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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2ee8f2e | Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed .. | Sara Gruen | ||
| db2becf | Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two. | happiness hearts-in-atlantis love stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 65aab04 | Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds. | Stephen King | ||
| bb90dab | The medical definition of is misdiagnosis. | Stephen King | ||
| 7a9e4f2 | Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight. | Stephen King | ||
| a122245 | People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done. | stephen-king | Stephen King | |
| 104d639 | And this wasn't lying, not really. It was leaving out. | Stephen King | ||
| 22854da | There's always someone who knows something. | Stephen King | ||
| 78c9a0d | I don't understand why people are such snobs about books. If you enjoy romances, read them. I don't want Thanksgiving dinner every day. Some days I want a ham sandwich and a dozen chocolate chip cookies. And some days I want to read Jane Austen, and other days I want to read Agatha Christie, or maybe some author that no one has ever heard of who writes fun books that make me smile. | Diana Xarissa | ||
| 75a2735 | My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices. | books read reading | Alberto Manguel | |
| 4f3c4f4 | I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down. "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave." "Scave." Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny." | Emma Donoghue | ||
| f499ff9 | The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute. | Emma Donoghue | ||
| 7da35fa | Patience mimics the power of infinity. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 5f51be1 | You're just a character in my dream." "You wish." "I didn't mean my love interest," she replied defensively. "You'd have better hair. You're the character I dreamed up because the rest of the dream was making me homesick." "Maybe you're the character I dreamed up to scare myself awake." "That's not very nice!" "You made fun of my hair. I like it this way. Short and simple." I don't mind short. Mine is short." "Then what's wrong with mine?".. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 721f752 | Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 1cf23fd | It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 73e5ef1 | Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us. | marriage time | Timothy Keller | |
| a9e38b5 | That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8f4c140 | But Eve had already scented it, already--despite herself--begun to smile. "It's coffee," she murmured, unaware of the way her voice softened as she reached for the simple brown bag Mavis held. "Coffee." Illusions shattered, Mavis stared. "The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?" "Real coffee." "Oh, well then." In disgust, Mavis waved a hand. "I don't care what the damn stuff costs a pound, Dallas. A woman wants.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| c264748 | Sleep? What's that? A new type of casserole? | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 37619fc | Lean your sweet neck and mouth Out of that dark nest where you hide, I will pour effulgence into your mind. | hafiz | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī | |
| 8bce4e4 | I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| d2ea652 | Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you | amara fantasy | Jim Butcher | |
| aceb5d9 | All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said." | harry-dresden humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 0cab2f1 | To remind me, pain is the best teacher | Holly Black | ||
| 3e3916a | I like him, he thought in horror... shit. I like him. | Holly Black | ||
| 9455f00 | How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical? | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 00ab240 | Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 6d691b6 | Sovereignty is not given, it is taken. | inspirational sovereignty | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | |
| 50c4efa | It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame. | inspirational | Marie-Louise von Franz | |
| c32d25e | You say that you people don't burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that's what true faith would mean, y'see? Sacrificin' your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin' the truth of it, workin' for it, breathin' the soul of it. That's religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein' nice. And a way of keepin' in touch with the neighbors. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 00b19f4 | There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c02fb3c | The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated. | life truth | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4390ab3 | Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1ae9f98 | If Not You, Who Else? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b93d865 | Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement. | real-life | Edward De Bono | |
| a90053d | I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music they listened to, wanted to look under their beds and in their secret drawers and night tables and inside the pockets of their coats. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 216a0a6 | How quickly he fell; how soon it was over. | regret surprise | Donna Tartt | |
| 42e4ef5 | Woods were ringed with a colour so soft, so subtle that it could scarcely be said to be a colour at all. It was more the of a colour - as if the trees were dreaming green dreams or thinking green thoughts. | Susanna Clarke | ||
| af76fae | What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that.. | revision revisionism the-past | William Maxwell | |
| ad9d81d | There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go. | George Saunders | ||
| 4020172 | My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day. | George Saunders | ||
| 513583d | She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 54b2819 | What'd you want to talk about?" "Just to commend you on your revenge last night. It must have been fiendish. Of course, I can only imagine since there wasn't a mark on Chase this morning, only residual bliss." "He heals fast! I whaled on his face. Must've been thirty hits." Natalya's lips quirked. "You're glowing like a Lite-Brite." "Shut it, fairy." | berserker dark-fey declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore natalya paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole |