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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fdbb724 | marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. | louisa-may-alcott marriage | Louisa May Alcott | |
| 8857d4e | Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. | happy women | Louisa May Alcott | |
| f619b65 | politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names | Louisa May Alcott | ||
| 7f884ed | But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. | Charles Dickens | ||
| 9fd11b9 | While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea. | Charles Dickens | ||
| a7317f1 | The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid. | Charles Dickens | ||
| fecfd41 | One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind. | forgiveness travel | Charles Dickens | |
| 9d638c6 | In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 767b54b | If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken. | senses | Frank Herbert | |
| 246403f | Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. | mediocrity passion risk | Frank Herbert | |
| 2fe9ff3 | The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye. | Douglas Adams | ||
| cea9ff3 | Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. | Douglas Adams | ||
| ee25b70 | She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| 0565c70 | There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there? | Ted Dekker | ||
| fa1ccdc | Will you follow me, Darsal? Will you Silvie? Will you both follow me to hell and back because two fuzzy white bats told me you should? | Ted Dekker | ||
| 27d16d8 | They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived--bound, in other words, for life. | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| 7ec3842 | My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| f91051b | people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well. | relationships | Stephen R. Covey | |
| f2426ef | She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life. | Edith Wharton | ||
| e4908f1 | He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 006e1f2 | The deep roar of the ocean. The break of waves on farther shores that thought can find. The silent thunders of the deep. And from among it, voices calling, and yet not voices, humming trillings, wordlings, and half-articulated songs of thought. Greetings, waves of greetings, sliding back down into the inarticulate, words breaking together. A crash of sorrow on the shores of Earth. Waves of joy on--where? A world indescribably found, indescr.. | dolphins ocean | Douglas Adams | |
| 389d962 | There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was a light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. His song in the Tower had been defianc.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1f4a07e | Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that is of people using the stories not as they were meant to be used, but as a quarry from which to dig evidence, or information, about matters in which they are interested. ...with regard to fairy stories, I feel that it is more interesting, and also in its way more difficult, to consider what the.. | fairy-tales folklore-studies | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0916bb4 | O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 012683d | There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad. But for a long while they sang only each alone, or but few together, while the rest hearkened; for each comprehended only that part of the mind of Iluv.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f9c0920 | Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom. | mankind supernatural the-tolkien-reader | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| cfe4942 | I am at home among trees. | j-r-r-tolkien the-lord-of-the-rings tree trees | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| aa6c613 | But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart. | middle-earth sam-gamgee tolkien | J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 9fc0b84 | If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth. | truth | Timothy B. Tyson | |
| 13eb852 | Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem | contentment nirvana satisfaction | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 34c8a4c | I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts." | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 64e1079 | It is...difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows. [E]very memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door final.. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 0644ecd | I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. | brave courage fortitude god grace inspirational jesus kind kindness life love pray prayer praying precious prudence stewardship world | Marilynne Robinson | |
| ff0d4c8 | you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself. | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| 079a4ff | That's exactly what I'm talking about. That's the evil that's seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a treacherous path that will cost you everything you love and hold dear. You have to let that anger go before it's too late. Vengeance always turns inward and it will consume you until nothing's left but an empty hole that nothing can fill. (Ambrose) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 2066708 | Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish) | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ||
| 1498e55 | I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 5667c72 | Rafe grinned. "So we are dating?" "No. You have to pass the parental exam first. It'll take you awhile to compile the data. They'd like it in triplicate." I turned to my parents. "We have Kenji. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need." Dad chocked on his coffee." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| cad8dc9 | Now, I was well aware that certain sports required certain modes of dress for protection, but I failed to see how wearing a sleeveless blouse on the course qualified as a safety hazard. God forbid the sight of my bare shoulders should send male golfers into a tizzy, knocking balls everywhere. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 606e8f0 | Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M. Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. "So where's the message?" "Right there." I pointed from picture to picture. "It says: Chloe, I.. | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| 97a5b7e | As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world- and finding it so much like myself, in fact so fraternal, I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd .. | poetry | Albert Camus | |
| 56755b7 | The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action. | Albert Camus | ||
| 60b9d67 | After a few minutes, he asked, real quietly, if you turned into an animal, too. And I said, 'She wishes she was that cool! | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| d57d880 | The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an obligation I had never had in all my lives. Thinking of it made me feel joyful and anxious and shy and desperately impatient all at the same time--made me feel human. | Stephenie Meyer |