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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 935f889 | Hey, Cormac. You ever have to deal with a PMSing werewolf? | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 06c8ea7 | Murdoch's gun was the only thing in my life, the only thing worth living for. It gets like that sometimes, with instruments of death. | Jeff Noon | ||
| f998c18 | But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 608cfae | But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful... | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 5b66a4f | Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there. | loki mythology norse-mythology the-gospel-of-loki | Joanne Harris | |
| 6f57477 | When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You could blame the idiots who made the war. You could blame Kiowa for going to it. You could blame the rain. You could blame the river. You could blame the field, the mud, the climate. You could blame the enemy. You could blame the mortar rounds. You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts,.. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 70c6a6c | It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3cf6b9b | Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture of katharevousa and the demotic, is like kissing two women. Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. T.. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 639a0d2 | We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven. | reality-of-life | Chris Bohjalian | |
| 58aaf41 | For most of my life i have been adored by fools and hated by people of good sense, and they all make up stories about me in which I am either a saint or a whore. But I am above these judgments, I am a Queen. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3be269a | Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 7720095 | The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 3e9f29b | Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. "What is the most beautiful place you've ever seen?" Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. "Any place," he said huskily, "where you are." | elizabeth ian judith-mcnaught | Judith McNaught | |
| 864b0ec | Did she really tell Roddy Carstairs she could outshoot him with his own pistol?" "No," Jason said dryly. "She told him that if he made one more improper advance to her, she would shoot him- and if she missed, she would turn Wolf loose on him. And if Wolf didn't finish the job, she had every faith I would." Jason chuckled and shook his head. "It's the first time I've been nominated for the role of hero. I was a little crushed, however, to be.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 74fa596 | There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 9e406b4 | Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. | chaos-theory life mathematics paradigm paradigm-shift philosophy physics science thomas-kuhn | James Gleick | |
| 0ef9b71 | Love him,' said Jacques, with vehemence, 'love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? And how long, at the best, can it last, since you are both men and still have everywhere to go? Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, and most of that, helas! in the dark. And if you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty-- they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing, you will be d.. | love | James Baldwin | |
| e052522 | You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. Wherever you have turn.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 796dc88 | I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass. | Willa Cather | ||
| ac339a3 | And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got. | Kate Jacobs | ||
| 08ac61f | Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people. | John Green | ||
| 7554bda | In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay. | John Green | ||
| 85f017b | Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102) | majority minority | Cornel West | |
| 9c452a4 | Lily Calloway...all this time, your superpower has been loving me." Tears cloud my eyes, and they don't stop, especially as he adds, "And you'll be happy to know that I'm not mortal." "You aren't?" I choke. "No." He shakes his head, brushing away the wetness beneath my eyes. "Because my superpower is the love that I have for you. It's out of this world, extraordinary, incomprehensible kind of love. And no one and nothing on this Earth com.. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| ae402d4 | I love the way he's staring at me. It makes me feel more than just beautiful. I feel like I'm his. Like no one else could possibly compare to me. He doesn't even have to say the words. I see it in his eyes. I can practically read it in his mind. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 73dee3d | Some days, I listen to that clock ticking in the hallway. Then I think of all the ticks, all the minutes, all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without you. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart. I get so weak. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d3ec6c2 | Zindagi migzara (life goes on) | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| bcf567c | She stopped and listened to him and somehow his cheerful, friendly little whistle gave her a pleased feeling--even a disagreeable little girl may be lonely, and the big closed house and big bare moor and big bare gardens had made this one feel as if there was no one left in the world but herself. If she had been an affectionate child, who had been used to being loved, she would have broken her heart, but even though she was "Mistress Mary Q.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ba2072b | She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. | love | E.M. Forster | |
| b38e18f | One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!" | E.M. Forster | ||
| 645d1b7 | Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. " knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft," Grace commented. "Is it after your wife?" "My gun." Grace stared at him. "You named your plane after a ?" "It was a very good gun." | cahill grace gun pilot rising vespers | Gordon Korman | |
| 0e2c509 | If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you! | Colleen McCullough | ||
| 55d9113 | O, Boze, zasto si mi dao srce koje me bez prestanka vuce za daljinom i ljepotom nevidenih krajeva? Zasto si ucinio da sreca moja uvijek boravi ondje gdje mene nema? | Ivo Andrić | ||
| c10e66d | Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light | darkness-and-light light | Alan Brennert | |
| b675b38 | He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f5894bb | Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can't see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something li.. | lupin | J.K. Rowling | |
| 8013af0 | When Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was skulking red-eyed through the corridors, lunging out at unsuspecting students and trying to put them in detention for things like "breathing loudly" and "looking happy." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 058226d | But I got this far, didn't I?" he said slowly. "They thought I'd die in the attempt, but I'm here . . . and you're in my power. . . . I'm the one with the wand. . . . you're at my mercy. . ." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 754a36a | Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 121dfe1 | The Chamber Of Secrets had been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware. | harry-potter | J.K. Rowling | |
| bcd9197 | I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Gr.. | generalizations greeks | Louis de Bernières | |
| b5dad37 | They didn't have to be funny -- they were jokes. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 987e0de | A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing | autism fiction nicholas sparks | Nicholas Sparks | |
| a90917c | When I told you that I'd pray for you, what did you think I was talking about? | Nicholas Sparks |