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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 88c2321 | Has anyone ever told you you're sexy as hell when you're mathematizing? | Kresley Cole | ||
| 165fdaa | The free man never thinks of escape. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 0073572 | Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 5ff4008 | Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone) | independent-women men-and-women other-people single-women solitude the-solitary-life | Sue Grafton | |
| 2623f83 | Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. | landover magic | Terry Brooks | |
| f6c33c8 | I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the stone floor. When I was little, I used to try and capture the colored light. I thought I could hold it in my hand and carry it home. Now I know it is like happiness-- it is there or it is not, you cannot hold it or keep it. | Karen Cushman | ||
| 7fabd09 | But in a story I can steal her soul. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 10a0d4b | Even God used silence as a strategy. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| ad583bb | You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-" | ugly | Gregory Maguire | |
| e0f708f | Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument. | blind-faith disagreement discussion doctrine faith freedom-of-thought independent-thought jews judaism religion shouting | Iain Pears | |
| a62c5d6 | I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.... | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| fba1bd8 | The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash. | John Fowles | ||
| 0606d09 | He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass. | John Fowles | ||
| 27d0aec | I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you. | Judith McNaught | ||
| 3d5015a | Let me go." "I can't", he said hoarsely, (...)" I've tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can't." | Judith McNaught | ||
| 431d1ad | Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 8b1406b | I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ca08973 | I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain? | Norton Juster | ||
| 455b45a | Who runs a combination ?" Keith asked. "With the cat shelter being the primary function? Only people who want to kill you with an axe and then put you in the garden and build a shed on you, that's who." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 88364db | A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion. | exploitation philosophy | Daniel Quinn | |
| 5aace8c | Giovanni had awakened an itch, had released a gnaw in me. I realized it one afternoon, when I was taking him to work via the Boulevard Montparnasse. We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and the spectacle we presented, two grown men jostling each other on the wide sidewalk and aiming the cherry pits, as though they were spitballs, into.. | bisexuality giovanni-s-room homosexuality love lovers playfulness | James Baldwin | |
| a4cb835 | Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her..." | Willa Cather | ||
| 38142b6 | Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 84aab18 | It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| ca7298e | The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0ecd3cd | What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5de9e3a | Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e325122 | Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b72f8f1 | there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 355db12 | I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I'm going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. | Cornel West | ||
| 770e831 | I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover. | relationships | Tom Stoppard | |
| 24f7f09 | Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| a8fbbcd | Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All Artemis could do was smile and shrug." | death sacrifice | Eoin Colfer | |
| 851e9df | Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription." | Victor Hugo | ||
| 55307c3 | Love is like a tree: it shoots of itself; it strikes it's roots deeply into our whole being, and frequently continues to put forth green leaves over a heart in ruins. And there is this unaccountable circumstance attending it, that the blinder the passion the more tenacious it is. Never is it stronger than when it is most unreasonable. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 21ef9dd | In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. | hope love peace | Victor Hugo | |
| 3694228 | Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness;.. | life | Victor Hugo | |
| 5b52c57 | The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 4869e09 | I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left alone, collapses and finds nothing to her taste--one who is all for show and has no resources in herself | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 40e9277 | One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities; that a man is kind, cruel, wise, stupid, energetic, apathetic, etc. Men are not like that . . . Men are like rivers; the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself th.. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 58522a7 | I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| b0b9b67 | But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 9908a4d | What's broken is broken--and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live...I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. | fiction remember | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 31c006b | Who are the real monsters? | orion | Beth Revis |