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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eafcfec | You got a lot of ladies to get through. You're still young. First love's the sweetest, but it doesn't last." "Not ever?" I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. "When we fall that first time, we're not really in love with the girl. We're in love with being in love. We've got no idea what she's really about--or what she's capable of. We're in love with our idea of her .. | Holly Black | ||
| eb76287 | So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand. "I know you're very brave," he said. "Or stupid." " stupid. Brave Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how." -- | learned stupid teaching terrible | Holly Black | |
| ab3f162 | Well fine, then. I could send you out to win my favor. Possibly on a quest involving bringing a large mug of coffee and a doughnut. Or the wholesale slaughter of all my enemies. I haven't decided which. | Holly Black | ||
| 8a4a331 | Because if you stay true to yourself and live your life boldly, someday you might be able to meet someone who will want to eat takoyaki with you more than anyone else. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 18eb80b | It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death--losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life. As Felix put it to me, "Old age is a continuous series of losses." Philip Roth put it more bitterly in his novel Everyman: "Old age is not a battle. Old age is a massacre." | Atul Gawande | ||
| 24547f4 | Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the clouds as mine. I owe it to the peerless stars Which flame in the remotest sky That I see only with spent eyes Remembered suns I knew before. In vain I had at heart to find The center and the end of space. Beneath some burning, unknown gaze I feel my very wings unpinned And, burned because I beauty loved, .. | courtesan icarus paramours | Charles Baudelaire | |
| f0c7024 | Never confuse honor with stupidity! | humor stupidity | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 2be7580 | Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e4b43d2 | Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring. | screams terror | Terry Pratchett | |
| 86b7f4c | Now ... if you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye. | dreams learning work | Terry Pratchett | |
| a33386e | You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| fbce9ff | Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again! | Terry Pratchett | ||
| c67661c | Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw. Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things--unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they're dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog... | dogs | Terry Pratchett | |
| 6fa8d38 | Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not. | the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| b071218 | And who knows-but maybe that's what's waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through the doors of it, what we find ourselves gazing at in astonishment when God finally takes His hands off our eyes and says: Look! | Donna Tartt | ||
| d38a6c9 | I'm glad," I said, with an effort, refusing to let my mouth close up with jealousy. It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars. But they meant life: she was living, and I wasn't." | Naomi Novik | ||
| da6a2f5 | His name tasted of fire and wings, of curling smoke, of subtlety and strength and the rasping whisper of scales. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 6877d1b | Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world. | share | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| 8cfb0a3 | There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is---- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2b07dee | I still don't see why we couldn't sleep in that cave," Mari said as MacRieve led her out into the night. "Because my cave's better than their cave." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 9f8983c | She took me to a mall yesterday"' Lachlain sounded as if he'd just stifled a shudder. "And she pointed to a boy and said, 'I think I want one.' So naturally, I start thinking, But she meant a bairn-- " | Kresley Cole | ||
| a0dd888 | The largest one laughed. Until Natalya's glass shard plugged his jugular. Regin aimed and pulled the trigger. The gun kicked as bullets sprayed. It was shredding their torsos like cheese, halving their bodies. "Let's this! Rock out with your cocks out!" | berserker declan-chase dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| b8abda9 | Torture?" she asked with a laugh. "My first piece of information I'll divulge to you? I wouldn't recommend trying to torture me. I dislike it and grow sulky under pincers. It's a fault." | humour | Kresley Cole | |
| 6c14b76 | There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder. | Kresley Cole | ||
| dd2edc2 | Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life--to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes--whether of dullness or fury--successfully prevent feeling. I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies--unconscious strategies--to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoi.. | avoidance extremes feelings inadequate life living-life suppression | Jeanette Winterson | |
| d4a85ec | Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| dc2e28c | Disaster is my muse. | Art Spiegelman | ||
| 077be33 | One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless. | opinions | Piers Anthony | |
| a2bc735 | I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| f9cb236 | He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| f8bb85c | Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 5aa3f2d | Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 5ff668b | Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive. | life | John Fowles | |
| 206324f | She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives. | Pat Conroy | ||
| c03a323 | Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 925816c | See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. | reputation | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 4238f4b | The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 84aed5d | Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked. The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 3c2a443 | The hand that rested on my shoulder rubbed it a bit, comfortingly. Then it gave my shoulder a little squeeze. I leaned into him. Maybe it was that I was broken. Maybe it was just that I was out of my mind. But it occurred to me that I was going to kiss him. The thought just arrived, certain knowledge, delivered from some greater, more knowledgeable place. I was going to kiss him. Stephen would not want to kiss me. He would back up in horror.. | callum-mitchell rory-deveaux stephen-dene | Maureen Johnson | |
| 65b303c | Koga:"You got a problem with that muttface?" | Rumiko Takahashi | ||
| d8f3b56 | That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. | forgiveness growing-up life-lessons | L.M. Montgomery | |
| c6db675 | But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e4d2c47 | I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0851dc3 | You love me," I breathe. He lets out a short laugh. "You're such a fucking girl." "Say it again." He smiles, a full blown one that tingles my body all over. "I fucking love you, sweetheart." | Krista Ritchie |