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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 801c646 | Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live | life love | Andrea Levy | |
| b6d29ba | In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. | library | Alberto Manguel | |
| 59c2570 | The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn't interpreted, then it can't be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in this place, for these people. | Rob Bell | ||
| 0364f52 | A lot of the world seems to repeat itself | inspirational reality-of-life | Emma Donoghue | |
| f15e86b | Say no to death pies. Another good motto. | Brandon Mull | ||
| 2bc772d | Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. | language typography | Robert Bringhurst | |
| 13463d3 | yjd lnsn lmr@ wHd@ fy Hyth mn ystTy` j`lh mHwran ldnyh, hdh m 'w'mn bh f`lan. tkhbrh bl'shy lty ln ttHdth bh 'bdan m` nfs 'khr~, wystw`b kl m tqwl, wyryd lstzd@ mnk Hqan. tqtsm m`h aml lmstqbl, wl'Hlm lty ln ttHqq 'bdan, wl'hdf lty ln tSl lyh, wHbTt kthyr@ qdhftk bh lHy@. wdh Hdth shy' ry'`, ln tTyq Sbran Ht~ tblGh lkhbr, w'nt t`lm 'nh syshrkk nf`lk. l ytHrWj mn lbk m`k dh t'lmt, wl lDHk m`k dh skhrt mn nfsk. ln yw'dh msh`rk, 'w yj`lk tsh.. | Bob Marley | ||
| 7e7b644 | Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love. | marriage | Timothy Keller | |
| 4930b5a | Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, buttoned-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can.. | Timothy Keller | ||
| 6518551 | The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3df56ea | One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 6c708c8 | It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f6008f7 | What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 7d50422 | One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. | the-other writing | Charles Simic | |
| 61951d0 | The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, as the norm. Many of us think that the less feminine a woman appears, the more likely she is to be taken seriously. A man going to a business meeting doesn't wonder about being taken seriously based on what he is wearing--but a woman does. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d753eb4 | Die puny human! | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 6fd09ec | See this pebble?" "Yes." "Take it." Eragon did and stared at the unremarkable lump. It was dull black, smooth, and as large as the end of his thumb. There were countless stones like it on the trail. "This is your training." Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. Now stop talking or we'll never get anywhere." | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 42999a5 | God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle | Debbie Macomber | ||
| 5e0f65a | For two weeks, I lay awake at night and said Hail Marys over and over to stop my heart from beating too fast. I suddenly realized how much being a husband was about fear: fear of not being able to keep somebody safe, of not being able to protect somebody from all the bad stuff you want to protect them from. Knowing they have more tears in them than you will be able to keep them from crying. I realized that Renee had seen me fail, and that s.. | Rob Sheffield | ||
| 0a955c2 | Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling, said Jung, extroverts to the external life of people and activities. Introverts focus on the meaning they make of the events swirling around them; extroverts plunge into the events themselves. Introverts recharge their batteries by being alone; extroverts need to recharge when they don't socialize enough. | Susan Cain | ||
| 41e41c1 | I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 6439661 | Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 3fd877b | It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents. | Jonathan Tropper | ||
| f224f62 | Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop." I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead." The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand." I answered, "I don't either." A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood. Then she died." | jim-butcher summer-knight | Jim Butcher | |
| a3246bb | There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 201fcb7 | Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not. | Jim Butcher | ||
| 651b75f | Mutually assured destruction. | secret | Holly Black | |
| 9f3bec9 | I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me. | Holly Black | ||
| f608103 | Show your power by appearing powerless. | Holly Black | ||
| 2fd5052 | Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | ||
| afe1b7b | That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back to one present and physical whole, whose blood was the proof of her tangibility. | cutting self-harm self-injury self-mutilation si | Caroline Kettlewell | |
| a9788b8 | Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light... | Karen Russell | ||
| 3a34a3e | I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| 819cc7b | The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human - looks out of the heart burning with purity - for the burden of life is love, but we carry the weight wearily, and so must rest in the arms of love at last, must rest in the arms of.. | Allen Ginsberg | ||
| f287359 | Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b487a88 | Oh no, not -' OF COURSE, WHAT'S SO BLOODY VEXING ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS IS THAT I WAS EXPECTING TO MEET THEE IN PSEPHOPOLOLIS 'But that's five hundred miles away!' YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME, THE WHOLE SYSTEM'S GOT SCREWED UP AGAIN, I CAN SEE THAT. LOOK, THERE'S NO CHANCE OF YOU-? Rincewind backed away, hands spread protectively in front of him... 'Not a chance!' I COULD LEND YOU A VERY FAST HORSE. 'No!' IT WON'T HURT A BIT. 'No!' Rincewi.. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 0f41b93 | And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 24d5208 | I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh? | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bfa8100 | They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| a5f5c20 | Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| bb30cc1 | Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 68fb535 | Cats are like witches. They don't fight to kill, but to win. There is a difference. There's no point in killing an opponent. That way, they won't know they've lost, and to be a real winner you have to have an opponent who is beaten and knows it. There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| b1c2202 | A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. | Katherine Dunn | ||
| 9f9c0e6 | Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together. | juliet marillier |