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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7dd0271 | If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. | humor love poisonwood-bible | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 859da4b | please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| eadda17 | And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3dce11c | All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him. | insanity revolution | William S. Burroughs | |
| fa2fae0 | I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation." | Jeannette Walls | ||
| 8a1f8c2 | People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't have time. Or the right words. But that's what books do. It's as though your daily life is a film in the cinema. It can be fun, looking at those pictures. But if you want to know what lies behind the flat screen you have to read a book. That explains it all. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 3a70fc1 | Imagine you are walking down a leafy path...The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon. Then suddenly, you feel a large drop on your right arm. Is it raining? You look up. The sky is still deceptively sunny...seconds later another drop. Then, with the sun still perched in the sky, you are drenched in a shower of rain. This is how memories invade me, abruptly and unexpectedly... | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 340503f | Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 6ff2596 | Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational | Scott Adams | ||
| b36d4a8 | The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. | Scott Adams | ||
| cf2df90 | It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens. | Orson Scott Card | ||
| 1ef31ee | Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart. | Brian Jacques | ||
| 4d00d24 | Vampires do breathe, by the way, but their chests don't move like humans'. Have you ever lain in the arms of your sweetheart and tried to match your breathing to his, or hers? You do it automatically. Your brain only gets involved if your body is having trouble. Fortunately there was nothing about this situation that was like being in the arms of a sweetheart except that I was leaning against someone's naked chest. I could no more have brea.. | humor vampires | Robin McKinley | |
| 22ef26f | There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92) | life living living-life | L.M. Montgomery | |
| ad5c22c | Successful women don't sleep until noon. | Barbara Taylor Bradford | ||
| cf46c1a | Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let's be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while. | progress tradition | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| ba887e7 | Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While we look in horror at a badly punctuated sign, the world carries on around us, blind to our plight. We are like the little boy in who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation. Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation is invisible to everyone else -- yet we see it . No one un.. | Lynne Truss | ||
| 506beec | They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like it, and I wouldn't ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they o.. | Anthony Burgess | ||
| bd66fd9 | No!" Jimmy protested." | Ben Elton | ||
| f311e90 | That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself correctly, then you are truly a man of wisdom. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| c79c2cc | The little prince went away, to look again at the roses. "You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world." And the roses were very much embarassed. "You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on. "One co.. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| 09148e0 | As long as it's what you're passionate about, go for it. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b32b8b7 | Yes," she purred. "I really think you can do better. Lots better." As she spoke, she trailed a red-painted finger down the center of his chest, over his abdomen, heading straight for the button on his jeans. And oh, hell to the no. "Get your hands off him." Sadi's head snapped in my direction. "Excuse me?" "I don't think I stuttered." I took a step forward. "But it looks like you need me to repeat it. Get your freaking hands off him." One s.. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 5acf5f7 | But if you take off your clothes, I'm sure I can get them dry." My eyes went wide. "Are you trying tog et my naked?" His silvery gaze met mine. "Do you really need me to answer that?" A hot, sweet flush stole across my cheeks. When he was like this--open, flirty, and downright sexy--I was at my lamest. I wasn't used to this side of him. I don't think I ever would be, and there was something thrilling in that. But I stared at him, caught bet.. | alex hot-jasmine-pool lovers underworld | Jennifer L. Armentrout | |
| 001e0b3 | Then it was a rumble, causing the house to groan and small clouds of dust to drop from the ceiling. The table scuttled over the floor. A chair toppled over and then another. Somewhere in the living room, a window shattered. Kat was going to bring the house down. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| bbabcca | The thing is, every Luxen feared Daemon's notorious temper. His brother was like a lit fuse, ready to explode at any minute, but what they didn't know was that it was another thing Dawson shared with Daemon. When push came to shove, and it involved someone he cared about, he could be just as mean. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 4c41e3d | Jesus, all this thinking about my feelings and hers was probably going to give me a period. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| e3175c8 | I'm totally calm. I would just like to know who marred your skin so that I can put a name and face to the creature I'm going to kill very slowly." "I think we might have different definitions of calm," I said wryly. "I've never been calmer in my life." | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| 218f688 | Oh, dear gods, this was turning into a boy fight. | Jennifer L. Armentrout | ||
| b9713b5 | What the creeping crud is that?" [Percy] demanded. "You're inside a giant glowing chicken-man!" "Hawk!" I yelled. I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They'd probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity." | Rick Riordan | ||
| d312a29 | You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM! | Rick Riordan | ||
| 94c8b59 | It's been my observation" I said, "that you humans are more than the sum of your history. You can choose how much of your ancestry to embrace. You can overcome the expectations of your family and your society. What you cannot do, and should never do, is try to be someone other than yourself-Piper McLean." -- | mythology-fiction self-help | Rick Riordan | |
| 46108ec | Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?" | lady-gaga nellie-gomez the39clues | Rick Riordan | |
| 24e96d2 | i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something. | Rick Riordan | ||
| c82e845 | A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada. | Rick Riordan | ||
| df64bcc | I need to talk to Clarisse," Annabeth said. I stared at her as if she'd just said "I need to eat a large, smelly boot." "What for?" | Rick Riordan | ||
| d41362f | Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying. | Rick Riordan | ||
| e566e0e | You Keep Using the Word Help. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means | Rick Riordan | ||
| 90e8e2e | Hotter than a fuck in hell. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 9e8e280 | I'm like him. I'm a monster, too. | Elizabeth May | ||
| 8cb47e2 | Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer. | love sex | Margaret Atwood | |
| aba43be | Madness is only an amplification of what you already are. | madness | Margaret Atwood | |
| 8ff232f | I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? | Dodie Smith | ||
| 9539479 | One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse. | Joseph Conrad |