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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e07e565 | The music folded over itself like batter being poured from a bowl, one note atop another... | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 221b2ca | To the stars who listen, Feyre. To the dreams that are answered, Rhys. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 2727041 | I have a friend. He is to be Lord of Anielle someday, and the fiercest warrior in the land. | dorian-havilliard | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 6844085 | A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| ae93011 | I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief." | gary thief george | Tamora Pierce | |
| 8393159 | He was overconfident", she told him. "And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they'd have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works." "You won because you were good" he corrected her. "I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 502cfb9 | We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 8479c39 | As I recall, this word's use means somewhere there is a tree that is now a - a two-legger. -Numair Salmalin | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 53416fb | What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied." | comeback | Tamora Pierce | |
| 8597026 | We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 28ac45e | There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died. | money terry-pratchett greed life philosophy-religion going-postal | Terry Pratchett | |
| ef1769e | It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time." | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1342244 | What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e7ffd01 | Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| df0d97c | I'm not a lady, I'm a witch. | witches never-been-a-lady | Terry Pratchett | |
| 0949cb0 | Perhaps he could still weave together the broken threads of his life. And yet, I wanted him here now. I needed him here. In the darkness, if I sat very still, I could almost feel his presence by me, quite near, but not too near. Didn't I promise to keep you safe, he would say softly. I have never broken a promise. Don't look so worried, Jenny. And yet, he would be careful. Careful not to move too close. Careful not to frighten me. Waiting s.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 66947ab | Henry loves my hair almost as though it is a creature unto itself, as though it has a soul to call its own, as though it could love him back. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 94d5168 | When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also became a story about the claims that books place on their readers, the imbalance between our inner and outer lives, a cautionary tale of the seductions of the written word. It became a vision of the afterlife as a library, of heaven as a funky old camper filled with everything you've ever read. What is this heaven? What is .. | reading-books | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| d2f27b4 | I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on, Henry.' 'Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.' 'I don't see what you think is grand about that.' 'Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale,' said Henry. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 97294f4 | He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles so large that they could not be plowed over with sheer force of momentum. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 96c0ec2 | The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5d957d6 | I'd planned to kill them, too." When Neomi glared up at him, he raised his chained hands. "Past tense. See? Already I'm improving." | Kresley Cole | ||
| caaf602 | Hate Scars. I'm physically flawless-why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran. Lothair Enemy of Old | lothair | Kresley Cole | |
| 36c2cc4 | So what are you going to wear to the apocalypse? I'm thinking something sparkly and transfixing."-Nix" | nucking-futs-nix nix-the-ever-knowing | Kresley Cole | |
| 399b1c9 | You're lucky to have a friend who will kill for you." So. I once had a friend who died for me, and now one who killed for me. Why didn't I feel lucky?" | kill | Carrie Vaughn | |
| d44e1b4 | People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 1022ed5 | It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first. | Betty Smith | ||
| 9349160 | She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c0e8abd | Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a66e642 | It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different. | Richard Wright | ||
| f70a6bc | Once, he'd been the Seducer, the Executioner, the High Priest of the Hourglass, the Prince of the Darkness, the High Lord of Hell. Once, he'd been Consort to Cassandra, the great Black-Jeweled, Black Widow Queen, the last Witch to walk the Realms. Once, he'd been the only Black-Jeweled Warlord Prince in the history of the Blood, feared for his temper and the power he wielded. Once, he'd been the only male who was a Black Widow. Once, he'd r.. | Anne Bishop | ||
| 33ff63e | But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| bf393e3 | Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| 0c77f22 | Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 71f8972 | Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. | murder women learning education hypatia-of-alexandria philosophers dialectics skills superiority greatness suppression knowledge | Iain Pears | |
| f0d0d8c | The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women or those children or those people who voted for me or who painted my picture. Poet. Acrobat. Engineer. Friend. Guardian. Avenging whirlwind. A million futures--not all pretty, not all long, but all of them mine. I do have a choice" - p. 271" | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 13249a4 | I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm. | warm cold eating-disorders | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| f1cde3b | You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens. | reality | John Fowles | |
| a43fc17 | You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man. | Norton Juster | ||
| 86d6c61 | You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time. | Norton Juster | ||
| 97f5522 | People would say that it's impossible to have a private pool in the city, unless you were some sort of rich mogul and had it on the roof of your penthouse or something. But it's not illegal to have a really clean dumpster, and if you want to fill it with water, and if you want to get in it... well, that's your prerogative. People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough. This pool is a.. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| c659be7 | Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| f3d9712 | Upward, not Northward | Edwin A. Abbott | ||
| 6dcbdee | The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. | James Baldwin |