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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9dac4f2 | What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger. | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| ee46dc0 | One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war." | Megan Whalen Turner | ||
| 5f7d0a3 | Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value. | love kushiel-s-dart jacqueline-carey | Jacqueline Carey | |
| f2c48ad | Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phedre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phedre's Boys! | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 588924c | He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure and vague . . . He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightening on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range. He seemed to see that a man need not leave his life to chance, but that his will was powerful; he seemed to see that self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passi.. | life truth introverts | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| cc9e500 | Hyacinth," Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, "do try to speak in complete sentences." Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. "Biscuits. Are. Good." She cocked her head to the side. "Noun. Verb. Adjective." "Hyacinth." "Noun. Verb. Adjective." Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. "Sentence. Is. Correct." | colin-bridgerton romancing-mister-bridgerton violet-bridgerton hyacinth-bridgerton julia-quinn | Julia Quinn | |
| ea52161 | Malcolm looked warily at her. 'She may be dangerous,' he said to Julian. 'Then again, all women are dangerous. | malcolm-fade | Cassandra Clare | |
| 9488820 | Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren't treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you're on the right side? | mankind humanity | Julian Barnes | |
| cd0e062 | Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. | suffering | Julian Barnes | |
| 7d6f172 | The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know." | George R.R. Martin | ||
| ada51e4 | You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the North. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you. | winterfell wolf | George R.R. Martin | |
| 67485e1 | In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 3a71e25 | Jon wanted nothing more. , he had to tell himself, . The realization twisted in his belly like a knife. They had chosen him to rule. The Wall was his, and their lives were his as well. he could hear his lord father saying, | command night-s-watch eddard-stark jon-snow the-wall honor | George R.R. Martin | |
| ce40f05 | You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall. | salladhor-saan | George R.R. Martin | |
| 8ee7163 | Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 9167c8b | Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel. | tyrion-lannister | George R.R. Martin | |
| 53dcde3 | I said, "Jesse, don't flatter yourself that I did this for you. I mean, it has been nothing but one giant pain in the neck, having you for a roommate. Do you think I like having to come home from school or from work or whatever and having to explain stuff like the Bay of Pigs to you? Believe me, life with you is no picnic." He didn't say anything. He just kept pulling me along. "Or what about Tad?" I said, bringing up what I knew was a sore.. | mediator jesse-de-silva meg-cabot suze-simon | Meg Cabot | |
| a19e59b | It was only when they'd rounded the corner toward the Penguin that we finally sat up, Laughing semi-hysterically. "Oh my God, did you see her face?" Becca asked between guffaws. "'There's something in my hair!'" "That was fantastic, Crazytop," Jason said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "Best master plan yet." | Meg Cabot | ||
| a3c5316 | I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband. | humor husband stupid | Meg Cabot | |
| b97e5d0 | Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself. | Meg Cabot | ||
| b97791a | So Uncle Stuart is marrying that lady? Mom says she's going to be our aunt Amy. She's okay except she would't try any peanut butter M&M chocolate chip fudge cookies. They were good- you ate five, remember? But she said she was on a special diet, and couldn't eat something called carbs. We told her we didn't put any carbs in our cookies, just M&Ms, but she said M&Ms were carbs. Uncle Mitch, what's carbs? email to Uncle Mitch from Haily and B.. | Meg Cabot | ||
| dc5c502 | It's one thing to protect yourself," Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. "That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?" I shrugged. "A seven-figure civil suit?" | mag-cabot | Meg Cabot | |
| 91a5524 | I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 5c22f93 | What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior. | Meg Cabot | ||
| 4c45e24 | There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul. | labels social-commentary trends society | William Gibson | |
| 333170e | the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation | war strategy | Sun Tzu | |
| 1ccb236 | And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| 46ee1e8 | The beauty of love. | Bob Marley | ||
| 718ed72 | Six Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town Climbed a hill, and never came down Found their flesh and lost their skins Flew away on stony wings. Five Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town Walked a road not up nor down Were torn to many and turned to one, In the end, left a task half-done Four Wisemen came to Jhaampe-town They spoke in words without a sound They begged their Queen to let them go And what became of them, no one can know. Three Wisemen came.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 683ad86 | I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't. | Cornell Woolrich | ||
| 26e2da9 | You are my peace, my solace, my salvation. | Molière | ||
| b7dfc50 | You know, you're a feminist." It was not a compliment. I could tell from his tone--the same tone with which a person would say, "You're a supporter of terrorism." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a811f42 | Why were we raised to speak in low tones about periods? To be filled with shame if our menstrual blood happened to stain our skirt? Periods are nothing to be ashamed of. Periods are normal and natural, and the human species would not be here if periods did not exist. I remember a man who said a period was like shit. Well, sacred shit, I told him, because you wouldn't be here if periods didn't happen. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cb21eb0 | Do I look dead to you?! | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 057afaa | It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment. | religion oromis eragon | Christopher Paolini | |
| 5de1af8 | Some troubles no one else should have to endure,especially not those you love. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 14d23b1 | You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 89495a3 | You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115" | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| abbb639 | You had me tied in knots. You saved Belen's life, and I wanted to kill and thank you all at the same time. And during those nights when we didn't know if you'd live or die, I went from being angry, to worried to frustrated to scared all within a single heartbeat. If you had die, I would have killed you. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| 4c913fb | you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind...That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can .. | writing-life writing-process | Susan Cain | |
| 86b4870 | I put the ick in magic. | Jim Butcher | ||
| e85a2dc | No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 81b03f0 | Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated. | valor paraphrased harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 5ecbaff | Gruff," I said, "I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what's in a fae woman's mind." | women humor | Jim Butcher |