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| f7a34d1 | I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful, too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable. How much easier it is to work in the morning if we know we have a nap to look forward to after lunch; and how much more pleasant the late afternoon and evening become after a little sleep. If you know there is a nap to come later in the day, .. | Tom Hodgkinson | ||
| 7eb03d0 | The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| de0d4a1 | Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 8152950 | A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, an.. | learning the-chronicles-of-prydain wisdom | Lloyd Alexander | |
| d4d091f | I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive. You can close your eyes and there will be a light snow falling in New York, and seconds later you are sunning upon a rock i.. | Colum McCann | ||
| e2357a1 | Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. | god heaven light | Colum McCann | |
| 27b012f | To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race. | ethics racism | Peter Singer | |
| 3c4454b | There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go... | travelers wanderlust | Danielle Steel | |
| 3e535f0 | Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me. | relationship | Danielle Steel | |
| eeba637 | The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are | John Perkins | ||
| 0a587d7 | You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the world, nothing makes any difference. A young cunt is an investment; an old cunt is a dead loss. All they can do for you is buy you things. But that doesn't put meat on their arms or juice between their legs. | cunts females women | Henry Miller | |
| 9dca82b | Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve. | Henry Miller | ||
| 7483803 | There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. | Henry Miller | ||
| 07db567 | Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable. | Erich Fromm | ||
| f61bec2 | Tell the angels no, I don't wanna leave my baby alone I don't want nobody else to hold you That's a chance I'll take Baby I'll stay, Heaven can wait No, if the angels took me from this earth I would tell them bring me back to her | Michael Jackson | ||
| 02b2f80 | Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers. | marshes monotony | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 645d57d | Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy. | fear isolation mathmaticians monogamy ordeals | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 79958dd | Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government. | government politics | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 235640f | If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody." Of course, Raphael might like that..." | curran hyenas ilona-andrews kate kate-daniels magic-burns raphael soup | Ilona Andrews | |
| 5d7dd1e | He kissed me, and I pulled my personal psycho into bed with me. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 0944407 | The lion has to stay outside" "He won't like it" The lion shook his mane. I looked at Curran. The lion melted. Skin stretched, bones twisted, and human Curran straightened. He was completely nude. Gloriously nude. "Well," Hrefna said. "I always wondered why you went all shapeshifter. Explain things." -- | sexy-men | Ilona Andrews | |
| 04b16bd | She swept away, putting an extra kink into her walk. I would not have thought that a woman with an ass that bony could make it wiggle so much but she proved me wrong. | humor kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 2de1980 | As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter. | Jen Lancaster | ||
| 2136805 | And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me. | Karen Hesse | ||
| 5ce1f1c | Hunter pulled away, rolling her eyes. "Hey, where are you going?" I murmured. "We're not done making up." "We're in crisis mode out there," she answered, reluctantly taking another step back. "It's always crisis mode in this house," I said with disgust." "Chapter 24" | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| b16de99 | Chloe nodded meekly. I'd never seen her so demure. "What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside. "She's royalty!" "And a vampire, remember?" "Oh yeah." Chloe paused. "Nope, princess trumps vampire." "Does not." "So does." | hunter | Alyxandra Harvey | |
| 39b1b68 | Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren't there, thank God. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 9532f43 | Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown! | morganville-vampires the-dead-girls-dance | Rachel Caine | |
| 51e5278 | I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine. | consequences decisions responsibility the-dead-girls-dance | Rachel Caine | |
| 2b37959 | May I bring you a drink to go with those warm nuts, Mr. Sedaris?" this woman looking after me asked - this as the people in coach were still boarding. The looks they gave me as they passed were the looks I give when the door of a limousine opens. You always expect to see a movie star, or, at the very least, some better dressed than you, but time and time again it's just a sloppy nobody. Thus the look, which translates to, Fuck you, Sloppy N.. | David Sedaris | ||
| f609f55 | I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods - they'd caught it somewhere and they must have put that cat through a dozen rounds of burn experiments before they finally determined that it was utterly useless to them. Like an empty beer can. And then you know what they did to it? Claudius was late for a lunch date so rather thanput the destroyed but still breathing animal to sleep, .. | animal-rights animal-testing science vegan vegetarianism vivisection | Michael Tobias | |
| 2aa282b | A beautiful day might bring disaster, while a day that begins trapped inside an ancient toom, might be the best one of your life. If you don't abandon hope on pleasent days, why do so on those that begin poorly? | Michael J. Sullivan | ||
| 3c30933 | Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes? | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| c280221 | You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give. | William Saroyan | ||
| 14326d4 | I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on. | humor | Christopher Moore | |
| a57d82e | Ten Best Song to Strip 1. Any hip-swiveling R&B fuckjam. This category includes The Greatest Stripping Song of All Time: "Remix to Ignition" by R. Kelly. 2. "Purple Rain" by Prince, but you have to be really theatrical about it. Arch your back like Prince himself is daubing body glitter on your abdomen. Most effective in nearly empty, pathos-ridden juice bars. 3. "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones. Insta-attitude. Makes even the clums.. | Diablo Cody | ||
| 3f2bd41 | Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off. | relationships | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 3084a60 | Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 287f090 | My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again. | Sam Harris | ||
| 2f67d29 | all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened. | José Saramago | ||
| e341946 | the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily. | egoism egotism self-centeredness self-preservation | José Saramago | |
| 224e690 | Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice. | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 03b98f9 | You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue! | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| caddd2d | You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know." | Mohsin Hamid |