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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b2eca0f | You don't return your phone calls." The vampire leaned forward, tapping my doodle with a scimitar claw. "Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "No, it's a pie. What can I do for Atlanta's premier Master of the Dead?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d243901 | I don't know if you heard, but I kind of run this place. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f61f9d5 | What do you think?" he asked, his voice deep and commanding. I eyed him. "Impressive, but too much." He leaned toward me, the blue eyes smoky with a promise I was shure he could fulfill. I tried not to think of the bedroom. "Too much?" "Yes. I like the menace. It's very masculine, but he looks like he would screw everything in sight and call me 'wench" | saiman | Ilona Andrews | |
| a6971ab | If you come back to me, I'll never leave you", I whispered into the furry ear. "I'll make you all the pies you could ever eat." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| f2a41ab | Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. | wealth | Honoré de Balzac | |
| 28102b9 | It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| 8d19854 | Dar te intreb eu acum: de ce totul trebuie trait? De ce totul trebuie consumat? N-ajunge ca sintem siliti sa mincam? Trebuie sa ne mincam si sufletele? Unde scrie asta? Adica cum, nu putem pastra in sufletul nostru si lucruri netraite? Trebuie neaparat sa inghitim tot ce e pe lume? De ce? Ca sa avem pe urma ce varsa in mormintul in care o sa fim bagati? E o veche intrebare a mea la care ramin..Am iubit o fata! Nu-mi ajunge? De ce trebuie al.. | Marin Preda | ||
| 7f04cf3 | A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? Or I guess the grass is i.. | life grass graves | Walt Whitman | |
| 430f978 | Shane - "Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed." | shane | Rachel Caine | |
| 0b9d44a | Don't!" Lillian yelled, and put up her arms when Shane pulled back the bat. "Hell," Shane spat in disgust. "I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her." He tossed her the bat. Claire grabbed it and came to a clumsy batting stance, wishing she'd paid more attention in phys ed. Lillian screamed again and ran into the open doorway of Eve's room. Eve, coming up the stairs, screamed, too, for different reasons. "Hey! That's my room, bitch!" A.. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 2b1969f | He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded" Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first." Michael shook his head. "So what's on your good list?" "Oh you know. Hero stuff that gets me rerun on CNN, Like I died saving a busload of supermodels" Claire smacked his arm. "Ow! Saving them! What did you think I meant?.. | michael-glass shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 4c45295 | I'd kiss you, too, if I was closer."(claire) "I wouldn't," Michael said. "I don't love you that way." "That's not what you said last time."(shane) "Ass."(michael) _________________________ "No," Shane said. "I'm not leaving you two here alone. We stick together." "I'm still not kissing you," Michael said. "Tease." | shane | Rachel Caine | |
| c2b87f5 | Just who are you planning to call? Ghostbusters? | Rachel Caine | ||
| 2eba7e5 | The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die. | shield-wall reputation pride | Bernard Cornwell | |
| cc172be | Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 3e685a3 | She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that's the best you can do with people. I'd tried kindness. I'd tried friendship. I'd tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| aafc1d9 | I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time | philosophy wisdom life-experience | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| d4fd3d0 | sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all. | José Saramago | ||
| fd9d71b | Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| ffce632 | John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim's Progress, said "You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot pay you back." Make a decision that you will live to give. Be on the lookout each day for somebody you can bless. Don't' live for yourself; learn to give yourself away, and your life will make a difference." | Joel Osteen | ||
| f458ea7 | nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make. | Richard Bach | ||
| 04e4962 | To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. | richard-bach | Richard Bach | |
| aebe737 | Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall. | Richard Bach | ||
| e40a290 | Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know." | Richard Bach | ||
| 5c15fc8 | Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? | humour | Dashiell Hammett | |
| e2ce6fd | The rag he'd used to clean the table went into the fire behind him. "I saw what you are," he said, "and I was ashamed. I saw what you expect from a person, and I'd call you a bitch except you demand it from yourself as well. I saw how you see me," he explained. "It wasn't anything I didn't already know, but it made me wonder at what I lack, what isn't there." | Kim Harrison | ||
| f39fc94 | I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing. | war believing tsar-nicholas-ii otma romanovs russian-revolution pretending russia | Sarah Miller | |
| bff8012 | That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime! | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 6074605 | What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad--yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly." | Thomas Hardy | ||
| 256ba07 | Fuck you! I hope you die!" "Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you." | truth pessimism | Lawrence Block | |
| f66ac0a | Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity. | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | ||
| 4f88b0b | For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine. | Iris Murdoch | ||
| 6b8f47e | The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown). | Andy Warhol | ||
| 8e9c0c4 | Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me | love days-of-magic-nights-of-war sad-love longing | Clive Barker i Days of Magic Nights of War i | |
| 2080ce1 | I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. | H.P. Lovecraft | ||
| b870692 | Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 7ccf907 | We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 4d3e649 | Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 116457a | if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 2839e6c | Dreams: the place most of us get what we need. | Amy Hempel | ||
| 4fc22a0 | I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths. | women | Bram Stoker | |
| d63737b | Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 1ebdd8a | One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 46cfcbc | If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. | religion science | Richard Dawkins |