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I realized then what had happened.She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt, long-legged hounds.Wonderful! Lea said, pirouetting upon one toe, laughing. Come, children! And she...

Jim Butcher

I realized then what had happened.She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt, long-legged hounds.Wonderful! Lea said, pirouetting upon one toe, laughing. Come, children! And she...

Jim Butcher

Tags: humor, karrin murphy, leanansidhe, molly carpenter, mouse, sanya, thomas raith

I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her –after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred–I would gather her in my arms...

Vladimir Nabokov

I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her –after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred–I would gather her in my arms...

Vladimir Nabokov

Tags: brutal, descriptive, feelings, love, lust, romance, sex

I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. They're closed for business even thou...

Marisha Pessl

I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. They're closed for business even thou...

Marisha Pessl

Tags: assured, father, frustrating, life, life answers, life s questions, no use, teach

I sigh. But if you’d talked to Jules—if she could hear you . . . My voice trails off.Then you wouldn’t feel quite so crazy? Oliver asks gently. Can’t you believe in me, if I believe in you?

Jodi Picoult

I sigh. But if you’d talked to Jules—if she could hear you . . . My voice trails off.Then you wouldn’t feel quite so crazy? Oliver asks gently. Can’t you believe in me, if I believe in you?

Jodi Picoult

Tags: between the lines, delilah mcphee, hearing voices, oliver, truth

I swear to you that I am not quite such an ass as I like to appear sometimes, although I am rather an ass, I admit.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I swear to you that I am not quite such an ass as I like to appear sometimes, although I am rather an ass, I admit.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tags: evgenie, inspirational, the idiot

I turned to leave and was exiting the gates when I heard the sound of feet running quickly along the gravel behind me. I turned and saw Alexei, who showed no sign of slowing down, so I opened my arms...

John Boyne

I turned to leave and was exiting the gates when I heard the sound of feet running quickly along the gravel behind me. I turned and saw Alexei, who showed no sign of slowing down, so I opened my arms...

John Boyne

Tags: john boyne, romanov, the house of special purpose

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Rebecca Solnit

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Rebecca Solnit

Tags: convalescence, healing, recovery, slowness, stillness

I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about Your country’s never been invaded. And so I said, Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us...

P.J. O'Rourke

I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about Your country’s never been invaded. And so I said, Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us...

P.J. O'Rourke

Tags: americans, culture, europe, europeans, nationality, politics

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Yann Martel

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Yann Martel

Tags: martel, of, pi, yann

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off...

James Patterson

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off...

James Patterson

Tags: humor, maxride, ratchet, star

Luc let out a strangled, hoarse laugh. Oh shit. ET so phoned home, kids.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Luc let out a strangled, hoarse laugh. Oh shit. ET so phoned home, kids.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Tags: luc

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

Jeffrey Archer

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

Jeffrey Archer

Tags: jeffrey, jeffrey archer

Martin Luther arrived at his earthshaking conclusions imbued with biblical exposition. As a professor, he taught the book of Psalms verse by verse from 1513 to 1515, Romans from 1515 to 1516, Galatian...

Alister E. McGrath

Martin Luther arrived at his earthshaking conclusions imbued with biblical exposition. As a professor, he taught the book of Psalms verse by verse from 1513 to 1515, Romans from 1515 to 1516, Galatian...

Alister E. McGrath

Tags: exposition, transformation

Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction.

Paul Murray

Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction.

Paul Murray

Tags: migration, modern life, modernity, rootlessness

Moving heavy objects allowed me to feel manly in the eyes of other men. With the women it didn't matter, but I enjoyed subtly intimidating the guys with bad backs who thought they were helping out by...

David Sedaris

Moving heavy objects allowed me to feel manly in the eyes of other men. With the women it didn't matter, but I enjoyed subtly intimidating the guys with bad backs who thought they were helping out by...

David Sedaris

Tags: intimidating, manly, manual labor, movers, unintelligent

Mr. Rivenhall said to Sophy, If this is your doing—!I promise you it is not. If I thought that he had the smallest notion of your hostility, I should say that he had rolled you up, Charles, foot and g...

Georgette Heyer

Mr. Rivenhall said to Sophy, If this is your doing—!I promise you it is not. If I thought that he had the smallest notion of your hostility, I should say that he had rolled you up, Charles, foot and g...

Georgette Heyer

Tags: cousin, ulterior motive

Jimmy held on to the reins for dear life, and thought that a horse was about the most slippery creature to sit on that he had ever met. He slithered first one way and then another, and at last he slid...

Enid Blyton

Jimmy held on to the reins for dear life, and thought that a horse was about the most slippery creature to sit on that he had ever met. He slithered first one way and then another, and at last he slid...

Enid Blyton

Tags: horseback riding, horses, humourous, laughing, reins, slippery

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to i...

David Weber

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to i...

David Weber

Tags: bersek, berserker, bloodlust, deadly, frenzy, glory, horror, lethal, purpose, rage

Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

Gail Carson Levine

Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

Gail Carson Levine

Tags: non violence, pacifism

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you ha...

Peter Straub

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you ha...

Peter Straub

Tags: flashbacks, post traumatic stress disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, ptsd, terror
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