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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0518d34 | If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it. | magic | Neil Gaiman | |
| 033e11e | I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will. | respect | George Bernard Shaw | |
| aa037a0 | You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious. | Robert Greene | ||
| ab5fe5d | How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" "I don't know. How many?" "Eight." "Why?" "Oh, stop overanalyzing it." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 56601ec | Lately, though, he'd just been tired in general. Tired of people. Tired of books and TV and the nightly news and songs on the radio he'd heard years before and hadn't liked much in the first place. He was tired of his clothes and tired of his hair and tired of other people's clothes and other people's hair. He was tired of wishing things made sense. He'd gotten to a point where he was pretty sure he'd heard everything anyone had to say on a.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 298e5a3 | It's the truth. I'm sorry to be blunt about it, but girls don't like guys who are doormats. Especially pretty girls, because there's no novelty in it. Guys are hitting on them all of the time. They can't walk down the street or order a coffee or stand on a corner without some idiot making a comment about how attractive they are. And the women smile because it's easier than telling them to go fuck themselves. And less dangerous, because if a.. | Karin Slaughter | ||
| f1a0399 | Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come | simile paraphrased | Mario Puzo | |
| bca14d1 | No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. | Harper Lee | ||
| 2f47a23 | Yes, Einstein was a badass. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| c9ebfa3 | You'll never regret being a good friend. | Emily Giffin | ||
| 2bda9fe | No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. " | giffin emily | Emily Giffin | |
| a262f03 | To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons Shudders hell through all its regions. | William Blake | ||
| dd6d97f | Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough | Irvine Welsh | ||
| 8c6ced2 | Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship. | loneliness | Doris Lessing | |
| fc851ed | When you've found the right one - when you see him, when you're with him - you'll feel like you're coming home. | marriage true-love the-one | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | |
| e6ca06b | I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. | Bill Watterson | ||
| 1e956e3 | You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power. | David Mitchell | ||
| 7b49fa0 | You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips. | dr-barlow lady-boffin young-things goliath leviathan scott-westerfeld lips | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 644a84c | Perhaps,' Taran said quietly, watching the moon-white riverbank slip past them, 'perhaps you have the truth of it. At first I felt as you did. Then I remember thinking of Eilonwy, only of her; and the bauble showed its light. Prince Rhun was ready to lay down his life; his thoughts were for our safety, not at all for his own. And because he offered the greatest sacrifice, the bauble glowed brightest for him. Can that be its secret? To think.. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 790ccfd | Two kisses in one kiss was all it took, a comfort, a warmth, perhaps temporary, perhaps false, but reassuring nonetheless, and mine, and theirs, ours, all three of us giggling, insane giggles and laughter with still more kisses on the way, and I remember a brief instant then, out of the blue, when I suddenly glimpsed my own father, a rare but oddly peaceful recollection, as if he actually approved of my play in the way he himself had always.. | sex joy single-sentence | Mark Z Danielewski | |
| bf6594a | It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction. | E.L. Doctorow | ||
| 369f9a1 | Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora. | David Brin | ||
| 609783b | What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it. | Colum McCann | ||
| 9ec73eb | You're more than a story. | Craig Thompson | ||
| 4091aad | Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again. | Danielle Steel | ||
| cfd5a5d | Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of , rather than that of , of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable. In pursuit of this aim they follow several paths. One, which is especially used by men, is to be successful, to be as powerful and rich as the social margin of one's position permits. Another, used especially by women, is to make oneself attractive, by cultivating one'.. | love succes | Erich Fromm | |
| 205a3c1 | But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger th.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 49c6a54 | One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen. | science life | Philip Pullman | |
| 114122e | Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. | life truth | Philip Pullman | |
| 8c4454c | I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn't any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all. | his-dark-materials philip-pullman | Philip Pullman | |
| 8c5639d | Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his title was Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips nude at night and runs around through the woods hunting small woodland creatures. I'm a premier Master of the Dead. I will go where I please. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| eecfdcd | I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before they could take someone else's friend away from them. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 9a82542 | I will always be there. I will walk across the whole planet if I have to." I closed my eyes and whispered, "I'll meet you halfway." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| bd5455c | Minutes passed by. A little blue butterfly landed on my nose. I blinked at it and it fluttered to my ear. A big yellow butterfly gently floated over and landed on my paw. Soon a whole swarm of them floated up and down around me, like a swirl of multicolored petals. It happened in my backyard, too, if the magic was strong enough. Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravit.. | funny white-tiger dali shapeshifter | Ilona Andrews | |
| 1a4238f | Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise. | tortoise magic-burns kate-daniels kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 4c5c396 | I have a family full of quirky people. Someone has to be sensible so all of you can enjoy being reckless weirdos. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b4623c6 | Try to look casual." I pulled the top book out and put it on the desk. "Why?" "Because what I'm doing is illegal without a warrant, and we have about twenty witnesses observing our every move." Curran crossed his arms, making his biceps bulge, leaned against the desk, and fixed our audience with his stare. Everyone spontaneously decided to look anywhere else but at us. Right. Casual, my foot. "See," he said. "No witnesses." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| e0058cf | Rene looked at Grendel. "What in the world is that?" "That's our mutant attack poodle," I told her. "Is he chewing on a gun?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| dfc7fb5 | Where is Arland?" "Rapunzel decided to walk around in the woods to get 'the feel of the battleground.' He won't leave the grounds and he promises to defend the inn with 'all the strength in his body.' I told him if he gets in trouble, he should try singing prettily so his woodland friends will come to the rescue. I don't think he got it." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 5cd009d | I can always tell when you're thinking about food. You forget to be the Serious Wolf and you get this dreamy look in your eyes. You know, most people would think you were thinking about a girl. They have no idea that her name is bacon. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| bde461f | The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival. | Margaret Peterson Haddix | ||
| e2330fa | Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. | education discipline curiosity | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| c38140b | Humanity i love you because you would rather black the boots of success than enquire whose soul dangles from his watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both parties and because you unflinchingly applaud all songs containing the words country home and mother when sung at the old howard Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink and when you're flush pride keeps you from the pawn shops and.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| c604b49 | I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic. | Miranda July |