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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b517863 | He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent." "I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "But you seem to be the only one to believe me." | marriage love | Julia Quinn | |
| 6cc3a55 | What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty? | Alan Moore | ||
| e433a3b | Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape... But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future. | inspirational | Alan Moore | |
| 940d32d | Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. | Alan Moore | ||
| a3f9722 | You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do. | Alan Moore | ||
| 2fd9010 | Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen. The glass candles are burning. Soon comes the pale mare, and after her the others. Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the Undying. Beware the perfumed seneschal." "Reznak? Why should I fear him?" Dany rose from the pool. Water trickled down her legs, and gooseflesh covered her arms in the cool night air. "If you have some warning for me, .. | blood-of-the-dragon dany qarth quaithe undying daenerys targaryen prophecy | George R.R. Martin | |
| a4339b0 | Because they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.'' ''Lady Catelyn, you are wrong.'' Brienne regarded her with eyes as blue as her armor. ''Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it's always summer in the songs. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 5b5d3a1 | Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 0336c64 | Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| 197a9b2 | The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic... | Cressida Cowell | ||
| aac407e | Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. | war constant shape water strategy | Sun Tzu | |
| 6fc0df9 | Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy. | war philosophy empiricism epistemology military-philosophy | Sun Tzu | |
| f65ebad | If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. | war strategy | Sun Tzu | |
| ad8bb96 | He laughs best who laughs at the end. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 3f13371 | Off with their heads! | Frank Beddor | ||
| b4e348e | Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it. | Elizabeth Gaskell | ||
| d5557c0 | If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. | Rob Bell | ||
| 6ebaad8 | Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does | Rob Bell | ||
| 5c8d6c7 | There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 5cb735f | He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly | Anne Brontë | ||
| f6660e4 | For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7678a18 | Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years. | dogs grief love farseer robin-hobb pets | Robin Hobb | |
| 1886c49 | She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 791edb7 | Sarcasm is the language of the devil. | women | Barbara Delinsky | |
| 8735589 | I'm not the person I once was. I have Thorn now, and... I'm not fighting for myself anymore....It makes a difference....I used to think you were a fool to keep risking your life as you have...I know better now. I understand...why. I understand...' His [Murtagh] eyes widened and his grimace relaxed, as if his pain was forgotten, and an inner light seemed to illuminate his features. 'I understand-we understand. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 8889c66 | That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them -- that is the tragedy of life. | tragedy | Henry Miller | |
| ba8e3c9 | There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous. | reading | Anaïs Nin | |
| 4a3b39a | Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad. | Maria V. Snyder | ||
| c7aad09 | You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws. | Hilary Mantel | ||
| 1a8354b | you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else. | understanding poignant | Jonathan Tropper | |
| 6ee123b | But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea. | human-race grave-peril harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| c6aa821 | I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing. | women humor harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 72ff84c | You destroy buildings, fight monsters openly in the streets of the city, work with the police, show up in newspapers, advertise in the phone book, and ride zombie dinosaurs down Michigan Avenue, and think that you work in the shadows? Be reasonable. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 34563e6 | My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher | magic wizards paranormal harry-dresden | Jim Butcher | |
| 4403544 | Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning. | humor | Jim Butcher | |
| 45a9f94 | Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else. | humor jared-kincaid | Jim Butcher | |
| adae35b | I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| fd34f30 | Kagura is doing laundry and tries to wring out Kyou's shirt causing it to rip in two ] Kyo Sohma: Tell me what I think just happened didn't just happen Kagura: My love ! | funny kagura kyo fruits-basket | Natsuki Takaya | |
| 6f829e0 | Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life. | literature fiction james-wood | James Wood | |
| 78a88a7 | La, tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute Luxe, calme et volupte | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 3b908a7 | Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! | howl | Allen Ginsberg | |
| 81c29f7 | The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 3111d62 | I took the stool next to him, raising an eyebrow at the coffee and cruller on the counter. "Thought you weren't into internal pollution," I said. Lately Ranger'd been on a health food thing. "Props," Ranger told me. "Didn't want to look out of place." I didn't want to burst his fantasy bubble, but the only time Ranger wouldn't look out of place would be standing in a lineup between Rambo and Batman." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 53a215f | every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18) | love-of-country origins homeland | Alexander McCall Smith |