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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c042382 | When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules. | writing | Umberto Eco | |
| b02e383 | I was secretly entranced with the idea of a lady novelist. I should dearly love to be one. Or maybe a goblin-fighting-pirate-queen. It was difficult to choose sometimes. | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 643f2a7 | You'll have to turn your back." He turned slowly. The view from the back was just as good as the view from the front. I could practically hear Lucy snickering in the back of my head. I might be the vampire daughter, but she was the one who was a bad influence. No question." | solange | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 164d69b | You precious" I insisted. "Stubborn and secretive and independent to a fault, but precious." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 31f4e2e | We had a short reprieve as Dad cupped Mom's face and ran his hands down her neck, over her shoulders. "Helena, are you hurt?" She waved that away. "I'm fine." She smiled briefly, then turned hard eyes on us. Each of us took a healthy step backward and not a single one of us felt any less manly for the wise retreat." | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| 7f7e612 | Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs ! | Walt Whitman | ||
| 24edeac | Claire - "Go ahead. And thanks. Oh, and be careful?" Eve - "Please. I am the queen of careful. Also, princess of punk fabulousness." | eve-rosser | Rachel Caine | |
| 531fcdf | He hung up on her. She'd just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic. | vampires | Rachel Caine | |
| 7dcbf83 | News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore," Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn't interfere with the flamethrower. "No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns." | Rachel Caine | ||
| 01ecc38 | does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog collar, leather pants and a leash, and the leash was held by Ysandre, who was in skintight red rubber, from neck to knee high boots. she'd topped it off with a pair of devil horns and a red tridant. she'd made Shane her dog, complete with furry dog mask. ***"Breathe," Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself,.. | costume-party feast-of-fools humor myrnin shane-collins ysandre | Rachel Caine | |
| 215bc27 | Whatever your income, always live below your means. | Thomas J. Stanley | ||
| 864b73b | Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one. | christianity love unconditional-love | A.J. Jacobs | |
| a30002b | Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body... | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 6f8e0cc | By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make--and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to. | Sam Harris | ||
| 48c9ddc | I do not understand exactly what you mean by fear," said Tarzan. "Like lions, fear is a different thing in different men, but to me the only pleasure in the hunt is the knowledge that the hunted thing has power to harm me as much as I have to harm him. If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be.. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| e6f6374 | That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other. | José Saramago | ||
| cf44dda | In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile | liberal-arts machines | Isaac Asimov | |
| 3e32e45 | How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next! | Jules Verne | ||
| cc12010 | If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen. | Anthony Doerr | ||
| cb16e3e | It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone. | Don DeLillo | ||
| d94cd68 | It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class--in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding--but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. | dying life normalcy ordinary-life | Mohsin Hamid | |
| e45aa36 | Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 3ad6204 | Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1bdc258 | My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand. | peace | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | |
| 40e9e54 | Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4d7090d | The Days were a clan that mighta lived long But Ben Day's head got screwed on wrong That boy craved dark Satan's power So he killed his family in one nasty hour Little Michelle he strangled in the night Then chopped up Debby: a bloody sight Mother Patty he saved for last Blew off her head with a shotgun blast Baby Libby somehow survived But to live through that ain't much a life --SCHOOLYARD RHYME, CIRCA 1985 | rhyme | Gillian Flynn | |
| 0977468 | It was. It will never be again. Remember. | paul-auster quotes | Paul Auster | |
| 8226240 | I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe..." | William Golding | ||
| 6383209 | What I mean is... maybe it's only us... | William Golding | ||
| 4e17652 | Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man's first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought. | Ayn Rand | ||
| b4db181 | Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease. | Ayn Rand | ||
| b783a65 | Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, b.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| b4decd5 | The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24 | John Steinbeck | ||
| 406cae9 | Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2dd7de3 | The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 05f4e8a | I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them. | sadness | Arthur Golden | |
| 2ad828c | At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon -- the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal. | organized-religion | Dan Brown | |
| 9a8a474 | It is a fatal mistake to assume that God's goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns. | Rick Warren | ||
| c132dee | Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy. | Rick Warren | ||
| 4795970 | When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain. | autobiography-of-red carson | Anne Carson | |
| b2e7464 | Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise. | Catherine Anderson | ||
| 2668176 | Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. | louisa-may-alcott men | Louisa May Alcott | |
| fdb22fe | Writing a novel-- actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs-- is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV's so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it's damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit. | Steve Hely | ||
| 6209f8e | Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. | Charles Dickens |