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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?" | hilarious humor | 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. | fear human | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 51d4997 | Shigure Sohma: Tohru's very cute in a sweet sort of way. | hatori shigure | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 0312628 | that | bunny courage kisa momiji mute speech tiger | 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.. | creativity fantasy grotesque irony novel poetry writers writing | 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 | ||
| e0d1485 | YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING." | lies mercy | Terry Pratchett | |
| dfd1fae | The senior wizards of Unseen University stood and looked at the door. There was no doubt that whoever had shut it wanted it to stay shut. Dozens of nails secured it to the door frame. Planks had been nailed right across. And finally it had, up until this morning, been hidden by a bookcase that had been put in front of it. 'And there's the sign, Ridcully,' said the Dean. 'You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says "Do not, und.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b4cee3e | Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who'd take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, "Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times," and then unroll a lot of supercilio.. | intuition sherlock-holmes-deduction | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8a0a4ad | the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters, | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ecf1883 | Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 556290c | Thunder rolled . . It rolled a six. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| df30b2e | In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 349792e | When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 88fd5a1 | This was not the time to say "I don't know." The brothers had begging, hungry looks, like dogs waiting to be fed. They wanted an answer. It would be nice if it was the right answer, but if it couldn't be, then any answer would do, because then we would stop being worried...and then his mind caught alight. That's what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there's food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so the.. | religion thinking | Terry Pratchett | |
| 9572167 | I wish I'd been accepted sooner and better. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes--and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history. We choose our own lives. It is not simply that we decide on the behaviors that construct our experience; when given our druthers, we elect to be ourselves. Most of us would .. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 86d3604 | Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it. | fantasy prejudice religion truth | Mercedes Lackey | |
| b8197a1 | That night I wrote in my journal: "Trees are schizophrenic now and beginning to lose control, enraged with the shock of their fiery new colors. Someone -- was it van Gogh? -- said that orange is the color of insanity. _Beauty is terror._ We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us." | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7ef98e6 | Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours. | Donna Tartt | ||
| d620deb | I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon) | dramatic-announcements revenge | Naomi Novik | |
| 28773cf | But it was all the same choice, every time. The choice between the one death and all the little ones. | Naomi Novik | ||
| bc1fb8a | It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house--the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in. | 2004 damsel-in-distress house jonathan-strange stereotype | Susanna Clarke | |
| 476ed5b | The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling? | the-braindead-megaphone writing | George Saunders | |
| 02ff900 | What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. | George Saunders | ||
| ba48d19 | In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time,.. | Alan Lightman | ||
| faf70d7 | Because fate would not slight me so unspeakably. I'd seek a noon-day sun if I were paired with one such as you." "Such as me," she repeated blandly. She'd been mocked too often over her lifetime to take offense. Her skin was as thick as armor. "Yes, you. An ignorant, mortal Kmart checkout girl." He took the sharpest knife from his place setting, absently turning it between his left thumb and forefinger. "Kmart? I should have been so luck.. | iad lothaire | Kresley Cole | |
| 2e5046a | The first priest I find, I'm goan to marry you. I'm all in, peekon. | Kresley Cole | ||
| d2c3c50 | I pulled the feather out, jerking him away from the dream. Just like he used to do with me, when I went in alone. The play was shifting, and I knew how bad it felt, to have your dream dragged from your mouth. | Jeff Noon | ||
| acbb1ac | I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food. | Betty Smith | ||
| 80741b3 | From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again. | Betty Smith | ||
| 7c101e7 | I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. | healing language literature poetry reading trauma words | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 128d424 | Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 165a36a | Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses. | humor | Terry Brooks |