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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ecb7fc5 | If you look back through history, most visionaries are one step away from madmen." I" | Rysa Walker | ||
| cdaa1fc | To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. | Bertrand Russell | ||
| 22d0d94 | It's a hard lesson in life, but you have to accept that some things are out of your hands. Otherwise, you'll never know a single minute of peace. You mend what you can, and you let the | Rysa Walker | ||
| 9bf1416 | It's a hard lesson in life, but you have to accept that some things are out of your hands. Otherwise, you'll never know a single minute of peace. You mend what you can, and you let the rest go. You just let it go." I" | Rysa Walker | ||
| f7d1ef3 | His memories of them had faded and... well, I'd known them, so I met with him and we talked. I couldn't give him the full truth, obviously, but what he really wanted to know was what his parents were like as individuals. I had worked with them for several years and I could give him that--anecdotes, little descriptions of things they had done." Katherine" | Rysa Walker | ||
| e4d8a2f | Some people feel they're being oppressed or held back, even if they have everything they need or everything that a reasonable person could want. Some people always want more. | Rysa Walker | ||
| e477a02 | I haven't eaten," Aaron says, nodding down at the large white bag in his hands. "And I'm guessing Daniel didn't feed you on the way over, because . . . well, because he's . . . so I bought extra. Do we have plates in the kitchen, Sam?" When Aaron and Sam go off in search of utensils, Deo says, "The older brother is a pain in the ass. But this one, I could learn to like." | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 4820309 | We're about five steps down when he says, "I feel like we've walked into a horror movie. Two teens sneak down to the basement, where the psycho killer lurks in the dark." "If you're trying to lighten the mood, it's not working." "Don't worry. The psycho killer always targets teens who are sneaking to the basement in order to make out. But I do wish we had a flashlight." | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 3656258 | It's like saving up that perfect comeback you read in a book or heard on TV--it always sounds good in your head, but it never quite fits in real life. | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 25009fc | I'm not delusional, Aaron. I know he's nearly six feet tall. Deo's not a little kid to anyone but me. But I held him when he cried. When he a little kid. I promised him I'd keep the monsters away. That I wouldn't let anyone else hurt him. I . And now--" I stop and pull in several deep breaths. I don't want to lose it again like I did this morning. "It makes me so angry!" | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 0c61f34 | You can skip the part in the middle where he goes off on a tangent about how the Delphi psychics contacted the Grand Duchess Anastasia while on these drugs. Pretty sure she'd have been dead by then--" "Never stopped me." He pauses for a moment. "That's . . . true. good point." | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 5ebdc99 | I nod. "Thanks. Molly was definitely right about one thing, you know." A grin inches across his face. "That I'm gorgeous?" , I think. "No," I say. "I that you're a really nice guy, but now it looks like you're developing this huge ego problem . . ." I swat at him playfully and he catches my hand. "One more thing. When Deo is back safe and sound . . ." He stops and his shoulders slump. "What?" "Well . . . I was about to ask if you'd .. | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 1adc7c5 | As soon as he turns the key, a man with a heavy British accent starts talking about giants not being meant to live in groups. "That's . . . Hagrid." " ," Aaron says. "I got the full set as a Christmas present from Mom and Tay, since I'm in the car so much. I've read the books, of course, but . . . nice to listen to them, too." And so we listen for the next ninety minutes. Well, Aaron and I listen. Taylor is asleep ten minutes in. I clos.. | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 8dee8e8 | Penso che sia importante sapere di essere desiderati, magari perfino di essere necessari, non credete? Ci da qualcosa a cui aggrapparci quando siamo smarriti in un posto estraneo. | Rysa Walker | ||
| 36d9e3e | That surprised me. Not that it wasn't a damn good game. We saw it again, in fact, after he took up with Kate. Not that either of them paid much attention to what was going on down on the field. That was actually the day I had to accept that things had gone too far between the two of them. Otherwise, she never could have taken his mind off baseball. | the-chronos-files | Rysa Walker | |
| fd53b27 | Take that and go play. I don't care if it takes a year. Get the boy out of your system and then get back here. We've got work to do." At the time, I thought Saul meant I needed to take some time to grow up. Get the boy out of my system and come back a man. But thinking back on that conversation a few years later, I'm pretty sure Saul believed there was something going on between me and Kier. I seriously doubt Saul ever had a relationship .. | the-chronos-files | Rysa Walker | |
| ca7206c | Kiernan and baseball--it's like waving a carrot in front of a mule. Put tickets to a ballgame in front of Kiernan's face and he'll follow you pretty much wherever you want to go. After that first game we attended in 1905, it didn't take much for me to convince him to see another game in 1912, and then one in 1924, and so on. | the-chronos-files | Rysa Walker | |
| 44cdfbb | You ever heard that bit about don't look a gift horse in the mouth?" "I've heard it. Although the Trojans would have fared better with Athens if they had ignored that advice." I had to look up that reference when I got back to Saul's." | the-chronos-files | Rysa Walker | |
| 8a7d581 | that increasing the role of religion in society would make things worse, not better. | Rysa Walker | ||
| 064a730 | time is it?" I'm hesitant to ask, since it means she'll speak again and my head really can't take it, but" | Rysa Walker | ||
| 682b4b9 | It seemed a bit silly to be sad about saying good-bye to Katherine and Connor when I'd be seeing them in just a few minutes, but I was. They wouldn't be the same Katherine and Connor. Our relationship would have to be rebuilt, and I could tell that they were thinking the same thing. I kissed them both, | Rysa Walker | ||
| 0fbb27d | But most people are fools," Tilson continues. "They see exactly what they want to see and nothing more. It's like Niemoller said, if you ignore it when they're taking rights from everyone else, pretty soon they'll come after yours, and there's no one left to protest." | Rysa Walker | ||
| cdb46e4 | Additional thanks go out to everyone at Skyscape and Amazon Publishing, especially Courtney Miller, Terry Goodman, and Tim Ditlow. This has been a wild ride and you've all been very patient with a newbie author. | Rysa Walker | ||
| 2390568 | Money is power and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. | Rysa Walker | ||
| 2e7bfbf | If your faith is so shaky that it can be undermined by books that challenge it, then something is rotten at the core. And | Rysa Walker | ||
| 7080f85 | There's no shower, no paper towels. Just the sink, cold water, and hand soap. Carrie He has a point. There's blood on my arms and neck, even in my hair. Nothing to do but start scrubbing, hopefully before someone walks in with sleepy kids in need of a bathroom break. I'd probably give them nightmares for a week. | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 33d5691 | Why? Because your grandfather gets hunches and you have some sort of psychic abilities, do you automatically believe everything? Someone walks in your door saying she can torch the place using her mind, do you accept it as fact? Demons, vampires, werewolves? Sounds like a good idea for a TV show. Your partner is named Sam--are you sure your name isn't Dean? | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 0994698 | Maybe it's just the fact that this has been one bitch of a day. Either way, his question annoys me. I kind of want to reach across the coffee table and smack him. | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 7c6e9db | Okay," I tell Aaron, once I've hung up. "Just so you know, Deo will call Dr. Kelsey, the police, the FBI, the entire Avengers team, and anyone else he can think of if I don't check back in half an hour." Aaron rolls his eyes. "You have a very possessive boyfriend." I start to correct him, but maybe having Aaron think Deo's my overprotective boyfriend is a good thing. I could say he's at the gym, lifting weights." | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 1a4906e | Someone dropped her off in a shopping mall food court just before her third birthday. Pinned to her dress was a note with the name Anna, a date of birth, and the words, . | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 92b1e64 | He recorded me once, so I know exactly how I look when I'm engaged in one of these internal dialogues--and that makes me determined to avoid them in public. My eyes go blank, unfocused, like no one's home--which is ironic if you think about it, since the problem isn't that nobody's there, but rather that we've exceeded the maximum occupancy of one. | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| cd1ed82 | And then the light turns into a snake, and I turn into a snake, although I'm pretty sure those last two are due more to my choice of bedtime reading than to Molly's memories. | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| e01bbcf | But I'm still too wound up to sleep. So I browse through the audiobooks on the intranet, hoping I'll find the one I'm looking for. It's there. . I skip to Chapter Twenty-One and forward to a section near the end. Hermione is accusing Ron of having the "emotional range of a teaspoon." I wonder if Aaron is in the car now, listening to the same thing. And then I shove thought into the folder with the others." | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 9724bb2 | Shut up!" Dacia digs her nails into my skin. "You do not do the talking. I do not need you to tell me about your other phantom . . ." She waves her hands, like she can't find the word. "The dead-in-your-head people." | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| e46d50b | I'd pegged you as cute-but-boring. But it looks like Kate's little pet has claws. | Rysa Walker | ||
| 0e9fd09 | I smiled up at him with a hopeful look. "You could just unlace it now?" | Rysa Walker | ||
| 3112b7c | After a few miles, I push play and the audiobook starts. It might be nice to ride through the night, believing in magic for a while, magic of either the Hogwarts variety or the Muggle sort that will keep Daniel alive. But Aaron and Taylor must have been in the car a lot over the last few days, because they're way past the point where we left off. And I'd forgotten how dark this one is at the end. They're past the Ministry of Magic and back .. | the-delphi-effect | Rysa Walker | |
| 632489e | I miss, but I do hit the board, and all eight cans tumble to the ground as a result. "I win," I tell him. "The goal was to knock down the cans, right? I knocked down all eight with one bullet. Can't beat that." "I'm afraid that's not how it works, love." | time-s-edge | Rysa Walker | |
| 6b61590 | Abel was arrested. So was the guy with me. Help me get Delia out of the trunk." His expression borders on horror. "Well, you knew you'd have to let her out eventually when you put her in there, didn't you?" | time-s-edge | Rysa Walker | |
| 0b9227f | I wondered how much Kiernan knew about the CHRONOS key from his time on the Cyrist farm, and what his reaction would be if I told him he was eating something purchased by his great-grandson. | timebound | Rysa Walker | |
| 1ebfbb6 | Before you start what?" He shakes his head. "Not telling. You have to come and see." There's a mischievous light in his eyes, and in that moment he looks so very much like his eight-year-old self, waiting for my decision to hire him as a guide at the Expo. Who could say no to those big, dark puppy-dog eyes? I laugh. "Okay, okay. You win." And even though I don't want to give him false hope, I can tell from his smile that I have." | the-chronos-files time-s-edge | Rysa Walker | |
| 898e066 | She doesn't say anything for a few seconds. "Are you sure, Kate? A year is a long time, especially at your age." "True. It would be a shame for you to miss my first step." She rolls her eyes. "You know what I mean." | the-chronos-files time-s-edge | Rysa Walker | |
| af582e8 | We both look up as Katherine, Connor, and Dad enter the kitchen. Kiernan tries to be polite and stand, but I'm on the outside of the bench, and the table has him wedged in, so the most he can manage is a half crouch, which looks terribly uncomfortable. I grab the back of his shirt and tug him back down to the bench. "Dad, Connor, this is Kiernan. Katherine, you've already met." "He's changed quite a bit in the past thirteen years, however.. | the-chronos-files time-s-edge | Rysa Walker | |
| 0f47951 | Connor follows Dad's lead and steps forward to take Kiernan's hand. "I'm Connor Dunne. And you can call me Mr. Dunne." There's a slight twinkle in Connor's eye, so I think he's joking. But whether he meant it that way or not, Kiernan laughs. "The hell I will, sonny boy. You need to show your elders the proper respect, or I'll take you behind the barn and give you a good strapping." Connor snorts. "No barn, and I'd love to see you try." | the-chronos-files time-s-edge | Rysa Walker |