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She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

Neil Gaiman

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

Neil Gaiman

Tags: beauty, child, child s mind, grown up, grown ups, imperative, ursula monkton

She had a lot of nerve signing her note Love. [...] But she sign it that way: Love. What did that mean? Did she mean it, or was it habit? She probably signed all of her letters with Love. Maybe not.

Christopher Moore

She had a lot of nerve signing her note Love. [...] But she sign it that way: Love. What did that mean? Did she mean it, or was it habit? She probably signed all of her letters with Love. Maybe not.

Christopher Moore

Tags: christopher moore

Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had a...

Christopher Hitchens

Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had a...

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: autobiography, carol blue, edward said, georgetown washington, heterosexuality, manhattan, masculinity, museum of modern art, pipes, purses

Orion brightened. I have an idea.Yes? said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained.Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could sea...

Eoin Colfer

Orion brightened. I have an idea.Yes? said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained.Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could sea...

Eoin Colfer

Tags: atlantis, birthmarks, complex, foaly, humor, orion

Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a, she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

Christopher Moore

Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a, she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

Christopher Moore

Tags: fluke

One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.

Cassandra Clare

One minute you're munching on a faerie plum the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,' he added hastily, 'that this has ever happened to me.

Cassandra Clare

Tags: jace herondale, jace lightwood, jace wayland

Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the wor...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the wor...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tags: capital punishment, consumption, cruel and unusual punishment, death sentence, hippolyte, tuberculosis

Must be nice, I said, caressing the stick as if it might be my buddy and help me win. Money makes life all kinds of nice. Oh, and the way you’re fondling the stick is making me super horny here. I als...

Bijou Hunter

Must be nice, I said, caressing the stick as if it might be my buddy and help me win. Money makes life all kinds of nice. Oh, and the way you’re fondling the stick is making me super horny here. I als...

Bijou Hunter

Tags: cooper and farah

Mr. Rohan, she heard Beatrix ask, are you going to marry my sister? Amelia choked on her tea and set the cup down. She sputtered and coughed into her napkin. Hush, Beatrix, Win murmured. But she’s wea...

Lisa Kleypas

Mr. Rohan, she heard Beatrix ask, are you going to marry my sister? Amelia choked on her tea and set the cup down. She sputtered and coughed into her napkin. Hush, Beatrix, Win murmured. But she’s wea...

Lisa Kleypas

Tags: beatrix, cam, cant brawl in front of ladies, merripen, poppy, st vincent, win

Marcela: Hízome el cielo, según vosotros decís, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me améis os mueve mi hermosura, y por el amor que me mostráis, decís, y aun queréis,...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Marcela: Hízome el cielo, según vosotros decís, hermosa, y de tal manera, que, sin ser poderosos a otra cosa, a que me améis os mueve mi hermosura, y por el amor que me mostráis, decís, y aun queréis,...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Tags: belleza, cervantes, hermosura, libertad, mujer, quijote, spanish, women

Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within...

Victor Hugo

Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within...

Victor Hugo

Tags: les mis, les miserables, by the bishop in les mis, religion christianity, victor hugo

Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old bo...

Stephen King

Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old bo...

Stephen King

Tags: bookstore, bookstores

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

Lois Lowry

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

Lois Lowry

Tags: difficulty, dreadful, experiences, fear, helpless, hopeless, trouble

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

John Green

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

John Green

Tags: euphemism, hurt

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

Alice Walker

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

Alice Walker

Tags: abuse survivor, change, comfort, defence, dehumanisation, persona, tree, wood

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

Charles Simic

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

Charles Simic

Tags: deconstruction, language, poetry

I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the lo...

John Steinbeck

I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the lo...

John Steinbeck

Tags: east vs west, integrity, lee atwater, man, narcissism, narcissism epidemic, occupy wall street, salvation, salvation from jesus, salvation in death

I love you, he whispered as he thrust again. And again. Each movement controlled. Each small movement devastating in its effect. I love you.She lost all concept of time. She lost her place and surroun...

Elizabeth Hoyt

I love you, he whispered as he thrust again. And again. Each movement controlled. Each small movement devastating in its effect. I love you.She lost all concept of time. She lost her place and surroun...

Elizabeth Hoyt

Tags: isabel, thief of shadows, winter

I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticip...

Elizabeth Gilbert

I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticip...

Elizabeth Gilbert

Tags: eat pray love, elizabeth gilbert, life

How did you find me? he said, anger creasing his brow.I pushed his hair back to run a finger over the scar Al had given him. How do you think? He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awak...

Kim Harrison

How did you find me? he said, anger creasing his brow.I pushed his hair back to run a finger over the scar Al had given him. How do you think? He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awak...

Kim Harrison

Tags: be good, nick, rachel
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