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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c3ea948 | The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past. | Milan Kundera | ||
| a9bf44f | I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. | reading | Nick Hornby | |
| e8ebde7 | It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself | humour | Nick Hornby | |
| b287aac | Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path. | Nick Hornby | ||
| af28ee2 | She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 9c4f2bd | Sometimes you're just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| b36e9ad | The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface: the skin. | deep earth jellyfish surfaces | Haruki Murakami | |
| 04d5993 | Strong and independent? I'm neither. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 4c928b5 | Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand" | Haruki Murakami | ||
| f2add59 | The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 50297cc | The silence is so deep it hurts our ears. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 7c2347c | If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing. | science time-travel | J. Richard Gott | |
| e169f78 | Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard. | Barry Schwartz | ||
| 81d4572 | With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious. | Steve Martin | ||
| ec29ca0 | It's not easy remembering the good times. | humor love memories past remembered | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 0e367d1 | Chin up, don't smile, don't cry, don't fall, walk. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 2f21822 | Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned. | love | Cecelia Ahern | |
| cb79809 | Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what's going on | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 444d6ce | I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. I'd thought. Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 1a745b9 | if there isn't a them, there can't be an us. | social | Jodi Picoult | |
| da91b68 | It was a catch-22: If you didn't put the trauma behind you, you couldn't move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened. | sexual-assault survivor trauma victim | Jodi Picoult | |
| 203f665 | Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. | happiness inspirational quotient reality | Jodi Picoult | |
| d813759 | when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see. | want | Jodi Picoult | |
| 1cdaec9 | Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e7e9357 | The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 49bbe6d | It takes two people to make a friendship work | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 281cf23 | You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 938390a | My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men. | honest men | Jodi Picoult | |
| 7ae95b0 | There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl. | character | Jodi Picoult | |
| 60487bb | She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. | Charles Frazier | ||
| a34ac5e | I always wake when you do, Sassenach; I sleep ill without ye by my side. | jamie-fraser outlander | Diana Gabaldon | |
| ed9543f | When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 921554d | Ye always carry your women wi ye into battle, Ian Og. They're the root of your strength, man. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 48d76bc | They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. | William Faulkner | ||
| b069bf0 | She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words. | William Faulkner | ||
| 6a11628 | Only boring people are bored. | Katherine Neville | ||
| cca9100 | What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own. | James Joyce | ||
| 4530a3c | Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure. | James Joyce | ||
| 7878ef7 | The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, .. | colour inspirational words | James Joyce | |
| 3c87b1e | And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. It is a friend that you communicate the awakening of a desire, the birth of a vision or a terror, the anguish of seeing the sun disappear or of findin.. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 61de986 | I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself could be housed in separate identities life would be relieved of all that was unbearable the unjust might go his way delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path doing the good things in which he found his pleasure and .. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 93a2253 | No hay medicina que no cure lo que no cura la felicidad. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a06bbca | Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy, Just because you're cynical Doesn't mean you're cool. You may tell the greatest lies And wear a brilliant digsuise But you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you. In the end what will prevail Is your passion not your tale. For love is the Holy Grail, Even in Cognito. So better listen to me, sister, and pay close attention, mister: It's very good to play th.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 028529e | what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere. | Tom Robbins |