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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 40c3462 | It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| eef284a | The only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| bf0f8e2 | The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| da56cf9 | I never met a soul in this world as normal as me. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2faf070 | His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two. | resentment | Kim Edwards | |
| d0a9aab | I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer. | Woody Allen | ||
| ebb15fe | just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. | inspirational thoughtful | Steve Martin | |
| 7964dcd | There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| d3c836e | I'm weird. Everyone says so. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| cace089 | She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 43f5145 | It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common. | common differences house-rules people | Jodi Picoult | |
| 58ff1ba | You can boil your life down to a single suitcase, if you desperately have to. Ask yourself what you really need, and it won't be what you imagine - you will easily toss aside unfinished work, and bills, and your daily calendar to make room for the pair of flannel pajamas you wear when it rains; and the stone your child gave you that is shaped like a heart; and the battered paperback you revisit every April because it was what you were readi.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 47b01a4 | It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids. | jodi-picoult mothers | Jodi Picoult | |
| 8639412 | I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e76ef45 | I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you've survived, or the minutes you've been stuck there. Probably, though, life is mo.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d5b0f66 | Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach," he said, his speech measured and precise, "I will take later, every time." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 7a1797c | Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk." You aren't standing up." he point out. You are." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 58edcf7 | I think of you so often you have no idea. | James Joyce | ||
| 131cfe6 | I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 7458149 | The snozberries taste like snozberries! | Roald Dahl | ||
| 68cf5d5 | Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up. | endurance hero motivational not-giving-up spirit | Roald Dahl | |
| a7483b4 | However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 19c63a8 | Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 5e9c392 | It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory. | holocaust jewish jewish-tradition jews | Elie Wiesel | |
| cb538d1 | Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 0decb41 | But at least I tried | Ken Kesey | ||
| 9eec5d3 | I live in fear of being alive. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7d748a3 | his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 844865b | And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day | Dr. Seuss | ||
| 2a57c93 | Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It's their favorite word, next to 'power.' 'Gotta stabilize the political situation in Southeast Asia, gotta stabilize oil production and consumption, gotta stabilize student opposition to the government' and so forth. Stabilization to them means order.. | order rigidity stability totalitarianism | Tom Robbins | |
| 40ef603 | Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous." | new-orleans | Tom Robbins | |
| 550656f | If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promise.. | conformity future history mainstream new-orleans past present time timelessness | Tom Robbins | |
| af24734 | What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it may be levity. If civilization is ever going to be anything but a grandiose pratfall, anything more than a can of deodorize.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 88e49b5 | Boundaries--You respect my boundaries, and when you're not clear about what's okay and not okay, you ask. You're willing to say no. Reliability--You do what you say you'll do. At work, this means staying aware of your competencies and limitations so you don't overpromise and are able to deliver on commitments and balance competing priorities. Accountability--You own your mistakes, apologize, and make amends. Vault--You don't share informati.. | Brené Brown | ||
| 907688b | We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone. | Kim Stanley Robinson | ||
| 6c75031 | Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8925c95 | Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d00f9e3 | Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves." | Douglas Coupland | ||
| e0519db | The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. | future hope now the-present victory | Howard Zinn | |
| 75b3e53 | Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man hadn't died of a heart attack. Instead he seemed to thrive on disaster and finding people seated in the wrong places. | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 56a8c1d | If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period." "Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending." | Tamora Pierce | ||
| 0ff58dc | Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather. | love | Tamora Pierce | |
| 023971e | It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 9bbc28f | Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague. | Honoré de Balzac |