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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 621e53f | If you can't manage courtesy, try silence. | Jim Butcher | ||
| d1afa4d | Thank God for wisecracks. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 10aa8b4 | For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for." | love the-dresden-files | Jim Butcher | |
| 5fe2c7f | Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore." Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek." | humor johnnie-marcone sarcasm | Jim Butcher | |
| ccfa080 | They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they'd loved Beast the first time he swept Belle around the dance floor in her yellow dress. They loved him as they loved the Eleventh Doctor with his bow tie and his flippy hair and the Tenth Doctor with his mad laugh. They loved him as they loved lead singers of bands and ac.. | david-tennant doctor-who eleventh-doctor matt-smith tenth-doctor | Holly Black | |
| 83f6cf5 | Every plan is a house of cards. | Holly Black | ||
| 144781a | The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase. | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| aeee01f | Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have. | marya-hornbacher mental-illness | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 482657a | the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 5d8b88b | A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 66f517e | In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 66ddf6f | Even in a dream, even at a posh ball, the Nac Mac Feegle knew how to behave. You charged in madly, and you screamed... politely. pommes frites | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 7a79069 | Archbishop James Usher (1580-1656) published in 1654, which suggested that the Heaven and the Earth were created in 4004 B.C. One of his aides took the calculation further, and was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth was created on Sunday the 21st of October, 4004 B.C., at exactly 9:00 A.M., because God liked to get work done early in the morning while he was feeling fresh. This too was incorrect. By almost a quarter of an hour. .. | humor | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0013b39 | but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| add242e | Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3518360 | Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 910bc79 | The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| be892ed | If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression) | Andrew Solomon | ||
| cc159ae | My head is throbbing. I need coffee. Leaving the marbled papers in a state of controlled chaos, I walk through the office and past the page's desk in the Reading Room. I am halted by Isabelle's voice saying, "Perhaps Mr. DeTamble can help you," by which she means "Henry, you weasel, where are you slinking off to?" and this astoundingly beautiful amber-haired tall slim girl turns around and looks at me as through I am her personal Jesus. My .. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| f5d71b3 | Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense. | Susan Mallery | ||
| b3dd2e0 | When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature--fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 9ac2db8 | Breathe and let be. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ba50c3b | The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. | aware mindfulness moments | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 42aec34 | Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| ee9ad00 | Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 9a6cd8b | Apparently unaffected, she rose. "Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going." She feigned a yawn. "You've gotta head back to work and I've gotta head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap. --" | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| c9f91ff | Regin slapped her knees. "Oh, my gods, look at him running like his life depended on catching us." She slid open the door. "Is this straight outta Platoon, or what? Willem!" she cried, holding out one hand. "Run, Willem!" Then she choked on her laughter." -- | Kresley Cole | ||
| 904ef7f | Yo, Dekko, who do I gotta blow around here to get a shower? | berserker dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 2c1e36a | You do not mind my humor?" "Not at all. I've not laughed like this ..." His brows drew together. "I think I've never laughed like this." "Usually I exasperate people. And I jest at inappropriate times. Such as during executions. Freya says 'tis my gift and my bane to frustrate others." "I like your manner, Reginleit. Life is long without humor." | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior humor immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance radiant-ones regan-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 285c704 | he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| a445456 | This life is slow suicide, unless you read. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 18eb2c0 | Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. | Herman Wouk | ||
| ba2e046 | I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing. | sing waiting | Francesca Lia Block | |
| c9af502 | The Haunting was the feeling you got sometimes, in the Vurt, the real world calling you home. There's more to life than this. This is just a game. | dreampunk | Jeff Noon | |
| a2014ec | Thoughts are divine. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| ac55bd3 | Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques--literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| a2bdd4f | He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| e5e96b4 | I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 7b8bfc4 | Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole. | Anne Lamott | ||
| c71b4d0 | What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again. | Anne Frank | ||
| 2e83283 | Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 3864491 | Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today's happiness I wouldn't worry about tomorrow. | seventeen | Ai Yazawa | |
| 00bcb07 | How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was? | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| baba5ba | I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we? | henry-viii historical-fiction mary-boleyn | Philippa Gregory |