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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 13e56d2 | You don't need princes to save you. I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. | fairy-tales women love inspriational lesbianism strong-heroine women-s-strength | Neil Gaiman | |
| 06c8828 | He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f71aea6 | The key to such power is ambiguity. In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine. | seduction | Robert Greene | |
| 8574cf0 | Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. | Robert Greene | ||
| 16dc48e | Some 2,600 years ago the ancient Greek poet Pindar wrote, "Become who you are by learning who you are." What he meant is the following: You are born with a particular makeup and tendencies that mark you as a piece of fate. It is who you are to the core. Some people never become who they are; they stop trusting in themselves; they conform to the tastes of others, and they end up wearing a mask that hides their true nature. If you allow yours.. | Robert Greene | ||
| cf73e49 | Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions. | power | Robert Greene | |
| 42a85fb | The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use. | internalization practical-application quality | Robert Greene | |
| c271476 | Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 7b6946b | In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew | stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | |
| 5cd66a5 | This century will be called 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. . Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer , and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christ.. | evolution myth true nature reason fear science atonement origin-of-species orthodox-christianity false clergy garden-of-eden original-sin orthodox biology charles-darwin fact investigation geology dogma survival-of-the-fittest darwin genius england ignorance superstition | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| 1ae41c4 | for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear. | Charles Darwin | ||
| 3e11fd9 | It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 2d6d923 | One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. | politics politics-language totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | |
| 1055fdb | Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. | atticus-finch | Harper Lee | |
| 0eb19c3 | The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful. | faith religion islam | Robert Ferrigno | |
| a6b4fbb | Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves--a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever. | Emily Giffin | ||
| b073c2d | The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest .. | writing inspiration pantheism sword-sentiments justice | William Blake | |
| 1dd23a4 | Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye. | summer | David Mitchell | |
| 8aa32a1 | There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8b2e8ad | One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 3cc9486 | No connection, you would agree. But things can come together in strange ways. The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub. A ferris wheel has one, as the sun is the hub of the wheeling calendar. Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late. | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| a8489a7 | Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 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. | poetry reason serenity mysticism | 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" | empathy morality friendship greek-mythology ego gods | 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 robert-lenesco kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| d279297 | In other words? The bitch had it coming. And I am that bitch. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 706050e | if everything happens that can't be done (and anything's righter than books could plan) the stupidest teacher will almost guess (with a run skip around we go yes) there's nothing as something as one one hasn't a why or because or although (and buds know better than books don't grow) one's anything old being everything new (with a what which around we come who) one's everyanything so so world is a leaf so tree is a bough (and birds sing swee.. | E.E. Cummings | ||
| f577bbd | Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow. | writing | Umberto Eco | |
| bb82f96 | The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions. | Umberto Eco | ||
| cbc310d | How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 1d9e3fa | How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man! | Umberto Eco | ||
| 119d2f8 | It seems only fair," Matthew continued. "A bit of karma, if you will." He twirled the stake again. "Shall we see how long you scream?" "Are you ever going to shut up?" I snapped, fear and irritation filling me in equal measures. "This isn't your monologue, Hamlet. It's the battle scene, in case you've forgotten." His eyes narrowed so fast they nearly sparked. They were the color of honey on fire. One of the others growled like an animal, lo.. | shakespeare | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| a447416 | You look like you belong in a bad comic book," I told him cheerfully. ---------------------- "What did the Drakes do that's got you all pissy?" "Pissy? Did you just call me pissy?" | lucy | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 6ad9627 | I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me. | silence | Walt Whitman |