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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f1246d1 | She didn't want to go out into a world where he didn't exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 1a13060 | Here's a lesson for you Weapons Master," she said, stalking past him. "Give me real men to fight. Then maybe I'll bother trying." -- | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 9f0cae2 | I know you are tired, Fireheart. I know that the burden on your shoulders is more than anyone should endure. But we'll face this together. Erawan, the Lock, all of it. We'll face it together... We'll face it together. And if the cost of it truly is you, then we'll pay it together. As one soul in two bodies. | fireheart kingdom-of-ash rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 43b4539 | There was good in people - deep down, there was always a shred of good. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 19177ce | At least if you're going to hell," he said, the vibrations in his chest rumbling against her, "then we'll be there together." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| b1b357b | my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister isabel created hundreds (and hundreds) of socks not to mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could meanwhile my self etcetera lay quietl.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| a966473 | All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. | on-writing stories storytelling writing | Umberto Eco | |
| a7548e2 | The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. | Walt Whitman | ||
| b2c0c11 | Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair. | Walt Whitman | ||
| 0a0a662 | I'd say over my dead body, but I think you already made that point," Michael snapped. "Thanks for the visit. Now fuck off, man." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 47cff92 | Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's deja vu, and I hate you right now" | humour | Rachel Caine | |
| 1530328 | Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf." | myrnin rachel-caine | Rachel Caine | |
| 276fbb7 | The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration. | Sarah Dunant | ||
| 4e375e9 | It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 1e834d9 | How ... how fragile situations are. But not tenuous. Delicate, but not flimsy, not indulgent. Delicate, that's why they keep breaking, they must break and you must get the pieces together and show it before it breaks again, or put them aside for a moment when something else breaks and turn to that, and all this keeps going on. That's why most writing now, if you read it they go on one two three four and tell you what happened like newspaper.. | William Gaddis | ||
| 53211c3 | Animals might put up with that smiley shit, but people will eventually kill you for it. | Christopher Moore | ||
| a4ef0f1 | And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito. | Christopher Moore | ||
| d465deb | I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| aa0cf81 | All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 8eaebf8 | Listen to this, okay? Just listen. You hear that? That's market bacon hitting the pan. Today a child is born unto us, and his name will be bacon. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 73da199 | My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful." | perfect rachel teaser trent-kalamack | Kim Harrison | |
| 9fc4674 | In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 3a717f8 | I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy. | calm-under-pressure cool-hero | Sandra Brown | |
| a29943c | Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite | Gillian Flynn | ||
| b4dafe9 | You think you know the answer, you're going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there's any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 44551d4 | I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect. | breakups control drama-queen friends friendship gillian-flynn lack-of-understanding lacking | Gillian Flynn | |
| b0f541d | Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independenc.. | independence virtue worth | Ayn Rand | |
| a0d87c6 | So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No. | Jon Stewart | ||
| c414470 | I'm gettin' tired way past where sleep rests me. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 50436c9 | Even brilliant scientists Google themselves. | Dan Brown | ||
| d159573 | Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity | neuroscience | Dan Brown | |
| 0bead51 | Aren't the scariest things in life Those things you can't see? | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 2c739eb | I have lived alone, I have fought alone, I have dealt with the pain alone. I will die alone. I think when I'm going to leave. I don't want to be seen and I don't want to be followed , I want to disappear quickly and quietly and without any drama , I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have . The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provides comfort. | James Frey | ||
| 193fda9 | You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, .. | Beryl Markham | ||
| 82362f6 | This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone. | Jack London | ||
| 31b60d2 | Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is. | louisa-may-alcott | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 075e442 | And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it! | Charles Dickens | ||
| 1e6427a | In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going. | light moonlight sadness spirit | Charles Dickens | |
| 88afc77 | We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 37ed40d | He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway. | noir | Raymond Chandler | |
| ebb8be0 | Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| eac136b | How many roads must a man walk down? | hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| 6c1bb76 | In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it ha.. | h2g2 hitchhiker-s-guide panic | Douglas Adams | |
| 3d65423 | they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying. | Douglas Adams |