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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5e7de1b | These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs. | feminism inspirational | Margaret Cho | |
| ccb10c6 | Don't be so hard on yourself, You're doing the same thing, trying to reconcile all the moms that Mom ever was - The one you wanted, the one she was when you needed her and she was there, the one she was when she didn't understand. Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. When someone dies, they all integrate into the soul - the essence of who we are, beyond the different .. | love-h mother soul | Christopher Moore | |
| 5b22661 | What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?" | fool | Christopher Moore | |
| ac09932 | The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all. | babies confidence cool dance dancing demons grandma groove growing-up lynda-barry one-hundred-demons self-love stupid | Lynda Barry | |
| b31393b | A leader leads," Ragnar said, "and you can't ask men to risk death if you're not willing to risk it yourself." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 5c98b93 | I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| a19f321 | Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| e8c1d9b | I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| ebeb5fe | Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 4e72c13 | How could you love someone and not want them to be happy? | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 7951454 | We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible. | Sam Harris | ||
| d0ec2c7 | Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him or herself in us, 'Who's that looking at me so sadly,' he or she would say. | self | José Saramago | |
| 8656420 | The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| e0421c3 | It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 341beae | It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back! | rebellion terrorism | Cory Doctorow | |
| 12b7d7d | Why, you are a man of heart!" "Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time." | relationships time | Jules Verne | |
| 56e2b65 | People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 5c76a70 | Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 2bccc55 | Good God, Rachel, cant you go five minutes... sweet sticky hell on a stick!' the demon exclaimed, his thoughts reeling from anger to concern as he realized I was hopped up on something. | kim harrison | ||
| 9572258 | Five trolls in a dra-a-a-a-ag,' the four-inch man sang from my shoulder. 'Four purple condoms, three French ticklers, two horny vamps and a succubus in the snow. | rachel-morgan | Kim Harrison | |
| 03f11f0 | She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much." "Then stop playing it." | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5e6c128 | Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 36f2192 | And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 8ad7580 | It's good.' She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It's good or it's bad. I liked it or I didn't. No discussions of the writing, the themes, the nuances, the structure. Just good or bad. Like a hot dog. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a5da4a4 | I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say. If we want to play the stud or the smart-ass or the fool, we know the words to say. We are all working from the same dog-eared script. It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actua.. | gone-girl society | Gillian Flynn | |
| 81da598 | She'd always been one of those girls who wanted what anyone else had, even if she didn't want it. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 7a94daa | I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people--people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin--that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life. | gillian-flynn lonliness smart smartness | Gillian Flynn | |
| 2cd6c07 | The actual stuff my family owned, those boxes under my stairs, I can't quite bear to look at. I like other people's things better. They come with other people's history. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 321f486 | This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness, about probability and luck, about good fortune and bad, about marriage and children and memory, about grief, about the ways in which people do and do not deal with the fact that life ends, about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself. I have been a writer my entire life. As a writ.. | Joan Didion | ||
| 1a6c07d | Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity. | Paul Auster | ||
| d6c1787 | Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power? | Alice Sebold | ||
| 4632acc | Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go | Alice Sebold | ||
| b271754 | You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes much sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 36654c3 | To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools. | cynicism objectivism philosophy | Matt Taibbi | |
| ef591cd | Men all do about the same thing when they wake up. | morning waking-up | John Steinbeck | |
| e9147d0 | it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is one of the most prized and used and desired reactions of our species, is really the understanding and the attempt to say that man is related to the whole thing, related inextricably to all reality, known and unknowable. This is a simple thing to say, but the profound feeling of it made a Jesus, a St. Augustine, a St. Francis, a Roger Ba.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 050622c | I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 8d0de89 | Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 898a70b | Hi Sandy, I won! | Ellen Raskin | ||
| 2956e41 | Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day. | Arthur Golden | ||
| d220657 | The room was a compact, informal library. Books stood or were stacked on the shelves that ran along two walls from floor to ceiling, sat on the tables like knickknacks, trooped around the room like soldiers. They struck Malory as more than knowledge or entertainment, even more than stories or information. They were colour and texture, in a haphazard yet somehow intricate decorating scheme. The short leg of the L-shaped room boasted still mo.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 14a54bd | In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need | Nora Roberts | ||
| 66ea048 | In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves. | truth | Dan Brown | |
| 0a483f2 | Patience. I colored patience gray, hung over with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the sun we could see for a few short morning hours. Too soon the sun rose high in the sky & disappeared from view, leaving us bereft and staring at blue. | V.C. Andrews |