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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7cea9c0 | Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed." | John Marsden | ||
| 7d9150c | We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. | John Green | ||
| 22bf22b | So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead. | John Green | ||
| 8f1b560 | I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die. | die escape live thought | John Green | |
| 700d7be | With all the planning she'd done, she must have known she was leaving, and even she couldn't have been totally immune to the feeling. She'd had good days here. And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I'd done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up .. | John Green | ||
| 0a78ec3 | Does it hurt?' I nodded. 'You know Sekou Sundiata, in a poem, he said the most important part of the body 'ain't the heart or the lungs or the brain. The biggest, most important part of the body is the part that hurts. | John Green | ||
| 41c3ce8 | But what I want to know is, is there a you independent of circumstances? Is there a way-down-deep me who is an actual, real person, the same person if she has money or not, the same if she goes to this school or that school? Or am I only a set of circumstances? -Aza | John Green | ||
| 99b3dd2 | I do, Augustus. I do. | John Green | ||
| c91e060 | Things never happened like I imagined them. | John Green | ||
| bc9c42c | Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition .. | true-love | John Green | |
| ace75dc | Where the hell do you get your nerve? From a Cracker Jack box. | Lora Leigh | ||
| 35519db | God is the Champion at bringing people from a place of destruction to a place of total victory. As they reach that place of victory they become trophies of his grace. and they are set on the display as a fragrant reminder of God's goodness. | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 6eff85b | From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom...It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep. | nature trees | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| bf00840 | Was this for real? Were these two magically oriented, problem-fixing, ass-kicking guys talking about what their kids would look like? | Chloe Neill | ||
| e64b031 | We'll see if she can rise to the occasion, do what needs to be done." "We'll see if she can manage not to kill her Liege and Master, especially if he continues talking about her like she's not in the room." | Chloe Neill | ||
| d5ff4e2 | He grinned at me, his ridiculously blue eyes tripping my heart. "You say what's on your mind, don't you, Parker? I like that." I rolled my eyes. "You have to stop flirting with me, Shepherd, or we're never going to get anything done." "Flirting? You're the one who's getting me all riled up." "Oh, please. You're all, 'Here, Lily, have some candy.' It's obvious who's flirting here." "Then maybe I should kiss you." | Chloe Neill | ||
| 635037f | The room fell heavily silent. After a minute of continuing to flay Morgan with that narrowed gaze--and Morgan staring back defiantly--Ethan slowly lifted green eyes to me, and I saw something different there. Respect. | Chloe Neill | ||
| eb49040 | God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him. | John Piper | ||
| cbdad88 | I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished . . . when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here. | Pat Frank | ||
| b7b5620 | We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it? | moments | Christine Feehan | |
| a74dec2 | Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound your chest. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 35cac99 | He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo was to say; it moves all the same. They were to be in a position to burn him if he would go on with it, with his preposterous nonsense about the earth moving round the sun, but he was to continue with the sublime assertion bec.. | integrity optimism truth | T.H. White | |
| eb28368 | But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned. There was a time when it was of vital interest to us to find out whether there was a God or not. Obviously the existence or otherwise of a future life must be of the very first importance to somebody who is going to live her present one, because her manner of living it must hinge .. | morality understanding-oneself-and-others youth | T.H. White | |
| 8b04cfa | It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else. | nations starvation war weaponry | T.H. White | |
| ec2190f | If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| 60df948 | The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations. Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren't for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn't so when stripped of personal risks. | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| deff584 | As I let go of the past, the past let go of me. | Keith Donohue | ||
| 24374db | The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. | Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| df26148 | In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. | inspirational | Martin Luther King Jr. | |
| 9bbc96c | Girls had to believe in anything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| a666015 | Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 3163a2a | What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | ||
| 143d131 | Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia. | fleet funny gormenghast life life-lessons living onomatopoeia out-of-context witty | Mervyn Peake | |
| 231903d | And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes | Nikki Giovanni | ||
| 41c6c47 | I didn't know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room. (Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family) | dead-in-the-family paranormal sookie-stackhouse | Charlaine Harris | |
| c362b1e | This isn't what I expected when I found out you were sleeping in the house." "What did you expect?" "I expected you'd come over here because you couldn't wait an extra minute to have fabulous, mind-blowing sex with me." | Charlaine Harris | ||
| 12b4357 | When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method of defense seemed ludicrous. I'd be armed with a plastic water pistol and a trowel. | dead-and-gone fairies sookie-stackhouse trowel vampires | Charlaine Harris | |
| d06ad27 | We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything. | love | Marianne Williamson | |
| 5129dbc | Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck."...Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious.. | beauty body-image cosmetic-surgery cosmetics culture diet-industry double-standards eating-disorders equality fashion-industry feminism images magazines marketing mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery self-esteem sexuality society | Naomi Wolf | |
| 5f1e072 | Back to what? A guy who bails on you when you need him? What's Dane doing now that's more important than helping you? Fighting for the rights of endangered ferns?" I stiffened and pushed away from him, irritation jolting me out of my fugue-state. "You have no right to judge Dane or my relationship with him." Jack made a scoffing sound. "That half-assed excuse for a relationship was over the moment Dane told you not to bring the baby to Aust.. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 3b8f5fc | Evie " came his faint whisper "I'm going to your mother see...she's got 'em to leave a back door open...so I can steal into 'eaven." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| de80832 | No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are. | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| 76b0f9f | The word "mistress" sounds like a cross between mistake and mattress." | Lisa Kleypas | ||
| b93a5c5 | I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war. | Lisa Kleypas |