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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8ee80e2 | Injun Joe studied the body for a moment, his eyes sad. Then he said, "I'd rather go in my sleep, I think." He glanced back at me. "What about you?" "I want to be stepped on by an elephant while having sex with identical triplet cheerleaders," I said." -- | dresden-files harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 89fdfc7 | Your ridiculous family might be surprised to find that not everything is solved by murder," Locke calls after me. "We would be surprised to find that," I call back." | Holly Black | ||
| a0167cb | One night you will ask me for something I cannot give. | Holly Black | ||
| d3cf71a | Why does that kid think so highly of himself?" "Kids that think they're so smart.They're everywhere! Destroy is self-esteem!" "Yes...I really do think highly of myself.People like me should get a taste of the ups and downs of life! Sorry I'm so envious.I will reflect upon this. Please don't be angry. "Ah..um.." "There, I said it now. Are you satisfied?" ........ "Bye bye!" -random people and Hiro-chan " | heaven humor basket chan envious fruit him hiro manga beat | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 7e119d6 | Old age isn't a battle: old age is a massacre. | Philip Roth | ||
| c90a0a5 | You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you. | Philip Roth | ||
| 187d494 | Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? Now you use a word whose meaning I have never known. Your country? I do not know in what latitude it lies. Beauty? I could indeed love her, Goddess and Immortal. Gold? I hate it as you hate God. Then, what do you love, extraordinary stranger? | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 029d769 | Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise? | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 0c0c763 | I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows .. | reading death old-age aging | Edward Gorey | |
| 379c829 | I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army. Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two. | joined birthday dramatic wife grave | John Scalzi | |
| 4388d3c | I used to get a big kick out of saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway." "Oh, there's a point, all right," Dunbar assured him. "Is there? What's the point?" "The point is to keep them from dying as long as you can." "Yeah, but what's the point, since they all have to die anyway?" "The trick is not to think about that." "Never mind the trick. What the hell's the point?" Dunbar pondere.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5eaabf5 | Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 8d70624 | I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 3199a3d | I feel that God made my body perfect the way I was born. Then man robbed me, took away my power, and left me a cripple. My womanhood was stolen. If God had wanted those body parts missing, why did he create them? I just pray that one day no woman will have to experience this pain. It will become a thing of the past. People will say "Did you hear, female genital mutilation has been outlawed in Somalia?" Then the next country, and the next, .. | Waris Dirie | ||
| 9ea448b | But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 29f9136 | What I do I do because I like to do. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 3271f10 | It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| 3110325 | Somehow, in the relatively short time I'd known Serena, she had wiggled her way into my cold body. She was my light, my warmth, and I wasn't ready to let her go. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 8e80e74 | Cayman cocked his head to the side. "When is there ever a right time to fully give your heart to another? There are always going to be obstacles. You just have to decide which ones are worth it." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 2043e0f | If there's a will, there's a way | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| c4f1a8b | I'm a demon, Layla. What I see in your eyes and what I sense from your body is something I will take. Make no mistake. I'll give you one chance. Close your eyes, and I'll let this go." I felt weak under his consuming stare, but I didn't close my eyes. "Layla." He said my name as if it hurt him. And then he kissed me." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 72d9e78 | Why couldn't he say I reminded him of Ariel or something? Then again, Ariel was kind of stupid, giving up her voice for a dude. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 3df356e | This was stupid, but I was doing it. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4b24e1c | I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that. | Darren Shan | ||
| 375a95b | Oh, obviously," Reyna said. "Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag." "True," Annabeth agreed." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1ed0b1a | My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 0c72bbc | You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path - ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something. | Rick Riordan | ||
| a0f49f0 | No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue and hieroglyph, and background notes on the construction of the magical headquarters of the House of Life. I will spare you that pain. It's big. It's full of magic. It's underground. There. Sorted. | Rick Riordan | ||
| c3587d9 | I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he'd sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 1aeb830 | Fascinating," he said. "Such maneuverability! How does the wingspan compensate for the weight of the horse's body, I wonder?" Blackjack cocked his head. " | Rick Riordan | ||
| fadc424 | Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman." | Rick Riordan | ||
| a58c99b | G.I. Joe boxers!' Apollo screamed. 'OH--oh, I can't even... HAHAHAHAHA!' 'Aphrodite,' Athena giggled. 'You look simply lovely.' The gods couldn't stop laughing. Soon they were rolling on the floor, wiping tears from their eyes, taking photos with their phones to post on Tumblr. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 9ac6a82 | A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 513c138 | My name is Zia Rashid." She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. "And right now," Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, "I must save your miserable lives." | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6a2dde7 | Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember Dad explaining how the Egyptians made it from a river plant because they never invented paper. The stuff was so thick and rough, it made me wonder if the poor Egyptians had had to use toilet papyrus. If so, no wonder they walked sideways. | Rick Riordan | ||
| a3892c4 | I don't expend my energy trying to fight the change of seasons. I focus on making sure the days I have, and the season I oversee, are as joyful, rich, and plentiful as possible. | Rick Riordan | ||
| 6d35d8c | As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. | human-history fascination | Elizabeth Kostova | |
| 4e4e0be | I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities. | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| b44b6d1 | She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive. | furious | J.D. Robb | |
| 5711edb | And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters." "The waters," he said, "were not receptive." "If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already." | roarke | J.D. Robb | |
| db95783 | You know my mother thinks the waltz is indecent." "Your mother would find the sight of a chair leg indecent." | Elizabeth May | ||
| 07f5789 | I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult. | Gail Honeyman | ||
| 025becf | The house is silent now and she feels like a stranger here. "This life was never ours," she whispers to the dog, who has been following her from room to room, and Luli wags her tail and stares at Miranda with wet brown eyes. "We were only ever borrowing it." | Emily St. John Mandel | ||
| added62 | They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering about the earth during the week, poking his nose into their business, and looking in the depths and darkness and doubleness of their hearts, and their lack of true charity; and they believed they need only be bothered about him on Sundays when they have their best clothes on and their faces straight, and their hands wash.. | Margaret Atwood |