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Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are str...

Rebecca McNutt

Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially true. All smells are sucked clean from the air, leaving only a harsh, icy crispness. Colours are str...

Rebecca McNutt

Tags: nature, cold, sky, winter, color, frozen, frost, frigid, lobster, shades

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.

Sylvia Plath

Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.

Sylvia Plath

Tags: fall, wind, bat, leaves, november, foliage, ouija, bats, dialogue over a ouija board

Why are you all buttoned up like that? Cameron ran his gaze down the blackberry-shaped buttons of her bodice.[...] You were happy to bare all last night, Cameron said. He let his mallet handler hover...

Jennifer Ashley

Why are you all buttoned up like that? Cameron ran his gaze down the blackberry-shaped buttons of her bodice.[...] You were happy to bare all last night, Cameron said. He let his mallet handler hover...

Jennifer Ashley

Tags: cameron, seduction, buttons

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the...

Enid Blyton

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the...

Enid Blyton

Tags: nature, secret, mysterious, june, island, haze, enchanting, willows

The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly an...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly an...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tags: ego, judgemental, belittle, fyodor dostoyevsky, notes from underground

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

James C. Scott

The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record!

James C. Scott

Tags: civilization, garbage, archeology

The finest fury is the most controlled.

Christopher Hitchens

The finest fury is the most controlled.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: music, bob dylan, control, fury, lonesome death of hattie carroll

The English Puritans were obsessed with the idea of providence, and that word is more ominous to them than it sounds to us. It means care, but it also means control. It does not just mean that God wil...

Sarah Vowell

The English Puritans were obsessed with the idea of providence, and that word is more ominous to them than it sounds to us. It means care, but it also means control. It does not just mean that God wil...

Sarah Vowell

Tags: providence, calvinism, authoritarianism

Según mi experiencia, las emociones no pueden describirse con una sola palabra. «Tristeza», «alegría», «remordimiento», esos términos no me dicen nada. La mejor prueba de que el lenguaje es patriarcal...

Jeffrey Eugenides

Según mi experiencia, las emociones no pueden describirse con una sola palabra. «Tristeza», «alegría», «remordimiento», esos términos no me dicen nada. La mejor prueba de que el lenguaje es patriarcal...

Jeffrey Eugenides

Tags: eugenides, middlesex, pulitzer, sentimientos, emociones

Magnus sighed. Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two. He looked sideways at Maryse, wh...

Cassandra Clare

Magnus sighed. Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two. He looked sideways at Maryse, wh...

Cassandra Clare

Tags: magnus bane, city of fallen angels, maryse lightwood

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Daphne du Maurier

Tags: first sentence

I’m saying there is evil in the world, Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the t...

Daniel Abraham

I’m saying there is evil in the world, Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the t...

Daniel Abraham

Tags: skepticism, epistemology

I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.Nice, Shane said. I’m warming...

Rachel Caine

I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.Nice, Shane said. I’m warming...

Rachel Caine

Tags: funny, humor, vampires, vampire, morganville vampires, shane collins, ghost town, eve rosser, michael glass, myrnin

It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.

Christopher Pike

It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.

Christopher Pike

Tags: fear, horror, christopher pike, haunted houses

If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

C.G. Jung

If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

C.G. Jung

Tags: society, philosophy, psychology, consciousness, individualism, unconscious, subconscious, psyche, duality, the self

I don't like having feelings, _Eric Northman

Charlaine Harris

I don't like having feelings, _Eric Northman

Charlaine Harris

Tags: eric northman

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

Megan Whalen Turner

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.

Megan Whalen Turner

Tags: perseverance, eugenides

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots! I said keeping my voice down. Will you just put a stopper in it?She looked at me and sighed. Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonde...

Tamora Pierce

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots! I said keeping my voice down. Will you just put a stopper in it?She looked at me and sighed. Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonde...

Tamora Pierce

Tags: humor, crazy, grandmother, single women, family relationship, bickering, baiting, granddaughter

Don't talk. Alec gestured at him with an expression of vague disgust.Every time I look at you, I keep remembering coming in here and seeing you draped all over my sister.Jace sat up.I didn't hear abou...

Cassandra Clare

Don't talk. Alec gestured at him with an expression of vague disgust.Every time I look at you, I keep remembering coming in here and seeing you draped all over my sister.Jace sat up.I didn't hear abou...

Cassandra Clare

Tags: simon lewis, tmi, cassandra clare, isabelle lightwood, jace lightwood, city of heavenly fire

And, whoa! He turned to Mr.D. Your the wine dude? No way!Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. The wine dude?Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine!My figurine.I...

Rick Riordan

And, whoa! He turned to Mr.D. Your the wine dude? No way!Mr.D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. The wine dude?Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine!My figurine.I...

Rick Riordan

Tags: humor, dionysus, mythomagic, nico diangelo
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