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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7a0c14f | It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey. | obey eternity | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| 5f5ec1b | A man said to a Dervish: "Why do I not see you more often?" The Dervish replied, "Because the words 'Why have you not been to see me?' are sweeter to my ear than the words 'Why have you come again?" | Robert Greene | ||
| 9c1ba5d | Without enemies around us, we grow lazy. An enemy at our heels sharpens our wits, keeping us focused and alert. It is sometimes better, then, to use enemies as enemies rather than transforming them into friends or allies. | Robert Greene | ||
| 7933b74 | I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the decide how long the Five Hundredth Anniversary Parade is going to be and where does it start and when does it start and which nobleman gets to march in front of which other nobleman so that everyone's still speaking to me at the end of it, plus I've got a wife to murder and a country to frame for it, plus .. | William Goldman | ||
| 208e3ac | He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince. | William Goldman | ||
| 2d9331c | Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person. | Yvon Chouinard | ||
| e362a9d | She closed Dan's door and walked down the hall to her room. He makes a good boyfriend, she repeated to herself. What the hell was that suppose to mean? She didn't just want a good boyfriend. She wanted that thing Gustav Klimt had captured so perfectly in The Kiss. That radiant, electric, hold-me-tight-so-I don't-fall-from-up-here-in-the-sky feeling of being in love. Well, don't we all, sweetie? | Cecily von Ziegesar | ||
| 337ec16 | He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon. | Jess Walter | ||
| cdda3cf | I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to. | Harper Lee | ||
| 6db293b | Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book "The Origin Of Species" he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizi.. | Dale Carnegie | ||
| 69b9ea1 | In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society. | government | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| bfb9eed | Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Christian but I'm not. I'm something else and I don't know what. | Harper Lee | ||
| 2461913 | Children of the future age Reading this indignant page | William Blake | ||
| 424d281 | it has crossed my mind that the key to happiness should not be found in a man. That an independent, strong woman should feel fulfilled and whole on her own. Those things might be true. And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 2835e81 | God is Great Beer is Good and People are Crazy | Carolyn Brown | ||
| 74a33b8 | I promise to always turn back toward you. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 6d7629f | Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive | Walter Scott | ||
| 1570beb | it's not just the person who fills a house, it's their I'll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses. | lonely-people missing missing-someone missing-you lonely | David Mitchell | |
| 6fd8515 | She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 441a494 | Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty." | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 6f86bd6 | Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts. | thoughts wept | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 5f0cf72 | There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty. | limitations belief | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 2dcccc0 | The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. | politics happiness | Dan Savage | |
| c74d4c1 | The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk. | understanding wisdom | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | |
| fa8e730 | Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works | life love inspirational | Danielle Steel | |
| 09048e6 | For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. | Henry Miller | ||
| ab70c5a | This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. | Henry Miller | ||
| eb47ec2 | Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we." She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died." | Philip Pullman | ||
| ab82a9e | This is what'll happen," she said, "and it's true, perfectly true. When you go out of here, all the particles that make you up will loosen and float apart, just like your daemons did. If you've seen people dying, you know what that looks like. But your daemons en't just nothing now; they're part of everything. All the atoms that were them, they've gone into the air and the wind and the trees and the earth and all the living things. They'll .. | pullman his-dark-materials | Philip Pullman | |
| 590ef33 | Can you turn so you're not pressed against me?" "I could," he said, his voice amused. "But then you would have to lie on top of me." My brain said, "NO." My body went, "Wheee!" | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 55294bf | If I pass out face down in this water, will you fish me out?" "Will you promise to call me Your Majesty?" "Hell no." "Then I'll have to think about it." | kate-to-curran kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 453d85d | What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| af6b6a7 | Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows. "We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. "So he doesn't eat dog brains." -- | grandpa-cletus on-the-edge ilona-andrews jack | Ilona Andrews | |
| 11e41ff | How are you?" "Perfectly fine," he said. "Are your ribs broken?" "Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully." "Did this settle anything?" "It made me feel better," he said, sitting up. "Did you see me kick him in the kidneys?" "I saw." | on-the-edge ilona-andrews rose | Ilona Andrews | |
| a46c021 | I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her to love him." Saiman arched his eyebrows, imitating me. "And?" "You're the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well." | saiman | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4ff35ba | Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it's a matter of emotion, not logic. You see, angry people aren't interested in justice. they just want an excuse to vent their rage. And once you become their Other, you're no longer a person. Y.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 12fca48 | Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 2d47b00 | Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| ffd9887 | the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up. | Karen Hesse | ||
| cc52152 | We were excited about getting jobs; we hardly went anywhere without filling out an application. But once we were hired - as furniture sanders - we could not believe this was really what people did all day. Everything we had thought of as The World was actually the result of someone's job. Each line on the sidewalk, each saltine. Everyone had a rotting carpet and a door to pay for. Aghast, we quit. There had to be a more dignified way to liv.. | Miranda July | ||
| 99c5458 | Don't you do that." She turned away from the mirror, toward him. "Don't you dare make a joke. It took a great deal of courage to say what I did. And you don't have to speak a word in return, but I will insist you be man enough to take it. I won't have you making light of my feelings, or making light of yourself--as if you're not worthy of them. Because you are worthy, Colin. You're a generous, good-hearted person, and you deserve to be love.. | Tessa Dare | ||
| 99bfaba | Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 78689c6 | will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start" | myrnin | Rachel Caine | |
| 79489b7 | I'm faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I'm a vampire," Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. "If you get in trouble, I'll be there." "Nice," Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey." "No, you're not." "Okay, no, I'm not, but right now let's pretend I am." | funny humor eve-rosser myrnin michael-glass ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine shane-collins vampire vampires | Rachel Caine |