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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ca819c7 | If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality! | reality | Haruki Murakami | |
| 10d20b4 | Life: I'll never understand it. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4164c72 | Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b7c39a2 | It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7a54892 | I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 75b9b70 | We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a27b81f | Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said." | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ba057ba | I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off. | loneliness love | Haruki Murakami | |
| d284c6e | Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 86e9d9b | This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of England's prettiest counties . . . I had read at least twenty of the [fairy tales] when I noticed something that had never struck me before--I suppose because I had always taken it for granted. All the princesses, apart from such rare exceptions as Snow White, were blond, blue-eyed, and beautiful, with lovely figures and complexions and extravag.. | M. M. Kaye | ||
| 9b6976a | for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world. | M.M. Kaye | ||
| af39fc5 | Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. | Woody Allen | ||
| 190b315 | Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special. | Woody Allen | ||
| 8e4191d | Things change so quickly. Just when you get used to something, zap! It changes. Just when you begin to understand someone, zap! They grow up. The same is happening with Katie. She changes every day; her face just becomes so much more grown-up every time I look at her. Sometimes I have to stop pretending I'm interested in what she's saying in order to realize that I actually am interested. We go shopping for clothes together and I take her a.. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 7390be6 | Life is hard, so what? | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| a9121f1 | Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8ff2cf0 | Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| a3d7329 | Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 3c48d6a | Two thousand years ago the night sky looked completely different, and so when you get right down to it, the Greek conceptions of star signs as related to birth dates are grossly inaccurate for today's day and age. It's called the Line of Procession: back then the sun didn't set in Taurus, but in Gemini. A September 24 birthday didn't mean you were a Libra, but a Virgo. And there was a thirteenth zodiac constellation, Ophiuchus the Serpent B.. | constellations | Jodi Picoult | |
| f2daae7 | You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0a79369 | Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 83e8ae1 | It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 4e8365f | I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?) | language | Jodi Picoult | |
| fd6014e | One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful .. | Charles Frazier | ||
| feb1486 | Life can get fucked up fast when you try to be a pleaser. Because people won't ever be pleased, not even if you drop them ass-first into paradise. They like bitching too much. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 2449e83 | There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 64a147b | How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity tha.. | john-grey sapphire swallowed | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 9a36f7e | In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not. | William Faulkner | ||
| a25da2b | Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. | town | Wallace Stegner | |
| 52cded1 | Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:--and now I like ye better!" | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 8cbbfed | The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 616e779 | A lot of cheap seats in the arena are filled with people who never venture onto the floor. They just hurl mean-spirited criticisms and put-downs from a safe distance. The problem is, when we stop caring what people think and stop feeling hurt by cruelty, we lose our ability to connect. But when we're defined by what people think, we lose the courage to be vulnerable. Therefore, we need to be selective about the feedback we let into our live.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 5d4eb32 | Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 2d17fda | Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 4404529 | Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible. | dignity humanity love-and-respect-for-all vulnerability | Howard Zinn | |
| fe83870 | It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!" -- | attacking defense fighting offense tactics | Tamora Pierce | |
| c901561 | What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! | Michael Pollan | ||
| 2271cc9 | She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2f1a853 | There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divulge them perhaps only to himself, and that, too, as a secret. But, finally, there are things which he is afraid to divulge even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of such things in his mind. I can put it even this way: th.. | secrets | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| c844fb1 | Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful. | beauty decadence falling humiliation | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 13c6ecf | Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it? | understanding | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 928aad2 | Anyone can become angry --that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way --this is not easy. ARISTOTLE, The Nicomachean Ethics | Daniel Goleman | ||
| 58251b1 | Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time. | discipline growth-process | John C. Maxwell | |
| 01c5670 | Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all. | Christopher Hitchens |