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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b739a84 | Every minute with you, Darling Eve, is a minute to treasure." She slid a glance toward him as she uncoded the seal. "You really do want sex." "I'm still breathing, so that would be yes." | eve-dallas roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| a8a05c0 | I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck. | valek yelena | Maria V. Snyder | |
| 11b3be3 | No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 39dbf73 | When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again." "Are you going to kiss the sand?" I asked. "Don't be ridiculous." "Now I'M the one being silly?" "Yes." | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 871deb0 | You didn't think I really liked you? Do you think I really like you now?" He turned toward her, uncertainty in his face."You did go quite a lot of effort to be having this conversation, but... I don't want to read too much of what I hope into that." Val stretched out beside him, resting her head in the crook of his arm. "What do you hope?" He pulled her close, hands careful not to touch her wounds as they wrapped around her. "I hope that yo.. | hope love | Holly Black | |
| 50dea69 | Some promises aren't worth keeping. | Holly Black | ||
| c3b3381 | He was saying that the end of the world wasn't an accident; it was a joke. | Holly Black | ||
| 6a22f71 | You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that you used to feel all right. You forget what it means to feel all right because you feel like shit all of the time, and you can't remember what it was like before. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 6ee4415 | Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana. | buddhism inspirational spirituality | Amit Ray | |
| f47e2d5 | Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters. | beauty inspirational life-and-death | Mario Puzo | |
| ed87220 | And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows. | inspirational | Ntozake Shange | |
| e789680 | It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?" EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. "Doesn't anyone know?" ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? "Gosh!" Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 01ae877 | What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0b6c655 | Learnin' how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. | learning | Terry Pratchett | |
| d48ec3e | It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy." | ethics evil good philosophy-of-science sociology | Terry Pratchett | |
| d1d2ee0 | I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 36ce3f2 | If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood. | Donna Tartt | ||
| b0cc1a0 | Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| c713295 | With a sigh, she asked, "Why do you care if I believe you or not?" "Because if you think I got a leg over with that slag, then the chance of anything sexual with you will be drastically reduced." Without looking up, she said, "Cadeon, a chance can't be reduced from zero." "Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 66fd0a0 | You'll call for me. You'll be lonely in your new quarters and will feel out of sorts. I could let you pet my hair until you fell asleep." He drew in closer and lowered his voice to ask in all seriousness, "You're mad, aren't you?" "As--a--hatter," she whispered back conspiratorially. He felt a hint of sympathy for the creature. "How long have you been in here?" "For four long...interminable...days." He glowered at her. "Which is why I want .. | myst nikolai-wroth warlord | Kresley Cole | |
| 021b931 | Finally the vampire released him with another groan, sitting back on his haunches. "Your blood is in power." Running his tongue over a fang, he said, "Among other things. I believe I might be high. But I it." | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore lothaire paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie vampire | Kresley Cole | |
| cd7cc05 | Chase, I've tussled with vibrators stronger than your charge throwers. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 0ea0363 | Some men would take happiness where they found it. Especially when they have absolutely no promise of it anywhere else. [Rydstrom] | Kresley Cole | ||
| 8ec5f76 | I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that? | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 80656df | Secrets...are the very root of cool. | secrets | William Gibson | |
| 1128772 | He took a duck in the face at 250 knots. | William Gibson | ||
| 315e60b | The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers. | Jeff Noon | ||
| 97e6aa4 | Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. | life | Virginia Woolf | |
| f2b793f | One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her print dress and white apron to array herself in blue and pearls, the day changed, put off stuff, took gauze, changed to evening, and with the same sigh of exhilaration that a woman breathes, tumbling petticoats on the floor, it too shed dust, heat, colour; the traffic thinned; motor cars, tinkling, darting, succeeded the lumber of vans; and he.. | party revelry sunset | Virginia Woolf | |
| 0b2dd87 | The dead know everything but they don't give a damn. | humor knowledge | Joanne Harris | |
| b8e50b4 | I want be a writer | Anne Frank | ||
| 4cb087a | Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 3100439 | He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. | irony | John Fowles | |
| bdf4918 | Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 31a8df1 | Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly. | encouragement leadership mentoring parenthood teaching | Pat Conroy | |
| 2be9c41 | Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 5de9013 | when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 693c463 | Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 691c22e | That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison. | life prison | L.M. Montgomery | |
| e92927c | I love you, but I want to love you enough that I choose alcohol over you. Not even for a moment. I want to be someone you deserve. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 0c724c0 | Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| dc48ec5 | I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. | normalcy pretend | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 7d2e11e | One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 3e1bdcf | It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. | Madeleine L'Engle |