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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 85cdab9 | Well, friend, I don't know about your tastes, but I tend to like it very bloody," Myrnin said. He shifted position, dragging Claire along like a rag doll without any effort at all. "Have we been introduced?" "Probably not. Why, are you asking me out, sweetheart?" "You're not my type, darling. Is this one yours?" "No," Frank said, and looked at Shane, just in a quick flicker. "Let's say she's a friend of the family." | funny humor eve-rosser myrnin michael-glass ghost-town morganville-vampires rachel-caine shane-collins vampire vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 12c6b2b | And about Shane, I swear, if he doesn't snap out of it, I'm going to punch him in the face. Well, punch him in the face and then run like hell." - Eve Rosser" | fun midnight-alley rachel-caine shane-collins | Rachel Caine | |
| 0668220 | Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 120af0e | For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 85ab63d | If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt? I accepted the idea that an omniscient God had cast me in his own image and that he watched over me and guided me from one place to the next. The virgin birth, the resurrection, and the countless miracles -my heart expanded to encompass all the wonders and possibilities of the universe. A bell, though, that's fucked up. | David Sedaris | ||
| 7960aff | I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. | words language | David Sedaris | |
| 9684063 | Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away" | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 420736f | The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox. | Cornelia Funke | ||
| bdfc101 | Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. | Trudi Canavan | ||
| 0efa432 | Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 6393d5d | Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate. | Margaret Cho | ||
| 1ae9f15 | Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. | Elizabeth Hoyt | ||
| b47bf38 | Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. | Christopher Moore | ||
| f0859b6 | Who hit you?" "Why, so you can go beat him up?" "One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection." "I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude." "He hurt you." "And I shoved a gun into his groin and made him tell me everything he knew," I said." | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 060e5a7 | Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita | nightmares | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 7cf30c1 | Just another day in my life. This was one of those days when I thought that maybe a new life, a different life, wouldn't be so bad. But where the hell had I put the receipt, and could you return something that was over twenty years old? Where do you go to get a new life when your old one has you so puzzled you don't know how to fix it? Wish I knew. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 753a57a | Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot? | Sam Harris | ||
| 6b31ffb | Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings. | Sam Harris | ||
| 41eff9c | nh lmshkl@ ldy'm@ nfsh, dh lm ntklm nkwn t`s, wdh tklmn nkhtlf. | José Saramago | ||
| 8b96020 | You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 103320d | I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 63b0c36 | Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons | money government | Robert Anton Wilson | |
| e29b410 | Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait." | Kim Harrison | ||
| c3dc350 | I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. | Kim Harrison | ||
| d0bc065 | I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| bd47584 | It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory | pain | Christopher Hitchens | |
| d97b728 | There were two sisters, they went playing, To see their father's ships come sailing ... And when they came unto the sea-brim The elder did push the younger in Sometimes she sank, and sometimes she swam, 'Til her corpse came to the miller's dam "But what did he do with her breastbone? He made him a viol to play on. What'd he do with her fingers so small? He made pegs to his viol.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 278ad21 | There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. | Graham Greene | ||
| 040e7b2 | How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day. | Graham Greene | ||
| 668bfa5 | I am not the heroine of this story. And I'm not trying to be cute. It's the truth. I'm diagnosed borderline and seriously fucked-up. I hold grudges. I bottle my hate until it ferments into poison, and then I get high off the fumes. I'm completely dysfunctional and that's the way I like it, so don't expect a character arc where I finally find Redemption, Growth, and Change, or learn How to Forgive Myself and Others. | antiheroine fourth-wall mental-illness | Leah Raeder | |
| 22b8b48 | Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. | responsibility karma pay-it-forward spiritual-guidance reciprocity consequences | Iris Murdoch | |
| 71adba7 | We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well. | reason philosophy logic | Peter Kreeft | |
| 11e5392 | The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day. | science life human-life | Carl Sagan | |
| abab2c5 | you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people. | Clive Barker | ||
| 3c8cbac | We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love. | Clive Barker | ||
| 734f092 | there's nothing in the world more fun than doing something you're good at. | Clive Barker | ||
| 845c167 | Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite. | Clive Barker | ||
| ab7334a | Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do. | S.E. Hinton | ||
| a4c21e2 | There was a door And I could not open it. I could not touch the handle. Why could I not walk out of my prison? What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to Escape to. One is always alone. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| 7c22d76 | I lived too much in my head instead of the real world. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 9932efd | A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth! | science god-delusion biology | Richard Dawkins | |
| 8ad2100 | Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 84f248b | If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| db1513d | In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. | american-values sexuality | Robert A. Heinlein |