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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e5af11b | I grok in fullness. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 6b86e69 | It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws. | war | Stephen Crane | |
| 28eb365 | Once in camp I put a log on a fire and it was full of ants. As it commenced to burn, the ants swarmed out and went first toward the center where the fire was; then turned back and ran toward the end. When there were enough on the end they fell off into the fire. Some got out, their bodies burnt and flattened, and went off not knowing where they were going. But most of them went toward the fire and then back toward the end and swarmed on the.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 4a45f35 | Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | ||
| f5af346 | Dedicated to: You. There will never be another like you. For me...you are the one. Yeah, I don't have enough words for this.... | J.R. Ward | ||
| ac77c21 | Oh my God..." Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink...in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted...in a billboard-size front with flourishes... Her name in the Old Language." | J.R. Ward | ||
| e4ef058 | Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 6e5e6bd | Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs." So then I understood. It was war that made her so angry. She didn't want her babies or anybody else's babies killed .. | slaughterhouse-five | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 45e318d | Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we're ninjas.' | John Green | ||
| f4c58f7 | The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. | John Green | ||
| 18be665 | Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move sudde.. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 1b99912 | Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| f9a8fee | I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ. | rome | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 2c13e7d | If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 7085f8c | Catcher shrugged, refolded the paper, and stuffed it back into his pocket. "Anyone wanna dance?" "Oh, Jesus," Mallory muttered. | Chloe Neill | ||
| f2109ec | It's either food or blood, Ethan.And given thats it's just me and you in this car right now, food would be considerably less complicated, don't you think? | Chloe Neill | ||
| bbf2283 | Some minutes or hours or days later, when I lay boneless and well satisfied, Ethan raised his gaze to mine again. His eyes were silver, his fangs descended. "There is no going back," he said, "Not after this." | romance | Chloe Neill | |
| c1700c4 | Avoidance helped settle the emotions. Considerably. | Chloe Neill | ||
| 9ae1db6 | We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. | motivational | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 6c84f9b | Every condition exists," Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, "simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum." Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate." | poverty social-justice | Matthew Desmond | |
| 3fce5fe | I am a woman, hear me roar," I said. Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 72afd76 | I stroked Eric's hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak. "I wish," I said, "I could save orgasms in a jar for when i need them, because I think I had a few extra." | vampire | Charlaine Harris | |
| 388c3c2 | I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 646ef88 | Hush, sweetheart. You don't have a mother anymore, but let me to speak to you with her voice a minute. Listen. Stepon told us what happened in your house. There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That it what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the .. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 3de8da9 | Where are we going?" Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist. "To the house. If they're not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I'll have to debauch you in front of someone else." | romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| fb2f518 | I have nothing to offer you," he finally said in a guttural voice. "Nothing." Win's lips had turned dry. She moistened them, and tried to speak through a thrill of anxious trembling. "You have yourself," she whispered. "You don't know me. You think you do, but you don't. The things I've done, the things I'm capable of--you and your family, all you know of life comes from books. If you understood anything--" "Make me understand. Tell me what.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| ec273b5 | A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic. | inspirational kleypas life love reality | Lisa Kleypas | |
| e6ca73b | I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it? | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 2b0e1b1 | They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten. | historical-romance lisa-kleypas | Lisa Kleypas | |
| ef2e114 | A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. | complaining conversation | Lisa Kleypas | |
| eb73067 | After one moment of gripped immobility, the queen bent to kiss the king lightly on one closed eyelid, then on the other. She said, 'I love your eyes.' She kissed him on either cheek, near the small lobe of his ear. 'I love your ears, and I love'-she paused as she kissed him gently on the lips-'every single one of your ridiculous lies.' The king opened his eyes and smiled at the queen in a companionship that was as unassailable as it was unf.. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| cd5f0ac | I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 0490aae | To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 581ae56 | I read novels. The reason is simple: I prefer proper endings. Marriages and deaths, noble sacrifices and miraculous restorations, tragic separations and unhoped-for reunions, great falls and dreams fulfilled; these, in my view, constitute an ending worth the wait. They should come after adventures, perils, dangers and dilemmas, and wind everything up nice and neatly. Endings like this are to be found more commonly in old novels than new o.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| e7b3ba2 | Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 1b7f6d6 | She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality. | julia penelope quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| f67565d | Are you all right?" he asked Olivia. His heart was still racing with terror that she'd been hurt. "I heard a woman scream." "Ah, that would have been me," Sebastian said. Harry looked down on his cousin, face frozen in disbelief. "You made that noise?" "It hurt," Sebastian bit off. Harry fought not to laugh. "You scream like a leettle girl." | cousins humor | Julia Quinn | |
| 63d36af | I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time. | future memories past silk-spectre watchmen | Alan Moore | |
| f58de55 | I walked in without knocking. The screen door banged to a close behind me announcing my presence. I followed my nose to the kitchen and found Kaleb standing by the stove. He stirred something that smelled absolutely delicious a wooden spoon in one hand and a huge chef's knife in the other. "Are you sober?" I asked from the doorway. He turned and leveled a smile at me that made me a little wobbly. "I am." "Good. Because if not I was goin.. | humor kaleb-ballard | Myra McEntire | |
| 2fd0667 | If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation. | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 1aee9db | You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it ... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| c0fbcc8 | Was it frisson when you saw a guy smile and it made your heart act all weird? | Meg Cabot | ||
| 306b015 | So take my advice: whatever you do? Don't blink | Meg Cabot | ||
| 4b78a58 | The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself. | love peace | Jonathan Carroll |