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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 594b76c | If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| e014531 | Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth. | Charlotte Brontë | ||
| 1e65d69 | Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. | charlotte-bronte jane-eyre revelation revenge vengeance | Charlotte Brontë | |
| d1c2320 | What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought. | Edmund Spenser | ||
| 08577f7 | Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you saw. | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| 8e5e6d0 | We all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| 82261d6 | But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no flash.. | Daphne du Maurier | ||
| fd3c9b0 | My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointments, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking Him for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems. | Catherine Marshall | ||
| b2bc3ac | Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy"." | poetry | Robert Browning | |
| 92fe96d | Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait. | marriage | David Eddings | |
| 337613b | I was reading an old text on the exploits of Belgarath the Sorcerer, and I -" Senji stopped, going very pale, turned, and gaped at Garion's grandfather. "It's a terrible letdown, isn't it?" Beldin said. "We always told him he ought to try to look more impressive." "You're in no position to talk," the old man said. "You're the one with the earthshaking reputation." Beldin shrugged. "I'm just a flunky. I'm along for comic relief." "You're re.. | David Eddings | ||
| df81322 | Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine -- I had lent it to him) all of a sudden started to ring. Instead of turning it off, he gently interrupted me and asked me if I could talk more softly, so that he could hear his interlocutor more clearly . . . If this was not an act of true friendship, I do not know what friendship is. So, thi.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| caa268a | Liesel continued the examination. She moved around him and shrugged. "Not bad." Not " I look better than just not bad." The shoes let you down. And your face." Rudy placed the lantern on the counter and came toward her in mock-anger, and Liesel had to admit that a nervousness started gripping her. It was with both relief and disappointment that she watched him trip and fall on the disgraced mannequin. On the floor, Rudy laughed. Then he c.. | Markus Zusak | ||
| a23757e | Maybe one morning I'll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets. | Markus Zusak | ||
| 16d1f58 | I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it. | courage fear i-am-the-messenger inspirational life markus-zusak | Markus Zusak | |
| b686afb | Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out. | death fathers | Markus Zusak | |
| 9cbb460 | Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 4b6d017 | what she loved: life, London, this moment of June. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| cd67cdf | One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| eb315bc | I protest against any absolute conclusion. | George Eliot | ||
| ee69c14 | Someday, sometime, you will be sitting somewhere. A berm overlooking a pond in Vermont. The lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset. A seat on the subway. And something bad will have happened: You will have lost someone you loved, or failed at something at which you badly wanted to succeed. And sitting there, you will fall into the center of yourself. You will look for some core to sustain you. And if you have been perfect all your life and have .. | Anna Quindlen | ||
| c23ef26 | I shall gain glory or die. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 1c0be2d | There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion. | courage fear heroism | David Gemmell | |
| 5427298 | Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. | Edward Gibbon | ||
| ae6c716 | And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter? | Sharon Creech | ||
| e2ec668 | You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1d39d0e | Dearest Fear: Creativity and I are about to go on a road trip together. I understand you'll be joining us, because you always do. I acknowledge that you believe you have an important job to do in my life, and that you take your job seriously. Apparently your job is to induce complete panic whenever I'm about to do anything interesting--and, may I say, you are superb at your job. So by all means, keep doing your job, if you feel you must. Bu.. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 1c198f4 | Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| 58be31a | Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| b07bdee | eternal recurrence means that every time you choose an action you must be willing to choose it for all eternity. And it is the same for every action not made, every stillborn thought, every choice avoided. And all unlived life will remain bulging inside you, unlived through all eternity. And the unheeded voice of your conscience will cry out to you forever. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 902180f | When people are kids their parents teach them all sorts of stuff, some of it true and useful, some of it absurd hogwash (example of former: don't crap your pants; example of latter: Columbus discovered America). This is why puberty happens. The purpose of puberty is to shoot an innocent and gullible child full of nasty glandular secretions that manifest in the mind as confusion, in the innards as horniness, upon the skin as pimples, and on .. | David James Duncan | ||
| 62919b3 | Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly. "Yes," answered Kenny," if you write them a very nice poem." "What is an only goat?" "A lonely goat," answered Kenny. The rooster shut one eye and looked at Kenny. "can you hear a horse on the roof?" he asked. "If you know how to listen in the night," said Kenny. "Can you fix a broken promise?" "Yes," said Kenny,"if it only looks broken,.. | Maurice Sendak | ||
| 15cfd0b | He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c6159d4 | Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid th.. | good-omens humor neil-gaiman terry-pratchett | Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett | |
| 6e282a7 | It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| c647b40 | You're alive...That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 5274220 | Furthermore, it goes without saying that all of the people, living, dead, and otherwise, in this story are fictional or used in a fictional context. Only the gods are real. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| cd79cee | You think you know all there is to know about here immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 7695f4e | I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 70e65fe | All we have to believe is our senses: the tools we use to perceive the world, our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 1f5df04 | Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.) | peas similarity snowflakes | Neil Gaiman | |
| a90e090 | She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love. | love | Lorrie Moore | |
| c6814c5 | I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not? | motivational | George Bernard Shaw | |
| e595805 | Let's hope it doesn't come to that," Ian put in. "Just fridge yourselves, as Jonah says." "Dude," Dan said. "Do you mean ?" "Precisely. Just what I said." | Jude Watson |