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| 2791b76 | But it was not the room's disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief. | grief punishment room soul | James Baldwin | |
| bc0d107 | The new country lay open before me: there were no fences in those days, and I could choose my own way over the grass uplands, trusting the pony to get me home again. Sometimes I followed the sunflower-bordered roads. Fuchs told me that the sunflowers were introduced into that country by the Mormons; that at the time of the persecution when they left Missouri and struck out into the wilderness to find a place where they could worship God in .. | mormons sunflowers | Willa Cather | |
| 266c5c8 | And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| df52dac | The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| d0e8b27 | Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it... | life | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 3fc371f | Despair is a free man--hope is a slave. | hope | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 8f7f4ff | It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant... | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0d96720 | In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love. | Bell Hooks | ||
| f9a7693 | She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back as possible. We are secondary at this point.' | captain-short eight eoin-colfer holly-short humor secondary series | Eoin Colfer | |
| 3dead5b | I can hear our hearts breaking." A tear wets my fingertips, his tears, and his other hand encases my face, the way mine does him. His lips nearly skim mine. "I'll shield your ears from the sound of heartbreak." | heartache love rose-calloway | Krista Ritchie | |
| d64a658 | Remember how when we were little?" I whisper. "You'd chase me around before midnight." "You always ran out of breath." "I wanted you to catch me." "I thought so." "Catch me," I whisper. "I already have," he murmurs." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 4fdd8f5 | I have so many regrets. I don't believe anyone who says they don't. How can you live life making mistakes and never wish you could take one back? | Krista Ritchie | ||
| f6ef0d1 | Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| d23e063 | It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| df9fe7a | When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 9aa003f | Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me. | sad sorrow spiritual sustenance | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 21aa3de | There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 238322b | What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e144d15 | When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?" | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| e24782e | I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. | soul | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| 784ff62 | I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 75df169 | There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 32ff3cd | Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong. | tranquility | E.M. Forster | |
| 8088981 | Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by | Yann Martel | ||
| fa5a01f | the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. | mankind philosophy truth | Yann Martel | |
| 5b85f6a | Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b332688 | You thought I would not weesh to marry him? Or per'aps you hoped?" said Fleur, her nostrils flaring. "What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave! And I shall do zat!" she added fiercely, pushing Mrs. Weasley aside and snatching the ointment from her." | J.K. Rowling | ||
| cbcf37d | You may, perhaps, have wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must cofess...that I rather thought...you had enough reponsibility to be going on with." Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard." | harry-potter-5 | J.K. Rowling | |
| db37ee8 | So you're telling me that the whole of history rests on . . . Neville Longbottom? This is pretty wild. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 8a66696 | I would like to take this opportunity to reassure Muggle purchasers that the amusing creatures described hereafter are fictional and cannot hurt you.To wizards, I say merely: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5617f8c | Thing was' he faced them, and Harry was astonished to see that he was grinning, 'they bit of a bit more than they could chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably think they didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway' Neville laughed, 'Dawlish is still in St Mungo's and Gran is on the run. She sent me a letter,' he clapped a hand to the breast pocket of his robes, 'telling me she was proud of me, that I'm my .. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 03f9ddb | He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort's feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . . | hide-and-seek voldemort | J.K. Rowling | |
| f2a5fe4 | Bill, don't look at me -- I'm 'ideous. | fleur-delacour | J.K. Rowling | |
| a553639 | You the Chosen One?" "Of course I am," said Harry calmly. "But then . . . my dear boy . . . you're asking a great deal . . .you're asking me, in fact, to aid you in your attempt to destroy --" "You don't want to get rid of the wizard who killed Lily Evans?" "Harry, Harry, of course I do, but --" "You're scared he'll find out you helped me?" Slughorn said nothing; he looked terrified. "Be brave like my mother, Professor. . . ." | slughorn the-chosen-one | J.K. Rowling | |
| f5f71a9 | Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b3fb3d7 | But Snape always seemed to hate me so much. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| d4a4716 | You can't give a Dementor the old one-two! | uncle-vernon | J.K. Rowling | |
| 98aaa73 | Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes. | girls harry-potter hermione humor parvati | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9ffbc3c | As they climbed it, the various Healers called out to them, diagnosing odd complaints and suggesting horrible remedies. Ron was seriously affronted when a medieval wizard called out that he clearly had a bad case of spattergroit. "And what's that supposed to be?" he asked angrily, as the Healer pursued him through six more portraits, shoving the occupants out of the way. " 'Tis a most grievous affliction of the skin, young master, that will.. | ron-weasley | J.K. Rowling | |
| b006460 | Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself i.. | love madness movies | Louis de Bernières | |
| 1fae920 | What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his ske.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 552a84a | Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 846e60e | The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| ef5aa78 | memories are funny things. Sometimes they're real, but other times they change into what we want them to be, | Nicholas Sparks |