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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d04a3c9 | Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. | reading | Italo Calvino | |
| c964fe8 | I speak and speak," Marco says, "but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend a benevolent ear is one thing; the description that will go the rounds of the groups of stevedores and gondoliers on the street outside my house the day of my return is another; and yet another, that which I might dictate late in life, if I were taken prisoner by Genoese pirates and put in irons in the sam.. | Italo Calvino | ||
| 27733e0 | My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. | Alice Munro | ||
| d617a34 | There's a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you--that both are inherently unfeminist. I don't agree. There's no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 2fccaee | We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| ae23358 | I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8381174 | We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 21596ba | You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| fde7675 | She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 8ca8d79 | She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing, this machine for gripping, this fleshy spider on the end of her arm, came to be hers, entirely at her command. Or did it have some little life of its own? She bent her finger and straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a w.. | Ian McEwan | ||
| 56939ae | Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory? | Ian McEwan | ||
| fe7a3d3 | Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image - and has intestines! - or God lacks intestines and man is not like him. The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master .. | shit theology | Milan Kundera | |
| bec2777 | The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life--bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort. | life-changing moody moving ocean vastness | Haruki Murakami | |
| 48c4d0e | And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| dbf75b5 | But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it? | murakami | Haruki Murakami | |
| 67a0812 | What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being. | love | Haruki Murakami | |
| 40eeb25 | Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f46d6a1 | You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry. | murakami talent | Haruki Murakami | |
| 74a3434 | A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance. | fate life | Haruki Murakami | |
| 2f5cd5e | How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love.. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 632b82f | If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 7341a95 | When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily. | dave-robicheaux | James Lee Burke | |
| e7cb440 | How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| f772d81 | People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 5c94a4a | You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough. | live | Jodi Picoult | |
| 6349641 | There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| c0a2a5b | Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 03dda51 | Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e541622 | From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative. | darkness father hole jesse-fitzgerald relative | Jodi Picoult | |
| 46f0ce7 | The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8dc2aa1 | A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5a4bf76 | No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| be71a34 | Thy life's journey lies along its own path, Ian," she said, "and I cannot share thy journey--but I can walk beside thee. And I will." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| ab35944 | One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery. | conservation cooperation environment individualism optimism | Wallace Stegner | |
| e0a8848 | I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 4157519 | And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise. When You were displeased by Noah's generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your favour, You caused the heavens to rain down fire and damnation. But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray befor.. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| f8e6aa5 | I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console. | hope humanity language | Elie Wiesel | |
| 47d72ef | Only fanatics -- in religion as well as in politics -- can find a meaning in someone else's death. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| c4cac17 | The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| df1abd3 | I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 0937662 | Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. | Harry G. Frankfurt | ||
| 58d1133 | research tells us that we judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing. If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived shaming defi.. | judgement shame | Brené Brown | |
| 6339b5d | Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0dd9179 | Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. It is as though the coolness that marked out youth is itself a type of retrovirus that can only leave you feeling empty. Full of holes. | Douglas Coupland |