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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c50a6f0 | You know what?' said Vimes aloud. 'This is going to be the world's first democratically killed dragon. One man, one stab.' Then you've got to stop them. You can't let them kill it!' said Lady Ramkin. Vimes blinked at her. Pardon?' he said. It's wounded!' Lady, that was the intention, wasn't it? Anyway, it's only stunned,' said Vimes. I mean you can't let them kill it like ,' said Lady Ramkin insistently. 'Poor thing!' What do you want to d.. | compassion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 4a572c2 | Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God." "That's what my grandmother used to say," said Brutha automatically. "Indeed? I would like to know more about this formidable lady." "She used to give me a thrashing every morning because I would certainly do something to deserve it during the day," said Brutha. "A most complete understanding of the nature of mankind," | punishment religion | Terry Pratchett | |
| 38f0f86 | He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn't happen to you every year. | taxes | Terry Pratchett | |
| 8dee16f | Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful. | discworld pratchett suicide | Terry Pratchett | |
| 3f8c86c | The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song - | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a30f544 | It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 16f0dec | They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and when wrong is right. The world needs the people who work around the edges. They need the people who can deal with the little bumps and inconveniences. And little problems. After all, we are almost all human. Almost all of the time. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| e6b3d3f | Personal isn't the same as important. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b05389b | Nor had he, as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since he recognized that belief was the lifebelt that got most people through the choppy waters of Life. He'd have liked to believe in a supreme God, although he'd have preferred a half-hour's chat with Him before committing himself, to clear up one or two points. He'd sat in all sorts of churches, waiting for.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 3dcaaf9 | Witches were a bit like cats. They didn't much like one another's company but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them. And what you might need them for was to tell you, as a friend, that you were beginning to cackle. | witches | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1a938c7 | But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association. | humor politics puns | Terry Pratchett | |
| 608a270 | We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone. | juliet-marillier seer-of-sevenwaters sevenwaters | Juliet Marillier | |
| fbd4d59 | Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 40d90fb | absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 6710527 | She was the golden thread running through everything, a lens that magnified beauty so that the whole world stood transfigured in relation to her, and her alone. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 32f0465 | Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 99cf8bc | A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a2e07af | It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy. | Alan Lightman | ||
| 1e1c505 | I lived in the royal library, among all the books." "You resided in a... library?" "There suites inside and great balconies that overlooked the city, but yes. I was most content among those shelves, so one night, I simply never left." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 20cb61f | Regin had known the risk in coming here, but she wasn't fearful. As Lucia had also told her, "Sometimes I don't think you have the sense to be afraid when you should." Regin had interpreted that to mean, "You have no sense of fear, oh, great Reginleit." | dreams-of-a-dark-warrior immortals-after-dark kresley-cole lore paranormal-romance regin-the-radiant valkyrie | Kresley Cole | |
| 9378604 | The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I".' His main business is to find his way back to himself." -- | lostness the-outsider | Colin Wilson | |
| 26d887e | The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35) | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a658006 | She loved books. She loved them with her senses and her intellect. They way they looked and smelled; the way they felt in her hands; the way the pages seemed to murmur as she turned them. Everything there is in the world, she thought, is in books. | Betty Smith | ||
| 83a9d04 | After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there. | interior-life life-of-the-mind writers writing | Gertrude Stein | |
| bd94e5d | Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 6803d39 | Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to fly from the body once and for all. Lovers have been known to have heart attacks. Lovers drink too much from nervousness and cannot perform. They eat too little and faint during their fervently wished consummation. They do not stroke the favoured cat and their face-paint comes loose. This is not all. What.. | passion | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 481e823 | Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point. | Sue Grafton | ||
| a619b18 | They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in ha.. | Patricia Highsmith | ||
| c7e2343 | And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect. | lesbian love patricia-highsmith perfect right romantic sex the-price-of-salt | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 8fd9b28 | Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 5a91447 | The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. | inspirational travel wicked | Gregory Maguire | |
| c9912a9 | But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| e17e4ac | Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| cf1a601 | I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page | reading | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 3231ee7 | I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life. | Mary Downing Hahn | ||
| 93e0909 | Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path--all they do is trip you up. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| 8087738 | In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 4032f26 | Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story. | hopelessness love | John Fowles | |
| fbcb661 | There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. | loss teacher | Pat Conroy | |
| cab5c68 | Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth." | south south-carolina | Pat Conroy | |
| 654e7ad | Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn't! Then why should it make them nice to be loathed? While you're being persecuted, you hate what's happening to you, you hate the people who are making it happen; you're in a world of hate. Why, you wouldn't recognize love if you met it! You'd suspect love! You'd think there was something behind it--some motive--some trick. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| 231b5e0 | You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked. | Christopher Isherwood | ||
| bac1ecc | I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| f3a0473 | We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense. | Norton Juster |