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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 560ec4c | Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark) | ugliness woman | George R.R. Martin | |
| 99f8444 | There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 3b81406 | We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned. | Mario Puzo | ||
| be2fff0 | Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters." | inspirational life-and-death | Mario Puzo | |
| b636df4 | One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting--and hoping--for us to make the first move. | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| a586179 | Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. | Harper Lee | ||
| b219cef | People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe. | astrophysics science | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| 74b6c29 | Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| 914b7a1 | All societies end up wearing masks. | Jean Baudrillard | ||
| a94d1b9 | Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?" | Stephen R. Donaldson | ||
| 7db34cb | The mind knows only what lies near the heart. | mind | Edith Hamilton | |
| ce5f023 | I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 45f5ed1 | We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves. | Leif Enger | ||
| 0d2987a | There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men. | evil hearts lights psychology psychopaths souls | Michael Connelly | |
| afd62bc | Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to... Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play! | Bill Watterson | ||
| 82640ba | To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the woman of the dream, and only the best of men finds what he seeks. | Rosalind Miles | ||
| 094b695 | To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| bb396db | Sometimes you can't choose what you love. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| e65d4d3 | Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 1b05130 | it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise. | Colum McCann | ||
| 11b2c15 | There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. | George MacDonald Fraser | ||
| 2fbcc3d | Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b2be0f2 | The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 087892b | Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 296918f | I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. | Philip Pullman | ||
| ad53387 | I clawed my eyes open and rolled off my bed. For some reason, someone had moved the floor several feet lower than I had expected, and I fell and crashed with a thud. Ow. A blond head popped over the side of the bed, and a familiar male voice asked, "Are you okay down there?" Curran. The Beast Lord was in my bed. No, wait a minute. I didn't have a bed, because my insane aunt had destroyed my apartment. I was mated to the Beast Lord, which me.. | humor kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4f431ff | A massive beast dashed along the mountain apex. Astamur reached for his rifle. "A demon?" "No, not a demon." I might have preferred one . "That's my boyfriend." Atsany and the shepherd turned to look at me. "Boyfriend?" Astamur said. Curran saw us. He paused on a stone crag and roared. The raw declaration of strength cracked through the mountains, rolling down the cliffs like a rockslide. "Yep. Don't worry. He's harmless." | humor kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| ce40669 | You'll lose." "What makes you so sure?" "You have no discipline. All you do is tear down shit down. My father is a bastard, but at least he builds things. You turn cities into smoking ruins and blunder about like some hyper child, smashing anything you see. And then you sit here and wonder, 'Why did all of my children turn out to be violet idiots? It's a mystery of nature,'." | ilona-andrews kate magic-bleeds | Ilona Andrews | |
| ba52986 | Card five hundred and thirty-four," repeated Artemis. "Of a series of six hundred standard inkblot cards. I memorized them during our sessions. You don't even shuffle." Argon checked the number on the back of the card: 534. Of course. "Knowing the number doesn't answer the question. What do you see?" Artemis allowed his lip to wobble. "I see an ax dripping with blood. Also a scared child, and an elf clothed in the skin of a troll." "Really?.. | humor | Eoin Colfer | |
| 8fb24fe | Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous. | grief | Victor Hugo | |
| d9b00cb | Are you afraid of the good you might do? | Victor Hugo | ||
| c4a2370 | It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes. | criticism scapegoat scapegoating | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 5657449 | Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable. | sexuality unfaithful | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 03ae989 | For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| f44e9e6 | He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light." | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| fcc8d5d | Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart that she would never fear them again. No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge. She started briskly up the street toward home and the blocks seemed very long. Far, far too long. She caught up her skirts to her knees and began to run lightly. But this time she was not running from fea.. | gone-with-the-wind gone-with-the-wind-quotes romance romance-novels | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 09b5761 | In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of a long road which had begun the night Atlanta fell. She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of youth, warm of emotion, easily bewildered by life. Now, at the end of the road, there was nothing left of that girl. Hunger and hard labor, fear and constant strain, the terrors of war and the terrors of Reconstruction had taken away all warmt.. | gone-with-the-wind-quotes margaret-mitchell margaret-mitchell-quote | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 845360d | The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much. | lick longing remembering world | Margaret Mitchell | |
| e4c2c66 | All live to die, and rise to fall. | fate life | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 9d4c39f | What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4472eb3 | Maybe it's time to just scrap the word "racist." Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7a22b84 | But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible? | David Eddings | ||
| f05ec25 | So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on top of each other. There is air like plastic, a horizon like setting glue. There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking, and there are soft, coal-coloured clouds, beating, like black hearts. And then. There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. .. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 552622e | Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. | William Goldman |