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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| be30ebe | I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 4812f1d | A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| ddfa3c6 | There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 2e15fe4 | As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it tur.. | John Champlin Gardner Jr. | ||
| 48df226 | Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. | classic-quotes faith grace hope ignorance inspiration marvelousmonday-quotes mercy nanowrimo national-novel-writing-month peace peacism quotes-by-famous-authors quotes-by-famous-poets silver souls spirituality stars survival terrorism the-soul war world-suicide-prevention-day | Aberjhani | |
| dcb10fd | Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 72ec960 | Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run. | Kathy Acker | ||
| 1c4a5de | I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| d2c8639 | When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out. But it's a lie. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| e35f95c | I swallowed the fear. It's always there- fear- and if you don't stay on top of it, you'll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, "Yeah, you're bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you." | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 7553747 | The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 2cedf0d | The world is crazy. You need a license to drive a car and go fishing. You don't need a license to start a family. Two people have sex and BAM! Perfectly innocent kid is born whose life will be screwed up by her parents forever. | family laurie-halse-anderson love the-impossible-knife-of-memory | Laurie Halse Anderson | |
| 80d81c3 | I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 17b304f | My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid if this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 582accc | Become such as you are, having learned what that is. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| aba90d2 | We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens. | John Fowles | ||
| cb9bc74 | God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped. "God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first." | Judith McNaught | ||
| 70a0f1c | Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 7a983a5 | There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| d952b0e | The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| b1de295 | It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 04f6a7f | The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. | life-lessons philosophy-of-life | Chinua Achebe | |
| b2011b2 | At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed. | willpower | Chinua Achebe | |
| a2bfa99 | There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to do with the lives we lead and I don't believe that anybody in this country who has really thought about it or really almost anybody who has been brought up against it--and almost all of us have one way or another--this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can .. | self-discovery | James Baldwin | |
| b237823 | Where there is great love there are always miracles,' he said at length. 'One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment ou.. | Willa Cather | ||
| 7eeac38 | Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might ha.. | Elizabeth Berg | ||
| cb84b91 | You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 33d6755 | Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously... | sunshine | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 994b36a | When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny. | love spirituality | bell hooks | |
| 1b03dfb | All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don't challenge ourselves to actually practice. | bell hooks | ||
| 3c58eaf | Independence has nothing to do with whether or not someone chooses to be single or to be married, to have children or to not have children. Independence by definition is about self-governing. About choosing for yourself. About making your own decisions. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| cffabc1 | My advice," I say, "don't seek love from other people. Just love who you are enough that it won't matter whether or not you find your Rochester." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| f7418ba | How do you measure love? Is it by the things we're willing to do? By the sacrifices we're willing to make? | Krista Ritchie | ||
| a558dbf | You are your own anchor. Do you want to keep burning or are you going to let yourself rise? | Krista Ritchie | ||
| d511e08 | He's my drug that I gladly consume. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| bbc93af | Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' mad! You won't even let me mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, Vicky? | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 6f1ca0b | Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is; I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities; I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being throw.. | dangerous love subversive | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| cc5743c | And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all.. | mania | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 4f77ddc | Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast | language-learning language-understanding | Madeleine L'Engle | |
| 8bb79b2 | If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought? | Katherine Paterson | ||
| 309d80e | He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now...He was alone and there was nothing for him. | Gary Paulsen | ||
| 0b959e8 | She would grab whatever she could - a look, a whisper, a moan - to salvage from perishing, to preserve. But time is most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all . | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 201626e | He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 71ec680 | Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not. | Khaled Hosseini |