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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 149e205 | What possessed ye, woman, to hit me in the heid wi' a fish whilst I was fighting for my life? | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 6822347 | Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let fle.. | William Faulkner | ||
| 77d6a58 | Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well. | James Joyce | ||
| 8606953 | She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free. | James Joyce | ||
| 65259c5 | Two wrongs don't make a right. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 477157b | The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious. | Roald Dahl | ||
| ad55a37 | The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... | suffering | Elie Wiesel | |
| f18c622 | Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 72bb639 | Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys... | Ken Kesey | ||
| 3238365 | Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. | Ken Kesey | ||
| a4a831e | The world news might not be therapeutic. | Ken Kesey | ||
| d8b520f | And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7719224 | Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 5d18807 | y que en cualquier lugar en que estuvieran recordaran siempre que el pasado era mentira, que la memoria no tenia caminos de regreso, que toda primavera antigua era irrecuperable, y que el amor mas desatinado y tenaz era de todos modos una verdad efimera. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 0fa604c | He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a2f6e86 | Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings.' Huh?' Quite so. The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, ou.. | language mental-illness slang word-choice | Tom Robbins | |
| 61a96f4 | As Rumi says, "We're all just walking each other home." | Brené Brown | ||
| 6349fd3 | Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up. | Brené Brown | ||
| 6ecdd39 | I told myself no matter what she did i would not let the b**** take me down | Dave Pelzer | ||
| 968dada | Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 33006dc | Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days. | generation-x generational-divide | Douglas Coupland | |
| bb84729 | There are three things we cry for in life - things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 1c3ec18 | I think there is a Paris inside us all. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 94c23bc | The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world." (p. 65)" | Howard Zinn | ||
| 78cabf5 | Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch! | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 3d9dff6 | I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo | humor | Tite Kubo | |
| eff6766 | Every thing in this world exist to wear you down | break life wear-down world | Tite Kubo | |
| cffe30e | Dolgan: 'Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when 'tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly. | Raymond E. Feist | ||
| 1b4e2a4 | the headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 7edcc80 | Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say. | mastiff silence | Tamora Pierce | |
| d6b51eb | She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday. | followed harassment metaphor | Tamora Pierce | |
| 810f6bc | Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and nurtures the wilderness of his soil and his plants that his garden seems to flourish most. Wildness, he has found, resides not only out there, but right .. | gardening life nature nurture wild wilderness | Michael Pollan | |
| 6a9716c | Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| be6d71c | Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 731845b | I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. | thinking | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 467fe51 | hl tdrk y sydy l`zyz m m`n~ 'n l y`rf lnsn l~ 'yn ydhhb ? dhlk 'nh lbd lkl nsn 'n ystTy` ldhhb l~ mkn m. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 86387c3 | You know how to steer a yacht?" Mr. McIntyre asked Ian worriedly. "I was born knowing how to steer a yacht," Ian said. Then a stricken look came over his face. "But-do you suppose Jonah prepaid the full amount for renting this? Once my dad hears what Natalie and I did, he'll cancel our credit cards." "You mean we're...we're poor now?" Natalie gasped. "Penniless," Ian said grimly. "Actually," Mr. McIntyre said, "I should have mentioned this .. | kabras the39clues | Margaret Peterson Haddix | |
| e5f6d12 | What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits. | Augustine of Hippo | ||
| 4902d5d | Night falls fast. Today is the past. | edna-st-vincent-millay | John Green | |
| cd00c9c | I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be sel.. | contrarianism dissent dissidents free-thought harold-rosenberg honorifics hormones independence memoirs oppositionism rebellion words youth | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 264a096 | The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. | blood fear hellsing mythology vampires | Kohta Hirano | |
| 13b7672 | If you want to call it quits, just tell me. Man up and say it to my face. Don't just skulk around. | awkward awkward-moments breakup breakup-quotes breakups call-it-quites fights j-m-richards jerk-boyfriend jerks man-up tall-dark-streak-of-lighting tdsol | J.M. Richards | |
| 797a19a | You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people. | Evelyn Waugh | ||
| 3c428c9 | It's a sun lamp. I thought you might be tired of your pasty-pale complexion. (Chris) Christopher, I happen to be a Viking in the middle of winter in Minnesota. Lack of a deep tan goes with the whole Nordic territory. Why do you think we raided Europe anyway? (Wulf) Because it was there? (Chris) No, we wanted to thaw out. (Wulf) | Sherrilyn Kenyon |