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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| deee2f4 | Ruthless. That's my girl. | Holly Black | ||
| 64408f6 | You better get over here with my car," Grandad says. "Before I call the cops and tell them you stole it." "Sorry," I say contritely. Then the rest of what he said sinks in and I laugh. "Wait, did you just threaten me with calling the police? Because that I'd like to see." | Holly Black | ||
| 2bcf897 | He stares at me as though I am a stranger, but I have never felt less like one. For the first time, we are both unmasked. | Holly Black | ||
| 57c61b1 | I like all the things that make you monstrous. | Holly Black | ||
| 8facd77 | Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk. "They're for you." "You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?" | humor hilarious | Holly Black | |
| 31266f3 | Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath. | religion | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| f1ced4d | I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there was ever a time when I was not conscious of it. As far back as I can think, I was aware of my own corporeality, my physical imposition on space. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 6e0f340 | We take a certain sick pride in the fact that we know the caloric and fat content of every possible food on the planet, and have an understandable disdain for nutritionists who attempt to tell us the caloric content of anything, when we are the gods of caloric content and have delusions of nutritional omniscience, when said nutritionist will attempt to explain that the average woman needs a daily diet of 2,000 or more calories when we ourse.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 8114b49 | In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank. | human fear | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 51d4997 | Shigure Sohma: Tohru's very cute in a sweet sort of way. | hatori shigure | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 0312628 | that | courage bunny kisa mute speech tiger momiji | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 4c7960f | There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies. | Philip Roth | ||
| 9eafc18 | It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spectacle of this world as a glimpse, a correspondence with heaven. Our unquenchable thirst for all that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the liveliest proof of our immortality. It is both by poetry and through poetry, by music and through music, that the soul dimly descries the splendours beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings .. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 8dba902 | This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by the desire to change beds. One wants to suffer in front of the stove and another believes that he will get well near the window. It always seems to me that I will be better off there where I am not, and this question of moving about is one that I discuss endlessly with my soul "Tell me, my soul, my poor chilled soul, what would you think about going to live in Lisbon? It must b.. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 17612f9 | Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blase ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whol.. | irony poetry writing fantasy grotesque novel writers creativity | Charles Baudelaire | |
| e7a9f57 | Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart. | Karen Russell | ||
| 0008fd2 | What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| ed25a1f | Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition. | Mitch Albom | ||
| 1eae29e | You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent. | Mitch Albom | ||
| b7a867e | There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast. | recast take-back moments | Mitch Albom | |
| b8ee2a8 | But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them? | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 183d012 | n ldh~ yshqy ls`d lns l yhwn `lyh sfk dmy'hm | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 087bca4 | Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough. | mutants being-human intolerance | John Scalzi | |
| a691a4f | When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 92968e2 | Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home. | valis | Philip K. Dick | |
| b0574a4 | The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 801c145 | I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 7418e32 | When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light... | William S. Burroughs | ||
| d70ccba | dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so... | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 62e0bde | Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started .. | egypt | William S. Burroughs | |
| 76057db | I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| ecaebad | For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive. | Joseph Heller | ||
| c761d14 | She seemed imprisoned in her sadness. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| ebd9cfc | It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive? | Orson Scott Card | ||
| b73b4b9 | Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. | learning life winning survival | Orson Scott Card | |
| 76d2c8a | I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself. | self-awareness humor yoga | Robin McKinley | |
| 85b56d2 | I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9175190 | tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 36e6e92 | And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. | misfortunes | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| cedc235 | It wasn't about the age-old battle of Arum versus Luxen. I wasn't fighting to feed or to work off aggression. I wasn't fighting because I was told or was obligated. I was fighting for Serena. She meant everything to me. Knowing that, fully understanding what that mean, I was on a motherfucking warpath. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 95d7c65 | Yeah, she had me. I was all hers. In reality, even though I'd been with everyone else, I'd always been Syd's. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b16576d | God, you tick me off." "Well, at least I got you--" "Don't even finish that statement!" I snatched up my socks and tights. Rolling them on, I hobbled on one foot. "Ugh, I hate you sometimes." He sat up in one fluid motion. "Not too long ago, you were really, really loving me." -- | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| f118fe3 | I remembered all the little things. Oh, yuck. I wanted to scrub out my brain with detergent. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| cbd2983 | Throwing a sub at the Apollyon probably wasn't something that should be done in public. But I couldn't help it; I laughed. | humor seth | Jennifer L. Armentrout |