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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1efce22 | What are you doing out here, Kat?" Several moments passed before I could speak "I just blew up a bunch of windows." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 1c3358c | It's stupid what keeps people apart. | Rick Riordan | ||
| d136428 | How did you decide when someone was irretrievably lost--when they were so evil or toxic or just plain set in their ways that you had to face the fact they were never going to change? How long could you keep trying to save them, and when did you give up and grieve for them as though they were dead? | Rick Riordan | ||
| 565e275 | Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook --BOOM, BOOM, BOOM--which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile. | paul percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 91acf92 | Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome" | Rick Riordan | ||
| f4b6d0e | You're already married!" Hera protested. "To me!" "Curses!" said Zeus. "Er, I mean, of course, dear." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 39eb2f7 | But it's your Oracle," I protested. "Can't you tell us what the prophecy means?" Apollo sighed. "You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search." | percy prophecy | Rick Riordan | |
| 7b2bbf2 | Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive." SMASH! "Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin." | humor tyson | Rick Riordan | |
| 49ca691 | Nico clenched his sword. Sharing his secret crush hadn't been the worst of it. Eventually he might have done that, in his own time, in his own way. But being forced to talk about Percy, being bullied and harassed and strong-armed simply for Cupid's amusement ... Tendrils of darkness were now spreading out from his feet, killing all the weeds between the cobblestones. Nico tried to rein in his anger. | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 80b4af1 | Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 2cd8819 | Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn't a compliment. "I will rend your limbs from their sockets!" he shouted. "I will--" "Die?" Carter suggested." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9416116 | Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn't mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!) | Rick Riordan | ||
| ccfe304 | Remember what it's like to be human, | human jason-grace promise | Rick Riordan | |
| 95c3fe1 | It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for. | Rick Riordan | ||
| e102ee8 | Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened. | Elizabeth Kostova | ||
| 02362ee | The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need. | marriage | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 9526320 | Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's | Marian keyes | ||
| 626ac84 | War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children. | good peace war | Jimmy Carter | |
| 1a45e96 | Every instinct in me wants to text someone OMG, I've lost my phone! but how can I do that without a bloody phone? | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 5b4d128 | I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| f7d73c8 | Now that I am dead, I know everything. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 179a73b | Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 38ba754 | Always Wear Flats and Have Your Friends Sleep Over: A Step-by-Step How-To Guide for Avoiding Getting Murdered | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 70d5924 | I'm quite capable of walking," she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short." They are not!" | dark-guardian jaxon-montgomery lucian | Christine Feehan | |
| 083ff62 | Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners. -You will not find it. -Why am I not surprised? | library manners order suggest | Christine Feehan | |
| 14d91dc | There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice. | venice | Italo Calvino | |
| c8a3f91 | From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow a.. | time | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| f5066aa | Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God. | god lies | Denis Johnson | |
| c85a24d | the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man | Franz Kafka | ||
| 8355f6a | I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason. | Franz Kafka | ||
| ae5846b | I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes, in the breadth of your mouth as in a beautiful happy day, which remains beautiful and happy, even when the head is sick and tired. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 6e3adb0 | Go on caring for me. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 88b90ab | Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have t.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| d5816e6 | I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2717a33 | I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more. | darkness-and-light love nostalgia parallel | Haruki Murakami | |
| 1606c96 | You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it. | children teaching | Steve Martin | |
| 5c83f57 | Maybe I was naive to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. | silence | Jodi Picoult | |
| 3b05a8c | This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9a4afb4 | The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b2048fa | There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c4048d1 | I don't belong to a religion. Religion's the reason the world's falling apart..." That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy," Shay said. "Just holier-than-thou." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| fab2d26 | If the past few months have taught me anything, it's that friendship is a smoke screen. The people you think are solid turn out to be mirrors and light; and then you look down and realize there are others you took for granted, those who are your foundation. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 174ec10 | I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 926a6f0 | There was another reason. The main one." "Reason?" I said stupidly. "Why I married you." "Which was?" I don't know what I expected him to say, perhaps some further revelation of his family's contorted affairs. What he did say was more of a shock, in its way. "Because I wanted you." He turned from the window to face me. "More than I ever wanted anything in my life," he added softly." | Diana Gabaldon |