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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9973b4d | Then the room relaxed in cheers and babbling, and she turned in his arms to kiss him hard and cling to him, and he thought perhaps it didn't matter that they faced in opposite directions - so long as they faced each other.' Roger Wakefield {Drums Of Autumn} | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 2ee493c | For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| fb707c4 | My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank God. Tall and graceful, the soft light making shadows in the folds of his shirt as he moved, a fugitive gleam from the long straight bridge of his nose, the auburn wave of his hair. Still mine. Thank God. | jamie-fraser love | Diana Gabaldon | |
| 8b25b8d | Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. | William Faulkner | ||
| 54f247f | If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity. | James Joyce | ||
| 8b4c5c8 | I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno. | Anaïs Nin | ||
| 56d751c | What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her. | Roald Dahl | ||
| 0180d3c | I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was. | Ken Kesey | ||
| d184a67 | I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man's shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 292c2e3 | Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you. | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| 9b57d02 | He had not stopped desiring her for a single instant. He found her in the dark bedrooms of captured towns, especially in the most abject ones, and he would make her materialize in the smell of dry blood on the bandages of the wounded, in the instantaneous terror of the danger of death, at all times and in all places. He had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his .. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f71ad6a | In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Ursula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 09fffa8 | Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one's life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d1ee542 | Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3561e7a | Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ff7ac61 | And then the rains came. They came down from the hills and up from the sound. And it rained a sickness. And it rained a fear. And it rained an odor. And it rained a murder. And it rained dangers and pale eggs of the beast. Rain poured for days, unceasing. Flooding occurred. The wells filled with reptiles. The basements filled with fossils. Mossy-haired lunatics roamed the dripping peninsulas. Moisture gleamed on the beak of the raven. Ancie.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a2d90c9 | If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they'd rather play with yours than theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different manner from the way they play with theirs. The result is, a few games out of a toy department of possibilities are universally and endlessly repeated. If you don't play some people's game, they.. | creativity deviance games individuality normalizing society toys | Tom Robbins | |
| b20593e | Never underestimate the power of being seen | Brené Brown | ||
| 5294a1c | Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be? | Brené Brown | ||
| c3c98b7 | The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it. | David Guterson | ||
| 2c139f0 | You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| daed178 | Yet how often is it that we are rescued by a stranger, if ever at all? And how is it that our lives can become drained of the possibility of forgiveness and kindness - so drained that even one small act of mercy becomes a potent lifelong memory? How do our lives reach these points? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| b7ef98f | This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8e24920 | This is not ambition. This is desperation. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 2cb4041 | What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| b1aa921 | Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair. | humanity nature | Douglas Coupland | |
| 98cc002 | You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 97b7657 | Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3b36fba | With Jason I thought I'd finally played my cards right, and now I'm just one more of those broken, sad people out there, figuring out a year in advance where they can have Easter and Christmas dinner without feeling like a burden or duty to others, cursing the quality of modern movies because it's so hard to fill weeknights with movies when they're all crap, and waiting, just waiting, for those three drinks a night to turn into four - and t.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 9bb050c | That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored. | importance-of-interconnectedness relationships | Howard Zinn | |
| 177665c | In the problem of women was the germ of a solution, not only for their oppression, but for everybody's. The control of women in society was ingeniously effective. It was not done directly by the state. Instead the family was used- men to control women, women to control children, all to be preoccupied with one another , to turn to one another for help, to blame one another for trouble, to do violence to one another when things weren't going .. | Howard Zinn | ||
| a027c34 | I envy because of the heart I glutton because of the heart I covet because of the heart I am prideful because of the heart I sloth because of the heart I rage because of the heart Because of the heart, | Tite Kubo | ||
| 83af49b | In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless. | Roger Zelazny | ||
| 602709f | Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me." | arguing death god | Tamora Pierce | |
| e7bb73e | I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond. | beka-cooper mastiff tamora-pierce | Tamora Pierce | |
| cd43f1c | In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste. | Marilyn Johnson | ||
| 2cc8f41 | With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 46bf241 | And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? | suffering | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| fba0bde | The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity." | discipleship distraction | St. Augustine of Hippo | |
| b21f13c | We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak." -- Albert Einstein" -- | Penny Reid | ||
| aa228b6 | If we were in Victorian England I would have called him dashing;but, since we lived in the 21st century I would have to settle for the wordier GQ model hot. | Penny Reid | ||
| b03b84c | Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder. | Christopher Hitchens | ||
| 76ea107 | In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me." | philosophy | Christopher Hitchens | |
| 19780b6 | Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy. | self-pity | Tom Clancy |