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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bef930a | Jenks: "I can't even pix anyone. I sweat now instead of dusting, did you know that? I've got water coming off me instead of dust. What the hell can I do with sweat? Rub up against someone and make them puke in disgust? I've seen you sweat, and it's not pretty. I don't even want to think about sex, two sweaty bodies pressed against each other like that? Disgusting. Talk about birth control--it's no wonder you only have a handful of kids." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 97c5d3f | Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David's answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement. | humor rachel-morgan romance supernatural vampire | Kim Harrison | |
| af0ae05 | Her elf is going to do just that," he said, the red glow of the ever-after sun turning his hair auburn, almost as red as mine. "I did not work this hard at getting her to accept who she is to let you take your spoiled brat of a little-boy temper tantrum out on her. She stays on my side of the lines." | rachel trent | Kim Harrison | |
| 72238c9 | Money is wasted on the rich. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 985c1ab | I like checking days off a calendar--151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn't ruined. 153 and I haven't destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 468258f | It is always consoling to think of suicide; it's what gets one through many a bad night. | death life suicide | Gillian Flynn | |
| dd99753 | A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips | Gillian Flynn | ||
| c6ccc30 | All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain. Maybe that is what I like best about him, the way he makes me. Not makes me feel, just makes me. I am fun. I am playful. I am game. I feel naturally happy and entirely satisfied. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 29bb106 | Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can't stop them? You can't do anything, you just have to wait? | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 12eb073 | In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. There was a period, a long period, dating from my childhood until quite recently, when I thought I did. A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their "things," their totems." | Joan Didion | ||
| 9fbe447 | I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all. | Paul Auster | ||
| cbd564e | Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise. | Paul Auster | ||
| 619569f | We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement. | delusions humanity illusions madness solitude | William Golding | |
| 8754c57 | To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 1dd1e98 | For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. | freedom honor life rights | Ayn Rand | |
| d932131 | Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both. | objectivism | Corey Robin | |
| 56975ee | If a man says: "But I realize that my natural endowments are mediocre--shall I then suffer, be ashamed, have an inferiority complex?" The answer is: "In the basic, crucial sphere, the sphere of morality and action, it is not your endowments that matter, but what you do with them." It is here that all men are free and equal, regardless of natural gifts. You can be, in your own modest sphere, as good morally as the genius is in his--if you li.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| da5d891 | He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky's First Concerto--or the last movement of Rachmaninoff's Second. Men have not found the words for it, nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the music. Let me see that in one single act of man on earth. Let me see it made real. Let me see the a.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| b9816e9 | I am. I think. I will. My hands. . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . This earth of mine . . . . What more must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer. I stand here on the summit of the mountain I lift my head and I spread m arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanct.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| d838ff2 | But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light. | Billy Collins | ||
| 8c91e88 | It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs. | politics | Jon Stewart | |
| f859ad8 | It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it and it's usually crucifixion. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 45f6459 | Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and dev.. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5033ffc | Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank | Gary Chapman | ||
| 1711ba4 | It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 30047a0 | It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth. | John Grisham | ||
| 53e4b0c | There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you--may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch [yourself] .. | Anne Carson | ||
| 2a9514a | Late in the afternoon, thunder growling, that same old green pickup rolled in and he saw Jack get out of the truck, beat up Resistol tilted back. A hot jolt scalded Ennis and he was out on the landing pulling the door closed behind him. Jack took the stairs two and two. They seized each other by the shoulders, hugged mightily, squeezing the breath out of each other, saying, son of a bitch, son of a bitch, then, and easily as the right key t.. | love | Annie Proulx | |
| 8c2154b | I suppose it's no surprise that we feel the need to dehumanize the people we hurt--before, during, or after the hurting occurs. But it always comes as a surprise. In psychology it's known as cognitive dissonance. It's the idea that it feels stressful and painful for us to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time (like the idea that we're kind people and the idea that we've just destroyed someone). And so to ease the pain we create illu.. | Jon Ronson | ||
| 0dc2fc1 | He must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed. | Jack London | ||
| 4fcf088 | Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?" | Charles Dickens | ||
| 64dd630 | We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot! | perseverance | Charles Dickens | |
| ade6226 | I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm--because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn't recognize it any more. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 7ae250e | Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 369c966 | My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind? | Julia Golding | ||
| 01eeb96 | What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us? | Frank Herbert | ||
| 9898f4b | What people do isn't determined by where they live. It happens to be their damned fault. They decided to watch TV instead of thinking when they were in high school. They decided to blow-off courses and drink beer instead of reading and trying to learn something. They decided to chicken out and be intolerant bastards instead of being openminded, and finally they decided to go along with their buddies and do things that were terribly wrong wh.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 87271a9 | He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| fa736e7 | There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan. The plan was I would leave my family when my second child was born. And that's what I did. I got up one morning, made breakfast, went to the bus stop, got on a bus. I'd left a note. I got a job in a library in Canada. It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean?.. | hopelessness life loneliness spirit | Michael Cunningham | |
| 13ead04 | Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility is a staggering notion. As it is, He willingly gave His blood, in the flesh, so that others might find life, for it is written: "He did not come by water only, but by blood," and "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission." Now blood is required to give new life to the dead. I tell you, He did not give on.. | christian jesus love | Ted Dekker | |
| a622563 | Evil was predictable, always painfully expected. | Ted Dekker | ||
| 3f37925 | The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action. | Karen Joy Fowler | ||
| 5b6686d | The only person I know, is the person I want to be | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| a327afb | I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending. | Truman Capote |