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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4282b4c | The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. | self-control temptation | Oscar Wilde | |
| 94c1f01 | Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star. | deception | Toni Morrison | |
| e6cb21b | Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon - everything belonged to the men who had the guns. Little men, some of them, big men too, each one of whom he could snap like a twig if he wanted to. Men who knew that their manhood .. | love slavery | Toni Morrison | |
| 49f2da2 | And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 88448d8 | The coldest depth of Hell is reserved for people who abandon kittens. | funny humor kittens | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| b5895bc | I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... But that's not all people laugh at." Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." He thought.. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b23e30b | The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b09b860 | Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 7f0c131 | He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 079b81a | He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| deb2774 | I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 014a483 | Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives. | moment | Mary Balogh | |
| 0abe13f | There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not." | past | Mary Balogh | |
| 73e8d4f | Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 243cd75 | Everything said about Gen Xers--both positive and negative--was completely true. Twenty-somethings in the nineties rejected the traditional working-class American lifestyle because (a) they were smart enough to realize those values were unsatisfying, and (b) they were totally fucking lazy. Twenty-somethings in the nineties embraced a record like Nirvana's Nevermind because (a) it was a sociocultural affront to the vapidity of the Reagan-era.. | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| 9c494ef | I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation." --Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life." | Chuck Klosterman | ||
| d01f0a9 | The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves? | Joseph Campbell | ||
| 296f811 | Tal told me he loved me, and told me and told me, but you don't tell someone that and then tell them they're not experienced enough in bed and should read a book or something to learn, or they should try wearing deep-red lipstick and tight skirts to look hot like their best friend once in a while. If Tal hadn't lied to me when he said he loved me, I might not be without a future right now, a sucker who was so chickenshit she allowed herself.. | Rachel Cohn | ||
| d597bff | So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you? | Rachel Cohn | ||
| 2ea254b | There came a time in everyone's life when they realized that in spite of how hard they'd been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable. | inspirational | J.R. Ward | |
| a66a9ed | Halle-fucking-lujah! | J.R. Ward | ||
| 404b81a | Sorry to bother you," Bella said over the wailing. "But she wants her daddy." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 8e31048 | To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of others is being adjusted, they, who are not made of mere brute matter, are also changing; we think we have managed to see them more clearly, but they shift; and when we believe we have them ful.. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 888f2d9 | Don't give up on books. They feel so good--their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with your sensitive fingertips. A large part of our brains is devoted to deciding what our hands are touching, is good or bad for us. Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| e366c5f | The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars. | human life slaughterhouse-five time | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| d8a6f88 | History is merely a list of surprises,' I said. 'It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down. | kurt vonnegut | ||
| 95f5f3a | Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| ba1343d | Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 9f8a15a | I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable. | photos | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| ef04eba | Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness. | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| d9ad577 | Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias--boredom. | utopian utopias | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| f890133 | The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out. | philosophy | Georges Bataille | |
| 0e19ea6 | I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go really crazy. I ran onto the court with eleven seconds left once and stole the ball from the other team. It wasn't pretty. But, you know. I have a streak to maintain. | John Green | ||
| 598e2ed | She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person. | John Green | ||
| 86b09fa | You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered." | John Green | ||
| d1f6f12 | That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. | relationships | John Green | |
| 309b160 | Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his ball-lessness etc. and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. | tfios the-fault-in-our-stars | John Green | |
| daad9c6 | I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're hiding out?" And then I hum a few bars of one of their songs and Mom says, "Oh, I know that song. It's on the mix you made me," and I say, "Right," and she says, "Well you have to be back by eleven," and I say, "Mom this is a historical event. History doesn't have a curfew," and she says, "Back by eleven," and I say, "Fi.. | John Green | ||
| dfd1b08 | I couldn't be mad at him for even a moment, and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation... | John Green | ||
| f3c8f8e | The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that's why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood. | John Green | ||
| 22692c0 | And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. | leaving liberation never-again paralyzing perfect upsetting | John Green | |
| 8ec1cab | No, whoever was out there didn't want to take her in. But his sights were on her, gun sights, steady. Clear. She stared into them, and with a mocking smile, mouthed the words, I dare you!" (Cassie Sinclair) *** He smiled at the challenge. One day, she just might dare him too far, but he doubted it would be a bullet he'd penetrate her with. (Unknown Breed)" | Lora Leigh | ||
| 7b58903 | Testosterone overload?" Merinus gave an unladylike grunt. "More like asshole overload if you ask me." | testosterone | Lora Leigh | |
| 2d968d5 | I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to. | inspirational religious | Joyce Meyer |