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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 363aede | The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate. | Edward De Bono | ||
| a417518 | Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 54fa1a9 | There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good -- they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. | inspirational life-philosophy truth | Mercedes Lackey | |
| b4de86f | You can still be cool when you're dead. In fact, it's much easier, because you aren't getting old and fat and losing your hair. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| da6bb85 | When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 79cec9f | The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you. | Susan Mallery | ||
| e4d0d90 | Are you always up this early?' I asked him. 'Almost always,' he said without looking up. 'It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable. | morning the-secret-history | Donna Tartt | |
| 7150210 | I honestly can't remember much else about those years except a certain mood that permeated most of them, a melancholy feeling that I associate with watching 'The Wonderful World of Disney' on Sunday nights. Sunday was a sad day - early to bed, school the next morning, I was constantly worried my homework was wrong - but as I watched the fireworks go off in the night sky, over the floodlit castles of Disneyland, I was consumed by a more gene.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 1d9d5d2 | it was complicated, she wasn't thinking only of herself but me too, since we'd both been through so many of the same things, she and I, and we were an awful lot alike-too much. And because we'd both been hurt so badly, so early on, in violent and irremediable ways that most people didn't, and couldn't, understand, wasn't it a bit... precarious? A matter of self-preservation? Two rickety and death-driven persons who would need to lean on eac.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 39c6675 | But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy? To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraph.. | doomed joy meaning obsession pattern | Donna Tartt | |
| 88516c5 | I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way. | Donna Tartt | ||
| bd0f0cc | But Robin: their dear little Robs. More than ten years later, his death remained an agony; there was no glossing any detail; its horror was not subject to repair or permutation by any of the narrative devices that the Cleves knew. And--since this willful amnesia had kept Robin's death from being translated into that sweet old family vernacular which smoothed even the bitterest mysteries into comfortable, comprehensible form--the memory of t.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 49777e8 | How were you supposed to explain this kind of thing? It seemed stupid to try. Even the memory was starting to seem vague and starry with unreality, like a dream where the details get fainter the harder you try to grasp them. What mattered more was the feeling, a rich sweet undertow so commanding that in class, on the school bus, lying in bed trying to think of something safe or pleasant, some environment or configuration where my chest wasn.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 7969f0e | I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever; for me, it was that first fall term I spent at Hampden. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 5cd699f | That woman can sell water to a drowning man. | Donna Tartt | ||
| 999a727 | On game day, until five o'clock or so, the white desert light held off the essential Sunday gloom--autumn sinking into winter, loneliness of October dusk with school the next day--but there was always a long still moment toward the end of those football afternoons where the mood of the crowd turned and everything grew desolate and uncertain, onscreen and off, the sheet-metal glare off the patio glass fading to gold and then gray, long shado.. | Donna Tartt | ||
| acbeb4d | He snorted. "He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero." None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little." | Naomi Novik | ||
| cd0fb33 | Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility | rebel responsibility | Naomi Novik | |
| 787bfbb | Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble with emotion, the words themselves you tend to forget in time. Words are just tools we use to express or communicate something. | Ryū Murakami | ||
| 899e216 | I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. - G. D. Roberts, Shantaram. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0c86e51 | Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun... | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a737d9d | Ah, damn it, lass,'he called after her. 'I've busted my stitches wide open.' 'What?'she cried, hurrying back to him. 'Let me see!' 'Ah-ha!' He snared her around the waist, dragging her down with him to his lap.'You still care for me! | funny love romance | Kresley Cole | |
| c8e8f7a | Damn it, MacRieve, if you keep calling me kitten, then I'm going to start calling you something equivalent, like hound dog - and then we'll both be losers. | kresley-cole mariketa | Kresley Cole | |
| a8aedac | Dangerously well'-- what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling 'too well | Oliver Sacks | ||
| fe1ecc4 | The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 1703162 | For here is a man who, in some sense, is desperate, in a frenzy. The world keeps disappearing, losing meaning, vanishing - and he must seek meaning, make meaning, in a desperate way, continually inventing, throwing bridges of meaning over abysses of meaninglessness, the chaos that yawns continually beneath him. | meaninglessness | Oliver Sacks | |
| 37cc797 | I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go? | echo pure thin | Francesca Lia Block | |
| fdc9760 | Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones. | Francesca Lia Block | ||
| ff1a582 | I'm not a gentleman, I'm a nobleman, a distinction I suspect you understand very well. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 3161cb9 | But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked. | reading | Betty Smith | |
| 3760651 | New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world. | Betty Smith | ||
| bc4c369 | Life is all about mistakes.It is constant change and growth | Neal Donald Walsch | ||
| 7649f81 | If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f238f09 | As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. There are many forms of love and affection, some people spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on t.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 3818f96 | I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters | Günter Grass | ||
| 1b9d49d | Rickey sometimes wondered what would have become of them if the Peychaud crew hadn't imploded one night in a marathon of apocalyptic drunkenness. No one remembered much of this night, but by the end of it, two cars were totaled, the sous chef and the bartender were in Charity Hospital, the chef was in jail, and the grill guy's wife was filing for divorce. The owner decided to close the place and they found themselves jobless. Rickey guessed.. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 6c8dcaa | At some point you have to start letting people save their own life. | save | Poppy Z. Brite | |
| 77cfc27 | She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol? | gay-rights in-the-closet lesbian lgbt patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt | Patricia Highsmith | |
| 5792b91 | We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| bc426df | He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself." | Meredith Ann Pierce | ||
| 0b2bad8 | Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers | vampire | Anne Rice | |
| da57fc5 | For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 7802e60 | He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 2d25609 | when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain. | pleasure | Anne Michaels |