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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9358e82 | I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again. | Beth Revis | ||
| df37201 | Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about. | inspirational | David Eddings | |
| 19c9776 | Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 2c17bfc | It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies? | John le Carré | ||
| 0472142 | It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think that something good can come of any of this. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 676749f | And I'm not too great at that sort of comforting thing, especially when my hands are cold and the bed is warm. I carried him softly through the broken street, with one salty eye and a heavy, deathly heart. With him I tried a little harder. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water chasing a book, and I saw.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 5337f60 | When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. | George Eliot | ||
| 7061203 | People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. | neighbors | George Eliot | |
| 59eb74f | Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite, and stuffed them into a case, often of the most incongruous, for the poet has a butcher's face and the butcher a poet's; nature, who delights in muddle and mystery, so that even now (the first of November, 1927) we know not why we go upstairs, or why we come down again, our most daily movements are like the passage of a .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 3147f72 | Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| c010ab2 | What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave..." | David Gemmell | ||
| 91642e5 | Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f0c86c8 | ndm ymnHk llh lHy@ , mn wjbk (wmn Hqk kky'n bshry) 'n tjd shyy'an jmylan fyh , mhm kn Dy'ylan | god life novel | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 83d7268 | I wonder if I am capable of being somebody's sun, somebody's everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else's life? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| c261230 | Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 2984bd7 | Basically, your fear is like a mall cop who thinks he's a Navy SEAL: He hasn't slept in days, he's all hopped up on Red Bull, and he's liable to shoot at his own shadow in an absurd effort to keep everyone "safe." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| abcfdf7 | My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher." | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 41a7671 | What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it? | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| bb7a82f | a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. | inspirational love relatioships | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 4b3dc71 | Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. One must have boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time - everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 8816958 | all success cloaks a surrender | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| cbdae53 | There are choices," she thought, when she had sat long enough. "There are always choices." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| e7ff368 | If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b741b13 | You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand. | sandman | Neil Gaiman | |
| b0179b0 | I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony. | immaturity marriage | Neil Gaiman | |
| 41d979a | Without our stories we are incomplete. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| f1b951c | You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| 7ba277d | Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. | Robert Greene | ||
| f0091eb | Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality. | present-minded | Robert Greene | |
| 72bb4f3 | Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware. | Robert Greene | ||
| aa919f1 | There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favors and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive. | Robert Greene | ||
| c34099b | Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| cd4c555 | Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination. | life | Jess Walter | |
| 22acd81 | My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all the knowledge the book presupposed. I was very far indeed from imagining that often the author did not possess it himself, but had extracted it from other books, as and when he needed it. This foolish conviction forced me to stop every moment, and to rush incessantly from one book to another; sometimes before coming to the tenth pag.. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| f388450 | If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae." -- | rayleigh sky | Philip C. Plait | |
| 1406a75 | He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness. | Emily Giffin | ||
| c021b32 | Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now. | endings goodbyes growing-up relationships understanding | Emily Giffin | |
| 7ef7ff4 | I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors. | relationships | Emily Giffin | |
| 07628cd | Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so? | foolishness futility humanity intelligence knowledge learning mankind stupidity wisdom | H. Rider Haggard | |
| ec50dc4 | Without contraries there is no progression. | William Blake | ||
| 1ce7160 | Opposition is true Friendship. | William Blake | ||
| b803b77 | Quant a moi, maintenant, j'ai ferme mon ame. Je ne dis plus a personne ce que je crois, ce que je pense et ce que j'aime. Me sachant condamne a l'horrible solitude, je regarde les choses, sans jamais emettre mon avis. Que m'importent les opinions, les querelles, les plaisirs, les croyances ! Ne pouvant rien partager avec personne, je me suis desinteresse de tout. Ma pensee, invisible, demeure inexploree. J'ai des phrases banales pour repond.. | Guy de Maupassant | ||
| ceefcae | Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander. Father. | fathers-and-daughters love trust | Gail Carson Levine | |
| 307575a | There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time. | Ann-Marie MacDonald |