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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 57072fb | Rachel?" came Ivy's voice from her room. "Where's my sword?" "In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neighborhood" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 9cfacfd | And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"-- here I opened wide the door; -- Darkness there, and nothing more." | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 0b343a5 | Americans like what is easy, and it's easy to like pregnant women - they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs. Still, it baffles me that these self-righteous, self-enthralled waddlers get such special treatment. As if it's so hard to spread your legs and let a man ejaculate between them. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 256daa2 | Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 78c18d6 | Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. | Joan Didion | ||
| a5cb4d1 | It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. | imagine messages survival survive | Joan Didion | |
| 0b6ae0b | To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. | Joan Didion | ||
| 644f918 | You can't see yourself. You know what you look like because of mirrors and photographs, but out there in the world, as you move among your fellow human beings, whether strangers or friends or the most intimate beloveds, your own face is invisible to you. You can see other parts of yourself, arms and legs, hands and feet, shoulders and torso, but only from the front, nothing of the back except the backs of your legs if you twist them into th.. | self-reflection | Paul Auster | |
| 3b8ffa4 | The moon is whole all the time, but we can't always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there's only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides. | Alice Sebold | ||
| dbca172 | If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 6453fb8 | Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta." | John Steinbeck | ||
| dc75995 | The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo | Ellen Raskin | ||
| b880c05 | consider this. It took the earth's population thousand of years-from the early dawn of man all the way to the early 1800s-to reach one billion people. Then astoundingly, it took only about a hundred years to double the population to two billion in the 1920s. After that, it took a mere fifty years for the population to double again to four billion in the 1970s. As you can imagine, we're well on track to reach eight billion very soon. Just to.. | Dan Brown | ||
| 0aceac5 | Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives. | Napoleon Hill | ||
| f9facf1 | Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions. | Rick Warren | ||
| 06f7dde | I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| ac03477 | Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 80b0fcc | He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten. | Charles Dickens | ||
| a41d365 | The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| f1d184e | Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| f4ed981 | You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 9d4d505 | College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity. | humor | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 38702dc | Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? | Douglas Adams | ||
| f4a66f5 | I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. | Douglas Adams | ||
| cd53a73 | Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. | wisdom woe | Herman Melville | |
| 2a636ba | I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. | Anne Rice | ||
| 6c9170c | Akri won't let me eat any of them nasty gods. What's the world coming to when a demon gots to beg for tidbits...not eve a finger sandwich or a single knuckle. Tragic. Terribly tragic. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 00ef811 | So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick) No, but if you don't lay off me, I'm going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| da86361 | Shut up, Nick. (Talon) 'Shut up, Nick, heel, sit, fetch.' Love you too, Celt. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 9812695 | Ewwww-eee-wwww. Hey Ash, you vant to suck my blud? (Fang) No, thanks. The last thing I want is to catch parvo from you, or some other freaky dog disease that makes me lift my leg around hydrants. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 7e414e5 | You okay? (Grace) Oh, yeah. I'm just fine considering the fact I've walked through burning fires that hurt less than my groin does right now. (Julian) I said I was sorry. Okay, can you reach the pedals? (Grace) I'd like to reach your pedals...(Julian) Julian! Would you concentrate? (Grace) All right. I'm concentrating. (Julian) I don't mean on my breasts. (He dropped his hungry gaze to her lap.) Or there, either. (Grace) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 682c51e | My Akri says that tragedy and adversity are the stones we sharpen our swords against ao that we can fight new battles.- Simi | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 01eefd1 | Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. (Dante) Law of my jungle. Kill them all and let Hades sort them out. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 37891a6 | I'm going to be exposed, aren't I? (Acheron) I don't know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don't want to go blind. (Savitar) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d11bfb3 | Dead or alive, the balls still hurt when kicked, huh? (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| fdf45b7 | I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try. Astrid or Aphrodite, she is my Circe. Only instead of changing a man into an animal she has made the animal human. I am such a fucking idiot, wanting a star I can't have. But then, all stars are beyond human reach and I.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 4e86208 | Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won't be denied. Nothing daunts them. | will | Sherrilyn Kenyon | |
| 70d2ba9 | One of you guys is going to have to feed the vampiric lawyer some blood and it can't be me. (Caleb) Why? You afraid of a little bite? I'm anemic. (Nick) And I'm Catholic. Doesn't that knock me out of the running? (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d0da66d | Go out and ask her into the alley." Clay looked at Jeremy as if he'd just been told to dance the rumba on a public thoroughfare. I bit back a laugh. "Just walk over to her and point at the alley. Maybe say...I don't know...something like 'fifty bucks.' " I looked at Jeremy. "Does that sound right? Fifty?" His brows shot up. "Why are you asking me?" "I wasn't--I just meant, as a general..." I threw up my hands. "How am I supposed to know how.. | humor jeremy | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 3b77c26 | But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long. | Albert Camus | ||
| c19c6c6 | A girl can dream." His eyebrows rose. "Is that what you dream about? Being a monster?" "Not exactly," I said, frowning at his word choice. Monster, indeed. "Mostly I dream about being with you forever." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 83bfada | She reminded me of what it did to her when I left -- what it still does to her when I leave. She feels horrible about bringing that up, but she's right. I'll never be able to make up for that, but I'll never stop trying anyway. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 62cc229 | Bite me. | midnight-sun | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 38ef249 | I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. | Samuel Beckett |