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Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I hear...

Jack Finney

Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I hear...

Jack Finney

Tags: escapism, escapist, modernity, nostalgia, past, present

He chuckled into my hair. My body decided this would be a fine moment to remember that his body was wrapped around mine and his body was muscular, hard, and hot, and my butt was pressed against his gr...

Ilona Andrews

He chuckled into my hair. My body decided this would be a fine moment to remember that his body was wrapped around mine and his body was muscular, hard, and hot, and my butt was pressed against his gr...

Ilona Andrews

Tags: mad rogan, nevada baylor

He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply...

Ernest Hemingway

He had only one thing to do and that was what he should think about and he must think it out clearly and take everything as it came along, and not worry. To worry was a bad as to be afraid. It simply...

Ernest Hemingway

Tags: worry

His cheek twitched. With Jeremy, this was the equivalent of an emotional outburst.

Kelley Armstrong

His cheek twitched. With Jeremy, this was the equivalent of an emotional outburst.

Kelley Armstrong

Tags: jeremy

Durante toda mi vida he entendido el amor como una especie de esclavitud consentida. Pero esto no es así: la libertad sólo existe cuando existe el amor. Quien se entrega totalmente, quien se siente li...

Paulo Coelho

Durante toda mi vida he entendido el amor como una especie de esclavitud consentida. Pero esto no es así: la libertad sólo existe cuando existe el amor. Quien se entrega totalmente, quien se siente li...

Paulo Coelho

Tags: freedom, libertad, love, once minutos

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schartle Myrer, because they were 'too subtle', combined with the fact that none of h...

Andrew Wilson

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schartle Myrer, because they were 'too subtle', combined with the fact that none of h...

Andrew Wilson

Tags: fiction, likeability, misanthropy, sold, subtle, writing

Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner, Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner, Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

David Chiles

Tags: etiquette, internet, manners, mobile, net, netiquette, online, rules for netiquette, rules of netiquette, social media

Enough, Qhuinn thought. Enough with the excuses and the avoidance, and trying to be someone else, anyone else.Even if he got shanked, even if his precious little ego and his dumbass little heart got s...

J.R. Ward

Enough, Qhuinn thought. Enough with the excuses and the avoidance, and trying to be someone else, anyone else.Even if he got shanked, even if his precious little ego and his dumbass little heart got s...

J.R. Ward

Tags: love, quinn

Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Raymond Chandler

Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Raymond Chandler

Tags: marlowe, raymond chandler

Fleetfoot just zoomed on by, a blur of gold.A moment later, when the little librarian came waddling into view and asked if they'd seen a dog, Celaena only shook her head and said that she heard somet...

Sarah J. Maas

Fleetfoot just zoomed on by, a blur of gold.A moment later, when the little librarian came waddling into view and asked if they'd seen a dog, Celaena only shook her head and said that she heard somet...

Sarah J. Maas

Tags: crown of midnight, dorian havilliard

For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will h...

J.R.R. Tolkien

For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will h...

J.R.R. Tolkien

Tags: isildur, lord of the rings, sauron, the one ring, the ring of power

Gabe slowly backed out of the kitchen, hands raised. Wow. That takes family drama to a whole new level.Hayded stared at him.And I think I'll go to my room now. Gabe said.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Gabe slowly backed out of the kitchen, hands raised. Wow. That takes family drama to a whole new level.Hayded stared at him.And I think I'll go to my room now. Gabe said.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Gone. We were out in the country and everything slowed down into rolling hills covered with snow. There were trees, but no leaves, and I could not remember seeing anything so white and clean. Winter i...

Gary Paulsen

Gone. We were out in the country and everything slowed down into rolling hills covered with snow. There were trees, but no leaves, and I could not remember seeing anything so white and clean. Winter i...

Gary Paulsen

Tags: countryside, snow, train ride, trains, winter

Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her...

Karen Russell

Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her...

Karen Russell

Tags: humor relationships, short stories

Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that...

William T. Vollmann

Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that...

William T. Vollmann

Tags: japanese, noh, theater, vollmann

Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought al...

J.K. Rowling

Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then? Ron: Write on your own book, Hermione. Hermione: You bought al...

J.K. Rowling

IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held...

Warren Ellis

IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building’s stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held...

Warren Ellis

Tags: noir, noir style, ptsd, violence

If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn or aubergine or Egyptian henna, depend...

Francesca Lia Block

If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn or aubergine or Egyptian henna, depend...

Francesca Lia Block

Tags: la, los angeles, new york, new york city, nyc

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

Euripides

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

Euripides

Tags: dissent, due process, fairness, impartiality, judgment, justice

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Neil Postman

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Neil Postman

Tags: technology, utilitarianism
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