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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8b17d26 | We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. | William Shakespeare | ||
| fab6c3a | I close his fingers around the gift. "I threw away your bottle cap, because it killed me to look at. But I never could throw away this. I've been waiting to give it to you for two and a half years." "I don't know what to say," he whispers. "I'm almost full," I say. "Thank you for waiting for me, too." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| be215d2 | You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 2906dfe | St. Clair: So did you enjoy the book? Anna: I did. Did you? St. Clair: I like the author's name the best. Ba-nah-na. | anna-olimphant etienne-st-clair stephanie-perkins | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 922e8cc | If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 32be300 | When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt. | hurt pain voice women | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 7d9a4ba | Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say." -- | Lewis Carroll | ||
| fee8ab4 | Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat--like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese. | James Patterson | ||
| 0f79a17 | If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, "She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness," you would be right. But I bet you didn't guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus." | James Patterson | ||
| c2704b8 | Beware the anger of a patient man. | James Patterson | ||
| 1eb2ca8 | So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be. | self-confidence | Garth Nix | |
| 5266090 | If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed- | fear learning name | Patricia A. McKillip | |
| 3db6df7 | Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 5ce8609 | I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. | fairness life love wise-last-chapter | William Goldman | |
| 31325d9 | I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off. | love spinelli stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 9b503a5 | But a man who has lived by truth--and you have believed in what he has lived--he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I'm nearly out of my mind. | Harper Lee | ||
| 976b9b7 | The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| c103b04 | Again and again across the centuries, cosmic discoveries have demoted our self-image. Earth was once assumed to be astronomically unique, until astronomers learned that Earth is just another planet orbiting the Sun. Then we presumed the Sun was unique, until we learned that the countless stars of the night sky are suns themselves. Then we presumed our galaxy, the Milky Way, was the entire known universe, until we established that the countl.. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| a3a68d3 | I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another. | Glen Cook | ||
| 984de1e | The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before. | lovers sex | Emily Giffin | |
| 2451cce | When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt. | Irvine Welsh | ||
| bf239b1 | Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate | Marshall McLuhan | ||
| 15a7bd9 | Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing. | David Almond | ||
| dcd8802 | We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| bd01480 | Behold your future, Cavendish the Younger. You will not apply for membership, but the tribe of the elderly will claim you. Your present will not keep pace with the world's. This slippage will stretch your skin, sag your skeleton, erode your hair and memory, make your skin turn opaque so your twitching organs and blue-cheese veins will be semivisible. You will venture out only in daylight, avoiding weekends and school holidays. Language, too.. | David Mitchell | ||
| 859696d | Un libro leido a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta. | book books español lectura leer libro libros love reading spanish | David Mitchell | |
| f79cf41 | But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| bbd5c66 | Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fightin.. | horror scary | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 3cac241 | Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say. | writers writing | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 7164e66 | Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. | equilibrium harmony mathematics metaphysics physics | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 58cebd8 | Necessity breeds solution. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 1101287 | Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she different. Things had happened to her that were hers alone, and had nothing to do with them. It was the first time. And no amount of telling about it could help them understand or share what she felt. It was satisfying and lonely, both at once. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| 71047e5 | Were we incapable of empathy - of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own - then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent. | philosophy reason suffering | Peter Singer | |
| 0aa3774 | Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority or principle or conscience-- yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the social machine without friction; who can be guided without force, led without.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 650f331 | I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us. | imagination inspirational philosophy | John Guare | |
| 6d26e35 | When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 6accc51 | He came for me. I couldn't believe it. . Into a flying palace full of thousands of armed rakshasas in the middle of a magic jungle. . What was the God damn point of saving him only to watch him throw his life away? Kate for Curran | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0291923 | You're a prickly, stubborn, spirited woman." "Don't forget crude, rude, and vulgar." "Only when it suits you. You're sly when occasion calls for it, direct to the point of forgetting tact even exists, sarcastic, fierce, I did mention stubborn, didn't I?" "Yes," she said dryly. "You're also smart, kind, gentle, beautiful, and always cling to your personal integrity, even when it's in your best interests to abandon it." A little warm feeling .. | rose | Ilona Andrews | |
| 24c0cb5 | I have to say, your technique is really different. Curran hammered at the spell until it broke. You just talk. Help me out here, what's the strategy? Are you hoping the ward will get tired and kill itself so it won't have to listen to you anymore? | goading hugh kate wards | Ilona Andrews | |
| d1aa285 | Jack didn't fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn't comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesus' necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldn't stop laughing and had to sit down. | humor jesus joke necromancer religion | Ilona Andrews | |
| a79bb4d | Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your life alone." "Don't change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay." Apparently I was supposed to sniff people to determine their competence. "How do you know?" He shrugged. "You just have to trust her." | derek kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 8bb2e5e | Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. | observations | Eoin Colfer | |
| 38c36c0 | Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now." | mulch tasty | Eoin Colfer | |
| a0aaa2c | I'm the nut! | Eoin Colfer |