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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2fdc254 | Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them." Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see." | Jodi Picoult | ||
| ae751fa | Leave it to a man to mess things up | Jodi Picoult | ||
| d61d23b | The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool. | family relationships | Jodi Picoult | |
| 43f41b6 | Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all. | leave rational right | Jodi Picoult | |
| a67f3db | You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 9d0d4d7 | It's easy to say you will do what's right and shun what's wrong, but when you get close enough to any given situation, you realize that there no black or white. There are gradations of gray. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 694edb4 | What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?" | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 990cc05 | She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being. | Charles Frazier | ||
| 94c5878 | Oh, Lord!" This must be what it's like to make love in Hell," he whispered. "With a burning she-devil." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| cba82b8 | Ma chere, I serve a man who multiplied the loaves and fishes"--he smiled, nodding at the pool, where the swirls of the carps' feeding were still subsiding--"who healed the sick and raised the dead. Shall I be astonished that the master of eternity has brought a young woman through the stones of the earth to do His will?" Well, I reflected, it was better than being denounced as the whore of Babylon." | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| adae5bd | I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I had noticed that before to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with his and fold you both in a blanket of unconscious knowing. | Diana Gabaldon | ||
| 8a52847 | Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too. | children | William Faulkner | |
| 051b8bb | Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me. | James Joyce | ||
| af494b2 | He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone. | James Joyce | ||
| de993ee | Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair beside the bed. He tried to bid his tongue speak that he might seem at ease, watching her as she undid her gown, noting the proud conscious movements of her perfumed head. As he stood silent in the middle of the room she came over to him and embraced him gaily and gravely. Her round arms held him firmly to her and he, seeing her face lifted to him.. | embrace emotion held joy kiss lips love lust overcome sex woman | James Joyce | |
| 1a6faca | Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal. | humanity | Elie Wiesel | |
| ecdd24c | Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be gett.. | Elie Wiesel | ||
| 2275713 | Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist? | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 45c7638 | The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 0ab6758 | The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. | Tom Robbins | ||
| a5a231a | Perhaps a person gains by accumulating obstacles. The more obstacles set up to prevent happiness from appearing, the greater the shock when it does appear, just as the rebound of a spring will be all the more powerful the greater the pressure that has been exerted to compress it. Care must be taken, however, to select large obstacles, for only those of sufficient scope and scale have the capacity to lift us out of context and force life to .. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 315a49b | Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 9fa1ad8 | Sissy: You really don't believe in political solutions do you? The Chink: I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore. Sissy: Well, then, what are the philosophical solutions? The Chink: Ha ha ho ho.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2351d9d | Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough. | Tom Robbins | ||
| fffd271 | Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ebb1706 | If we can't stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can't move forward. | Brené Brown | ||
| 3683b83 | Shame resilience is the ability to say, "This hurts. This is disappointing, maybe even devastating. But success and recognition and approval are not the values that drive me. My value is courage and I was just courageous. You can move on, shame." | Brené Brown | ||
| a0204fd | Life is maybe like deep-sea fishing. We wake up in the morning, we cast our nets into the water, an, if we are lucky, at day's end we will have netted one-- maybe two-- small fish. Occasionally we will net a seahorse or sometimes a shark-- or a life preserver or an iceberg, or a monster. And in our dreams at night we assess our Catch of the Day-- the treasures of this long, slow process of accumulation... | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 44e8845 | You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 92425ac | At least when you're young you're also stupid. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 8706750 | It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do? | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 7813b69 | Imagine you are sitting down in a chair and on a screen before you you are shown a bloody, ripping film of yourself undergoing surgery. The surgery saved your life. It was pivotal in making you you. But you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we ever understand the factors that make us do the things we do? When we sleep at night - when we walk across a field and see a tree full of sleeping .. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 031f41b | All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 539ee13 | Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 3ebbae4 | Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 6035bd2 | Dimanchophobia: | sundays time unstructured-time | Douglas Coupland | |
| c55afb3 | Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bed.. | teenagers | Douglas Coupland | |
| 2d458cc | So I came down here, to breathe dust and walk with the dogs-- to look at a rock or a cactus and know that I am the first person to see that cactus and that rock. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 2717202 | I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0a3bc56 | At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are? -Richard | identity life | Douglas Coupland | |
| 44cfd52 | I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and jus.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| fdb11e7 | we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin. | Tite Kubo | ||
| 5b6140b | Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds. | divorce love marriage | Julie Powell | |
| 5a8da83 | Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human. | R. Scott Bakker |