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77c84bd Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive. strategy war Sun Tzu
7b8192e The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking of you." Jack's smile deepened, and he threw the rose back at her so that it landed in her lap. Mimi tucked it behind her ear and fluttered her eyelashes appreciatively." Melissa de la Cruz
2fcdf79 She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do. Kingsley...I can't do this. I'm coming with you. Melissa de la Cruz
1eef8ec Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams? Robin S. Sharma
406f814 An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it. Stephen King
4814519 But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa... Stephen King
a45df20 I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present." doctor-sleep past present stephen-king Stephen King
c3994e5 She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. Agatha Christie
a41946e But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life. uncertainty Ron Rash
6910d5b What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling Elizabeth Gaskell
a465840 Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other. attraction smile Elizabeth Gaskell
98119c2 This is a bad story." "Sorry. I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have told you." "No, you should," I say. "But--" "I don't want there to be bad stories and me not know them." innocence stories Emma Donoghue
198b853 Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame. Brandon Mull
4f92ae2 Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one. robin-hobb the-fool Robin Hobb
7ae663c He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while. humor wisdom Christopher Paolini
33fa673 I couldn't fall out of love with you if I fell all the way to hell. love roarke J.D. Robb
74bae07 Our engines don't run at the same speed." "What the hell does that mean?" "Just that." "It sounds like something that ought to piss me off. But I can't figure out exactly why. When I do, I might have to pop you one." "I'll look forward to it. If you don't sleep, eat. You need something in your stomach. And what are you grinning at?" "You. You're such a wife." "Now, I'm pissed off." J.D. Robb
2486819 Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black. J.D. Robb
8d71ee5 There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned, Anaïs Nin
b3039ed And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not? Alexandre Dumas
95f0f83 Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden Jim Butcher
7a9ef0d Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school. Jim Butcher
0984752 You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard," I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music." harry-dresden humor Jim Butcher
11ac50b Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable. revenge sex Jim Butcher
daa3bee Kiss my ass Rath Roiben Rye Holly Black
0da77ae One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys. poetry valiant Holly Black
3410e61 And the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I've ever liked anyone and that of all the things he's ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst. Holly Black
2b5f50f Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams - will be sweeter than another's cries of love. tana Holly Black
17ac72f It's best to give while your hand is still warm. Philip Roth
6fa3a09 The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. Karen Russell
a2a5ab5 And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior. moral morality nature supreme-being Terry Pratchett
cb73473 It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one brief moment of inspiration. There's a lot of spadework first, of course, but what clinches the whole thing is the sight of, say, a falling apple or a boiling kettle or the water slipping over the edge of the bath. Something goes click inside the observer's head and then everything falls into place... Terry Pratchett
ec36f60 And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched. hope Juliet Marillier
c78bf7f The corners of his lips curled. "You and your secrets. Ah, , just when I think I've solved one mystery about you, up comes another one. I will figure you out one day. Consider yourself warned." Kresley Cole
777fd84 My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece. Kresley Cole
93b6abc Whenever other Lore creatures like the nymphs and satyrs turned their noses up at the "hex-hacks," Carrow would raise both her hands in the rock-on horns gesture and shout, "Double, double, toil and trouble, muthafuckas! You just got cursed!" Then she actually would curse them." Kresley Cole
10eb1d6 All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void... William Gibson
1db0996 Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly. gospel prayer R.C. Sproul
4d6c050 Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing. Virginia Woolf
d497c5e Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone. Virginia Woolf
c0b2b7e Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent. Virginia Woolf
5fc33af Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. Virginia Woolf
5b200f6 Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world. Jeanette Winterson
1ab9170 The truth is that I've spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristine place of fantasy that is really no better than the razor-rocks of misery. Maybe if I had stayed on the farm... maybe if I hadn't gone with Spike... maybe if I could have lived more peaceably... maybe if I'd met the right person years ago, maybe if I hadn't done this, or that or, its cousin, the other. Maybe, baby, the promised land was there.. Jeanette Winterson