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| fe57997 | Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the o.. | existentialism freedom living-intentionally | James Baldwin | |
| 85ae8e5 | Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare. | James Baldwin | ||
| 56e155d | Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. | prairie trees | Willa Cather | |
| 802c27c | Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| d8c3864 | The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen...wonderful things. | tomorrow | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 469144c | Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, "You are sweet," and slipped it under the curve of Anne's arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert." | L. M. Montgomery | ||
| c1fd3cb | We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life... | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1d67287 | Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below. | humor poem punishment stealing | L.M. Montgomery | |
| d89f93f | If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 84d18fb | Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2e5646a | I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And your own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla. | l-m-montgomery souls | L.M. Montgomery | |
| a1bcdb5 | Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 2c44cd8 | In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information. | Bell Hooks | ||
| 7552635 | I've ignored a lot of bad shit in my life, but I don't want to ignore this one good thing anymore. It's too painful." He stares at me deeply, my chest rising with something pure and warm. "I kissed you tonight because I want your lips to only touch mine. From now until forever. That's the fucking truth." | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 639a3bd | But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice--guessed and refused to believe--that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children. . ... | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| a25f9e7 | God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. | Madeleine L'Engle | ||
| 04646c3 | You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up. | Katherine Paterson | ||
| f1f4540 | Isn't that just like a man. 450-fucking-years-old and he's still thinking with his balls! | Tanya Huff | ||
| 4e12cb7 | If you were the poor, suffering was your currency. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 24e4478 | In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| aec38f1 | Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear. Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| aa91a07 | It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and.. | E. M. Forster | ||
| c4eb88a | The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not." | regret | E.M. Forster | |
| 7e525da | I knew you read the in the vac," he said in a low voice. Maurice felt uneasy. "Then you understand - without me saying more - " "How do you mean?" Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you." | love romance | E. M. Forster | |
| b5386da | It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave. | E.M. Forster | ||
| 1fdfedb | Amy turned to Nellie. "Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?" The au pair was wary. "What kind of diversion?" "You could pretend to be lost," Dan proposed. "The guy comes out to give you directions, and we slip inside." "That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard," Nellie said harshly. "I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direction." "Maybe you're from out of town," Dan suggested. ".. | dan-cahill diversions kleptomaniacs music nellie-gomez saladin the39clues | Gordon Korman | |
| 52a5f70 | Radite svoj posao ne gledajuci ni levo ni desno, ni iza sebe ni preda se, ali svoj cilj postavljajte visoko, i trazite malo od sveta oko sebe (sto manje, to bolje!), ali mnogo od sebe i svoga dela. Uveren sam da je vecina od nas od pocetka udarila sebi suvise malen i suvise blizak cilj, i da je vise i bolje mogla od onoga sto je zelela da uradi i postigne. Zelite mnogo, tezite smelo i daleko i visoko, jer visoki ciljevi otkrivaju i umnogost.. | Ivo Andrić | ||
| 4ede33d | A veces, para exorcizar los demonios de un recuerdo es necesario contarlo como un cuento | Isabel Allende | ||
| 2060b5e | The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5891fa7 | ynbGy 'n tqbl lHy@ mthlm hy wtHwl 'n tSn` l'fDl mnh. | Yann Martel | ||
| 1f4c1ed | Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing. | Yann Martel | ||
| 7424261 | Just because you're allowed to use magic now you don't have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing! | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 69621d7 | Okay, men," he said. "And women," said Chaser Angelina Johnson. "And women," Wood agreed. "This is it." "The big one," said Fred Weasley. "The one we've all been waiting for," said George. "We know Oliver's speech by heart," Fred told Harry, "we were on the team last year." "Shut up, you two," said Wood. "This is the best team Gryffindor's had in years. We're going to win. I know it." He glared at them all as if to say, "Or else." "Right. I.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 5b7d76d | Killed?" said Hagrid loudly, staring down at Harry. "Snape killed? What're yeh on abou', Harry?" "Dumbledore," said Harry. "Snape killed... Dumbledore." | dumbledore hagrid harry made-me-cry snape | J.K. Rowling | |
| 9efe2b9 | You mustn't blame yourself for the way the boy's turned out, Vernon. If there's something rotten on the , there's nothing anyone can do about it. | dursley rotten | J.K. Rowling | |
| 7c5bd35 | You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. | friendship inspirational relationships | J.K. Rowling | |
| 2ab2726 | The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| b9b8cf9 | Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| edbb416 | I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then, of course, I remembered that I'm -- that I'm --" "Already dead," said Ron hopefully. Myrtle gave a tragic sob, rose up in the air, turned over, and dived headfirst into the toilet, splashing water all over them and vanishing from sight, although from the direction of her muffled sobs, she had come to rest somewhere i.. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| dee99ed | Don't you understand how Cho's feeling at the moment?" [Hermione] asked. "No," said Ron and Harry together. Hermione sighed and laid down her quill. "Well, obviously, she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes Harry, and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at a.. | grief-and-loss humorous-quotes | J.K. Rowling | |
| 991912c | If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 6f0fa09 | Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked. | J.K. Rowling | ||
| 24b92d4 | Between the roof of the shed and the big plant that hangs over the fence from the house next door I could see the constellation Orion. People say that Orion is called Orion because Orion was a hunter and the constellation looks like a hunter with a club and a bow and arrow, like this: But this is really silly because it is just stars, and you could join up the dots in any way you wanted, and you could make it look like a lady with an umbrel.. | Mark Haddon | ||
| 3a77dad | Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it. | teachers teaching wisdom | Nicholas Sparks |