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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 119e694 | Lan told me once that Malkier lives so long as one man wears the in pledge that he will fight the Shadow, so long as one woman wears the in pledge that she will send her sons to fight the Shadow. I wear the , Master Aldragoran. My husband wears the . So do you. Will Lan Mandragoran ride to the Last Battle alone? | last-battle malkier | Robert Jordan | |
| 68bb11f | A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you. | Robert Jordan | ||
| 7965179 | We can do anything you like. Just be with me. | Christine Feehan | ||
| d494069 | We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it." -- | children humor | Christine Feehan | |
| ba6e48e | But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid. | irony irrelevant-nowadays | Barack Obama | |
| e2d0142 | I think perhaps education doesn't do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat. | Barack Obama | ||
| bcbbfb4 | I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers. | Barack Obama | ||
| 7ca329b | Naturally, society has an indisputable right to protect itself against arrant subjectivisms, but, in so far as society is itself composed of de-individualized human beings, it is completely at the mercy of ruthless individualists. Let it band together into groups and organizations as much as it likes - it is just this banding together and the resultant extinction of the individual personality that makes it succumb so readily to a dictator. .. | C.G. Jung | ||
| a6bf726 | May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 2577c80 | Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered. | Arundhati Roy | ||
| 5634e4b | I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say, but because of the delight they took in saying it. A delight in themselves, a shine on their faces, a conviction that whatever they were telling about was remarkable and that they themselves could not help but give pleasure. There might be other people--people like me--who didn't concede this.. | Alice Munro | ||
| 226cb6b | And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument? | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 993b171 | We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| a138b0a | You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don't know. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 98300c8 | Like a Dog! | Franz Kafka | ||
| f83d938 | Like tired dogs they stand there, | Franz Kafka | ||
| 8214b53 | The man in ecstasy and the man drowning--both throw up their arms. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 2d9d845 | My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility. | Franz Kafka | ||
| f8173f1 | When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere. | Milan Kundera | ||
| dfb3186 | Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 0948e5f | I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 5986286 | As suburban children we floated at night in swimming pools the temperature of blood; pools the color of Earth as seen from outer space. We would float and be naked--pretending to be embryos, pretending to be fetuses--all of us silent save for the hum of the pool filter. Our minds would be blank and our eyes closed as we floated in warm waters, the distinction between our bodies and our brains reduced to nothing--bathed in chlorine and lit b.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8233675 | Life was charmed but without politics or religion. It was the life of children of the children of the pioneers -life after God- a life of earthly salvation on the edge of heaven. Perhaps this is the finest thing to which we may aspire, the life of peace, the blurring between dream life and real life - and yet I find myself speaking these words with a sense of doubt. I think there was a trade-off somewhere along the line. I think the price w.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| c3269e5 | Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini. | gifts parenting reading | Nick Hornby | |
| 99834bb | Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. | culture humor love-of-reading reading sports | Nick Hornby | |
| ca6713a |
The fuck?" he said. "The fuck?" said Jess. "The fuck what?" "It's an American abbreviation," said Martin. " < |
Nick Hornby | ||
| 254c762 | You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| a3bc7e4 | Imagine minus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 2eda5e3 | Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 13a48da | I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else in the world ever can. | Haruki Murakami | ||
| 60bb1b7 | I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind. | hopelessness life loneliness | Haruki Murakami | |
| 41f2e97 | With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and the sacred red fern. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| a3c2c5c | Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| edec6e1 | To hell with you all, I DO believe | believe-in-life believers | Cecelia Ahern | |
| e92fdba | I'm a million different things every day of the week. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| ebe3365 | A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place | cecelia ahern | ||
| 7f328c5 | Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it. | Cecelia Ahern | ||
| bb80bde | You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny. | sarcasm | Cecelia Ahern | |
| 38a617a | Sometimes I think there's no such thing as falling in love. It's just the fear of losing someone. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ed55710 | I'm the princess in an ivory tower, except every brick is made of history, and I built this prison myself. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| e830932 | if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 0c39989 | Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made. | men | Jodi Picoult | |
| 04cdc85 | I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination. | life looking-back past path symbols | Jodi Picoult | |
| 68b2000 | I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget. | Jodi Picoult |