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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9998581 | Every step was a victory. He had to remember that. | victory | George Saunders | |
| fb6afc1 | Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse. | my-chivalric-fiasco tenth-of-december | George Saunders | |
| 8aeb369 | I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 397a149 | The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 02df760 | A wise man once told me- he's a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 8d07520 | Do you know what's so strange, Uilleam?" she asked, saying his name perfectly. "You have never, in your entire life, done something for which you should truly be ashamed. You think you have, but you haven't. Not until you hurt your own mate, blaming the poor girl for things she can't control." - NIX to MacRieve ~" | Kresley Cole | ||
| c30bd29 | Accept this: your mortal is doomed." "Please, Aric. I'm begging you!" He whirled around, fury in his expression. "You refused - twice - to beg me for your own life, but you'd beg for his?" I whispered, "Yes." | Kresley Cole | ||
| fec41bb | And what about the piranhas?" "I doubt the fishies'll snack on anything critical." He leaned in to murmur at her ear, "They only go for small prey." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 448c270 | Regin hissed at him and followed Mariketa, with Carrow right behind them. As Carrow passed Bowe,she said, "Prick. You and Twice-Baked here deserve each other." | Kresley Cole | ||
| 1a548a6 | Looking at you reminds me of the kind of man I should be with." "And what kind of man is that? Drunken, poor, pathetic?" "No. I've never met him, but I see him plain as day. He has crinkles around his eyes when he smiles and tanned skin from working outdoors. Honest labor has callused his hands. He and I will hunt together, cook and eat big family meals together. He'll marry me and love my family, too." Voice gone soft, she said, "He'll giv.. | iad lothaire | kresley cole | |
| f591944 | I suppose that now you'll want to sleep with me?Alas big guy I'm taken.' 'No. you're not,'Regin said. 'Am too,' Nix said. 'Mike Rowe, the star of Dirty Jobs, is soon to realize I'm his beloved.' She sighed dreamily. 'He even got his lawyers to contact me on the pretext of a' she made air quotes 'restraining order. | Kresley Cole | ||
| 3bd343e | You're arrogant." "I'm Dacian. You can't have one without the other." | Kresley Cole | ||
| fc52d0f | Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent. | fiction narrative stories storytelling | Oliver Sacks | |
| ca45e47 | It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8cbf470 | Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness o.. | magic meaning religion | Colin Wilson | |
| e5d5852 | Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life." | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| ae18418 | Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful. | inspirational | Francesca Lia Block | |
| efe7e0a | God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer. | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| fea6e29 | Growing up spoiled a lot of things. It spoiled the nice game they had when there was nothing to eat in the house. When money gave out and food ran low, Katie and the children pretended they were explorers discovering the North Pole and had been trapped by a blizzard in a cave with just a little food. They had to make it last till help came. Mama divided up what food there was in the cupboard and called it rations and when the children were .. | Betty Smith | ||
| 14f2fd2 | I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better. | Betty Smith | ||
| 948be97 | Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary, dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2c5a04c | Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. | jeanette-winterson metaphor poet sexing-the-cherry | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 4e901ac | I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue? | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| acb2cc6 | I'm telling you stories. Trust me. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| bfee7bd | But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?" | innocence loki murder | Joanne Harris | |
| f9f6cea | Always look on the bright side. And if there is no bright side? Look away. | Joanne M. Harris | ||
| a09a7e2 | I liked her better for showing a little spirit. | Joanne Harris | ||
| 123773f | You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid. | Terry Brooks | ||
| 6a30f26 | And that's another thing. What if I were to talk to Tanker, find out if he's happy at the Polonius Room, see if maybe he wants to come back? He was always such a key part of this kitchen." Rickey pointed a chocolate-smudged finger at Lenny. "Don't you dare. If I decide I want to talk to him, I'll talk to him. I told you, I don't need you handling my business for me." "I understand," Lenny said, making a mental note to call Tanker." | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| e6f6286 | Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 2f14600 | Didn't he have to admit, begrudgingly, that in some extra-perverse corner of his brain the idea of having to be out of town before sundown appealed to him? New Orleans had been the only constant thing in his life. But didn't he yet an itchy foot sometimes, didn't he sometimes think about just throwing all his stuff in his car and going? Of course he did. Everybody did, even normal people, the ones with triple mortgages and orthodontists' bi.. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| bfd2ff1 | Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely. | Poppy Z. Brite | ||
| 4fda661 | One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 41197eb | Something I wish every man across America understood is how much fear accompanies women throughout our lives. So many of us have been threatened or harmed. So many of us have helped friends recover from a traumatic incident. It's difficult to convey what all this violence does to us. It adds up in our hearts and our nervous systems. | Hillary Rodham Clinton | ||
| 4322453 | I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive. | inspirational | Richard Wright | |
| 73c5371 | You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule." | Anne Carson | ||
| 5b104a0 | The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways. | Mary Ann Shaffer | ||
| f1e80df | Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame. But to me he is quite special, and Stain Boy is his name. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain. Sometimes I know it bothers him, that he can't run or swim or fly, | Tim Burton | ||
| d5c8ae2 | In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true. | Tim O'Brien | ||
| 11253d3 | Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| d2668a7 | The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief. | Gregory Maguire | ||
| 6a5bf28 | Right now I am working to polish the shards of my dreams. | Ai Yazawa | ||
| 150c93d | In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. | blog-quotes celebrities coaching empowerment famous-authors famous-poets grace gratitude hope inspiration motivation oprah-winfrey personal-growth philanthropy positive-motivation quotes-by-aberjhani rare-personalities spirituality television world-suicide-prevention-day | Aberjhani | |
| ffc0fe1 | And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks? | obedience parenting | Catherine Gilbert Murdock |