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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 75ad563 | Ah, there's the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy. | naughtiness persuasion | Lisa Kleypas | |
| eca198b | So you actually need spectacles," Leo finally said. "Of course I do," Marks said crossly. "Why would I wear spectacles if I didn't need them?" "I thought they might be part of your disguise." "My disguise?" "Yes, Marks, disguise. A noun describing a means of concealing someone's identity. Often used by clowns and spies. And now apparently governesses. Good God, can anything be ordinary for my family?" | humor romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| b51688e | What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply. "The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?" He smiled ruefully. "A fast one." | husband marriage | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 87f26db | Over the years I've collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you've ever said to me. All those visits to your family's home, those dinners and holidays--I could hardly wait to walk through the front door and see you." The corners of his mouth quirked with reminiscent amusement. "You, in the middle of that brash, bull-headed lot...I love watching you deal with your family. You've always been everything I thought a woma.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 4ae0309 | I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes - toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings. | John Irving | ||
| 77c946f | Sorrow floats. | John Irving | ||
| e43b6f1 | The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory. | memory past regret | Michel Faber | |
| 78fc820 | If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised | suprised think | Jacqueline Carey | |
| c59779e | Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Familes are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 4ba4aaf | Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. | reality strength weakness | Gene Wolfe | |
| c05e8c8 | This is a wonderful day," Anthony was muttering to himself. "A wonderful day." He looked up sharply at Gareth. "You don't have sisters, do you?" "None," Gareth confirmed. "I am in possession of four," Anthony said, tossing back at least a third of the contents of his glass. "Four. And now they're all off my hands. I'm done," he said, looking as if he might break into a jig at any moment. "I'm free." "You've daughters, don't you?" Gareth cou.. | celebration humor marriage | Julia Quinn | |
| 20d0a5a | He'd spent his life being a perfect gentleman. He'd never been a flirt. He'd never been a rogue. He hated being the center of attention, but by God, he wanted to be the center of her attention. He wanted to do the wrong thing, the bad thing. He wanted to pull her into his arms and carry her to her bed. He wanted to peel every last inch of her clothing from her body, and then he wanted to worship her. He wanted to show her all the things he .. | julia-quinn just-like-heaven marcus | Julia Quinn | |
| d3d3561 | He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed. She'd probably mind. | Julia Quinn | ||
| fd8d521 | I love you, but why must you love the law? 'Tis plain for all to see that she's a whore...that virtuous persons have no need to woo; that villains screw, then studiously ignore. | Alan Moore | ||
| 7685fb5 | While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. | Alan Moore | ||
| 4d646f1 | He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself. | travel | Julian Barnes | |
| 2a952d7 | Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 00e444d | A long summer always meant a long winter to come. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 2d91d63 | All Daenerys wanted back was the big house with the red door, the lemon tree outside her window, the childhood she had never known. | daenerys-targaryen mother-of-dragons | George R.R. Martin | |
| 89bc7f0 | Bronn himself, who'd only smiled that insolent dark smile of his and afterward said, "They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it." Tyrion had no such delusion." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| afd7699 | I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean. | hands plotting treachery | George R.R. Martin | |
| fb862dd | It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. | Sun Tzu | ||
| d8d1c86 | Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster | Sun Tzu | ||
| 83cb7b9 | I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this. | vampire | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| 1407e52 | What gets measured gets improved. | Robin S. Sharma | ||
| 0b20298 | I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman's scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the professor shakes his head and says, 'No, the scariest noise is, you're all alone in your dark house, you know you're all alone, you know that there is no chance anyone else is home or within miles--and then, suddenly, from upstairs, you hear the .. | Harlan Coben | ||
| e84bec2 | Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight. | Stephen King | ||
| 5aedb49 | Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek? | Stephen King | ||
| 0ec0df6 | A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman. | cheating cheating-spouse love woman | Stephen King | |
| c50621d | She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is. | Stephen King | ||
| fbc67ed | Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief? | decker jones rage stephen-king taunt ted | Richard Bachman | |
| d3b1e3c | Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be. | it king lucky magic number pennywise richie seven stephen | Stephen King | |
| e26e7be | You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you. | life-experience memories | Stephen King | |
| 7b513c8 | I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me! | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| e356350 | A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. | Louis L'Amour | ||
| 141eafd | She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be taken to Galbatorix in Uru'baen, a Rider appeared to rescue me. A rider and a dragon!" | brisingr eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| 8b8335a | An eye for an eye." "That's a revenge thing, right? From some play." "The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays." | revenge | J.D. Robb | |
| d3113aa | There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.... | dresden-files harry-dresden jim-butcher turn-coat | Jim Butcher | |
| 2163002 | If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt. | death harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| e26da59 | Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws. | Jim Butcher | ||
| bf60b29 | You both ... you both saved me?" "Come on," said Luis. "You make it sound like it was hard for Val to go to the Unseelie Court, strike a deal with Roiben, challenge Mabry to a duel, win back your heart, and then get back here during rush hour." | Holly Black | ||
| b86afba | If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?" | Holly Black | ||
| 9d0ea68 | But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked. Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot." | Holly Black | ||
| 5e78a4d | And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way. | Marya Hornbacher |