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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ca9b086 | Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too, but it doesn't talk about love. | Graham Greene | ||
| e3a8619 | I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ed28c2d | The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality. | immortality science | Carl Sagan | |
| 789d562 | That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness. | macabre fear horror | H.P. Lovecraft | |
| 5fffd66 | California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks. | rumble-fish hinton | S.E. Hinton | |
| 5c4bb70 | I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. | T.S. Eliot | ||
| b23420e | Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste -- He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These .. | names friendship bribery cats food | T.S. Eliot | |
| 2697db9 | The thing I fear most is fear. | Michel de Montaigne | ||
| 2bf1b66 | But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. | Bram Stoker | ||
| fef8ea3 | Enter freely and of your own free will! | welcome | Bram Stoker | |
| 89bcbe5 | You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it. | obesity davy | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 6111074 | And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you--the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 1dba61c | Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 700eaf2 | we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others | Oscar Wilde | ||
| fd93cf6 | Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| cd7da28 | Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends. | humour friendship comedy sf | Spider Robinson | |
| 8ddee2b | You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 08f0905 | It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy groves. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 826ad39 | No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. | Toni Morrison | ||
| e208945 | She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye. | beauty girl | George R.R. Martin | |
| 5bcb433 | Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?"." | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 99470e1 | So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it | Robert Fulghum | ||
| cafc592 | If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. | Mary Shelley | ||
| 3752a3e | A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. | study | Mary Shelley | |
| bc3dd05 | From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well--something in math--but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 0c42eb3 | The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about." | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 70ff717 | If I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees? | meaning spirituality purpose | Stephen Crane | |
| 9c0a73e | And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 43e1e55 | One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]" | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 6fd77c4 | A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two. Two is enough. Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right. Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last. | star-wars | Matthew Woodring Stover | |
| 4a9177a | Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| bafaf52 | Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 3a35536 | The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens. | truth-of-life | J.R. Ward | |
| 9a63891 | The chanting grew louder, deep male voice pumping. She looked to the brothers, the tall, fierce men who were now part of her life. Wrath pivoted and put his arm around her. Together, they swayed to the rhythm that swelled, filling the air. The brothers were as one as they paid homage in their language, a single powerful entity. But then, in a high, keening call, one voice broke out, lifting above the others, shooting higher and higher. The .. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 0f3c555 | How many of them were there?' Her voice wasn't joking around. Eighteen. Hundred.' Four,' Blaylock interjected. 'An honor guard of four.' What did they work you over with? Those bruises on your thighs are severe?' Crowbars. Big, massive-' Blay cut in. 'Clubs. Had to be those ceremonial black clubs. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 2b53bcd | Love'em or hate'em, by blood or by heart, family was a kind of oxygen. Necessary for the living. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 26f6ecc | Don't make me flip you off" "Why would I deprive you of a favourite hobby?" "Because my finger's getting sore." | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 53d5f80 | If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 8fce42b | I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear--like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. Ever. Running her hands up his powerful back, she held him just as hard. "But I am." | J.R. Ward | ||
| c3c3c14 | Especially as Blay's face came to mind. So beautiful. So very, very beautiful. It seemed silly and emasculating to call the guy that, but he was. Those damn lips were the problem ... nice and cushioned on the bottom. Or maybe the eyes? So fucking blue. He'd kissed that mouth and loved it. Seen those eyes go wild. He could have had Blay first--and only. But instead? His cousin ... "Oh, God ..." he groaned." | qhuay blay qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| 75e680e | Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| f636a80 | Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different. | people life electronic-communities interactions doing | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 0b1dd20 | The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 02bb933 | That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers. | Kurt Vonnegut |