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"I really hate pain. And if I´m in pain, I don´t need a heart. "
— Yun Kouga Loveless -Volume 6

tags: humanity, inspirational, truth
1 person liked it

"Even if you lie to me...that's okay.
I'll be satisfied with as much of yourself as you can give me."
— Yun Kouga (Loveless, Volume 6)

tags: loveless
9 people liked it

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

tags: writing
476 people liked it

"... I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
101 people liked it

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: science, wonder
72 people liked it

"There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library."
— Ray Bradbury

59 people liked it

"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: writing
39 people liked it

"First find out what your hero wants. Then just follow him."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: hero
22 people liked it

"First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: inspirational
17 people liked it

"Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. "
— Ray Bradbury

15 people liked it

"I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done."
— Ray Bradbury

16 people liked it

"There are some people, you know, who are too important to ever be forgotten."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

tags: friendship, inspirational
363 people liked it

"there are terrible things in the world, and they very often have human faces"
— Clive Barker

tags: barker, clive, dread, movie
30 people liked it

"Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. "
— Clive Barker

tags: wisdom
16 people liked it

"A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself."
— Clive Barker (Imajica)

18 people liked it

"We are all books of blood...whenever we're opened, we're red."
— Clive Barker

10 people liked it

"Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is."
— Clive Barker

9 people liked it

"I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love. "
— Clive Barker

tags: abarat, days, love, magis, nights, war
5 people liked it

"Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.""
— Orson Scott Card

tags: advent, funny, humour, rising, stupid
115 people liked it

"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
— Orson Scott Card

tags: card, down, ender, ender-s, enemy, gate, is, orson, scott
64 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be. "
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

1 person liked it

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo Coelho

tags: love
553 people liked it

"If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

176 people liked it

"Good. Illegal is always faster. (Butler, Artemis Fowl's bodygaurd)"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception)

tags: crime
87 people liked it

"I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl Boxed Set)

85 people liked it

"You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you."
— Eoin Colfer

64 people liked it

"(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

58 people liked it

"You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue'"
— Eoin Colfer

61 people liked it

"What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony)

tags: barbecue, bbq, humor, signs, wolf, wolves
32 people liked it

"D'Arvit!"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl 1-3.)

38 people liked it

"Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist and that I am not a gibbering moron."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl El Mundo Subterraneo / Artemis Fowl)

tags: existence, fairy, moron
27 people liked it

"Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

tags: humor
26 people liked it

"That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had bitten him savegly on the wrist."
— Eoin Colfer (The Wish List)

6 people liked it

"No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order ? la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

tags: artemis, code, colfer, eoin, eternity, fowl
16 people liked it

"We're being lead with an
Idiot with a crayon."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

tags: humor
15 people liked it

"For you, a thousand times over"
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

235 people liked it

"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."
— Khaled Hosseini

132 people liked it

"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

tags: forgiveness
87 people liked it

"There is a way to be good again..."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

65 people liked it

"It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir"
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

23 people liked it

"One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

tags: p-296, sohrab
19 people liked it

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