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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c1fcd6b | If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women. | Abigail Adams | ||
| a4b73fd | The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 902fd38 | believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 0efd909 | I am a romance slut, and there's nothing I can do about it. If a guy does or says something romantic, I'm all "Oh, please excuse me, kind sir, let me dial down my IQ and oh, if it would please sir, may I offer you this moist, yet helpless va-jay-jay that seems to have lost its way." -The Chronicles of Abby Normal" | christopher-moore | Christopher Moore | |
| b0f6ff3 | The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 5a53806 | I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. | ideas scrutiny | Elizabeth Peters | |
| f5f8456 | Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events. | humor | Diablo Cody | |
| 0158d38 | People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 00d607d | Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will. | cerulean-sins inspirational | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| b6adfa5 | I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if her pregnancy continues, or even a teenager who made a mistake or a rape victim. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 86f8d2e | km mr@ t'ty lmkhwf ltDyf lmrr@ lHytn wfy lnhy@ nktshf 'n l 'ss lh wl sbb lwjwdh | José Saramago | ||
| 9fa74ac | I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 54aaaa6 | Part of us is always the observer, and no matter what, it observes. It watches us. It does not care if we are happy or unhappy, if we are sick or well, if we live or die. It's only job is to sit there on our shoulder and pass judgment on whether we are worthwhile human beings. | Richard Bach | ||
| ace4402 | We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| 10e6992 | I am yours," Trent gasped through clenched teeth, and my hand sprang from him, thinking I was betrayed. Trent fell to a knee, looking up at me, pleading. "I. Am. Yours. Claim me, Rachel! Damn your morals and claim me!" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 77ed07a | You bet your Grannie's Panties I will. | paranormal-romance witches | Kim Harrison | |
| bbade56 | Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?" | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7c32d21 | Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee-- Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!" Quothe the Raven, "Nevermore." | loss | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 0857c10 | Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there, and she was so much better, more interesting and complicated and challenging, than Cool Amy. Nick wanted Cool Amy anyway. Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it start.. | committment marriage | Gillian Flynn | |
| c242747 | I'm tired of dying. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 07d5d96 | I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e03058d | I'm like that, nothing sticks. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0fb206f | quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean "love" in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach .. | Joan Didion | ||
| 1be852a | Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection o.. | William Golding | ||
| cafe76d | I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 6c00739 | Now I don't see anything evil in a desire to make money. But money is only a means to some end. If a man wants it for a personal purpose -- to invest in his industry, to create, to study, to travel, to enjoy luxury -- he's completely moral. But the men who place money first go much beyond that. Personal luxury is a limited endeavor. What they want is ostentation: to show, to stun, to entertain, to impress others... At the price of their own.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| cc1ff55 | Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands | John Steinbeck | ||
| aad7110 | For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ef34730 | A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| cf12c70 | After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 7705c30 | Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 70e678d | I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 2545e0b | And since I'm marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you're sleeping with Laurel--" "I'm not sleeping with Laurel. We're dating." "Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs." "For a while. Minus the singing." | friends funny humor relationships | Nora Roberts | |
| 19d5437 | Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie | cassie dazzle devin mackade nora-roberts | Nora Roberts | |
| 51dea08 | TRUTH." "Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the same story hiding inside, like a shared constant in our DNA. Maybe this collective TRUTH is responsible for the similarity in all of our stories." "Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, mabe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel tha.. | Dan Brown | ||
| 3390fb5 | I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried. | John Grisham | ||
| 990e515 | I love you." You imagine hearing the words from someone related not related to you, someone not your best friend, but when someone you love, you dream about, actually says them, it makes your body melt and your breath get caught in your chest. "You love me?" I asked, leaning toward him. He nodded. "Say it again" I said. I let my knee bump against his. "I love you," he repeated." | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| f2ebef1 | They write songs about California girls for a reason. | Sarah Mlynowski | ||
| 5edd0cd | In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions. | civilization consequences environment foresight insight isolation realization rich wealthy | Jared Diamond | |
| 378c794 | What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like. | James Frey | ||
| cbfef94 | There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone. | James Frey | ||
| c894a7d | Men need to remember that women talk about problems to get close and not necessarily to get solutions. | John Gray | ||
| 4f434fd | lmshrk@ fy mshkltk m` shkhS akhr t`tbr `l~ sTH lzhr@ fy lHqyq@ `lm@ Hb wthq@ wlys `by' | John Gray | ||
| 86a0f28 | To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks. | civilization nature wild-herds | Beryl Markham |