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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1b47306 | You stopped loving me. We're a sick, fucking toxic Mobius strip, Amy. We weren't ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves - surprise! - we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way. You don't even really love me, Amy. You don't even like me. Divorce me. Divorce me, and let's try to be happy. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 3712233 | When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 5dcd962 | I don't feel like Nick's wife. I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 76c762f | She had what the Victorians would call . You could imagine the skull quite easily. I'd know her head anywhere. And what's inside it. I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 579381a | It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happens, there is a sound physiological reason, something to do with oxygen, for doing exactly that, but the psychological effect alone is incalculable: it is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying onceself Cathy in "Wuthering Heights" with one's head in a Food Fair bag." | Joan Didion | ||
| 094c948 | At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing. | vision | William Golding | |
| b9c905d | You've got to live right, too. It's the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That's the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest of your existence. If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren't working .. | perfect quality zen | Robert M. Pirsig | |
| d45c04b | Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I enjoyed it." "The music?" "No. The way you listened to it." | beauty music perception | Ayn Rand | |
| 6ccbe21 | The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.) | Anne Tyler | ||
| 978b648 | Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it's no wonder. We're storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation? | Brian Greene | ||
| 86553d2 | Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some worshiped the mathematics because it provided a refu.. | john-steinbeck land the-grapes-of-wrath | John Steinbeck | |
| 9185564 | At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars. | John Steinbeck | ||
| eb2dc93 | It's not lying, it's flirting. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 15b484c | Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a87632a | Love is not a finite emotion. We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it. | Dan Brown | ||
| 79cdcb7 | Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both. | Dan Brown | ||
| cde71b5 | Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand. | inspirational the-lost-symbol | Dan Brown | |
| 7744fb0 | Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface. | da-vinci-code dan-brown robert-langdon the-da-vinci-code | Dan Brown | |
| 24823d3 | Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available. | Rick Warren | ||
| 96598bf | You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon." | gallon need only some yes you | John Grisham | |
| b5a00fc | Hjt lns llsh`wr bltHsn `n Tryq ltHdth `n lmshklt 'm lrjl `n Tryq Hl lmshklt | John Gray | ||
| fec20f4 | don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, because what the world needs are men who have come alive. | John Eldredge | ||
| dceaf41 | But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning snarl and bristling mane were anything but playful. That he allowed the master these liberties was no reason that he should be a common dog, loving here and loving there, everybody's property for a romp and good time. He loved with single heart and refused to cheapen himself or his love. | Jack London | ||
| 916c707 | To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 5ca3fcb | for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover. | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| e5bb712 | Better lose your life than your soul... | life louisa-may-alcott souls | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 517d416 | Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied. | Frank Herbert | ||
| abb809b | Mankind has only one science... its the science of discontent. | Frank Herbert | ||
| cdd9c15 | Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4893e1c | When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 08669aa | I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do dream, by the way. It hovers over me at odd moments. And then it's gone. I feel like I'm always on the brink of something that never arrives. I want to either have it or be free of it. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 3164116 | I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 92427dc | You don't need to control emotion," he said. "Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it's fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action." | Dan Millman | ||
| 534c381 | Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. | Dan Millman | ||
| 3242b35 | I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try and get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego.. | Truman Capote | ||
| 90c39ac | Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there's always something waiting, and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. | death fate inspirational life living | Truman Capote | |
| 94b522e | Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears.' Well, she has opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say she blinds people. What she does is the contrary-she fastens their eyelids open, so they're never again in the blessed darkness. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 0224fe9 | He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c1a3885 | I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 941ceb0 | If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost." | Douglas Adams | ||
| 6f2e3a5 | So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy with them, not if they're just gonna keep at it, not if they're not gonna learn to relax a little. I mean it's just gonna be continual nervous time, isn't it, right? Pow, pow, pow, when are they next coming at us? Peaceful coexistence is just right out, right? Get me some water somebody, thank you." He sat back and sipped reflectively. OK," he s.. | irony sci-fi | Douglas Adams | |
| cf1955b | The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. | fairy-tales | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7f587c1 | For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road. | lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 4664017 | Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind. | J.R.R. Tolkien |