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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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,.. | humor costume-party ysandre feast-of-fools myrnin shane-collins | 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. | life ordinary-life normalcy dying | 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 | |
| ec616cf | R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor and obscure solar system, which was also on the edge of an unimaginably vast cosmos that was exploding away from its original source of energy. We di.. | religion | Christopher Hitchens | |
| fd8db8a | If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. | christianity death religion god humor hitchens gods atheism atheist | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 0ae0e5e | Remember, Nick, there are only two people in the universe I care for...and you're not one of them. (Savitar) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 6a60034 | I have a flamthrower. (Zarek) You have a what? (Astrid) It pays to be prepared. (Zarek) Well. Those are nice for toasting marshmallows, but they'll only make Thanatos mad. Regular fire won't hurt him. I have this really neat gelatinous goo that comes out with my fire and it squirts my victims so that it don't come off. Wanna see it? (Simi) No! (Zarek/Astrid) No? I don't like that word. (Simi) We love you, Simi. We're just scared of your goo.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 026a3a7 | Nick's right, you are psychotic. (Talon) The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions about myself. (Zarek) Meaning? (Talon) Take your meaning wherever you can find it. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| fbd5d08 | Not that I've ever feared a fight or backed down from one -(Wren) That's the truth. I swear he's half beta fish. He'd fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 68ef741 | Why do all men have to suck? I knew you all sucked and still I stupidly fell in love with one of you. Why? Why would I be such a masochist? You pour your heart out to a man and what does he do? 'Could you change the channel, babe?' You're all pathetically cold. You don't care about anyone but yourselves! (Kat) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 65f0078 | So what name would you rather I call you? she asked as she headed out of the parking lot. Ias or Alexion. He gave her a devilish grin that set fire to her hormones. I would rather you call me lover. He wagged his eyebrows playfully at her. Danger rolled her eyes. Like all men with a onetrack mind, he was incorrigible. Don't blame me, Alexion said in an almost offended tone. I can't help it. You should see the way you fight. It really turn.. | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| bfbb2af | As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label and batteries. (Grace) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| eeef205 | I still wanna know who to sue to get my store fixed. (Bubba) I'm a turnip. Sue the rich kid who started it. (Nick) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| be265f8 | Come away with me, Astrid. (Zarek) Why should I? (Astrid) Because I love you, and even if I'm lying on the sun itself I'll be freezing there without you. I need my star so that I can hear laughter. (Zarek) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| d64c9ee | There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love." | Elizabeth George Speare | ||
| 469d405 | This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown.. | marriage feelings passion love | Thomas Hardy | |
| 3d2a090 | To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. | trees wood | Thomas Hardy | |
| 7103368 | I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. | warning moral | Thomas Hardy | |
| ca3c1f0 | Aquella noche Mijail me conto que el creia que la vida nos concede a cada uno de nosotros unos escasos momentos de pura felicidad. A veces son solo dias o semanas. A veces, anos. Todo depende de nuestra fortuna. El recuerdo de esos momentos nos acompana para siempre y se transforma en un pais de la memoria al que tratamos de regresar durante el resto de nuestra vida sin consegurilo. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 8a41783 | Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike"." | god god-is-a-comedian theology | Peter Kreeft | |
| aaba299 | The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| bf7306b | Your cat just got cat hair on me." "It's only fair," Min said. "Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| e8f4cb5 | I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. | temperament | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 80ea966 | Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. | cats | Richard Dawkins | |
| b79132a | In the beginning was simplicity. | Richard Dawkins |