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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9f17cbd | Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests! | P.G. Wodehouse | ||
| 4595ff2 | Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death as warning, as an unavoidable matter of fact. Little Debbie's mom down the block might say, 'Honey, look both ways before crossing the street.' My mother's version: 'You don't look, you get smash flat like sand dab.' (Sand dabs were the cheap fish we bought live in the market, distinguished in my mind by their two eyes affixed on.. | truth | Amy Tan | |
| b8107f6 | wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another.. | mother relationship | Amy Tan | |
| 7475b5d | Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. | John Grogan | ||
| 6a0c6d6 | I had never thought of Marley as any kind of model, but sitting there sipping my beer, I was aware that maybe he held the secret for a good life. Never slow down, never look back, live each day w/ adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. | John Grogan | ||
| 95c71af | It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 66129af | It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant (Isabella) | shakespeare-s-wit | William Shakespeare | |
| 3592c23 | Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. | William Shakespeare | ||
| fcf58e4 | Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let's choose executors and talk of wills | death | William Shakespeare | |
| b903409 | And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 638a26b | A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm | William Shakespeare | ||
| c9ea0c3 | What'd I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 4929e55 | It's not stupid to want to put on a pretty dress and feel beautiful for a night. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5e20ed2 | I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed! | love romance ya | Stephanie Perkins | |
| ca110fa | I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper. | Henry James | ||
| b1e0a52 | when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 861a3d5 | It's wherever you are. If it's tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you're doing." Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn't considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore? "Even in the bathroom?" the Gasman's eyes widened with surprise." | James Patterson | ||
| c73a1a5 | Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. | James Patterson | ||
| 9c84ce3 | I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad." "Me, too," said Gazzy. "I want to find my parents so I can tell'm what total scuzzes they are. Like, 'Hi, mom and dad, you're such scum!" | James Patterson | ||
| e51bae5 | Later," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has." | James Patterson | ||
| 6dfb482 | Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature . | James Patterson | ||
| 58895b7 | A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk. | poetry | Maya Angelou | |
| 3313a31 | If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last." | unwanted-attention | Garth Nix | |
| 589a13c | I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost." | fantasy young-adult | Garth Nix | |
| c75b992 | There was nothing wrong with being a homebody. There was nothing wrong with not wanting - not - the constant jostle and noise of a party or bar or... whatever. | party | Charles de Lint | |
| 85b2ab1 | She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 9a733b2 | The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn't good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she'd ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn't good enough. | tears | William Goldman | |
| 977cf01 | Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. He would not let them break him. He would hold together against anything and all. If only they gave him sufficient time to make ready, he knew he could defeat pain. It turned out they gave him sufficient time (it was months before the Machi.. | William Goldman | ||
| 3a57a90 | You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo | Mario Puzo | ||
| 1b48609 | I don't eat chicken abortions! | chicken-abortions gossip-girl humor | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| 8fc5294 | You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.' It's a gift. | gifts humor | Christina Dodd | |
| 8aff52d | Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 130453d | One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. | lies | Harper Lee | |
| a3986fd | Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare sieze the fire? And what shoulder, & what art. Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace .. | William Blake | ||
| 73a589e | Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 54fdeca | We are all creatures of the stars. | origins | Doris Lessing | |
| 025c74e | I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people. | Michael Connelly | ||
| b480ab1 | Have you, in truth, ever seen something so heartbreakingly lovely? What are we to make of a world where stars shine bright in the midst of so much darkness and gloom? | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 706d369 | No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me. | gail carson levine | ||
| 16fd507 | These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all. | David Mitchell | ||
| 44fab7c | The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 114d0ec | For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 1fb8991 | I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 8dd7245 | With all respects to heaven, I like it here. | Colum McCann |