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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cba609d | They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction. | Stephen King | ||
| 6322367 | I write for love, but love doesn't pay the bills. | Stephen King | ||
| 0378ca7 | Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely. | charlie decker grace king psychology rage richard stephen | Richard Bachman | |
| 4083938 | He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood. | man manhood pride responsibility running stephen | Stephen King | |
| 5a4ca6b | Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who." | Richard Russo | ||
| 116489c | You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to. | Richard Ford | ||
| 605add9 | I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did. | dreams life | Richard Ford | |
| 31bac84 | The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay. | Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 8b1eab0 | one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage. | Anne Lamott | ||
| c461c35 | This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds. | love love-conquers second-wind | Anne Lamott | |
| d832526 | She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together. | mosaic shards shattered | Anne Lamott | |
| 4331865 | But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo | Amy Tan | ||
| 0a77b0c | Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| f7f9abe | He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans. | Richard Brautigan | ||
| 13fdc02 | Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience . . . there's all that fallow land, and here beside me is all that fallow man. It seems a waste. And I have a bad feeling about waste because I could never afford it. Is it a good feeling to let your life lie fallow? | John Steinbeck | ||
| c122060 | After that summer, after being friends with Won-a-nee and her young, I never killed another otter. I had an otter cape for my shoulders, which I used until it wore out, but never again did I make a new one. Nor did I ever kill another cormorant for its beautiful feathers, though they have long, think necks and make ugly sounds when they talk to each other. Nor did I kill seals for their sinews, using instead kelp to bind the things that nee.. | Scott O'Dell | ||
| 911c7ec | I won't have sex with you," she blurts out. He words slam into my libido like a bucket of water on a flame full of testosterone. I think my dick just twitched in protest." | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 8ec0a56 | Some things need to be left unsaid. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| ad5d979 | From the moment I laid eyes on you I couldn't stop looking at you. From the moment we talked I couldn't stop arguing with you. From the moment we kissed I couldn't stop kissing you. And from the moment we shared our hopes, fears and insecurities I couldn't stop loving you. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 501815b | Everyone knows im perfect. My life is perfect. My clothes are perfect. Even my family is perfect. And although its a complete lie, i've worked my butt off to keep up the appearence that i have it all. The truth, if it were to come out, would destroy my entire picture-perfect image. | Simone Elkeles | ||
| 8026ee6 | Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile. | Salman Rushdie | ||
| 84fb759 | O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! | julius-caesar mark-antony william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 56312a1 | Music, moody food Of us that trade in love. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 462fc26 | Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 10a4cf4 | I understand a fury in your words But not your words. | fury othello william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| b98dc85 | I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 70884f7 | A little water clears us of this deed. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 3682cab | MACBETH: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of the perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? DOCTOR: Therein the patient Must minister to himself. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7a5508c | The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 6b24c24 | When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? | William Shakespeare | ||
| db797f7 | Can I go forward when my heart is here? | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8ab0bc0 | To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel. | Henry James | ||
| 66cf88a | Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes. | choose honor integrity reality speaking speaking-out speaking-up voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 22ca3d0 | To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| af7a205 | WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt? | consequences doubt guilt instinct instincts shame speaking-out voice | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 6455e17 | I said it in Hebrew--I said it in Dutch-- I said it in German and Greek; | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 43fab31 | A childish story take, and with a gentle hand, lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined in Memory's mystic band...thus grew the world of Wonderland. | A.G. Howard | ||
| 62c5f22 | Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| a02247e | Here you go, dear."" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?" Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem...loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks." Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat." | suggestive | Sara Shepard | |
| ea8d0e6 | The grapes are smaller than I'm used to, and the skin is slightly textured. Is that dirt? I dip my napkin in water and dab at the tiny purple globes. It helps, but they're still sort of rough. Hmm. St. Clair and Meredith stop talking. I glance up to find them staring at me in matching bemusement. "What?" "Nothing," he says. "Continue your grape bath." | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 6e7064c | Several yards away - closer to the cathedral's legendary carved doorways - Anna and St. Clair are standing on top of Point Zero. It's been hand-brushed clear of its dusting of snow. Point Zero is the bronze marker, a star, which designates the official centre of France. There are at least two superstitions about it. One is that anyone who stands on the star will return to France. The other is that you can use it to make a wish. "Wait for it.. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 7256378 | and the three of them are uncannily reminiscent of Harry, Ron, and Hermione. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 5e2a376 | How did my parents live before texting? Before the internet? I'm used to knowing things and all of this unknowing is driving me mad. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| 22305c2 | What are you doing here?" He takes a deep breath. "I came for you." "And how on EARTH did you know I was up here?" "I saw you." He pauses. "I came to make another wish,and I was standing on Point Zero when I saw you enter the tower. I called your name,and you looked around,but you didn't see me." "So you decided to just...come up?" I'm doubtful,despite the evidence in front of me.It must have taken superhuman strength for him to make it pas.. | Stephanie Perkins |