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| 1b0ded1 | And then there is that day when all around, all around you hear the dropping of the apples, one by one, from the trees. At first it is one here and one there, and then it is three and then it is four and then nine and twenty, until the apples plummet like rain, fall like horse hoofs in the soft, darkening grass, and you are the last apple on the tree; and you wait for the wind to work you slowly free from your hold upon the sky, and drop .. | apples autumn time-passing | Ray Bradbury | |
| 4f15874 | I hate being clever, thought the captain, when you don't really feel clever and don't want to be clever. To sneak around and make plans and feel big about making them. I hate this feeling of thinking I'm doing right when I'm not really certain I am. Who are we, anyway? The majority? Is that the answer? The majority is always holy, is it not? Always, always; just never wrong for one little insignificant tiny moment, is it? Never ever wrong i.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| cfa209c | Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others. | love self-giving | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 2d07415 | l~ hdhh lshTan 's`~ l~ l'bd byn lrml ms`~ w byn lzabad swf yTG~ lmdW `l~ athr qdm~ fymHw m wjd w tTwWH lryH b`ydan b`ydan blzabad 'm lbHr w 'm lshTy' , fbqyn l~ l'bd | رمل-و-زبد | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 4d3ff6d | A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me. | reincarnation | Kahlil Gibran | |
| f1d870d | My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do-for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action... | madman | Kahlil Gibran | |
| 681ea8f | Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f856dab | You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. | fathers generations knowledge relationships sons | Marilynne Robinson | |
| c381dd7 | such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing. | mom | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 81204a6 | Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery." | on-fiction writing | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| 1b7d89f | Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bo.. | sex | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| e91b2d3 | It seems right now that all I've ever done in my life is making my way here to you. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 4896d52 | I know this song!' Rosie laughed. 'If you didn't, that'd be the final proof that you're from Mars. | Graeme Simsion | ||
| d8ad953 | I need not be visibly odd. I could engage in the protocols that others followed and move undetected among them. And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same - playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different? | Graeme Simsion | ||
| 58585ea | Jeremy had a plan for getting Clay back and I wasn't allowed to know anything about it or allowed to help him carry it out. As one might expect, I accepted this news with grace and understanding. "That is the stupidest idea I've ever heard!" I snarled for the dozenth time that hour. "I won't just sit here and do nothing." | elena jeremy | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 98d8b7e | If you want that kind of thing, call Nick. His advice is shit, but he really likes to give it." | Kelley Armstrong | ||
| dd60f34 | And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution. | Albert Camus | ||
| d02bfd0 | Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. | Albert Camus | ||
| 77e3730 | L'habitude du desepoir est pire que le desespoir lui-meme. | Albert Camus | ||
| c150255 | I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone.. | crime-fiction human-condition love murder violence | Jim Thompson | |
| 08df76c | Edward,' she mumbled softly. She was dreaming of me. Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to. 'Stay,' she sighed. 'Don't go. Please... don't go | edward-cullen | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 910782b | It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive. | bella-swan breaking-dawn life stephenie-meyer twilight | Stephenie Meyer | |
| 11f9684 | Worst high five ever." - Diego" | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 291e2fa | If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | ||
| 9479a46 | When mauma saw my raw eyes, she said, "Ain't nobody can write down in a book what you worth." | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| c4fab72 | For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 4d5ca7b | All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. | discipleship forgiveness | Richard Rohr | |
| b51e1ce | To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature. | Richard Adams | ||
| e2895d3 | Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief's sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. | Stephen King | ||
| 48267fe | If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity. | Stephen King | ||
| 5cca784 | If you want to play, you gotta pay. | Stephen King | ||
| 8880343 | Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. | plot story writing | Stephen King | |
| 54cdf89 | I'm not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they're wearing... I can always get a J. Crew catalogue... ...So spare me, if you please, the hero's 'sharply intelligent blue eyes' and 'outthrust determined chin'. | Stephen King | ||
| 9c52673 | Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high. | Stephen King | ||
| fb257c3 | sometimes you get what you want, but mostly you get what you get. | Stephen King | ||
| 4a1e199 | I have seen a land shining with goodness, where each man protects his brother's dignity as readily as his own, where war and want have ceased and all races live under the same law of love and honour. I have seen a land bright with truth, where a man's word is his pledge and falsehood is banished, where children sleep safe in their mother's arms and never know fear or pain. I have seen a land where kings extend their hands in justice rather .. | arthurian pendragon stephen-lawhead | Stephen R. Lawhead | |
| f4d0ce3 | I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)... | Stephen King | ||
| 2e4d9d6 | He was a heavy breather. You could hear him puffing and blowing into the mike up there like some large and sweaty animal. I don't like that, never have. My father is like that on the telephone. A lot of heavy breathing in your ear, so you can almost smell the scotch and Pall Malls on his breath. It always seems unsanitary and somehow homosexual. | breathing charlie decker king rage richard stephen | Richard Bachman | |
| 5ecef4e | There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then. | Stephen King | ||
| 1da7988 | You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?" | Stephen King | ||
| 1e58e3d | Wenn man sich fur jemanden verantwortlich fuhlt, kann es sein, dass man ihn schliesslich hasst. | rage richard-bachmann stephen-king | Richard Bachman | |
| d408869 | Wenn die Intelligenten einen schlechten Charakter haben, so zeigt sich das, und wenn sie keinen schlechten Charakter haben, dann sind sie so leicht auszurechnen wie Quadratwurzeln. | rage richard-bachmann stephen-king | Richard Bachman | |
| 9712e7f | If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered. | Stephen King | ||
| 3d5898a | Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing .. | Stephen King |