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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e38d236 | Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war." | war weapon | Scott Westerfeld | |
| e7e1e14 | Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel. | comebacks funny humor humorous silly | Lloyd Alexander | |
| 68fd9bb | You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if j.. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 03b8d60 | When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| d5c1f92 | You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble d.. | loyalty | Connie Willis | |
| d8937b9 | There are no days more full than those we go back to. | Colum McCann | ||
| e4d61c8 | No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final. | humanity truth | Colum McCann | |
| e019d62 | Before you hate something you should try to understand it. | philosophy understanding | Martha Grimes | |
| c9480f4 | I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria | Danielle Steel | ||
| 69e7fbe | I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later. | life-lessons | Esmeralda Santiago | |
| 16e0a43 | She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out. | Henry Miller | ||
| 055538b | Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart. | Philip Pullman | ||
| c4ec49d | He glanced at me, his eyes dark. "Would you rather talk about your dream?" "No." "Considering that I was featured in it, I think I deserve to know the particulars. Were my clothes missing because we were in bed? Was I touching you?" He glanced at me. His voice could've melted the clothes off my body. "Were you touching me?" | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 7ea93d3 | Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?" "I'm not implying. I'm saying it." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cc76c62 | In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 852cf0f | People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I did so that when I mate and have children, nobody can touch my family. (...) I built all this so I can protect you. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| fff17e1 | I mourn my sword, but that's alright. Grandmother gave me another one. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| c20447c | Curran gave me a flat look. "I can always drive to a burger joint instead." "Oh, so you'd throw a burger down my throat and expect making out in the back seat?" He grinned. "We can do it in the front seat instead, if you prefer. Or on the hood of the car." "I'm not doing it on the hood of the car." "Is that a dare?" Why me?" | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0d4d512 | I'm sorry about the dinner." "Best date ever. Well, until people died and vampires showed up. But before that it was awesome." | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 117401f | If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. "I'm doing my best, but thinking about baseball only takes you so far." I froze." | nevada-baylor | Ilona Andrews | |
| 19225c5 | I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly. | kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| a4f4448 | You're problem is, you underestimate me because I'm a woman. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| acf85ef | Since when do you give a crap about my welfare anyway? I think you're confused as to the nature of our relationship. You and I, we don't get along. You're a psychopathic control freak. You order me around and I want to kill you. I'm a pigheaded insubordinate ass. I drive you mad and you want to strangle me." "Once! I did it once!" "Once was plenty. The point is, we don't play nice. We-" He jerked his arms out from under my knees, pulled me .. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cf206f1 | Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| b5aac71 | The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 63aec73 | Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 9efbe69 | Together we will be unstoppable. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| 7223a62 | It is not enough to be happy, one must be content. | inspirational | Victor Hugo | |
| 4e846c5 | A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance. | Victor Hugo | ||
| d09ab78 | We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 2d3543f | In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. | life | Leo Tolstoy | |
| c28b96c | I can't think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| e99bc07 | And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes. | plato | Daniel Keyes | |
| 15cc34b | If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 0cbe464 | I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 489a9c1 | She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung closer. The words were set to a fine old air -- in themselves they were simple and sweet: perhaps, when read, they wanted force; when sung, they wanted nothing. Shirley sang them well: she breathed into the feeling, softness, she poured.. | empathy expectations expression faithfulness feeling fidelity gender gift hypocrisy jealousy judgment love morality music musicality passion preconceptions prejudice propriety rejection singing social-norms society talent understanding women | Charlotte Brontë | |
| eec7502 | You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 06db7ef | He would never be any different and now Scarlett realize the truth and accepted it without emotion--that until he died Gerald would always be waiting for Ellen, always listening for her. Her was in some dim borderline country where time was standing still and Ellen was always in the next room. The mainspring of his existence was taken away when she died and with it has gone his bounding assurance, his impudence and his restless vitality. El.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| fa327b0 | All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt. | emotions hurt space tears | Margaret Mitchell | |
| e879c08 | The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike | faustus marlowe stars time | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 3973f2b | I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| a4abdf9 | I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead. I can feel the surface trembling--it seems ready to give but it never does. I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it? I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating an.. | James Salter | ||
| 78fc23f | Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars. A million suns. | Beth Revis | ||
| 7686d91 | Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose." | David Eddings |