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The Muse

#375
February 13, 2014, 05:33:25 AM
"Here and now."

"Love on the Dark Side" Various Authors

SniperWolf316

#376
February 13, 2014, 06:14:20 AM
" He was now absolutely sure the man hadn't been drinking - it was fear ( and maybe exhaustion ) rather than booze that had made him unsteady on his feet. "


Stephen King's  "The DreamCatcher "  2001

" I won't run away anymore...  I won't go back on my word... that is my ninja way! "

Valerian

#377
April 24, 2014, 10:28:35 AM
"The quality of nothing."

~Thinking in Numbers, Daniel Tammet
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE
For the curious

Friday

#378
April 24, 2014, 10:59:02 AM
Page 56 and 57 were a photo spread, so I skipped ahead to page 58: 

"When children don't get at least a taste of folk dancing, she said, they are far less likely to be drawn to it later.

~~ Deep Community:  Adventures in the Modern Folk Underground by Scott Alarik

Lilias

#379
April 28, 2014, 08:19:19 AM
'All for one and one for all - remember?'
~Sarah Webb, Love and Other Drama-Ramas
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

Double Os <> Double As (updated Dec 4) <> The Hoard <> 50 Tales 2024 <> The Lab <> ELLUIKI

inghippo

#380
April 28, 2014, 08:22:35 AM
"Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON"

I'll not spoiler you the end but it's really    fascinating! xD
   

Cassandra LeMay

#381
April 28, 2014, 08:45:15 AM
But there were losses on the way.

(Bill Bryson - Mother Tongue)
ONs, OFFs, and writing samples | Oath of the Drake

You can not value dreams according to the odds of their becoming true.
(Sonia Sotomayor)

FroreQueen

#382
April 28, 2014, 10:20:35 PM
"Honoria pushed Blade away and dragged her frightened sister into her arms."

Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster
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Lilias

#383
May 01, 2014, 02:09:52 AM
'Then she plopped down next to Bex and said, "The munchkins annoy", which was totally not usual.'

~Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

Double Os <> Double As (updated Dec 4) <> The Hoard <> 50 Tales 2024 <> The Lab <> ELLUIKI

Seress

#384
May 01, 2014, 06:14:59 AM
"Det längre pilhuvudet i nedre vänstra hörnet visar på en svettkörtelutförsgång med nekrotiskt epitel."

-Eva Brehmer-Andersoon  Allmän patologi - en introduktion.


WillowPup

#385
May 06, 2014, 09:19:43 PM
'Like flight attendants at airports during extended delays, they must confidently assure all comers that normal service is imminent, though in truth it is no closer than the moon.'

2007: A Novel- Robyn Williams

(I have a pile of books next to me, this was the one on top :P)

Lilias

#386
May 07, 2014, 05:22:38 AM
'She said she had something to show me, some prints of the Silver-studded Blue.'

~Anne-Marie Conway, Butterfly Summer
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

Double Os <> Double As (updated Dec 4) <> The Hoard <> 50 Tales 2024 <> The Lab <> ELLUIKI

WillowPup

#387
May 07, 2014, 05:40:53 AM
(I moved to the other side of my room, and a new pile of books :P)

'And then Harry saw him.' (heh)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J.K. Rowling

Lilias

#388
May 08, 2014, 07:50:33 AM
'The people who came were sensible and well behaved and would not have dreamed of leaving paper or broken glass about, and all that the Kraken could feel as they walked about on him was a very gentle tickle which was not at all disagreeable.'

~Eva Ibbotson, Let Sleeping Sea-Monsters Lie... and Other Cautionary Tales
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

Double Os <> Double As (updated Dec 4) <> The Hoard <> 50 Tales 2024 <> The Lab <> ELLUIKI

WillowPup

#389
May 08, 2014, 08:08:34 AM
'Again the formal nod, the sustained eye contact, the sombre smile.'

Joe Cinque's Consolation- A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law by Helen Garner.

WillowPup

#390
May 09, 2014, 12:14:51 AM
'It angled in from below her cheekbone, running towards the corner of her mouth in a straight line for about five centimeters.'

Snow Pony- Alison Lester

Lilias

#391
May 09, 2014, 08:31:15 AM
'Having assured the Grand Mogul that it would suppress Avery, the English Government and the East India Company were suitably embarrassed and enraged by his spectacular predations.'

The Pirate's Pocket-Book (Stuart Robertson, ed.)
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

Double Os <> Double As (updated Dec 4) <> The Hoard <> 50 Tales 2024 <> The Lab <> ELLUIKI

Valerian

#392
May 15, 2014, 11:14:08 AM
"He was nowhere."

-Michael Connelly, The Black Box
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE
For the curious

Cassandra LeMay

#393
May 15, 2014, 12:33:32 PM
Imagine meeting people who still herd sheep, break rocks, kill other people, and even carve temples, all with no regard for profit, without an education, and while they're on the brink of starvation.

(Robert Young Pelton: The World's Most Dangerous Places)
ONs, OFFs, and writing samples | Oath of the Drake

You can not value dreams according to the odds of their becoming true.
(Sonia Sotomayor)

blue bunny sparkle

#394
May 15, 2014, 01:10:51 PM
Zeus was madly in love with her and told her that anything she asked of him he would do; he swore it by the river Styx, the oath which not even he himself could break.

Mythology - Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

Lilias

#395
May 15, 2014, 01:55:20 PM
'Emilia likes to hear that.'

~Anita Diamant, Pitching My Tent
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

Double Os <> Double As (updated Dec 4) <> The Hoard <> 50 Tales 2024 <> The Lab <> ELLUIKI

Strangefate

#396
May 16, 2014, 04:44:35 AM
"Cugel's first impression of the Galante was, on the whole, favorable."

Jack Vance, Cugel's Saga
A/A/Misc
On/Offs

"Vanitas Vanitatum!  Which of us is happy in this world?  Which of us has his desire?  or, having it, is satisfied?" - George Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Lilias

#397
May 16, 2014, 06:12:15 AM
'One hundred years later a famed poet, Henry Vaughan, replied from his home in Breconshire to an English scholar anxious for information on Druids.'

~Ronald Hutton, Blood and Mistletoe
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

Double Os <> Double As (updated Dec 4) <> The Hoard <> 50 Tales 2024 <> The Lab <> ELLUIKI

Strangefate

#398
May 16, 2014, 05:49:08 PM
Silius, on the one hand, though confident hope took away any need for encouragement, exclaimed again and again that it was a shame to the conquerors of Germany to have to be led against Gauls, as against an enemy.

Tacitus, The Annals, trans. Alfred John Church
A/A/Misc
On/Offs

"Vanitas Vanitatum!  Which of us is happy in this world?  Which of us has his desire?  or, having it, is satisfied?" - George Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Stella

#399
May 16, 2014, 09:29:08 PM
"I'm supposed to meet Prince Isolder in a few minutes and some Barabel spy wants to talk to me - "

The Courtship of Princess Leia, by Dave Wolverton

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