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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 77c84bd | Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive. | war strategy | 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." | present past stephen-king doctor-sleep | 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. | the-fool robin-hobb | Robin Hobb | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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." | humor harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 11ac50b | Revenge is like sex, Mister Dresden. It's best when it comes on slow, quiet, until it all seems inexorable. | sex revenge | 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 | ||
| 957866d | Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take noth.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| f51f8c1 | But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins. | mothers-love mothers | Mitch Albom | |
| e24a41a | Belief, hard work, love-you have those things, you can do anything. | life love hardwork belief | Mitch Albom | |
| a2e23e8 | Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0768545 | lmdh kn GDbk klnr tHrq bl rHm@? lmdh kn kbryw'k 'Hb lyk mn lHmk w dmk? w kyf tn`m blHy@ lrGyd@ w 'nt t`lm 'nn nuds bl'qdm klHshrt? w l`fw w llyn w ltsmH m sh'nhm f~ bytk lkbyr 'yh ljbr? | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| a13ef17 | Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| cb44413 | But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead. | lies melkor liars | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5cfd3c1 | There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer..." | writing-process | William S. Burroughs | |
| cb5c2d7 | Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 425491d | Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. | science psychology | Michael Crichton | |
| 941f161 | Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 64793bc | I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June. | summer | L. M. Montgomery | |
| 6090e1d | Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using of spare moments we may find an invalid at the end, while perhaps if we allowed ourselves more idle time we would conserve our nervous strength and health to more than the value the work we could accomplish by emulating at all times the little b.. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| ba86fb6 | I turned and reached over,wrapping my arms around his all too stiff body. I hugged him, squeezing him as tightly as I could. And then I let him go before he overreacted and threw me off the rock. Daemon still didn't move. He stared at me, eyes wide, like he'd never been hugged before. | Jennifer L. Armentrout |