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You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face p...

Terry Pratchett

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face p...

Terry Pratchett

Tags: dark humor, dragons, morality

Why did Our Blessed Lord use bread and wine as the elements of this Memorial? First of all, because no two substances in nature better symbolize unity than bread and wine. As bread is made from a mult...

Fulton J. Sheen

Why did Our Blessed Lord use bread and wine as the elements of this Memorial? First of all, because no two substances in nature better symbolize unity than bread and wine. As bread is made from a mult...

Fulton J. Sheen

Tags: communion, eucharist, mass, the lord s table

When we return--when I have delivered our discovery--I will give you a book to read about a thing called wild magic, she said drily. I wouldn't talk about it in the university. It's supposed to be an...

Tamora Pierce

When we return--when I have delivered our discovery--I will give you a book to read about a thing called wild magic, she said drily. I wouldn't talk about it in the university. It's supposed to be an...

Tamora Pierce

Tags: book, daine, foreshadowing, master sebo, numair, wild magic

When the telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's , I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase...

Christopher Hitchens

When the telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's , I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: bastille, bullying, censorship, demagogy, dictatorship, enlightenment, fascism, fatwa, first amendment, free speech

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror...

Neil Postman

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror...

Neil Postman

Tags: aldous huxley, brave new world, desire, fear, george orwell, huxley, orwell

Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a s...

Rebecca McNutt

Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a s...

Rebecca McNutt

Tags: cell phone, depressing, digital age, future, phone, sad, text

This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.

G.K. Chesterton

This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.

G.K. Chesterton

Tags: creed, custom, power, spirituality

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than...

Elizabeth Gaskell

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than...

Elizabeth Gaskell

Tags: beauty, death, dusk, fall, garden, gardens, north and south, outside, seasons, time

The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little spa...

James Gleick

The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little spa...

James Gleick

Tags: geometry

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

Dumas Malone

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

Dumas Malone

Tags: boldness, courtesy, mind, politeness, scabbard, sheathed, thomas jefferson

Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and the snap and crackle of the fire - and the squeaks and scrambles of mice that are...

L.M. Montgomery

Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and the snap and crackle of the fire - and the squeaks and scrambles of mice that are...

L.M. Montgomery

Tags: blind, blindness, purring, sound, sounds

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

Terry Pratchett

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

Terry Pratchett

Tags: hammer, holes, nation, sea, silence

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Harper Lee

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Harper Lee

Tags: jem, scout

Shigure Sohma: So anyway I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That is if it isn't a problem. Hatori Sohma: No problem. I'll stop by the house this evening. S...

Natsuki Takaya

Shigure Sohma: So anyway I was wondering if you could stop by the house and take a look at Tohru's cut. That is if it isn't a problem. Hatori Sohma: No problem. I'll stop by the house this evening. S...

Natsuki Takaya

Tags: dog, dragon, fruits basket, funny, hatori, lol, shigure, tohru

She has always wanted you as a mate, Owen.

Elizabeth Morgan

She has always wanted you as a mate, Owen.

Elizabeth Morgan

Tags: elizabeth morgan, paranormal erotic romance, she wolf, werewolf author, werewolf romance

Savannah handed the glass to Gregori, her eyes anxious. Gary touched his neck. He felt a little dizzy, and there was a burning sensation on the side of his neck, but when he touched his pulse, his han...

Christine Feehan

Savannah handed the glass to Gregori, her eyes anxious. Gary touched his neck. He felt a little dizzy, and there was a burning sensation on the side of his neck, but when he touched his pulse, his han...

Christine Feehan

Tags: gary, gregori and savannah, haha, sense of humor

Night, G'rard. 'Night, mouse.

Teresa Medeiros

Night, G'rard. 'Night, mouse.

Teresa Medeiros

Tags: lucy

Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news.

George Saunders

Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news.

George Saunders

Tags: bad news, funny, humor

Mina’s mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.

Meljean Brook

Mina’s mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.

Meljean Brook

Tags: banter, life or death moments, sexual attraction

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more...

Shakespeare William Shakespeare

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more...

Shakespeare William Shakespeare

Tags: devils, earth, egypt, fantasy, helen, imagination, love, lover, lunatic, madmen
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