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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1625c31 | Some people find fall depressing, others hate spring. I've always been a spring person myself. All that growth, you can feel Nature groaning, the old bitch; she doesn't want to do it, not again, no, anything but that, but she has to. It's a fucking torture rack, all that budding and pushing, the sap up the tree trunks, the weeds and the insects getting set to fight it out once again, the seeds trying to remember how the hell the DNA is supp.. | John Updike | ||
| 96cbd80 | The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb. | D.B.C. Pierre | ||
| 78b7861 | I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups. | Aimee Bender | ||
| 210c73e | I am that is, my sword shall wield for me. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 003149b | There are things you don't want to know you can do | Robin McKinley | ||
| 59908b5 | I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash? | food | Robin McKinley | |
| 0497d8c | The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground. | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| e043dcb | Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ||
| ffe3020 | Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed. | Alex Garland | ||
| fad34c1 | What are you trying to say?" All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they are wealth. But all these stars are silent. You - only you - will have stars that can laugh!" And he laughed again. And when your sorrow i.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| f8e7334 | I'm okay." Zayne staggered to his feet. "I can fight." "I sure hope so ... Because if you're just going to lay there and bleed, you suck." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b698f46 | She understands." "Understands what?" I whispered. Rider's gaze held mine again. "She understands that if I have to pick between you two, it's not going to be her." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 9d0b2fe | Please come back to me, Alex. . I love you too much to lose you. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d69c106 | Both of my hands were on his chest. They had a mind of their own. I claimed no responsibility for them. Daemon kissed like he was a man starving for water, taking long, breathless drafts. When his hands slid...under my shirt, it was as though he reached deep inside me, warming every cell, filling evry dark space within me. Touching him, kissing him, was like having a fever all over again. I was on fire. My body burned. The world burned. Spa.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f2b200c | Some people say when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life gives you one seriously ticked off god gunning for your ass, you prepare for war and you hope for paradise. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| da5a524 | All right, the alien testosterone right now is a little too much, and I really don't want to have an alien brawl in my house on top of the broken window and the dead body that came through it." I took a breath. "But if you two don't knock it off, I'll kick both of your asses." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 6d46f2a | I can be a dickhead and I do it on purpose. I tend to bully people into doing what I want. And I let everything that had happened with Dawson amplify those...uh, personality traits. But--" He removed his finger, and his grin spread into a smile. "But you...you make me want to be different. That's why I didn't kill Blake. It's why I don't want you making those decisions or for you to be around me if I am choosing those things." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f30868d | Seriously, though, the bouncer won't be a problem. I think he liked me." - Daemon "W-w-What?" - Katy "I think he liked me, like, really liked me." - Daemon "Your ego knows no limit, you know that?." - Katy "You'll see. I know these kinds of things." - Daemon" | daemon-black katy-swartz lux lux-series opal | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 65d03f6 | You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. | responsibility | Max Brooks | |
| b9f7bfb | If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining" | procrastination zombie | Max Brooks | |
| 07154bc | I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?" "I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside -- magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant." ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?" | gods greek ruby-kane sadie-kane | Rick Riordan | |
| a02c17b | How do I defeat Apophis?" "I'm so glad you asked!" Thoth beamed at me with his multicolored eyes. "Unfortunately, I can't tell you." I glanced at Walt. "Do you want to kill him, or should I?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8526bb2 | Somebody once told me that a hero's bravery has to be unplanned - a genuine response to a crisis. It has to come from the heart, without any thought of reward. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8924e19 | I am the son of Hades. I go where I wish. The darkness is my birthright. | nico-di-angelo son-of-hades | Rick Riordan | |
| 7275292 | You're gonna be like Aquaman?" she asked. "Get the fish to fight for you?" "Thanks," Percy said. "I haven't heard enough Aquaman jokes for one lifetime." -- | humor meg-mccaffrey percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 3767773 | However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were." "And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!" "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love," said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a s.. | love poetry | Jane Austen | |
| da409b3 | I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. | Dodie Smith | ||
| a16210d | Cauthon lives," Arganda said. "And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch of his damane, and chased off his wife. Cauthon crawled out of it somehow." "Ha!" Abell Cauthon said. "That's my boy." | Robert Jordan | ||
| 71c2e80 | Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 5951376 | How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?" Rand whispered. "The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can." | Robert Jordan | ||
| 462b1d8 | If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway. | heart lies truth | Christine Feehan | |
| b3d71ab | Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover. | reading | Erica Jong | |
| c18359e | As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| f1b641a | It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?" | loneliness | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| 9d8bbf1 | All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 7f9597f | I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 9776d72 | The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. | music | Milan Kundera | |
| 7fe1ef1 | There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding. | mother | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| a46d58c | Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 5ab236b | Any one who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It' like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. It's just a natural feeling. You're not the person who discovered that feeling, so don't try to patent it, okay? | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d4b3a51 | I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 350ae16 | You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0ecd12d | No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 8830953 | the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute | Amartya Sen |