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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ec0c2e9 | Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was . | granny-weatherwax | Terry Pratchett | |
| dfde1c2 | Got to be worth a try, I suppose," said Crowley. "It's not as if I haven't got lots of other work to do, God knows." His forehead creased for a moment, and then he slapped the steering wheel triumphantly. "Ducks!" he shouted. "What?" "That's what water slides off!" Aziraphale took a deep breath. "Just drive the car, please," he said wearily." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 9f66f4c | Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| dc5f420 | Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. | freedom meaning life truth | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| b9c45c9 | It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail. | grief grieving-the-loss-of-a-mother grieving | Donna Tartt | |
| 271f607 | Powerful people have no regrets. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0c4200e | But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 1b342d7 | What's your name?" "What do you want it to be?" "Are you a vampire?" "Not the last time I checked." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 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. | the-gospel-of-loki norse-mythology loki mythology | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 70c6a6c | It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 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." | judith-mcnaught elizabeth ian | 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. | science life philosophy paradigm-shift thomas-kuhn chaos-theory paradigm mathematics physics | 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 | |
| c2302f1 | It is clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high standard I set for myself, I often looked at myself with furious discontent, which verged on loathing, and so I inwardly attributed the same feeling to everyone. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f88ace2 | Cosette, in her seclusion, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire. Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the stormy electricities of passion,--these two souls which held love as two clouds hold lightning, and which were to meet and mingle in a glace like clouds in a flash. The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stor.. | love | Victor Hugo | |
| 0ce73e3 | The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. | loneliness | Victor Hugo | |
| db3fd50 | The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. | profound love | Victor Hugo | |
| 3bd2e84 | Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background. | Victor Hugo | ||
| f16c044 | there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables | Victor Hugo | ||
| 0b234f7 | I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and chil.. | people life heart-of-a-man | Leo Tolstoy | |
| c3503d4 | The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| cd655f0 | In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 489b808 | To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 66a7f62 | Never," said he, as he ground his teeth, "never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she feels in my hand!" (And he shook me with the force of his hold.) "I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage--with a stern triumph. Whatever I do wit.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| aeb9e4f | Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 2a9c542 | He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me. | Daphne du Maurier |