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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d8a61d0 | I've lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side. I am discovering, now, in the late afternoon of the day, that the dead still speak. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| eba8017 | Places do not lose their identity, however far one travels. It is the heart that begins to erode over time. The face in the hotel mirror seems blurred some mornings, as if by too many casual looks. By ten the sheets will be laundered, the carpet swept. The names on the hotel registers change as we pass. We leave no trace as we pass on. Ghostlike, we cast no shadow. | Joanne Harris | ||
| e88e5fa | The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed." | Barry Hughart | ||
| ccb2b58 | To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | ||
| 9f5a02b | We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible. | spirit walls | Tim O'Brien | |
| c742bd0 | I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy." | happy human patricia-highsmith silence strangers strangers-on-a-train terribly train truth | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 896a364 | Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world. | Anne Michaels | ||
| 3f1380c | We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. | child melena mother pregnancy reality wicked | Gregory Maguire | |
| e1264d6 | If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 3e034d5 | It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| ce164a8 | Adrenaline kicks you in when you're starving. That's what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don't notice Cass.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 8fa0ac7 | You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has." -Clayton Westmoreland" | Judith McNaught | ||
| 4a6a834 | His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. "Love me, Elizabeth." Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. "I do." | elizabeth ian judith-mcnaught | Judith McNaught | |
| a35d265 | What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants. | art avant-garde confidence culture david-foster-wallace ebullience idealism irony meta-modernism metaphor post-ironic postmodernism shia-lebouf | Robert Hughes | |
| a26d463 | Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself. | journaling reflection | Pat Conroy | |
| 76e5a50 | He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives. | men | Pat Conroy | |
| 36af83a | When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men. | men-and-women | Pat Conroy | |
| 1381275 | A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while .. | grace | Henry David Thoreau | |
| a71b703 | I remember how, at first, I had felt the tension in his lips, as if he was trying to make a barrier between us - then they had relaxed, parted slightly. And that's when I had known he wanted to kiss me, wanted to give in. That little parting of the lips, the little sigh that came out... I would hear that sigh forever. That little, little sound when the whole world seemed to open up. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 39cb2d5 | Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. | delusion | James Baldwin | |
| 406ee54 | Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. | race | James Baldwin | |
| 56b7efe | I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one'.. | James Baldwin | ||
| c7e85f6 | Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| d15850b | This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth. | Willa Cather | ||
| 39be351 | The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundereds of times when I dont realize it. You really are a part of me. | Willa Cather | ||
| 38f13c1 | They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too. | Robert Cormier | ||
| e0f125d | You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| cf60e8d | Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?" | David Weber | ||
| e65cd88 | Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b8b3a7d | Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness. | pity satire weakness | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 7d30a17 | The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love. | bell hooks | ||
| 9018c33 | I am very, very attracted to you." The corner of his lips rise. "Funny, I'm also attracted to you. What are we going to do about that?" "Make love and make babies." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 7fc95b6 | Life doesn't stop when you take a new road. It always finds a way to go on. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 24d377a | You leave a trail of bodies with your glares. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 1914d1d | Friends aren't forever. They're not even for a while. They come into your life and they leave when something or someone changes. Nothing grounds them to you. Not blood or loyalty. They're just...fleeting.-Daisy Calloway | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 7575a98 | Poets are born knowing the language of angels. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 2cce089 | But a planet can also become dark because of "too strong a desire for security ... the greatest evil there is." Meg resists her father's analysis. What's wrong with wanting to be safe? Mr. Murry insists that "lust for security" forces false choices and a panicked search for safety and conformity. This reminded me that my grandmother would get very annoyed when anyone would talk about "the power of love." Love, she insisted, is not power, wh.. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| a0a5fce | There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b76e09f | If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head" | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| fb60034 | Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3715cb5 | Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 445c663 | What does it feel like to get shot?" "I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better." | Gordon Korman | ||
| 648f885 | For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot. | natalie-kabra stupidity the39clues | Gordon Korman | |
| 3281d2f | Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book. | quidditch reading | J.K. Rowling |