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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f0bbc2 | Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. | racism silence slavery politics corrupt martin-luther-king-jr civil-rights-movement corruption race-relations | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 689ac41 | So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman | romance fantasy mystery vampire paranormal | Charlaine Harris | |
| aef238b | Our society reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time. A thin young woman with precancerous lungs [who smokes to stay thin] is more highly rewarded socially that a hearty old crone. Spokespeople.. | equality feminism beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging | Naomi Wolf | |
| 94c9485 | The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never know what adventures await." He reached for her slowly, giving her every opportunity to object. Through the cottony gauze of her nightgown, he touched the curve of her hips. He brought her close, into his hard weight. "So we're going to take this road," he murmured, "and see where it leads." | romance taking-a-chance | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 6711e25 | Make your choice and accept the consequences. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 7bc96b6 | I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day." ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates" | rear sex-appeal sexy | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 3db42fc | Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can. | John Irving | ||
| 8c0e0d7 | He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last." The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 326e5cd | Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| aa0d4db | I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 10a3a4f | They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be...too late. | watchmen | Alan Moore | |
| b1f5bb5 | Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros? | beric-dondarrion hole thoros knight fire blood memory trauma | George R.R. Martin | |
| 4082d86 | He was a Lannister of Casterly Rock, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard; no sellsword would make him scream. Sunlight ran silver along the edge of the as it came shivering down, almost too fast to see. And Jaime screamed. | George R. R. Martin | ||
| 21c6c9c | A man could not always be where he belonged, though. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 773066f | You never knew Lyanna as well as I did Robert, you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6cb8cbe | When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d1a37b1 | He who advances without seeking fame, Who retreats without escaping blame, He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord, The man is a jewel of the Realm | retreat jewel | Sun Tzu | |
| 6d41714 | Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. | preparation | Sun Tzu | |
| b999444 | I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. | Sara Gruen | ||
| 0917ff1 | Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much. | mania | Harlan Coben | |
| 07ca804 | Be sure thy sin will find thee out. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 293d8ae | I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| dd6cbe2 | Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow. | Brandon Mull | ||
| bf29acc | I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad. | reticence politeness | Emma Donoghue | |
| 6515738 | There is always another side, always. | Jean Rhys | ||
| e92ebef | You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 74dfa0f | Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction. | Brandon Mull | ||
| a81a8d8 | Hard to call it a party without sardines. | sardines | Brandon Mull | |
| 31d574d | Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cat.. | P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| 29f9b0b | The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. | Timothy Keller | ||
| 2424915 | We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with another woman, and another, until they die. Women,' and I thought I'd better pick my words carefully when describing a gender I didn't belong to, 'want a relationship. They may not get it, or they may sleep with a lot of men b.. | sex men women monogamy | Hugh Laurie | |
| 7fe7300 | Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know. | Molière | ||
| 9b92714 | When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver. | literature | Amos Oz | |
| 1ec9e17 | I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile. | reading christopher-paolini eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| 0e2f7a9 | He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 82ba785 | Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting. | humor | Christopher Paolini | |
| b5a9065 | Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I...see...you." A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly." | eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| f063229 | Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| b0cd181 | She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mache horse. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| f3b27b1 | I am not a fool. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| eb270b0 | For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands. | words literature reading | Stefan Zweig | |
| 307e89a | Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 18286ce | The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell. "I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAERIES!" | Jim Butcher | ||
| 1ad5ce9 | This is what it look like when it WORKS? | Jim Butcher |