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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9bc3f83 | Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new emotions - and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self. | John Banville | ||
| c328ca1 | Does my new feminism make me look fat? | Libba Bray | ||
| da3d1e5 | Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life. | Libba Bray | ||
| 518b224 | Every city is a ghost. New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a s.. | ghosts hauntings the-past | Libba Bray | |
| eb7fb7f | Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a loud, gurgling groan. Somebody shouted, "Oh my gosh! Miss Delaware just died!" "--- for gettin some of us here safe," Taylor continued. "And we pray that, as we are fine, upstandin', law-abidin' girls who represent the best of the best, you will protect us from harm and keep us safe until we are rescued and can tell our s.. | Libba Bray | ||
| 5d018a2 | Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone?" "Because you're beautiful," Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. "People always think they can own beautiful things." | Libba Bray | ||
| 756ef64 | How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family? | Libba Bray | ||
| fcaf601 | Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 6823f11 | All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another man's devil. As each subsequent civilization became a dominant power, among its first acts was to depose and demonize whoever the previous culture had worshipped. The Jews attacked Belial, the god of the Babylonians. The Christians banished Pan and Loki anda Mars, the respective deities of the ancient Greeks and Celts and Rom.. | demons gods | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 0dd0f50 | I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5471bc1 | Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0f287a1 | You'll need to suffer to make any real art. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7fb4130 | Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 5e1fba3 | The World Is Not Enough | Ian Fleming | ||
| 248cd67 | The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 1d2b026 | after all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood? | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 5977025 | God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes. | Max Lucado | ||
| fc27782 | And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn't wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 9b2d2e0 | A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right. | life right | Paulo Coelho | |
| c2023e7 | Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 03118fa | In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0606ccc | People destroy what they love. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6aa75a2 | It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 159cd38 | You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose." | J.D. Salinger | ||
| d60c5f4 | Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip! | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 5066033 | oh, this happiness is strong stuff. It's marvelously liberating. | j.d. salinger | ||
| fefabd8 | If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right. | mood work | J.D. Salinger | |
| 0e03319 | Did you see more glass? | J.D. Salinger | ||
| e890f50 | As a body everyone is single, as a soul never | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e340a16 | We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 613d747 | Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. | dark earthsea life self | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 7fa1153 | I'll kill you! Sam had screamed it at Arobynn as the King of the Assassins beat her. He'd roared it. In those horrible minutes, whatever bond had sprung up between her and Sam hadn't broken. He'd switched loyalties- he'd chosen to stand by her, fight for her. If anything, that made him different from Ansel. Sam could have hurt or betrayed her a dozen times over, but he'd never jumped at the opportunity. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 6ec6259 | Tarquin turned from the table, just as the tent flaps parted for a pair of broad shoulders-- Varian. He didn't so much as look at his High Lord, his focus going right to where Amren sat at the head of the table. As if he'd sensed she was here--or someone had reported. And he'd come running. Amren's eyes flicked up from the Book as Varian halted. A coy smile curved her red lips. There was still blood and dirt splattered on Varian's brown ski.. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 7b97a5d | Rowan Whitethorn is a legend. And so is his--what do you call them?" "Cadre," she said glumly. "The six of them ..." Aedion loosed a breath. "We used to tell stories about them around fires. Their battles and exploits and adventures." She sighed through her nose. "Please, please don't ever tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it, and he'll use it in every argument we have." -- | rowan rowan-whitethorn | Sarah J. Maas | |
| 285e294 | Everything hurts." Falkan grimaced, rubbing at his leg. "Remind me never to do anything heroic again." | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 3eb8bcc | WITCH KILLER-- THE HUMAN IS STILL INSIDE HIM | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 28f84ef | I did not mind stepping out of the shadows, did not mind even being in the shadows to begin with, so long as he was with me. My friend through so many dangers - who had fought for me when no one else would, even myself. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| d1f43a7 | Do you lie awake at night to come up with all your witty replies for the following day? | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 62ad568 | I just...Leave a note. Or tell me next time.' 'Would you have let me go if I had?' 'I do not LET you do anything.' He tilted my face up, Mor and Azriel looking away. 'You are your own person, you make your own choices. But we are mates-- I am yours, and you are mine. We do not let each other do things, as if we dictate the movements of each other. But...I might have insisted I go with you More for my own mental well-being, just to know you .. | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| e5c2268 | Long live the queen. | nesryn-fariq queen-of-terrasen | Sarah J. Maas | |
| b3165d6 | I blinked at my mate. Then grinned, not bothering to hide the savagery within it. "Hybern has no idea about the hell that's about to rain down upon them, do they." "Here's to family reunions," was all Rhys said. Then" | Sarah J. Maas | ||
| 5ce1f1c | Hunter pulled away, rolling her eyes. "Hey, where are you going?" I murmured. "We're not done making up." "We're in crisis mode out there," she answered, reluctantly taking another step back. "It's always crisis mode in this house," I said with disgust." "Chapter 24" | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| b16de99 | Chloe nodded meekly. I'd never seen her so demure. "What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside. "She's royalty!" "And a vampire, remember?" "Oh yeah." Chloe paused. "Nope, princess trumps vampire." "Does not." "So does." | hunter | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 39b1b68 | Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren't there, thank God. | Rachel Caine |