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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2883b2f | Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. | mysticism poetry reason serenity | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 6aab4ac | But Balthamos couldn't tell; he only knew that half his heart had been extinguished. He couldn't keep still: he flew up again, scouring the sky as if to seek out Baruch in this cloud or that, calling, crying, calling; and then he'd be overcome with guilt, and fly down to urge Will to hide and keep quiet, and promise to watch over him tirelessly; and then the pressure of his grief would crush him to the ground, and he'd remember every instan.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 2e75f0b | It's like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can't do is choose neither. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 39f33dd | Cerise ran through the course in her mind. "Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller's Path." She paused, not sure if she'd said it correctly. "Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller's Path." "Thank you, Dora. Put the sword back into Backpack and we'll go." He nodded at the river. "Who is Dora?" "You are. Dora the Explorer. Vamanos. Put the sword away or I will take it from you.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0909ec7 | Come back to me. Don't leave me all alone. Don't die on me, you stupid sonovabitch. You goddamn fucking idiot. I told you to stay out of the damn fight! Why the hell don't you ever listen? I fucking hate you. I hate you, you hear me? Don't you dare die on me, because I need to kill you with my bare hands. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 1026198 | Kate stood by the door with her arms crossed. That was an anti-Curran pose. What the hell was the Beast Lord doing here? I padded to the door. "First, you didn't come home." Curran's voice held zero humor. "Second, I'm told that my mate is lingering in Raphael's house. There can't be any good reason for you to be here." "Are you spying on me, Your Furriness?" Kate asked." | funny gunmetal-magic kate-daniels snark | Ilona Andrews | |
| 75a0db3 | As soon as the engagement was announced, the Pack Clans converged and shot the idea of a quiet ceremony out of the water and then kept firing at it until it stopped convulsing and died. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| d4a2d77 | I saved the baby. I saved her. For you." - Bran" | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| b67b658 | Who's the guy?" "He's my . . ." Fiance, honey-bunny? "He's mine." Lago nodded knowingly. "The thing with the Beast Lord didn't turn out, huh? That's okay, I heard that guy is a dick. You don't need that shit." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6b325c1 | Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 3fe9f5d | Had records so stellar, they had to lock their resumes in a drawer at night, so the golden light streaming from the pages wouldn't keep them awake. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 433c898 | You're like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities' desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone." -- Kate Daniels" | ego empathy friendship gods greek-mythology morality | Ilona Andrews | |
| 0f76b0c | Where are we going?" Desandra asked. "We're going to Blue Ribbon Stables," I said. "It's the closest place to rent a horse. "Why?" Desandra asked. "Because I can't keep up with you on foot," I said. "And she runs like a rhino." Derek added. "You can hear her a mile away." Traitor. "I thought you had my back?" "I do," Derek said. "The rhino running is nice. Makes it easy to keep track of you. If I ever lose you, I just have to listen and the.. | desandra kate robert-lenesco | Ilona Andrews | |
| 85d0e64 | Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 418b867 | It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| f3a5232 | Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you",scoffed Opal." | opal-koboi | Eoin Colfer | |
| cc89f22 | Radomosity, thought Artemis. And he felt like weeping. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 1c347bd | We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough." ..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| bc2d127 | Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 56773c7 | If things go badly for me tonight, I want you to stay with Mr. Wynter; he will pay you a decent wage." "Will he make me bathe?" "No, he will debate the matter with you until you decide to wash." "Ah. One of those." | Eoin Colfer | ||
| aea7a8e | Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 030781c | Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. In the meanwhile, lov.. | Victor Hugo | ||
| b8fff92 | I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 0333626 | What have you been doing during my absence?' 'Nothing particular; teaching Adele as usual.' 'And getting a good deal paler than you were - as I saw at first sight. What is the matter?' 'Nothing at all, sir.' 'Did you take any cold that night you half drowned me?' 'Not the least.' 'Return to the drawing-room: you are deserting too early.' 'I am tired, sir.' He looked at me for a minute. 'And a little depressed,' he said. 'What about? Tell me.. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| c5f60aa | His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. | mr-rochester | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 3d98faa | I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can't have it all. | have-it-all wants | Ariel Levy | |
| 703ef35 | I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language. | i-m-sorry language relationships sorry | Beth Revis | |
| 83ebd1a | It's Elder who's my safe place. Elder's my home. | Beth Revis | ||
| 9e151c1 | I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her. | beth-revis elder shades-of-earth | Beth Revis | |
| 34d9c52 | You must dedicate your whole life to this idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on this ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board. | Beth Revis | ||
| 6eda730 | Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people. | David Eddings | ||
| b8442ae | How 'bout a kiss, ?" -- Rudy Steiner" | Markus Zusak | ||
| a5aa442 | I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result. | markus-zusak the-book-thief | Markus Zusak | |
| 8c42d18 | Yes, I know it. In the darkness of my dark beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it alright. You see? Even Death Has A Heart. | Markus Zusak | ||
| aaa3a68 | I'm Angelina," she says. "Are you here to save us?" I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes. "You're right, Angelina - I'm here to save you." "Can you? Really?" "I'll try," I say and the girl smiles." | Markus Zusak | ||
| c0b66bd | For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sic.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 07082f9 | Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn't come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words "bliss," "passion," and "rapture" - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books." | marriage relationships | Gustave Flaubert | |
| c42154b | Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings -- much harder than to say something fine about them which is the exact truth. | truth | George Eliot | |
| 5ce591e | Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted people's parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated b.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 9d5c58e | Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 91b4292 | Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 4e5fd28 | You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f186a98 | Everyone makes their own path, and I must make mine. The Bhagavad Gita - and ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life perfectly. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. It is mine. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| a42b37a | What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?" What Manson means is that every single pursuit--no matter how wonderful and exciting and glamorous it may initially seem--comes with its own brand of shit sandwich, its own lousy side effects. As Manson writes with profound wisdom: "Everything sucks, some of the time." You just have to decide what sort of suckage you're willing to deal with. So the question is not so much "What are you passiona.. | Elizabeth Gilbert |