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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0da5059 | talvez as lagrimas nao sejam mais do que isso, o alivio duma ofensa. | José Saramago | ||
| cf59a11 | nk mtfy'l .. l lst mtfy'lan, lkny l 'tkhyl 'n hnk 'sw' mn wD`n lHly. | José Saramago | ||
| ceff467 | this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow. | José Saramago | ||
| aa674f3 | Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. | Isaac Asimov | ||
| 89d91b0 | Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 7aeb21e | The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. | Don DeLillo | ||
| 6b836cd | It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . . | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 4145ab9 | The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he's circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He circles lower and lower, spinning around the candle in tighter revolutions, like a soap sud over an open drain. A few times he seems to touch the flame, but dances off unhurt. Then he ignites like a ball .. | insects love moth smoke star-crossed tragedy | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 7a23064 | Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me? | Linda Howard | ||
| 109c8c1 | If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. | crete dreams greece happiness jack-r-kearns mrs-sjostrom nostalgia third-grade | Shel Silverstein | |
| 8f1dfa8 | Ivy's COOK THE STEAK, DON'T STAKE THE COOK apron... | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7ebfc25 | He Giving Treed me out of existence. | Gillian Flynn | ||
| 99c0578 | To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do. | Paul auster | ||
| 03ec2bf | People grow up by living. | Alice Sebold | ||
| 1ebfb69 | Love is reverence, worship, glory, and the upward glance. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love-the total passion for the total height-you're incapable of anything less.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| f3a529d | These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 273a866 | Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that t.. | form function human-body humans ornamentation | Ayn Rand | |
| 6357969 | Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death." | Ayn Rand | ||
| 66a9028 | balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found. | Billy Collins | ||
| 4979008 | There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 28b3b25 | He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see? | John Steinbeck | ||
| c6fe613 | A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities--never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 727d6cf | Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 440556e | She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1f5e36a | Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes. | Nora Roberts | ||
| d1e1c7a | Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 165caba | love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another. | truth | Nora Roberts | |
| f61f933 | To permit ignorance is to empower it. | Dan Brown | ||
| e4ac0f9 | My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we've created in an attempt to define it. | origin robert-langdon | Dan Brown | |
| d0ea676 | Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light. | Dan Brown | ||
| 61ca3c2 | People have a way of believing nothing terrible will ever happen to them, only to others. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 16e5dd3 | If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work" | self-improvement | Napoleon Hill | |
| e39e327 | Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions. | religion | G.K. Chesterton | |
| e4f72cc | Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 581a600 | The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers. | John Grisham | ||
| 6df4872 | The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given. | James Frey | ||
| 01a60bd | Mental chemistry creates interest, Emotional chemistry Generates Affection, Physical chemistry generates desire, and Spiritual chemistry creates love. A soulmate includes all four...and I will not settle for anything less! | John Gray | ||
| 077f9a2 | The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work. | art inspiration writing | Steven Pressfield | |
| 14ccfd8 | My love for you was greater than my wisdom. | medea wisdom | Euripides | |
| e6e770d | Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late. | Beryl Markham | ||
| 3c590dc | We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance. | nature | Beryl Markham | |
| 66ac284 | The old forests are going and once they are gone we will have to wait a thousand years or more to see their like. Though nothing will be allowed such a generous measure of time to grow. | Annie Proulx | ||
| 6a13cb9 | She pressed her hands against my chest and tried to push me away. "I can't think straight when you 're this close." I backed her up against the wall. "I don't like the thoughts running through your head. I plan on staying here until you look me in the eye and tell me you 're mine." "This isn't going to work. It never would have." "Bullshit. We belong together." Echo sniffed and the sound tore at me. I softened my voice. "Look at me, baby.. | Katie McGarry | ||
| c70ad73 | The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. | Jon Ronson |