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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 713480c | But his kind will always lose in the end. I know this, and now I know why. Whether it's wife or nation they occupy, their mistake is the same: they stand still, and their stake moves underneath them.... Chains rattle, rivers roll, animals startle and bolt, forests inspire and expand, babies stretch open-mouthed from the womb, new seedlings arch their necks and creep forward into the light. Even a language won't stand still. A territory is o.. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 1b00f4d | Nothing stands still, except in our memory. | time | Philippa Pearce | |
| 35393a2 | Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions...as soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 58ebb85 | Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer. | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 8a1edb0 | You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim" | life parenting | Jeannette Walls | |
| f567eea | That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds | earth nature life revelations | Orson Scott Card | |
| ec2adae | People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| f7ab9d2 | Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect! | Gore Vidal | ||
| 8c59bcd | Okay. I'll admit, I slept or doodled through most of my classes. I have no idea who you're talking about. | covenant-series jennifer-l-armentrout sentinel | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 46410b5 | I seriously love these socks." "Give me back my foot," I ordered. "It's not so much the fact that they've got reindeers on them or that they go all the way up to your knees." As if that were some kind of great distance. "But it's the fact that they're like mittens on your feet." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2a89e56 | Sporks are only used in the most dire situations. | life-saving sporks katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 66435dd | Hades will be here in twenty minutes," Apollo announced from somewhere way too close to the bed. "Either speed this up or pick it up later, kids." "Oh my gods," I whispered, horrified. "Oh, and I hope you two are being responsible," Apollo added. And then he was gone. There was a muffled, hoarse shout from a room nearby. "Damn him," Aiden muttered, dropping his head onto my shoulder. He shuddered. "Damn him to the Underworld and back again.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| db6b817 | This speech wasn't forever. Being embarrassed as not forever. None of this was forever. But trying was. Living was. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| a20f896 | I stared at him in disbelief and sputtered, "You can't - Get off!" One single brown arched up. "I can't get off? Oh, I most definitely can get of." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2f0b043 | Tomorrow or next week wasn't guaranteed. Not that it ever was, but for us, things really weren't looking in our favor. There really was only one now, and I wanted to seize the moment and live in it. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| ba6671a | I want you so badly it's like a hunger that gnaws at me endlessly. It doesn't go away ... You have no fucking clue." "Then do something about it," I whispered." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 82580ae | That's what you taught me - we don't have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it. | Darren Shan | ||
| 8f03240 | This was a few weeks ago," Annabeth said. "Percy told me a crazy story about meeting a boy our near Moriches Bay. Apparently this kid used hieroglyphs to cast spells. He helped Percy battle a crocodile monsters." "The Sob of Sobek!" Sadie blurted. "But my battled that monster. He didn't say anything about-" "Is your brother's name Carter?" Annabeth asked. An angry golden aura flickered around Sadie's head-a halo of hieroglyphs that resemb.. | humor the-kane-chronicles the-son-of-sobek the-staff-of-serapis carter-kane heroes-of-olympus percy-jackson sadie-kane | Rick Riordan | |
| 6a4702a | Showers are good. Perhaps not as good as bacon, but good. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 766e337 | Cacus." I'd had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff." | Rick Riordan | ||
| cfe1097 | Meg turned and gazed out the rear windshield, probably checking for any shiny blobs pursuing us. "At least we're not being--" "Don't say it," Percy warned. Meg huffed. "You don't know what I was going to--" "You were going to say, 'At least we're not being followed,'" Percy said. "That'll jinx us. Immediately we'll notice that we are being followed. Then we'll end up in a big battle that totals my family car and probably destroys the whole .. | jinx meg-mccaffrey percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 2edcbab | Let's see, today is Thor's Day the sixteenth." "You mean Thursday?" "That's what I said. The island will rise on the full moon six days from now, on the twenty-second, which is Woden's Day." "Wednesday?" I asked. "That's what I said." -- | Rick Riordan | ||
| 91d7462 | the best people have the rottenest luck | Rick Riordan | ||
| 024111e | As for her charmspeak, she'd gotten so powerful it made Leo nervous. If she told him to eat his vegetables, he might actually do it. | Rick Riordan | ||
| b81a3ed | He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea. | poseidon | Rick Riordan | |
| 57227a6 | Annabeth shook her head. "All these years sneaking around, and we could've just been ourselves?" "You should do that." Alex strolled alongside, back in human form, though he still had a few flamingo feathers stuck in his hair. "And you have to flaunt the weird, my friends." "I'm going to quote you on that," Percy said. "You'd better." | percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 478309e | Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper? | Rick Riordan | ||
| aa55014 | Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world. | romance percy-jackson house-of-hades | Rick Riordan | |
| 1376ea6 | Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water." | Rick Riordan | ||
| eb9d106 | Doughboy, we need to talk." Doughboy opened his wax eyes. "Finally! You realize how stuffy it is in there? At last you've remembered that you need my brilliant guidance." "Actually we need to become a coat." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 7c6dfd4 | I frowned. "You mean Set's got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| c4f420b | Remembering is a great invention of the mind. | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| 411fa4c | Roarke had to force himself not to snatch her up as she swept through the hallowed Senate halls. Members of the media were already leaping toward her, but she cut through them as if they weren't there. "I like your style, Lieutenant Dallas," he said when they'd fought their way to the car. "I like it a lot. And by the way, I don't think I'm in love with you anymore. I know I am." | J.D. Robb | ||
| bc382e9 | Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt? | humor farm-animals revolt | J.D. Robb | |
| 76abbec | Eve (to Roarke): "Whatever happened to me back in Dallas, I came out of it. I'm standing here because of it. Maybe I have everything that matters to me, including you, because of it. If that's true, I'd go through it all again. I'd go through every minute of the hell to have you, to have my badge, to have this life." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 30cc6bf | How white is an Irishman's ass?" Eve wondered out loud. "You should know, darling." | J.D. Robb | ||
| 59e3644 | I can handle it. But it stinks, if you ask me, really stinks, that you get to go out somewhere drinking beer while I'm stuck at Baby Central. Just because you have a penis." "We'll think fondly of you over beer, me and my penis." She ate a little more, then smiled slowly. "You've still got to be in the birthing room when she pushes it out." "Shut up, Eve." "Your penis won't save you then, Pal." | penis eve-dallas roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| a4520ed | You can only chase a butterfly for so long. | young-adult culloden jane-yolen stuart butterfly scottish historical-fiction chase | Jane Yolen | |
| 517f387 | Before our white brothers came to civilize us we had no jails. Therefore we had no criminals. You can't have criminals without a jail. We had no locks or keys, and so we had no thieves. If a an was so poor that he had no horse, tipi or blanket, someone gave him these things. We were to uncivilized to set much value on personal belongings. We wanted to have things only in order to give them away. We had no money, and therefore a man's worth .. | John Lame Deer | ||
| bea8d7e | My voice is clotted with unshed tears. | Sophie Kinsella | ||
| 2ee86c9 | By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them. Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, yo.. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| 68a7dc8 | This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response of anyone--other people's reactions, their emotions, their criticisms, their demands--but somehow they don't reciprocate. Maybe they can't. Maybe they lack the gift, if it is one. | Margaret Atwood | ||
| b014dc9 | I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them. | Dodie Smith | ||
| b27628a | Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed. | John O'Donohue |