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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 32b7629 | Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm. "It's green!" Nico said with delight." | humour nico-di-angelo nico-diangelo percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 8a5ca00 | Sam's phone buzzed. She fished it out of her pocket, checked the screen, and cursed. "I have to go." "You just got here." "Valkyrie business. Possible code three-eight-one: heroic death in progress." "You're making that up." "I'm not." "So...what, somebody thinks they're about to die and they text you 'Going down! Need Valkyrie ASAP!' followed by a bunch of sad-face emojis?" | funny humor humorous humorous-quotations humorous-quote humour | Rick Riordan | |
| 6211de5 | You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?" "Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm HUNGRY." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1b52928 | Your lifeline...oh, the burning stick. Right." Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!" | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1fb23a4 | I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!" "Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!" "Bah, your brain isn't on board!" | telkine | Rick Riordan | |
| e431e77 | My sister, with her ratty red-highlighted hair and her linen pajamas and her combat boots--how could she possibly worry about being possessed by a goddess? What goddess would want her, except the goddess of chewing gum? | Rick Riordan | ||
| 946c4d1 | Most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright). | Rick Riordan | ||
| 4bb8552 | I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: "You're blue." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 3458131 | Sounds like a plan worthy of Athena. | Rick Riordan | ||
| ea04f70 | I am a free man--and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your.. | Henry Miller | ||
| ea171f2 | Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| d38f5fc | While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me--drawing on my skin--not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings. But underneath that is another feeling, a feeling of being wide-eyed awake and watchful. It's like being wake.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| b084076 | The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ||
| 83c5396 | A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond. | tooth | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | |
| 5f77968 | Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty. | brandon-sanderson loial robert-jordan wheel-of-time wot | Robert Jordan | |
| 0cc1af0 | Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end. | C.G. Jung | ||
| bbf5d33 | She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her. | D.H. Lawrence | ||
| dde98be | nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| f9d0f87 | Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life. | live-life time | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| ba66123 | But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole. That is another idiom that the hero taught me. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 3721e3f | After a time, I had only a handful of words left... Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn't the world, it wasn't the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 9ef2674 | I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 1974973 | It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 9a18bef | the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque" | Franz Kafka | ||
| f0a5975 | If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything. | existential life-lessons motivational | Franz Kafka | |
| a777ce7 | it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit." | Franz Kafka | ||
| 928ab67 | You misinterpret everything, even the silence. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 43d8fac | Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace. | writing | Franz Kafka | |
| a48d174 | Milena - what a rich heavy name, almost too full to be lifted, and in the beginning I didn't like it much, it seemed to me a Greek or Roman gone astray in Bohemia, violated by Czech, cheated of its accent, and yet in colour and form it is marvellously a woman, a woman whom one carries in one's arms out of the world, and out of the fire, I don't know which, and she presses herself willingly and trustingly into your arms. | Franz Kafka | ||
| b681436 | This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyo.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| a9e5707 | But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are thin.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 4e5c577 | I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking | Jeffrey Archer | ||
| cd9fbad | Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 2a61dd0 | Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it'd lose even its imperfection. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7817cb3 | I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b63abc8 | Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 720615e | He once told me about polar bears - what solitary animals they are. They mate just once a year. One time in a whole year. There is no such thing as a lasting male-female bond in their world. One male polar bear and one female polar bear meet by sheer chance somewhere in the frozen vastness, and they mate. It doesn't take long. And once they are finished, the male runs away from the female as if he is frightened to death: he runs from the pl.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| af48855 | Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. | haruki life murakami | Haruki Murakami | |
| 5c3f958 | The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 76908f4 | No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b4b5d69 | What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. | search | Walker Percy | |
| a385821 | I long ago became convinced that the most reliable source for arcane and obscure and seemingly unobtainable information does not lie with the government or law enforcement agencies. Apparently neither the CIA nor the military intelligence apparatus inside the Pentagon had even a slight inkling of the Soviet Union's impending collapse, right up to the moment the Kremlin's leaders were trying to cut deals for their memoirs with New York publi.. | James Lee Burke | ||
| 14ee27f | The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible. | Steve Martin | ||
| aa819aa | You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last. Excerpt From: Walter, Isaacson. "Steve Jobs." Simon & Schuster, 2011-10-23T21:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright." | inspirational mike-markkula steve-jobs walter-isaacson | Walter Isaacson |