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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3d740c7 | Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck. | luck spice sunday turmeric | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 127afe1 | There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves. | John Fowles | ||
| e9faf43 | she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever kissed her, feeling faint with joy when he began to kiss her back, his mouth moving with fierce tenderness, then opening with fiery demand over hers, until their breaths were mingled gasps, and they were straining to one another. | judith-mcnaught love whitney whitney-my-love | Judith McNaught | |
| 5f00bfd | Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them. | cry pride stock tears | Judith McNaught | |
| a228866 | Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart | Judith McNaught | ||
| d1a9b96 | Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| abd9d49 | Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. | tattooing tattoos | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 4516900 | Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. | nature strength weakness | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 5537edb | Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet. | Norton Juster | ||
| 3615707 | Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec though.. | Norton Juster | ||
| ac9442d | And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 9dc2f56 | You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it | geometry | James Gleick | |
| 48445cd | It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate. | hatred oppression | James Baldwin | |
| 47c449b | No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. | Willa Cather | ||
| bdaa7da | I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way--by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| feeb7dd | November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully...just like a stately old lady who knows she can be charming even with gray hair and wrinkles. We've had lovely days and delicious twilights. | fall november | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 4a056ac | She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9d3de77 | It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2ca089d | We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent. | bell hooks | ||
| 36a2d9d | The object of life is to make sure you die a weird death. To make sure that, however it finds you, it finds you under very weird circumstances. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 13338f6 | I'm average. I've been average most of my life, but there are moments where I feel extraordinary. Invincible. Able to conquer any fear and step outside any box. There is no illusion, no fantasy. I can climb a forty-foot pole. I can fly eighty-feet in the air. I can be taller than tall. It's a dream that I'm living. Every day. With him. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 1529a66 | I'm dirty," I refute, hot tears brimming. "You don't want me." His face twists in pain. "I don't think that. Neither should you." His lips graze my neck and then find my ear. "Lil, I want you to ask me. I need you to." He presses his forehead to my temple, gently edging me closer to the mattress, his hands tight on my hips. I continue to struggle for breath. I know what he wants now. He wants this to be real. So do I. "Help me," I say, brea.. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| c0014d7 | Lo," I whisper, my fingers making circles on his black shirt. "I just want you to know that if you leave this world, I won't be in it for much longer." He's a piece of me. You cut it off, and it's like going through life with no lungs." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 077c2f2 | A NOTE FROM RYKE Fuck off. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| f2acacd | You're a permanent fixture in my life. You're not going anywhere. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| d4afc79 | Damned Beaver/Jeremy the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the senses and the other second-class trivia that are found among the idle and mindless hours of the day....Damn them, they are wrong. They are insane. | government rebellion status-quo war | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 42e521e | Do you think things always have an explanation? "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist." | theory understanding | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 0544a03 | Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 9a3660d | Awake. And alone with demons of my own. | superstition truth | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 097706e | lmr l ystTy` `d l'qmr lmsh`@ `l~ sqwfh ,, 'w l'lf shms lmshrq@ lty tkhtby' khlf jdrnh !! | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4845a4d | I see America has infused you with the optimism that has made her so great | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6ae4148 | She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns. | peace wisdom within | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 9ea4b99 | I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I have learned is that you dig a little and you find they're all the same, give or take. Some are more polished, granted. They may come with a little bit of charm-- Or a lot -- and that can fool you. But really they're all unhappy little boys sloshing around in their own rage. They feel wronged. They haven't been given their due. No one loved th.. | men relationships | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 6d472d8 | You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. | friendship pessimistic reality wise | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 77b6237 | If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| e872910 | No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk. What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 168ef41 | What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden. | literature reading words | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| ae62cc3 | I think you're beautiful, the only beautiful person I've ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 69ce35a | To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. | E.M. Forster | ||
| bad35e4 | You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. | humour mediocrity oneida-cult | Sarah Vowell | |
| 58e7d15 | You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts. | gomez nellie | Gordon Korman | |
| d152847 | Who's that new guy with the snooty accent who came out and talked to the police?" Evan persisted. "He looks like some kind of male model." "That's just my cousin Ian," Amy explained. "Not much of a family resemblance," Evan noted sourly. "He's like a twenty-fifth cousin, ten times removed." Evan was not satisfied." -- | Gordon Korman | ||
| 931c89d | Dan instantly recognized the angry scratch that stretched from the corner of Ian's eye all the way along the olive skin to his chin. "Have you been messing with Saladin?" "No. Saladin has been messing with me," Ian shot back. "He isn't big on Lucians," Dan explained. "Animals are really good judges of character." | Gordon Korman | ||
| b6da3ea | We don't have to love it. We just have to steal it. | Gordon Korman |