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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6c5dda1 | Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!" Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero" | earth freak heo heroes hilarious jackson lady leo lost melts of-olympus percy rick-riordan snow texas valdez | Rick Riordan | |
| 8286b9d | Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring - the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real - brutally honest, inescapably dependable. | family foreboding hades impending-doom nico-di-angelo reassurance | Rick Riordan | |
| 34d7cec | Annabeth smiled. "I don't know the ocean very well, but my boyfriend does. I think it's time you met Percy." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 4daf83c | To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust. | dedications librarians | Rick Riordan | |
| 030e515 | Heroes like you always have a weak spot. We just have to find it, and then we can kill you. Won't that be lovely? Have a cheese 'n' Wiener! | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8cb0282 | We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. | Rick Riordan | ||
| a40ac07 | Commander Tool Belt" Jason said. "Bad Boy Supreme" Piper said. "Chef Leo the Tofu Taco Expert." They laughed and told stories about Leo valdez, their best friend. They stayed on the roof until dawn rose, and Piper started to believe they could have a fresh start. It might even be possible to tell a new story in which Leo was still out there. Somewhere..." | heartbreaking jason-grace leo-valdez memories piper-mclean | Rick Riordan | |
| 750d222 | In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned. It is natural that obligation should be felt, and if I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you. But I cannot-I have never desired your good opinion, and you have certainly bestowed it most unwillingly. I am sorry to have occasioned pain to anyone. It has been most unconsciously.. | Jane Austin | ||
| d644e52 | I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| cd6e9a3 | how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 90f70b1 | When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 064df2b | Your Royal Bloody Pain in My Back, We're bloody waiting here to talk to you, and we're getting angry perturbed. (That means angry.) Thom says that you're a queen now, but I figure that changes nothing, sense you acted like a queen all the time anyway. Don't forget that I carried halled your pretty little backside out of a hole in Tear, but you acted like a queen then, so I guess I don't know why I'm surprised now that you act like one when .. | wheel-of-time | Brandon Sanderson Robert Jordan | |
| 27b6df1 | What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. | truth | Robert Jordan | |
| 708e78a | Burn you, Nerim, that's a leg not a bloody side of beef!" "As my lord says," Nerim murmured. "My lord's leg is not a side of beef. Thank you, my lord, for instructing me." | humor jordan mat nerim rand robert wheel-of-time | Robert Jordan | |
| b557c4b | We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart. | Barack Obama | ||
| ebf4f5d | Out of evil, much good has come to me. By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and by accepting reality - taking things as they are, and not as I wanted them to be - by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me, and unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before. I always thought that when we accepted things they overpowered us in some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it .. | C.G. Jung | ||
| f415d10 | Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy." Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over." | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 8bc2ae9 | The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. | carpe-diem dead death dream dying existing life life-and-death living reality truths | Arundhati Roy | |
| 1d48f47 | I like to see people reunited, maybe that's a silly thing, but what an I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and they crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone, I sit on the side with a coffee and write in my daybook, I examin.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 496a2b6 | We stopped laughing, I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?" | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 4f21535 | I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take t.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| c4ed920 | German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting. | language tongue | Franz Kafka | |
| 5ef5ddb | Let us define our terms. A woman who writes her lover four letters a day is not a graphomaniac, she is simply a woman in love. But my friend who xeroxes his love letters so he can publish them someday--my friend is a graphomaniac. Graphomania is not a desire to write letters, diaries, or family chronicles (to write for oneself or one's immediate family); it is a desire to write books (to have a public of unknown readers). In this sense the .. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 5cdb4be | And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 4c3d04c | Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on. | the-cloth-of-time time | Haruki Murakami | |
| ffa8110 | In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms." -- | motivational | Haruki Murakami | |
| 40ce77e | Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only pri.. | narcissism pretentiousness vanity | Haruki Murakami | |
| a111a46 | People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 36b51fa | Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love - the deepest kind of love." After these words were spoken, a thoughtful silence settled over the men. The mood was broken by the.. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 576adfc | Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives. | daring men | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 5a23ff5 | Nobody who says as little as he does is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking, and he thinks . My mum and dad talked all the time. Talkers don't think much; their words drown out any possibility of hearing their subconscious asking, | thinkers | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 768e1bc | The only monsters I have ever known were men. | monsters | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4b8e679 | The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law. | decisions ethics law love morals | Jodi Picoult | |
| 626e55c | Sassenach," he said against my shoulder, a moment later. "Mm?" "Who in God's name is John Wayne?" "You are," I said. "Go to sleep." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 91654b6 | Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 51f54df | Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them. | Mumia Abu-Jamal | ||
| 4399893 | But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. | Ken Kesey | ||
| 04a1ab8 | She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity. | identity marriage women | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| dc56e97 | He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 323ffc8 | Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d71f98f | knt tqblh dwm dwn ld` b'nh tHbh wdwn mTlbth bn yHbh , wlkn `l~ ml l`thwr `l~ shy yshbh lHb , nm dwn mshkl lHb ! | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 26d85a8 | The weak would never enter the kingdom of love. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 053a091 | I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. | love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 6650611 | In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. | Gabriel García Márquez |