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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Oscar Wilde

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Oscar Wilde

Tags: clothing, greeks, humor, soul, wilde

Tohr jacked forward his in his seat. What the hell!As Lassiter's big body cut through the projection onto the screen, a gigantic pair of flapping breasts covered his face and chest. Adventures in the...

J.R. Ward

Tohr jacked forward his in his seat. What the hell!As Lassiter's big body cut through the projection onto the screen, a gigantic pair of flapping breasts covered his face and chest. Adventures in the...

J.R. Ward

Tags: lassiter, tohr

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

Jacqueline Carey

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

Jacqueline Carey

Tags: jacqueline carey, kushiel s dart, love

Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to b...

Peter S Beagle

Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to b...

Peter S Beagle

Tags: animals, beautiful, born, enchanted, forest, magic, mate, nature, pool, spring

VLADIMIR: Dance, hog!

Samuel Beckett

VLADIMIR: Dance, hog!

Samuel Beckett

Tags: samuel beckett, waiting

Very well, I promise. So, what did you get for me? Angeline paused for a beat. Jeans. What? croaked Artemis. And a T-shirt ...Artemis took several breaths. Does the T-shirt have any writing on it? A r...

Eoin Colfer

Very well, I promise. So, what did you get for me? Angeline paused for a beat. Jeans. What? croaked Artemis. And a T-shirt ...Artemis took several breaths. Does the T-shirt have any writing on it? A r...

Eoin Colfer

Tags: atlantis complex, jeans, randomosity, t shirt

The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all inconstant.

George R.R. Martin

The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all inconstant.

George R.R. Martin

Tags: george r r martin, lysa tully, tansy, catelyn stark

Thank you, Caleb said, and hugged me once more. Part of me wanted to stay in Caleb's arms, because he'd always had this grounding effect on me. Caleb was my rational side. He was more than that; other...

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Thank you, Caleb said, and hugged me once more. Part of me wanted to stay in Caleb's arms, because he'd always had this grounding effect on me. Caleb was my rational side. He was more than that; other...

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Tags: caleb, underworld

That which yields is not always weak.

Jacqueline Carey

That which yields is not always weak.

Jacqueline Carey

Tags: flexibility

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

Margaret Atwood

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

Margaret Atwood

Tags: bears, environment, nature, wildlife

The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser.

Julian Barnes

The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser.

Julian Barnes

Tags: information age, internet, prescient, world wide web

There was a scuffling and a great thump: someone else had clambered out of the tunnel, overbalanced slightly and fallen. He pulled himself up on the nearest chair, looked around through lopsided horn...

J.K. Rowling

There was a scuffling and a great thump: someone else had clambered out of the tunnel, overbalanced slightly and fallen. He pulled himself up on the nearest chair, looked around through lopsided horn...

J.K. Rowling

Tags: percy weasley

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

Graham Greene

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

Graham Greene

Tags: drinking, liquor, relationships, relief

They spent the day with Lucia, who promised that the following day she would take them up to Scala, an even tinier, loftier town where her parents now lived. That evening, Mac took her to a restaurant...

Susan Wiggs

They spent the day with Lucia, who promised that the following day she would take them up to Scala, an even tinier, loftier town where her parents now lived. That evening, Mac took her to a restaurant...

Susan Wiggs

Tags: isabel and cormac, italy, restaurant, villa, zia lucia

This was why people got mated, Rehv suddenly thought. Fuck the sex and the social position. If they were smart, they did it to make a house that had no walls and an invisible roof and a floor that no...

J.R. Ward

This was why people got mated, Rehv suddenly thought. Fuck the sex and the social position. If they were smart, they did it to make a house that had no walls and an invisible roof and a floor that no...

J.R. Ward

Tags: lover avenged, rehvenge

Silence rose and crossed to the connecting door and knocked.The door was opened almost at once.Michael leaned a shoulder against the doorjamb, a wicked smile playing about his sensuous lips. He was so...

Elizabeth Hoyt

Silence rose and crossed to the connecting door and knocked.The door was opened almost at once.Michael leaned a shoulder against the doorjamb, a wicked smile playing about his sensuous lips. He was so...

Elizabeth Hoyt

Tags: mickey, scandalous desires, silence

The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The onlywork for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all:whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schooltea...

Ford Madox Ford

The exact eye: exact observation: it was a man's work. The onlywork for a man. Why then were artists soft: effeminate: not men at all:whilst the army officer, who had the inexact mind of the schooltea...

Ford Madox Ford

Tags: tietjens

The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped. And not kings only, but the wisest men...

Christopher Marlowe

The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped. And not kings only, but the wisest men...

Christopher Marlowe

Tags: alexander the great, christopher marlowe, edward ii, hephaestion, love, patroclus

The morning weighs on my shoulders with the dreadful weight of hope and I take the blue envelope which Jacques has sent me and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watchin...

James Baldwin

The morning weighs on my shoulders with the dreadful weight of hope and I take the blue envelope which Jacques has sent me and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watchin...

James Baldwin

Tags: giovanni s room, hope, james baldwin, last lines, sad, symbolism

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Robert Kurson

The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.

Robert Kurson

Tags: culture, tourism, travel
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