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  • #1
    Stacia Kane
    “Always want you, Chessiebomb. Always.”
    Stacia Kane, Sacrificial Magic

  • #2
    Stacia Kane
    “Seeing him was like being hit in the chest. Like something exploding inside her, a quick ravenous fire that made her shiver. So bright and hot it still amazed her that no one else seemed to notice it, that every eye in the place didn't turn to her while she went incandescent.”
    Stacia Kane

  • #3
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

  • #4
    Jamie McGuire
    “To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
    Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

  • #5
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #6
    Jo Brand
    “The big bad monster wasn't green and hiding under the bed, it wore tasteless floral prints, bright scarlet lipstick and sat in the kitchen smoking and saying 'bollocks' alot.”
    Jo Brand
    tags: humour

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #11
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

  • #12
    Andrew Shaffer
    “I like my tea like I like my men,” I say. With the last name “Grey.” But I realize that’s too forward, so I add, “Black.”

    He raises an eyebrow.

    “I mean, not that I exclusively like black men,” I say, trying to recover. “I like other kinds of tea. And men.”

    “Have you ever tasted...white tea, Anna?”
    Andrew Shaffer, Fifty-one Shades: A Parody

  • #13
    Beverley Nichols
    “Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”
    Beverley Nichols, Cats' A-Z
    tags: cats

  • #14
    Beverley Nichols
    “Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?”
    Beverley Nichols, Garden Open Tomorrow

  • #15
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    Logan Pearsall Smith

  • #16
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

  • #22
    Karen Marie Moning
    “He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
    I do.
    Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”
    Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

  • #23
    Karen Marie Moning
    “The moment I laid eyes on you, I knew you were trouble."
    "Ditto."
    "I wanted to drag you between the shelves, fuck you senseless, and send you home."
    "If you'd done that, I never would have left."
    "You're still here anyway."
    "You don't have to sound so sour about it."
    "You're upsetting my entire existence."
    "Fine, I'll leave."
    "Try and I'll chain you up.”
    Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

  • #24
    Karen Marie Moning
    “One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.”
    Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

  • #25
    Karen Marie Moning
    “I don't have any idea what to wear anymore, so I tried to cover all bases."
    "Try skin."
    "Little chilly for that."
    We looked at each other across the coffee table.
    His eyes didn't say, I'd heat you up, and mine didn't say What are you waiting for? He didn't reply, Fuck if I'm making the first move, so I was careful not to say, I wish you would, because I can't, because I'm... and he didn't snap ...choking on your pride?!
    "As if you aren't."
    "Excuse me?"
    "Really Barrons," I said drily. "I'm not the only one who didn't just not have that conversation, and you know it."
    There was the faint, sexy lift of his lip. "You're a piece of work, Ms. Lane."
    "Right back at you.”
    Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
    tags: jzb, mac

  • #26
    Karen Marie Moning
    “Love knows no right or wrong.
    Love is. Only is.”
    Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

  • #27
    Karen Marie Moning
    “I didn’t ask. Some things are better left unsaid.
    He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him.
    Never will.
    He lives.
    I breathe.
    I want. Him. Always.
    Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.
    Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, I’d know joy.”
    Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

  • #28
    Stacia Kane
    “Got some knowledge for you."

    "Oh? What's that?"

    His lips touched her forehead. "Don't give a f*ck what else I got. Ain't never sharin you.”
    Stacia Kane, Home

  • #29
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #30
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring



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