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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| ab84529 | I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 7780555 | I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 87e078b | Now, for example, people with freckles aren't thought of as a minority by the nonfreckled. They aren't a minority in the sense we're talking about. And why aren't they? Because a minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary. Anyone here disagree with that? If you do, just ask yourself, What would this particular minority do if it.. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| e3070e4 | I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas. | changing-your-mind feeble ideas pluck strenght wrong | Enid Blyton | |
| a1e2484 | My aim is not to provide excuses for black behavior or to absolve blacks of personal responsibility. But when the new black conservatives accent black behavior and responsibility in such a way that the cultural realities of black people are ignored, they are playing a deceptive and dangerous intellectual game with the lives and fortunes of disadvantaged people. We indeed must criticize and condemn immoral acts of black people, but we must d.. | Cornel West | ||
| 9898b96 | If he's alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn't understand that | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
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| b78245c | Life [had] replaced logic. | life-of-meaning raskolnikov resurrection | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 2042370 | May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9200fd9 | I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cedad95 | We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 54894da | If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm mad. That's the way history is written | Eoin Colfer | ||
| bf8c60a | Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a picture in the air. It was a rough picture of Foaly, and he was laughing. I hate you, centaur!" screamed Opal, lunging toward, and then through, the insubstantial image. Her eyes rolled back into her head, and then she collapsed, snoring, on the floor. | eoin-colfer opal-koboi | Eoin Colfer | |
| f987d0a | But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| fe0f7ed | What about me?' said Grantaire. 'I'm here.' 'You?' 'Yes, me.' 'You? Rally Republicans! You? In defence of principles, fire up hearts that have grown cold!' 'Why not?' 'Are you capable of being good for something?' 'I have the vague ambition to be,' said Grantaire. 'You don't believe in anything.' 'I believe in you.' 'Grantaire, will you do me a favour?' 'Anything. Polish your boots.' 'Well, don't meddle in our affairs. Go and sleep off the .. | enjolras grantaire | Victor Hugo | |
| bf2f5a7 | He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died. | kutuzov | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 903d08e | There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane, there may be no more potent force than religion. When the subject of religiously inspired bloodshed comes up, many Americans immediately think of Islamic fundamentalism, which is to be expected in the wake of 911. But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believi.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 98437e7 | We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world. | bond lonely romance | Daphne du Maurier | |
| 17915b7 | This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f4fddf0 | What struck me--with her and with many other female American friends I have--is how invested they are in being "liked." How they have been raised to believe that their being likable is very important and that this "likable" trait is a specific thing. And that specific thing does not include showing anger or being aggressive or disagreeing too loudly. We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the rever.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6471691 | Maybe Love stays. Maybe Love can't. Maybe Love shouldn't. Love arrives exactly when Love is supposed to and Love leaves exactly when Love must. When Love arrives, say, "Welcome. Make yourself comfortable." If Love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. | Sarah Kay |