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Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
Don’t be jealous, baby. We’ll get to you in a jiffy. (Daimon) Jiffy? What kind of pathetic wuss uses the word ‘jiffy’? (Xypher)
You got guts taking that tone with me. (Nykyrian) What you gonna do, oh great wounded one? I’m the one with the injector. (Syn)
Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn’t…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)
No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]
How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren)
Was it like this? (Jesse) (Jesse made an inhuman ghost noise.) That sounds like Darth Vader choking on a chicken bone. (Gloria)
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s not a plethora of engineers here. (Devyn) Plethora? What kind of girl word is that? (Sway)
Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn) I know not, Taryn, since I don’t make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)
What are you doing here, Simi? (Astrid) Feeling peckish. Is there any food? Something not too heavy. Maybe a cow or two? (Simi)
Don’t worry, Chris. The day that Sony PlayStation attacks the world and threatens to destroy it, we’ll give you a call. (Katra)
I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.
There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.
My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.
The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."
I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.
We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.
When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!
I know. I was hoping," I say. "Exactly. Because you're desperate," says Haymitch. I don't argue because, of course, he's right.
Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.
Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.
My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness
For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.
Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.
This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)
If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.
Never take your makeup off before bed. Sleep in it. That way, you're all ready to go if a hot postman rings the doorbell early.
We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.