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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b4a0c06 | Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn't use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, 'We're remembering'. .. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 97322ea | Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. | Kahlil Gibran | ||
| b24211e | Everything you've told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pin-pointed. | David Allen | ||
| ef5d5b3 | People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did. | Marilynne Robinson | ||
| 7b37a1b | One part of my brain, soaring on adrenaline, insisted I could take Cain, whatever the size difference. Another part wondered where the hell Nick and Clay were. The loudest part just shouted: | elena | Kelley Armstrong | |
| f929054 | Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay? | girls | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 8168e94 | This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be. | safe | Kelley Armstrong | |
| 851d1c2 | For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it. | Peter S. Beagle | ||
| f1bd27e | You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself. | Albert Camus | ||
| 5196aec | The final conclusion of the absurdist protest is, in fact, the rejection of suicide and persistence in that hopeless encounter between human questioning and the silence of the universe. | Albert Camus | ||
| df33518 | You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters- all that matters, really- is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest- women, art, success- is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries. | Albert Camus | ||
| 0570042 | My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and s.. | Howard Zinn | ||
| 81949f1 | My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it, | Iain M. Banks | ||
| d9f220c | Escape is a commodity like anything else | escape | Iain M. Banks | |
| 68f71e7 | I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 361619b | But if you ever bring her back damaged again--and I don't care whose fault it is; I don't care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head--if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel? | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| abb94d7 | But it doesn't make sense for you to love me... | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| f1f96ec | No, I had never intentionally caused anyone physical pain, but I had hurt Ian deeply enough just by hurting myself. Human lives were so impossibly tangled. What a mess. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 4e6472e | When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 5b44566 | I was thinking there was something I wanted to try." And he took my face in his hands again. I couldn't breathe. He hesitated - not in the normal way, the human way. Not the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation, sometimes better than the kiss itself. Edward hesitated to test himself, to see.. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| 842c36a | Silently, I lifted my doggy bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of Blondie's head so hard that - with an earsplitting bang - it smashed flat before it ricocheted across the room and snapped the round top piece off the thick newel post at the foot of the stairs. | Stephenie Meyer | ||
| b8ad78d | The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 4b1e153 | For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 6c720db | We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night. | Sue Monk Kidd | ||
| 41c975b | lw stT`t stkhdm jsdy l'lqyt bh mn lnfdhh , m`rfty b`jzy hy lty tshj`ny `l~ mthl hdh ltfkyr . | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 400433e | 'r~ lHy@ dwn 'n '`rf m hy , Hwlt 'n '`ysh dwn 'n '`rf m 'f`lh 'w 'Hwl 'n 'f`lh .. | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 811bbeb | God damn you to hell, Sir, no, it's indecent, there are limits! In six days, do you hear me, six days, God made the world. Yes Sir, no less Sir, the WORLD! And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!' 'But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look at the world and look at my TROUSERS! | Samuel Beckett | ||
| 2388845 | Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody. | Linda Lael Miller | ||
| 4fcba95 | It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit t.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 68481e6 | All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must be in nature and, however exceptional, cannot differ in its essence from all the other effects of the visible and tangible world of which we are a self-conscious part. The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is--marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in w.. | Joseph Conrad | ||
| 8bfdc14 | When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies. | Stephen King | ||
| 9b85790 | I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me." | Stephen King | ||
| 0fb1019 | Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other. | Stephen King | ||
| 415834c | Sie wurden ihm helfen, ihn heilen. Arzneien und Arzte. Eine Anderung der Einstellung. Dann Frieden. Seine Streitsuchtigkeit wurde wie Unkraut aus ihm herausgejatet werden. | richard-bachmann stephen-king | Richard Bachman | |
| c198b1e | Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| f23e172 | I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful. | irony | Mindy Kaling | |
| 854dc6a | I'm not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I've just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each other's eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. I'm pretty sure my parents have gazed into each other's eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dad's eyes. | Mindy Kaling | ||
| 286464a | Seamus: "I was wondering if you would like to go get some coffee" Cara: "Well that depends ... do you like to take long walks?" Seamus: "Yes" Cara: "Do you like sex?" Seamus: "Yeees" Cara: "Then take a f***ing hike and leave me the hell alone." | kiss-off pick-up-line sex | Erin McCarthy | |
| 747bb2c | My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me was never ask a guy what you do for a living. He said "If you think about it, when you ask a guy, what do you do you do for a living," you're saying "how may I gauge the rest of your utterances." are you smarter than I am? Are you richer than I am, poorer than I am?" So you ask a guy what do you do for a living, it's the same thing as askin.. | father lesson profession | David Mamet | |
| 415a075 | We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 96978b2 | At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing but those things only, those created objects, discrete, growing or holding, or swaying, being rained on or raining, held, flooding or ebbing, standing, or spread. You feel the world's word as a ten.. | listening nature | Annie Dillard | |
| b2acf9f | A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me. | character god prayer | Anne Lamott | |
| a4a9abb | If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death. | comfort-zone death prayer | Anne Lamott | |
| 44fca76 | It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you. | Anne Lamott |