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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ce3a95e | When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| bfe1267 | One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 91b8758 | Love is always bestowed as a gift! freely, willingly, and without expectation.... We don't love to be loved, we love to love | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| fbe801e | I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 492fac7 | It's what we chase but never find. It is the mystery of our lives, the understanding that even when we have everything we want it is one day to leave us. It's the something unseen, the lurking devastation, the darkness that gives our lives dimension. | Marisha Pessl | ||
| 7ecdae2 | Exercise improves your sex life. Ranger to Stephanie | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 9707261 | Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 2e5f530 | At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying attention to all the things that nature give us for free: clean air, clean water, breathtaking vistas, mountains for skiing, rivers for fishing, oceans for sailing, sunsets for poets, and landscapes for painters. What good is it to have wind-powere.. | Thomas L. Friedman | ||
| 9226120 | Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there. | Lois Lowry | ||
| b3c036d | Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all. | Lois Lowry | ||
| c2c23d4 | Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, the will butting its blunt head against the world's wall, suchlike, but when I look back I see that the greater part of my energies was always given over to the simple search for shelter, for comfort, for, yes, I admit it, for cosiness. This is a surprising, not to say shocking, realisation. Before, I saw myself as something of a buccaneer, facing all-c.. | John Banville | ||
| 21f105c | There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything! | everything nothing something | Libba Bray | |
| 494fa22 | He doesn't know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 2313dc8 | The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| caead30 | Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 24dde34 | I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 85cbab3 | Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only ta.. | conditioning dissent santa | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 0c6ae90 | I want to be more like James Bond, and less like Ian Fleming. | Jarod Kintz | ||
| 42f65a6 | She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| eacbae4 | If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - if you find yourself at a loss for what to do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignness of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside was much less. It's not th.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 7c78f4a | THE DEATH OF LEOPOLD GURSKY Leopold Gursky started dying on August 18, 1920. He died learning to walk. He died standing at the blackboard. And once, also, carrying a heavy tray. He died practicing a new way to sign his name. Opening a window. Washing his genitals in the bath. He died alone, because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone. Or he died thinking about Alma. Or when he chose not to. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 33d3b20 | Rage. Sing, O Muse, of the rage of Achilles, of Peleus' son, murderous, man-killer, fated to die, sing of the rage that cost the Achaeans so many good men and sent so many vital, hearty souls down to the dreary House of Death. And while you're at it, Muse, sing of the rage of the gods themselves, so petulant and so powerful here on their new Olympos, and of the rage of the post-humans, dead and gone though they might be, and of the rage of .. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 309a44c | I said, "I need to hear something that's going to save my life." Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox. " | Michael Chabon | ||
| f5b0761 | Some things that are invisible and untouchable can nevertheless be seen and felt. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 9b5816c | Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional. | Max Lucado | ||
| 23a5313 | the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 028606e | At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth." | suffer | Paulo Coelho | |
| f64583a | ndm tjdyn Tryqk , yjb 'l tkhfy , wyjb 'n tkwn ldyk ljr'@ lkml ltrtkby l'khT , wyjb 'n t`lmy 'n khyb@ l'ml , wlnksr , wlnhzm , wly's , hy 'dwt ystkhdmh llh , lyrshdn l~ lTryq | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 54d2c9a | If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| da30e03 | It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 1c3a06a | hych wqt bh hyshkhy chyzy ngw. gh bgy dlt br hmh tng my shh. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 12c639e | I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone--a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 4da9937 | Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 340d3a1 | Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them... You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stup.. | guys holden-caulfield humor | J.D. Salinger | |
| 3f13814 | Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she knew she was able to fly because when sh.. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 5b21c9d | It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 60b5371 | But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 995a007 | I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to. | J.D. Salinger | ||
| 6fe173e | Price. You're priceless. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| 1693eca | People are afraid to merge. | Bret Easton Ellis | ||
| bb28161 | This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here. | some-people | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| e791161 | Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. | children despair enlightenment | Hermann Hesse | |
| 38328c6 | In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. | helplessness loss religion | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 3c6061d | The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imaginations to accept. After all, what is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? ....there is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protected/ protective. One is respected and judged only as a human being. You cannot cast a Gethnian in the role of Man or Woman, while adopting towards 'him' a corresponding role dependant on your .. | Ursula K. Le Guin |