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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a34d1c6 | As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 4f1024f | The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| ade1480 | One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| ac66953 | It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| ca17601 | I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 7999f3c | Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice. | Maurice Sendak | ||
| 4759feb | A life that is, like any other, unlike any other. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 8bcbe93 | We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?" "Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you think your side have got, eh? First grade, I mean." Aziraphale looked taken aback. "Well, I should think-" he began. "Two," said Crowley. "Elgar and Liszt. That's all. We've got the rest. Beethoven, Brahms, all the Bachs, Mozart, the lot. Can you imagine eternity with Elgar?" | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 9f23bfb | Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words. | communication wisdom | Neil Gaiman | |
| 0ce92ad | Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end. | ideas | Neil Gaiman | |
| 76de685 | Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants somet.. | interpretation meme perception | Neil Gaiman | |
| 8ff81d4 | DEATH: "Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear." MORPHEUS: "And I am far more terrible than you, sister." | dreams | Neil Gaiman | |
| 6487afe | In fact, the only things in the flat Crowley devoted any personal attention to were the houseplants. They were huge, and green, and glorious, with shiny, healthy, lustrous leaves. This was because, once a week, Crowley went around the flat with a green plastic plant mister spraying the leaves, and talking to the plants.... Although is perhaps the wrong word for what Crowley did. What he did was put the fear of God into them. More prec.. | houseplants humor | Neil Gaiman | |
| c1bb09f | People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe. | creative-process writing | Neil Gaiman | |
| af323ee | She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b51facd | Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it's a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it's hard, because someone's in trouble and you have to know how it's all going to end ... that's a very real drive. And it forces you to learn new words, to think new thoughts, to keep going. To discover that reading per se is pleasurable. Once you learn that, you're on the road to re.. | libraries reading | Neil Gaiman | |
| 613a84f | In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, which means that quite often if you flirt with us we will completely fail to notice, leaving everybody involved slightly uncomfortable and more than slightly unlaid. | writers | Neil Gaiman | |
| a02c455 | As You Think, So Shall You Be. | Wayne W. Dyer | ||
| 3123dff | DESPISE THE FREE LUNCH JUDGMENT What is offered for free is dangerous-it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation. What has worth is worth paying for. By paying your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit. It is also often wise to pay the full price--there is no cutting corners with excellence. Be lavish with your money and keep it circulating, for generosity is a sign and a magnet for power. | Robert Greene | ||
| 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. | birthday dramatic grave joined wife | 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 | ||
| bbd1987 | She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist. | reflection | Sylvia Plath | |
| 99f5d82 | I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions. | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 05dd77f | I fancied you'd return the way you said, | Sylvia Plath | ||
| 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 |