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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b7dc2f1 | George learned from the woman's daughter that she was having her midday meal and a rest in her room upstairs. "But Mother will be down in a little while," she said. "Would you like to wait?" | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 9fa36d0 | If you sisters let Nancy Drew go to France, you will suffer and she will tool | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 76afb5d | No matter how many mysteries Nancy had solved, her friends never ceased to be amazed each time. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 75cbb26 | George received permission to go, then Bess called her house. Mrs. Marvin said her daughter might accompany Nancy, and added that if Mr. Drew had not already chosen a place for them to stay, she would recommend the Long View Motel on top of the hill overlooking Deep River and the valley. | Carolyn Keene | ||
| 54366ac | I do not be\xadlieve birds deserve to be put in a taxo\xadnomic class separate from dinosaurs. | Birds | ||
| 4b95f7d | To warm their little loves the birds complain. | Birds | ||
| 2993ebe | A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air. | Birds | ||
| 753c64b | Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood. | Birds | ||
| d1ede6f | I was always a lover of soft-winged things. | Birds | ||
| 7984ce7 | Birdes of a feather will flocke togither. | Birds | ||
| a479f52 | He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. | Birds | ||
| e49946e | Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,With joyous musick wake the dawning day! | Birds | ||
| 8a91c07 | That byrd ys nat honestThat fylythe hys owne nest. | Birds | ||
| 9aaea8b | The birdThat glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings. | Birds | ||
| 71c8fc9 | The voice of the duck is the glory of the marshes. | Birds | ||
| 6c6aeec | We would smile the radiant smiles of actors in fast-food commercials, merrily chuckling as we ate enough grease to make our hearts explode like meat grenades. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| d035097 | How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks. | Birds | ||
| 7bea74f | If only someone else hadn't done that. I hoped she would learn sooner, rather than later, that you can't unchoose anyone's choices, least of all your own. All you can do with your past is try to grow out of it. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| eabb822 | Oberon asked. No, Oberon, I told him via our mental link. You're only the second companion I've done that with. Some people--and some creatures--don't handle long lives very well. It changes them for the worse. But you just keep getting better, buddy. I briefly glanced at the slobbery hunk of beef underneath Oberon's paw. No thanks; I'm full. I'll tell you some other night, okay? It's a story in itself. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f3c7ee0 | But people who truly want to shed blood will find a way to shed it, just as people who wish to do good will find a way to be a benediction to their neighbors. Building and growing are so much harder than cutting something down. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 79d51bc | Fear is a weapon. Leaders use it to manipulate the people they lead and to cow other nations. Your enemies will use it to manipulate you. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b72f941 | There's a reason Bath & Body Works doesn't have a line of products called Huge Fucking Squirrel. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| eef7481 | Oberon asked me. After my bathtime story, he wanted to be the Genghis Khan of dogs. He wanted a harem full of French poodles, all of whom were named either Fifi or Bambi. It was an amusing habit of his: Oberon had, in the past, wanted to be Vlad the Impaler, Joan of Arc, Bertrand Russell, and any other historical figure I had recently told him about while he was getting a thorough cleansing. His Liberace period had been particularly good fo.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 275444e | Fires were warm cups of non-thinking serenity after the daily rigors of training. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0694c99 | Shared knowledge can weigh heavy in the scales of power, | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e5c9a11 | should be going in there with a thousand naked warriors who fight like wet cats with dodgy bowels. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| bb46475 | What do pharmacists dream of? Caribbean vacations paid for by GlaxoSmithKline? Sample packs of Percocet? Her | Kevin Hearne | ||
| d072c53 | If you don't give people a conventional path to power, they will seek out their own unconventional path. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4ecb8e5 | He was, undeniably, a mobile mountain of musk and virility, | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a1e7092 | Shared knowledge can weigh heavy in the scales of power," he replied, and I have seen the truth of it since. "Controlling what you want shared is always the issue, and writing down nothing is the most extreme method of control. But while this preserves our secrets, it also limits our ability to spread our wisdom, does it not?" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| bbc4883 | No, Oberon, stakes, as in a wooden stake you drive into the ground. It's a homophone." "And you've been so patient too." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4d430d4 | What? Oberon, no." "It's not something I would think to ask." "It's not pandering! Felicity still has a part to play in this. I said at the start there would be vintage poodles. Would you just let me finish?" Granuaile did a poor job of stifling a laugh when she heard me protest the pandering charge. Oberon said, all high and mighty as if he were doing me a favor." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| fab7216 | What does one do when one needs to pray to the gods for patience but a god is causing the need for patience? | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0138c24 | What? Who? You can't throw around pronouns like that without their antecedents if you want people to follow you. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| eb6e6d9 | That good, huh? It's free, Oberon. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a7c5c28 | Horns honked in our wake, and people stomped on their brakes at the sight of a black Mustang being pursued by an airborne chariot. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c0d4efc | and a too-passionate love of books can mew one in a cloister, putting up walls where there should be free range. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e1802ef | At this point we hated each other as much as it was possible for two Irishmen to do-and that's quite a bit. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| dbfb43e | Damn all hieroglyphics for making the ancient Egyptians look cool. Those old gods were best left in oblivion; you'd think the fact that they appeared most often on tombs would be a big hint that they weren't friendly. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 37c9598 | To seek absolution from humanity would be to seek my own folly. One may speak of forgiveness here, and another may actually mean it there, but legions remain who would condemn a starving man to amputation for pinching a crust of bread. We are petty creatures who seek to aggrandize ourselves by feasting on the dignity of our fellows. There | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0d96d9e | All right, buddy. What'll it be? | Kevin Hearne | ||
| e649fe7 | are the worst. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 2b3b135 | Yes, I felt guilt. Somehow I had pushed Fand to the precipice without realizing it, and had I not been so blind, perhaps she wouldn't be trying to pull us all over the edge with her now. I was sure Manannan felt it too--the crushing questions of how we got to this place and whether we could have avoided it, where we went wrong, and whether we would ever learn how not to cock up other people's lives in the course of living our own. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| cb112f0 | There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane. Thank | Kevin Hearne |