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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 682adaa | Personally, I think sex should be like math. At school. No one really cares if they're crap at math. They even proclaim it. They'll say to anyone, "Yeah, I don't mind science and English, but I'm absolutely shithouse at math." And other people will laugh and say,"Yeah, me too. I would have a clue about all that logarithm shit. You should be able to say that about sex too. You should be proudly able to say, "Yeah I wouldn't have a clue abou.. | humor sex | Markus Zusak | |
| 0e27fe2 | Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate. | George Eliot | ||
| 0a6be10 | Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 487b23d | There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do. | humanity kings leadership treachery | David Gemmell | |
| 0e71e84 | I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0e77730 | There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber," she explained. "There's a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere--it doesn't all get used up at once." "I may still be hung over," sighed Richard. "That almost made sense." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5157c96 | You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4fe1a21 | What we read as adults should be read, I think, with no warnings or alerts beyond, perhaps: enter at your own risk. We need to find out what fiction is, what it means, to us, an experience that is going to be unlike anyone else's experience of the story. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 30b3349 | You're alive, that means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9d3b8b7 | I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places? | Neil Gaiman | ||
| eb1d979 | Rebirth always follows death. | death rebirth | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8df12d8 | But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it. | writing | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8d0eb64 | Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 4113547 | All of us have access to a higher form of intelligence, one that can allow us to see more of the world, to anticipate trends, to respond with speed and accuracy to any circumstance. This intelligence is cultivated by deply immersing ourselves in a field of study and staying true to our inclinations, no matter how unconventional our approach might seem to other. Through such intense immersion over many years we come to internalize and gain a.. | Robert Greene | ||
| a967c90 | Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now, The place to be happy is here, | happiness how-to-be-happy morality place time | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| 8b246ed | When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart. | ghost lost-love | Mitch Albom | |
| 4ca4fa1 | Love each other or perish. | Mitch Albom | ||
| c1b1631 | when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth. | happiness smile | Mitch Albom | |
| 04e7be2 | kyf ytsn~ llHb w lslm 'n y`ysh byn lfqr wnbbyt lftwt! | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 60f636e | Do not act meanly, do not be unkind, because the time for setting things right may pass before your heart changes course. Isabel Dalhousie | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 948121d | We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine. | truth | Philip K. Dick | |
| 3be4399 | The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn't hate the cabinet door, I hated my life... My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count o.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 3dc474c | How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a5a8d74 | l 'stTy` 'n 'qwl nk khybt Zn~ l'n~ lm 'Hsn lZn bk qT wlknh 'khT nrtkbh krhyn wnHn 'dr~ b`wqbh. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| e5effc1 | I was standing outside myself trying to stop those hangings with ghost fingers... I am a ghost wanting what every ghost wants-a body-after the Long Time moving through odorless alleys of space where no life is, only the colorless no smell of death...Nobody can breath and smell it through pink convolutions of gristle laced with crystal snot, time shit and black blood filters of flesh. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 0c8f63a | So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six.. | catch-22 god joseph-heller new-testament yossarian | Joseph Heller | |
| 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 | ||
| 658fa71 | He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all. | perlith tor | Robin McKinley | |
| 37f312b | It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it. | Robin McKinley | ||
| 81096f4 | When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I am going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes - what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows - what new landscapes - what new be.. | inspiration resolution | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 22e5a68 | This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures. | Laura Ingalls Wilder | ||
| 359c5f5 | It must be cool, having a twin, though." "Ah, not sure if cool is the right word." He flashed a grin. "But we're not twins." Out in the crowded hallway, Bethany frowned. "You're not? Could've fooled me and the world." His laugh was husky, deep, and really nice to hear. "We're triplets." Her eyes popped wide. "Holy crap, there're three of you?" "We have a sister." He walked close to her, so their shoulders bumped every few steps. She found t.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e89e743 | Oh. Yeah, um..." I was pretty sure I matched a fire truck. "He's a heavy sleeper." "I'm sure he is." Dominic stepped back. "If you wish to join your uncle, I'll be waiting outside. You should have time to get ready. Your uncle is a...heavy sleeper, also." Whaaaa...and then it hit me. Ew. Ew. Ew." | alex dominic heavy-sleepers marcus | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 21e328d | Breaking the cookie in two, he handed me the larger piece. I snatched it away, half tempted to throw it back in his face, but it was...it was chocolate chip. So I ate it and loved it. | katy-swartz | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| d0c56ca | No one else. It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever. Forever. I used to believe it didn't exist. One word has terrified me as a child and it haunted me. But now I knew, and many small ways, but it was real, But it didn't scare me anymore. Forever wasn't a little girl cowering in the closet. Forever wasn't the shadows sitt.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 9dcdaed | Don't you want to know what cookies is a code word for?" "No! Good God, no!" | cam code-word cookie cookies funny haha jennifer-l-armentrout wait-for-you | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 015c40d | Whatever bro, tell it to the whales | Max Brooks | ||
| f9dec61 | You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming "Hippo!" doesn't have the same impact as screaming "Shark!" But I'm telling you--as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants." | terror | Rick Riordan | |
| 3d9b056 | Nico had once read a story from Plato, who claimed that in the ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female. Each person had two heads, four arms, four legs. Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they made the gods uneasy, so Zeus split them in half--man and woman. Ever since, humans had felt incomplete. They spent their lives searching for their other halves. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1591611 | Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 05e7ee3 | I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one who got shafted on both deals was Walt.Poor guy gets hauled all over the world pulling us out of trouble | Rick Riordan | ||
| 316aa4d | A little background: Annabeth used to adventure with Hermes's son Luke. Over time, Annabeth developed a crush on Luke. As Annabeth got older, Luke developed feelings for her, too. Luke turned evil. Hermes blamed Annabeth for not preventing Luke from turning evil. Annabeth blamed Hermes for being a rotten dad and giving Luke the capacity to become evil in the first place. Luke died in war. Hermes and Annabeth blamed each other. Confused? Wel.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| a633619 | Back up," I said. "What did Sam mean by again? You've lost your hammer before?" "Once," Thor said. "Okay, twice. Three times if you count this time, which you shouldn't, because I am not admitting that the hammer is missing." "Right..." I said. "So how did you lose it?" "I don't know!" Thor started to pace again, his long red hair sparking and popping. "It was just like...Poof! I tried retracing my steps. I tried the Find My Hammer app, but.. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 8f82b5f | Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's." | father parenting self-sacrifice | Rick Riordan |