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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fb86aad | Innocent?" He was incensed at her suggestion he was somehow responsible for this mess. "I've done nothing wrong, I intend nothing wrong. I am innocent!" "Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed." "Even when it's stupid to try?" he asked with savage sarcasm. "Especially then,".. | Robin Hobb | ||
| d537239 | The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 9b507dd | People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk falling, and it's never seemed right to me. Perhaps they once meant befalling. As in night befalls. As in night happens. Perhaps they, whoever they were, thought of a falling sun. That might be it, except that that ought to give us dayfall. Day fell on Rupert the Bear. And we know, if we've ever read a book, that day doesn't fall or rise. It breaks. In books, day breaks, and night falls.. | night | Hugh Laurie | |
| fe7abe4 | You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. | kindness | Debbie Macomber | |
| ad9c3ea | Don't expect me to be sane anymore. Don't let's be sensible. It was a marriage at Louveciennes--you can't dispute it. I came away with pieces of you sticking to me; I am walking about, swimming, in an ocean of blood, your Andalusian blood, distilled and poisonous... I can't see how I can go on living away from you--these intermissions are death. How did it seem to you when Hugo came back? Was I still there? I can't picture you moving about .. | passion | Henry Miller | |
| 1be4539 | Yalena: Could you always open your door? Kiki: Yes. Fence, too. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 6a8926a | We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in the world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of available power, but to use well the kind you've been granted. Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland .. | Susan Cain | ||
| 5f477ad | But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 86c40ba | I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren't enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you're able to make a choice. It's the choice that counts. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3ad5143 | You're a pretty cool customer, huh?" says Agent Hunt. "I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage." Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage." -- | Holly Black | ||
| cff1398 | I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent." | Holly Black | ||
| 35b5d26 | Sam frowns at me, suddenly serious. "You know, I thought--for most of the first year we lived together--that you were going to kill me." That makes me nearly spit out beer, I laugh so hard. "No, look--living with you, it's like knowing there's a loaded gun on the other side of the room. You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat." That only makes me laugh harder. "Shut up," he says. "You might do normal stuff, but a leopard.. | Holly Black | ||
| 411086e | I need to talk to you. I had a weird dream." "Let me guess. You got tied up by lady ninjas. With big hooters." "Uh, no." I take a sip of coffee and wince. It was ridiculously strong. My grandfather shoves a strip of bacon in his mouth with a grin. "Guess it would have been kind of weird if we'd had the same dream." I roll my eyes. "Well, you'd better not tell me anything else. Don't ruin the surprise in case I have it tonight." | Holly Black | ||
| 7de90f1 | Love changes us, but we change how we love too. | Holly Black | ||
| 00e2ff3 | Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they say something. Of course, I had been sick for five years. But now, now maybe I was really sick. Maybe I wasgetting good at this, good enough to scare people. Maybe I would almost die, and balance just there, at the edge of the cliff, wavering while they gasped and clutched one another's arms, and win acclaim for my .. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| bee7737 | Hanajima, my spear! Bring me my spear! | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 441c7fe | We leave a stain, we leave a trail, we leave our imprint. Impurity, cruelty, abuse, error, excrement, semen - there's no other way to be here. Nothing to do with disobedience. Nothing to do with grace or salvation or redemption. It's in everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The stain that is there before its mark. | Philip Roth | ||
| 916e3cc | Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg! | justice revolution slogan truth | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4c82271 | Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6e326ca | When I am old I shall wear midnight. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 23abf2b | I believe in reincarnation," [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. "I tried to live a good life. Does that help?" THAT'S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU'LL BE BJORN AGAIN." | death discworld humor puns reincarnation | Terry Pratchett | |
| ba43f85 | WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE. | evil knowledge squeak truth | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0053c8e | He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 00f4554 | Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 5528c20 | The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well. | stealing thievery thieves | Terry Pratchett | |
| 831add9 | After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a846a54 | You've been inexpressibly lucky," he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing" | madness uprooted | Naomi Novik | |
| 097d2f7 | Only then (nearly out the door, so to speak) did I realize how unspeakably beautiful all of this was, how precisely engineered for our pleasure, and saw that I was on the bring of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime thing. | George Saunders | ||
| b5c9032 | It'd taken her several seconds to react to the sight of them together. She'd been almost hypnotized by the scene as Lothaire drank. Chase's masculine face had been tense, his gray eyes focused on the ground. Lothaire's face had been starkly beautiful, his pale blond hair brushing Chase's shoulder. Light and dark. One terrible, one tragic. And Lothaire had been... hard. "Oh, gods!" She cried as she ran back along the trail. " | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore lothaire paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie vampire | Kresley Cole | |
| c7b71b7 | Don't get pissy with me leech." With a glare, Carrow pressed her print to his torque. "Even tapped out, I can still do a love spell to make you fall in love--with the sun." | berserker carrow declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore lothaire paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie vampire witch | Kresley Cole | |
| bcb0dab | I can't drive." "I'm going to teach you," he'd said confidently. At the end of the lesson, he'd declared her the most aggressive and dangerous driver he'd ever encountered. Which meant.. . number one! (Sabine)" | Kresley Cole | ||
| 38be087 | Nightingale" Did I wound you, mutilate. Take away your voice. Did I cut something from you. Leave you locked in silence? This is what you do: you sing. Every part of you. Your locks of hair sing, your eyes, your hands, your smile. If I listen closely I can even hear your blood. Was I the one that took that away? Go down to the water where we used to swim. Stand under the sky at dawn when the sky is streaked with blood. Open your mouth and s.. | love | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 5841ca2 | You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account. | inspirational | Jennifer Weiner | |
| fc92968 | Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. | Edward Albee | ||
| 2c79bd2 | You don't fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It's like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else's planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across spac.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a7c238c | It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment? | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| ff6124a | Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 88bc72a | There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed! | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| f57bfb8 | The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 9a01f6e | It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did. | John Fowles | ||
| 442ea9c | Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see relationship between objects. Whether the objects love each other, need each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhor.. | John Fowles | ||
| 369ffb4 | The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence. | comfort love | Christopher Isherwood | |
| 3319931 | I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. | civilization vegetarianism | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 8048a78 | Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has | Henry David Thoreau |