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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3036a5f | One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all. | procrastinating procrastinator time-management wasting-time time-passing procrastination | Brian Tracy | |
| bb57597 | Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we real.. | tragedy perseverance humanity change life cataclysm revelation-of-self humility transformation | Marianne Williamson | |
| 7aec71a | Coming forward with a placating smile, Win handed him a piece of paper. "Of course we would never want to force you into a loveless marriage, dear. But we have put together a list of prospective brides, all of them lovely girls. Won't you take a glance and see if any of them appeals to you?" Deciding to humor her, Leo looked down at the list. "Marietta Newbury?" "Yes," Amelia said. "What's wrong with her?" "I don't like her teeth." "What ab.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 4e0e70e | Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that. | romance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| f7d8749 | If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 0e94489 | So are you bisexual?" I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. "I guess I'm bipossible," he had said." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| bcde6f4 | I don't share my body heat indiscriminately. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 04a6b4b | What if you could meet your soul mate?" the ghost asked. "You 'd want to avoid that?" "Hell, yes. The idea that there's one soul out there, waiting to merge with mine like some data-sharing program, depresses the hell out of me." "It's not like that. It's not about losing yourself." "Then what is it?" Alex was only half listening, still occupied with the viselike tightness of his chest. "It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward.. | soul-mates | Lisa Kleypas | |
| e325b1b | Owen Meany believed that "coincidence" was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design - more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)" | John Irving | ||
| 11976bb | Muse of poetry, come to his aid, I thought. Could the man produce one more metaphor of husbandry? He seemed to be trying. "Green wood," I suggested, but even he sensed that there was something unfortunate about a metaphor for a king in which you dry out your royalty before you set fire to it." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 1d77a76 | We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 234722a | opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 5f17bfb | He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. | logical-thinking logic | Julian Barnes | |
| 14cbb4d | Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 766c380 | This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen. Like what? The things Literature was about: Love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villa.. | sex literature fiction morality god life love | Julian Barnes | |
| 281e973 | Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears. | leadership | George R.R. Martin | |
| d2ac38c | Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| aa903ba | In life, the monsters win. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 243b21e | You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 7596d0f | When I know the truth, I must go to Robert. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 45cf8cb | Pissing is the least of my talents. You ought to see me shit | humour tyrion-lannister george-r-r-martin | George R.R. Martin | |
| 2528e4f | Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| e603bc6 | I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ab626fb | Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood. | Meg Cabot | ||
| a836f7f | Well, hi, CeeCee," I said. "Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking?" "Oh, please," CeeCee said. "Why? Because we might interrupt you and your precious Jesse?" Jesse, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows. Way up." | mediator meg-cabot | Meg Cabot | |
| d3e181b | One of the most terrible losses man endures in his lifetime is not even noticed by most people, much less mourned. Which is astonishing, because what we lose is in many ways one of the essential qualities that sets us apart from other creatures. I'm talking about the loss of the sense of wonder that is such an integral part of our world when we are children. However, as we grow older, that sense of wonder shrinks from cosmic to microscopic .. | Jonathan Carroll | ||
| 9b4fc05 | Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength. | Sun Tzu | ||
| dad6580 | And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| 6c1cb4a | It was easier to be brave when you were someone else. | Stephen King | ||
| e45532c | My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams. | memories sad | Stephen King | |
| f9ce1df | Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing. | writing reading-books | Stephen King | |
| 4e7b83f | At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. | library | Alberto Manguel | |
| db646f4 | There are no insect eggs in my food." Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising," Nate suggested." | humor insect-eggs | Brandon Mull | |
| bdb5719 | Sometimes the most preposterous lies are the most believable. | Brandon Mull | ||
| bfb8ea0 | No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact reference to location. Their words are lush like the land they come from, filled with nine aunties, people named Bubba. There is something extravagant and wild about what they have to say -- snakes on the roof of a car, swamps, a delta, sweat, the sm.. | writing southern-literature southerners | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 83cc3e8 | Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b14a655 | I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 76aba1d | Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 60b3905 | She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 3945149 | I offer my heart, entrust my soul and give my life to you. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4d47922 | Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| 57f3c08 | That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| a3b020b | A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to pro.. | magic harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| f287852 | Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous. | vanity thomas-raith | Jim Butcher |