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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e878f04 | It's precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive--or at least a partial sense of it. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 5dcce4b | A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 477be90 | This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn't a place for me. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| ec976be | Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 48af42c | Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c897ac5 | Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 8b25ab2 | There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get. | getting-older life-goals p164 | Kim Gruenenfelder | |
| 2087138 | Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. | Kim Edwards | ||
| 546c324 | Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important fo.. | music redemption sin | Brennan Manning | |
| 907613a | The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation. | forest jungle weakness | Tahir Shah | |
| 9c90726 | I missed her, the idea of her. | missing-someone | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 6142bfc | Once again, I don't quite know where I'm headed Steph. It seems that every few years I'm shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can't seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And I'm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I'm .. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| 5676e9e | And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it | Jodi Picoult | ||
| bea464f | i don't know. i don't care. all i know is when you pay for something that's supposed to give you a cup of coffee, you deserve to get your fucking cup of coffee. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 8f64a44 | When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 990e6a1 | Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 522a83a | I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b897576 | be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 7de8426 | Other people look at me and think: But all I see when I look at you is that girl who had memorized all the words to Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by the time she was three, the girl who crawls into bed with me whenever there's a thunderstorm - not because you're afraid but because am, the girl whose laugh has always vibrated inside my own body like a tuning fork. I would never have wished for an able-bodied child, because that child would.. | motherly-love parent | Jodi Picoult | |
| 5615ea8 | I've never been in love, but I've always imagined it--weirdly--like some sort of OxiClean commercial. The TV host shows a scene from an ordinary day, and then takes a big old sponge soaked in love and swipes away the stains. Suddenly that same scene is missing all the mistakes, all the loneliness. The colors are like jewels, ten times richer than they were before. The music is louder and clearer. "Love," the host will say, "makes life a lit.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 5558d1c | They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9a6f6a8 | Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven? | Jodi Picoult | ||
| abdbd05 | He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 309a667 | He kissed my forehead gently. "Loving you has put me through hell more than once, Sassenach; I'll risk it again, if need be." "Bah," I said. "And you think loving you has been a bed of roses, do you?" This time he laughed out loud. "No," he said, "but you'll maybe keep doing it?" "Maybe I will, at that." "You're a verra stubborn woman," he said, the smile clear in his voice." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| fd018d9 | And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire--- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. --Jamie | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| e207c5b | When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings; I was by and large a grubby child, with a blissful disregard for filth of any kind. It was because I couldn't bring myself believe that that perfect smooth expanse was no more than I thin film of water over solid earth. I believed it was an opening into some fathomless space. Sometimes, seeing the tiny ripples caused by my approac.. | fantasy imagination science-fiction time-travel | Diana Gabaldon | |
| e7dca6f | I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off. | William Faulkner | ||
| 2743e37 | And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time. | William Faulkner | ||
| 6d750b1 | I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it! | dark new-england winter | William Faulkner | |
| 24bbe14 | To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom. | life unfettered | James Joyce | |
| 6ff995b | I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses | roses | James Joyce | |
| 10e7518 | Be just before you are generous. | generous ireland james-joyce just justice stephen ulysses | James Joyce | |
| faa2584 | How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 14f6d5c | There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want--or near enough. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 2b53958 | Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 33d1d1c | I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I? | Roald Dahl | ||
| d17fb5b | And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 3bacb90 | Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley! | Dr. Seuss | ||
| f6e159b | Faith is believing in something you know isn't true. | believe faith religion truth | Tom Robbins | |
| 67a253e | Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. | goals rushing | Tom Robbins | |
| 30c0f22 | If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all. | choice consequences freedom redemption responsibility society | Tom Robbins | |
| 47e303f | Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that's only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we're all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism. | artists craziness sanity society | Tom Robbins | |
| efc5394 | Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself! | Tom Robbins | ||
| b0abb9b | And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them. | friendship identity isolation | Kim Stanley Robinson |