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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4811fab | Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 9e72622 | So whenever that brittle voice of dissatisfaction emerges within me, I can say "Ah, my ego! There you are, old friend!" It's the same thing when I'm being criticized and I notice myself reaching with outrage, heartache, or defensiveness. It's just my ego, flaring up and testing its power. In such circumstances, I have learned to watch my heated emotions carefully, but I try not to take them too seriously, because I know that it's merely my .. | defensiveness ego soul wonder | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 1a222ce | Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin. | Bill Watterson | ||
| b739203 | The body is the instrument of our hold on the world. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 51a34de | The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. | identity individuality life writing | Neil Gaiman | |
| c827129 | There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 0f46e89 | October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content." | book ending-a-chapter fairy-tale garden happiness happy-ending october reading satisfaction season seasons tale turning-a-page | Neil Gaiman | |
| bddb12a | The monsters in our cupboards and our minds are always there in the darkness, like mould beneath the floorboards and behind the wallpaper, and there is so much darkness, an inexhaustible supply of darkness. The universe is amply supplied with night. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| b3cab7e | Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 51672ff | For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| d914a5e | It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent. | belief freedom gaiman | Neil Gaiman | |
| 21733e4 | Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 2153151 | I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 60e2042 | It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 062aa27 | Wouldn't. Think. About. Ian. | Jude Watson | ||
| 41ae4a6 | He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, .. | norse-myth | A. S. Byatt | |
| 8656dbe | The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence. | knowledge wisdom | A.S. Byatt | |
| f3ef89d | For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth"." | thoughts truth | A.S. Byatt | |
| 04722b8 | You cannot repress anger or love, or avoid feeling them, and you should not try. | Robert Greene | ||
| 64b346c | Sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security. | Robert Greene | ||
| bf26b52 | How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak. | Jean P. Sasson | ||
| 0a689b0 | The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't. | love people | Mitch Albom | |
| 021368f | Because we embrace our scars more than our healing. [...] We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone? | Mitch Albom | ||
| 56fccea | You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose. | mitch albom | ||
| be4b83a | Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. | feelings life | William Shakespeare | |
| 2796adc | Why is it that there are always these problems and misunderstandings between men and women? Surely it would have been better if God had made only one sort of person, and the children had come by some other means, with the rain perhaps. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 0f945c1 | km qtln~ lshwq lyk w'nt l tHs l~ wjwdan .. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 99efb1c | Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| d5dce1f | the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 6ab4328 | This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| a4ca034 | This Forest eats itself and lives forever. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 24302eb | So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they'll send rain and good crops and the whole works? And nothing bad will ever happen. Right.' Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. A rain dance even more so. I thought I might finally have offended Loyd past the point of no return, like stealing the lobster from frozen foods that time, to get myself fired. But Loyd was just t.. | prayer religion | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| 88e531f | There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are. | Anne Lamott | ||
| 0161524 | This book is dedicated to the Ancient Ones, to the Lord of Abominations, Humwawa, whose face is a mass of entrails, whose breath is the stench of dung and the perfume of death, Dark Angel of all that is excreted and sours, Lord of Decay, Lord of the Future, who rides on a whispering south wind, to Pazuzu, Lord of Fevers and Plagues, Dark Angel of the Four Winds with rotting genitals from which he howls through sharpened teeth over stricken .. | William S. Burroughs | ||
| 43829ab | Something had been buried that was not yet dead. | Sebastian Faulks | ||
| 75519fb | It's okay," my husband said, shuffling toward his study. "I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far." | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 9ea1790 | Straight ahead you can't go very far. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | ||
| d884643 | To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. | Judith Butler | ||
| 12125db | Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness. | Scott Adams | ||
| 5a89065 | A goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, its a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal. If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and dire.. | systems | Scott Adams | |
| 7c394ae | Why did I obsess over people like this? Was it normal to fixate on strangers in this particular vivid, fevered way? I didn't think so. It was impossible to imagine some random passer-by on the street forming quite such an interest in me. And yet it was the main reason I'd gone in those houses with Tom: I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music t.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 22055b7 | I'm always learning something. Learning never ends. | Raymond Carver | ||
| 81826de | Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death. | Saul Bellow | ||
| 884a1e6 | For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed by science. Under organized power. Subject to tremendous controls. In a condition caused by mechanization. After the late failure of radical hopes. In a society that was no community and devalued the person. Owing to the multiplied power of numbers which made the self negligible. Which spent military billions against f.. | machinery modernism obscurity science | Saul Bellow |