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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cbc072b | The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it. | writing-life writing | Roald Dahl | |
| 9792ccf | He her, he believed. He would teach her that she was not his possession, he would show her she was free, he would see her flash her wings. | A.S. Byatt | ||
| d93b42c | In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases--beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. | Anne Rice | ||
| fe1d67f | Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. | hell | Anne Rice | |
| f6ccefc | To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 448c330 | 1. Replace upstairs hall bathroom lightbulb. 2. Get online and research Ferragamo shoes, then email someone named Kell to see if he could convert Ferragamos into weapons. 3. Order a replacement coat for the one that was torn. (see closet for coat) Make sure it matches exactly. 4. Wash Cars. 5. Take out trash for Rosa 6. Most important, don't bitch. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2f6eca4 | It's just a mild disagreement, Papa. Remi has this whole need to breathe in and out, which annoys me. If he would just stop breathing, I'd be fine. (Aimee) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 72f9d08 | In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 514a452 | Hell, no, I'm not sober. You think I'd be doing this shit if I were? And I notice I don't see your fat ass down here in the trenches so shut it before I forget I'm supposed to actually like you. (Syn) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| aa32472 | Why are you talking to the King Loser Dork? You want to talk about ugly? Look at what he's wearing. (Stone) I like a man who takes fashion chances. It's the mark of someone who lives by his own code. A rebel. A real lone wolf is a lot sexier than a pack animal who follows orders and can't have an opinion unless someone else gives it to him. (Nekoda) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| ae1dcf0 | So what do you do? Really? (Kat) Nothing. Really. It's boring as hell. Artemis won't allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 8b40b26 | One day I'm going to find a way to rid you of that beast resting on your arm. (Artemis) (He looked at her over his shoulder.) And one day I'm going to find a way to rid myself of the beast resting on my back. (Acheron) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c9d49fa | Fine, you fun-vampire. I'll take my scroll over here and play by myself. (Kat) Fun-vampire? What is that? (Sin) That would be you sucking all the fun out of life. (Kat) You have the most interesting terms for things. (Sin) Yes, but notice mine are creative, unlike the so stellarly named Rod of Time. (Kat) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| c6c1c45 | What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I'm human. (Mark) Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you're sane. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b889b43 | We don't need your pity. We get along just fine without it and them other things too. You don't need electronic crap to live. You know, people lived for thousands of years without it. There's a big difference between stuff you want and stuff you need. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| b5b1e99 | stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves | Albert Camus | ||
| 3a7723c | One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day. | immortality the-fall | Albert Camus | |
| 3d37826 | Someone has to spread the good news that we survived. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 076618f | i will always tell you the truth. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 9bb1cf5 | Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing. | labels bree-tanner super-secret-ninja-club diego vampire vampires | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 8454215 | The rabbits mingled naturally. They did not talk for talking's sake, in the artificial manner that human beings - and sometimes even their dogs and cats - do. But this did not mean that they were not communicating; merely that they were not communicating by talking. | watership-down | Richard Adams | |
| 5dd466c | Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. | present weight | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| deee23f | If you lose all hope, you can always find it again. | Richard Ford | ||
| 7b561f8 | She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 564eea1 | In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| f7489a6 | A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ulti.. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 5c0169c | Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea's black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 16c9e13 | We live in all we seek. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 5efd277 | Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality? | writing | Annie Dillard | |
| dab0fb4 | Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground - you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things out, fix things, get a grip. Tidiness suggests that something is as good as it's going to get. Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing nee.. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 87d6020 | The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan. | Mary Roach | ||
| 29b22a3 | In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society. | inspirational journalism memoir | John Grogan | |
| 5c02271 | Then what sport do you play?" Carlos puts down his food. Oh, no. He's got a rebellious gleam in his eye as he says, "The horizontal tango." ------------------------------------------- "Dancing really isn't a sport," Brandon tells Carlos, oblivious to the shock at the rest of the table. "It is when I do it," Carlos says. ------------------------------------------- Brandon turns to my dad with big, innocent eyes. "Daddy, do YOU know how to d.. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| a449af4 | It's cool in the basement, so I pull the blanket up to my chest. Caleb slides in beside me, and I feel his bare legs against mine. "You're shivering," he says, his voice a low whisper. "I'm a little cold... and a little nervous." "Don't be nervous, Maggie. It's juste me." It's the real Caleb, without the tough facade. I'm glad it's completely dark now and he can't see my trembling fingers as they move up to his beautiful face. "I know." He .. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| dfdd4f8 | After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. | Arthur Miller | ||
| c5d760f | And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE | scene-1 much-ado-about-nothing | William Shakespeare | |
| 02eb8fc | My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have; for both are infinite. --William Shakespeare | Rick Yancey | ||
| ebfbbff | true apothecary thy drugs art quick | sad poison romeo-and-juliet | William Shakespeare | |
| fab588c | Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion | William Shakespeare | ||
| 959d672 | Ay me! sad hours seem long. | yearning | William Shakespeare | |
| a3c5ec6 | Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. | readiness sadness que-sera-sera providence hamlet | William Shakespeare | |
| 47a8621 | Macbeth: If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. | screw sticking-place | William Shakespeare | |
| 5f6c90d | I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no. | William Shakespeare | ||
| bec0ab8 | Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad. | shakespeare | William Shakespeare |