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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f5afadc | The ones who are not soul-mated - the ones who have settled - are even more dismissive of my singleness: It's not that hard to find someone to marry, they say. No relationship is perfect, they say - they, who make do with dutiful sex and gassy bedtime rituals, who settle for TV as conversation, who believe that husbandly capitulation - yes, honey, okay, honey - is the same as concord. He's doing what you tell him to do because he doesn't ca.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 0e42a7f | Camille?" Her voice quiet and girlish and unsure. "You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything?" "Mmm." "What if it's the opposite?" Amma whispered. "What if you hurt because it feels so good? Like you have a tingling, like someone left a switch on in your body. And nothing can turn that switch off except hurting? What does that mean?" I pretended to be asleep. I preten.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| e08ffdf | Whenever I see news stories about children who were killed by their parents, I think: But how could it be? They cared enough to give this kid a name, they had a moment--at least one moment--when they sifted through all the possibilities and picked one specific name for their child, decided what they would call their baby. How could you kill something you cared enough to name? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 84fbd70 | Sometimes I feel like Nick has decided on a version of me that doesn't exist. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| a12e600 | I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 108a015 | The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret menta.. | bullying change change-for-worse criticism emotional-turmoil failure flaws hatred heartbreak heartless hurtful i-miss-who-you-were loss love marriage missing-who-someone-was nothing puppeteer relationships scary strangers turmoil | Gillian Flynn | |
| 2d77646 | I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined those last bloody moments in the house, when she realized it had gone wrong, when Debby lay dying, and it was all over, her unsterling life. My anger gave way to a strange tenderness, what a mother might feel for her child, and I thought, At least she tried. She tried, on that final day, as hard as anyone could have tried. And I would try to.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 4a3473a | he's always been moody. Even when he was a baby he was like a cat. All snuggly one second and then the next, he'd be looking at you like he had no idea who you were. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 9e9b488 | Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley. | Joan Didion | ||
| a395b94 | See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do... on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage back to the world out there... | Joan Didion | ||
| f7f1a8e | Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of o.. | astronomy behaviorism behaviorists consciousness cosmology determinism dogma environment ethics first-cause goal ivan-pavlov ivan-petrovich-pavlov john-b-watson john-broadus-watson john-watson life life-after-death materialism mind naturalism nature pavlov physics psychology religion science science-and-religion spirit stimuli theology universe watson | Nikola Tesla | |
| c6d7a5b | Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know? | Ayn Rand | ||
| 0de42fe | The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. | Ayn Rand | ||
| cae3fa2 | Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking .. | rationality values | Ayn Rand | |
| 1cd1db5 | Dancing Towards Bethlehem If there is only enough time in the final minutes of the 20th century for one last dance I would like to be dancing it slowly with you, say, in the ballroom of a seaside hotel. My palm would press into the small of your back as the past hundred years collapsed into a pile of mirrors or buttons or frivolous shoes, just as the floor of the 19th century gave way and disappeared in a red cloud of brick dust. There will.. | Billy Collins | ||
| e23df6b | People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 423d37a | Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due. | confederation constitution failure | Jon Stewart | |
| e7ea3ee | Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them. | power | Robert Harris | |
| 3a8156a | It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have .. | individuality strength | John Steinbeck | |
| 13d66f5 | You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. | normalcy | John Steinbeck | |
| cc84f6f | He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4c5449c | I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him. | Arthur Golden | ||
| df01fe2 | Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive. | John Grisham | ||
| b8e2b27 | All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks. | John Grisham | ||
| 62bcfb0 | I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking. | John Grisham | ||
| 56a7751 | He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 8632c13 | When a woman's wave rises she feels she has an abundance of love to give, but when it falls she feels her inner emptiness and needs to be filled up with love. | Gray John | ||
| f4a3aea | somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenheart.. | John Eldredge | ||
| e400d1e | The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the sloth was amazed by the change; it shunned the deck and spent its time below. Jack was in his cabin, pricking the chart with less satisfaction than he could have wished: progress, slow, serious trouble with the mainmast-- unaccountable headwinds by night-- and sipping a glass of grog; Stephen was in.. | drunkenness humour | Patrick O'Brian | |
| daacd07 | I grew up hearing over and over, to the point of tedium, that "hard work" was the secret of success: "Work hard and you'll get ahead" or "It's hard work that got us where we are." No one ever said that you could work hard - harder even than you ever thought possible - and still find yourself sinking ever deeper into poverty and debt." | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 8d81b67 | I do not write this in a spirit of sourness or personal disappointment of any kind, nor do I have any romantic attachment to suffering as a source of insight or virtue. On the contrary, I would like to see more smiles, more laughter, more hugs, more happiness and, better yet, joy. In my own vision of utopia, there is not only more comfort, and security for everyone -- better jobs, health care, and so forth -- there are also more parties, fe.. | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| 5cf181d | and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 60c62df | But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 43a620d | For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything. I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you. And when you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you. | love sacrifice sydney-carton | Charles Dickens | |
| dcb62f2 | if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. | predestination | Charles Dickens | |
| bec5d38 | Come in, -- come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Look upon me! You have never seen the like of me before! | Charles Dickens | ||
| b76b754 | Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not. | Charles Dickens | ||
| e52da3d | Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions. | Frank Herbert | ||
| a7097b8 | I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| e1e5347 | She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 9a45e34 | It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found. | Ted Dekker | ||
| e3555c8 | There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love! | Ted Dekker | ||
| 6861c1e | To start with, look at all the books. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 27cfa3b | There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home. | Jeffrey Eugenides |