Slashdot Effect Quotes

#1. The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are drive to find ways to sabotage it.

Nathaniel Branden

#2. His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

Angela Carter

#3. The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.

Amy Hempel

#4. I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments.

Kevin Hearne

#5. Maybe I could be a ninja assassin too, Jack thought.

Jane Seville

#6. I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

Melanie Fiona

#7. People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Ian Watson

#8. It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

Arundhati Roy

#9. If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.

Carl Sandburg

#10. That's the way with 'em all: it's as if they thought the world 'ud be new-made because they're to be married.

George Eliot

#11. I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

Jenna Bush

#12. I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?

Velcrow Ripper

#13. God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

Fulton J. Sheen

#14. I hesitated on getting my backup gun and putting it in my purse, but didn't. My purse, like all purses, seems to have a travelling black hole in it. I'd never get the gun out in time if I really needed it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#15. But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

Patricia Briggs