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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c5f19cc | But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open. | Norton Juster | ||
| 1d79d01 | because talent alone doesn't make an artist | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 2d32374 | The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change. | growth journey learning | Daniel Quinn | |
| aa37a70 | People pay for that they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And the pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. - James Baldwin | Dorothy Allison | ||
| 4869f8d | But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place. | growth maturity perspective | James Baldwin | |
| c71aef1 | I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop. | gallop holidays summer summer-holidays time | Enid Blyton | |
| 96d6571 | It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist - the potential victim within that we must rescue - otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation. | bell hooks | ||
| af3254d | When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect them; that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called "cathexis". I his book Peck rightly emphasizes that most of us "confuse cathecting with loving." We all know how often individuals of cathecting insist that they love the other person even if they are hurting of neglecting them. Since their feiling is that of .. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 9431f6c | He stares down into me and says, "I'll keep her safe." My eyes well with tears while my lips pull high. "Against the world, Loren Hale?" "Yeah," he nods. "Against the world, Lily Calloway. I'm familiar with that battle." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 1d712f2 | She waltzes into the apartment, her Chanel handbag swinging on her arm like a weapon. Rose frightens children, pets, and even grown males with her icy eyes and chilling glares. | addictedtoyou kissthesky | Krista Ritchie | |
| ac397d6 | I'm tragically in love with you too. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| d9f6526 | That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| c9d048c | Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| fa0a4b3 | The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own hearts and homes. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 7ecd269 | Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising. | sweet-valley teenagers | Tracy Chevalier | |
| f92f96f | He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 60f0f09 | And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| cbda3c4 | Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath. | psychopathy sociopathy | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 8f16ebe | I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 9761f0c | Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. | humour reading truths | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| ff7c654 | Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 2aec6bc | And what a story. The first thing that drew me in was disbelief. What? Humanity sins but it's God's Son who pays the price? I tried to imagine Father saying to me, 'Piscine, a lion slipped into the llama pen today and killed two llamas. Yesterday another one killed a black buck. Last week two of them ate a camel. The situation has become intolerable. Something must be done. I have decided that the only way the lions can atone for their sins.. | Yann Martel | ||
| c576d3a | It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. | Yann Martel | ||
| 22ee3fd | My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean. | Yann Martel | ||
| 686790a | The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score," Harry recited. "So -- that's sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn't it?" "What's basketball?" said Wood curiously. "Never mind," said Harry quickly." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 12449a6 | Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cc25349 | Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 2e98798 | You saved Dad's life. If anyone's got the right to eavesdrop on him, it's you. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 068182d | STEALING THE CAR, I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SURPRISED IF THEY'D EXPELLED YOU, YOU WAIT TILL I GET HOLD OF YOU, I DON'T SUPPOSE YOU STOPPED TO THINK WHAT YOUR FATHER AND I WENT THROUGH WHEN WE SAW IT WAS GONE --" Mrs. Weasley's yells, a hundred times louder than usual, made the plates and spoons rattle on the table, and echoed deafeningly off the stone walls. People throughout the hall were swiveling around to see who had received the Howler, and.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 0ef56e8 | I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation," he said, "and I am sure he will perform it admirably." -- | remus-lupin | J.K. Rowling | |
| fcdeeff | Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b2b7c03 | Dobby never meant to kill. He only meant to maim, or seriously injure. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 45949d1 | Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man. Harry: We're the same age, Draco. Draco: I wear it better. | draco-malfoy harry-potter rivalry | J.K. Rowling | |
| fcf191b | Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from.. | change muggles revision | J.K. Rowling | |
| 3722bca | The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right. | independence originality | J.K. Rowling | |
| cb016fe | YOU CHEATING SCUM!" Lee Jordan was howling into the megaphone, dancing out of Professor McGonagall's reach. "YOU FILTHY, CHEATING B --" Professor McGonagall didn't even bother to tell him off. She was actually shaking her finger in Malfoy's direction, her hat had fallen off, and she too was shouting furiously." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| ca035e2 | I hate being poor. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| 83d6997 | DUMBLEDORE: Do you know why I admire you, Newt? More, perhaps, than any man I know? (off NEWT'S surprise) You don't seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost. | newt-scamander | J.K. Rowling | |
| 1990e80 | She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak. | Louis de Bernières | ||
| 3db69c7 | I'd like to marry you, if you think that would be okay. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ef7177c | How's it hangin' Harry? I keep trying to die, but they won't let me. Well, you can't have everything. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f97cd15 | Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| f6c9b61 | Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. For the first time in months, he felt no pain at all; for the first time in years, he knew his questions had answers. As he listened to the song that Ronnie had finished, the song that Ronnie had perfected, he closed his eyes in the knowledge .. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 241592c | Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping | Nicholas Sparks |