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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f838c7f | I think so," she [Claire] said. "Just watch your back, okay?" "Nah, Michael's got mine." He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes. "I've got yours." | eve-rosser funny ghost-town humor michael-glass morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine shane-collins vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| e07a662 | Claire said. "I might be able to get him to stop." "Who, crazy dude? Maybe. Or he might pull your head off," Shane said. "I kind of worry." She couldn't help but smile. "Yeah?" "A little bit." "That's ...nice." He studied her, and returned the smile. "Yeah," he said. "Kind of is, actually." | eve-rosser funny ghost-town humor michael-glass morganville-vampires myrnin rachel-caine shane-collins teacher vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 8770900 | I don't want to hurt anyone" Laszlo fiddled with a button on his tux jacket. "Can't we convince the CIA that some of us are peaceful?" "we'll have to try" Angus folded his arms across his broad chest. "And if they doona believe we're peaceful, then we'll have to kill the bastards." Roman frowned, somehow their Highlander logic escaped him." -- | irony | Kerrelyn Sparks | |
| b6a96d1 | Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone. | readers storytelling writing | Rebecca Solnit | |
| c0798d4 | What are stories for if we don't learn from them? | Cornelia Funke | ||
| e935b4b | Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears. | Raymond Queneau | ||
| 9e0a99d | When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it. | Luke Davies | ||
| b70dda1 | When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| e924aae | The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe." "As belief shrinks from the world, people find it more necessary than ever that someone believe...Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes." | Don DeLillo | ||
| 71aba02 | He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. | Don DeLillo | ||
| faee03e | Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 67443c2 | As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| f5d980f | So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed. | Norman Maclean | ||
| 4b7f24a | Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| 661391a | I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 7168b28 | Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. | Paul Auster | ||
| bdbb285 | Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 0858a05 | The pencil is mightier than the pen. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 839a751 | Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know? | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 881992a | If you write a line of zeroes, it's still nothing. | nothing | Ayn Rand | |
| 3712a97 | An individual can be hurt in countless ways by other men's irrationality, dishonesty, injustice. Above all, he can be disappointed, perhaps grievously, by the vices of a person he had once trusted or loved. But as long as his property is not expropriated and he remains unmolested physically, the damage he sustains is essentially spiritual, not physical; in such a case, the victim alone has the power and the responsibility of healing his wou.. | Leonard Peikoff | ||
| 9815485 | You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect. | perception | John Steinbeck | |
| c095fa1 | Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. | gender-stereotypes love men-and-women power relationships | Neil Strauss | |
| 5c97c93 | I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 61f5fa3 | What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage. | Gary Chapman | ||
| d6d0fbe | From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest. | Dan Brown | ||
| 2ed18ed | TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most." | dreams inspirational life plans success words | Napoleon Hill | |
| 2f7a772 | Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on. | James Frey | ||
| c68128b | Blessed be the mind that dreamed the day the blueprint of your life would begin to glow on earth, illuminating all the faces and voices that would arrive to invite your soul to growth. Praised be your father and mother, who loved you before you were, and trusted to call you here with no idea who you would be. Blessed be those who have loved you into becoming who you were meant to be, blessed be those who have crossed your life .. | John O'Donohue | ||
| cb3ece5 | Resistance is always lying and always full of shit. | lies lying resistance shit | Steven Pressfield | |
| febbb30 | None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul. Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices. We can't be anything we want to be. We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're.. | identity writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| 23b32ee | Existio una persona que podria entenderme. Pero fue, precisamente, la persona que mate. | Ernesto Sabato | ||
| 7fcef5d | for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| d2e0d8b | You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not? | Charles Dickens | ||
| f1a8181 | He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 11f49cb | I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin? | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 238a7de | Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 37408f6 | I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 5bf87dc | If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative. If you grew up with emotionally stunted parents, who were unhappy in their marriage and prone to visit that unhappiness on their children, you didn't know they were doing this. It was just your life. If you had an accident, at the age of four, when you were supposed to be a big boy, and were later served a plate of feces at the dinner table - if you.. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 984b5fd | The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places. | solitude | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 9810e4a | I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light. | Edith Wharton | ||
| ee2a19f | Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences. | Edith Wharton | ||
| cd2d597 | There was no way his imagination could feel the impact of the whole Earth having gone, it was too big. He prodded his feelings by thinking that his parent and his sister had gone. No reaction.He thought of all the people he had been close to. No reaction. Then he thought of a complete stranger he had been standing behind in the queue at the supermarket two days before and felt a sudden stab: the supermarket was gone, everyone in it was gone.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| f9ba169 | There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery. | malediction | J.R.R. Tolkien |