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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 51ef357 | Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders. | milan-kundera | Milan Kundera | |
| c6fcd2a | There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. | Theodore Roosevelt | ||
| a31e6e0 | My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 454da8a | He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn't able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone. | sad void | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7771c16 | Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only. | clarity colours prose rain spirit | Haruki Murakami | |
| 57fbcfc | Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4ffc06a | Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4172409 | He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 1a8ae29 | I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| e6f2cf8 | My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. | you-re-not-the-boss-of-me | Walker Percy | |
| 94ff120 | Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself. | Walker Percy | ||
| b1fb6a1 | Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7d18f7d | Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward. | Chris Gardner | ||
| fc18990 | I want to live," he said, "So I have to die." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e3259b1 | I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth. | learning-the-truth | Jodi Picoult | |
| 063fe9a | A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. | god marriage | Jodi Picoult | |
| 4bf0d19 | We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never .. | parenting | Jodi Picoult | |
| f1aab35 | I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us." | happy love | Jodi Picoult | |
| 011686b | Sometimes,' he whispered at last, 'sometimes, I dream I am singing, and I wake from it with my throat aching.' He couldn't see her face, or the tears that prickled at the corners of her eyes. 'What do you sing?' she whispered back. She heard the shush of the linen pillow as he shook his head. 'No song I've ever heard, or know,' he said softly. 'But I know I'm singing it for you. | singing | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 317b9d7 | What's that you're doing, Sassenach?" "Making out little Gizmo's birth certificate--so far as I can," I added. "Gizmo?" he said doubtfully. "That will be a saint's name?" "I shouldn't think so, though you never know, what with people named Pantaleon and Onuphrius. Or Ferreolus." "Ferreolus? I dinna think I ken that one." He leaned back, hands linked over his knee. "One of my favorites," I told him, carefully filling in the birthdate and tim.. | humor jamie-fraser outlander saints | Diana Gabaldon | |
| a4c61d0 | It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with .. | William Faulkner | ||
| fabda18 | People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep. | James Joyce | ||
| 26854fc | Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 41f3098 | There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards. | Roald Dahl | ||
| d23396c | There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. | inspiration | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| f6810cb | Minds were made for blowing. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3f88f14 | Reality whistles a different tune underwater. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a234fed | February is pitiless, and it is boring. That parade of red numerals on its page adds up to zero: birthdays of politicians, a holiday reserved for rodents, what kind of celebrations are those? The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine's Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine's Day on February's shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ed85e70 | It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2e2857b | Sometimes the most dangerous thing for kids is the silence that allows them to construct their own stories--stories that almost always cast them as alone and unworthy of love and belonging. | Brené Brown | ||
| e95aff0 | TEN GUIDEPOSTS FOR WHOLEHEARTED LIVING 1. Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think 2. Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism 3. Cultivating a resilient spirit: letting go of numbing and powerlessness 4. Cultivating gratitude and joy: letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark 5. Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty 6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparis.. | Brené Brown | ||
| df80067 | It's always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun. | Brené Brown | ||
| 0652e1b | Of all the things trauma takes away from us, the worst is our willingness, or even our ability, to be vulnerable. There's a reclaiming that has to happen. | Brené Brown | ||
| 6368581 | A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6ef8bc7 | Now - here is my secret: | Douglas Coupland | ||
| add1b5c | The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a .. | united-states | Howard Zinn | |
| 5e28c69 | Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. | Howard Zinn | ||
| e6be9c9 | Thank you, Rukia... Because of you, the rain has stopped falling. | Tite Kubo | ||
| e86e852 | The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| cb0c3bd | There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| b8e0f4d | Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No -- if she bit him, he'd die." | briar evvy jebilu-stoneslicer rosethorn | Tamora Pierce | |
| 24efb3e | Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened." | niko | Tamora Pierce | |
| 99b4885 | Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance." | falling fighting humor | Tamora Pierce | |
| e0e2ba6 | You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching. | Tamora Pierce |