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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8b1edd4 | I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was. | depression | Jane Smiley | |
| 369668e | You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening. | revolution | Frank Herbert | |
| 6b096f3 | This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?" | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 9755f2c | This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research. | humor | Neal Stephenson | |
| 386bb5f | Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'. | Paul Murray | ||
| 755037d | There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. --Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995 | science | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| 60ba5b9 | If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do. | free-will unconscious | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| 20ed143 | Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. | ray-bradbury trash treasure writing | Ray Bradbury | |
| b50b6ff | I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like. | Truman Capote | ||
| 8681fb6 | I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's. | Truman Capote | ||
| 6d36ccc | It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely.. | wisdom | Douglas Adams | |
| 85d8401 | She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn't care. | Douglas Adams | ||
| d272efa | Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old | bilbo-baggins dwarfs misty-mountains the-hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7448d78 | The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise. | frodo grey-havens | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0244065 | Now, therefore, I will sleep. I speak no comfort to you, for there is no comfort for such pain within the circles of the world. The uttermost choice is before you: to repent and go to the Havens and bear away into the West the memory of our days together that shall there be evergreen but never more than memory; or else to abide the Doom of Men. | J. R. R Tolkien | ||
| 47eeed4 | And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6a09733 | Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 977a2fd | Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?' 'Po-ta-toes,' said Sam. 'The Gaffer's delight, and rare good ballast for an empty belly. But you won't find any, so you needn't look. But be good Smeagol and fetch me some herbs, and I'll think better of you. What's more, if you turn over a new leaf, and keep it turned, I'll cook you some taters one of these days. I will: fried fish and chi.. | sam-gamgee sméagol | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| da41a3d | Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 09bb3a7 | I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 942d5fb | Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes! | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 703d40f | I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval.. | Anne Rice | ||
| 068326e | I-I didn't..." Derek began. He scrambled from under Liam. The werewolf's body fell, limp, to the side, his head twisted, neck broken. Derek swallowed. The sound echoed in the silence. "I didn't-- I just-- I was trying to stop him." "You didn't mean it," I said softly. "But he did." He looked at me, eyes refusing to focus. "He would have killed you," I said."Killed both of us, if it came down to it. You might not have meant to do it, but..... | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 6d871e0 | It's a road!" I patted his back." It's a lovely road. Now which way do we go?" Corey looked one way, the brown ribbon extending into emptiness. He looked the other way, saw the same thing and his shoulders slumped. "Damn." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 5f50d6f | Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket." | humor kelley-armstrong rae | Kelley Armstrong | |
| d0b380a | Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that was moving between Molly and the unicorn. "Unicorns are for beginnings," he said, "for innocence and purity, for newness. Unicorns are for young girls." Molly was stroking the unicorn's throat as timidly as though she were blind. She dried her grimy tears on the white mane. "You don't know much a.. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 198a083 | A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| 390db82 | It was the day my grandmother exploded. | Iain Banks | ||
| 225763c | It's a little dense, don't you think, to antagonize the strongest vampire in the house?' Emmett threw his head back and snorted. 'PLEASE!' [...] | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 8cf70c3 | How old are you?" she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. "Seventeen." "And how long have you been seventeen?" | midnight-sun stephenie-meyer twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 0df9dfd | So it's still standing?" he managed to get out between his snickers. "I would've thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?" Emmett howled with laughter." -- | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| e31d1b0 | Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are. | midnightsun | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 131a743 | And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 179a071 | You can't keep messing me around like this. It's been going on too long. I can't take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You're like a disease to me. | love lovers | Sam Shepard | |
| 15a4294 | Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound. | Richard Adams | ||
| bcf1895 | Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval. | nabokov time | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| c6d76cf | I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 7cd77d3 | for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| b2ba910 | That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain. | Stephen King | ||
| d7907dc | Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, and then the same old shit starts up on Monday. | Stephen King | ||
| 69c9278 | Death was no less a miracle than birth. | Stephen King | ||
| 59b96e7 | It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have. | Stephen King | ||
| b05116d | A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures... | wives | Stephen King | |
| 3571984 | It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world. | Stephen King |