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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e17e3ff | The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 3619df4 | I found him in a Dumpster one day when he was a kitten and he promptly adopted me. Despite my struggles, Mister had been an understanding soul, and I eventually came to realize that I was a part of his little family, and by his gracious consent was allowed to remain in his apartment. Cats. Go figure. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 5d64b8e | It isn't a club," I said calmly. "It's a walking stick." "Six feet long." "It's traditional Ozark folk art." "With dents and nicks all over it." I thought about it for a second. "I'm insecure?" "Get a blanket." He held out his hand. I signed and passed my staff over to him. "Do I get a receipt?" He took a notepad from his pocket and wrote on it. Then he passed it over to me. It read: Received, one six foot tall traditional Ozark walking clu.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| f4452ad | Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others-- even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b1608bb | Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be." She waved her hand. "It was shame that drove me to my queen, to beseech her aid." Her long, delicate fingers idly moved to the streaks of white in her otherwise flawless red tresses. "But she showed me the way back to myself, through exquisite pain, and now I am here to watch over my dear godson--and the rest of you, as long as it is quite conv.. | humor leanansidhe molly-carpenter | Jim Butcher | |
| 3b2736a | Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't. | Jim Butcher | ||
| be33765 | You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you." | love tana gavriel | Holly Black | |
| 858df15 | I began to feel like I was wearing a sign on my forehead that said FUCKED UP in big neon letters. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 6435dde | It's never over. Not really. Not when you stay down there as long as I did, not when you've lived in the netherworld longer than you've lived in this material one, where things are very bright and large and make such strange noises. You never come back, not all the way. Always, there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier, thin as the glass of a mirror. You never come all the way out of the.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| cdec417 | Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 99103eb | Yuki: "Honda-san... you'd better stop, or he'll get a swelled head." Kyo: "Doesn't Shigure already HAVE a swelled head?" | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 0efbc7e | It's true. I......I wanted to be born in the year of the cat......! | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 787a617 | My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. | Karen Russell | ||
| bb6c924 | Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame | writing the-beats howl | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 185f162 | I saw in her expression that old, unshakable mountain of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know | Mitch Albom | ||
| a56f958 | Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. The tension of opposites? Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.Sounds.. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 7b13c38 | I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. | Mitch Albom | ||
| ef71d76 | No soul remembered is ever really gone. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 4f1d5b2 | Mma Ramotswe sighed. 'We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.' That is true,' said Mma Potokwane sadly. 'There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them. | ramotswe temptation | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 4a94387 | dh Hyl byn nsn whdfh fqd quDy `lyh blmwt .. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| f6f9e6b | I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a20a0f1 | I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway. | high-school teens | John Scalzi | |
| 27b1219 | When we start being too impressed by the results of our work, we slowly come to the erroneous conviction that life is one large scoreboard where someone is listing the points to measure our worth. And before we are fully aware of it, we have sold our soul to the many grade-givers. That means we are not only in the world, but also of the world. Then we become what the world makes us. We are intelligent because someone gives us a high grade. .. | fear work success anxiety self-esteem | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| b56f60c | Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. | teachers | Jeannette Walls | |
| c2b4b36 | Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it. | solitude | Sebastian Faulks | |
| 80074cf | If I dare to hear you | Mark Nepo | ||
| cef29ba | Geniuses never pay attention. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 6dab36e | Armel shrugged. "I suppose so, Brother, but why do creatures have to fight?" Demple picked Mudge up and placed him on his shoulder. "Because there's always good and bad in the land, and goodbeasts have to protect their friends an' families from evil ones who want nothing but to conquer an' destroy." | Brian Jacques | ||
| 2d446de | He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| d7d9c7e | Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window. | risk | Dick Francis | |
| 2f87ffc | It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| a1edfba | Bethany." His quiet voice intruded. Her heart turned over heavily. "This is real right?" His face contorted as if he were in pain. "Yes, it's real." Crazy people probably did things like this all the time. Asked their imaginary alien friends if they were real, and of course, they'd say yes." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 035fe65 | There was something soul-burningly about being on the brink of losing control, tumbling over into the unknown, and I wanted to fall and never resurface. --Jennifer L. Armentrout | losing-control onyx katy | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 5dd0717 | For once, I don't hurt. I don't worry. I want this. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| d739a9a | There were always choices. I'd made a string of bad ones myself. At least I could admit that. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c0875ea | Seth burst into laughter. . | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5478221 | Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't? | Darren Shan | ||
| b6fe07b | The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: "Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. very Fast." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 82360fd | Patterns repeat themselves in history | patterns | Rick Riordan | |
| d489ec5 | He had arrived at Camp Half-Blood thanks to Apollo. Now, on what would likely be his last day at camp, he was stuck with a son of Apollo. 'Whatever,' Nico said. 'But we have to hurry. And you'll follow my lead. | Rick Riordan | ||
| f0ff701 | I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff. | demigod-diaries greek-myths smart gods percy-jackson | Rick Riordan | |
| 7a5e350 | Dancing?' Annabeth asked. Thalia nodded. She cocked her ear to the music and made a face. 'Ugh. Who chose Jesse McCartney?' Grover looked hurt. 'I did. | humor jesse-mccartney thalia-grace | Rick Riordan | |
| e95e391 | I don't leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0fb4520 | It's like I was connected to the plumping system. | Rick Riordan |