May 2011
15 posts
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; and when you can no...”
– Khalil Gibran, The Prophet (via welovewriters)
This made my morning.
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At a conference, Stephanie Meyer said: “The God...
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February 2011
18 posts
3 tags
“Ook,” said the Librarian.*
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*Who was an orangutan, changed from his...”
– Terry Pratchett, Night Watch, p. 42 (trade paperback edition)
5 tags
“People don’t ~live~ on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts...”
– Terry Pratchett’s The Last Continent
“Sometimes I wonder if the stories you tell begin to tug at your life, begin to...”
– Shadow Spinner-Susan Fletcher (via kizamon)
3 tags
“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen...”
– Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer: A Novel
“What was the point of fiction if not to edit one’s reality? If not to rewrite...”
– Anita Shreve - A Wedding in December (via readingandwritingjunkie)
“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire...”
– Thomas Babington Macaulay (via bookoasis)
January 2011
9 posts
5 tags
“It had all sounded straightforward in Ankh-Morpork, he thought. We were going to...”
– Terry Pratchett’s Jingo
3 tags
“He was leading the donkey, which seemed to like him. Animals tended to like...”
– Terry Pratchett’s Jingo
“The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer....”
– Carson McCullers ~ from The Mortgaged Heart (Houghton, 1971, 2005)
3 tags
“Reg leaned closer. “These foreigners are a bit weird,” he said....”
– Terry Pratchett’s Jingo
3 tags
“Yeah, all right, but that ain’t much of a battle cry, is it? ‘For...”
– Terry Pratchett’s Jingo
September 2010
3 posts
2 tags
“He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an...”
– Terry Pratchett’s Moving Pictures
3 tags
“It was still midnight. A full moon glided above the smoke and fumes of...”
– Terry Pratchett’s Moving Pictures
2 tags
“It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any...”
– Terry Pratchett’s Moving Pictures
August 2010
31 posts
“All attractions are alike,” he said. “They come from an emptiness inside....”
– “The Blindfold” by Siri Hustvedt (via whatkindofgirl)
“Here’s a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.”
– Tallulah Bankhead
“Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey....”
– Jean Baudrillard