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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 07559ae | 1. Never forget--"they" are always the enemy. 2. Just remember, assholes are born that way, and they usually don't change. 3. You don't want to go to jail. 4. When you start to take this job seriously, you're in trouble. 5. It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad. 6. If you decide to run the ball, just count on fumbling and getting the shit knocked out of you a lot, but never forget how much fun it is.. | Jimmy Buffett | ||
| eff22c0 | In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack--the | sun tzu | ||
| b8baf36 | Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. | love touch | Sara Gruen | |
| 5f437e1 | Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. | Stephen King | ||
| fd69e34 | Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty. | Stephen King | ||
| 1e15634 | We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long | life | Stephen King | |
| 3aa9b0a | You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down. | humor | Stephen King | |
| a476050 | You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. | Stephen King | ||
| 5c9c3f4 | Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light .. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 854b6be | But people love a hypocrite, you know----they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you. | hypocrite | Stephen King | |
| 3f0c2fe | Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good. | books reader reading society | Alberto Manguel | |
| d4a8fdf | Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker. | Rob Bell | ||
| 6ff41c4 | In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. | Brandon Mull | ||
| f6ca5ed | At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child -- miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| b5e2329 | Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance. | naked-in-death roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| 12ed3ce | Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy." | humour summerset | J.D. Robb | |
| cc51974 | She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself. | beauty personality | Anaïs Nin | |
| 060df3e | My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea, and my eyes are the color of water. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 5194c95 | His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| bf187d5 | Some say the Tudors transcend this history, bloody and demonic as it is: that they descend from Brutus through the line of Constantine, son of St Helena, who was a Briton. Arthur, High King of Britain, was Constantine's grandson. He married up to three women, all called Guinevere, and his tomb is at Glastonbury, but you must understand that he is not really dead, only waiting his time to come again. His blessed descendant, Prince Arthur of .. | Hilary Mantel | ||
| eee615c | Lovers Don't tell all of their Secrets. They might Count each other's moles That reside in the shy Regions, Then keep that tally strictly To themselves. God and I Have signe a contract To be even more intimate than That! Though a clause Mentions Something about not drawing detailed maps To all His beautiful Laughing Moles. | hafiz | شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez | |
| 8fb51a4 | I am a Count, Not a Saint. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| a3d8487 | know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 68cbc64 | I'm living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| a8baa6b | Tavi grinned. "Are you with me?" "The plan is insane," Ehren said. "YOU are insane." He looked around the inside of the tent. "I'll need some pants." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 41fb2e6 | I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart. | knowledge responsibility | Jim Butcher | |
| 28f6d31 | Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love. | Jim Butcher | ||
| a722b05 | I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the words had been an open flame, I don't know. I haven't found any explanation for it. There aren't any magical words, really. The words just hold the magic. They give it a shape and a form, they make it useful, describe the images within. I'll say this, though: Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resoun.. | love magic | Jim Butcher | |
| dafb51d | This is absurd. This is awful. This isn't how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit. | Holly Black | ||
| b680d14 | Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting. | holly black | ||
| ddf4e2f | Let me look out for you. Let your enemies become mine. | Holly Black | ||
| 0707555 | She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home. | running-away-from-problems | Beatrice Sparks | |
| 9a93c02 | Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7bdedac | In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c7a2d01 | It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita | sense-memory | Laura Esquivel | |
| 6e67ed4 | I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 9d8e95f | Mors certa, vita incerta, | latin | Philip K. Dick | |
| c190f7f | On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 786ba22 | danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 4703b82 | Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 99e2ed6 | When I was a kid," Orr replied, "I used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek." ... A minute passed. "Why?" [Yossarian] found himself forced to ask finally. Orr tittered triumphantly. "Because they're better than horse chestnuts... When I couldn't get crab apples," Orr continued, "I used horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are about the same size as crab apples and actually have a better shape, although the sh.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 8fda964 | Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts. | faith | Orson Scott Card | |
| c2f0abf | The essence of training is to allow error without consequence. | practicing training | Orson Scott Card | |
| e9ab20e | What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?" | Robin McKinley |