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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cf15781 | We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 5778cc7 | At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one. | psychology psychopaths | Jon Ronson | |
| 2b7cac8 | Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 1900a29 | I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 63f3d22 | It was all Mrs. Bumble. She do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room. That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction." If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatica.. | funny husbands law marriage matrimony responsibility wives woman | Charles Dickens | |
| 7353f6e | The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them | memories | Charles Dickens | |
| 3782d2c | I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. | happiness pip | Charles Dickens | |
| fd842d8 | You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive ." | france funny humor mob revolution rude shrouds | Charles Dickens | |
| f4f2dce | I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. | Charles Dickens | ||
| b6c8df1 | I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. | crime marlowe noir | Raymond Chandler | |
| ed8fa00 | There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream. | smile | Raymond Chandler | |
| e73b686 | They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human .. | Truman Capote | ||
| 781fd23 | Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship's more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments. | Truman Capote | ||
| bab8015 | The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this. The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem. This is: Change. Read it through again and you'll get it. | science scifi | Douglas Adams | |
| b27b3f9 | NO ADMITTANCE EXCEPT ON PARTY BUSINESS. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e08183c | And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation? | hobbit hobbiton | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 70cb99b | The doom lies in yourself, not in your name. | doom | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b6083d6 | Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness... | hobbits lord-of-the-rings middle-earth sam-gamgee tolkien true-love | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 444305a | Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| bb5d756 | Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9cd35ed | Memory is not what the heart desires. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0babfae | There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| f75a143 | Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive." | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 479df3e | It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. | William Styron | ||
| 679089c | I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it. | anne-rice lestat-de-lioncourt queen-of-the-damned | Anne Rice | |
| edde795 | Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he's more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make people fall in love. (Selena) No. What he offers is an illusion. No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 5421d4c | Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. "Not much to see, is there?" I said, struggling to talk with a crushed windpipe. "I know, I know, they can fix things like that these days. Call me a feminist, but I think a woman's worth should be defined not by the size of her bust, but - " | kelley armstrong | ||
| 61472ba | When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace. | Albert Camus | ||
| e20e2d7 | The bomb lives only as it is falling. | Iain M. Banks | ||
| 31a5cc9 | Confidence is just entitlement. Entitlement has gotten a bad rap because it's used almost exclusively for the useless children of the rich, reality TV stars, and Conrad Hilton Jr., who gets kicked off an airplane for smoking pot in the lavatory and calling people peasants or whatever. But entitlement in and of itself isn't so bad. Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something. Which is great. The hard part is, you'd better mak.. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| e4e765d | Mel? Mel, I love you. Mel, come back . Mel, Mel, Mel." It's Jared's voice, trying to call me back the way Wanda called back the Healer's host, the way she taught Kyle to call to Jodi. I can answer him. I can speak now. I can feel my tongue in my mouth, ready to move into whatever shape I ask it to. I can feel the air in my lungs, ready to push out the words. If I want this. "Mel, I love you, I love you." This is Wanda's gift to me, paid fo.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 599bf74 | Alice is the most... supportive. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| e234259 | I wish there had been someone there to vote no for me -Rosalie Cullen | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 077265d | Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly. "No! Of course not!" "No, not really? You really didnt attack him?" "Emmett!" I protested. "Aw, what a waste. And here you're probably the one person who could take him- since he can't get into your head to cheat- and you had a perfect excuse too. I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage." | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5b20005 | I love you. You're my only reason to stay alive... if that's what I am. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| f85f5ec | We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench... | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 49146f6 | Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals. | Richard Adams | ||
| aae83bd | My little cup brims with tiddles. | lolita vladimir-nabokov | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| cc389ee | my Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted r.. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 67b9bec | There was no Lo to behold. | lolita wordplay | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| e35a8dc | Just as the universal family of gifted writers transcends national barriers, so is the gifted reader a universal figure, not subject to spatial or temporal laws. It is he--the good, the excellent reader--who has saved the artists again and again from being destroyed by emperors, dictators, priests, puritans, philistines, political moralists, policemen, postmasters, and prigs. Let me define this admirable reader. He does not belong to any sp.. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 2a890a7 | Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical. | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| 906f088 | Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye." | Vladimir Nabokov | ||
| eca7145 | The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before. | Vladimir Nabokov |