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| abc1749 | Why should I keep myself so safe?" he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through t.. | fiyero gregory-maguire love wicked | Gregory Maguire | |
| d018d6a | Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 51d872a | When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution.. | civilization cowardice denunciation deportation evil genocide guilt hitler knowledge nazis personal-responsibility responsibility willful-ignorance | Iain Pears | |
| 11ec41b | For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. That was why he turned on me when I refused to ask for his pity. That was why he incited Dussasan to an action that was against the code of honor by which he lived his life. He knew he would regret it--in his fierce smile there had already been a glint of .. | men power pride women | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| 790710b | Jennifer," he said, his voice sharp with dawning alarm, "where are you going?" A moment later, Aunt Elinor looked down from the gallery above and cheerfully replied, "She is going to have your baby, your grace." The serfs in the hall turned to exchange smiling glances, and one of them dashed off to spread the news to the scullions in the kitchen. "Do not," Aunt Elinor warned in direst tones when Royce started up the stairs, "come up here. I.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| d2c08f8 | Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes." | sincerity sweetness | Judith McNaught | |
| 3e0b6e6 | Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created light...to read by." | Lorna Landvik | ||
| e2634df | The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. | Umberto Eco | ||
| 0ea1da6 | I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. | Henry David Thoreau | ||
| 55ed7d2 | Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 954bf0d | We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| a23ae98 | Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable. | life-advice rory-deveaux | Maureen Johnson | |
| 9bca563 | Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. | Willa Cather | ||
| c9c8045 | I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter. | Willa Cather | ||
| 783be9b | Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good--only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop? | Ralph Ellison | ||
| e67761e | There was a Princess Somebody of Denmark sitting at a table with a number of people around her, and I saw an empty chair at their table and sat down. She turned to me and said, "Oh! You're one of the Nobel-Prize-winners. In what field did you do your work?" "In physics," I said. "Oh. Well, nobody knows anything about that, so I guess we can't talk about it." "On the contrary," I answered. "It's because somebody knows something about it that.. | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| e79d8b1 | I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times. | point-of-view understanding | Elizabeth Berg | |
| d9978a2 | I'm glad never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it in another.' 'Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?' queried Valancy. 'Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. would be worth the pain. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9585c96 | Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5a72f08 | I suppose all this sounds very crazy -- all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken -- only felt and endured. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 21d6d85 | But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting." | pretty sting | L.M. Montgomery | |
| fe7738e | The future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 07dbb18 | A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains ignorant of what racism really is and how it works. It shows that people are in denial. Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white fol.. | bell hooks | ||
| bbb0fa0 | Ryke would endure hell for eternity if it meant that I could go to heaven. | Krista Ritchie | ||
| 9682a30 | Just repeat this phrase whenever you feel the urge to jump some other guy's bones." His mouth brushes my ear. "Loren Hale fucks better." | lo omg | Krista Ritchie | |
| f4500cc | I need you to know that I'm not going anywhere. I'll always be here when you come home. There will always be an . | Krista Ritchie | ||
| d5fba66 | He stands confidently in his hot pink mankini. When I told him it was the only suit left, he literally shrugged and put it on. Tan skin, ripped abs and stylish wayfarers- he instantly looked cool even wearing that damn thing. And the girls playing water volleyball even gawked at his ass | humorous loren-hale ryke-meadows | Krista Ritchie | |
| 1104296 | Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the C.. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| e506f33 | Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically. | Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 558599d | I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 6de5c72 | Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| ea1eb06 | ndr@ mn lbshr yulhimwn lHb, w hw'l sykwnwn DHyh | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 3218458 | All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 73a9db0 | I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2be9c5c | Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. | travel walking | Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| bae6983 | Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to. | shy speaking | E.M. Forster | |
| d0d6896 | We move between two darknesses. | spirit | E.M. Forster | |
| f1d6eed | Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 96aeff3 | Zaborav sve leci, a pesma je najlepsi nacin zaborava, jer u pesmi se covek seca samo onoga sto voli. | ivo andrić | ||
| 2eb1833 | lHy@ ry'`@ l~ HdW 'n lmwt wq` fy Grmh. | Yann Martel | ||
| ff26529 | The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite. | philosophical | Yann Martel | |
| 81a6981 | Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus. | tonks | J.K. Rowling | |
| 084b821 | The point is, if we find out you've been horrible to Harry --" "-- and make no mistake, we'll hear about it. "even if you won't let Harry use the fellytone --" " " | dursley hilarious lupin tonks | J.K. Rowling | |
| 682c5ba | Unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings can learn and understand without having experienced. | J.K. Rowling |