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| 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.. | marriage woman responsibility funny wives law matrimony husbands | 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 ." | funny humor shrouds rude revolution mob france | 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. | marlowe noir crime | 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? | hobbiton hobbit | 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... | tolkien true-love sam-gamgee middle-earth hobbits lord-of-the-rings | 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 | ||
| bc2b5e8 | I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love-of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages-back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 16a312b | Some of the New York Radical Women shortly afterward formed WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) and its members, dressed as witches, appeared suddenly on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A leaflet put out by WITCH in New York said: WITCH lives and smiles in every woman. She is the free part of each of us, beneath the shy smiles, the acquiescence to absurd male domination, the make-up or flesh-suffocating cl.. | women-s-liberation | Howard Zinn | |
| cc01aba | Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. | self-fulfilling-prophecy inaction pessimism | Howard Zinn | |
| 4f4b0a1 | I knew from the beginning that we'd be addicted after all." His amber eyes bore straight through me. "I just didn't know whether we'd be at a better place than we were before." . I don't even have to say the words. He knows the answer too. We're at the best place we've ever been, reaching a stasis together. It's beautiful up here, and even if I fear falling, it's nice to know I've been down that road before. And I can always walk to the to.. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 392bcc4 | The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| dc4fd2d | A stubborn ass needs a stubborn driver | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 1d3184e | Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi | mirror-of-erised | J.K. Rowling | |
| f2816c1 | though nothing is damaged, everything is changed. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 4cd9535 | The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 667dfca | The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate." | humor nellie-gomez dan-cahill cursing the39clues | Gordon Korman | |
| e10e4d5 | Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'." | jonah-wizard translation mistake joke | Gordon Korman | |
| 146bd02 | Why can't you just lie and cheat like the others?" Dan snapped. "Can't you just see that's better than being nice one minute and then turning around and selling us out? It may be very Cahill, but it ! Grace had a saying: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'll conk you with this pet carrier!" | cahill dan grace | Gordon Korman | |
| 12b1442 | Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5fb7c4b | The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 356406f | Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?" -- | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 397000c | Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| c65a881 | Newt: I think you'll find the best wizarding school in the world is Hogwarts! Queenie: HOGWASH. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8f99eb3 | The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| adb85f2 | Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, "Daddy, look -- one of the gnomes actually bit me!" "How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!" said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna's outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. "Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today -- perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish -- do not repress .. | xenophilius-lovegood | J.K. Rowling | |
| ea1b5ed | How did you get here?" Harry asked. "Flew," said Hagrid. " " | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6f800dc | I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 31fad43 | How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don't know, but as I sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 1ed240b | For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c71690f | and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes. But it was not just goodnight. Even then, I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever. | new-relationship knowing | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 466fdec | Jesus, Morelli, you sound like you have PMS. You have to learn to lighten up a little. It's just a car alarm. You should be thanking me. I had it installed with my own money. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 809bfd1 | A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy. | Fulton J. Sheen |