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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 30e3e2f | No. Haven't you been listening?" Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers." | Julia Quinn | ||
| 5cd6b21 | I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. | typewriters | David Gerrold | |
| b377248 | Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember. | Alan Moore | ||
| e4c5ed9 | Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual. | youth interaction conversation | Julian Barnes | |
| 48d25b8 | 76. David Hume - Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile - or, On Education, The Social Contract 78. Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy 79. Adam Smith - The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations 80. Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason; .. | reading | Mortimer J. Adler | |
| 9f2b6e9 | You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a.. | d-day wwii | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 6559576 | He cupped her face in his hands, made her meet his gaze. Solemnly, he said, "I heard you say that when two people love each other, they fight through everything together. Every doubt, every challenge, every pain. Please. You are the only one for me, for as long as I live. And if you love me, fight with me." -- | the-iron-duke | Meljean Brook | |
| 7975477 | When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home. | war strategy | Sun Tzu | |
| 55e5598 | Stop your doubting, my love. I knew you would find me. ~Jack | vampires | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| cc944ae | Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves. | Melissa de la Cruz | ||
| e103c85 | I open the orangutan's door and set a pan of fruits, vegetables, and nuts on the floor. As I close it, her long arm reaches through the bars. She points at an orange in another pan. 'That? You want that?' She continues to point, blinking at me with close-set eyes. Her features are concave, her face a wide platter fringed with red hair. She's the most outrageous and beautiful thing I've ever seen. 'Here,' I say, handing her the orange. 'Y.. | Sara Gruen | ||
| fd42a65 | I believe the first draft of a book -- even a long one -- should take no more than three months...Any longer and -- for me, at least -- the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity. | writing stephen-king wise writers | Stephen King | |
| f0c4d16 | Love leaves scars. | Stephen King | ||
| 1ecd59a | He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to. | writing-philosophy | Stephen King | |
| a34731e | The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other galaxies? The father: No one knows. You see? Size defeats u.. | philosophy-of-life | Stephen King | |
| 83b902d | There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 20f87d2 | Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. | censors readers reader | Alberto Manguel | |
| 78f8144 | I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller. Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's because you predicted this?" | Frank Beddor | ||
| e04f56a | could i have loved you better? maybe. if that's true, then i'm sorry. could i have loved you more? i don't think it's possible. | Elizabeth Noble | ||
| 87eb1f8 | Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam? | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| f0128a0 | The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it. | religion organized-religion atheism ideas | Rob Bell | |
| 1de9e03 | Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor? | Brandon Mull | ||
| bb0f016 | But a living is not a life. | Robin Hobb | ||
| de91276 | Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all. | Robin Hobb | ||
| ca551aa | I think you're a dangerous, corrupt, lying piece of nine-day-old mosquito shit. | Hugh Laurie | ||
| 78b7978 | Sentia una inmensa ternura por ella. Estaba seguro de que la querria siempre, para mi dicha y tambien mi desdicha. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| e6411ef | You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 71b08a9 | Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person. | western-journalism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 7eab42c | May your swords stay sharp -Brom | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 14dc028 | What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!' With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 9433157 | You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world. Till your spirit filleth the wh.. | stars heaven good world spirit love jewel sea king | Thomas Traherne | |
| 7af5e16 | Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance. | time thoughts | Alexandre Dumas | |
| 88347ea | If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| 87f0941 | Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt. | philosophy selfishness | Alexandre Dumas | |
| a7ac17d | I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment." | dark friends humor | Holly Black | |
| 669fab5 | I envy what I fear and hate what I envy. | faery | Holly Black | |
| 7daf800 | Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| ea238c2 | This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me | Patricia McCormick | ||
| ba6f4a4 | The term "starvation diet" refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: "suicide." | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 711d230 | What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? | have little | Mitch Albom | |
| fdfa365 | What's wrong with being number 2? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 0eb843d | People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a CERTAIN love." | Mitch Albom | ||
| 862981b | Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor. | Laura Esquivel | ||
| a26370e | So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution? | love tea | Alexander McCall Smith |