. | government | Jorge Luis Borges | |
| d625e9c | That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years. | teachers | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| e013bf3 | You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| b170a6c | Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured? | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 0e64d8b | The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter | death murder vampire | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| ec99b35 | He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| b476afd | Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?' Uh... you know. Pretty good.' Have you said the L-Word yet?' The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?' Uh... No. The other L-Word.' ?' Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't trying to trick you or anything." | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| fc6bb24 | Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true. | Richard Bach | ||
| 0cee1a3 | Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself | Kim Harrison | ||
| ddc7592 | I gestured my frustration. "I don't know. She's much better already. She wasn't talking half an hour ago. Look at her now." We all turned, finding Ceri sobbing quietly and drinking her tea in small reverent sips as the pixy girls hovered over her. Three were plating her long, fair hair and another was singing to her. Okay," I said as we turned back. "Bad example." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 87200fd | I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted. | sobriety | Gillian Flynn | |
| f37408f | I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can. | brothers family family-love family-relationships love loyalty sibling-bond sibling-relationships siblings sister sisters trust twins unconditional-love | Gillian Flynn | |
| ce7dba5 | Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin - the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start. | Robert Harris | ||
| edaed78 | These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9dac1d8 | There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball. | school summer vacation | Nora Roberts | |
| 8c19186 | the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths | Dan Brown | ||
| 5688127 | How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals? | John Grisham | ||
| e51ab9a | But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything. | James Frey | ||
| 4613774 | l ydrk lrjl b 'n lshy' lqlyl b lnsb@ ly lmr'@ mhm tmm mthl lshy' lkbyr :) | John Gray | ||
| cd69727 | Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity? | Jon Ronson | ||
| 43f5b64 | It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death." | Charles Dickens | ||
| 581afc5 | It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 62240ab | Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 4e96e86 | I looked anxiously around me: the present, nothing but the present. Furniture light and solid, rooted in its present, a table, a bed, a closet with a mirror-and me. the true nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, and all that was not present did not exist. The past did not exist. Not at all. Not in things, not even in my thoughts. It is true that I had realized a long time ago that mine had escaped me. But until then I h.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| e25c149 | How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. | dissonance repression | Frank Herbert | |
| d68bc96 | The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 630a174 | There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink. | Truman Capote | ||
| c805893 | This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. | planet sad sadness unhappiness unhappy | Douglas Adams | |
| 5234aba | You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." | Douglas Adams | ||
| aa5f034 | You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number." "Er, five," said the mattress. "Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?" | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6f0e17b | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it's always reality that's got it wrong. This was the gist of the no.. | beauty hitchhiker-s-guide life | Douglas Adams | |
| 3a7c460 | Bilbo almost stopped breathing, and went stiff himself. He was desperate. He must get away, out of this horrible darkness, while he had any strength left. He must fight. He must stab the foul thing, put its eyes out, kill it. It meant to kill him. No, not a fair fight. He was invisible now. Gollum had no sword. Gollum had not actually threatened to kill him, or tried yet. And he was miserable, alone, lost. A sudden understanding, a pity mix.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 91042b5 | It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 5fbbffb | Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras. | historical philosophy | Herman Melville | |
| b18155a | w'yWu waldin l yashuqWu `lyh frqu bntih HtWa~ wlw kant dhahb@an l~ bayti jarih 'w l~ qaSri malkin? 'yWu rjulin l tarta`shu '`maqu nfsih bilGaSWati `indam yafSiluh namwsu lTaby`@i `n lbn@i lty l`abah Tifl@an whdhWabah SabiyWa@an wrafaqah mra'@? nWa kab@a lwldayn lzwaji lbn@i yuDr`u frHahum bizwaji lbn, l'nWa hadha uyksibu l`ay'l@a `uDwan jadydan, 'mWa dhak fyaslubuh `uDwan qadiyman `azyzan. | جبران-خليل-جبران | Kahlil Gibran | |
| cdc21d2 | I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 6de5d4c | If you want to know the Correct term for me, I'm a Dark-Hunter." Nick digested that word slowly. "Which means what? You hunt darkness?" "Yes, Nick. That's exactly what I do. There's just not enough of it." Now, there was some sarcasm you could cut with a knife." -- | humor humour | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| d36b2ea | I would ask what it is you think you're doing, but... you are a teenager. I should have known better than to leave you in the car unattended. Next time, I'll seal you in there...probably with bricks. Maybe even mortar." Nick ignored his dry tone. "Just so long as you make sure nothing can get inside to kill me, I'm good with that." Ash frowned. "What are you talking about?" "The kid dead on the ground. Fourteen, Ash. Fourteen. I'm fourte.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| a3105b3 | But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 64089fb | Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. | Peter S. Beagle |