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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b25b6ad | Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's after image imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscure of dreams. Though their bodies would heal, their souls had sustained a damage beyond compensation | rape violence | Pat Conroy | |
| cc5809a | Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 7af3f43 | One thing," I said, when we had broken apart and the swirling feeling in my head subsided. "Maybe...don't tell your mom too much about this. I think she has ideas." "What?" he asked, all innocence, as he put an arm around my shoulders and led me back toward his house. "Don't your parents cheer and stare when you make out with someone? Is that weird where you come from? I guess they don't get to see it much, though. From jail, I mean." "Sh.. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 3e07698 | Idea meets execution. Feeling becomes action. I don't know why people find this idea so hard to get. I mean, you can throw any two people together, it doesn't mean they'll fall in love. Everyone knows this. No one quite understands how it works. It's just those people, where they are in their lives, how circumstance throws them together. Sure, it's happened before, but never quite in that way. Maybe they seem to come together all wrong. Ma.. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| cda8dcc | It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 53ec252 | To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. | James Baldwin | ||
| ecb7793 | I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God. | Roméo Dallaire | ||
| 72aae43 | The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again. | Willa Cather | ||
| 9fd2444 | If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry | Willa Cather | ||
| dda68f1 | Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil. | heroes humanity love psychology robert-cormier sin | Robert Cormier | |
| 50d8024 | She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms. | l-m-montgomery solitude | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0ccecea | She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. | loneliness | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 3f4bcda | Desire grows by what it feeds on. | wishes | L.M. Montgomery | |
| c2d3322 | It's about Diana,' sobbed Anne luxuriously. 'I love Diana so, Marilla. I cannot ever live without her. But I know very well when we grow up that Diana will get married and go away and leave me. And oh, what shall I do? I hate her husband -- I just hate him furiously. I've been imagining it all out -- the wedding and everything -- Diana dressed in snowy white garments, and a veil, and looking as beautiful and regal as a queen; and me the bri.. | l-m-montgomery | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 9135530 | Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth | worth writing | L.M. Montgomery | |
| cd79b47 | Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively. | Bell Hooks | ||
| b025db3 | Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)" | race-relations | Cornel West | |
| 49afb1a | I've found that life is a series of crossroads, dead-ends and U-turns. There is no real destination. There is no goal to end all goals. As long as we're living, we'll always keep driving. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 56e1482 | He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 204978b | That's all it took to solve problems - just sense. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 6461962 | I throw my makeshift , my prayer rug, on the floor and I get on my knees, lower my forehead to the ground, my tears soaking through the sheet. I bow to the west. Then I remember I haven't prayed for over fifteen years. I have long forgotten the words. But it doesn't matter, I will utter those few words I still remember: . There's no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger. I see now that Baba was wrong, there's a God, there always ha.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| cee620b | Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed. | inspirational | Khaled Hosseini | |
| c506b88 | Rahim Khan laughed. "Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 5829cbd | But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn't want it that way. 'What's the sense?' she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. 'What good is it, Laila jo?' And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq's, for her children's. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Becaus.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e7a6859 | Don't go fighting against the Spring. | E.M. Forster | ||
| ea025aa | Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 400eeba | Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 988861b | But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota. | Sarah Vowell | ||
| 40842b5 | l shy mjny fy hdh l`lm, fmqbl hdhh ltfht stdf` thmnan Glyan jdan. | Isabel Allende | ||
| aaf417a | Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change | change changes death death-and-dying fear fear-of-death fear-of-unknown reality | Isabel Allende | |
| 2d4ac7f | We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ba001c2 | Eat, you'll feel better." - Remus Lupin" | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 36e0c39 | Did you kiss?" asked Hermione briskly. Ron sat up so fast that he sent his ink bottle flying all over the rug. Disregarding this completely he stared avidly at Harry. "Well?" he demanded. Harry looked from Ron's expression of mingled curiosity and hilarity to Hermione's slight frown, and nodded. "HA!" Ron made a triumphant gesture with his fist an went into a raucous peal of laughter that made several timid-looking second years over beside .. | hermione-granger kiss ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 0bb4977 | Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9ab4dca | I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 9023e56 | Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl. | dumbledore fang horcrux misery | J.K. Rowling | |
| f080364 | Where are you heading, if you've got the choice?" James lifted an invisible sword. "'Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!' Like my dad." Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. "Got a problem with that?" "No," said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. "If you'd rather be brawny than brainy --" "Where're you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?" interjected Sirius." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cb4cbb9 | Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| ba7c864 | But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 40a42e5 | If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go. | go let-it-go love nicholas-sparks stay two-by-two | Nicholas Sparks | |
| aee9fea | As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'" Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. "did Confucius really say that?" Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. "No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that?" | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| c1d744b | Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant...everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that. | dawson-cole the-best-of-me | Nicholas Sparks | |
| 9c28cd6 | Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you." | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 028005c | It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me. | teach time | Nicholas Sparks |