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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c311ff2 | History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. | philosophy | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 19a43d9 | Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?" "Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink." | grumpy-old-man visit elderly | Tamora Pierce | |
| 95e4724 | Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended." -- | jory parents | Tamora Pierce | |
| 663ed72 | it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 3aa6ab5 | For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love? | love food | Michael Pollan | |
| 50cbbd7 | If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 6c71242 | You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, 'But we've always done it this way.' A million dead people can't have been wrong, can they? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fc42e5d | Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b318951 | I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins. | growing-up | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1c2b8a1 | What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness. But halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 104f480 | Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0fd4bdb | Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 8174a68 | Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG! | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| fabfb76 | They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home. | scholarship classics language | Donna Tartt | |
| 1701523 | The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock. | pain compulsion anguish compulsive hopeless obsession unrequited-love memory | Donna Tartt | |
| e77281e | It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there | parliament laws | Naomi Novik | |
| 262038a | It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. Other men may be in raptures at his skill, but the rest of creation is, by and large, unmoved. Perhaps a cat or a dog may look at him; his horse, if it is an exceptionally intelligent beast, may pause in cropping the grass, but that is the extent .. | nature | Susanna Clarke | |
| 0583bf3 | All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants. | immigrants | Ryū Murakami | |
| e225dcf | Are you calling about the ad?" "Ad?" "For the gently used Bentley for sale. It has zero miles!" Well, that explained the backward driving. Macrieve & Nix" | nix-the-ever-knowing | Kresley Cole | |
| e953021 | Evie, bed down." Scanning the dark, he murmured, "You doan have to be scared. I've got you." You do, don't you? Here we were in the Bagmen's lair, and I wasn't terrified for my life. Jackson would kill any that strayed too close. In fact, they should fear him. I was with the boy that monsters should fear." | Kresley Cole | ||
| a4224b4 | You forget I'm a goddess," she hissed. "Your goddess." And a bitch as well. But then, weren't all goddesses afflicted with bitchery?" | Kresley Cole | ||
| f3a9299 | To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings. | sidney-sheldon | Sidney Sheldon | |
| 739e54e | And then I cried a flood of tears as if I really were a mermaid who had absorbed too much sea into herself. The tears spilled like a balm, like a potion, like a charm. In them swam a little girl whose father was dying without ever having seen her. In them swam a girl whose mother's magic - the only thing the girl envied more than anything else in the world, the thing that had made her invisible, the most precious thing -might be dying too. .. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 8d58af5 | Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 39c85b6 | He got one finger cut off when he was young... The cafe paid for a replacement, put some nano-plastic in there. The kid got hooked. It happens. You get some plastic in you, you just want some more...Some more of that strength. Because that's what it is. Strength. The Strength to persist. | dreampunk | Jeff Noon | |
| 9c2a951 | Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'. | Betty Smith | ||
| b8f6a95 | A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood. | motive purpose planning strategy | Joanne Harris | |
| 220d8bc | The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air. | Tim Wise | ||
| 6620d1a | You have only one life, make the most of it | Louis Sachar | ||
| bc39ed9 | If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| da4eeea | Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792) | Ron Chernow | ||
| e54131a | Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| d78fb63 | Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't. | winter syracuse sun weather | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 49937f1 | No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 9046bf6 | They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said. | John Fowles | ||
| ff38424 | I want more from life than that and I have more to give. | Judith McNaught | ||
| e2c1ab8 | Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams. | Pat Conroy | ||
| a16cd39 | I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like. | like | Erle Stanley Gardner | |
| 3b9a50a | The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| a1124ed | It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job. | the-name-of-the-star rory | Maureen Johnson | |
| ece59a7 | You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself. | Chinua Achebe | ||
| 34094ec | It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. | identity identification observational materialism self-delusion | James Baldwin | |
| 8f65821 | I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. It's difficult to describe because it's an emotion. It's analogous to the feeling one has in religion that has to do with a god that controls everything in the whole universe: there's a generality aspect that you feel when you think about how things that appear so different and behave so differently ar.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| 96903fe | I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go. | Richard P. Feynman |