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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4649cf5 | But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands and how my stomach folded and how we tried to get Mickey to nurse and how about that time when the landlord said...but you said...and I cried, Jude. You knew me and had listened to the things I said in the night, and heard me in the bathroom and laughed at my raggedy girdle and I laughed too because I knew you too, Jude. So how could yo.. | Toni Morrison | ||
| 637f21d | Love is divine only and difficult always. | Toni Morrison | ||
| ab86514 | you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet." | Toni Morrison | ||
| f0a01a2 | They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds-- cooled --and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path. | Toni Morrison | ||
| d2003cc | But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with.. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 1b71c93 | Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem. | freedom liberation | Robert Fulghum | |
| f1ffefb | A little damage makes people more interesting, right? | interesting question | Catherine Hapka | |
| c9e5b79 | My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action. | Og Mandino | ||
| 008c0b5 | The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 16bceff | When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| d95373a | Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within. | angels catholicism chapel christianity church god religion sabbath sunday | Stephen Crane | |
| 0c16165 | I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 08437c4 | I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b828164 | I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 699f51b | Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio. | yankees | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 29e5b8f | Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 85ed157 | Love me...I am not evil. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 0a57e85 | The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 8f4e666 | One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. | mythology philosophy spirituality | Joseph Campbell | |
| eca3c76 | Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8) | religion | Joseph Campbell | |
| 4a35fe5 | Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c8b93e0 | Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it's a game, I know I'm going to lose. | David Levithan | ||
| 0d6074f | Slipping in the side door to the VIP section , she scanned the crowd , well aware that she was looking for one male in particular. And he was there. Fucking John Matthew. | J.R. Ward | ||
| 3ead603 | As that fucking chandelier twinkled overhead, Blay said roughly, "I'm still in love with him." Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed a the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. "I know. You thought you weren't?" As if that were rather stupid of him. "I'm so fucking tired of it. I really am." "That I believe." "Im so fucking..." God, those sounds, that muted pounding , that audible confirmation of what he ha.. | blaylock lover-reborn qhuay saxton | J.R. Ward | |
| 2bf978a | Fucking hell. "Did you guys plan that out?" "Yeah, and if you don't fight us"--Hollywood bit down on his grape Tootsie-Pop--"we'll do it again--only with dance moves this time." "Spare me." "Fine. Unless you agree to home it, we will rock the dance moves.". To prove the point, the moron linked his palms behind his head and started doing something obscene with his hips. Which was backed up by a series of, "Uh-huh, uh-huh, ohhh, yeeeeeeaaa.. | rhage | J.R. Ward | |
| e85b5e5 | Rough times." Qhuinn shrugged. "And I'm not interested in saints." "Really? You're in love with one," Layla chimed in. As Qhuinn glanced over at Blay, his mismatched eyes narrowed. "Damn straight I am," he said softly. As the redhead turned red--natch--that connection between the two males became positively tangible. Love was such a beautiful thing." | blaylock layla paranormal-romance qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| ea0641a | When they got to thew bottom of the stairwell, they stopped dead. Blay's father was facing off with a lesser, a Civil War sword in one hand, a dagger in the other. Behind his Joe Friday glasses, his eyes were lit like torches, and they flicked over for a split second. "Stay out of this. This one's mine." The shit was done faster than you can say, . Blay's father went Ginsu on the slayer, carving the thing up like a turkey, then stabbing.. | blaylock john-matthew qhuinn | J.R. Ward | |
| 1ccbd6d | You will not live through this if she does not | vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| 1c35012 | God, I miss you," he said in a voice that cracked. "Every night. Every day..." | tohrment | J.R. Ward | |
| 8ee61ec | Sounds like you want a date, Lash, " Qhuinn barked. "Good deal, 'cause you keep that shit up, you're going to get fucked, buddy." | J.R. Ward | ||
| 893a07e | He didn't say anything. Didn't try any of the hugging bullshit, either, which was just as well. Instead, he placed a wooden case next to Tohr on the bed, exhaled some Turkish smoke, and went back for the exit like he couldn't wait to get out of the room. Except he stopped before he left, "I gotchu, my brother," he said to the door. "I know, V. You always have. ~Vishous and Tohrment Lover Reborn" | i-gotchu lover-reborn tohrment vishous | J.R. Ward | |
| a887026 | Fucking lilacs. I'm the only immortal with allergies. I swear.' - Eddie, Crave | J.R. Ward | ||
| e93d50a | Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from th.. | connections | Marcel Proust | |
| b96e1aa | The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men in general, before they must die. That is the amulet which preserves individuals -- and sometimes populations -- not from danger, but from the fear of danger, in reality from the belief in danger, which in some cases allows them to brave it without being brave. Such a confidence, just as unfou.. | Marcel Proust | ||
| 6d75c3e | Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| 2e8541e | But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic. | Arthur C. Clarke | ||
| c2f99ac | A critic looking at these tightly focused, targeted interventions might dismiss them as Band-Aid solutions. But that phrase should not be considered a term of disparagement. The Band-Aid is an inexpensive, convenient, and remarkably versatile solution to an astonishing array of problems. In their history, Band-Aids have probably allowed millions of people to keep working or playing tennis or cooking or walking when they would otherwise have.. | efficiency problem-solving solution | Malcolm Gladwell | |
| 5795eee | Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS" | slavery | William Lloyd Garrison | |
| 565d128 | Fast reading of a great novel will get us the plot. It will get us names, a shadowy idea of characters, a sketch of settings. It will not get us subtleties, small differentiations, depth of emotion and observation, multilayered human experience, the appreciation of simile and metaphor, any sense of context, any comparison with other novels, other writers. Fast reading will not get us cadence and complexities of style and language. It will n.. | reading slow-reading | Susan Hill | |
| 53ce33e | Eroticism is the brink of the abyss. I'm leaning out over deranged horror (at this point my eyes roll back in my head). The abyss is the foundation of the possible. We're brought to the edge of the same abyss by uncontrolled laughter or ecstasy. From this comes a "questioning" of everything possible. This is the stage of rupture, of letting go of things, of looking forward to death." | Georges Bataille | ||
| a888725 | Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind. | literature past present tense time | John Green | |
| 7682822 | You don't get to choose if you fet hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. | John Green | ||
| 39206fb | Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. | promises | John Green | |
| 57506e1 | Soy como. Como. Soy como una granada, mama. Soy una granada y en algun momento voy a estallar y me gustaria reducir al minimo las victimas, ?de acuerdo?" Mi padre ladeo un poco la cabeza hacia un lado, como un perrito reganado. "Soy una granada," le dije de nuevo. "Solo quiero mantenerme alejada de la gente y leer libros, pensar y estar con ustedes porque no hay nada que yo pueda hacer sobre danarlos; estan demasiado involucrados, asi que p.. | John Green |