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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d4de479 | I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0ccb3db | The best thing--in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing--about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it. | fear prison relief | Neil Gaiman | |
| 03ce116 | Now all we have to worry about is all the other books, and, of course, life, which is huge and complicated and will not warn you before it hurts you. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 6491dc9 | Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| cb20c73 | There is nothing like love. You should try it." Thibault shrugged. "Maybe one day." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 0d36fa9 | Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice. | virtue kindness strength intelligence epithets good-nature serene insolence malice arrogance genius logic | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| a552298 | The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming. | conventionalism passivity creativity | Robert Greene | |
| 0e4534e | I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead. | character humor humor-inspirational | Dennis Lehane | |
| d020428 | But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. | Jess Walter | ||
| 3aeca5c | If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible. | Heather O'Neill | ||
| e9d41e8 | Love cannot be measured by its duration... | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 58023a9 | There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 5f1a776 | Fuckin failures in a country of failures. Its nae good blamin it oan the English fir colonising us. Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant healthy society to be colonised by. No..we are ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? The lowest of the low, the scum of the earth. The most wretched servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat intae creatio.. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| dfc285c | I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers. | Leif Enger | ||
| 8b0ce00 | I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you could use in the rest room, and how many drinks of water you could get during recess. And there was always somebody watching to make sure. What I'm finding out about growing older is that there .. | growing-up rules | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| 304a396 | But answer me this: how can a story end happily if there is no love? | kate-dicamillo | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 520633e | Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart... | edward-tulane old-doll tulane kate-dicamillo | Kate DiCamillo | |
| 8a5cd24 | He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me. | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| fbaa0b5 | Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that t.. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 24c0315 | Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak! ...Boy, am I scary or what? | Bill Watterson | ||
| b498df4 | I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it." | Walter Scott | ||
| 8016319 | Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter's, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter's wheel. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| ed7f875 | There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. | Henry Miller | ||
| 10d7967 | I was in the fifth grade the first time I thought about turning thirty. My best friend Darcy and I came across a perpetual calendar in the back of the phone book, where you could look up any date in the future, and by using this little grid, determine what the day of the week would be. So we located our birthdays in the following year, mine in May and hers in September. I got Wednesday, a school night. She got a Friday. A small victory, but.. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 85b1d8d | The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. | new-year growth effort | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4eff87f | Where were you? What happened?" I carved a chunk out of another lizard's face. "I just took the kids to fight some ghouls," Curran said. Oh, so it was fine, then . . . Wait. "You did what?" He kicked a lizard. It flew into the others like a cannonball. "I called Jim before we left the house to talk about ghouls, and he said they found some in the MARTA tunnels. So I grabbed the kids and did a little hunting." I would kill him. "Just so .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| ec48422 | Where were you? What happened?" I carved a chunk out of another lizard's face. "I just took the kids to fight some ghouls," Curran said. Oh, so it was fine, then . . . Wait. "You did what?" He kicked a lizard. It flew into the others like a cannonball. "I called Jim before we left the house to talk about ghouls, and he said they found some in the MARTA tunnels. So I grabbed the kids and did a little hunting." I would kill him. "Just so .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cd0ea55 | He caressed my cheek. "You came for me," I whispered. "Always," he told me." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f3e197a | Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list. | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 5db55fa | Now that was a kiss," Grandma Frida said from the doorway behind me. I jumped. "How long have you been there?" "Long enough. That man means business." All my words tried to come out at once. "I don't . . . what . . . asshole! . . . screw himself for all I care!" "Aww, young love, so passionate," Grandma said. "I'm going to buy you a subscription to Brides magazine. You should start shopping for dresses." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8aaa356 | Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else. | Miranda July | ||
| 8080eca | But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her. | flipped juli-baker | Wendelin Van Draanen | |
| e8d1828 | Well, we can't sit around here worrying all night. I have to do something. " "Why don't you call up another vampire hunter for tea?" he suggested drily." | nicholas | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 6390523 | I have said that the soul is not more than the body, | god whitman self soul | Walt Whitman | |
| e9f0848 | I'm saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It's going to take us a miracle to get through this." Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. "At least they're getting more polite when they try to kill us," Shane said." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 1c70c32 | You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here. | lord-reading | Elizabeth Hoyt | |
| 8f2a320 | We've been rehearsing a classic from antiquity, , the story of a young prince of Denmark who goes mad, drowns his girlfriend, and in his remorse, forces spoiled breakfast on all whom he meets. | hamlet | Christopher Moore | |
| f98a6a0 | He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead. | murder | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 3aafdf5 | Podemos fugir de tudo, nao de nos proprios. | José Saramago | ||
| ec2e1bf | A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 7b83bdc | Entropy requires no maintenance. | Robert Anton Wilson | ||
| 7c1d7eb | You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. | Richard Bach | ||
| 41181a5 | Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." "Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high..." "Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it." | Richard Bach | ||
| 352c8fb | Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober." | Dashiell Hammett |