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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7e82ef2 | There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| e37823e | I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a9960fd | The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable. | fate | Jeanette Winterson | |
| e8eb342 | Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible. | Joanne Harris | ||
| d9e216a | You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be. | vanity wickedness | Günter Grass | |
| 24055f0 | If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them. | social-responsibility | Terry Brooks | |
| ee296c4 | No", said a voice from the dark doorway. A weary voice, a voice for speaking long after midnight, a voice to be used when all paths are blocked, when castles have fallen to ruins, when morning will not come again." | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| a049354 | in until ten, not even on Mardi Gras nights. No one except the girl in the black silk dress, the thin little girl with the short, soft dark hair that fell in a curtain across her eyes. Christian always wanted to brush it away from her face, to feel it trickle through his fingers like rain. Tonight, as usual, she slipped in at nine-thirty and looked around for the friends who were never there. The wind blew the French Quarter in behind her, .. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 75ee10d | Trevor cupped his hands around it, felt Zach's heartbeat throbbing between his palms. The skin of the shaft was textured, slightly rippled beneath the surface. The head was as smooth as satin, as rose petals. Trevor rubbed his thumb across it, squeezed gently, heard Zack suck air in through his teeth and moan as he let it out. He could see blood suffusing the tissue just beneath the translucent skin, a deep dusky rose delicately purpled at .. | gay lgbtq lovers | Poppy Z. Brite | |
| b730045 | Atheists loved to use that term to describe some shadowy force that somehow controlled human destiny, but what the hell did they think the universe was? Did they think the stars and nebulae took an interest in their doings, and if they really meant God, why couldn't they just say so? | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| eb67893 | The justice I have received, I shall give back. | revenge | Patricia Highsmith | |
| c8b3809 | I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it | Richard Wright | ||
| 909b70f | I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions. | zero | louis sachar | |
| 948b946 | The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 0aa6990 | He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 98c97c2 | The job facing American voters... in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear. | barack-obama choosing civic-duty courage democratic-national-convention famous-quotes fear gun-violence hope legacies making-choices mitt-romney options patriotism police-reform police-shootings political-advocacy political-awareness political-philosophy political-responsibility politics presidential-election presidential-election-campaign quotes-by-aberjhani republican-national-convention savannah-author-aberjhani social-awareness social-responsibility the-future vision-of-america voting xenophobia | Aberjhani | |
| d8f9714 | What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. | faith healing heaven hell hope inspiration inspirational-quotes positive-motivation recovery spirituality | Aberjhani | |
| 244adad | Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than are worse than no jewelry at all. | jewelry women | Jill Conner Browne | |
| ec98db1 | Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | ||
| 2b2f9a4 | Some women attract desire. Others do not. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 462babd | The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy. | Philippa Gregory | ||
| 79c3b7b | Do you know how much women loathe it when guys think every show of negative emotion is tied to our menstrual cycle, like we're sheep or something? | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| b107fa8 | i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i was 14 i was 5 and he did it for three years i loved him i didn't even know him he was my best friend's brother, my grandfather, father, mommy's boyfriend, my date, my cousin, my coach i met him for the first time that night and- 4 guys took turns, and- i'm a boy and this happened to me, and- ...i got pregnant i gave up my d.. | Laurie Halse Anderson | ||
| 59b7f30 | She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit. | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| ff5e9ed | Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all? | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | ||
| e796643 | Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative. | Kate Atkinson | ||
| a040ef1 | It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect. | evolutionre improvement perfection | Colson Whitehead | |
| bc5626d | The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud. | John Fowles | ||
| e4f1a55 | We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory." | Pat Conroy | ||
| 814182c | In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 9754f27 | Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk. | Pat Conroy | ||
| 2deb5ee | The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort." | Norton Juster | ||
| 11ffd08 | Stuart's a wizard with those kinds of things," she said. "What kinds of things?" "Oh, he can find anything online." Debbie was obviously one of those parents who still hadn't quite grasped that using the Internet was not exactly wizardry, and that we could find anything online. I didn't say this, because you don't want people to feel that they've missed something really obvious, even when they have." | Maureen Johnson | ||
| 5a4167b | When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words. | power | Maureen Johnson | |
| d18741d | Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before. | moving-on returning | Maureen Johnson | |
| 927fbd9 | But charisma only wins people's attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them. | Daniel Quinn | ||
| 3fe1d8a | Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees--which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community .. | ecology philosophy | Daniel Quinn | |
| 99682cf | She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees. | trees | Lynn Kurland | |
| 9960839 | Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom. | James Gleick | ||
| b9e7b8d | I guess it can't be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they're making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there | love relationships | James Baldwin | |
| 0109311 | Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. | friendship | Willa Cather | |
| bc27b41 | Liquor doesn't make you feel better. Just makes you not so worried about feeling bad. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| c65492d | Looking back through history, there are a lot more men who thought they were Alexander the Great than men who actually were. | James S.A. Corey | ||
| 3dcaff9 | a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world." | L.M. Montgomery |