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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8bf1867 | I've had the blues for twenty-four years. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d32c829 | Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist. We are one long frightening climax. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| c8a941b | I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| d0523d7 | It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 98743de | Depression to me is urine yellow. Washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 6018cf4 | And then you run into Nick Dunne on the Seventh Avenue as you're buying diced cantaloupe, and pow, you are known, you are recognized, the both of you. You both find the exact same things worth remembering (Just one olive, though.) You have the same rhythm. Click. You just know each other. All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you.. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| c039765 | Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, and let the cameras get their fifteen seconds, and I whispered deep inside her ear, 'You fucking bitch. | bitch revenge spoilers | Gillian Flynn | |
| 1b56d49 | My twin, Go. I've said this phrase so many times, it has become a reassuring mantra instead of actual words: Mytwingo. We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves. We even have a dash of twin telepathy. Go is truly the one person in the entire world I am totally myself with. I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry... | Gillian Flynn | ||
| fd34a8a | A veces sienta bien joder a alguien. En vez de que siempre lo jodan a uno | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 94db21e | It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it didn't. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| df1f131 | Everyone has their own version of a memory, | Gillian Flynn | ||
| f5e5709 | you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you | Paul Auster | ||
| ed99b17 | How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst t.. | moonlight the-merchant-of-venice william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| c6e7f4e | She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 5fb91bc | A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon | Alice Sebold | ||
| 44c86bf | To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. | Robert M. Pirsig | ||
| 76e75fd | Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!" | Ayn Rand | ||
| bcba006 | This is pity," he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue." | virtue | Ayn Rand | |
| e74327c | It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. | Anne Tyler | ||
| d1e16a2 | Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5727c2d | A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. And I have searched myself for this possibility with a kind of horror. For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed f.. | living-well manhood | John Steinbeck | |
| e7dbcff | One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make." | Neil Strauss | ||
| ebb0c67 | Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 8ebf8b0 | You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. | Arthur Golden | ||
| a09a19c | I'm wondering, if there was something you wanted, had wanted for some time, what would you do about it?" "If I've wanted it, why don't I have it?" "Because you haven't made any real effort to get it as yet." "And why haven't I?" He arched his sandy brows. "Am I slow or just stupid?" Brenna thought it over, decided he couldn't know he'd just insulted his first born. Then she nodded slowly. "Maybe a bit of both in this particular case." Relie.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| a0745f6 | If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway. | Nora Roberts | ||
| e8e94a8 | The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 74a2b2e | Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4aee65c | You become what you think about | inspiration money success | Napoleon Hill | |
| bbaedea | IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them. | mistakes self-help self-improvement success weakness | Napoleon Hill | |
| bc9b18e | Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabulary, in how they express causation and feelings and personal responsibility, hence in how they shape our thoughts. There's no single purpose "best" language; instead, different languages are better suited for different purposes. For instance, i.. | language thought | Jared Diamond | |
| ff387e2 | We think our actions express our decisions. But in nearly all of our life, willing decides nothing. We cannot wake up or fall asleep, remember or forget our dreams, summon or banish our thoughts, by deciding to do so. When we greet someone on the street we just act, and there is no actor standing behind what we do. Our acts are end points in long sequences of unconscious responses. They arise from a structure of habits and skills that is al.. | John Gray | ||
| 6ea08ac | The hardship of the exercises is intended less to strengthen the back than to toughen the mind. The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has its legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone. | warrior-ethos | Steven Pressfield | |
| 719069d | Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. This metaphor of friendship can be grounded in the clay nature of the human body. When you find the person you love, an act of ancient recognition brings you together. It is as if millions of years before the silence of nature broke, your lover's clay and your clay lay side by side. Then in the turning of the s.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 7edfd83 | The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be The most important thing we ever learn about God--the He yearns for relationship with us. "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God" (John 17:3). The whole story of the Bible is a love story between God and His people. He yearns for us. He cares. He has a t.. | love relationships | Stasi Eldredge | |
| d676360 | There were six dolls to be taken up and dressed every morning, for Beth was a child still, and loved her pets as well as ever. Not one whole or handsome one among them; all were outcasts till Beth took them in; for, when her sisters outgrew these idols, they passed to her.... Beth cherished them all the more tenderly for that very reason, and set up a hospital for infirm dolls. No pins were ever stuck into their cotton vitals; no harsh word.. | love | Louisa May Alcott | |
| a1e2829 | Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better. | learning | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 53c212b | Janet! Donkeys! | Charles Dickens | ||
| ff6049b | Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. | Charles Dickens | ||
| cd8ded7 | it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 669ddc9 | A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 525954c | It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. | past present | Frank Herbert | |
| e036db2 | this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world.. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| f4ffe7d | The President in particular is very much a figurehead -- he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zap.. | political-power politics power president propaganda | Douglas Adams |