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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5d9612a | I paused, folding the top corner of the page to keep my place. My dad used to wince every time he saw me do that, but I think books should be loved to pieces. They should be as worn and soft as flannel." "Chapter 2 Christabel, page 24" -- | Alyxandra Harvey | ||
| cf7fe51 | There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted. | want way | Donna Woolfolk Cross | |
| e10f62f | To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again | living music soul | Mary Stewart | |
| 8be7722 | The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. | Mary Stewart | ||
| 197e7ba | The vamp in McMann's stared at me. I guess he didn't like the Goth look. Most of them don't; somehow they think I'm making fun of them. Which I totally am. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 8d106e5 | THTL-- too hot to live | Rachel Caine | ||
| bd441b9 | You were leaving, and you didn't even know if I was okay. | Rachel Caine | ||
| 08be799 | Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 4a3cc1a | Still, even now, when a woman says something uncomfortable about male misconduct, she is routinely portrayed as delusional, a malicious conspirator, a pathological liar, a whiner who doesn't recognize it's all in fun, or all of the above. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| 5e08ab3 | Rape culture is an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular culture. Rape culture is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language, the objectification of women's bodies, and the glamorization of sexual violence, thereby creating a society that disregards women's rights and safety. Rape culture affects every woman. Most women and girls limit t.. | Rebecca Solnit | ||
| dade442 | What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. | narration | Rebecca Solnit | |
| b2fc99b | And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. | David Sedaris | ||
| b83b117 | Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. | Susanna Kaysen | ||
| c33b39b | I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or.. | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| 1a67f83 | The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal. | photography reading | John Dunning | |
| 3acc88b | Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life." | Cornelia Funke | ||
| 2ff99bb | Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way | Paul Theroux | ||
| 3fcdd19 | Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us. | existentialism life | Tom Perrotta | |
| d701800 | You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself. | health philosophy smoking | William Saroyan | |
| 680c8f6 | do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 2c824e4 | Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| be1bf32 | The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children need heroes, he says. I think he just wants to swing from buildings in tight red jammies. | Christopher Moore | ||
| a2f14b9 | Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents... | J.M. Barrie | ||
| 2a6e20f | I am no Christian. These days it does no good to confess that, for the bishops and abbots have too much influence and it is easier to pretend to a faith than to fight angry ideas. I was raised a Christian, but at ten years old, when I was taken into Ragnar's family, I discovered the old Saxon gods who were also the gods of the Danes and of the Norsemen, and their worship has always made more sense to me than bowing down to a god who belongs.. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 8861b35 | Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am. | Diablo Cody | ||
| bb6edf9 | If you're alive, don't move, if you're dead, don't worry about it. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 13b4e47 | In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key. | riquiem | Laurell K. Hamilton | |
| 21779f1 | It would be nice if you'd stop almost killing me because you don't want to screw other people. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| b83adc0 | That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world. | Laurell K. Hamilton | ||
| 7593b25 | the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. | José Saramago | ||
| b305ac5 | qd ysbb lkhwf l`m~ | José Saramago | ||
| 07c6ec1 | sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another... | José Saramago | ||
| d93e902 | Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 29914d2 | It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 1d3d23c | At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that's the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn't the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way throug.. | Richard Bach | ||
| 8afa8ce | You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however. | Richard Bach | ||
| 4e6097b | Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful | legends life | Michael Moorcock | |
| 4fb3c3a | Are you making fun of my hero complex?' Yeah. | jaine sam | Linda Howard | |
| 76e6e38 | One picture puzzle piece Lyin' on the sidewalk, One picture puzzle piece Soakin' in the rain. It might be a button of blue On the coat of the woman Who lived in a shoe. It might be a magical bean, Or a fold in the red Velvet robe of a queen. It might be the one little bite Of the apple her stepmother Gave to Snow White. It might be the veil of a bride Or a bottle with some evil genie inside. It might be a small tuft of hair On the big bounc.. | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 1f7a9ab | When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter-someone new? Someone better-maybe YOU! | Shel Silverstein | ||
| 5e45a0f | The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean... | Daniel Clowes | ||
| 31992aa | Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 44d4d71 | The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| d35fa07 | Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting. | Nick Flynn |