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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 210693c | How can you regret never having found true love? That's like saying you regret not being born a genius. People don't have control over such things. It either happens or it doesn't. It's a gift - a present that most never get. It's more like a miracle, really, when you think of it. I mean, first you have to find that person, and then you have to get to know them to realize just what they mean to you - that right there is ridiculously difficu.. | love true-love | Michael J. Sullivan | |
| e6d3d72 | Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively c.. | chaldeans clergy greeks hindu hinduism islam knowledge monopoly muslim persians priesthood priests protestant reformation romans science-vs-religion sect teutons | John Adams | |
| 085c627 | Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy"." | humour | Christopher Moore | |
| 73a7a5d | So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. "This is death toast sweety." | humor | Christopher Moore | |
| 0cdbdbc | This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma. | Lynda Barry | ||
| cf2816d | You're up to something," I said. He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. "Moi?" "Yeah, you," | jean-claude | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| aed2669 | King Edmund of East Anglia is now remembered as a saint, as one of those blessed souls who live forever in the shadow of God. Or so the priests tell me. In heaven, they say, the saints occupy a privileged place, living on the high platform of God's great hall where they spend their time singing God's praises. Forever. Just singing. Beocca always told me that it would be an ecstatic existence, but to me it seems very dull. The Danes reckon t.. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 37e312f | Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion. | Elizabeth Peters | ||
| 7506ae0 | I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| f4a58d0 | Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy. | bewildered despair energy incoherence joy madness nervous sickness sparks | Luke Davies | |
| bceeade | Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles." | harry-potter-related humor identity muggles | Michael Grant | |
| 6fc8d30 | The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 21b65b9 | The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 303ce22 | I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in the quick of my skin, heedless and real. I was dumb-muscled and angry and real. This is what I long for, the breach of peace, the days of disarray when I walked real streets and did things slap-bang and felt angry and ready all the time, a danger to others and a distant mystery to myself. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5376145 | Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of collective purpose. We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: Is it good Is it fair Is it just Is it right Will it help bring about a better socie.. | Tony Judt | ||
| f7a94ba | The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization. | Robert Anton Wilson | ||
| 16337d0 | You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. | richard-bach | Richard Bach | |
| 807f4d4 | Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions. | Richard Bach | ||
| 8265519 | She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws. | Dashiell Hammett | ||
| a420c3f | Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed." | sanabalis surviving test | Michelle Sagara West | |
| 9f73b17 | His eyes met mine at the soft touch, and a chime seemed to shake the ley line, realigning the universe. He was mine. | Kim Harrison | ||
| ee8c86c | I want to lay my kill at your feet. | love respect | Annette Curtis Klause | |
| 25fc956 | I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase Sometimes women do. | mistreated women | Gillian Flynn | |
| 818a273 | It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a073397 | Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 30b3ab6 | I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could strip clean a penny. We went to a dumb movie and I didn't worry about the offensive sexism or the lack of minorities in meaningful roles. I didn't even worry about anything that came next. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment, and I cou.. | love sociopath | Gillian Flynn | |
| 57718d2 | Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'. | alcoholic alone binging cat cats drinking empty-your-head ignorance ignoring insomnia lonely mantra murphy-s-law playing-hard-to-get self-assurance sleep sleeping stop-thinking talking-to-yourself the-mind thinking thinking-process thoughts voices-inside-your-head | Gillian Flynn | |
| 9362b1c | It sounded artificial, like a beauty pageant contestant pledging world peace. I did feel sad, but articulating it seemed cheap to me. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 6d7c666 | If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 39a91d5 | You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate. | beauty hate wishes | Alice Sebold | |
| f9d861a | But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. | Alice Sebold | ||
| b27f24d | Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 86f76dc | We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they? | Ayn Rand | ||
| d3da4dd | For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. | John Steinbeck | ||
| dfc82b0 | It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary | spirituality suicide | John Steinbeck | |
| 1274a0e | It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ad92af1 | Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? | John Steinbeck | ||
| a0074a5 | Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5e94e8a | I'm not sure this will make sense to you, but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction, so that I no longer faced backward toward the past, but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would that future be? The moment this question formed in my mind, I knew with as much certainty as I'd ever known anything that sometime during that day I would receive a sign. This was why the b.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| fed3725 | The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: | control dan-brown flesh tattoo the-lost-symbol | Dan Brown | |
| a321279 | Familiarity breeds complacency. | Rick Warren | ||
| b2551fd | But there was nothing left to do but continue | Lois Lowry | ||
| 63726f0 | When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time. | Lois Lowry | ||
| 84549d2 | Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. | journey life road | Anne Carson |