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| 429e958 | The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained. | depression-quotes | William Styron | |
| 70acfa3 | Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can't. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn't perfect and neither are we. | sherrilyn kenyon | ||
| df1ca9e | Do you want my input or is this just an angry tirade you need to vent? (Acheron) Both! (Kat) Okay, you rant and I'll add my comments at the end. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 71469f3 | Zarek! I won't leave you here to die. (Astrid) It's okay, princess. I don't mind dying for you. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9e4fac9 | I prefer sidekick. I tried once for the title of Padawan, but Bubba wigged out saying that mentors are always killed off in books and movies and he'd be damned if he was going to die once he taught me everything I needed to know about killing zombies. (Mark) Then why let you be his sidekick? Isn't that the same thing? (Nick) Uh, no. In the movies, the sidekicks are the ones who die. (Mark) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9ef6289 | What's going on? (Astrid) Not much. Some invincible asshole is trying to kill me. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 91a41de | So do all animals react that way to you? I know you said rats steer clear." "Most do. They see a human, but they smell someting else. It confuses them. Canines are the worst, though." He paused. "No, cats are the worst. I really don't like cats." I laughed." -- | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| a23c74c | That if you didnt get your medicine in the next twenty-four hours you'd be dead?" i said, " Not exactly, but close. you know, the old ' upping the ante with a fatal disease that needs medication twist. APerently it still works." "Kind of a letdown, then, huh?" "No kidding. Look at you, your not even gasping." " All right then, emergency medical situation, take two." he leaped to his feet, stagored, kneeled over, then lifted his head weak.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 52ee555 | but you see, just because we've been...dealt a certain hand...it doesn't mean we can't choose to rise above- to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. to try to retain whatever essential humanity we can. | twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| a81f886 | There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love. | love | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 130c475 | Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 1cf2a44 | My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| b5ecc7d | Forever," Edward echoed in my ear. I couldn't speak anymore. I lifted my head and kissed him with a passion that might possibly set the forest on fire. I wouldn't have noticed." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5622c81 | Language disguises thought. | logic philosophy semiotics | Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| 4a2cd7b | Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 540ac22 | I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them? | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| b119395 | The square root of I is I. | philosophy self | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 6bb2a04 | All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine. | stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 5232545 | After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. | Richard Russo | ||
| 902ced6 | Alright, good night," he said, his words a little slurred. "But before I pass out, I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat." | funny hot humor love relationships sexy | Erin McCarthy | |
| 66993b5 | It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 22cd349 | It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T. | Anne Lamott | ||
| f4a4c46 | Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, "It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me," I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at pe.. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 4435385 | Brittany and I don't date other people." "Why not?" "It's called being boyfriend and girlfriend." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 8be9fa9 | I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. | life | William Shakespeare | |
| 880ff0c | And, suddenly, I want to touch him. Not a push, or a shove, or even a friendly hug. I want to feel the creases in his skin, connect his freckles with invisible lines, brush my fingers across the inside of his wrist. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| db577cb | Seriously. We were never like that were we? | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| a099fec | Josh grins. It's wide and relieved and reveals a rarely seen pair of dimples. I could live inside those dimples for the rest of my life. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 850cdcd | A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July -- Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear -- Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die: Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wo.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| aade8fa | But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!" | Lewis Carroll | ||
| b103d86 | The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve. | Maya Angelou | ||
| d096f12 | Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.) | William Goldman | ||
| cfaeaf1 | When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it. | reading | William Goldman | |
| 0b8bb3c | A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that. | Jeff Noon | ||
| 6d289d4 | Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends. | Charles Darwin | ||
| aee36f9 | Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while. That is what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there is just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all al.. | inspirational | Harper Lee | |
| 0603a53 | The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body. | sadness | Manuel Rivas | |
| 6391adc | We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane. | love truth | Alain de Botton | |
| 448d42f | Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 3cec568 | Alek was right behind her now, his body pressing close as he adjusted her sword arm. She hadn't realized this fencing business would be so touchy. He grasped her waist, sending a crackle across her skin. If Alek moved his hands any higher, he might notice what was hidden beneath her careful tailoring. "Always keep sideways to your opponent," he said, gently turning her. "That way, your chest presents the smallest possible target." "Aye, th.. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 1929d45 | Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| afd8bc2 | They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics. | idealism ideals politics pragmatism | G. K. Chesterton | |
| e7800b1 | Why were you in a vehicle with Kate, alone? What were you wearing? What was she wearing? How long were you there? Did you do something or did you talk? What was the nature of your discussion? Could this trip have been avoided?" I rubbed my face. "So basically you're scared that His Lordship might get his panties in a bunch?" "That's one way to put it." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 32f3812 | When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out. I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spirit this time? | funny joke kate | Ilona Andrews |