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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7dc5639 | On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question, "Is it right?"... The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy." | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| 2d693a1 | daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him | Nikki Giovanni | ||
| c22953f | Men are incomprehensible assholes," I said to Amelia. "NO shit," she said. "When I was searching for Bob today, I found a female cat in the woods with kittens. And guess what? They were all black-and-white." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 4296d91 | Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak. | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 2620a22 | Pam: "Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?" | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 11311a7 | Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk. | Garrison Keillor | ||
| 2675ca1 | Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. | nature | Lisa Kleypas | |
| 681f200 | We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds. | John Irving | ||
| a393e67 | I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye. | John Irving | ||
| e97d10f | Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again." "Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis. "I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 726aa7b | Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority. | superiority | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 2f36067 | I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 29f8fe7 | Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room. | gen sounis eugenides the-thief | Megan Whalen Turner | |
| 28738cd | Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy. | nature | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 90bdf32 | His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. | fear forest cloak ser-waymar-royce george-r-r-martin a-song-of-ice-and-fire the-wall black snow | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5ba0f01 | Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 6ab8998 | She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened. | depression guilt | George R.R. Martin | |
| e2dee3f | Hey!" Lauren Moffat's voice, sounding noticeably irritated, floated up to us. "What-ew! What's in my hair?" We all three ducked beneath our table so Lauren couldn't see us if she realized what was happening and looked up. I could see her between the slits of the fencing around the balcony, but I knew she couldn't see me. She was shaking out her hair. Becca, crouching across from me, had to put her hands across her mouth to keep from gigglin.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 4be5f4d | I don't really know. I've never rescued a girl I love from the Furies before." He looked alarmed as he noticed my eyes were filling with tears. "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you love me." "Why else did you think all of this was happening?" He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. "The Furies wouldn't be trying to kill you if I didn't love you." | Meg Cabot | ||
| a499696 | You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way. | Meg Cabot | ||
| bcd5057 | I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach... I think I'm in love with you... Actually no, that's not true. I know I am. | Jill Mansell | ||
| ba7c7a9 | Men da sa Jonatan att det fanns saker som man maste gora, aven om det var farligt. 'Varfor da', undrade jag. 'Annars ar man ingen manniska utan bara en liten lort', sa Jonatan. | Astrid Lindgren | ||
| a5da535 | But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages. | Cressida Cowell | ||
| 9a8a41d | I'm up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I'll always be with you. | lover love | Melissa de la Cruz | |
| b0c93bb | My grandfather had died, and my mother was trying to explain it to me. . . .Grandpa isn't coming back? No, she said. Not ever again. . . . And I remember saying, hold everything right fucking there. You went to all the trouble of conceiving me, and giving birth to me, and raising me and clothing me and all . . . and you make me cry and things hurt so much and disappointments crush my heart every day and I can't do half the things I want to .. | Warren Ellis | ||
| e0ea9ab | It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. | observation | Agatha Christie | |
| 8e5724a | How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at.. | questioning | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 7d4b4f9 | Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm. | north-and-south | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
| 709a7dd | I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards. | Jean Rhys | ||
| 645736d | If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash." | Timothy Keller | ||
| 1f72cd2 | The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.... | Anne Brontë | ||
| ca113df | No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3a63c4d | I realized that if I ever have children, I don't want them to have American childhoods. I don't want them to say 'Hi' to adults I want them to say 'Good morning' and 'Good afternoon'. I don't want them to mumble 'Good' when someone says 'How are you?' to them. Or to raise five fingers when asked how old they are. I want them to say 'I'm fine thank you' and 'I'm five years old'. I don't want a child who feeds on praise and expects a star for.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 41aa755 | Never speak of marriage as an achievement. Find ways to make clear to her that marriage is not an achievement, nor is it what she should aspire to. A marriage can be happy or unhappy, but it is not an achievement. We condition girls to aspire to marriage and we do not condition boys to aspire to marriage, and so there is already a terrible imbalance at the start. The girls will grow up to be women preoccupied with marriage. The boys will gr.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e2c3525 | I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy. | christopher-paolini inheritance-cylcle | Christopher Paolini | |
| c563cda | I want to run out and kiss her fantastic beauty, kiss it and say, "You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. You will always be part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we have shared at some time the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage." | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 131d424 | Before he turned away, I asked, 'What do you need?' 'I need you. I need to give you a proper kiss. I need you to be my mate. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| d628522 | Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others." | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| ba63eae | I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick. | humor proven-guilty | Jim Butcher | |
| 3aefbd2 | You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now? | optimism pessimism thomas-raith | Jim Butcher | |
| cfb47cc | The heart of democracy is violence, Miss Tagwynn," Esterbrook said. "In order to decide what to do, we take a count of everyone for and against it, and then do whatever the larger side wishes to do. We're having a symbolic battle, its outcome decided by simple numbers. It saves us time and no end of trouble counting actual bodies--but don't mistake it for anything but ritualized violence. And every few years, if the person we elected doesn'.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| eb5fd4f | See, that's the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get it. They have good, even noble reasons for doing whatever it is they do. They don't want to misuse it, they don't want to abuse it, and they don't want to become vicious monsters. Good people, decent people, set out to take the high road, to pick up power without letting it change them or push them away from their ideals. But i.. | Jim Butcher | ||
| b9ba83f | As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms." "Eh?" "Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit." | Jim Butcher | ||
| 526b1e6 | I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I cou.. | Holly Black |