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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3ed97ec | To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?" | Victor Hugo | ||
| 6e76ec8 | When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation. | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| 89a43a2 | Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 17048b3 | Dead men tell no tales, Mary. | Daphne duMaurier | ||
| 25576b8 | As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor. | morality | David Eddings | |
| 5ad4666 | I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance. I loved a few of my teachers. But I cannot say that I truly believed any of them. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 5541bef | We both know how to hide our sharpest parts, I just don't always recognize my own weaponry. | Sarah Kay | ||
| be5d175 | Isn't 'not to be bored' one of the principal goals of life? | life | Gustave Flaubert | |
| 96de802 | Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. | limit | George Eliot | |
| 2d7b2ab | Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia...' Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women. | gay virginia-woolf woman | Virginia Woolf | |
| 3639dd3 | One feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it r.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 4b20334 | George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: "Yes, this will do". Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of.. | marriage | Edward Albee | |
| e971579 | Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading. | reading | Virginia Woolf | |
| 677ab37 | Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it has not left me yet. Love brought us to one death. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 4b5acab | So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| b2842f3 | I rhyme To see myself, to set the darkness echoing. | writing | Seamus Heaney | |
| c7bd7bf | You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e100fe0 | In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 6bf6314 | Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 5434e19 | It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this. | wine | Neil Gaiman | |
| b0905cd | Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above--that's where you lived--and then there's London Below--the Underside--inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night." | london-above london-below underside | Neil Gaiman | |
| cab1d69 | You got to understand the god thing. It's not magic. It's about being you, but the you that people believe in. It's about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It's about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize." He paused. "And then one day they forget about you, and they don't believe in you, and they don't sacrifice, and.. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2e89ae3 | I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew." | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 59439bf | Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as . It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 571884f | HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another. | equality manners | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 65a6b62 | Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. Rick: And what is that? Evelyn: I... am a librarian. The Mummy (1999) | Max Allan Collins | ||
| ab92c0e | The Shadow. It cannot be grasped. Chase your shadow and it will, flee; turn your back on it and it will follow you. It is also a person's dark side, the thing that makes them mysterious. After they have given us pleasure, the shadow of their withdrawal makes us yearn for their return, much as clouds make us yearn for the sun. | Robert Greene | ||
| c724fbc | Just imagine for a day that you do not know anything, that what you believe could be completely false. Let go of your preconceptions and even your most cherished beliefs. Experiment. Force yourself to hold the opposite opinion or see the world through your enemy's eyes. Listen to the people around you with more attentiveness. See everything as a source for education--even the most banal encounters. Imagine that the world is still full of my.. | Robert Greene | ||
| 8eca5eb | What does it matter if another player, your friend or rival, intended good things and had only your interests at heart, if the effects of his action lead to so much ruin and confusion? It is only natural for people to cover up their actions with all kinds of justifications, always assuming that they have acted out of goodness. You must learn to inwardly laugh each time you hear this and never get caught up in gauging someone's intentions an.. | Robert Greene | ||
| 372d23f | She felt so lost and lonely. One last chile in walnut sauce left on the platter after a fancy dinner couldn't feel any worse than she did. How many times had she eaten one of those treats, standing by herself in the kitchen, rather than let it be thrown away. When nobody eats the last chile on the plate, it's usually because none of them wants to look like a glutton, so even though they'd really like to devour it, they don't have the nerve .. | manners | Laura Esquivel | |
| 6a175b5 | There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 9ff9010 | A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. | Frances Mayes | ||
| c77a5af | He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible. | self-righteousness | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 30ab469 | If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 8f5900b | People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| e787ff2 | Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit. | cats hate-hatred | William S. Burroughs | |
| f8473ee | There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 5c2d89a | The possible, as it was presented in her Health textbook (a mathematical progression of dating, "career," marriage, and motherhood), did not interest Harriet. Of all the heroes on her list, the greatest of them all was Sherlock Holmes, and he wasn't even a real person. Then there was Harry Houdini. He was the master of the impossible; more importantly, for Harriet, he was a master of escape. No prison in the world could hold him: he escaped.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 112c8ba | Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said. | life suppose | Raymond Carver | |
| f39bda1 | A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 4c80f56 | I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance. | damaged defeated fixing-things god-can-repair-you hurt saving-things second-chances | Melody Carlson | |
| e525d75 | A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care -- For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee | Emily Dickinson | ||
| 8dd0853 | But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that's the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch) | humor serge serial-killer witty | Tim Dorsey | |
| fa59787 | What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine? | John Updike |