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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 374990f | The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 5affa30 | A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name. | people | Charles de Lint | |
| 9afcbfa | The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it. | authors funny high-expectations narrative princess-bride william-goldman | William Goldman | |
| 83a208b | I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it." -- | judd love romance | Diana Palmer | |
| c69e972 | A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor. | Jerry and Eileen Spinelli | ||
| cc8b941 | When does the enchantment start? We were sitting side by side, facing the mountains. "It started when the earth was born." Her eyes was closed. Her face was golden in the setting sun. "It never stops. It is, always. It's just here." So what do we do?" She smiled. "That's the secret." Her cupped hands rested in her lap. "We do nothing. Or as close to nothing as we can." Her face turned slowly to me, though her eyes remained closed. "Have you.. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| ceb6e47 | Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. "I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly." "Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said. "Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?" | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 6aa2119 | A born king is a very rare being. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
| 09184a9 | Men in plural [...] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. | Hannah Arendt | ||
| d67fcb1 | Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas. | science | Neil deGrasse Tyson | |
| dcb566f | Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away. | enemies friends people | Ellis Peters | |
| 8162160 | It's not just children who are childlike. Adults, too, are - beneath the bluster - intermittently playful, silly, fanciful, vulnerable, hysterical, terrified, and pitiful and in search of consolation and forgiveness. We're well versed at seeing the sweet and the fragile in children and offering them help and comfort accordingly. Around them, we know how to put aside the worst of our compulsions, vindictiveness and fury. We can recalibrate .. | Alain de Botton | ||
| 5becdad | Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner. | Alain De Botton | ||
| e72f0b5 | We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe. | Alain de Botton | ||
| b72b33c | For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs of Innocence Cruelty has a human heart And jealousy a human face, Terror the human form divine, And secrecy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace seal'd, | human-nature innocence | William Blake | |
| cdd1ffc | I didn't ask you if you loved him. I asked you if you liked him. Love is important but like is the more important. If you don't like him, all the love in the world can't make you have a good relationship. | like love relationship-advice | Carolyn Brown | |
| 40d2709 | What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have.. | friendship | Doris Lessing | |
| 0ca980c | Edward thought about everything that had happened to him in his short life. What kind of adventures would you have if you were in the world for a century? The old doll said, "I wonder who will come for me this time. Someone will come. Someone always comes. Who will it be?" "I don't care if anyone comes for me," said Edward. "But that's dreadful," said the old doll. "There's no point in going on if you feel that way. No point at all. You mus.. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 1373b47 | Don't we all live in our heads? Where else could we possibly exist? Our brains the universe. | Kate DiCamillo | ||
| 9578665 | Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves. | Bill Watterson | ||
| ddfea5d | People are masks, with masks under those masks, and masks under those, and down you go. | David Mitchell | ||
| 8a22bb3 | I remain thankful to God for all his mercies. | David Mitchell | ||
| 5914e63 | It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly." | monday | Scott Westerfeld | |
| f1c12d2 | Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets! | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 49e81a3 | If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today. | Lloyd Alexander | ||
| 6786768 | the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 07aede3 | Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound, Though the tune was written as gay. Your voice is sad and your hands are slow And your eye meeting mine turns away. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| c805ec8 | Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it? | Reza Aslan | ||
| 534691d | And if they really fuck it up and do make a horrible mistake, which can happen to anyone, from any culture, you still have to sit back and watch from the sidelines. It's their life. What you need is a life of your own. You can't hang on to them forever and live theirs or stop them from making mistakes. That's the deal. Once they grow up, they belong to themselves, not to us. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 7d4f729 | She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most. | Danielle Steel | ||
| 4f467d9 | It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26) | Henry Miller | ||
| b2fcfda | Only a rich cunt can save me now,' he says with an air of utmost weariness. 'One gets tired of chasing after new cunts all the time. It gets mechanical. The trouble is, you see, I can't fall in love. I'm too much of an egoist. Women only help me to dream, that's all. It's a vice, like drink or opium. I've got to have a new one every day; if I don't I get morbid. I think too much. Sometimes I'm amazed at myself, how quick I pull it off -- an.. | Henry Miller | ||
| a4c2e2e | lTryq@ lty yqr' bh lmr ktb, hy lTryq@ lty yqr' bh lHy@. | Henry Miller | ||
| 53056db | There is one thing I like about the Poles--their language. Polish, when it is spoken by intelligent people, puts me in ecstasy. The sound of the language evokes strange images in which there is always a greensward of fine spiked grass in which hornets and snakes play a great part. I remember days long back when Stanley would invite me to visit his relatives; he used to make me carry a roll of music because he wanted to show me off to these .. | language poland poles polish polish-language | Henry Miller | |
| 8fdf8df | I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had go.. | Henry Miller | ||
| b928374 | If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach.. | Henry Miller | ||
| c3062c3 | Show me a man who over-elaborates and I will show you a great man! What is called their 'overelaboration' is my meat: it is the sign of struggle, it is struggle itself with all the fibers clinging to it, the very aura and ambiance of the discordant spirit. And when you show me a man who expresses himself perfectly I will not say that he is not great, but I will say that I am unattracted . . . I miss the cloying qualities. When I reflect tha.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 01372b3 | Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today. | Henry Miller | ||
| 98f874d | the world is the mirror of myself dying. | Henry Miller | ||
| 52d0b93 | Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may not tell the best; Surely, friends, I might have guessed | hope laughter skeleton | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8a61dbc | Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat daemon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every.. | joy life ruta-skadi | Philip Pullman | |
| 15c92c2 | Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh." | kate-daniels | Ilona Andrews | |
| 49ec9ea | My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone." | roman | Ilona Andrews | |
| 39fb9de | The alpha-wolf has hurt himself [...]." "What happened to the alpha-wolf?" "LEGOs." "Legos?" It sounded Greek but I couldn't recall anything mythological with that name. Wasnt it an island? "He was carrying a load of laundry into the basement and tripped on the old set of LEGOs his kids left on the stairs. Broke two ribs and an ankle. He'll be out of comission for two weeks." Curran shook his head." | funny-and-random kate | Ilona Andrews |