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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b52c6be | Aww, did we masturbate through the tears last night? | sarcasm | Kresley Cole | |
| 5f9b64f | He swallowed. "Have you no modesty?" Never in his life had he encountered a female so quick to be naked. Of course, he'd never in his life encountered a female who should so utterly be naked at any chance." | flirty humor humorous | Kresley Cole | |
| 2b6840b | Damn, , you still smell like a blossom. Been so long since I've seen a flower that I'd nearly forgotten what they smelled like." He took a lock of my hair, rubbing it between his thumb and forefinger. "You're dressing up using expensive perfume? Ole Jack senses a trap. Consider me snared." | evie flirting jack jackson kresley-cole poison-princess scents snared | Kresley Cole | |
| 4a76167 | There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balanc.. | hypotheses hypothesis music neuroscience psychology science songs theories | Oliver Sacks | |
| 35d5907 | I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| 6f3af8f | The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 615c762 | people always think that happiness is a far away thing, something complicated and hard to get. yet, little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. those little things make happiness. | Betty Smith | ||
| 080ea2a | When I go around and speak on campuses, | Gertrude Stein | ||
| 9f490fd | I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| e9e7510 | The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all. | passion | Jeanette Winterson | |
| d19f0f1 | It is not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between them. | jeanette winterson | ||
| d9be865 | The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 63c72df | I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em... | feeling-alive fighting-for-self realization self-worth | Richard Wright | |
| c4ba895 | Any given moment--no matter how casual, how ordinary--is poised, full of gaping life. | living | Anne Michaels | |
| 70855e6 | When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screami.. | holocaust | Anne Michaels | |
| 4a14d53 | But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace. | Anne Michaels | ||
| b8ca1f6 | How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception." | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 3dc3547 | Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 54e82e4 | Stop rushing me. I want to take my time falling in love with you. | love rush | Ai Yazawa | |
| f7c4764 | They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they're dry. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 31bc06a | Brain: You don't want this. Hormones: Dude, this is EXACTLY what I want. B: No, not like this--she's wasted. H: What's your point? B: She won't remember this, and if she does, she'll be angry. H: Do you see where her hand is? God, that feels good. Can't you feel that? B: She's drunk. You can't do this. It's wrong H: I want to do this. B: Really? You want to go to school and say you scored with Bethany Milbury when she was so drunk she barel.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b93be36 | I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame. | teenagers | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 6de2442 | Do not equate nationalism with patriotism... Nationalism is the first step on the road to Fascism. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| 13b213d | How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it | foolishness sad westmoreland | Judith McNaught | |
| 3c00430 | Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done"." | heartbreak love-story | Judith McNaught | |
| 764ae75 | God help him." He chortled. "He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it." -Dr. Whitticomb" | Judith McNaught | ||
| 7108f11 | Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and a.. | introversion introvert philosophy social solitude thoreau walden | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 67967a5 | A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| ecaf982 | Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 6614f41 | A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those are two very different things. For the first one, that you want to write a book, I think is an excellent idea and you should totally do that because teenagers who want to write, you should be writing. You should be writing all the time like a maniac. | writing-as-a-profession | Maureen Johnson | |
| 7304dcd | Proximity doesn't breed familiarity. | Maureen Johnson | ||
| a03aa36 | If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right--it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed. | philosophy | Daniel Quinn | |
| 1a169fa | Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive." | Chinua Achebe | ||
| a34966d | Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. | Willa Cather | ||
| 69966a7 | America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 6985add | We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified -- how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know wha.. | learning physics science | Richard P. Feynman | |
| ad74535 | Nothing worth while is every easy come by. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 98c0759 | It's so beautiful that it hurts me,' said Anne softly. 'Perfect things like that always did hurt me -- I remember I called it "the queer ache" when I was a child. What is the reason that pain like this seems inseparable from perfection? Is it the pain of finality -- when we realise that there can be nothing beyond but retrogression?' 'Perhaps,' said Owen dreamily, 'it is the prisoned infinite in us calling out to its kindred infinite as exp.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0d94e7b | It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b9fae5c | Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. | looking-back punishments remorse undo-past-mistakes undone unkindness | Enid Blyton | |
| 38fa65d | schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us. | relationships | bell hooks | |
| 29af0de | Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment.. | futility growth labor life love resurrection self-love violence | Bell Hooks | |
| 69ef10b | It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 00d475f | I am the biographer of my own life. And no one can take that away from me. | Krista Ritchie |